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the neighbourhood | = 3 vital stru A farmer who sows thin must be Undoubtedly so: but then all lands are not in a condition 
of a — forte — from: the: neig t to ‘eg an abundant share of pity, sega sn | foz this et Aaa neithe: corn alone requir ; some 
of Kilroo oa und to contain— ra sees, during the early stages of vous | perhins are brick lands, but the provision. is equal in 
parts wore ™ 0.97 pour well-wishers a se carcely e contro e nervous all soils in accordance with thei spective natures. 
Organi matters 0.73 | condolence on your t prospec ured a Mechanicaily, you may build up or ge the consti 
i 0.25 pretty nn tied of ‘this kind when I first com- tion of mes ii ant all soils, to grades. of fertility, but 
Soda a 4.14 me but neighbours he this i of time, and of considerable outlay. 
anai — 0.41 labourers say, if we 2 a “Tittle on pee in 1 ar Nor — 5 ape md Aeglected lands; which h ; 
—— — iron x 32 « Never mind, you will be sure to beat us before har- impove by over-cropping, without complying with 
Alum . s t.“ It would be impossible to lay down any fixed the eae of — sai nent exposure to the 
nian ay 0.04 quantity for varying soils, 1 jors conditions. One fertilising influences of the at — naei uch lands must 
Phosphoric acid, equul toô. os dong eren, phosptiate 3.24 of my best fields this year is a Nestled sof seed | be — 2 round first by the proper means — 
Silica — — ‘potash .. — — 2 Wheat, drilled in December, a r Tat s investigation already thrown upon 
— ac cid —— die w 1 white Turnips fed off, following the Tar I dale à a like —— po — of the soil, — y 4 — for 
field of Barley, after white ed off, on a s ff | amm nia, and o pro es of uble 
clay, putting in 7 bushels f in 6} acres, or one bushel and silicates ; and to quote the substance of his remarks, after 
One f the sand would, therefore, —.— 2 bes half a peck per The result is a most abundant | baving inspected the Rev. Mr, Smith’s farm “ that 
soil 1483 be of bone earth phosphate, worth, at jd. p of stiff reedy 2 and at ‘at Teast 52 a of good | crops had the appearance as if they had been highly 
lb., 9s. 3d. malting Barle acre. Those who examine the dressed with ammoniaeal-salts, which in fact they 
Dr. Hodges also directed attention to the valuable | stubble admit that there must have been yini of 3 been from atmospheric sources,” must surely be a satis- 
discovery of phosphatic nodules in England, and of pege nelude that I must have drilled 3 bushels per factory evidence; allow me to add, not from the 
America, rich in phosphate of lim fee ry ù 42 d hardly say that there is an abundant plant Islands, at the cost of 91. m — ane but from the 
ve an account of some successful experiments which of red Clo Pe: doe f the were large gra hand of Natur too often repeat 
had made wi — — applied as a manure. and well developed, and the ears contained 14 to — necessity of preparing — 8 —5 conditions. 
He said that he purposed making a report on the sub- iison cach ide, straw at WL will make 
future meetin: 
Home sia ea ppt 
age Hrcursions.— Many of your readers take an 
interest in this subject, . I therefore beg to inform 
da 
a few remarks which I conceive to 
oads per red lands. It may be 
Waggon which ——— are getting gradually 
The 
never asked what is to become of al v 
as ery of, even in this uantity of crop) Nature to get at it, if it be not carried to the land! The 
depends more on the — of . and amount of answer appears to be, or is, she — dispenses 
food, rather t If seed it, be it where it may to lands prepared to receive it 
upon the quantity of see 
l g 0 
Wheat is — ös. per — I, a saving of 56. an —.— (without our giving o meal one. the trouble of fetching it it 
you, in connection with it, of a t most thorough, | would be considered a great reduction in rent. are | from the other n 
d, I am quite sure, most wholesom enjoyment, spent | much indebted to a Rev. r. Smith, Mr. Hewitt millions sterling "tn 9 ct to speak of “ artificials”), 
in the neighbourhood of Chepsto ane ‘Tintern by 170 ies — an — Wilkins, for their perse- if the soil roperly exposed and fallowed to 
of the villagers of Falfield and Whitfield We starte n the good cause of thin seeding. I consider | benefit from Nature's resources, so that he who tills his 
in six spring waggons at -past 5 A. M., more — stil too thick a seeder but shall come down b y gets better gratuitous 
2 3 portion of the party arriving with us at degre d ir John Conroy grew 11 sree supplies. The manure made on a farm ought. 
