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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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I have now Kye before the y what I think of th's 
mighty waste e finest of manures, and shall be too 
ad to see the thing carried out. James Cuthill, Cam- 
Novels West — East of England. 
ntish men, 
ed an 
them on the — ka merits of their 
the short. | 
a blade 
en * res sembling the eparina ace of 8 
have no doubt 8 are f so 
a Corni seh point of 
* for aaa the | 
ing the kne 
t ts wi 
of entering the sok in consequence. Several ga 
beer, I understand, have been d 
support of both sides of the question, —— 
erits. T eee — 
err 
„The opinion of 22 piet aguante fwi that of of 
introduction of 
s steel 
e result e workman with 
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fave cons the experiment and with rons i success, 
who feeds the chickens will s 
hen the food is thrown to 
The Value a a Ton of Turnips.—Every . knows 
that the Wheat crop pays its o own immediate expenses, 
and leaves a profit; ; that 
that th 
t if they give oilcake the 
4 erp for the 3 1 Colonel r 
J tabulated sta in the 5 
ournal are 3 useful, and his practice sand th 
no means justify such a value for 3 
coun! H tepri 
machine, as distinguished fro 
- | Crosskill, Dra 
ard that a man riding u mac 
delivers r Sg corn at the si side, thus — che two opera- 
if 
and a — 
e = 2 debe on i 25th Au — the am prena 
were very | the 
A ving i in 
peter before the publie, is its general i 
erywhere.” Mr. Hussey’s machine, as exhibited and | 
= the manure. If I remember rightly, your uoo 
ents over a very long period; and a? oon we 
something like 3s, 44d. per ton for Col 
uall is probably fortunately situate 
cheap is lean stock from the breeders on 
| of Scotland 
e ya obtaining 
the waste lands 
| lean meat, which must 5 
to 101. pe 
Ps 
a shoe 
who hav 
on, our . est manure. 
gre oi: S, 
I ever yet produced ; but I e my experience in 
irrigation the subject ofa Aam nenia INP Ss shortly. 
J. J. Mechi, Tiptree, Oct. 7. 
Socteties. 
CLEVELAND 5 Reaping Machines.—Six 
were Mr. 
edale. e 
rreti’s improv ich pm nsist of the knife 
i| being bevilled on oo * only, and being made capable 
as Barley and Oats, and 
the grou abd iter 
3 feature tp of this 
e 
the e following 
the * y and r 
chine 
m Hussey’s, 
5 y, Garrett, and ölheti, are 
:M machine euts w ith 
combined 
tions of cutting and binding 
entirely independent of 
each other. 
w 
The machine cuts 6 feet wide, and has full 
h 
It is worked by tw 
raught, by — test ‘tind 
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= raker and * changing —.—— 1 — 
y calculation the e to —.— 
pidea dvin — ‘thet — — a 54 fe — 
At Sheffield on — 2 and at Driffield on the 13th 
— in 1 ste acres to t 5 two machines 
10 aeres at the latter trial, 
— mo the arm 
3 
it w 
m 
accordin the patt 
year, as exhibited at 
Cleveland, ‘whieh was no 
t adapted to cutting near the 
corn was quite — at 
Royal e en and a few row 
across the field were cut, and that under re, 
rse a 
17 chines Tor —— » while see 
— — 9 the four others, I volun 
eut corn for him, wet or dry, on 5 the TA — 
if the weather is — very bad, will eut at least 
land 1 under sad circumstan 
above, without my knowled sent; 
mention 
neces 
an nd 
c | chan 
w; | 3 feet wider than the original on 
ssey’s with | noon 
by | exhibited gg ye 
k on sey 
little of the 8 „ and constructed it exactly 
of last 
ound, bu t toa a high stubble, as we do in the United | distri 
M.P., 
urham County Society, having ordered | j 
hi ing = = 
I = = add that my — was exhibited as we, farm 
t August, un 
is true late exhibi — at the Royal Society, when 
the e cutting was well done, but too high. My obj ect now, 
ev 
em nea by Messrs. Dray, which has received several 
prizes, was tried, it appears, under rather unfay 
vourable manure made in th 
cireumstances, in consequence of the horses 
proper ones for the purpose, so that they were ro oblia 
ed. This machine has a small wheel f. ls 
which, it is said, 9 ‘all the bearing off the front, 
and the machine is moved much more eas; horses, 
connected with it is a simple and most ‘can 
rat r moving it about. This machin 
commended by the jury. Mr, nang own ei 
ffers from that exhibited last Mid 
although the same in principle. 
wheels in t. The width in 
selecting any crop upon 
trial was more extensi 
would ee age containing 4 
crop of O rop of Wheat, of about 5 acre 
each, oe both < cy oa average crops. 
The fo ering is the Report of the jaye 
first place the jury, in conducting the trial, have fr 
the Lary attention, as well to the suggestions 
exhibitors as to 8 0 oe committee of thi 0 
The ay was comm at 1 o’clock Pc 2 
ontinued u i T 0 ae ck in the evening, 
vik time “the whole of the a brought f 
were tri ussey’s machine, in consequence 
10 an accident, * not reach the pr eld. The trial was 
resumed thi 
ock, and finished 
your jury, after ing 
of the different . N them 
of 3 and balancing helr 
emeri 
mended 
ray an Co., sho 
to add that th 
are deserving of thei 
some respects, there was muc 
their construction. Itis proper to add that one 
jury was of opinion that the merit was as equal bebe 
2 — E and i a that the prize ought to 
ee The jury have had the ae of ‘as 
vA pr exhibitors ex pa 
ere tio 
ducted throughout. 
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and re y on the ground 
the orderly manner in which they conducted — 
during the trial—Joun Prison, Foreman. 
Aug. 26.” 
the course of the evening the sory 
Wharton, in propos’. 
jurors —The Chairman all 
He wt 
bu le me had 
“a 
ty 
a — for three at 
"i to be Dais is the whole and exclusi 
the best 
t absolu 
declaring voice on a question of 
clear mse would be very 
aid o port te sides of the 
— they had not a 
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e re pump. 
man) ) thought that t they had 
man and t that 
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