58 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZ ET TE. LIN. 22, 
very ı muc ha * thin sowing. It might say 2 effects of cultivation and the action of manure, | was less by 27 lbs. 4 Oz. than from those mhian a 
and was 
imagined t since in some seasons e | experiments which have been continued for four been hoed; and the oftener mn Regge 
localities severe injury is inflicted upon Wheat oy 1 years on the growth of Wheat upon the same formed the greater was the But it is 
variety of minute animals, the crops which have no ground with the same artificial manures and no other. utious ; for Receivers? it. is i het to k 
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lants to spare must suffer much more in proportion | Two things, however, must premised :—1. That in soil open till the lateral fibres of the roots have peng. 
those which can afford to lose a great many, and | the course of the preceding summer, the ground being | trated it, yet kpe: rwards the hoe is mischievous, fop j 
yet retain pea to cover the ground. It would seem — — tne the “i ig — in order at cuts off the mouths by which the plant feeds itself, = 
unnecessary to insist upon so plain a proposition, were | once to get rid of the weed and to ore to the soil Before I conclude, the obvious improvement obtain 
it not that some te. most resolutely shut their eyes the i inorganie food which had thus been abstracted: ee in these experiments from so small an amount of iner. 
the most obvious truths ; for this reason only I | it, the roots were collected and bur ganie manure, 3 me to notice a vulgar error wh 
wil mention a i a fact which otherwise would not be worth | being taken to burn on: each plot of "ground oly — a certain agricultural fanaticism is propagating tog 
* eld where the wireworm had been plants which ha own upon it. In the renewed ar ere all over the country. If any agricultural 
very date e, 7 pecks of corn sown produced | trial, whether artificial manures Wien eee the cal boasts that h + tae slain his thousands of trees, anj 
20 bushels ; ** where 4 peeks o only were sown the productiveness of g and bad gra in; the latter being | claims fot for it a eat factor to mankind, he 
a gr nefa 
8 was reduced to 13 bshls. ; wns in another, where | left without any artificial aid for five months, more | not only shows a a utter insensibility to all the beantig 
had been sown the produce was 33 bushels ae than half of it Aber did not grow or was destroyed in | of Nature, and a u 3 eee pees of ‘taste, 
wre half that quantity was sow 24 e e produ ce was les the winter, and it was necessary to take 82 the whole | but also a woful igno e plain ma 
half, or 16 bushels ; but it was nly under cir- | of the remaining plants and divide them. Being then | fact. I do not Rican that desk 00 no har i 
esof disadvantage that thin sowing 1 failed ‘of replanted they scarcely covered the gr round, and stood | I freely admit that inelosures may be too an 
success ; its inferiority was wn, thoug t in the would have satisfied | trees too numerous; but I do contend that to proscribe 
same pe ot ih the crop was good, as — in the the stoutest advocate forthin sowing. As soon as they had | them altogether, and to banish them entir 1 
followin taken root again they were . with the solutio xtensive farm, is the greatest blunder that can 
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; and through the summer they were remarkable for the eme d by an agriculturist. Ask the traveller wi 
Corn per acre, Straw per acre. Weight of Corn, dat e in h ‘Open te 
rie ee 0 ands 
bush. gals. | trusses. Ibs. Ibs. straw was shorter than the rest, and was later in France what it is that strikes him most when hee OSSE 
. now Key 1 * hi — | 7 $ 3 ripening by a week or ten days. . results of this the channel, and he will tell you that it is the richie 
ia dibbled, af Soh s| 40 0 106 24 a treatment and the produce of this year compared with | of the scenery formed by, the inclosures ; and this is i 
»,_broadcast,7 becks] 43 2 102 8 | 61 that of the last are shown in the subjoined Tables: — illusion; it is not a mere impression upon the eye 
N it may be said in this ease as Gin, the greater 1816. | 1847. the intermixture of trees in the landscape; it is até 
weight of the grain, and the greater quantity of corn, W bo Miers. h re a 
a smaller amount of straw, indicate some acci- ! Weight | Weight | 
superiority of soil; and it proves that in some n f f foe 
lar instances good crops may be obtained from Ibs. os. Ibs. oz. lbs. o. Ibs on’ | his account. of agriculture on the continent, he 
e third series of ex- pposph a ee Ibs. 12 12 26 15 14 ne 
ents to show the advantage of hoeing Wheat, Phosphate p potash, 2 Ibs, | 
i at advantage in the two first cases is limited nia, 2 lbs 0 j | 
to a small increase of straw, the measure and weight of Sulph. l ammonia, be — — h k x — 
wie é he | 
of Corn. | of Straws: 
88 a rea À 
Weight | Weight `| tion produced partly by shelter, and partly by the 
isin ti re. When publi 
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m er either Seed. 
bled, both- hoed and unhoed, yielded 29. bushels Phosphate potash, 4 Ibs. . 10 14 23 6 12 228 
7 gallons ; the drilled, both hoed and unhoed, 43 bushels ‘am “aie potash, peep 17. 8 | 
2 ameh, but the hoed from 1 to 2 trusses more. In| SU/Pb- ammonia, 2 Ibs 
er :— 
h, 16 10 24 616 9 30 ? ** 
ano field the comparison 8 ee are 11 10 22 1412 13, 25 0 an IN ‘off ny pee 7 
— — 3 Ea A o wither i same effect is pr duced by 
7 1 s : 4 a. 
