12 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. IN. 1, 
Parsnips Sor Potatoes.—** Falcon’s” query is most to cut 15 inches TE ; he did so, and the wate —— ae = eg ost — 8 ‘yphon, on wi ö 
ered by Mr. Solly in taco oom t oins out at the bottom in a surprising manner, since | filled with water, and its long end closed with the j 
summer, hako lie says that an acre p re has been indan where before there the small end with the hand or finger. The latter igs 
was The first er aid the A n the ¢ k tun 
er Bopa Mi f een Ie — <a My land is . — on a stiff clay subsoil. Mr. Middle. en, and the acid will continue to flow = the vessel is n 
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ees : ‘Wor 12 222 | 155 oe pot rb a been r side rabie, 5 urrow draining, and | which almost — sa A —_ to escape. He may, hows 
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if t given the acreable produce rather too piece . land with one drain 3 feet deep, which before at heer ge — one n for some little u 
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essor: Johnston's “Lectures on Agricultural Che- Deanston, it has not yet been tried, neither would it be | xed in a wooden handle. On the same day a fresh lot of ba 
m wher re porous materi ture noe 
in 100 part $ | “Be — expense, I, how int pi f 
9 make a few drains on his plan, purposely to test it. once ese 3 er of ashes. It — be cat ta 
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Sug ne ing. WHITTENBURY said he was fully — — that 18-inch drains 
The kuz quality of e ol witich 1 — Fa arsnip | would neither take perfectly aw away top water nor bottom. He 
è asked what top water was, where did it come from? it 
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The practical use of Parsnips in feeding is best under- | 3; ai, 3 or 4 feet deep, and the superincumbent pressure would Ham i rse ‘attended to, an the result has eie 
stood i in n Guernsey and Jersey, and the following extract act with much greater force than when only 18 inches deep, that more acid has been used than is really a or thy 
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“ An ox intended for _fatting with Parsnips is put on ru dily a 
good Graas or on Clover in June, and kept there till the | superabundance to hae dept e der a ee Ana or amma 
roo! n September, bu a | 
4 v eee S phate of lime, by which the anticipations of Mr. S ooner 
occasionally at the end of August. The roots, if large, MAIDSTONE : The e of . e been completely borne out. : 5 
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When first put to them, an ox — object of iat ee s ou et gl ipo inor- GALL LOWAY : Sept. 24.— Mr. Hapxness introd der 
will of ro n, | n or mineral ingre what br crops too out t of the iin the subject“ The most productive system of Agric) 
as it is asserted, a hundred weight and a half in the day. | order to grow t ay, now the consulting chemist of | tural Management, or how to raise the largest amouy 
etimes they cloy ; Cabbage leaves or Potatoes then | the Royal Agricultural ‘Rockets, had ips pale A ut 2 fo pene and value of re- at the least expense, keeping i 
take the place of Parsnips for a few meals, Water is n Mat Whea ry tan agin ie dish land at same time in good 
— once in ours. In order to fat well an ox of following e 8 den ug S and ‘he Lhe best Mechanical means of Impr being bo 2 1. Drain 
000 lbs. or 1200 Ibs. weight, in general rather more 84 Ibs. of si 6 Ibs, of magnesia See Nene, gene: by me 
than produce of a vergée in Parsnips is requ uired, — — p! — 4 ae ‘of * of iron ‘ 
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viz., 25 horse loads of bene Ibs. pic! 7500 Ibs. He also s lbs of lim 15 lb. — 
consumes a ton of y be “id fr is killed, which 2 It candle is seen that the most important ingredients of Wheat | and by which well made 1 can be got advan 
usually about Christmas. nips are also given hosphori i i 1 
8 were phosphoric acid, and the alkalies—potash and soda. If worked into the soil. The introduction of a ably polo 
arling cattle = mecit the pur, hen this root their these were returned to the land in suficient quantity, the | tion to the Club meeting of 30th June, 1845, wa 
thriving is markable. This food applied to fatting minor om op ingredients, enh as silica, lime, ma agnesia, iron, by Mr. M‘Bryde, Balkerr, and much use 
pigs is at fist ot given, ia Se In three or f. o., would in the harjoa pie cage 3 ases be supplied by the | tion 0 laid before the meeting, by North 
as most conveniently return F r i l 
weeks aeiee 8 dainty begins to t Wirek the bone-dust, which contained from 50 to 60 per cent. of the phos- sane ay ieaie sh taser ee Se 1 d 
heads an 4 Ul; are then cut off with the small pea, or 1 = weal Wie a aa of the — en n — But since then the question has been much 
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experience proves that the ho makes | aste of the in the shape of nitrate of soda or nitrate of potash (saltpetre), | soils, peta a y 3 358 
root if t across than if eut longitudinally, No grain is | both of which it was known to the members that Mr. Barnes | lished in the Journal of the arrama i alluded to, vols, 4 and 
loyed in fatting ; if the animal does not thrive on | had — 1 cae —— success, 1 was valuable, inas- p. 119, and he followed it up mor recently by reading to tl 
raw Parsnip it is given boiled, for the last month or — as it compris eae rsd a large proportion of oe | 3 meeting of the English Agricultural Society held 
