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7 In com- Highland Society and the. Agricultural Chemistry | intervals brought the grea est ero 
3 eg or 1 8 — — re-hand 5 aad man ures thus Association.—I ave read, with considerable su rprise, | w without h hoeing did not oa ar ing itt Jang, £ 
applied are ready to act at o the article in your Gazette of Saturday last, relative to chapter xi., page 186, he ree 3 
The vegetable salts may te nipptfed to the land in the proposed assumption of agricultural chemistry as a| Wheat, and only four gallons on Heh | lana of 
wood ashes, which might be largely and cheaply . e department of the Highland Society. The impression of an acre ; at page 199 he 115 
from Canada to great advantage, if free from duty; but which your remarks are calculated to make is, that, in sown Wheat (that is, broadcast—and £ buck re yard of 
potass, the one most in demand, may be übe el in | connexion with the Society, the subject of chemistry 8 be marked out, and the stalks th 1 
inexhaustible uanti ity, from our mountains of granite. woul be very 1 provided for. Previous to n the spring, n Aib be fo und that nine p 
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7 — land Willd do without lying down | mi partment within the scope of its arrangements, | ber of strong Pau „ and from a great esa Dum 
in Grass, is manifes n the a ant produce of it is, no doubt, true that owing to the smallness of the ones, is that the soil is vastly less exhausted nae 
— gardens, sc some ‘elding from prew to five suc- | Society’s presently disposable revenue, an instant e ex- einer than Ae the latter, not only from the 
cessive crops in the yea penditure from its funds not exceeding 300/. a year, in | haustin g more in proportion to their 
erer a uld present no more diffi- support of chemistry, was contemplated ; but the pro- young, and "we each of them consumes as much 
culty, in pure vegetable e than where 0 are | ceedings of the . have wholl y altered the aspect nourishment as each of the ss Hany gs * f 
kept; although here all would be grown for the market. of the case. ere virtually put à carte the different increase that rong plant ma 
One-half of such an estate might be in corn and pulse, | blanche into the — of the directors of re Highland receiving the sam BP Pt P food with 28 kes, by 
i.e., Wheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, Peas, and Beans—here | Society as regards expense, wa? — the provision | “ It 4 from Dr. Woodward’s ex riments, th that 
is sufficient variety for soll and climate. The root crops of whatever additional revenue may be found necessary | the plant. which receives the least increase Carries off 
i ise Potatoes, Turnips, Carrots, Parsnips; | for securing to agriculture, under the auspices of the the enn Poe tity of nourishment in * 
re ery oo Cabbage ‘and Gills market 8 Society, the greatest benefit which the most skilful ap- that ine é It is the same with an anaal S to 
and even Tares and Clover for the town stables and plication = ee science can confer upon it. well- are nequainted with fatting of swine know they eat less 
dairy houses. Of the green manures there is no want | digested pla basis co when they thrive re the fatter they grow the less 
of variety ; Spurry, Rape, Mustard, Buckwheat, Lupin, | wants of t t they eat.” S wanting for me to quote ng 
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to come in between erops; Tansey, Mugwort, Comfrey, of the age, is expect —. to be ee 5 the * from this old and 8 book. I trust I have intro. 
and many other herbs of heavier produce but of slower | to the half- the — of the society to be held next duced enough to show that as soon as scientific prin- 
, to be grown 8 on the worst parts of month; and, e mean time, I am aware that com. | ciples began to be a pplied to farming, thin seeding wag 
the estate, to cut and carry to those which are under | munications — — opened with some of the most seen to be part of a better practice ; and sti to 
market tillage. | distinguished chemists of which the united kingdom ean by thin seeding I too have discovered the very in 
These green manures enrich the soil, by drawing the boast. As respects the comparative advantages of an | tant fact which Tull has so strongly urged, nani O 
ae elements from the air, and their igs te by | independent Chemistr. 5 and of a chemical | the exhaustion of the earth is much less, notwithstanding 
their deep roots, fi the subsoil : and their amount branch of the Highland Society, I am decidedly of the produce of grain is more.— Hewitt Davis, 3, Fre- 
would doable ES greatly inereased by supplying m opinion — it is in the power of the Society to under- | derick’s-place, Old Jewry, London, May 8. 1. ana 
with heap and p c constituents, e the 7 ia of chemistry with a greater prospect of | Allotments.—A want 0 permanent emplo is 
the — and pedi x Tie bold proportionately perm rare a. uccess than any other ioe whatever,— A severely felt by a large portion of our popu ulation, This 
1 They also be destructive or ob- Member of the Highland Soc and of ithe|is an evil, capable however of ee if no of re- 
noxious to grubs — — vermin 9 Association; bee fan 8. jea moval. „Be efore sia look 5 r fresh remedies, I think i 
is precisely our opinion too, an expressed it in the | but right to . er well those we have, and one 
et 5 2 E nat money ad article to which you object. We never doubted the | the 3 syst By an allotment, I meana 4 
