THE AGRICULTURAL —— —— 
| SEPT. 25, 
and that when natural Grasses are allowed to 
ength, the coarser sorts so far choak the 
same mixture, and hence 
of food. 
During summer a 
eee. 
ex 3 N ather. 
be made to anitotmity e 
ure air and su 
As near a 
cy of exercise, a 
—plenty 
— the 7 94 of appropriate 2 the elements ‘ok 
ecessfal practi 
pas dairy fa 
feeding and with 
pon consideration. Generally, there is _ 3 
breakfast; for 
. — — — goe 
y besaid of milking ; — fasting and 
i — ace two successful expedients i in practice for 
utting the In the house, ag 
ut too —— te happens that maha currycomb a 
brush are wanting, while the language of thec pa ers 
and his handling and general demeanour — the 
cows, are even ruder than towards oxen destined for 
the shambles! A cow = calf, or 
requires gentle treatment, and 
kept clean, and she j be kept otherwise in 
comfortable circumstances. Taking into consider- 
ation the few gose alone which have been named, 
it will readily b 
das m io 
f spread over the kingdom could 
ly 
to —_ ann e the | ™ 
appro an 
of — for: the cows 
ufficien 
t 
"ipii rity o milkin ng, bad 
grooming, are iad: . hes of 3 requiring 
considered 
t of — sea 
— portion of t the 
inches of yellow clay—like 
that “ rod —— 1 — — 1 olay-farm chronicler 
a e 
ood ; it is e 
its power of prod 
good and equally productive with 
mine, 
Well, upon this plot of ground I gotin my sixth crop of 
Wheat in themiddle of 8 e e too late 
by a whole month. But 
came slowly and eee ap, p found to 
had been som he seed : 
plant. e cro 
gon o0 well, however, the effect 
and . — round ever y plant, as with Turnips. 
Is and pampered it with the hoe, that it spread, 
atid tilereð, oa grew into the finest and most luxuriant 
| crop I — rhai — is now threshed out; and the yiel 
is very n rters and 2 bushéls from the half 
I have pao tite these eee. in order to point a 
n, 
res 
8 1 — since counted in 
ma single gra 
thrown out so 
the stable as m 
— ae ae 
yo 
of the milch-cow is as yet anything but perfect, 
whether we refer to the food or the treatment she 
receives; E uring the greater portion of the year, 
‘the former is very far from the simple type which 
a given us, and the latter is, if possible, 
even more at variance with what Nature requires. 
‘THE WEEDON SYSTEM OF GROWING 
eg) WHEAT, 
made by your 
growing ng Wheat . 
reference 
e 
e g point o ks 
tsaye 
— arge heads, it may be, with 
I do not know that I can better reply to this than by 
giving a rae of my own and my neighbours’ crops 
n 
sf 
m the moiety of ea 
y mildew, I call it the oes al of each 
lands t wide, 
and I trench exactly 24 every year ca for a fallow fo 
the succeeding crop, and leave N feet every year un 
trenched, for the growing crop. 
In 1851, I sowed the other 
produced 5 qun quarters 1 bushel fro 
ripened prema- 
turely—10 — before its time — nd so will fail 
full 4 as to 
“the brighte 25 
d b 
er, that 
= has 
nsecutively without manure ; $ 
year Vetches, and the 
-o alternate eee 
oi m t still does 
augh and sing "all 
ifier bri gs. out 
„ at the outset of 
ny ing, “ What | corn 
3 has been mil 
eat, with wide intervals, is subject to 
i &. Smith, Lots-Weedon, Are. 14 Ii 1852, 
It was upon hae — illera that = mildew fe . "The 
plant for alm son es sees e tillers ; and 
while ee few early and orig — growing 
and ripening into the dr ai age, these late 
of a 
ones were still youthful and scale and ee Then 
me the season of trial—tl s of summer and the 
e stom 
he grain no longer filled; an 
ved only fr fe om being or bad by the 
Exam single plant — 
wrinkle! 
ere is 8 
nin rel . N 
mething n at wo 
Wheat crop peices at = in. 
