17—1848. ] 
doubtfal 
2 this zery eldom attained in our 
— 1 it is probable, = it is owing to variations 
that the presence and amount of salt in 
fo n found t * ere he 
salt, exis 
suc however be said to be 
. little ao = one per — it even so much 
Tut; eo tha 8 of B ssam would contain less 
i ta 
b. of rank ° By ai experiment, tha 
toa cep of 100 Ibs. 
—— then “tha t the amount of salt exported from 
meat is exceedingly small; but if 
F phori ic acid and of nitrogen 
which the stains under the same system of sales 
or export, the ca be found to be very different 
7 of the 50 or 60 Ibs. of mineral matter contained in 
the 50 bushels of prh, ge e engl be s 
00 lbs. 
s 
a 
2. 
8. 
ie acid, weighing 1 whether it be not an essential ut of sueli produe re, will be found the most profitable erop. This is 
alive would carry off 3 to 4 Ibs. of phosphate of lime in | as well as a useful agent in the processes of vegetation in | oftenest obtained from sowing 7 or 8 pecks, and I 
its bones, besides a few ounces of ph — 4 acid salts such cases. Mangold Wurzel, for 1 contains eo therefore continue to recommend that quantity. When 
in its other A 50 bshls. of may be 2 speakin , a large amount of salt, and the effect | Fla ore extensively cultivated, and han ore 
said to contain 50 to 60 Ibs. of gt ep and the 100 Ibs. | of its application is perhaps more evident i in the case of | experienced are introduced into the country, the finer 
live weight 1 he of the same substance. It is this plant than in that of a y other. en, however, | qualities may with greater safety be grown, The 
sen, then, th st the soil welt b e exhausted in | we bea ind the small amount of selective action | nevertheless, must ever form an important item in the 
fo years of 40 to 0 ihe. of salts of phosphoric acid, and | which is exercised by th ts of plants upon the so lue of the p. In general, En Linseed weighs 
alge quantity of nitrogen, the amount of salt ble co s of the soil; that in the ash of the Mangold | about 56 Ibs. per bushel z this year it is even heavier ; 
me period, nine course, | Wurzel, as well as in that of all other green produce, ile foreign averages abe Fog 
would * reach a pound. Some writ ha have the saline matter of the juices mixed with r. Milburn, secretary to the Yorkshire PA ston a 
said that farmers do not know their own interests whe of the p forme ose juices; and, Society, lately paid me an interesting visit, Amongst h 
they purchase the expensive foreign pans rather than | further, that this plant, more particularly when fresh 
the salt of home resource, and employ the bones gathered, an re fermentat some has | tity of Linsee ed grown Ns me referred him to Mr, 
of countries 20 ad the ee of me taken pla ts fluid contents, is kuo a | Bear, of Paston, North W berei Ea stated that ke had 
i wn towns; but no one who will | purgative to animals fed upon it, we cannot fail to grown Fla: four years exclusively for th seed, and that 
consider the de baten given wh can be at | admit the presence of rge amou the p ce per acre, the first )ear, was 24 bushels, and 
aloss to understand why salt and sulphate of soda ganised matter, and the re also = some of | the three last 28, on the average. Mr. Bear oceupies 300 
cannot be substituted for phos nd ammo it is extraneous and unnece: wth of the | acres of. fine and weli cultivated land. His plan is to 
Itis worth consideration also, that in many pa plant ; and in this latter „ “the. plat Ke of grow Fla Wheat stubble, instead of Turnips, 
England tho of acres have been brought from a salt in the produce would show an ample resource of it | reserving the manure for tlie following crop, According 
barren waste into 7 be pa state A 3 by the in the soil, rather than prove its importance to the | to the price of foreign Linseed in this nei hbourhood, 
importation min some form or other of phosphates and | plan easons of this kind must not, however, b oth = r 55 Pact + 25 lee r arty a _ 
ee k i il t iis part o crop alo + per 
without any F ked supply whatever of com- 2 m an e y 8 sen os wane a Bee E 
The er employment of salt as manure cannot then, I find it, but they should be Paks i pointing | fectly clean ; while the weight of y eT no 
think, be advoca ted as providing an important con- out the direction and sity of further experi- s and is f wild N = weigh 
stituent of the o; of m, but only to ment on the subject, and especially so wh e fiud in considered a criterion of quality, the p I e 
be of limited necessity, and applicable with economy to | the animal economy instances of a very analogous kind. ance in favour of home-grown * ’ T attening 
a small extent, or in special and ocea cases. It is Thus it is found that although the Zines of animals, | cattle, must render its culture an object ~ rma 
considered that when corn is used orn crops, the | which may be compared e juice of vegetables, con- impor the g 2 gan 4, properly res 
straw is brighi d the g of finer quality; but | tains a large amount of e salt, which cannot be | for sowing, seldom sells for less than 10s. per — 
Perhaps no one will maintain that it would incre jr suppose: unessential to the healthy actions of the In Ireland it obtains much more, etimes even 158. 
number of bushels upon a corn-exhausted soil; and if ody, yet its presence appears btful in any of the | according to an official a fn ee Teg ar taken fon 
this be the case, but a low rank can be claimed for it by resulting products of the processes of t imal the fifi ual report of the Iris 2 
the side of ; hi ce t question then of the use an — — of salt to some | presented erin of her Majesty” t Walcot, 
1 plants, a ertai icular circumstances, | 27 bushels were p m an acre and 
is still open to investigation, — — d it be decided ground. But ver = 
rmatively, we should yet have to determine whether | per a Pa pirg the 2 T hal ; aa s 
t such cases to employ it in | to me during the — seven 3 
an 2 N even directly as a manure at | expressing the lief that, almost auy description of 
it all si een, Aini I have ad Bo cannot but | land, in good conditfon, will produce similar q ties. 
