62 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
onan. onsisting general leading in Wheat stack 
an Turnips, his observations had led him 1 the gy eg im that) the result of it. He had a 27 acre field, consisting generally of horses leading 
one 
d taki Wheat to Grimsby, brou A 
i not caused by * existence of an * oy other in- clay, with a retentive subsoil. He divided it into three wrt | ploye coals ; seve 5 pair howe bro 94 
N but that it was of an organic natur the ‘plant, pro- | parts of 9 acres each. The east 7 ee he re yir 12 | engine 1182 81 wedes for store ; N. 
duc . by some con aditi ion of the soil r Saane to its growth, | depth of 3} feet, at intervals of 24 feet: the mi geo ae eee nf 8 ton of o aint 
uc ryti t5 bè combated by Seep ploughing and the — tiful depth of 3 feet, at intervals of 19 fing the west divisio 2 ar Eara eL RhA nene; saith carta Teaia 
se e of iim argh * ene I A. ai bad pst ae a 34 feet, a 4 ne 1826 ov 225 ee of Turk urnips, | threshed three stacks of Wheat in 29 days; 
but loughing, the disease d in autum $ $ 
; mo be in a cong metin wii Porgi 38 Ate east that which, on the tent division, were = on the ground by eat bs P. Ee eg 1 2 1557 in 
8 to him the only thing which 16 — have a In spring last, the whole field was sown with Oats, the wes uv e tie ir Held labour wa hare a 
deneficial * Si To revert to subsoil ploughing, he be- | division having been sown about 14 days before the ary 155 Bulle een 11885 ors e 
Jieved with Mr, Makins that the great expense 6 deterred After the Oats had bes eb aie September, he cause e ter: Flax) 7 N 5 the eee ee jae 
the Berwickshire farmers from _using the subsoil plough à lvis Ss bee até, hauling timber, which we are throwing from 
it — den FA pages PRA ra- Da Sas Division there Mg 34 å Pan TAR the same time grubbing and levelling the 
tions of the farm. These a me ald 8 pa Bast pi — i ` pi poe df etlinginy a ela. Shut oa 
until there e g00 P 21 4} a i Wh 
They w uld therefore be under ir denten to shaee gentlemen | Of course it ye 1 N appeayed the . T Nabe Da 5 
ho ft actually under —— it if they yrii 8 them from | duce, per acre, ee seve : — showed that the t weather continues wet we shall plough Geum saad 
to time with the re s, and tor settlement of this | to him that the e so far as it w | for the ewes in the spring, when the Sweder o 1 
8 e — Ciub might be aa 12 ed | thet m, L d more beneficial than the shallow drains, though | zel are sui: ber ni i Oats and Peas, cu d ars 
1 Pan aie 8 e last, on 8 * their greater number, were more expen- gy to yards, o iw cena feet k repair hedges, ones ton 
; a s | s, making new orses ; 
The sani" remarks were afterwards made by Mr. 8 „as the ovine m ire prah r oy ig 55 ; hr B, aining éy 
Milne on the mee os Agricultural Statisties, which Mid x WittsHir& Farm, Jan. 10.—For the last month we have} 
this Society Has he nat the west Ba sé instead of busily engage sowing W Tartipe, instead af 8 
the wes vision | sprin; an 
7 able pe vested and oth ies on Sead 8 creer sme ma ch . 4 ep whi h ate the Turn ps from | corn. Two ploughs are engaged ploughing anå sabe 1 
gi a return from his books of the average —— — per it, as the Chairman seemed to suppose, may have — Lare. Mangold Wurzel. rare cag a oe Swede land; $i 
acre of. his corn crops stor each year that he had occupied t — — ́— S, i 15 1 ; 18 4 ff Mango hE ure, ain all 5 
=. 5 e 8 be N 1 pdt ae — iota 3 hough Miscellaneous per day ; 100 ewes taking their places to be sold in March; 
a at E Te Theory — a mere Formula, jor the expression of = di a ing 1 Hy 9 Tur i ui hay twice g 
ral science yn fat pigs = ed on Linsee 7 75 ran ditto, and 
First 14 Years, Second 14 Years, ing kites liga; —A theo — baat: das pig ra ered Four men threshing Wit han nd machines | 
Wheat, | 25 8 5 $ * W is never absolutely true, it is only tru P ctitting cha ff for sheep and workin n; one man 
Parley, 9 during which it prevails ; it is the nearest and m | 
mes 
hedges and ditches. Three men quar 1715 g stones for 
He (the Chairman) had deen “comparing this poe 14 exact eee of the nie e and the observations the Wheats that are up looking remarkably well betore 
