23—1848.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. SA 
ss h Fourth Cr ý 
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. who commenced rs cultivation of Chat Moss have r op, ‘Wheat. 5 
MEETING or THE MEMB ERS AND FRIENDS ee the ee ation profita Mr. REED is 240 stones of straw at e a oe eb 
and a crop of Potatoes worth 300. per acre 
ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL. , CHEMISTRY ASSOCIATION B 9 Pl but this is only one instance, an tinai £12 17 6 
THATCHED House Favas Sr. e STREET, e crop was only four acres in extent; and every | Ploughing and Rareowing for soa EE 
N WEDNESDAY, JUNE an one knows how small an influence individual cases a ki ven and mari retin seas 0,16 0 
The * ‘will be taken at — o’clo have on general averag The great advantage Rent ene * a : 2 4 0 
The Agricultural Gazette. i 
URDAY, JUNE 3 
OLLOWING WEEKS. 
Society of England. 
Agricultural 
Ebel o nas = Acvicultaral Im. Society of Ireland. 
— 3 — . Society of England. 
— Y 3 1 Imp. of Ireland. 
London, Claydon.—June 10: East Kent.— 
—Jun 
fi 7 H mpstead, Great Oakley. -Juue 14: Harleston. 
gave 2: "orton Nowton He Waketield—June 17: Reading. 
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R. FLEMING 8 1 We an gpl 
AGR TICS— 
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ed to agriculture, 
ics, as applie 5 
8 
or 
of course, sents the whole details and resu 
Mr 
ows how ig it 
rape did we b hil 5 — 5 3 oi 
~ fe. id we ee rightly a 8 an active y 
1 senao 3 a pee outla ay of capital is needed. 
e use of our agricultural resources. He thus 
fers to the extent of our waste lands ‘capable of 
* Wee of cultivable land now ab 
—the large 3 of 
which oleh “te saved by e practice = 
provement w 0 rm in pee w 
xhibits. He could hardly have adopted a bet 
arrangement his subjects, or — a fou our 
equally deserving the stiprina 5 a But is 
he right in demandin g for 
not for the ecm ve a one class so much as 
5 of all uch for ue interests of 
as rg a 0 
et. And t 
as the business of farmi 
the immediate object of an 
on icultural statistics, 
N be obtained—on which a regular 
2 bility z — ‘improvement which agriculture gene- 
f such agricultural = tics as we recomme 
nti arm 
the att n of farmers’ clubs would be that these . Je o 
erages would then 4 obtainable. =: P wet the é Abstract, 
only representatives of the truth i culture are |@#monsecondcrop .. F no 11 
the few instances which 1 cultivators thin 2 ri o T an 
deserving of publication: the e mass £11 10 11 
takes and misfortunes—as muc —, history tas 8 F 1 
as the othe left unnoticed. The of i rh cont 5 6 
ublished statements are thus always fat | brighter ae aaa SAT peer 5 
tha 
clubs 
Or suppose the thir rd crop t crop to be Clover instead of 
Potato, and the fourth erop to be Oats instead of Wheat, 
take 
former will . to . all who have 
of ne latter to gui 
e believe that all of Mr. inei A three first | E 
» are thus too highly coloured. ip our 
waste lands—the saving of seed corn ss i 
be 1 the land oneal by — 
1 national e und the last 
and confiden 
the abstract T stand wonder 
in on seco ve ee os £311 11 
Hats bar ee oe — . oe oe os ae 288 0 
Ditto on fourth crop s. se . oe „„ 311 11 
12 310 
Loss on first crop .. ee ee oe .. 12 
— — 
a 
ntly 
t so sangul 
is t 
h head, the ca 
Mixd's fourt a- 
rally presents that we must look for the oe a; an 
increasing e he drainage of our fields 
the economical management of farm der town 
m 
tures, furnish the lar 
COST AND 5 te CULTIVATING CHAT 
arr.] 
Suppose the frontage to the cea es to be 580 
yards, and the farm 
Sanding main road 5 yards wide and 4 2 
— — kir ards (on every lineal yard) at 62d. y 
3 
14 
1 
14 
eee soil from sand bed. p. Uneal yard 0 
Damages to field where sand is ta “Re . 
Dr ain nin ga along the road-side os 
D 
282882 
0 
on o í 
„as e 1 with the Ts nt ignora C — — | half-decayed vegetation, to tha ch A mips and crisp. 
— would soon be founded - would e certainly be One half to each side of road would be for my share 29 0 Spare garden-stuff, Spinach, and su rown out 
of greater value to 2 eee — aera sog le ipo mos A railroad, at 4 pry Ni e 1 for them is liked the better for — ‘sn Te at 
Government seems agin The of ob: Desining 66 Aera” be . 87 10 0 least 24 , that is, in such time as 
taining it has been ‘far too 00 highly ainiai: but | Buildings, suppose .. ++ ++ 200 0 0 sodden and attacked by small fresh-water shell fish. 
