211848. THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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planted, was such as to render its era radication as aot (ehaffed). «| 268 m4 N 
as that 
of the muci- would Sage at 22 * 5 8. Rpg nie hagen of the 
emollient pianis. belonging to to the ge pretty 1 „ wx this Mies vies gy the expe | lands 
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ds undrained might be, I feel ast 8 
manure 
num, a native of the Ca must be taken into enabled to form a — 4 eos objections are no longer tenable 
and have been improved b 
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y a pro ade, . — of draivage, ‘and 
s of subsoil 
— gave rise to the communication of interesting of Bo usssingault, Van n Thaer, and others. The following ble, have e ADENA rds the additi advanta 
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nnected with its growth Mr. prepared by Profess ton, shows the quantity of = nure ! ploughing and liming. On 3 wet . 8 the 
had gro 1 
Mr. Brandreth Gibbs ed the variety — The Cow. The Horte. The . wag neces 
nt 
ether 2 Rye ee .. ee 
f land, or among brick rubbish used for Oats 1. -.. oe | 2048 
up hollows; its tenacity, however, when once 9 
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the common Dock or Horse- -radis 7 2 gee 
uy 
cerne.- 1 s jed i e r 1 
Comfrey in question as the earliest springing green From 100 Ibs of oo ae Et ~ |,inthe | source in suc 
r | al 
in pounds produced by * cow, the horse, and the shee crop at best must always be a very un n one, and should 
om drainage. Where complaints are made 1. the Soe 
sustal ne . in the Redes grain crops, a 
after s, &c. 
with that after bare 1 it not e ee hs ta 
ed t evils 
l mpar 
it largely from seed transmitted * 1 nee pens chet much of this is to be 
Thom ~y culture, rather than to r N itself of Finca 
That there will ge 9 bea 27 to a 8 
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he had found it yield most abundant . green mee 
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Gibbs and Co., the Seedsmen to the Society, and nie (containing from b 
of food. 
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es.—Prof. Sruonvs, Lecturer on Cattle Patho- After 8 After 3 | After 8 
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„ i days. eeks. weeks. 
yal Veterinary College, conveyed to the Rye-s traw (ate a for value 
eroppi 
extent rA ‘the succeeding grain crop, afte cultur 
Foran ty 3 under fad 3 * net . but. the 
mportance of the fallow crop will much more than 
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uncil his thanks for the honour they h one him in 3 228 | 96 269 | 97 206 J 95 tos beate tor any lattiin so occasioned, This latter asser- 
e the mat 
om t — s we learn, then, that 20 tons of Turnips will pro- un order to m 
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of the Society on the occasion duce 7} tons of fresh — which, at only 5s. per ton, will bay ve recourse to figures. The following statement of a two 
3lst of May 
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NEWCASTLE, December: : * the Advantages rene fuli h milk cows, 
ascertained that 34 t tons of common Turmps can produce lst y 
T | have before stated, has eonferred upon the lightest descriptio as Tur — 9 — 
HEAT. 
Toners —Mr, Foster, Secretary to the Local Com- pte ar ai: pe and — — is nearly 13 lbs. of beef and 3 aa sna * 7 ad (Co “bs eae per acre.) 
tee at Yo — if we take 14 lbs, as the average, at the | 3 ploughinge, at 76. 1 1 0 * a (in tops) 
Der 2 at his office in that city (22, Ogle- | — rides s of Turnips 4 pong om 350 _ of beef Bolling ge harrowings 4 p 4 grubbing 
and l — at 6d. per in money 
ſorth), for the co convenience of Members of the Society, value to 81. 1556. or 75. per ton. To this again — be added | Hand- picki 5 H 
other visitors who may —— the ensuing Coun the ninie of the manure, which, taken at only 30s., and we have Drilling and tung, Seed, 27 — at 7s. 
