12—1848.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 193 
AGRICULTURAL , SEED plants in lines that intervals wide enough for the ; occ upy their whole depth, ‘thickness, and (for th the 
qOwAS WHALLEY begs —.— to inform | hoe may be left on the surface they cove most par af man These ir re —_ of 
ue friends that his 1 8 sg ha = pats ge of dibbling both to drilling and ‘itiod are shape a however, on thats each 
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n is now pees lished e DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF han g consists in its uniting the mer 5 and | next the sliding dibble rod, that a little ipee left 
löw ü SEEDS, which will be found useful to purchasers, avoiding the faults of both. It produces a crop of | half way up its length, and again at its lower end: 
Fii may also be | e oe 8 ee equi-distant plants at intervals wide enough for the gena ve dibble rn, Ae so, which forms one side of 
seed W hoe. It buries the seeds as perfectly as the drill, chambers, is made so that, when in its lowest 
WHITE eee Wahoo oe SE ED. and scatters them more — than o hand. 9 there is a connection en ber ger the 
Felton Con 0055 err. Fewer plants are needed per acre, for each is in the | higher vee art = the light aboy when at 
qia 5 BE MANGOLD WURZEL.. . . . its productive- its highest the a connection ston een ath ‘pete 
Lona YELLOW 3 ) SL. ness: and fewer seeds are required to ensure a give chamber and (through the dibble slots) the land 
`G RED MANGOLD WURZEL, ge 
enw Se of the above, 5 number of pani, for each is made to r the below ; while in 3 Pera yet there i 7 a con- 
F E. or Bs, moy be had of Jonn 80 and aa minimum 0 risk. A large saving of seed is thus one nection between the one chamber and the o 
selected y . Prierd Lists will be forwarded post paid. of the manifest advantages of this ari of sowing. It will have been ee ihat when aa seed 
Orders for large dies, Na "l e ee 7 u considerably less | We must confess, however, that we have been| box is drawn up, and the slide by its footstep 
rices. i 3 PE 
tan the sparta i por acre, of süperior quality. speaking of the possible rather than the eet tual. In| pressed down, its upper edge is buried in the corn 
Permanent u Carriage free to London or Bristol. igh fe dibbling een posses f all e rits we esa Jaanas the former contains. In this portion, if the 
—— i s the practice has hitherto existed, it lower chamber of each dibble contain grain 
a oe OF THE n brings hate out not in individuals but a clusters. | it will drop through to the land, and when 
Der bark 1 n In the holes made by the man with the dibbling|on the descent of the seed box the dibbles 
an "Ym Green-topped, Red Valtriugham 3 an vhs children who follow him place any quan- are pushed into the land they will force the 
mpro 3 <r tity of seed that numbed and careless fingers allow | seed below them to its proper depth in the soil: 
pin „Jarge C ina, hong Red- — = # to escape them. “On making inquiries of many | and in . this the upper 3 of the slide box 
Lon ae Yeo 5 intelligent farmers in Essex, I was given F | emerges from the corn in t 
» — 5 stand, that the number of graipa s dropped in each ends. Now alon g this tsa! r ge little cups are 
caps, superior 8 Drumbead „ eens hole ee eee eee aried from nil up to 30.“ 4 one at the side ‘of e ach dibb'e d, of sufficient 
TURNIP, Ju Fuse rep. ae He 3 e quote this testimony — a lately published | size to hold about —— grains of Wheat apiece : 
‘prot . s „ os pamphlet w vhich Poa more ingenuity to bear upon | each cup therefore i two grains of — corn as 
n we, white E ai 3 fone! this question than any pub ication “that we have | it emerges from the descending stock, and as soon 
0 ested n read,“ and we ee recom it to the atten- as the dibbles have — 10 their —— that part 
aseful kinds for PERMANENT tion of our rea The — " diffeulty —— of the rod of each having come opposite these 
PASTURES, utube $ to diffrent ner gene in the way of dibbling has been the want — an effi- cups, when a connection is opened te to the upper 
Aa part rare er acre awis Perb 1 3| cient dibbling machine, and they will find in thi is | chambers mentioned before, their contents imme- 
— ean 5 eben, pamphlet a de e of what is unquestionably? diately drop. From these page at another 
222 d Trade, Se nd of fine quality. the best hitherto proms ted. We have seën this stage of the process, they drop into the lower ones, 
Remittances with orders or "Sap ie ere of rre- | machine and use and though, on land certainly and thence, when the dib les me P aia up, and the 
— —— — and upwards delivered free to in the best order 5 r ailing yet the construction cups are being filled again, to the land, The 
Bass and Brown, Seed Establis nant parasa Suffolk. of the instrument, an mode of working it, dibbles then descend push the asin grain 12 — 
. justify us ie 8 — more than any other the land, and when at their lowest — recei 
Asli E HYBRID CLOVER. — This valuable we know, it is able to contend with untoward | into their respective chambers the contents of the 
variety wa ced from Sweden; it is a cro-s be- peer es seed-cups, to be deposited at their het 7 5 in 
tween the White s and ted cove, having all the properties of| There has been a great deal of ingenuity dis- 85 field. 