* of that period. In proportion as our know wledge is ex- | frost set in.— 
moet Lothian, He found pam — 8 36 Messrs. Hop rod tended te changed, this sidan te a of it is also =ifta Notices to Correspondents. t 
a Parliamentary Com 8 reduce to be and ¢ — 8 and it ceases to be true tor a later period, A RIC ITU RAL GAZ ET TR The report v the Sewage Mum 
ee xan average, (the Cha 29 bu ashel; els; bwg A ‘% 3 inasm a number of newly acquired facts can no ompany referred to ja st week wa spa the oiid 
us 
turns, the best land in Berwickshire v Gas returning eee — — raa adadi in . Liebig s Researches on Food. PESA ren Perae ‘Rowe, which is 
ea satiate cose bs be a 5 55 sea, he ob 8 of * thers RET, SERA. E a AIRY FARM V Cook— What we mean is that if “ie 
might in like manner lesd locha is inquiry—lIs the difference owin Calendar of Operations. Soci — ashe, ai Bry Snnek questions, 2 
entirely to ae of soil, or difference of climate, or to goo Pita AA r, gis iy P nal Sub— Arthur Youngs mah g 
management in the one case and to bad management in the AMATEUR FARM, NEAR MonMouTH [90 acres], Jan. 18.—Two il bobad, 1i 3 ar: but ont of date in mail 
other . f mm net be extended with advan- pair of horses deep a ughing and subsoiling for. e e nt Sree ment aks with it ogee 
tage | to o Soroan corn-growing co „lor in many of them iron swing plough turns up 8 to 9 inches first, ams mentee Aneel with advinda Probably with Ds en efit tose ko 
mira 
pulveriser g ly with benefit to the which you 
and published ot every year’s crop. a a ee ele Three menare draining four acres of old pasture about| Certainly * 3 h al cal 
larly in the United States of A The following is the | Sate AR teme into arable, 3 feet deep, with 14-inch pipes. We 8 so mixing n Ifyou ad ad oat far = 
Yorks produce pees of ‘the arable Jandi Jn 17 7 Bta à i sar have sod drains, made 20 years ago, — “arte on as freely) fur sou koina te peer ih O48 1. 
ork, comprising pel 7 4 , and effectively as ever. We are satisfied thatno money is so ; 
and the return is ainly not what should alarm British well laid ant on the soil as in good and judicious 22 . ‘at 3 — &—We do not know them. . 
ä The ere are thousands of acres in Monmouthshire, pose a dee ech By ens thate 
5 = en j soil, fit for anything, now correctly called wet, heavy, cold now te by G F P B M—The SMIJ Work, by pee 2 * 
* per imperial acre, lands, with clods in the summ er, baked as hard as Babylonian 180 1 N any other work 
ais, 26 bricks, and having fissures nearly so enough for Curtius to ie : 
The 8 — then mentioned that both the late Government leap into; and which, in rainy wather, lie for weeks renina y 9 Sak Y R—We cannot suppose them worth u 
m account of its untractable nature, that if properly draine d ioi bou og pow dere a nad brought 3 our door, Tgn 
ee He showed by a variety of statements the practica- | and cultivated, would be most covetable estates, Many of these 9 8 hele e "i 
Of obtaining. Statistical returns, and adyerted to the great | farms pms ne 8s. to 12s, an acre, and the boors who hold them bab . fit by ners ian whch z 55 pred 
ore eet which would be de —.— by the farmer were the lin nger starving existence, unable to pay up their pitiful a teat ia robably much ‘the same as that of 
“system generally adopted. The working out a She plan couid | rents, — ann leana their children, or to present themselves before is Hiss Fe ; 
only be fully and completely performed by Government, but | the world in other guise than that of common labourers, The — ot Lime . 95 4 
_ individuals and asso ns, such as theirs, —— do much to old red sandstone soil suits Carrot and other root crops well, Pho PF i 
further th ainment of such an object.—Mr. WILSON, -of | when properly drained and pulverised. We have this year ob- Gr ours Gane ce a 35 
E n Mains, said, he should like, seeing this was a meeting | tained the Monmouth Farmers’ Club prizes for both Carrots 8 5 
of farmers, and rs’ Club—one of their objects being to and Mangold Wurzel.— T. D. [Whit field, if you please.] 