Meeting of the Society, in the week commencing Mon- an acre of common r CAN ual * * — — the farmer} in * 4 3 
by home * ese tables and ca — ions ay not yi — po ung an Rent (with per centage) 
da, Ne dock of duly 8 >> strictly accurate, nor the 22 such as can be exactly spreadi 5 ~ d ta — 
of — 
inting of F ancourt by Holl; the Royal emy | of soils very great advantages in the 8 effects p Rent — per 
‘of Sciences at Munich transmitted copies of their Trans- duced by — of the crop on the ground by sheep, While 
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Charing-cross), presented to the Society a proof impres- led to form ammar ae like a fair —— of what can be made | 12 rops of — at 46. 2 
> ing. 3 Portrait of Lek” P proof im 4. * by Turnip culture on first-rate soils. But Turnip culture, as IIA e o, l 
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ting, and the satisfaction it wo give him to — be worth 1l. 178. 6d. q acre. — this ada’ the value of the | years’ ome of Ale has beam may be 1 as ‘Tun 
mote in that, or any ether manner, the — objects of | roots, 13. 14s., and we have the worth of an acre of Turnips to | nips versu 
the Society the farmer, at home, oyani to iat. “Tia. 6d. — it has been wish to set th 
its proper ig 
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Drilling heat and 
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Rea ping and marketing 
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| Rent charge, an 
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expensive than that of the Swedish — 
” Clubs. id lue of the root, t, the leav! . wo — — Wurzel 
rnip and other Green Fallow Crops, and the | as by their use the milk is much 8 — “that without 
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; and Prof. Sewell, the natural hoof of a — such — . = on — lands ar a —— né small | Rent — and taxes p 
h was nailed a shoe wi wa 
mpre 
sate with the 83 stated by him at the prev ious and which could otherwise hardly have been attempted with | Produoe—1et 
from Turn 
extent to which their Culture can be profitably carried | any disagreeable effects in its flavour being nae a The} let year. 
out on Strong Lands. 
various *. and green crops, to the og nt ore Ml agg my expectations, The weights of these crops have been | Hand — 24 895 
Mr. Joun eee of Sunniside, said: Wherever the cultiva- 
tion of the soil has been most successfully practised, ag back 
— 1 — 2 — of Mangold Wurzel — been grown by (cost per acre). 
n particularly directed to the abundant growth of the summer, the results of the — are in both cases — Rolling. 
£9 
year, Turnips, sA Dai „ 0 0 
ting. shes A crop o of Turaips will = for this * trom 61, to 4 lor yin ren of pia bi on Tura roe at 7s. 6d ce 
Sk. per ‘mag and the manured forthe “eg — ear, for eat, olls (24 — A at 14s. oe 
The Council then adjourned (over the 24th) to the | o Per acre, fem p 7 8s) 
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{or olls Barley, at 8s., 8 
£17 8 0 
„ 13 12 0 
Profit per acre oo oo £316 0 
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Bare FALLOW 2d year, WHEAT, 
£ 8. 
h- d. £s 
reire the e Jate è period of —— ai in one ‘case, and the dra raw- | 5 ploughings, at 7s... 115 0 Rent and rent charge 1 15 S 
he | 5 harrowings, at coh „0 = 0 W 
. .0 210 „ the 
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of cattle, and to the important system of 3 teeding. And | accurately taken, and in the one, where the land was deeper, | L dun a 28 0 08 
in the on ree pe roe for this day’s discussion, I shall venture | and planting earlier, the crop turned off nearly 19 tons of roots 5 ane yagi 
- 010 0 
to point out what I con 1 to be one of the ‘chief — of | per acre; in the other, on much stronger land, and under great | 12 whe — at 48. 2 8 0 
our present system of man — 4 — pplicable not only to | disadvantages from late plauting, the weight only reached 11 
this neighbourhood in — ba W 2 —— nerals rpc — in min Spencer's experiment upon the a win 
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be profitably carried out on strong lands.” Green known to rank among the most valuable of the green crops, | n3 2 
areae se si aing An want of 
proper tion tive nutritive propert 5 of i 2 bu: <¥ 
It will be more gome arg in — ealing he Wund that 2 tons of the Taea 1024 ibs. of beef and Keane percentage) 4 10 0 
vefi or me first to remark ‘‘on the advantages tallow, we have the v: — of these crops respectively at 20l. 14s. | Rent charge and taxes 0 5 0 
that result rom Turnip and other green n fallow * and | and 121., not reckoning the manure. Specimens of these roots 
how far their cultur have already been exhibited in this room, Potatoes are well 