| Grain per acre |Straw per acre. |Weight of Corn, er, sf il gordi AER tå y and Fo great reduction of temperature which 
Wheatdrilledandhoea} i 0" | "56" 26 ‘Si. treter production" of straw and less of corm; and in | is won colle i Bat 620 21 a protection $ 
„ drilled but not hoed 83 3 2 34 61 one case the sulphate of ammonia had the same effect, ea — — 1 es it ops alan mr i sie E b 
Australian Wheat, dib- but the same weight of manure, consisting of the two =a nee as MAUTI. 55 — ir Se 
te hee ed el p> 7 108 8 61 combined, produced a ve nsiderable increase of eat and Oats sometimes suffer 
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Here: tħe advanta 4 h isi batio.. : : bourhoo Ne 
: ge of hoeing is ve: isive ; and | repetition of the — crop, we see in every instance 
T shall me e er to revert to >this subject h. by-and- bc die a in a hy ‘year of f both, even on Fett the ground by te aking of 
n the ime I must o t though | parts which deceive ha no addition of foreign But further, though shade is Ali, be 
more 925 46 busheld of corn can be obtain ed, as Fy the single exception is ae apparent San rea =. 5 vanted aith, shadet If 
instance, stint little more than 3 pecks of Seed, i the great increase of straw shows that the e falling 155 t 
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does not eee neral adoption of the practi and 
for in m 1493 ae © Be onl à P ad. ag P was due to some e cause e seasons, which 
ment: failure is the success is the Geren. w 
With respect to the vale oe — s applied as a top- ens he e 
dressing to meadow d, ue to find sulphate of ments, which were slowly elaborated from the soil in by depr ivi ng ‘them of that com mfo orty you do n *. 
oper e — summer by the weeds being restored to the roots of | | them to a pri vation likely to be injurious to * j 
in a more soluble and therefore in a more or at least very hostile to their thriving well. In 
* state in the shape of ashes, 3. Though the neti, the ‘want of shelter is admitted on all h 
i$. was employed, | bad seed did not yield more than the good, as it did last hurtful to them, on account of ‘the great com 
er deducting the price of the manure, was 18. 4d. and year, yet in proportion to the quantity of straw the of food in the lungs which it ‘occasions, and the 
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experiment, too late and after the dry | amount of corn from the bad seed this year greater its place. The exterminators of trees, indeed, go 
weather had set in. But even that may not be ulti- gk tl as to say that all animals should be kept um 
mately a total loss; for I fo du y pi than the whole amount from the good seed last year, Or BAY, 115 
uan is with gold if 
uality, for the value is tested not by measure but by is not for me to com lain. of it. What I 
weight, Much of this success oath dai doubt be attri- | of is bes ig propagandism, that they be aie pi 
Aa g Od. per acre | buted to the peat consolidation of the soil, by the have not, and those who cannot have their acco 
more than on the latter, A s mbar experiment, when | trampling of the transplanters, and the application of | tion, into a belief that, by a Partial adoptio ff 
thet manure had been guano, gave an increase in one the manure to thé plants exactly at the eritical period System, but 8 most material part, the 
trial of 3s. 9d. ; in another none at all. The applica- | of their growth, when they were best able to appro: aeting well and wisely. It may be said that 
tion of the same manure this year was rather more suc- priate to their organisation the food with which they resorting to hedges and trees for shade and- l 
cessful Fees before ; for it failed once, but succeeded e The next eres manures tried upon | Posi it their places where it must bee i 
twice hat smaller 
manure in 
: Ad.; as ground. were why must it lost! Did, body ever he 
and 7s. 2d. The quantity in the last instance was before—sulpbate of Soda» phosphate of 3 e of | pre les Syta is deposited in the fold yal 
2 et.; in the others, 1} ewt. But on poor soils the am Ben and nitrate 0 £ potash, All the seeds were | And why r may it not be. ene in one place as 
benefit of applying artificial manures to the Trefoils was | fi W f these salt, and half of in-another, especially since there is the, san 
more remarkable. The manures were selected in this | them a the following spring watered with 6 Ibs, of ture of animal and vegetable matters? for 
key bi a special view 5 ai constitution of the plant, them. For the reais fii produce is | droppings fall, the eaves N It * ran 
these were the re given both of Taat yoat andl thins | they eitame ce firo * 
Weight of Hay | Cost per ger.] Profit, 1846, 1847. annihilated, and , oe are ny 
Yellow Trefoil, Beirne ne ina of Com. Be allies med Sten.) before. decomposition. they protect fac Ses 
ent. guano and it “emt, be. on Ths. of. || Iba: os. Tbs. o2- oa and prevent the, radiation of heat from the ea 
5 ‘| Sulphate of soda watered | 31 2| 52 18 38 6 92 55 is that when the value of leaves ani 
1 . he i eyn | Phosphate f soda w — i — 11 — 4 — mould un 8 spors, pa 
8 E 44 o a y í T k =) BAL a tat i end 
Red Clover, without in re 1 » steeped only| 30 12 52 14 25 H 84 * ban overlooked by farmers ; but since m 
2 ewt. sup Mur. of ammonia — — z 63 36.14 | 109 3 extremely slow either to perceive or 
ti 5214 30 10 89. 4 | ferences from analogy, I dètermined to bri 
Nitrate of 30 6 62 14 31 n ta i P 
idle tage Re 27 13 83 — ort an issue in a method almost ‘app 
The same rentarks a 1 — I had the leaves of a tree which stood apart! 
e i sgy except pred Phos e i a À aen Au —_ eolleeted and weighed when ee ‘i 
obe more injurious. phos £ po 1250 ar dried by exposure to the air as to be 
the Wheat watered with the, solution ee th:| considered: ~ 3 8 bes, 
ed dry leaves 
. 8d. ; years not only less grain but less o, tha : oe of 
the seed was only steeped. But vieh he gi excep- perches so beyond hg 9 
a- — of that which was steeped in the nitrate of pot: 
of all this year penton that of last year ; of m manure sus 
P and even that may de more an apparent than a real the tree; Md e Ranta fee A wh 
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more. — — te Wheat under the shade of trees, compared with 
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