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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
Noy, a 
conjecture, they * dies to have a good effect, as 
We 
2 tend W open oil. 
The land — w 5 sa — rama me — ugik 
45 fvsesaaey neither requi it lies 
* x ure hia resis again on — alk | 
fields — it occurs have not ‘ae 
0 y 3 led, 3 0 
ve; we have subs . some fields, but I am cate 
aware that they were previously subject 5 it, but thos 
fields in * it does eva is pet been subsoiled 
since I them, and I bel never ha and 1 
have no “doubt but. sabediling vil 1 sense * to 
Kr. ek it. 
seen the crop very much affected by 
working the land when 6640 but I believe the more it is 
pein d when dry the bet 
I have not —— any effects from rolling down 
ou 
ae sowing. 
. N applied the dung to the stubble in 
the ept so far as roang sheep upon. it ; 
a ae, 1 dunk 0 advisable to „ as we could not 
xposing it by aging} &e., to the | 
18. I do not think s meat the method or time of hoeing 
od psy it, only t a hoeing when the 
land is eal cases is bad. 
19 — rienced — benefit from top- 
dressing after the plants have tice thinned. 
— I have . it prevail more on Clover that has 
n fed than on what has —— mowed, but cannot 
ee the aus to the mowing or feeding, as the 
land that was fed seemed from its nature more likely to 
be e d. 
have said ‘before, I have always found the 
ri close ct however, I ascertained that 8s. a | 
c has been the regular wages 
more . — — when an attempt was made to lowe 
the 0 7s. k, the labourers ‘struek, left the 
— and — one of his 1 which obliged | 
p the old e has been 
giv mily of his . te 15 
[abe ** gar ern allotment free. Such was 
$e sareetan — the abundant and simultaneously riper 
rops, that many men obtained from 2. 108. to 3. the 
harvest mon uh wit ple diet. 
e, then, the fact to be, that the rural labourers 
of the. isle of W. ight, though in some aw ealities they may 
not be regularly em mployed, a us w ff as in any of 
the southe — se The i 
e young and h 
— causes x bo dissatisfaotion in tha 
eity o 3 ers there, it is 
and tho rere employ 
labourer very tightly, ie will be 
o do so, froin the e of co mpet 
the senso ed class, If poet orkean on 
—— he — be better paid — beer he w 
ave the e for th situation; and if he be 
not suficienti — at hoe, he will estry his 
tal of muscles and sinews to one of the colon 
—— ease, the condition of the — in the “Tsle of 
We — elsewhere bids fair for advancement. 
of the e English working poor vn com- 
hs —＋ if its stream should run a fourth 
art of the — of issue oes Ireland, the: sahar will 
be soon felt, the remaining agricultural LA ila 
3 
m lea’ 
— 2 
5 
Pe wid most rapid showin sorts to be most affected, of Great Britain will feel their power a and 
and I do not think the time of sowing has much to do | estimate them — Aie in the — chin i881 
will necessarily come more — A into —— $ 
T think from 15 b have stated above it will appear | and, —— oe anten t — es 
that the texture o and is the only cause affecting rem s, poo — auperi — 101 from 
the disease, and has a tendency to get hard — — ne thie. ‘agricultural operatives) will probably 
immediately below the surface, it prevents the roots diminish, an er will be in a better position in 
from getting downw. ds, the tops continue perform every respect ——— — i the —— of a 
; t 
unable to penetrate in search of their mineral food 
aut ‘the root, after trying all round without success, 
Archaea ant 
~v 
hnnat 
a and the fibres die, wae cutting off all nourishment 
m the earth. I do i 
; wet, and fr cause stiff, then the 
rials 8 eee, i 
surplus —.— of lab 1 
r some — ait — — mainin by: poor- 
ractice of -mowing Wheat in the Isle of Wight 
i rrith it 
J unt 
hin 
ntives: — 
m or 
— 
1 Causés : f: 
sive soil, mejo working land when wet. Preven 
Draining if necessary to lay the land dry, 
chalking, abe ps Ploughing and sae a 
dant exposure to sun, air, and ‘fi George 
THE ISLE OF WIGHT, 
(Continued: from pa 746. 