fully concur in the — opinion ssed by Pro- I, ho „repeat my conviction that the crop which 
fessor Dumas, more especially — to the state 2 20 . ben See, fee, — ne ity quan 
of agriculture in Pio t the present time, and ill e, will prove the mos 
— to assume the ho fallen positions :—1. That 10 or 1 = obtained, with between 40 aud 5 stones of 
salt can never be a substitute for ary onstituents am- | fine Flax, the seed mig to mea 2 babel 
monia and phos peat 2. no soils exporting | with advantage as direct manure, at the rate o 
a . more or less a ing to circumstance 
corn and me sa ‘fertility i ae A har a d-scutching of an pind of stalks wielding 
bstan e hand-scutching o 
* si tote two subeat in purehasi ng as for niri 45 stones of 5 * employment and wages 
di the followin : 
| te ern ih |e ene rae ania 
i a 109 , for one 
although apparently essential rs the A 180, fra a girl, “es per day. jk ae W 
and aps in that of ts also, s expo: 5 Greater or proportion. 
farm in saf small * that many soils will, At a is ra er would secure, through a good 
under an ordinary system of cultivation, never require | system of hand scutching, an acreable profit equal at 
— direct application, and others will do so wa soar and | least to that pal by the mill ; pane 3 the 
tent only.— J. B. Lawes, Roihamste juvenile the p nefits 
a small extent only. = = J ising pee rr nane Ae other 8 
WING, Thus might those children be e trained habits of 
Tar whole p . e =A eted with the growth — ind 5 o are now rega „ chan 
Fl er ares simple in practice than 2g 4), their country. as : 
spelt aaa die E — be ; land has iy be . F appear, it will nevertheless be confirmed by SE i 
the fi all go th before winter, it will only ge ont of S, OF are Surrol 
in 15 soises the soil to a 3 state b mployed population. Nor ean the ah — 
the common farm implements. Supposing the land not sad | except by employment. —— D aAa yme 
to good condition, it will be ary, to e to be bed, 3 e sie those k 1 siga — 
5 ip, to dress it with 4 or 5 cwt. ac ral conferring it nurse 
Snr Rap ke, Ke. My own -n e * ae pie — 8 of “id adult 
nure; but last year soot was app This i is too truly e 0 
= se one field at the rate of 30 — cboct population in Ireland; aya 1 ue i = 
; to the other part, sinews were n braced 3 
sheen Be eia lle s ri ; Flax upon the former to compete | ambi by way of experiment, with 2 
he tall st, and I inten pursue the same plan in ured to ch the accuracy of my remark wou 
was t yf est, will i well harrowed. in before ekly e 
le 3 nd any circumstances, hether i? “ Go then! t anā see them rising rer sun, 
no! is sown, . l to run; 
Th completeness of. thestatement : ploughed in the na bes or at . present time, bt bro —— the Dog- a tars raging he at, 5 
an 
rosa oy a ht 3 be used, in Laa hing on their seythes, look o'er 
tity as a panema nt of the 5 a light ro n surface. If The labour past, and toils to come explore.” 
also true that when useful | order that the seed may fall upon rt sp a atin The discerning reader will acknowledge that the poor 
le 8 circumstances | a return in Linseed or coarse Flax mai ject r Pert op in idleness through ne ceessity, are no more fit 
a, supplied to the plant over 5 or 6 cot abe acre ought to be deposited — eal re ee i field of labour than the rich, and therefore 
z Ta illustration a resule are what we should ex. at 7 or 8 inch intervals. If a crop of — aioe . ms merit ae ne rather — nt 3 N 
. — ‘his point I ma . eet E e eet 9 dent I daily witness the bene ts derived by the junior 
„ were carried on upon 13 pecks for very 
= hee or sodium, the twa, apeina plants at the gardens 
ope din ; but the point of Society, at Chis 
| 
. | advantageous 1 . 2 
an 
alts 
| oak on comparin 
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275 
f the Horticultural 
wick, under the 8 of Mr. Solly, 
e results w 
3 of various substane a garden 
bably 
— 
E 
any i important te! t 
pate g ta gs in 
other 
pir ga of the 2 and thereby i abe the quality, 
and even to extent increasing the quantity of 
the Le eg 
e effect of s, however, much more marked 
upon oe green Farfa of a farm than upon corn crops, 
d 
e 
ed ere the land is properly tilled. 
n | to pest the larger weeds, 
e | the 
... n a 
sown will be the return of seed, and quality of fibre, 
by most remunerative — generally obtained from 
to 10 peeks. When d 
e or no weeding will be required 
It is only 
as the smaller will sickly 
be topped by the Flax plants, which grow 
astonishing eg y. 
Fecu and value ee op tr greg tion in 
growth e "Plax i is said to 
0 
may be to send the primest 
article to market, yet if 3 with less profit 
— the ordinary, pleasur 
grower naturally reverts o. that system which pays. 
best. Consequently the growth of a middling 
quality of Flax, with about 20 bushels of Linseed 
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