ural improvement in their own district—to ERWICKSHIRE MERSE FARM, Jan, 15. —Since last report we à 1 — Civis id oheka 3 x lambs | 
Ask them to ith toast, Success to A have been ploughing * — land for Oat ; two men with four 4947 eas 3 Poa prevalent during ti last n 
tural Improvement.“ They might well — they for now Kaen oat carts balta day. delivering Wheat at the railway ) yok n 1 * 3 I ani a ver fatal. In eren 
saw that unless they made every attempt to e their modes sta man with a single-horse "e —— days lending Oats in vari . i e e e y any disease of thell 
0 — they might soon not be able to keep their | to the. — a woman forking, one man and seven women 88 Nu * fra coat of the it 
heads above water. They had not yet undergone the threshing and takin e straw; 8 two women a eae ei e ee 2 which er i 
al ew laws affecting the importation of produce, | o dres e Oats for the labourers ; one man gene a an pkgs rculous sta gears. 8 hite 
They had had no opportunity of knowing what the result would ue le-horse cart leading Wheat to the barn one day; am * Sn eS Sere teas 4 to contain n matter, Tei 
be. They might all ot them have some notion that by and by they | ing, one ma an and four w. omen threshing with water — 5 Jig K h ne Ano, lates ap = o eager 
would have to gra with greater difficulties than they ever | t ith o single- a kii 8 r pni nt: d 3 D 0b biy. 
had encountered ; but instead of going to Parliament with — carts one day y delivering Barley at Berw ick, and bringing thes pote ther 0 H some fa a to gf 
¿petitions comp! icul as many had bone ponia; four men with eight carts one day at the coals, e er med er 1 r 1 elan wa 
d they should rather trust to their hands ote = on wo — one day at Evemouth for drain slates; the afer me E s viate ra r im of penta 
heads for the crowning eir labours w — ditto at at 3 Eleven men digging drains; one man] suggest in Wh ran a . Beans why AAN 
briu gi ut larger returns. The * 4 — ipts and a woman puttin in the tiles ; the leading drains 3 feet with, the in Tene 2 grue á pli in 
not remain long exempt from the y | deep, the other 24 fi si ng Turnips, paer ‘ood, and. Clover a hell 
fallen upon other classes. But it was quite ‘vides that it was tour men with eight single-horse carts two and a half days may be prudent 5 com 
only er produce and at less expense, that they g e; seven women filling, one man assisting at giving each i b 3 an ounce o 
would be enabled to go o therefore listened with very the store; one man with two carts leading for the sheep ; four ruel, In all rar cases the post 
interest on that had that forenoon taken | women filling; one woman with the shepherd cutting the Tur- e stated, IV. C. hase bone. dust anes 
j arad, and he believed the result of the evidence then rought | nips; one man and a boy feeding the cattle ; we have 5 — 47 8 td 8 FA vou can pure ae be al bat 
fore them was that they | — very ae an testi- ing, nine in stalls, six in boxes, and the remainder in ane ae Drumhe: e 8 7 
«mony i t a rather dubious | one man cutting thorns.— J. B. where they are: g we should not like the 1 youshé 
turn in the matter of subsoil ploughing. e had stated that | Doser Farm, Jan. 14.— Since our last report the horses Plough = ot Anyi the inner edge o 
be was opposed to subsoil pioughing ra 5 difficulties have been employed ploughing tie Barley after Turnips; _ use a skim Bri 
experienced in t into ovaries ite from its o breast ploughing Wheat stubble fi 5; and harrowing | SU earnosruate—-@ D —J. B. Lawes, aye 1 m 
erits, but he did not by any means consider it a closed it when the wes er and of the ground would allow; Alban's, Herts, It is cheaper to buy Aare: yp 
ti He was s and anxious to obtain T 8, Parsnips, hay, and straw. Labourers| to manufacture it yourself. Do you apply wi, ‘ot sa 
ormation upon it, Mr. Wilson then alluded to the subject g Peas and Beans, rooting out a hedge so as to enlarge it?—then you Mona a | apply at least 3c 
agricuitural ties, and said he thoroughly coincided in the | the fields, and digging P ps. Women and boys Lp g joni —.— 2 pno We 
‘sentiments expressed by their president on st ips when the weather is good, and when mn Wee cutting chaff, | THE co An old Sub — 
t matter. His (Mr. Wilso: ia pa viction Ewes vente la fast; We are now 8 ou to give the cows some roots s with acta 
that the result to be obtained from gg Basar at would ge t weather, and the ground is in good order for bly retains some of the astringent prop 
be of the greatest benefit not only * thems working = 8. which it succeeded (too ae tan 
„dividuals, bus to a ee comm community; for ae that De COLLEGE Piin, SOMERSET, Jan. 11.—Since our Swede Turnips, a, Wl probah y succee 