thin patch grows and o he pla ant 
had room to wre ead, — re filled e blank space w 
tillers :—too 
disposed to . and milde 
os = e fiel 
at a 
ew comes and spoils a 
has been thin and backward at spring. 
ee the ie full 3 sag a farmer 
spar 
Ad 
Í iat rebula Í in a season 
can tell. = tenant of m 
crop with guano 
heightened the ‘stra —— and le and 
— and 
reaping. The unfavoure 
filled ears, ked t to a foot f. thei 
mar 22 a foot from ir tinie | 
and blackened 8 
y prospers, Therefore, sow earl 
Let the! plant tiller er fully before winter, a anes early b 
q 
rt at the genial 
secure.“ 
THE REAPING MACHINE. 
[We have been favoured b faci with the 
report on “this fl to — Published by him in his 
of — fi 
he | capacity ‘of Secre Agricultural im- 
pro ollowing is 
acquaint 
ne, h ames Smith, o eee 
mation 
the 8 
eee 
a pre 
n t 
by the Hi 
n 1828, w 
ing of guano will set it up, and is applied. With | had 
yo Wh 
3 + foisted ‘the. sre "forward and | Mr. Bel 
engthe 
rom the — portion — 
came — T saw a. 
We 
all the ingenuity which w 
this feeding and foreing of the plant came h ete d to it, but 
too There were but few tillers in the — spring, complete efficiency. Its sik ner 5 N ning 8 ts work 
but alter the process I have described, were |is faithfully given in the d report, which was 
8 
ent 
“ We, Proprietors of Land, 
day witnessed — operation of Mr. 
machines at Powri 
ployed in — — Oats, Barley, a 
about 5 — — and consequently cu 
corn as it passed along. The stubble was from 
. — igh, completely free e from loose straw, 
n 
their country, they felt th 
and as an as d pe to ‘taboos for the cie poh roii 
In the 
in the district of Mont teith, w 
ever agriculture is properly pers ere, and 
a hether the 
this machine ever got the 
reaper- as Bell's ee id 
ee So ociety’s journal of 2 pb the ae thus ex- 
: We 
pressing his opinio 
e at work, and 
The — — provee 
incites 
same r (1815) + respectable _ 
practised,” 
and man ma HN 
200 guineas, as recommended 
e patriotic invento 
ghland 
e 
eed with our sketch of the Sehn 
ne made its a appearanes 
ith a plate and deseription of it in the 
—« ve seen it 
feel satisfied. hat — possesses not only 
n of its 
unty of For 
rs and practical agrioultuzists, Ai were pte- 
“Powe, 10th Se eptember, 1828. 
Farmers, and others, have this 
+ aes The . 
n the county of —— ey 
e 
and considerable declivity. Eac 
cut down this — 
and — 
= — egula ann 
into compact one well formed sheav aves, with 
facility and despatch 
moved, it was ascertained 
about au ee = 2 8 bow 
seemed to 
pu 
It had 
corn, so as = aoe: — with the oper 
Each machine was moved by a siegle horse, 
cage ee the practical mechanic who attended, 
been frequently asked, as a matter of 
how Mr. Bell's machine was s 
of the machine, 
— without rolling, — $ 
the greatest 
which the m ? 
by — mes that it cut dot w i 
m six * 
4 binding, and 
— peration of 2 
en 
At the rate at 
lad + 
gaze 
Tua 
1829, or practised by the 
o little known till now 
hich dazzled the 
it was so little thought of from I 
Briti t 
Asn 
icle apps 
d part up, 
is true, but with healthy and well- M 
bites the thin spe the moral is this: « 3 wing, 
ted with the eee of the late 
of the 0 
of | n 
very 
even 
fi 
t to cut of t 
i = general and r. 
r say three weeks 
| cultivated 
many influential . 
likely to entertain and promo 
result of all this agitation was, that n 
arm to see his reaper 
shows that ehterprise in agri 
still much needed, 
4 when agriculture was rudely 
Mr. Loudon, speaking i 
ardent promote of a 
sent to Mr. 
“Tandy way be of adv ni 