d Power of the Highland Society to bestow on agricultural of — Which an individual rents to employ himself 
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aes ed frias presse casos ERR 2 e reports to, we certainly doubted its will. We garden on farm 1 rt A A change f occupation 
nd i uite e been informed that an a eb as been produces a en sensation, and bi town. me- 
farms in the present state of publie habits oe ferred on oe salient bec a bion fo fr 8 Se requiring, e 8 in na yae 55 bo y hjr ws their pn 
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the public the e ketit — provements.—The agricultural public have so long or un genial state of the weather or ground hindered 
m the land thus cultivated ?!—J. Prideauæ. coupled my name with thin sowing, that I confess I have | field operations. Now there is no real difficulty in this, 
taken credit for having, as I fancied, introduced a new Let the farm labourer become a good gardener as far 
Nl e y improvement of the first consequence in farming as the cultivation of his land is concerned, and he will 
T Home Correspondenc but er I was beginning to feel myself at pnas = the | then be able to instruct the mechanic in the manage- 
Experimental Farms in Ireland. Wes unfortunately honours, the work of Jethro Tuli has come into, my | ment of his land, and in his turn pet 1 3 
— of great distress in 3 from the want of foo hands, hal the gayest feathers i in my paa 15 find to struct the other in many useful arts, teaching him 
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io to our countrymen in dist (for we are one so been op in the phon that he had er pas ur before | articles as he most wants—as corn b food 
nation in prosperity and advers ity). Assistance was me without being conscious I was doing so; but this is pig, roots for food i in winter, fruit and Rhubarb ale 
cheerfully despatched to our suffering neighbours, and | not the fact, it is only within a week I have been aware and puddings—that his small money earnings ma, à 
hopes of the resemblance betwe een us; and it is with a view to applied as productive capital, to produce a 
t experience have | larger amount of benefit, and also to ag } 
found to be a right and profitable course, that I wish for the a “af sickness, age, &e fe we 
to bring Jethro Tull’s work a again into notice, That is a strikin ing differ in the mental state of the me 
a | extraord inary man William Cobbett by accident fell in | chanie and the bedrest The- mechanic apply 
with the writings of Jethro just as they, after ages of | thinks 5 all he wants is a little bein =- ho) oa 5 
1 were passing into obscurity, His strong sense his knowledge, time, skill, & nes of others; 
h was struck with them; he saw beyond the times, and | labourer in general is a mere tool i in een 
ued them from death. In Cobbett's preface, at he thinks as they wish, and 
1 e to meet the c p. 10, he gives an account of an experiment of his in| has greater pe strength £ than the 
It is to be attributed to the disorganisa- 1813, when zi — 13 rods of land with Wheat on does not think. Books are written in a 
tion of e . a ka aya as a as e = weap 50 mely -in three ridges, a single row on a | to him, for — 3 not the seas a — 
nce, which is in the power s i 5 3 € 
ihe Stes: of Ern eira ona English = . so ige, an e ges 3 feet an il against other 13 rods | Lexicons are unknown to him; and y ood 
m ater, and i 
thing to complain of in the bie f duri 2 5 gall pie ‘Gis — — 
ung ; of energy during the | 5 galls. ; an ucting the seed so the aecount | i hi tandard of perfection. 
last most productive summer, and the late mild winter. | shows an nemo hegi Darn = 10 Dish, 1 gall. = pe —.— pes — vr they must sell cheap! 
et * = ya is past, which might | acre, the broadeas ush. 3 gall ere. Besides dear. I have thought much on this anden idea of 
cause the least unpleasant feeling between the two this ee, 1 (Cobbet mad i at i lation, losing, laudable; 
countries, and only remember the difficulties under 10 feet of on of th — ane another, Seine | Sisk: Dennings yi eae when it is j 
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Ire to ot out. This thinned Wheat lab ‘ithout clashing with each other, tabouret 
Propose that a subscription | e 2 3 the pur- would require no more than 14 gall. of seed to — acre, hardly any pereiro it. 2 the grandson . It 
i ae nosy tal ost san — bush. per acre, and — son O six ardener, and a gardener and am prat- 
b o be e ieia ia by spade r, spring Wheat. In ser vii, s 108, | deeply interested in remedial measures, 
usbandry an stall-feeding, the — ole of ere ance rym Tal thas spe ièa aks, and I quote it beca: my experien om 2520 testing those things myse elf, — George 
i men, the an to be eit — ully t the truth“ Th to 
a nt English, and the farms Be pees of at least | plants Slane | al over the ground o greni sowin — 
= en e ee than . : nnot help have, whilst it is open, an opportunity of wasting, when | near relative, who kept a few cows, ares jghbo 
ould Geen. ex- | they are very young, f tock of provision for want of always successful with her butter, when cheeses 2 
which the greatest t part of them are afterwards starved. who made on his farm as many as four rere 
a 3 it is that the old met od, exhausting sara soil: to | day, whenever he eee was men r —— 
purpose, 1 a less erop, and Jet lea leaves less 8 2 six or * 5 
painii behind. for Succeeding one.” 4 — a large rned in 
ground of Wheat it “= proved that the widest hoed — her "tas in pone 
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