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d f the latter, f 
ri os Pa 0 de withons iit should played of late years in his construction of hand- „ the ee of Sa this 
i i bee ented, 
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iiy of s 5 — layer. Price of seed under dibbling machines; we have examined, we believe, | instrument, w the y, has 
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L ent. 1s. 9d. per Ib. FVV all of them, and have no hesitation in e ; i 
ofi 
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j is in reality of simple e iid pe likely 
equally hard. the Swedi sh Tün: it has in several this to be the best of the number. i get out of order. The large sizes are rather 
instances su is root in weight of crop and nutritive aman deposits the seed for eight giants ae pea ery, when full of corn, and we would recommend 
siti ur hardy. Mie of seed, 28. 6d. per Ib. $ š 8 2 
Biles end Scedamen, 5 to the Royal Placing them 4 inches apart. 1 “n to | the inventor * to make them so as to be worked by 
. Agricultural i Department “ot Belgium, &e., 26, Down-street, | leave an interval of 9 inches between the and two men to each, one at either end; they might 
Piccadilly, to make within the minute 15 of the e e then be made somewhat eee to which, on level 
with the machine in which its operation consists ; land, * would be no objection 
ourse 0 ——— 
then in the e ours ; i — ͤ— raas 
Che Agricultural Eis tte + | exactly 2000 square yards of land, or nearly half an FOSSIL PHOSPHATES. 
| TURDAY, MARCH 18, 1848. acre. And we do not doubt that with this instru-} Ir is not my intention to occupy the pages of your 
ss Golesi tees? ment Wheat may be dibbled for 5s. or 6s. per acre. Paper or the time of your readers with any lengthened 
erage ru emt es No wonder the practice has not // 
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| 9 = ee d d e d big mp when seg y astry 1 25 d 10. a. Gagette, I think I am called upon to offer a few a 
| . 3 ari pur tura Ae ic. — ote: and W. M attend it as its present MERREN si be id 204 ee | explanatory remarks, no less in justice to that 
1 . Beaton Mareh 20: arket | The only wonder is that anywhere it could have | man than to myself, 
contended with the broadcast system or the drill In the fi rq place, I candidly acknowledge that 1 
Tae og is, in re . the most machine. We firmly believe, however, that as the I published an ant OE the phosphatic strata in your 
aisfactory of all our sow machines. If we implement deseribed in this ope and invented “non ie was ignorant of the deer ee made by 
imitate store in the Abily our r object will be to b the writer of it, shall become known, its use | Professors Sedgwick and Henslow on ame subject 
give every seed we sow parate position in the and the practice of dibbling will obtain and extend, | at the “Meeting of the British erde in 1845. It 
a separa’ 
es al eds are e ee wit ihe It is dificult to convey an idea of the instrument 8° happened, indeed, that from some accidental circum- 
means of obtaining this isolation for themselves. | by description: but let the reader imagine a se noe Tee 2 
3 or Dandelion head produces many seeds, box, somewhat deep, and of considerable length, F of my omitt 
y do not be fall together : pend ripen in- ene ae t p boton of it a longitudinal 3 the prior researches of these 8 ould ave 
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: are scattered Ade deres by their feathery itself “This slit is just wide and long sek to investigations ver 3 any 
— ay one another, and from the stem which | allow a flat sheet-iron box to slide up and down in| object in view than the resin OF cortais 8 
