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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZ TT E. 
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dem. To estimate the importance of root 
: — of tho eas oniy necessary, to. look back to the period—not 
when 
nt, th 
very 5 et orl inated. There w ere many ‘pres ent, 
. no 5 embered ibe pa who first introduced the 
ee ips as a field crop. Ninety years last summe 
growth of of Surat s was grown in this country Sen 
the first feld named Pringle, whe) had property near 3 
a surgeon in the army, and though continually 
3 ut the. countr, ry, he papse his taste for 1 
— an atime 
ea of growing Turnips in rans 1 of 
— tches occasionally in fields. It 
en cult 9 produce these crops, ony the hoeing 
was let out to garde eners or others considered nies? at the 
It wa to protect them from being 
opera re so sweet ; ‘i they were, Ware gin 
1 ples in an orchard. In 1757 Mr. Pringle 
first put his land into drills, and so is Turnips upon eta. 
roots of the young Tur rnip. 
7 of th the lat e Mr. Dawson, of Fro “cag near Kelso, 
of the prese ent Mr. Daw menor. of f Wark, w o farmed one of 
‘he est fa farms it which he pata 25000. a year. 
cattle, it was all carried off, anda 
ment of the oe was taken away, more 9 with regard 
to the bran of Wheat. This was a reason why 
feed cattle with W eg of Wheat. An ake 
es with the cultivation of 3 crops w — 
opportunity of cleansing the —— = otter tha 
siasi agriculture mo 
scale, where an oppo: 
a gr reat part of the nourish- 
thing 
rnip field this was easily 
e by po — of horse or hand hoeing they might 
completely cleanse the land asn not t o lea weed : 
and ti they could no 
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e of the advan- 
Sa far he had, been somewh: at general, 
tages * root eget 
as now hould 
2 
ecte awit th th y hich und most profitable in 
their general * Stoas ere were 28 of green crops 
throu ughout ngdom, e dike everything else nnected 
St man 
in Mer. Dawson, who lived with him 
yag Ste v Wio 1 This man he uno 3 
man) remembered very we He lived and died a land 
i His name was James Cranson, aed: he ices s father of 
in 
* spread throughout the kingdom ; pl even in the 
Nis districts, where they ie Turnips oe a flat surface, 
the drill system was introduce And this had ehanged the 
whole course Paarsdlvare, * they would at once admit, if 
they ered, what they did not know, but might have heard 
of, the management of those times. Formerly the only food 
for cattle was hay, — 8 het Ser the Apion. ee . eo da of 
e of A gre ough 
ae 
ich 
same . ad = 
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gold Wars but these roots would not b 
Gy 80 1 
In this part o of the cou 
ntry as the ordinary Turnip so much in 
hybrid there as 5 nal 
Mr. Harbottle's. bel 
ful as the Globe Turnip for the beginnin ng of the sea 
the Swede for the end of it. T 
generally beneficial. There were however other good varieties, 
and aman — use his judgment in selecting them. The 
Chair man next re fer red to en which ha said — be 
in uld grow on a stro 
“Bei? 