0 re is some admirable farming. As I stood on 
a part of the chain of hills Nude 9 the northern 
from the souther 
: ern wing the undulatin 
W and nch flats on — latter side, and elevated 
hills at the baek of the fine demesne of Appuldercom 
and above Vi from Cul 
e vast fields of N be in 
~ alternatin ng with other shad 
* 
—j— 
| execption ta th 
green of the Swed n 
allotment am for Mr. F. Roche’s labourers, resembling: |. 
the colo ured squares of a ppeare 
e as in mor y days of fa 
5 afforded. The very small pimeni; ut h 
there — —— many in the Isle, e kori 
onsolidate — holdings) cann 
be ‘hired e 
the 
— 
sary hocin ngs to't erop. 
m of R at the wate 
e prevalence, ornamen 8 
— perf 
— —— and 
23 gardening, town 
rr of remune a 
employment but, relatively with the: nba of its area, 
the number of the working ¢ e Isle is small. 
erable in the country There 
ion ‘for ‘the work: people en, ost 
farms; those of Hazel . d A 
is remar 
"this want? 1 Prom 4 
the want of —— among 
em in the fact that a stack of old corn is not to be 
I neither saw one nor heard of 
soul ao an indolent emt ane stp 
. the attention of one or two farmers 
‘to the change of wea to the 
— res on —— — — d Australia 
hands, in faet, are'scarce.” 
Conflicting statements were made to Tespec 
e om of — — ‘slinin — 
at they were, — — 
ted by i the farmers, who-used: them not as men and 
2 > 
Nr a 8 “uh w = 
i i Wheat and | grain in barn. 
e At ast hate necessity, has ind 
en tlie f 
— 
p 
ut — 5 — fashion 
selling off all the: — nan — — sold, either before 
Christmas or very soon 
The — — is not asd by the Hail. _ Biked 
ition — con 
ne far 
will of course So it is 
always . — 
t * er foot (espe end 
s to be only Faroe — ne am — 
are possessed td sea 
these 1 find 
— want baf eapital, and cannot, Be ve the- neces- 
to their the espi es i 
in hi 
— winter of labours cotta tieni stiikiugly incon- f 
a — of | 
ý — i 
ore than 
the practice of threshing out and | Reid, 
Merits of box fig 
were carefully divided, five 
others were put into an oes 
Those boxes eo 
: cla vinter em 
* of 
ers — the flail is not afforded 
of at Isle of ae whieh is one of rey —— 
int of 
> 
om 
sons hen vont: — work is impraetie- 
‘fro youse,; and the use 
for the want to a eg degree. 
be like the huntsm 
205 — mer should 
eg throws off his pack, 
For he knows when he wills he cau whistle them back.” 
mid POUA is what some of the Isle of Wight farmers are 
e eused of not desiring to do. vever; 
If the pack, how 
he flail provides P 
tralia, the odour of a 
e island; 
for them if they 
OwING to 
gr 
mproven 
e a very im 
eat i 
portant 
n 
the best modes of feeding and hous 
e greatest diversity of o — rey 
bt in some measure from i deen 
ex Agne iy which the mer 
mpar 
might be 
ascer fatty — 
are highly cond 
the 
uciv 
— ; — ex 
the strong take more l — 
besides it is considered by many, tha 
re much food as p N 
00! fae i — work on 2 — l 
onsum 
opinion corre 
Mr 
waste of foo 
pt by à ere ela snl 
x secures to’ 1 . — 
him 
stra’ 
rigs when few 
the g inerease in 
in 
eourt- ones, 
— than the bo 
iat they had fi 
winter. ment of the experiment. My 
old h this result, 
in — 
1 
lot of 2 Wes 
yard. With r 
made to err yardis 
— mora 
other hand, cold 
— y bam 
and cattle, so — 
into single — eighit into a byre, 
W eee 
— min aty 
nod 
e to the matte 
; us advantages. Int, 
nse of lab — in feeding aud "aly 
ing to the eattle, is e 0 it is in 
e facility with whieh stra be 
grain 
an 
Elman, of Glide, who found tit i 
v “Turais were gë 
u bf the „ and when — 
— and also contained 30 Ibs. 
were 2 ur 
` however, were 
x-fed 
this 
18 
and ruin 
. 
Want them, 
rain 
rents, the toning or Stock 
branch 
difference 
the want of careful aud 
Tits of the 3 
ared. — is now — 
th, ease, 
ning of ate 
> and: ray to thei 
heir 
A ee 
own e i i 
that 
nent 
d herring 
; that om one farm, within the bounds of th jo Md 5 will tot 
r may vainly whistle 
tk 
wliere the hee 
BOXES, YARDS, tii oo 
— 
—— 
of gelb 
1 
ene 
. 