the hi ighe est estimate o oug aah been the 10 per cent. on the above as s incidentals ss .. 43 4 heir mode of feeding is wat „it wil found to 
insurmountable obstacle \ which it tas £473 0 0 3 ahe Slaf t we 
F Information on the ot 5 subjects “whieh Mr 10 per cent. on this sum * be Pci do as rent. food which Nee. than fairly hs — 
LEMING considers, should thered up an ” Firat Crop. Expen j ; 
publishe s * farmers 1 Ta T their Ploughing first time „ r i T E 
ad Dias cutting w with a two-horse c matters . . o 2 6| refuse of plants, is thus the scavenger of the waters, as 
vanta could be no better 3 Second ploughing -. «+ 0 7 0} the hyzena and the vulture are of the land. In 
fa wed ie’ clube than the collection and publication | Harrowing and cross cutting .. 0 12 6 countries as Holland, and still more about tl 
of such Me . he pra tice hin ing j€ 6 cube yards ¢ of marl and ne at ia. .. .. 4 3 4 of large rivers in a te 7 Euro nd 2 
the enclosure and cultivation of waste land the per | Ploughing for seed and harrowing 1. 1. . 0 7 6 their influence must be v acer ndeed we are 
eenta of land covered by h s—and, above | 2 bushels of Wheat for — at 88. TF se 0 compelled npr atte as t they ha u bountifally 
all, e energy and intelligence brought to bear on £1616 a. — fai — is office 5 cleansing hi m lf-stagnant 
1 generally —all these are points capable Cutting Wheat per acre at .. . £010 0 e the o s that could exhale 
most useful illustration by each within the limits Dealing aaen * „thatching ls. ša. ? ri . a pestilence 9 and ner curt 2 W re their breath, 
of it h 1 2 reshing and dre wip nants o arsh s many a 
A salg oF 105 È n eta us = in arging t to o market (Wheat). 5 5 1 ; plague and fever up. Not a little miasma pn bas 3 
3 for len ai A — hatni 
gt see Meni or Let us see Rent agreed for per ae . 011 6 on =r h ignorant of Ki Mithridat "his 
sir resul r. Fremine has arrived at with r re- 10 per cent, on es at rs AY 16 3 "g p 
ence to one Sagi A curious e of the fm diet of the swan once 
As to waste land, he says :— Accordin to the £1917 0 —- myself. The common 3 2 
best authorities, no | 0 vobable Prod 
ess than 14,700,000 acres well kno . ts und — in wa ess strongly 
Which statists have, thus apportion ned -— i 2 bushels of Wheat at 50 o impregnated yond sal 3 he lg sca . is not 
10 E PP e 240 stone of straw at 34e. ++ 10 0 aK 5 ral other cies; a ee pe 
3,4 acres, ; 
530,0 miro | os ing whe * ible to stock with them a 
2 12 ana 260 Loss per acre on firsterop +. «+ . £712 0 on s water uae fresh. A quantity were pro 
In the British Islands = ond Crop, Oats. red and bron fish-kettle of tidal river 
40 bushels of Oats, at 203 44. ae phe Ss 2 2 ed oak a 3 of the Papen. at the ia 
“Assu Aa me 000 acres, 260 stones of straw ad. .. oe .. mu ; 5 
ming e-fourth of this quantity m might, arrivin — È j were 
2719 2 a their Journey» end he great 1 ' 
i med, ught into annual Wheat Epin dead. were all, however, turned out tog ta 
cate, = = have 3,675,000 acres so disposable, | Ploughing and harrowing . E f. a tly una f by the unwonted 
b Ich, even in the a 1 stem of hus- Seed, 44 bushels, a oll 3 element, and were never see heard = ds n 
andry, w onld produce. lake per acre, Outta, — 8 threshing, and ars the rest sank to the bodii when one y swan 
s a 250 4 quarters o 1 corn, a supply equal Rent ai s before pe TE 110 6 i expecting her feed of corn, sailed up and beeen ‘eas asting 
pat — of two-thirds of the entire popu- ies Sa sine ee 3 „ en before sho 
reat Britain!” G d crop un 
Instances p e — td amen there sometimes is in getting swans t 
vidual enter e ts Aba of indi- Potat ses. eat corn, or to graze like pe shows that either diet 
Barticatayt prise on this subject; and Chat Moss is Two ploughings andharrowings .. 40 15 0 5 with t tem an acquired taste 
ens PA specified as hav 3 well repaid the im- 5 loads of seed 2 9 and planti ngs ai proper age and.season they will show a dispo 
> 5 s made upon it is head we must Covering, Be, anda cleaning, ridging up, &e. sition to ee if well fed, ee restricted ben 
Kane ourselves sceptical : e should be 10 6 | comparatively narrow limits. As have di 
if eter in that nei ee would is gup ‘and marketing ditto 3 3 53 cidedly reer "upon the spot fo or their. pah it will be au 
= a we err in the opinion that few of those | * befor : — 18 ¢ assistance to 5 . waned three Foo arrowfuls of 
ke, “s a National Syrtem of Agricultural Stati duce (70 loads of 252 Ibs.) p at ds .. 1515 0 coarse e litter. ones shes are the besk Mie 
{rnd HAUS Premna, Esq, Ce. J. RIDO e — few sticks, which they can arrange at 2 
ity of ission Inquiry of last ye r computed the *Loss on HEN saa “4118 The number 2 eggs laid will vary from 
755,000 3 . . aa koia pets of ethos) £000, at] * But suppose the third ie ko ‘lover, which, I I think | ee. or six to ten, but the number of eyenets 
i sita ah 1 
e while Bir R. Kaan estimates it at 4,600,000 aer. 00 So ee fourth crop to be Oats, — —̊— — to depend much upon the 
: respecting the | — 
inferi al 
mportant scope | 
for the profitable e of capital in agriculture, f 
a 
0 2 0£58 0 0 
which would leave the land nearly exhausted . £411 10 
J. H. 
ORNAMENTAL POULTRY. 
neluded from page 35 
PAN ee iorotan of opini ion has — enter- 
tained ayer pe the diet of the swan 3 supposin 
it to be ex clusively ener- ey. others believing pre fish 
servations 
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