was ke spt 3 hat it wicht serve fo ps 
and somewhat —— food for the winter ; but now the cul- 
tivation oor had e gas increased th 
the land to make 
pasture land 
allow the whole pas o be consumed in the summer 
cattle and sheep, avd e d the production “of beef an 
mutton, which was much fat tter in winter than in summer, 
8 there fresh meat to be had fo 
fire months as, the | beasts killed at that season 
Sie tanta called Marts. “Phat beef was salted eia for the 
winter, * if th of beef and mutton 
which was n Weaken afol market to be en i during the 
vinter months, ed would Rid what a change en pro- 
duced, not only in the of the land, whi ch — doubled 
and * önly í in "the capital which it threw into the 
hands of fee 8 many of whom had the fortune to be 
_ holders of —but in the increase which had been 
Ta in on n 2 the — and of everything 
tended to feed the hum n their own 3 
another era had N place, and | which hea Jona much to i 
resse the im had been done 90 years eck 
furrow draining, 3 in Soner 
which 
ka 
: scription of soil th 
3 use it wes has — iati in 
ie wing Cabbages that the — should be 3 abd ones 
eas was Snag e zee the small seed of the Saron: 
wever, that the: ey s should be all used in “the ‘autumn ; mi 
might be 82 m 
Tu urnips, With respec fango lå Wurzel, though in much 
request in some parts of eet 2 ei could not say that he | 
— it „ in this; for t ight grow well in 
si 
lost in one frosty iait 
an Spee — = a een el but | 
th o gro a lar 
. of Carrots. In cer riain districts of Bedfordshire hice 
were grown toa great ee Carrots were a remarkably good 
bou SA Spal a there could be no — that horses used 
ng crop of all, wre would rec 
of r 
— E 
4 oil were not fit 
„er had een made 
4 Sea fo —— byt ne “soil i in consequence of 
these 2 . zens with this subject were also 
vere tge 
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ver 
í mere cultivated foe the | purpose o of being sent to Ne | 
ewhere, the whole produce was carted away, except the tops, | 
which, by some farmers, were held in so little estimation, that 
* ere thrown toget ther and burnt, leaving only a few ashes, 
This was not necessary, for if the tops were taken up and laid 
on the bottom of their folds in a green state, they would benefit 
8. ose advantages were the land. These were the reasons why the Potato crop was so 
SEn — — very ge eat addition to the live stock | exh austing, and they would, 9 re, see that it was not a 
Winton e great increase of the corn produce of | crop which ought to be use a fallow crop, bnt should be 
X the land. in —— z mes, when bare fallowing was resorted | grown instead of an Oat crop, ite dies such crop, and be — 
We land as scantily manured, and it was found necessary, | ceeded by fallow. These were some of the remarks, very 
‘cultivation, to let i lie six, seven, or vent eight years in general ones he admitted, connected with the 3 — of 
Grass d othin, hey knew the produce of these lands | root crops to the farmer, Then, as to their management. In 
Mas very scanty, and while that state of things continued, th ch also, they knew as well as he did, that the cultiva- 
land nothing except a — 5 bad of Grass. tion of root crops could not be too pod They could not 
i But the cultivation of root c and the introduction of plough 8 in the autumn; let them keep ploughing, and 
drill. bandry, accom mpanied Gorai, by ħand-hocing, bat horse- expose thè soil as much as possible to the atmosphere and the 
n 12 and a va re pn improved implements, the produce of | frost of ont menai taen use the pulverising beem es in the 
; en quadruned boon babies, a nd in man 7. cases: trebled, and carly part © of the T, 50 as to get as fine a soil as possible 
Se : ple e to W. d 
or five ye years, 5 t two crops o ar phu The plant ia — x al to contend with in the first st es; 
were that not only had 
tone . es for their cattle ra — 80 
of the year, but they 
creased the corn, by bringing’ the land 
ultivation 8 unknown. This proceeded 
that, 2 oe cousumption of eres crops, they 
ount of manur -s which, under other 
This was very evident when 
Turnips, 34 returned 
taking 
for 
; UI 88 tons.] Well, he . call it 
that was 1 more easily o divisible EA 3, then out of 
they h anur 
rn, 5 with the e 
| bu 
was a — 
heir 
There * no on sa be ee — he 
said eee all these plants derived a great portion of their 
nourishment from the atmosphere, and Sa was only in propor- } 
tion as there was vigour at the 5 a S rona W out the 
top. With regard to the app , drill hus 
andry gave every possible advantage ‘for tie with expe- 
The Ch ere referred to 
pared w 
rows, he remar. ad 
of the manure exposed in in an 
— derive benefit from it. 
