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ther with a rtion ni the straw ; he will a uces too roportion of leaf and too well as the fall of rai ‘something i 
= time i extend the green eee | Can adeng, to zapp saagis E * We y,.We cannot sup- | the matter! J. 7 * — 
on it. To the Irish . this will be all 2 rofit; for pose that writer who thus illustra e vast ( To be continued.) 
the part of his f. he has placed under a good of 3 of a large fall of rain, and who 
lar course of e cropping will support as speaks of the effects of an excess of nitrogenous supply, H 
age * and produce as any opinion as to the effects, so far, of a large ome Corre 
d does u aye sent cultivation. r of an excess of nitrogen, different from Mi pos Wheat, —With the view, if 8 
1 the consideration of the depth of drains there is one our own ; or 2 = can in any degree underrate the | gaining n f knowledge and 
ar e nd w we e inclined to think a very a of the form lta mt parey e throw light ona subject of con- 
strong one, in favour of d ining, that has not b y virtue, e of his invariable practi siderable impo ortance in this locality, I take the liberty 
the effect uces | us, of misrepresentation, he has sought to pann 5 idea | of sending y you a specimen of the Wheat 0 
ings equal, nee rent for 
and than for chalice land. The upward 
epth the roots of mos in exc The following i is the sen immediately | 
of water, be it at 2 feet or at 5 feet, they eegse to go suc e one . e “eR which, he says, | Sam 
deeper—their object compli they obtain suf- | reve: e oihal action of ammonia, and contains a 
ficient water for their their tissue there becomes | “ double fallacy 
issolved. A ig nan of a napon becomes fibrous, even | «Indeed 3 strain eos are much more 
when it water, and spreads its able to the growth of Tur Lae n — a = the marth 
— N n, Fie p:depih mi k whioh. tha —— eee re —— 
. in econ] in e ‘3 plant h ed for t Tig — . 
5 Pp: ; e 0 y . * * 
healthy growth of plant so long as they find in the soil * — om 8 pas 
very little more. than 1 ter of its saturation ; the ig spoken of; and question arises—what is to be 
deeper the drains are cut, the greater de 1 of mili in | understood by“ the natural nnn 
this state must be available to the roots. course. of our paper, clearly de f 
8 
ee AND THE — sy? 
(Continued from 
Brrore leaving the — of the ni ore extended use 
of ammoniacal manure he Turnip in Scotland and 
sen 
to this — 
lati and we thus find a 
starting point for a few gen as to the scope, 
object, and — our observations on the 
re arge as affecting the grow tl 
1, 
in — 
tion “of — eset — 
that, under a- defeet of them, the p 
me premature ripeness,” a and chat under 
nanures, the “ vitality’ of th 
plant is “maintained in the end o 
our own expression being, that “ the vitality and longevity 
ed ;” he then goes 
t admits. o being 
east, on val — 
moist ure.” 
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a 8 
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gz 
8 
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when it 
r. Lawes entirely reverses the climatic action of ammo- 
ipe, for if the — pep has any meaning at all, there | 
7 —— ouble — n it:“ 
is ad 
large 2 of ammo- 
rete 3 
e the 
it is much 
—— whic ich eon mau 
alt as well as ee is found to to 
urnips in Scotlan is large, 
parts o 3 less.” 
