25—1852. THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 395 
canched in the open ground; it is altogether a salad we might expect from one who, scarcely a year ago,| “vitality ® and “loneewity” oF U 
lanched in the o ground; it is altogether a salad we might expect from one who, s a year ago, | “ vitality and ] 10) "oF the plant. call he Chae 
— t much cared tor in Germ any, and never brought to read his brethren on both sides the Tweed a — for | further —— E. mitted that i man- — So — 
et, because the foreed Lettuces are abundant, and their occasional outbursts of ab tagonism, — owing F re, e — rege 
both milder and more in custom who, even in the course of the very a — of —— e growth of the plant is much exte m with 
18. The erop depends entirely on — — — richness complain has given to = readers sort of pledge of — other localities, under such circumstances direct 
or pove — of it, = — it has ved or not, and |“ — — to all parties ! mmonia as Peruvian guano, will be 
other eir the fault in England! is Go striring A s in the case of the pre nec 2 t aof discussion, — wes. 
to grow — 1 a — the very great we —— then, to e sites ns of 1 s from (Io be continued.) 
detriment of the quality of the root as coffee. The the writer “ R.,“ and fro pa p — 
exact quantity per acre may be best ascertained jest That’ we — — the views attri- 
applying to some of the extensive cultivators of Chicory | buted to us. And, Home Corresponde 
— ka —— parts of the island. From Messrs.| Secondly— That ‘the views we have maintained are in Salt. — In your Number for May 29 there is an- 
Booth and Co., Altona. accordance —. — facts — opinions eited against us. article on the manageme sheep, copied from a west 
I. Cuicory requires middling soil, mixture of clay |> And in the course of our remarks, we, so ee at | Country paper, strongly recommending the use of salt, 
sand ; it very seldom thrives in heavy clay land some length — of the — ts of inte and im- at the rate of 2 oz. per day, to breeding — — as. 
never in — or wet land. portance that — — brought within our no this practice is strongl condemned by writers, 
2. much and draws much In the Ayricu ural Gazette of July 26, 1051 «R | When applied to animals during their * gestation, 
ment fron the soil ; but “but Oats, or —— Barley, writes thus ha — occasion the dne of lambs or calves, 
* r grown on the land ‘without any further manure. | “The peng of Mr. Lawes on s Tornipa are not so satis- 2 ns e statement with some surprise, Nou are, 
Any manure, only plenty of it. factory as those on Wheat. Many of the deductions. binm he — oubt, re e tg at the instance ‘of Bi Baron Mertens, 
p The best way is to dig the land, but ploughing will has so extensively drawn will not stand the test erience ; | on behalf of the Belgian Government, this: 
* 8 for he has generalised too freely on local and — TEPER — an was 0 year brought under consideration i 
do also. and applied thes ain an * late the whole si! cha Royal: Acxicultera) ug i =n 
8 — time. —end of April or beginning of May. of manuring where the clrcumstances were totally differ rae! oyal Agricultural Society, the Belgian farmers. 
e seed is sown like Ra —— or corn ; it would apes the same article he says— aving experienced great losses. by the cows: slipping: 
222 do to —— it in rows. [Why not t] Mr, Law wes has s Dia ha by —— experiments to be * their calves, arisingy, as: thoy believed, from a recently 
7. It ea — aerae a at least not when young. | in ordinary farm n must be added introduced practice among them of giving salt to the: 
* 
8. — e year’s land ly be — 0 of I fede and ti that 10 is the essential and ‘pot R cows — adopting, as they supposed, a practice: com» 
9 again for — eulti vatio — — — diner: better; pee = i, We suspect, however, that carbon without ammonia a KA ah OE a — aprikot — — 
our or five years. ; A ; 
9. During growth it requires much attention, must Further m he says— use of salt to breeding cows and stock generally, I 
be sed two or tires times, alter which tie — = 2 ardetieg ne — — 1 that a the value of the also now a case, in this vicinity, in which a farmer 
— ii better. In this respect it resembles the Beet- | carbon a alone, peat sams soda” n. rahe sgh meee ren hd oe hayy — — 
And he winds up his artiele thus: d d i 
. The tops Kry are used as food for cattle, «p the th 
“ The conolusions whioh Me. Lames hasiarriy in regard | nei i ; i „ naked: if i 
“ta and SHEEP ; pigs do mei like i it. 1 nitregraces n nT ena — ene apa raft hio penran — n 
S areg are several sorts; but. for mixing with 3 on soni — — — than that hia —— — were —— e y . e hed been. salted.” He was- 
7 di d t a rogenous : i 
arne, or 2 small: leave d — 2 888 dress . — conditions to increase the weight of advised to discontinue it, from that time had no 
d is a native of Magdeburg. The former is, 2 — A F — * et an . more lambs dropped, How are we to reconcile these 
— , on account tof its wg the — been wasted.” (!) facts with the astounding averments of „ Delta !“ If; 
12. Nobody eats here salad of Chicory ; in Switzer- Resuming the subject on January 17th, 1652, he the latter: is right, galt in the best thing in the world 5 
d some people use the * Na Adis are large, sa but “who shall decide when doctors disagree “, J. G. 