ure, or any other; every m 
equal 9 = nd with greater facilit siges — 
other mag: he advantage of rows for horse i . me also 
wd grea that the farmers here were 
iving pest attention to that ö of manure, which, 
lke a else 3 home manutacture, was deserving of 
3 S eir 8 hich rendered it 
the guano 
way, in w 
0 se bins ee — was fold 3 
more — 
— ones 
home. heyy 
8 husbandry, to find one acre 
rein a high state 
“ace Wns combin' my operations. with efficiency 
in his work. He geg no advocate for tow farming, or 
starving the land. He was an advocate ya husbanding their | 
and another acre 
ay at 
ht depend upon it, itm was no piere of | 
tato e but they must show him a 
in his o 
which were a most s 
ubstantial 
been told that th . wed Abidin 
manure, They had 
e — of 
ust, 
ng 
— 5 in Ichaboe and other Places 
but vra mera — * always continue 
more in use.— The fact nothing better 
an the bones if judiciously applied, especially if mixed with 
sulphate acid. Nothing could be bette producing Turnips, 
manure. With reg o Turnips, it was when wer — 
umed the 3 with eee that all thei: fertilising 
If, neti it wa 
— 
exciting discussion ; — while he thanked t 
patience with whic ht 
a 
r dis 
, or at any other fitting time, would 
imself, ‘he felt pews . for what science 
ifhe required to take science 
produc 
had done for bee but 
ce, they would si 
e would never have accom: 
constructed the road and made it useful. 
remap 
estin Rus nt thie of St. 
Beet published the follwing re 
n Rus e harvest was tg 
tter than 
sfactory result.— Examiner. 
as shown a very sa 
3 ca * 
2 IRS MERSE Fan Fee a Since last — pas we 
ave — — 2 — — our to “the —— inten 
Tres and have got pa the — 7 ; 
oughing the Grass land t 
single-horse carts at Ayton n station, mith yr 
two car de carts at Berwick, 
home dr 
horses z n drivi rile 
barn, tives — ak away the 8 ; eight 
pulling Mase: gf ane Par et with the shepherd cu 
| for the sheep ; a boy feeding 
one day loading. stones — the road. J. B 
Dorset bes . — — Since last report we have had some 
ard fros Pie a puta stop to 3 and our horses 
fave been employed, in — — —— nine on — ture lan ogs 7 
at the rate of from 4 and eo. 
young Clover at — * 0 hom 14 to 0 10 1 yards; also hauling 
timber from the v woods, driving, dung for Turnips, carting 
Turni hay and straw. 
good i heat oF of our time—and threshing Wheat. Labourers have 
been filling and spreading mud and dung, 1 mee for 
ur ro — in the 
BE 
sea and threshing and N Peas —6. oN 
pt ow OTHIAN FARM, Feb. 6 f last 
Jan at we had keen frost, which e till the Ist of this 
N theo a change took place. The I little saon ae fell 
was ma 
the 30th soon aes ecg and the ploughing 
sumed yesterday. Work upon the farm has 
ing, ex 
| cept threpbiùg 3 litter and carting grain to “market ; also 
thin: 
ings of plantations, and other small jo jobs 
prer men dnd horses. Rain has fallen moderately — the 
day. I may observe that during png ual on the cob — 
employment in general on farm this district 
others) is cartin 218 ure from feeding — to the . — 
elds intended for Beans and other drilled cro I do not 
approve of this, which 
noticed in reports 
not to remove the age sit from the feedin ‘courts till it — =g 
quired for putting into the drill, either for Beans, 
Mangold Wurzel, or 8 This retains the essential art 
of the manure ; herens, by the s system allu uded to 9 
i carrie 
nmany 
4 rain. 
the late 
nd, and carting earth for various 
pa they have been Ge t s g — ca 
hurdles, 
d r 33 
— s to they Tie receiving a a liberal allowance, in addition 
to hay and Turnips ; ar 
that our our yearling heifers 
aap vam on cut Swedes and Barley straw, ‘lying 
„ yards in front for air and 3 
, however, ex rtunate for them, 
hbourhoo 
‘ sea, the Turni 
or ps were either eee in 
Shipped owas and 7 . but in farms * 
It w. 
land rend arting of 
expensi 
. > convey the 
o each c They 
dale where it ie 
to the 9 produce 
hat was consumed by their horses 
e Tand. With a to ted o corn crops, | in s 
situations of th that king, A. preserve thelr heavy manure for 
had bbnes, 
the lower parts of the farm, Besides guano, 
ordinary m { 
* had seen 3 steep situations me e e still in 
might 3 guano | 
dirty ¢ 
hunger, and returning at night 1 2 eo farm-yard, 
with cows. 
9 nigh 
hs, up to the time of their being ö 20 months 
old, ‘always returning at night s the sheds mee receiving 