manure for T 
than in those 
6 N then 
“ The superiori“ 7 — 
pees — — oft 
en ence in the a 
adds: 
of the seasons in Scotland over England, 
Turnip, depends more upon a lower tem- 
the early part of the season than any slight differ- 
mount of rain,” 
arks on the subject of the 
erta in? manure when there was 2 large f 
the 8 Gaon — | or mga y give a 
“summary of the statistics provided by the rain ga — 
after r giring o * al 
in fall of 
im 3 of a certain “lower temperature” is entirely 
overl 
ore 
objec 
of the subject of — in — to our various crops, 
those who have r paper will not need to be told told 
that it was un — ostensibly with the view of 
affording some key to the results} of — experiments 
upon various — wich various manures, in different 
seasons. No one, more than ourselves would 
disclaim for our — on this su ‘de any pretension 
of the general 
relating merely to the “quantity of rain that 
ithe — mew it falls, and the tempera- 
* growing | 
and the register thermometer ;” an 
with the Turn 
— in connection w rnip question, we sa 
in athe. results obtained, canarias by such manures, this 
pre veral es drawn 
frequent destruction of of the 
thus exp: especially in the yagi of rain 
during the early stages 1 * ee = as was at that 
time much more — oniacal manures 
were sown too n ed jam eee 
stance which, we —— as p 3 one fruitful 
source of the . ee then held as to the 
value of such 
to the T 
pes of 
by “R., and espe 3 
r 3 point of 
ur paper what 
main 
the growth of the Turnip, we 
explanation now neren cele have. bee r 
norant and car 3 that i “ 4% 
in 
toja favourable Tur 
the 
readers will probably admi the e greatly increased — 
of examin ation, were the table more extended and in paian, 
wou id scarcely be compensated for, if th ara 
a | Requisite poe effices of the Turnip season can be asce — — 
out it,“ And, a 
again, 
— poe tain is the general e of season upon 
the cu'tivated Turnip, ” 
B and incidental only as was the 
our 
Turnip crop, . was at any rate more than e 
0 
impute e 
isolated — and giving it sense, W 
vious—as well from the — context as 
never have been nde erring 
* season of 1845, which had proved a very favourable 
e for the Turn compared with 1843 and 1844): 
Ema relatively large number of rainy days, an — 
— — of rain, and a low d. peratu 
ntly the cha- acters ee eee 
Tar — — of 1845 from that of che — preceding years, 
ande cuiar a a . some ts of the period, — oy 
rom t 
„our differen 
= 8 ‘hee facts, ugh so general and limited in their 
here is tendi one whiee — — show that the 
our cultivated re 
ap — ae 22 
of rai rin pien and 4 
deñning certain limits, we sa; 
Again, the lower the e ature the less important is a con- 
tinuity and a large amount gil rain’ 
uch, then,.is the combination and mutual adaptation 
of ‘te sont which we 7 — painte ed out as characterising} an 
and we think the 
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of 
the Taaa maalisin jg hy giving, i in a ere 
le latter manure | 
m double fallaey; and then, don his owna 
t — i Lr them, th rs compa: rative F: iow 
« Mr, Lawes entirely rever: 
Fenders that in. —and that a his. ee ae 
ti 
farm 
as that prevailing. through of 
South Wiltshire lying on the upper chal ee 
aspect of the farm I. should observe, that 
A on the 3 side of the valley, with of 3 
Sg 14 ours, is subject to the same 
38 blight, th ough not this year. e Ahr pein 
tent, The condition of that farm is, 1 should 
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tout aud the. ears Inge. I ja. not seating, 
Wheat w 
Bz such a summary as is here given, of course on! y the w 
we say on this point,“ . we wish 
fect the growth ot | 
ears 
ent of the subject of season as affecting the N 
to of 
coc. 
dean the seasons under which, in i 
grown :— 
what your — is with regard to such communi 
cations this; if i ust. apologise 
troubling you, but if not you will be doing those of our. 
nei similarly afflicted — none are 
— so eh we are) and vann permeates 
essential iving us your views on ject... 
oo as I ni know {lee have stated ‘everyting 
is ne to form an 
cessary to opinion, 
if you 2 sy any vey ay information ball be 
it. J. Williams Bell, Hindon, Wit. 
Thanks for 
we 
disease pears 
and 2 sorts are 
genoa * it in a wet season, and wr of gross and 
bulky growth, ] 
South Hunta.— The harvest commenced in this division 
erik in number, who opened. 
mischief within, wet as.dung, and 
P 
icks, i 
bey threshed till March or June next year 
self adds 
urther, in eee to the Turnip season, after i me 
nas bend 
readers | than ne of ine chiens with fo clas in. — 
account, he 
ature, as 
ths 
and the growth of its plumage, has not 
and the 
panty whether 
light would be thrown upon the mooted point.) ; A 
Constant Reader, East Lothian, 
