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it gives the opposite party the opportunity of statiug the | natural families, and draw from the soil different Sewage Water Manure connected wi : 
* i Mr. P Mechi’ opinios aah . subjects | ingredients ; when, instead of ea a . upon its Establishment of a m oderate size, An one aa 
that he is imbued with a/ neighbour, they may help each other in the decomposi- Garden and about 10 Statute Acres i Kitehe 
tion of their 5 In illustration is, i r oroug rai tank h Land 
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ie Ain i f his own experience, but also the 2 | ammonia, i t will alf ot the bottom wit ithout decomposi- | wide, 6 feet deep, built with stone and limes by 6 feet 
of others, because he has experimentalised more upon tion; the lime attracting the acid more Strongly than Roman cement, arched with brick, and the arch With 
draining than any other town drainer, he condemns all the ammonia does. But add carbonic rei either from | with nearly 3 feet of earth. Into thig nk a we 
practice that does nen agree with his own, and reads me | the air, fermentation, or otherwise, and th edecompesition structed sewer, with an egg-shaped bottom, Well m. 
as severe a lecture upon the subject as if it was a 9 takes place, the carbonic acid attracting the lime, whilst | itself, and conveys every soluble ubstance : 
tice that had aise come iar the range of my capa- the ammonia draws upon the sulphuric acid, So in the | house, offices, and stables ; washings from the ki the 
bility, when it may be questionable whether Ti have | culture of Beans, for instance, they will go on drawing dairy, and wash-house ; from all the wate 
not, before he commenced, as more rods of drains tha he so S; 
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ience of the tank system having failed, he e e so as to draw off their appropriate constituents, at the | wa he relative quantity of matte 
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It is all ver. ery right to enunciate new opinions, ed until they reach the complete passive state of the | quality abundantly fertilising, even when most dilutes” 
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substituted, of mushroom growth and existence. If 1 the increased product of double cropping, which I think | overflow drain » by applying beneficially the whole 
have observed rightly, I believe that long practice has might be much more generally employed. That it | tents of the tank, in order to which, 3, forcing 
established the opinions of our farmers as to the best | exhausts the soil i in proportion, and requires a propor- | of power and easy action has been erected on the nak 
modes of cultivating particular districts ; and if farming | tionate return in manure, is no more than may be said | with a large air vessel, from which a pipe is conducted 
is so very easy o acquirement, why do farmers from | of other agricultural increase ; nor will it be denied, | to a point at one side of the tank, where, under 
distant counties rarely succeed in and vice versa. | that it consumes more labour; but, if — 3 2 acres a three-way brass cock, of sufficient dimensions, ig 
The whole processes, I maintain, depend upon extensive | to employ as many hands, and produe uch food, placed. 4. From one of the branches of the three-way 
. * to enable any one successfully to as 3 under ordinary ane, this will hardly b te held an | cock a cast-iron pipe of one and a half inch inside dig. 
rofit ; it rd 2 attending to minutiz daily objéetion: i in a country where the land is insufficient for | meter has been laid for 30 yards, passing under the 
and every day, by eo tant and continual attendance to | the people; J. Prideau wall of the kitchen garden to a point one yard Within 
ae ario ee not only doing them at proper Overgrown Bar! Salt; Superphosphate of Lime.— | the wall, where the pipe rises to the surface and is fixed 
in proper manner, with the best of all bailiffs | One of the chief . of salt may, perhaps, be put to | in a flag, with a brass screw no le, of the same diameter 
—self attendance, Theories epi heorists cut splendid | the test (if not too late „ by present condition of the as the pipe. 5. To this nosle, when it is wished to use 
figures in * but are of the “much ery and little | Barley; which can hardly fail of overgrowing, under | the liquid manure in the garden or hot-houses, isa 
wool in the resul the unseasonable continuance of rain. And salt appears | tached what is termed a universal or revolving joint, 
But ben faba it oe 3 only shows that a specifically to restrain over growth, and stiffen the made of brass, so that it can be pos nted in any direction 
constant and ste: will achieve tes object Straw and leaf, and have somewhat the same tendency, ane to this joint is attached, by a brass coupling, a can - 
when e the baie’ haie ee fail science, perhaps by neutralising the ammonia in the soil; and ose of one and a half inch inside diameter, and 50 
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a and 1 890 superpho ospate, per almost any part of the garden, but this object it is 
l = harbour, or farm to a beneficial re- acre, mixed with dry earth (co! ashe w ya strewed | intended fully to effect, we aaa nding the iron pipe 40 
, as said by Quarles, of f Tussen, that he was “a | upon alternate ridges, t their t, by com- | yards farther, to a point p ely in the centre of the 
vores, Arama and gathered no — was as parison. But Y 
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whetstone to the seythe, alee he remained [eee er having been — b in shorter and longer point to Sn ex aids AA 
