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4—1848.] THE 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
57 
HE LONDON MANURE COMPANY beg ia 
T offer the under- mentioned MANURES on the 
terms :— The URATE o veo 9 ROKR COMPANY, 
Tares, Oats, Barley, and all other Spring Crops 
fr Turnip PERUVIAN GUANO, DIRECT PROM THE 
IMPORT WAREHOUSE. 
Nitrate of Soda—Petre Salt for ae ae old Pasture—Agri- to 
Superphosphate e—Soda Ash— Pure 
Sawdust—Sulphuric 3 of Am- 
Hs Purser, Sec. 
cultural Salt — 
Gypsum—Bone 
monia, and every other artificial Manure 
No. 40, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, Ja an. 
The Agricultural eine ie 
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1848. 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO 5 WEEKS, 
Tuurspar, Jan. 27—Agricultural Imp. Soc. of Ireland. 
WEDNESDAY, Feb, 2—Agri — . — Soc. of England, 
THUBSDAY, 3— — Agricul al Imp. Soc of Ireland. 
Farmers’ CLUBS. ao 28: Stranraer.—Feb.5 
Some of our pay may have noticed i in a late 
number of the Lane Express, and also in r= e 
idstone Gazette a letter by Mr. J. C. Nes 
] 
Bs 
Mai 
in which that gent! eman has taken the liberty. of wé 
USUS 
ani he was employe d by Mr. Pal INE, of Sia 
e ICUS 
-H 
thority to say 
e aa as the facts shall have been fully 
ked ou the ag 
will be psd i in these columns. "The wh 15 
tory will prov e an admirable illustration of 
* panre t of Agriculture, Chemistry, and 
t follow he has adhered to this | m 
doctrine as the gihe of his proceedings. Whether 
E 
© 
? 
to 
y, true philosophy : 
is the only safe 3 
; te e upon facts i 
And 
P if t is be true of what are called “ settled” 
plants on 
ch that 12 (of 
7 bom sit between the number of 
ace, and the means whi 
air as 1255 as iiad) has of ee 3 There 
ing 
* 
. 
wm 
n dle 
Sp i bus 
ich | in ene ber 
d | own ‘a oo oe at 
8, — much more of those 
The question o 
3 Wi es ll n 
Conclusions one 
ll th 
never arrive at 
rolong discussion on 
on 
D- | are welcome, whatever the tale 
any | we want is 
Nay Padi so one as the disputants 
0 ng ex- 
w easily and s satiafnetorily, ok the 
matter could be ig if — 
th ho can give their own ex 
ould simply site it, and thus 
iscussion instead of le eaving it in the 
who have hitherto conducted it. 
expe 
at ch ven cultivated tod Tand, r 
on ft sows hich is Reed mnt t i 
n Opinion i ag vole l ihis ik tt 0 
crop o of Wheat many h nitions 8 5 
eee, 
not 
and the plants gid phe a have short and weaker 
e 
na ficient, a 
tional quantity up to the latter is probably simply 
wasted, while beyond the latter it is probably also 
injurious. All this 
ea 
1 res of Wheat per 
annum, with quantities varying from 27 lbs. of seed 
een 
ery | &xperi by “ More s” in connection with 
7 Jit haste: published i in a tabular form b AKER, 
of Writtle, in the Mark Lane o ge 
pe, F he 
t of, either for 
e other Serres ng will do 
e same. We ou itn ot to appear as mere advo- 
cates of a particular system, ay as judges of facts 
sought pr or tried by ourselve 
He then follows with a di of facts within 
his own e ledge as to the practice of farmers in 
his neighbourhood, wick we shall publish as so much 
clear addition to the history of the subject :— 
“Last year, Mr. Walker, of 5 * 4 a suc- 
re practical 1 tried thin seed conse- 
quence of my rem a Me'a mien pika In the 
e 
of e 
Mor 
thank Mr. Baker for publishing them 
we obtained 80, and in the latter only 25 fold the 
seed, but 2 which had we the most reason for self 
| gratulation 
we subjoin the whole letter 
every additional fact in favour of a better syste 
ure must be interesting to a thinking en 
will you allow me pu 3 to thank Mr. Baker for his 
0 cts on Thin Sowing,’ "ee you published in 
your Express of iy aa 31. much in 
ag of thin sowing from the ea hick of the influential 
of agricultural protectionists, must gr 
weight with the agriculturists of Essex, and 8 80 
of all E gland. Mr. Bake r’s facts are as follow 
7 pecks sown produced 5 — and 2 8 5 
5 peck d 7 bushels ; an 
8 pecks produced 9 bushels and 2 pecks. 
That is to sa 
5 pecks 8 produced ` 153 pecks, or 1 peck produced 3 1-10 fold; 
7 pecks produced 22 pecks, or 1 peck produced 3 1-7 fold * 
5 pecks produced 28 pecks, or 1 peck produced 5 3.5 fold ; 
smallest quantities of se 
recep of crop; * bs 
whilst 7 pecks produced on 
nai could have been 
and where on 
in Sowing’ are enough, and I 
mes of the writers of 
oe —— of —— instruction, of which 
ARCOURT’S paper in an adjoining page is so 
salibe a specimen. 
EXPERIMENTS IN CULTIVATION AND 
MANURE 
Facrs and not theories or opinions are th 
most wanted now 
and yet they contain the w } 
art, and the latter cannot be sound if they are constantly 
i hem therefore persist in reco 
i 
con 
the 
la arig 1 5 e Be of mo 
is the more necessary because 
b 
ut is 
culture is not bam 
of ` be el 8 aE yet abe drill 3 and 
d the rest of 5 
field beg Ta usual eae 2 — § ; it was so 
ced 
e esr perplex our investi 
tingenei 
ions; and accidents of 
il 
eather and variati tions of . ne N E 
Gp 
Jann ex 
per acre * as i 
saving the bus 
Nov 
get more weight o 
we 
m thin sowing than from thick. 
ATC ura 
u ops. 
different place 
havoe committe Pigs i 
of the remainder, two gave the following res 
e per aere bein ing made from 6 perches mea- 
sured and weighe 
* 
Wood, a Gol dhanger, grew as much from 
1 bushel as from 
The other 1 finds in Mr. Baxer’s “facts” 
agricultur w 
what we have all along contended for is that facts 
the 
ya 
as | gular an ew amusing ingenuity, he grounds his con- | ia 
sions on a comparison of the best account of 
at | th 
Straw per Acre. Weight p. bush 
. Drilled Wheat 
Broadcast ditto .... 
2. Drilled Wheat 0 
Broadcast ditto 
of these I wags ap Sop bakes and 
on the si 5 but it is 
nsated 
more 
me- 
more to 
ird instance, where though in the same field, and that, 
too, — a — one, the crop will be seen to be so much 
itat from the 
B is point in p way. 
nest ari rithmetie that the > produce 
n wie a greater multiple of its seed | no! 
than that of the thick — This he appears to 
think is a great point. Now, so far from this, we 
submit that, excepting in a country where land is 
of no value, the inference he draws is ane 
worthless. It is the produce per acre not per bushel 
of seed that the e n e e a 30 
Red gai Asap nh from e A oe 
n 4. Drilled Wheat . 
inferio 
Corn per Acre Straw per Acre. e] Weight. bush bash 
bush, zal. age 15 N 
n the ground the 
Broadcast ditto 
bvious tha 
hough it was 
cast,“ for in upon 
e bushel crete 13 lb. less. The fourth example shows 
ome advantage 
counterbalanced 
in fayour of the drill, which is 
ilar objection. 
We have grown | 
eee 
