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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
omical, and 5 2 5 with what is derived from the 
atmosphere su suffici 
will be seen ie about 60 Ibs. of ammonia is 
Eras a ch — When S 
eadow, 3 ¢ r acre, 
ammonia, is nf Poder adequate : ‘the a 
off by cattle, whieh gives 
excrements. Wi 
ammonia in the eee oh isa 
in the effect. With ments fen the Gras 
we go on for a serie 7 amia without perceiving or 
5 any deterioration, w ea with pas we 
find a ra pro the r Gras are 
qan 8 Ai e displacement “of ‘the foie, a con- 
tinue U een of guano year after year is no 
deemed advi 
My ae wiel I have 
olumns, is in accordance with 
stated ; een of straw 
d difference 
mie ising tes in pine 
Me ws I have 
brush into the ground. 
is finished, October, iia ry fae whole of my meadow 
are manured with ments derived from thei 
Poona It may Gerdes mes Nappo that within a few 
s after the grass has been cut, the excrements from 
that g applied to t the space where it was 
some ditio e 
somewhat paged iy of | i 
ft Potatoes he | 
plou hs, harrows, ws as for Oats, 
, in addition, he digs the — to the full depth of 
— staple, and shovels as clay o the 8, at a 
weeks or two months after 
r that time to 
in the seed, and shovels up the e mage A that has fallen | 
the e har 
derma È ~ 4 4 crop by diggin 
kin mallest lumps, to sep 
a after this the careful tiller 5 5 ered 
en into the 
e 
urrows; 
the winter, and the clay in them left in a loose — 
be acted on by winte 8 In spring the beds 
Sa of this Potato 
ined wy enge Turnips. Th 
ough and 3 
e . tillage of Turn 
i nd. B 
Gran 
8 
e the 
above stated. It will also tend to Set 
at 
as to whether the disease proceeds un the i 
ta 
or after 
tion je pito ulate the growth of the stems, J. M. 
is generally 
oam, the elimate mild mad ag! a avg 8 
in action the whole year und, ; retin j 
The aai used by t oreans for 
purposes are of the mne Fret wee Thei 
ploughs, wooden harr cer ane yokes, 
copies of Doon used hy ‘the ent Ro 
PE doubt a pl 
n, by a pole N oat 
Aide as the plough ha Handle. 
Cords are fastened) * 
horns of the bullocks, 2 are ily 
grass are again 
to cherish its reproductio 
I offer these 1 to 3 consideration of your thn 
h 
W len 
readers 
which I lebe 
they also tend 
of the use s fresh dung, and that e 
manure previous to its application 15 attended with 
waste. F. 
THE IRISH POTATO CROP 1862. 
“WHEN the editor of this Paper made his 
the’ 
aper 
of crops, it was a pee apprehension, 
from the early appearance and virulen 
in the Potato, that the loss 
on! 
of the dise 
oy crop would be all but 
t had never been 
uld 
een no disease, we shall be pretty 
ge the breadth of land under Potatoes this year. 
had there o disease, there would probably have 
en an ample e of 1 and consequently o 
cheap food for the s of the whole of our diminished 
lation; ‘is, Oatmeal, and yet m 
populati as it 0 
cheaper en produce, Indian — 
resorted to, as at present — 3 cheaper epee’ of | 
food than Potatoes. In the form 
in the feedin 
benefit is obtained, and suċh 
annual call | of 
It i s egan y 
inat Med to 
so 
—— in 
later), and con eis 
pa opinion, it is very — . — that — 
year suffered least from 
ttle 
urnips 2 aa cattle food is * ach fi 
ave not the stock to consume 
as they a 
inferiority of breed, pay f ring. Pot 
hen continue in Ireland the “chief, sinat. the on —1 
tem is bad, but 
making them worth 
kerian as a * are — for poe in this e 
all moonshine. to =ta pepe e ae 
fallow ver and growing food 
e should — to fin ia 
wen with exceptions to be 
ong sent wea. oe elasses— they are — es 
a was to improve the reini Ais ated | 
Trish peasant, 45 * — by — — the same dish 
—.— — Pigs to take him eattle byre. It had 
consistent to — — a leaf out of Mr. 
e 
—— — and made the Irishman's Oats his fallow 
POP; 
But of the Potato disease: There cannot be a doubt 
| that, like all epidemies, it will ually wear itself out. 
stan ting and changing 3 it is less virulent | 
e furrow from whic 
1 he divisions ne land 
h Beans, &e., 
k one a broad blade, , from 12 to 15 inches in 
oe, used for 
enz 
oured in so 
auxiliaries in en to d 
bounties she bestows upon us. 
<m nban S 
— 5 winter stored. 
ower to decomposition ; 
* so much in the 3 nor 
n the Sesera s progress 
the Potato has — 1 
ts true flavour. We aily discovering that 
better withstand the — while our tilla * remains 
the same. I. 8 t “p rs’? Gazette, 
of Dublin, in August last, enumerate 23 kinds as then, 
ocal erfectly free from disease, or but 
slightly affeeted W lso find that the kinds which 
t di quite, or n yf 
from disease when planted in bogs. 
There have been this summer about 3 acres ss 3 
more immediately under e own eyes. 
are free from sy en tightest 
3 seased ; 
wich raw 
diseased ; bog 
ee far the eee the n the Saved erop, and the 
from which we expecte 
d least 
pagan aa 
eee Potatoes have this 
ee abundant produce ; we harvest the wre 
of a full crop, and this third of a 
will bring ‘him in double — ric 
will But the balance will a 3 
of the P. 
gor 
into | the 
the kind 
se which 
e rr those which roduce 
2 — the farthest from the — tl 
dra w till the presen: 
corroborated by the observations of others, and I would 
entreat all who have given attention to the disease in 
various kinds of Potatoes, N state in the columns of the 
Agricultural Gazette what they have observed in thi 
respect, we shall be led to — that the pu 
the cone id 
than t 
I e 
e —— are the great arg rr 
farm 
i soil, manured with 
ld in the last week in April, when about 8 inches 
y little yard manure was spread am 
beds * shovelled from the furrows. 
leaves ae stems hese P etai 
the 
From my. observations I am disposed to cere that 
ploughing them in, the 
as 
+Ast 
e 1 of labour, 
1 The p . time dal comm encing agricultural 
‘rations is the middle of November; a 
senso ions are e enjoying what tl 
ta 
Terao. do * Martim, St. Martin 
when, after the autumnal rains, the weather be 
serene and calm as a fine September month in ut 
this fine weather often lasting till Christmas. ‘The te 
now done is ores the ground for sowing ™ 
and 2 „Lupins. There is no system 
cro 
— 
Saleki of 
armers, — have as g“ littl 
ood ma —— act the 
tuguese, involves too * un and la 
quently m material t 
= 
my ows 
give *. best re 
— on seeing a fine crop © 
was used 
the Portugu 
At this time are also . 
The time idered t 
in the hi 
districts a month later. 
i 
larrador partl with exception 
sional 23 of the Be the Beans: and een À the 
of weeds, till March se on 
pores’: with sickles or an 
are no 
n 
almost say any way one 
e 
and 