for salad, which, however, tastes very bitter; itissaid| “ i Perhaps one of the greatest discrepancies at the present Agr culture i ry E ngland sony whioh ine en arsed 
to be purifying to the > blood. : one betwe janen. — — and — of —— 1 a = 
13: The Chie cory r much j uice, and tastes v — brir ee nt — eoretical ass — that an agricultural on in your columns, upon t 
ii h am « 
bitter; it is almost —— enltivated for the Chicory | erop o an authority than Dr. Daubeny h — as given countenance to England in former timos; and bog to 2 ta 10 3 10 den 
ue this n hie late o elegant and well-timed lesture, where fo insertion, — t be o thought 8 s History oÈ 
7 4. The are — used as fodder when „ Not be sa. “Tarn ich contain more — in proportion owing proofs, extracted from enry’s 
dried out of doors. Te e aa E r e e the truth oft 
— — — ioven «blanched, n 7 — — of their 1 — > He phase, a * Mr. Hewitt Davis, of the high state of — — 
10 After the —— have been cut the root is cides with Mr. Lawes 1 4 i great produce of corn in this: island, w under the 
washed, cut in slices by — — dried and| We shall make other quotations further on, but in | dominion of the age 
roasted and — in this state it may be kept 2 ean tim e, in —— ce to the re presentations of seo 8 Ror moh Sener had — Zeri a firm tent 
for years views made in — ces, we bee to say, that ment in Britain, ngricultore began to be very much improved 
1% The toe with the leaves cut off, are thrown in any statements whieh would make it appear as an and extended. This was an art in which that renowned people 
eaps of from: 4 to 6 feet in length, width, and height, opinion maintained in our papers that “carbon without greatly deligh tee — 3 they — in all the 
on the surface of the ground; some straw and then ammonia,” or “ phosphates and carbon alone,” are suffi- ne A 
some earth are put around. But generally the growers | cient for the Turnip crop, or that it “ can dispens e with used to say, — — . 8 agriculture well and is au excellent 
pry ton the root to the manufacturers in the — end | ammonia as a manure,” are — untrue usbandman, for this was esteemed the greatest and most 
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f August till November, by whom they are imme- |’ se is true that there are some meidental — in had subdued any ‘of the British. ste states, they e endeavoured, by 
diately dried. ur paper on Wheat, and p ublished — than the various means, to bring their new subjec cultivate their 
18. The root is from 2 to 4 inches thiek, and from on Turi rnip Culture,” upon irae yen — e n 1 — 
i tio: w e 
F grow from nae o tons per C —— — these states. as they fell | under their dominion, obliged: tho- 
15 9. The price of the roots in their — state is Serre seg — — We shall — — visa rt L fen tice 
i i t is not earli inci planted in most convenient places, before- 
m 203, to aa — ton, ——— as a crops have ever, i rom er or incidental re- $ Ayoh — — 
good o c 
peri pes 57. to Th The cost for eultivating i is about 3. lös. — been given both more recently and more 
heir this island 
ne of th of the —_— and 
not 2 . ge a sufficient 3 of corn for the 
support of its own i way br Roman 
o ascertain | but —s 3 year a very r * 
` $ 1 1 3 8 3 an 0 Ps rea 
, rae A never used here in beer instead of | the spirit and intention of t papers, can — to dis- pe a leet of ae ers r ei L 
a i — t our sta . n kleular service of bringing corn from Britain; and 
enough, and, in a dried state, would only | quired for the favourable growth of the Turnip, refer granaries Tee built on the opposite continent, for the — 
dye the beer, without imparting that bitter taste to it to its production as œ crop in rotation with grain ; that — of th which 1 — was. conveyed to 
which Hops do. Brunswick, May 12, 1852. is to say, that our object has been, not so much to pro- y and c other e mite oof the — armies, 
P.S order save i 
— — prefer salad of Endives. 