m. e chaff of the Wheat and the 3 shich, at its highest, has its upper edge 6 inches | facts which have hitherto remained undisclosed ; for 
Oat, like the down of the This we 5 serve the within the s eed-box, and its lower edge 6 inches this purpose I hunted 2 very authority whieh 
same purpose of scattering the g it envelopes. pioet it. T he bottom of this slide-box is, es the | thought likely to 2 e on rior subject, and 
And in B Barley, where the husk es to the grain, act of sowing, kept essed to the surface of the all that I could find were Bert s ses, which 
it end is attained by the bearded awn which — mA es foot ie on a step projecting from I copied into my . Unfort tunately, I over- 
bears is pierce * d 
sides 
to only in one direction, and —.— a aiken sik c india holes at ya's, throug! i 
ntra , s proper interva's, through : 
8 and expansion consequent upon alter- | whi 3 is delivered. At the top of the scknowledgd tei eins field of pei and to have 
ik drought and dampness pushes the seed, worm- seed-box ble rods are e which traverse I now quote, as reporte ted in the Ache the i in. 
sok Tie by step from its original position in the the inner slide-box, as we shall call it, and protrude | formation given at Ca aer a 3 Meeting o 
2 The inference is one which might indeed have | at the holes along its lower edge. As by its zandle British . Be 1845, Tela tive to the phosphates 
lave: asserted à priori—that every seed should the seed-box is lifted up and down, while the ag t Í found in the 
à separate locality in which, uncrowded, it on its step 3 the edge of the s/ide-box close t Professor S Sedgwiek 33 rau between the chalk 
ce and tage a plant which shall the ground, it is manifest*that the dibbles will 5 and galt is a stratum not more than a few inches 
Us fruit to mat they will protrude and be pressed into pa carth | thick, of e : 
Broadcast swing is more in accordance with this] Y th s forced down, and be dra n within Le pres oe pan P Hea oral g . 
fa drilling: seeds scattered equidistant] their haath as ihe box is raised again. Now the pte SeA r AEE gt Siar . foot 
‘ould es 3 uniformly. and ner 3 same motions in which this process consists ensure, ti a giar pg tho s urface Der many e ate 
ya at the same time, the delivery of the grain into the nne te the vicinity of Cambridge ; and the pe ar woe 
holes which these dibbles have made. The dibbles | contained yielded 61 pa east of ear rhy phosphates and 
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i —.— x — ive than when crowded 
all z ee ee ae even supposing rest being 
“ce 3 etly — — and ectly buried drops through the slide box into the holes they have | were also considered coprolitie by Mr. Be they 
amet result migh ee ade: and t i e of fishes, erab- 
pe ene nit * sha follow. The theory requires 5 ces half digested.” 
E: it does not take into account ne er . h Zre 
tt z „The delivery of I take no notice of the Suffolk capra Every- 
ih at he 1 land bears weeds as well as Whe ee. 3 SiW i ide box | body is aequainted w 4 — panes ith tha eataa 
ween . hosphate of lime. 5 is nothing 
ring th th ntervals between the e ture into superphos 
fame? mill be see of a crop. If this be ke ept plas 9 are ched by pieces of w chick | ET cote — or presto in their composi- 
„tior seen how the theoretically infe- 28 Bo z E Fare. : the phosphate of lime in the fossilised excremen' 
Other how aller in practice be better than the 85 1 8 1 st ee — — of the Economie See d Dibble,’ Post-office, 
ere is a necessity for crowding the Farmer. Hatcbard, Piccadilly, London Tunbridge Wells, Kent. 
