578 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
remarkable as the division No. 9 was. the last. planted, 
1 pery 12 days; that and No. I, however, had nearly 
the appearance and were ripe. ban a sa ies ht | 
3 ‘the others. Ina note it is an 
ing entire plantiug.—“ fo te is not upon these ex 
alone that I ose my . but from 
a eu of formation collected on the subject in Seot- 
land. N and Ireland.“ 
| Prage iey tribes, 3 tha 
e from 
th 
soil exhibited under precisely the sa 
success.and failure. 
appears 
nari of “faire in 
whole tubers, 
3 25 
se eric tities e act 
ucing 
Sam 
same day, have proved great one por 
the beds or peo whilst. the aes 1 has 5 7 
an excellen 
rop.” 
Tt will A bpi to follow e writer in his reason- by 
lt ch 
great attack of 1845, eae by the black spotting of 
the leaves, followed by a 7 3 of their 
whole tissu 3 marbling of the tuber, which 
the sets e ground, so that bl: 
rows, the plants having failed to vegeta s 
doubt that we treated our Potatoes 5 elly, an 
d very extensive constit e e ity, 
bringing them into the condition of a — arved and w 
ened animal, e o diseases of the most fatal be, 
racter. 
It is evident that the late aiak has depended upon 
adv 
experiments it would n That 
ometer plac — ty 
at little heat would thus be lost by ra 
to hateh chickens, It is, bee erhaps, not worth e to 
repeat pan M.. Reaumur, as well as other scien 
men, w ware of me ‘i h 
Caird finds orra things 
aur Allan Grigor faud the tin 
5 fa 
ame Jes the chicken 8 are ere 
d eee 
y be mentioned, byt the way, that Reaumur fixed 
on 1042 , ai e that was the heat i 
among “dia eggs under th Som 
radiation, “atid it will be 
en, 
ome youn 
eise degree of heat, which is m 
is visionary, or at least variable; 
ta wo t 
ee or 
hatched chiékens a 
It o be 
in a place of this kind men — it eres to 
1 any thousands of eggs. I recom: 
nan places at =e disposal to 
may be admitted, but the th 
nder- 
to guard agai inst the possible, failure 
1 ey agen : pelts? the placing a caoutchoue sh 
s pir po 
a genia 
chicken — sheepskin, „warm — or wa 
air pipes of metal, or better still, and more like 
lds 
cou carcely 
The. caoutchouc: coahions 
ast.of the hen, x mentio 
ecially 5 =o se the experiment ca 
because 
e, if top heat is found best, it 
ee: there, wit a it ttle ne my EB be proses et and be- 
re at hand ith the 
day and nightly business of the 
the: hea tof: thew rs at Bath, Aae 
ma very like the soft fee bre 
sakers esp 
ene,affecting both herbage 
r this agency we have no control; but 
is passing aw. 
cultivator to do, is to 
. 
© 
stances, ney 
or in close 
A great 
confirmed by. 
à uelive of 
3 J. Tower. 
CHICKEN HATCHING, 
T am very glad to observe = —. at 12 — 
to express my o the ms of 
hydro- ineubator, e "oti 
approval of, appare onden 
besides the ‘estimany 2 Mr. Canta himself, s still to te 
mation,” —the: t has been 
— e rolled in nto. on 
ark that m 12 ja A 
the briefest EE one m nimated 
ng 
ray, 3 therefor re all that remains for the . 
thod 
curious people bare long been — 3 
is no doubt 
n of ne ses for rapidly 
ting good b sd fa of fowl Is over the country ; 
or it will never be till the good br eed are 
they can become comm 
not, however, I 
fear, think of 18 
e must. 
hatchings in the as your corre- 
are ndent repeats, after Mr. Cantelo, for two 
st; —.— although q quite fresh eggs, and: even: stale 
ones of eo me breeds; e hatched in 20 days, yet ery 
Sued 
a 
ier’s 
not be profitable toh 
8 oy sickle 
and 2 
oes there are. month in ‘the year when it —.— 
at all. wa 
— 
ens 
and the scythe, 
What you — will rarely thrive, 
says the old adage, one, of the 
ha d almost 
purpose that 
many o r readers, are anxiously looking for plain 
hasers 
—— Basis, and dates from some of the e pure 
—— 282 Meantime I 
reasons; 
dis- 4002 
indica s: by a peers 45 
eet 28 
e 
d 
the equa able tempera- | 
e cheap that 
dr 
gun 
truth of which I have 
- | deep; not dra 
, 
ld wilingly nea’ him i 
deep, thus enabling dhe end 1 
Laue 20 
that “18 broods” have ney en reared in 
trust your clever corres hae in 
out will not be offende Pat m eut tas, yah h 2 
aA A. rta ho 
of pe invention i 
4. 0 m me aa sel 8 
nearly beanie me of dae 
ur 
ngl enfor ced a 
Cantelo himself, . 
re echoe 
e nd e by, him a; as, 
e will n t ther efore 
È a: 
— 3 
and 
lo sama night and day, have 
r tank TPE = ion 
very 
have been 1 * 
aig ae S parom y 
a small tray incubator, as 
in hot water; Constant; 
LAND DRAINAGE REPORTS, 
No. ~— STEWART-HA L Parm:, Car f Sting 4 
hat the — of lan = drain sina is — 
merly exciting attention to the 5 
the future aner rity: o 
t a 
sunder) to be, on an 
inches, or from the elevation on the ridges 
abont 24 ae below ‘tie level of the surface ol 
are ith thie a of opening, if cannot 
ermined. The farm horses and) anne 
. par is done by 
put in at at ex 
W. ray, Vem of Polmaise, 9 beli 
the honour p introducing, wedge a 
trict, 2 and I think e À 6 115 me t 
sufficien mete in clay soi s, be they 
neither to be nterfer “bi 
his first ex ce in draining. 
tions in the spring of —— a cal f 
western: riet Perthshire, w 
i 
through it. A this to t 
28 ni : of pe 
3 
soil, hed 
urpose m 
