THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[JUNE 26, 
412 
outh Holland. Peculiar value bglongs to] gets only 300 feet of Wheat, I get about 448. At 
Cranberry Fen, from eee n pe — and the grazing farms of first quality are | my Wheat looks well, promising a good crop ; and if 
grew upon it, Severa det hat ime the metropolis | known throughout the whole district by their names ; my rows be nearly as productive as Mr. Smith's, I 
were established here, and a ducks, widgeon, and teal, | and m f the better fields are famed the hill- to have more than 34 bushels of corn per acre, The 
was principally supplied with ducks, widgeon, | piece,” the “doles,” the “Jew’s me Koe. N Mayens PAE een 
i piece, 9 which, if drilled early in the season, I thin 
8 in 
saltne 
siderable e ir sheep, ee are there br ed. 
nd in the opinion 
in other soils, be more than necessary. 
t 
mars 8 g o more than put this subject befo; 
ee ag CSETE 1 eee s 3 the of Tumis Co Calan d, Cute: Wheat, Peas, Beans, prey I . ar that at present I like the — 
ve water g x or two rows and a wide space, as econ of 
eo p — p 2 = a. ae 92 A noticed the e or 1 and practising in a moderate e the mixture of 
weary, and return to 8 ove e ae eee or half of aie’ Poet Level ; in our next Number we wi ill | fallow with ‘the growing crop ; in fact, ¥ vei near arly making 
Bocka sony h ial dee able bor whole | endeavour to ec mplete our superficial rer Aco maga | T kent w fallow Grop; ang S Ia tends to keep 
eee Jer o oe 1 er. We enter into another class of topic and remark. J. A. C. the p robust and healthy. Winter Beans I have 
winters round, and sometimes scarcely in summ illed two rows 1 foot apart, and a space of 3 feet, so 
to sheep to pasture in a flat-bottomed that each foot of Beans takes u 
pit . in ditto, and afterwards fetch them 
be the same conveyance.’ 
0 
catch-w 
distil ‘mil the sluggish 1 ti water — the E 
upon n 
e! 
be made le by its influence, The farm 
are pretty 755 the hedges neat, the stock well fed; 
the h 
e ae 
g and Rede —Tha 
yie hea 
e 
difference in ‘the 
in an a . is a fact known to know- 
ledged by all f One Sows ecks per 
acre, and obtains m 
cul eae is intere 
East Fen all the peat lands have been claye od, en IR a 
Un ig ag ragt $ is practised 
he producer, eri: 
to im io 
| mind ippen thrown away. Doubtless, thet two quantities al 
and a 
and 
a | The 
as oxy Libr rary” a ed 
ty | Mor 27, i 
al i F of che knis features and the 
ore t 
f the row 
sp This communication h 
extended to ty great a length, or it might be in 
also to purs ame question, o 
8 teresting 
the f how much will an 
acre of Steand profitably mene 2 with regard to stock 
and ag ? Raa rancis Clerke 
h Grass.—In tko re of the “ National 
to the history of the 
he following passage, where it 
e pr roduetions of 
reat Salt 
rmons,”’ a 
cale, on es 0 
e ta rritory a the ger is unequalled 
stock-raising co The finest pastures of 
ee are th ot more igre’ be Sia those on the east 
side of the Utah Lake and Jorda River.” We 
here that cere ar anomaly, the Bun A Grass, In May, 
when the other Grasses push, this fine plant dries upon 
its stalk, and becomes a light yello AER full of flavour 
| and nourishment. It co ntinues igy fe through what are 
the dry 5 25 . climat 1 January, and then 
starts with a v s growth 
eat in April, which dee on til the return of another 
Whe 
co be founded upon; take a saving of s ee he ya , the cattle fatten on 
‘beasts ane wintered with oileake and straw, and ibaa acre, and ue wh t it will amount to in niddling- it the year rou "Shoal d facts “bear pek the 1 5 
are grazed on the <7, and er on the Cole. Cole- | sized parish, Let 200 acres be supposed to be under | the addition of this to our list of eer rer ald its 
seed, Wheat Oats, eds ar rincipal crops ; Wheat in a parish of 2000 acres, with a population * be a boon t is country me ireland, Su dedii 
the land is chien frequently in consequence of 500 persons. In such a pari h the savi 8 | climate el for it, too, has some claims i Abel will 
its moisture and sity. Oilcake fi ttle in the | pecks of seed per acre will liberate for food, without as a stock-raising tr a his 5 we ald 
farm-yards, and bones nA = een ; -> osting the farmer one sixpence, 160 or 50 likely depend on its great capabilities is this ey 
‘items in fen h r e peat soil is not difficult to | quarters ; and, allowing one quarter of Wheat for the such a valuable Grass as t apres eless wilds.” 
