THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
41 
5 1848. | 
pat re from Import Warehouse 
Gu mme axe of e, Dry Night-soil, Gypsum, Salt, 
rong: "Nitrates of Soda and Pota sh, 
other know Also Horticultural Glass 
ery “description. —Eor "ice? Current, apply to = ARK 
PornERGILL „Office 2 
ERUVIAN san BOLL TERS GUANO ON SALE, 
THE O ORTERS, 
TONY GIBBS. axp ‘SONS, LONDON 
WX ie 1 RS anD Co., LIVERPOOL 
y th — ‘heen 
n 
nd spur: Guano ri eee are recom- 
we ly only to penes of established character, or to 
ssi n nad mporte , who will supply the article in any 
The Agricultural Gazette. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1848 
nee peer eee 
—Agricu mp. Soc 
FARMERS’ dart Jan. 53 D 
Our readers will find in another column an inte- 
resting report by a 5 of the Lonpon 
Sewacke Manure Company on the proceedings of 
a similar society b in the neighbourhood 
of Manchester. 
The great point i is pore the Manchester Manure 
ney ; and that their custo- 
those which ac cheaper transit for their goods would 
e liquid manure is con- 
on er felds within half a mile of the boat, according |T 
to the will of the farmers. Twenty tons of the 
id are prča over an acre of land for 57 shillings, 
and 6d. additional is charge ile of distance 
pe town. e sequent fertility seine the 
nant, and the charge more rer re the ex- 
> so that all parties are plea 
The inference is matter for high self gratulation 
e Company, who, 
er 
mon which they contemplate, may 
easily Aapa mo Aa ofitable trade at much less 
cost to their customers 
We commend the first annual report, just issued, 
of the F BERWICKSHIRE FARMERS’ 
the obileideration of all other provincial societies. 
It gives, among other things the details of a pro- 
ollection publication of the agri- 
lit 
its e 
pe If dee 0g existed o al points in 
rence to the whole country, it ‘would make the 
The followin is the r sol, 9 . 
e are un 0 
Ras object to bags i uted 
w dini; and also 585 we possess considerable ad- 
v x ue doing 
pen gi e beg to recommend 
bce patel st endeav our A Weed to >the obtaining 
urate return of the as in each 
available f for un purpose 
oo for any 5 proce 
obtained, we further recommend 
W possible in each the 
, yea proportions in which | horse 
aner of said parish is 5 by the different 
È aes and green cro Ag 
ach. These data ing obt ained, the s 
orn shall be requested, about the month of Oe. 
hs each year, to re gid their estimation of the 
thei e per acre sf a rious s kinds of crop, in 
us very desirable be 
te teer jak Sa an thorough draini 
c 
“Gth, If paris. d also 
9 a quantities of live stock | 
kept in the distri 
‘tes An sear return of the say of the dis- 
rate of wages given 
duet, of the giv r the various 
descriptions of labour, and Perhaps also of the 
Puli burdens on the land, would 
(Signed 
iol loek, delivering it from the Import fu 
k p aii ms vogue elsewhere 
: i | co 
as this ee 
ings. 
be of much inte- | mak 
0 
on account of the former of these 
hinders ma 3 — of ascheme su 
e has recommen 
publication. If people only knew how great the 
are, rents would rise ; not, perhaps, by any greater 
demand for land in the general sre . but by a 
simple act of selfishnes of those to | 
annual returns than tho 
k : 
it will r 
ll atatia! port a on the salle The reasons 
no doub 
stances attending its sale, the market is always fully 
d investments in other manufacture 
where shall we find better witnesses for our pur- 
pose than landowners themselves. Bibs o not fear 
mateur farmers 
em drive a profita adi sin The 
reason is obvious ; the business of farming includes 
more than the art; and it is the latter alone with 
which they are likely now to be acquainted. We 
do think there is far more of — ee. than of 
a in what hin our Farmers 
rom ing in the éollectios of their 
respective Ageicaltiiral stati stics 
Surely they cannot do harm in making the modest 
8 recommended by we committee of the 
eee ahd ociety. We ope that the idea 
ed in the following 8 may fully be 
“The committee are aware that such returns 
would require to be obtained from a large portion 
of the kingdom, before their full value 
realised 
would b shiek other Agricultural Societies, 
if it was ous known to them, might be induced to 
follow.” 
