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"j farmer mounts his horse at daybreak, and driving the benefit I have derived in addition years’ | larger Senn eee from: birds, suffered 
E others before BhA with panniers, travels 18 miles to | practical experience, I — — — li when cir- : —.— bl eg me? 
the sea-coas coast, and brings back in the evening 9 bushels | cumstances’ do not prevent them, and are willing to — maan A 
of lime, barely en 5 to * a quarter of an acre!“ apply themselves closely to study, to adopt the — 
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Havıxe a few observations to m 1e extracts | and of knowledge that will never forsake the tha If Swed: heard 
taken . aon” By . * 1 they aoe . 2 having sought. With — it — sed shouldbe 2 per ebe 
tiet ` on,” an gies to yourself and readers for this long intrusion, I | traordinary rate of 305“. 12s, acre in the 
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allusions made to them in your vn Article of the | am, and shall ever feel proud to subseri i vi 
Sith ult., permit me to offer them to your readers, | farmers’ sincere friend — well-wisher — ares — bei eaten — he — aly 
av ish to give ei them or I [believe — — iene — 
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e a J y p or} Asour Christmas, 1846:7, am — r uld like to ascertain if f 
Bat bave any prejudiced feling for go ñß/è selata tees | denta would be Mad ee o inform =a 
; í whic urnip seed, was one to ascertain the — an not there is any benefit de by the seed 
must ever attend such e derived Tron peta bow little | of land would produce ; you replied a not — -ps 7 crop in the south — ced in the north, 
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Area. Produce, Talus, per acre, of seed, 
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114 sq. feet | 8 Ibs. £152 16s, 04. 
1120 sq. feet 49 lbs. 
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2 dh npr N es, to which may be that if half the cash we usually pay for Turnip seed Or will it be to the advan of those northern Turnip 
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ly with him as to the good resul ting from the Swede Turnip seed off two small plots of ground, the ferable for sowing in the south, is seed raised in the 
and re stated below. I imagi th better for i 
t, viz., the Agricultural every year was expended under our own superi i north than 
Nesodiati 6 s ntend. | growers to have seed 
ut of the . 1 ry fae in labour to produce it for ourselves, om should | their neighbourhood ? So ‘far 3 able to 
mit of the vast amour cucal and scien- | find a much larger quantity of live seeds in our settle the question the b seed 
tific asin: ee Oe nee 1 them, and which | session than we almost Meda receive from those produced “in —— —— —— aa 1 
beng liffuse or rough the exertions of | merchants or dealers commonly supplyin us. believe more ex ts are necessary before that can 
lented f n y members, to the most Why do we so fre requently witness o3 — fields — be e correctly decided h. 3 be the case as it may, 
emote parts of our kingdom, and yet “A tord penis under extraordinary seedings), almost every season, one thing is in, if we our own we are not 
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m intain r — reached, though he justly ob- out or per diniga’ pee yr a part of them? t also costae that the variety is not — —— 
— 2 5 soit r 1 a ee fg = * they | cause is generally — ‘for these mishaps? Is not — Deal Honestly. 
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hieme 1 17 rege NG or to 725 ve vend ep sea of enough to 1 Mea at a low price, 2 assist — poor — sl pre pee 8 a better con. 
1 er. buy regard to the second paragraph, | riety, or may have left themselves after the sale of a nexion between him and such an — [A very 
he asserts “that he has no doubt” bag there | previous season. With such they mix their ae and | 800d idea. ] 
sip te found in almost every district in the kingdom | genuine varieties till the whole — the bought up or old Sega — — 
n sufficiently various to represent the whole dis- | stock is disposed of. Undo dly they maints their — ie Correspondene 
trict, I very much doubt it ; in fact I know it to be | credit To or supplying the au variety asked for; but Peat Pipes.—I have read Preeti by one 
possible; there might be found here and mark their anxiety in recom mending a “ good seeding,” who — — shimeelfasa Highland È land Proprision,” on what I 
p era Ang even that = doubtful. But od a such | meaning that you should sow plen nty. Thus we suffer rags Po. thinking a very importan toa 
pi ption of farm could be found, I would ask in three defrauds every season—first in Swede, second Portion and Pepin 3 the making of peat 
bi way the proposed experiments could 15 vist oonted, yellow, and thirdly in the white, and pokal in none | Pipes ri Tin a good deal of conversation on the subject 
how long it would take to make them One or two p than the Swede, and perhaps 30 or 35 per cent. | With a friend who had 
years would be found quite insufficient for such x pur- | in all. ould you signify the partial failure of your matter pr sity fully, some months ago; and from the ex- 
as no experiment can be said to have been well RAN sown seed, the adroit seedsman, ever anxious to Periments which he aud I made bee, 
which has not stood, at least, the test of ihi serve you, mostly manages to mg enough —— to. very much satisfied that the making of good lasting tiles 
aan Pele Where then would be the benefit of | assure you that t this you are n ing is cel: |f 
5 “gras 27 2 ts ? — my own part I cannot see. 2 &Ke., and again ee e. a still better allow peat 
[ x 7 taking up too much space in your | ance per acre, — intimates that din drill may not — ve an = Fi 
Columns, I will endeavour to point out a plan which I been LAY ge iy tended to, and kren = “ag nps t find to work well, and I think thas 
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tenant farmers, with an impartial uya, we see a 12 again for Turnip-seed How frequently do Een j i ; : ; ; 
more in need of as tance with regard t o education disappointments rs us to seek for miy’ success front All pro prea } — — * 3 
eir ; i prietors ving peat however, must not flatter 
-| Let every farmer grow his own seed, and probably | themselves that they shall be able to make tiles out of 
there would soon be fewer of the murmurings, fears, | them; the abeence of twigs, which your Highland pro- 
to be | and Tnrmenitictions e em rp almost every Turnip es eat S 
field. Did ever a droughty season = kill or prevent that the peat be very solid and compact; so as to enable 
t N The era * e eee elean ext to be made. Messrs, Slight, of Leith 
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position when it can be so easily avouled — win- — * 
not placed in very shallow vessels. 
Rowing wil not always 3 on 1 — because ——ů—ů oe 
ciple and allowing the seed to assume its plump ap- — milk — pre a Ad 
pearance gee * its original weight. The 9 o and from 
OE boit w t the establishment of one of the | Second im widt yr a * — — 
dealers that ales tapes hand a a — — 3 ate alittle above 47° to nearly 
generation of farmers may of seeds, &.; upon examination I found every eee 
2 Cultivate d Land.—Having lived 
He ond . scientific pes that was too light oe end supplied hs ary by | near tho heavy clays of the We 1 Sus- 
e demands of such | being greased, or oiled, or otherwise up for sale. | 5€ er ‘tonnes diay taal y eae Į > 
Aeg growing the finest 
but w | have no doubt but such dealers are enabled to treat cora is oceupied witht Orly’ let any one look at 
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fn my ane to Say I was — pean sae = he “9 i —— is at — rate of 950. 5s. per acre, at t Is: ES * — 5 < — ploy, — pressing 
the study of chemistry, and from | per Ib. it is only fair to state that the seed upon this | A Clay Drainer, A J 