work, but is peculiarly B30 with twiteh (oii 1 2 consumption of an ad rson for one year, this itself over Connemara and our other brags iy bite” 
Tight, yet rich earth forms a fine matrix for wth saving of seed alone will provide bread for one-tenth how would the stockmaster rejoice in re ers fe 
k its long penetrating fibres, and great labour is neces- | of the population of the parish for 12 mo No one and winter store “full of flavour an 1 A 
: AA ; 0 i s I suppose it is nei $ 
8 
e | ground will pro 
e the e quest 3 bo 5 
0 . per acre i 1 6 ould n 
how assume that ree of my two quantities 
above mentioned 5 the right quantity, for o ay 
early as h under the mark as th 
` 
n 
tably take up and brin ay o maturity. 
= 2 Bare vil, o on an av maa of years, produco as much 
0 0 
at harv 12, it would appear to be the 
it re will produce 
5 is is the h higher oye 
and h of 
is 
sward of a soft 
on Tuch the 
the 3 grain z tern for which Ti inco solishi 
‘noted. The herbage is thick tts Bo 
‘and carpet-like texture ; somietim 
as 
manage h 
‘and keep his sol ite! Bet t th 11 Le 
ar 1 pasture 9 5 s e working of is 
„the land ell 
posure 
es | alte . 
tity; his if 4 or 6 peck 
‘tiie 
| that extra quantity would a 
for see if it will produce r mo 
than, 8 or 12 Sas it nid ad the hetter, 2 tie more 
economical, and profitable 
spaces between he rows ronder s 
he be A heen used 
3 
oo ofar 
as good as ex 
wide and narrow —— would be the m 
economical re of tren The best width of pate 
wi to circumstances and nature of soil, 
growing Whea 
eee 
to straw, 
manure fro 
more judicious 
a Coleseed are grown, oil- 
tance. 
management: root cro s 
cake is given to the beas rp 
Bet seal 
this belt of land and the p roper fi 
proper en is a line of m 
perior gra south 
res 
the Lincoln breed, that is, the 
y are la 
though te oni Heref me _— 
They ar e bought n spring, 
> * sold fat i in er th 
the c. 
| 9 "of trops, w ith the 
Vene beasts fed are — e OF ¢ ps, wi e spliton of m 
arge sh 
Fe 
healthy straw, 
strength of the ground, is what is to be desired. Next 
tity, or be more t than 
necessary, is a fair — arag for other trials. Wher 
the same field 
of manure for 
he em 2 
average quantity of ground 
taken up by 1 foot of his haa is 20 . but, bio 
a rotation of crop and chan 
re 
e poe is 
into the error we are told th 
er a 
an equivalently heavy crop than 2 pecks, | some 
el 
arrow 
ficient enten of 
t 
aia th I think it is), 
re 
oial A which you 
with as few toodi as ee wasting the | i 
pen ey obliged if you or any of respondents 
ae nd iy give its botanical name, 14 say if it as yet 
In the sam 
as a table vegetab 
remark they are ale i 
den of Plan 
et nt if not, the 
unch Gr: iss is solicited with re; 
eA. 3 
of your numerous 
— {3 
to be injurious to the 3 thereon 
ants ioe e. benefit in 
ach of moisture, 
It may, per 
d question, 
many pla 
roots being w 
by capillary seven} q 
Whe 
spac din i 
space, for the roots healthily to spread under groun 
and the ai 8 = the crop above ground, I hav 
this year drilled about eat in rows, with that judgme 
, teacl seems to prove sish y don? 
of Wheat has one — inch space. By draining, but merely to draw carefully 9 
this plan, each foot of Wheat 8 up 13} inches of | preserve a fall the latter not of chance; 60 
; so that in 500 feet of ground, 7 Ware tits; Sa | i ing rather a matter of a 