affected the welfare of the one in the same way N (which was, I » dated the 8th of December) the | readily procured, give acy 85 mago ipga 
pon Ae ittia of the other. On a former occasion horses and men have been engaged ploughing a Turnip fallow, some d linseed in it, fro ich 
drew attention to a very striking fact. It was T epe s well | carting dirt on the farm, hauling coal for the use of the extracted. A moderate amount of exercise 
-known to —— all that this time twelvemonths, when the house and the gasometer; and at various odd work wh emitted 11 
largest portion of the produce of the county was brought into a ted th g; and they have also | TRANSMUTATION oF Gaain—W G—Page 555, 87 
market, — was sold at 2 10s. a ve less than it was | been engaged several days ploughing a second time a Wheat | Wick ‘USES MOST a TTER, BoX-FEEDING OB , 
worth a short ter. Now. ssed such | and Bester fallow piece, rather more — 5 4 es deep ; also ‘ The Ô 
knowledge as these statisties pama s have sae „there could hauling and ploughing in dung upon e same, which is Saa Exnata.—At 7 5 270 Jan. 8, in the article on ‘ a line f ; 
would have o 12 Nee their ome- in the following way: A three- orse cart. load of dung is haul in Birds,” by “ D. S. E.,“ in col. b, at the 23 i 
— like a valie | proportioned to real necessities of ‘the | into the fiel epositing 17 heaps of ‘dung i load ive 5 ment, read thus In very a eal’ t 
untry. It would have been * y practicable y have | yards apart from each other every Way. There is in each load sweet oil as a olyster has been said to be very de 
— to something lik ke a distinct sees of the actual enough dung to cover 425 Square yards, consequentiy at the at pag 28, in the le on Swine Pens in 
amount of prod i and i ho be n done arm of 10 ed and a half 5 1 — — land, — Ap b, * the 
mere was perhaps not one there present w 1 would not have | been engage threshing ou winnowing Wheat, Barley, o” read 4 ubi 
— ake handeods of pounds 1 better for it this day, He Peas, and Oats, all for home consum ion. Some of the men | *s* Communications reaching town after Wednesday 
no doubt —— this was a matter which would be taken up | have been en gaged a part of their time gold hedges, | answered the same week, 
Tye Government, no matter of What party, and their atten- planting ‘Quick, levelling banks, filling the putts or carts with 
having once — called to it, — felt convinced it would dung, coals for burning lime, and spreading abroad dung on Markets. ; 
not be allowed to drop. But he thought it would b. high); f ue man and two | have been in constant Jan. 1 
— as a farmers’ club, if they could set an aiid th one lad has been engaged sorting and POTATOES, SOUTHWARK, WATERSIDE, pate om Sor 
ple by showing that they were not t only not grene to it, or rushing bones, clearing up the Taras, and — odd work w erriala, since our last report from 
were even anxious to get it done. * 2 — marks he of the sort. The weather betore Christmas was vi ry wet, but ormer a 
This bespeak their . —. wie on of since then we have had nothing but changeable weether—now ; siderable. Notwiths ‘of 
proposa., and hoped they would all be ready t to Ay to give | it every frost, then rain, and mild spring weather, in fact every varia- — — 5 asking more money, consequence — 
facility in their any ente ir priv tion * boa Da peng * an advance on some ‘amples hea à been . E. alised. The j 
ng exposed, he begged to assure — am that nothing was T Lora ARM, —We have — — the prices: nts, Moto 1608; s 
fr arte vi 3 ts * The re. other weak of go od Winiar gether, with 2 non in ae Blues, ies to 1208, Aer Buffa and e 
Trom any particular an rticular farm. e re- ork upon arm ng the wee 3 ou 
woul from parishes oe — — individuala, so that | ing lea, carting off Turnips and ploughing Turnip land, uke. N fee 110s to 1308; Butch ten Whites 708 to 90s; Bamburgh rd 
mo fear need be felt that te affairs would be exposed. | wise tor litter for cattle ; also carting Barley to mar- * 
lr. Makixs, of Auchincrow M roposed g Amea to | ket. Markets in the 3 bik several weeks past have varied eia HOPS, gamar Jan. 21. A bes, 6 
Tile Draining and Deep Plo . 2 remarked on the im- little = price ee all etal che 8. . — ea 5 and Sur, op Factors, repo: 7 
portance of both operations — — of abe 801l.— Kra hag NCOLNSHIRE Vane, a an. 15.— We e been occu- Bid: Peat Kents, p. ewt. 70s to 100s | Yearling’ ‘Kents, p. cowl» - 
The Cnhamxkax, in reference to the former of these ee last report, as follows 5 — . ot ploughing | Weald of Kents. „ 36 — 60 Zoning Somes 2 ” gr 
begged permission to mention an experiment he had tried „ and 1 — stubble one day; three pair horses leading manure, two Sussex Se pe man 5 2 ld Hops ss as 155 