LAND ving eee REPORTS. See 3 
GROVE, e Rer I has rto your 
appeal as to my scab tenes te in thes * of 2 
estate here is about 4000 acres, situated i in er oy 
district of red sandstone formatio 
i 7 u = pre how little fonie à pa 
this direction when I sa 
ce ‘he Hundred of 3 which ineludes one- 
of the area of Notts. Mr. Denison, of Ossington, 
erson he. 3 ced machines for that 
estate, 
e omg help of practical success in 
rk district ‘calculate en 5 have e ed the ee to 
the use of tile arkinson, of Ley-fields, ren- 
dered some of che stiffest 3 on Lord r gr 
estate capable of growing Turnips profitably, and his 
er, Mr. R. Parkinson, of Knosthorp, 5 and 
„with his intelligent as "e same views of its 
eee ugh. Yet very “pe er 
avail themselves of the facilities ‘wba h in 
3 abt been offered by the 1 
yo been for the last 20 years occupied in 
doing something but it is only of late. that I have be- 
of the importance of drainage to arable 
© 
S8 8 
oe as as to my pastures. As to the latter, I 
bserved the benefit forthwith. The Carex, th 
eee and the Moss disa ed within a year or 
two after the removal of the water, and the good Grass | 
nt 
ficient for the 8 of all 8 "crops. ‘On the 
other han of drainage, where it had been 
2 applied to a land, was not soapparent. In 
parts we find at . 
white indurated clay, which assumes in many cases the 
es of gravelly sand, and it was deemed sufficient 
by myself if the roots Grass or crops were freed | 
is e n 
it is Pte oe the profits of farming will not bear | cuttin, 
. but as it left the 
erage, | drai 
hat, in the very ee. of the circum- | 5 
could be wW 
ow of no —.— ker of pipe tiles but myself 
eb and pi 1 a it an 
were at that pen of 
ver, it was obvious to the eye in the sub- 
sequent season that ught the d cracked 
ss in fissure after it became 
more rapidly impregnated with the ture at its 
roots, d of keeping it on the surface, g it by 
2 and much also 1 of sg det 8 
his eastern side of the island, is in 
per acre 
€ 
kinson inculcated and Mr. Den 
wW apa from stagnating water, as well as their surface 
Par 
Mr. 
nison, under his 
her, auspices, had adopted, s years ago, 4 pion of very deep 
across the descent of ou 
to aa the sides and bottom ms of 2 — 
ee falling on the ta 
b 
y slopes, in order 
from the water 
s stratification which I 1 
e already described. I adopted 3 this method, 
land immediately overlaying the deep 
as before, and its operation was oa un- 
certain in its aia. I abandoned it. always 
allowed my tenants to 8 any tiles which they chose 
to use from the tile yards at my expense, but the dis- 
tance from which they had to bide them mg on the 
ee three miles peor ed a e 
where the gro 
nat of draina; 
tenant E ene, 
> land for 
ore of the labour of fetching them v 
abc t 100,000 in each of mi $- years = which 1 
given to my t season I 
menced in it the use of Pagara pipe sar but I 
found that the prejudice of the tenants had occasioned 
a continued demand for 175 old tile, ti about 50,000 
0 
com- 
eet below its bot 
ave men ironed, I think “this quite as deep as is useful 
here ; for there is no bottom water, and the indurated 
i e 
3 or — ree ion of mo 
the mode in which drainage e chiefly on our soil 
is by the process of evaporation through exposure to 
air. There is ee fa little flow of water. 
es rage fall of rain here, there 
ur drains, though they cannot act to th 
extent as os para on account of the A Ho san of 
the owever, 
not paa deep, the joe 8 caused by drought in 
frost in winter, and that . cultivator, A 
aride ber, give euch access to air to the 
us e movem 3 a it throughout 
ced b 
r to be fit for 
1 T should ald ‘hat the supply of water 
onds important rgt “3 the benefits 
which 1 Contemplate in the drainage of my * tures. 
I have no pare also that the average “temperature of 
the whole an 
ERB a e ieee its 
materials which I have furnished shall aid you in your 
nseful at of tabulating the ee and progress 
—6. eee Vern 
it a r 
the treading of s 
amy to on. 
MR. LAWES ON THE PRODUCE OF WHEAT. 
I LIKE to read such articles as that on the culture of 
skill and seme — in its — p 
it contains mbined r sults of scientific dg prac- 
tical fi 
n this point 
appears to 
to a erroneous 3 and 
ed 
as it is of the greatest it its results to that 
iterion of good and proper farming, viz., the 
ce sheet, it would be well if our notions were more 
definite as to what is a heavy crop of Wheat. Mr. 
Lawes inf us that in fou e obtained, by 
means ificial manures, the pattie. produce of 
Wheat Eert of 1844, 26 s of 
184 16, 3 ace 1847, 34h dos 
rn, weighed from 
y 343 do.; 
ened ens 
two or three 
3 
“ie per sirang a 
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