the Aust Passage in 2 ce ai ten gigs or | of per acre from 2 pecks of seed. e grown for the improving and 
traps,” * about 8 crossed the fine crop from l bushel. On ill rained, an tl 
Severn, and with the aid of 7 of the waggons 
with us, we performed the distance of 10 
gave us ample time for enjoying 
sights and sounds tha 
large portion o 
ge singin 8 
beforehand, th 
accordingly pie. m 
Certainly the old echoe 
y 4 resounded to 
5 PM, ir ea 
grounds of the * “Hotel, ‘iid after singing | 
our — in honour hea new kind oid 3 oka 
made us so welco recro the 
reached home before 9 — atten one of — 
by waggon, 
vern twice’ 4 — — cost about 18. a- — 
cak ffee for breakfast, wi wik ool 
th cake — 
e princi consistent 
faction of which. man’s peng 
capable. i i 
schools 
bourhood. And as regards 
the 
as of 
lants, if Nat 
ver- | 
n across 5 
miles, to Tintern Abbey and back, before evening. This in the 
the many pleasan 
good su supply, h 
ration, — heavy seedin 
r 
mony to 
. | the conditions of nature 
sumed at home. A vord bn the manure o 
y it away as heretofore, for aithonge — ao 
— Nature 3 appr opriates its virtues. 
ed, 
see large quantities of seed so sown, 
to “ smother the weeds,” and because 
land to make the plants branch or tiller.” 
. I have often been amused by seeing armer 
very carefully raising a ne tock of corn, depositing 
one kernel in ‘hele, keep bing “the land clean, and ob- 
increase. Havin ving by ese means 
lands, if only properly exposed to Natur 
fall instruction carrying out this . — refer 
singe shad the r. Smith’s pamphlet of “< ‘A Word 
i wher * e farmers so fortunate as to- 
id the the required pi of lands, r Meyer wie — some 
millions of aer Nee co th 
the —_ marke to ‘the aaa antage, if ee rules 
integrity 
ing, a comparatively —— 
urn. J. J. Mechi, Tiptree hall Sept. 2 in 
1 or Pig 3 ae -| ho 
observations ma the Gazette of the 
w greaves in 
25th ‘September as 5 * the vale of tallow 
accustomed to diet my 
t the 
laid rried out in — An Old 
Subser he 
t| To Preserve damaged Potatoes . — feeding.—It will 
be fo said in in raising the Pota this season that 
von be found — — the 
i 
to r ve no inju — effect on th 
In this state I would 
s—for these th ehould 
will be . to fe oer burne 
h the 
the Potato is $ 
ig. | pig- perma but it will be Kos are put 
for | q hat fermentation — 
| with 
the greaves 
This i is produced thro 
not mam his ingredien sre, "tra stirred in his copper. 
Such — as these. verted into a sort of 
animal charcoal, I find t to have a tendency to scour the in 
pigs, but I have never had a pie f fail in health —— this 
food. I have tried grga s. per quarter; 
American — at 1 oo pt, 196 lbs., — every damaged 
so as after Christmas when 
stor pict. them so 
and 
4 
We had 
> F e eaa * ` 
| answer well to pack them in. J. W., Salop: [They will 
after being = boiled, if only packed tightly and 
— against a wall.] 
Burnt Tan and Foia. —Many cases are before the 
water. public in which chareoal.and ashes have pallinted or pre- 
Chronicle, 
August 28, is one of burnt tan ; — charred (it would 
), but ash burnt.. This seems to be a destructive. 
pig Nee oe ae 
are very y or fatting du I 
panah praes yet complain of the quality of duck meat 
from Aylesbury. 
A Few hei to those who prsh to „ 
the Joven Exports 
tific investigations of the j of Je J ‘aioe Tall for tilling | | 
ele ven in the lectures gA mene 
Way, before the N 9 ae Society o f England, to peat 
n | he * aes ve the system as sound by the chemical | The 
1 the day; the Rev. Mr. Smith, of Lois 
veral 
the semen 
as has 
on, in practice, by a most successful trial of se 
with the addition of e improvements in honda 
it appears that the farmers | i 
m have been leaving too little to 
eam and 23 — —＋ tr baa habe present position is need- | 
Th — have taken the unprofitable side of 
dressing the land, rather 
i 
esely o 