Wheat eN 
efficient. 2 by which the objections against green | we 4. — have been sold as high — 35l. — acre, this 
fallow cropping on strong lands may, in a great measure, if 2 ng bió and it is well knowu that 20%. per acre is a 
, beovercome. As no system of husbandry can be y frequent pice pa ‘paid for Potatoes in the immediate vicinity | If in these 8 ‘it may be thought — I hav: ore 
un, rs bein = — the whole expense of removing | estimated the produce from strong la lands, it must be — 
the erkagai off — Pot s, as food for cattle, certainly mind that drainage is supposed to have taken age eng and 2 
have their advantages, but thee meron taken in this —.— scarce)y | that the 1 been liberally dealt with in point of 
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— and aim of all good Soden A should be, to 8 he the 
utmost, Turnip and other green crops, for, as well 
1 can be attained by this or an , the | They are an excellent cleansing crop, and ameliorate ae 
of green fallow cropping must become e general and soils, besides forming one of the best . — for — 
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good farming, and before a climax of and especially, perhaps, considered as marketable produce. 
e cultivation of the soil—thorough, deep and | will occasionally fetch a higher . e market. When 
without a cheap and plentiful : supply of manure, the of 
said, they are ‘ the Pert 83 source of 5 2 Soll reaches so high an acreable ea as other roots y men- | Management. en valu 
as the most economical mode of ob it. Without green | tio — The manure produc rom Potatoes is, however, that will set off against some oe contingencies not men- 
crops we can have no cattle, without these we have no manure, great; and we are told by Von vhaer that the nutritive matters | tioned. cg the worth 27 tee Turnip crop cannot be considered 
and without manure we can get little or no corn. On the other absorbed from the land by this crop are less than what is | solely with 
hand, the larger the quantity of green crops we can obtain, the afforded in the shape of manure by home ne — “ The | manure — be taken into a — — bd it is trom that, as I 
more stock will o land be abl support, and therefore, the | | it,” he says, “given by experim antity have before stated, a very arises to the farmer 
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larger the manure’ heap, the more prolific our corn crop.” It| of manure produced by Potatoes shows — ioo Tos. 9 these gree 
e earek according to the | vegetables, given as food to the cattle, yield 6 6 lbs. of dung, | the deficien 
an r and badi. y ; i a ore a dyi —— c — a he with 
crops and cattle, which ht never to be But far superior is the dung to that produced by the ordinary | found, in mai e 
E attended — we — find, as a 1 or dry fodder. The E qualities of Potatoes | the season and m anagement, Where — are removed 
Proving, and intelligent n — ood. The most important consume 40 Ibs. of tay ajya and will lay on fat or flesh at the | thought it w. 
fallow), 17 boll tl4s.£1118 4 
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Profit after bare fallow 015 8 
Do. after Turnips and Wheat a . A 0 
2 in 2 of green cropping per 
„on 2 years’ course on strong land ..£3 0 4 
view to its feeding properties, the value of the 
that after bare fallow, the estimate will be 
onsequence, luxuriant grain —a thriving, im- — thus e bullock of 50 stones weight will | from the men for . at the homest I — 
to be at pae 
ting 
of the plants usuall ated as fall — of 2 Ibs, r 3 g the meat at 6d, Ib., it will | off the tops or — s likewise, except stances, 
T angold Wateel, —— — — —— —5 om hay equat oes 2. 165 or pér ton, besides the value of the = = have — Where these were ut fe — spread and ploughed 
e ground, great 
es, Man 
Rape, and Parsnips, The e Turnip ju justly ranks 3288 of Potatoes, with 10 lbs. of hay, will pro- 
most generally applicable to all sob gy „and, by a comparatively | du tect the — — This would make ô stones of Potatoes, This i 
easy culture. im 
s to bee o them, cro 
sumption at home. In this immediate vicin ar we know —— valuable crops when cultivated in gioir situations; the | ceeding course, when equally 
pied, 
only 
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beriani, au the 
in 170, the light soils of Norfo Ik w sare ae lse th bbit | experience in field culture. Where the soil is suitable for — 
8 sands; but tha — ths aie Carrots (a deep sandy loam), this crop can be ena with | and properly 4 of everythin, g in the shape of 
‘husbandry, they produce 1 crops of the tolerable certainty of ne ofit; the nutri 
efit ensued to 8 crop. 