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six wee In general, „the quantity of pork pro- larly to the young plant, a gonsde Abie portion of ammo * 
re giv root le led h he or, anic i 
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: deep a ing up a 
the quali is im aired, as the fat becomes flabb > Pion which had not been mentioned in the enumeration of inor- down the hill, or inclined pl 
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of 20 months old, when killed at Christmas, weigh from | Stic ingrediente of Mr. Way. The principal of these organic | ave wuitren’ crane ge Plane, Old Bi nage and irrigation d 
400 to 450 ) Iba,” He says further that Parsnips given | isted in the dir; but it was from kite u main is cf of which ex- | water meadows and mosses; “ as for the 0 
Say er arsnips given | isted in the air; but it was from the ammonia of decaying ani- 3 it must be made so déep that it goes to the bottom 
ws increase ilk, mal and vegetable substances ee derived their prin- bewing moyst water that feede the Flagg 
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8 k u * ic 4 tbe bogs. jI PaT Awar with ee | as a great piece of “folly, I 08% 
food Parsni r abour, and spoyle. w these directions are uch as hati 
ps rity the fault of being too pulpy when Mr. V. chee obtained from the gas works of every town. | been long q 3 draining meadows — — and 
to satisfy the stomach comfortably ; but this tes y 2 the account of an experiment at Havering- | the rule being to cut soa level up from a point in the lowell 
may be ob by eating with it drier and more solid | gg es od. had race sb te of ammonia, at a | portion of the groun — 
18. dk., 9 8. heat (over that dr rawing eifa the shee nant water from the lowest stratum T 
the meadow or moss. This has been don 
e he drainage 
20 bast els eri osha. she ès at ed. 5 72 8, d. to 8 3 5 nationally know 
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í Farmers’ Clubs. Labôur account in h rill, dropping seed (the oe 
SHADWELL, Dec. 3: Draining.—Mr. SNOWDEN said: Surface of the land rem otherwise untouche ug .. 019 6 ori lity hi i th 
It is well known to you that at the commencement of N ie tates e ae poured over ashes 7285 igive tem draining, 3 his — 
years since, one of the first ave Seed, 51 bs. per acre „ ee = $ ? , just as mith’s to b 
4 W * draining A pair of aco the artificial manure to the 3 — a p bipes rara rao of Mpe By i 
ecided that there Was ho ee 0 7 Oltom 
eutting dr han 18 lacing a tile 
at the bottom and filling it with stones to ithin 8 i This sh exten = 
tite tens kpas — . . At Ss 22 e oat e —.— tent eS ty gonstituents of ae erop Duke of Wellington e 
ins cut no deeper t 18 inches would be r the crops which h he wanted to raise, The Dr „ he ry oe 1 : 
= obit. Gavia fon a bay ~ betia of supplying the phosphate of lime, which be Has Deviate Ves ee, case of the Duke nts of ee 
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s as proudly as formerly, in short, it was a thus leavin — i or gypsum), un 5 N 
A ' g a less quantity of lime than before round had been bored upon E n’s princi le mig 
te failure. As an experiment, I k p the the same quantity of — — acid, which — a bhi 2 — dle : der v ate 
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3 it 1 inches above the tile with ston es, upon which | Manufacturing the mixture ‘ts a sugar hogs — ha ag is ‘said as to th 
put some wood, and lastly the soil and turf ; the holes hp etek with plaster of Paris. It is very desirable to . td Feel, at 8 Manor itis explained to 
£ 5 the acid, as it 6 feet deep; but how many of Daten acre. 
p ‘ed to my knowledge d x Wee r er, their ex id. 
asunder, gh a piece of land that before | i very ae impres ess farm pn gara the last . fein" it | this soil, too, who knows — 3 * 
would not bear a in wet weather; now the land Fre to i Soe them t char a liquid i which ciple would not have 1 ee = ground at much less e 
is as firm as any. Part of the field h “| appears 20 colourless will urn their skin and clothes, I 1 orth 
A eld where coarse sour | emptying a carboy of acid, „even into b, . | grounds of Sir 
— be is eaten quite close. I deter- venta little fog int is diffoult to pre- Elkington 
mine also on draining a piece of arable land which was te dants, as well as the basket, &., which contains the e arboy. . instance allu o wi i 
rly barren, 5 A I consequences, I have adopted the | -couent Essay on Draining by Mr. Johnston, published 
‘~The carboy Ritig pte — “ General Report of the Board of Agriculture.” vol. ii., p. 47% 
ame height as the sugar hogshead, into e | where Mr. Johnston says“ Mr. Elkington 2 a hole zo fe 
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he carboy of | issued at the rate of three h a minute, and r dry ; 
* Second edition.—The e soundest id with a 
of facts, explanations , precepts an most valuable collection | rose at the end, so as to disperse it — rhi D a Wet „ | great extent of wet land in 25 neighbour hood,” ei 
on the s and suggestions, ever published | or acid is then em roug Y, and the carboy | Mr, Parkes 
10 hay — this or r any other! language, so far as has come 1 ptied by m — of a syphon, This syphon is i address before alluded „ hele or a 
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form, abon gt ack fn pipe, which can be rec IE their expensed — . — to | — — . soils of the | 
and 4 feet in length. A dom, we know from other sources what recommendations 