ever of Chicory. —— eaten the latter, but surely our own statements of our views on this —— and 
p ‘ nus. Marcelli 
. In order to sa K 1 — not put in my | Vide specific rules regarding its culture under varying “He soba go gana net 5 ays Ammianus which 2 
questions; the answers wil nderstood without. | cércwmstances of climate and soil, bat to point out, as far | burnt by the enemy, into S he might put the corn usually 
With regard to Chicory transplanting w when young, I as the results of our experiments would allow, what are | brought from Britain? The grea 
— — it, and no root transplants better; neither its CHARAacTERIsTic requirements as contrasted with corn from this island, ve us a very high idea of the 
any reason against — 695 1 a for fodder, | those of the crops with which it is grown in alternation ; fertility — cultivation. of iin these t times, Having collecte& 
The best length of leaves I have found f — d is 6 to | and it is in this sense alone, viz., as an essential clement prodigious ties of timber from the woods on the 
8 inches long; and the highest price per e in this in — — fallow result of the Turnip crop, a ag of the Rhine, he bai t ar fat oF ban ahipa pe can — 
country was was 301, for the use of mixing with coffee, seoan h the Cereals, that we have called — thence. When this = ** he — it up the — a * 
James Cuthill, Camberwell, to the necessity 1 res abounding — —-— ge —— alas 
in onaceous matter, rath n in eee i 
F Nor, again, can any careful and been reader 1 fail to . 0 W 3 ESP 
ROTHAMSTED AND THE WRITER “R.” see that we do oe claim the importance of am- : 
(Continued from page 378. monia as a manure for —— mas guarding —.— st 
Resuming our remarks on the statements made by | Such an “ Excess” of it as ight te is ae i 
— e iin in the eee ee as to what ture, or to lessen the a aruia ation of it fe tural | 
views maintained in us papers, we pro- | sources, and thereby dim ninish the rotation effect of the 
poso now to all attention to his — a arid of our | crop ; and, further, that it is only when looking at the 
A n b 
— ebe es It will a seen that on this poin nt farm- yard dung, „tha — we have supposed that in it, espe- 
no n libe e 
— r former articles, | food be used in its . — any sufficient — th 
——— method a more 8 though equally carbon would be associated ted with a con 
that of f fairness and candour, has been adopted, viz., ay — relative supply of nitrogen; ea! 
tion to Sins an absolute and ‘unconditional ional interpreta- | we say, under such eireumstances, and such alc 
to sentences, which either by themselves, their con- “ have supposed ‘oe ape and direct 
text, or both, are ifestly shown to have a meaning manures will frequently not be necessary, P 
hotel relative: and conditional. It would appear, But, whilst laying down, this broad principle, ap- 
to ever, that he has set himself the task of showing, plicable at the disereti 1 accordingly | a t dt mi 
18 fes an expression of his own, that “ Scotch ce as he may know dint tn Mb s the stated conditions that in 2 ‘ans * a 
3 tha in advanee of English science,“ and it — are ar e Ee a. vis e tine e ow, 3 a 3 
So worthy an end may require such unw | cular attention to the fact that the effect of ammoniacal | because its truth is borne out by ts; and it is ineum- 
means; but neither the end new the means are what manures upon the Turnip is greatly to increase the bent on those who differ from it to prove 