n e time i 
70 pe e uivalent in — properties to 30 Ibs. of hay, at | properly attending green fallow crops, but I would 
It is es known, that t that before the tiitredaction of the whi te 15 Potatoes would be equal to 14, 000 lbs. wf just observe that much of the success of the ¢ will 
Martin Doyle tells us, took placein Northum- | hay, or wren bs of 6 tons. Of the cultivatio n of Carro 8, —— binge upon the treatment they at 
the adjacent counties of Scotland, as a field crop, | Cabbages, Rape, and Parsnips, I cannot t speak — an — e hands of the farmer. The land should be 
, deeply cultivated, early ploughed, well pulver 
a good crop of Swedes will bring from 1 29l., — former affording excellent early food for ewes and lambs, in dry | gether unoccu 
Uf a acre; and that common r 2 also fetch phe the latter being well adapted to the feeding of milk | to what was 
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Formed be de much more fortunate brethren. We are in- | strong lands, have, of themselves, produced a revolution in the found eding arain 
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0 121. per acre. Prices such as these may more than cows. We come next to consider the second part of my subject, I — 
farmers for the loss Of she manure . ber namely, ‘‘the extent to which the culture of green fallow 
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late Earl Spencer, in the Royal Agricultural | minds of intelligent farmers, as regards the system of bare The Nort 
“Journal,” vol. ii., p. 3, in his “ On the Com- | fallowing, which must eventually, and at no distant day, end e Norfelk proverb 
Feeding or d Wurzel and Swedish in its — explosion. Added to these auxiliaries, the me- 
that by a careful experiment he ascertained that two | chanical helps placed at.the command of the farmer, in th 
e properti — ee . also to be . crops on the 
green food, as well as rich returns of in, | of the Carrot, as compared with other vegetables, — a same lan urn ngold W k 
In 3 the ad advantages of — fallow ‘crops, their high per centage. Cabba ages, as a field crop, are said to de- | nating with each other in their r ec courses, as in the 
marketable value must be conside: perhaps, as well as the | serve a iiach larger share of the e attention ot farmers tias — case of other x f 
indirect profit arising to the from their Ra h 
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such prices are only to be had in loc and are | crops can be profitably carried out on strong lands.” The in- | fcientiy. considered, * the aid of a little extra manure, 
. the reach of farmers genra, Letus La aa can — troduction of late years, of one 3 endless jogp à of light, | theirs n — 
of beef, mu crop e farmer on his homestead, inthe shape | portable, and stimulating ma almost me | the Seo of failure is very mu e ground re- 
is almost made a matter of certainty—at least, 
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ater — of productiveness for suc- 
means of 7 will be 
inte ari pe mr and — stirrings of the soil, es- 
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arlier stages of the crop, and in dry weather, 
“The cae we 2 
The more we 
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Swedish Turnips ced 64 Ibs. of beef, while two | shape of the various new and —_ es, adapted | i well worthy of of remembra ance, as 1 ate found by experience. 
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operati 
and that we estimate a erop of Swedes to average 20 tages in the cultivation of the soil greate r than could have in the cultivation of green fallow crops, and which, it carefully 
ons per acre (no no extraordinary crop) we should have a return | been credited less than a quarter of a acer ry ago. However | attended to, — render orn success me ordinary seasons 
certain. ention to 
alone of 45st, 10 lbs., whic valued at 6s. per stone, jast and proper the eoh ons against green fallow cro; pping 
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