3 others cut it is wich all was RPE insipid, ae consequently not super- | ference of 40 yards, will reach every part of garden, 
rists and enthusiasts, although they overshoot the 8 at all; J. Prid 6. The hose is terminated by a distribution pipe, made 
ct that track as the t. Maryl lebone Bank N Savings, 76, Welbeck- of copper about 3 feet long; it is easily handled, either 
between the one 0 street. Established 5th July, 1830. Comparative | as a simple pipe, or with a fan which delivers a sheet 
ceas tos which has been longest beaten, and it is ee of p ess at specified periods during the | of water. 7. If the contents of the tank were apple 
gf e ropo ast seven h fruit-trees, 
urged as it is by Mr. Wilkins, whose zeal certainly out- — —— . — = j 
strips his as to ho them, there can be no d 
Judg t the quantity of seed requisite Open Deposit Sums invested with |- h : f fertilit uld be ind 
for he must know th i 3 ; oa ‘ Accounts. semis a a ees Pa the garden a great state of fertili y wo 
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soil that oe is right. As with political = social revolu- 
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e — ee = so it will — out with this chester, endeavours to make it a ar 722 un nit iuo in each year, to be use — — the value of th 
y. adi ai toe ee 8 5 rms that 4 1S at p. 410 of the Agricultural Gazette, that ly eres land nim ntaneea probably four-fold. 9. Experience 
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that i is right; but that truth lies midway bi betwen tlieta, aaie e T vel 
My “sneerin as Mr. Mechi ¢ 
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“1D, a ? 3 3 gh . of course) can Only contain as many | and power Should it t prove to be peor su 
8 —.— — Al dras z 585 t is answered bg ears of corn or blad des of Grass as 4 acres of level | for the ea and field, a third pipe m Jaid from 
t t * = Äer a of any benefit? ground, Now the idea that the dotted line G H, in his the three-way cock, in a different direction, aa and al 
Ha i ap wing place of | additional extent of land may receive the v 
ar oa or Sa _— e i neficial result was observ- plants i is fallacious had the crops s tood wp upon nG K, and | passing — the = ~ We of the foreing pump, 
Aes * ae de ao the drain.” I felt I not upon the lin e C B where they actually do, this which one man can 10. Ther 
i 1 = on the question, eee of ‘their distances might have been ac- question that by this arrangement a „ 
claimed in Gath, had such an bee Th ave We: of pro- e The e eee of the length of these lines | increased produce will due to the sewage ¥ 
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c d of tho nA B; th if the pl Formerly the sew into a pond, and made it most 
ved as to i an se upon erefore, if the plants were merly the sewer ran into a pond, x 
every other eee se and grain ae but that placed at an equal distance in both cases, that is upon | offensive. Besides the removal of the nuisance, 1 
and upon a v. — 3 are ee B A B, the line 0 B (or hilly ground) would cause of the nuisance is converted into a source 
Upon the heavy land ae a great extent, he line A ‘ rinci 
i and it ye r d district a a y decided falling off must | this being the acknowl chanical ar vli 
35 : he Say to the extent o from to | of level land will contain as many ears of corn or blades | applicable to all cases, on a vastly larger—as wen m 
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Writtle poh en r have recollected ;/ furnish us with a second production or calculation of | nuisances, and e a source of proio) ad 
TS i have ene the ace : the extra Dumber of plants or trees it requires for 5 almost of "the ul — pi lings. The d health, 
` to-day, but at Present not extensive! ah aS my Potatoes | acres of hilly ground than for 4 acres of leve el land, and of nuisance, the promotion of cleanli ere an ae 
ely also favour us with his results of the numbers necessary and great economical and pecuniary a e 
e Correspondence for 5 acres at various elevations. I should be sorry to combined in the extensive ere. of ch ar r effect 
—The theory of thi 15 ed in | 2°? the Agricultural Gazette become a disseminator of ments, and they are much erk easily 
ile Croppi r — 3 en. in errors, w nich, on reconsideration of the subject ora than may be 5 a . yon 
ting the success of pe eee ; of whieh. © te crt note from its clever Editor at the time, would have been Draina Land a adition fe a 
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the world n the line C B. he side of a bill, than on 1 — 5 
Id exceeding both the he Du teh on the line the side of a hill, than on the line A B, | successful practical experience, as bein; drain in 
Tour, p p. — But! sving be roe yt ‘thaw tr the the er plan of the same hill, An — Man” | air drain 8 the underground OW each oh 
Se or ayant to agri ae & wort of present sown but = number of plants that ripen that a connect the upper e ends of all such pee, epeedity 
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3 ops, having some prod sp and that depends not on the | drains; by this means unhealthy, ex 
hich is entirely successive, it 1 ver 9 number eee but o = room for their growth. displaced by a perpetual current of fe 
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a before vir room ins and throu the sub- 
ken plants then grown in alternate ak regs plo ast there is o er the steepest slope with which ground a by its Se o ; the efnive extent, . 
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