36—1848. THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 595 
in its results, and above all, profitable | 
Seer adopt it. In conclusion, let me add 
etness 
brood, as the whole of the ovens are never emplo ved at | injuring their fertilisin ities, gs ¢ 
Once on the same brood, but one-half only, The eggs fro 105 to 20s. per 33 — 
are ranged three deep in tlie lower rooms of each oven, which are imposed upon paper makers by ra pad 
my on a bed of chopped litter and sand. These are after | being a material that will not be converted into a — 
10 days removed into the upper ones, and the second Dry woollens put through a straw cutter are — lent 
brood is forwarded by placing fresh eggs in the inferior | manure or pasture land; R. S., e bee 
rooms left empty; D. S. E. radual Rising or Filling up 
bages.— Having found the following plan y ry | Formation of Sand-banks and Ba 
> 
TE 
i=} 
et 
© 
x 
a”) 
S 
85 
S 
io) 
m 
© 
5 
aad 
ri 
S 
N 
tta 
E 
quite right in affirming that the “ first affee. 
in immediate contact with the old set, and that 
ards.” In Essex, Kent, Sussex, 
zr 
i 
$ 
. 
be followed in February by spring Wheat; F. P. B. M. constructed fo a 
l P. B. N. r the purpose of a “ pent,” i 
er Beans, Salt, &e.—At this season some infor- | r 7 
2 
1 
— 
FF 
8 8 8 
5 
2. 8. 
Bo 8 
8 S 
< 5 
E 
. 
24 
ok 
w a 
a 
Bo 
* an 
D 
5g 2 
Ss 
. . 
‘a 
E — 
ould be very acceptable to many of your subscribe i i i 
: very accepta i 8 rs shallower, and some attribute this to the reat iner 
s | resident in ie ti 15 ks ich they have been but very | of steam-boat piers. But are there no po a siana for 
D 
E 
E 
8. 
22 05 
E 
* 
o 
8 
= 
oO 
Ss 
D 
od 
®© 
— 
a 
© 
8 
S 
er 
= 
= 
—. 
field tatoes planted by m If at Midsummer I These howe r, m : 
m the most healthy appearance possible ; yet | rally more or less productive than t i i on ate 4 e a> gine pg assist 
2 Davis's test of the er ning the usual time of barvesting, and par ticularly the con- spots, which require the aid of tral-boats, machiner 
the roots, every plant will clearly exhibit disease, The | dition of the crop of this and the as com- and s owe remove from time ime 
roys t then ascends | pared with the Spring sown crops, which have been | careful examination of the laws of hydraulic gravitation, 
unusually deficient, more particularly the year 1847, 
one. I repeat, that 
the haulm until the 
seen with regret a great 
y Sustaining injury, in 
0 
4 
— 
* 
S 
Lr | 
d 
that would be a very influential consideration in favour 
had | is 
ab. f d for .| verdant declivities, like the picturesque Vine-trellised 
I had no difficulty in tracing the margins of this space | banks of the Douro. These lofty banks are composed of 
- | all across the field, the haulm being much shorter and | 1 g i f s “steppes” or terraces, com- 
thinner, and the fruit certainly not exceeding half that | icating with each other by flights of small stairs, built 
n de. All I remembered was, gradually, and at vast expence—the labour of past 
that the Beans had been drilled throughout with bones | ages—of massive s i - 
out i 
fix horizontally ' tone masonry, formin 
meter; one end | dissolved in sulphuric acid, and ab 20 bushels of hanging gardens in the highest state of cultivation, sue- 
ed intended for | ashes to the acre. I met the car r, and asked him ing o other to the very 
Iding and fitted | what these stakes had been inserted f nd he re- embellished with Vines, Orange, on, Lime 
w common with | minded me I had 3 o the acr salt | trees, Po ates, with all other fruits, all the 
chine could be made | to be sown broadcast over the field prior to its being | fragrant evergreens, pre scene 
ospherie air would arrowed, an at adth of a few feet should | verdure most beautiful and enchanting sides 
quantities through the iron|be left all across the field not salted, in order to at the city are united vellous to relate, though no 
; ibed, the tem- | ascertain whether t was any di in the|less true—by three bridges upon one t me 
1 to avy degree, | crop this portion been left without the other | foundatio built over and upo ther, e road- 
ting the room I would fix a | manure I should not have been so much stiuck, but the | ways up e these deċlivities are paved, taking zig- 
the length of the r man wh the re tells me that was dis- s, in order to bre other 
air an s buted throughout equally. I cannot believe that so perpendicular, supporte 
t bel di ted on either side by ponderous. 
remarkable a difference could have been occasioned by stone walls, probably the work of the Moors several 
ies by-gone. From time immemorial the bed of 
tition of the experiment by observers in such matters / this river has continued to fill up, until the arches of the 
id A * 
ts stream passing over the 
Woo Rags.—The value of woollen rags varies parapet submerged the causeway, when it became- 
from 7s. to 148. per pack, that is 240 Ibs. If the demand requisite to build another bridge over that or those 
| for woollen flocks be brisk, they will be wo: e highe xisting. The country people imagi ‘ 
price, There are large quantities at pa per mills, such the bridges had sunk during some unrecorded earth. 
] e; but such is not the case, as this and 
as tailors’ parings, old roller coverings, and many other | analogous phenomena occurring, although in a less per 
bits all go to the midden, the larger pieces are bagged up | ceptible degree in the Thames—in all rivers, may be 
for manufacturing pu s. The heaps or middens | accounted for more easily than at first imagined. First, 
which are made at paper manufactories may be bought | it had long b b d, that ltivation progressed: 
for half the value of stable manure, if the parties do not | along the course of this river and the Tagus, and the 
them into the river or brook, as I used to do. Of banks in a great number of localities had been raised to 
he same would be fit 
for the Hop growers ; this transit led me to believe if most extraordinary lawsuits, One man’s it was 
woollen rags would grow Hops in Worcestershire, they | alleged, had been damaged by the dykes erected by 
would grow something or other in Derbyshire. Last | another for the purposes of irrigation, or by precautions. 
r | year I put a pack of the larger rags through my straw | of another to secure his from inundation. Possibly if 
cutter, which is turned by water power. The time it er. n 
took in cutting them was 20 minutes. I applied them origin of the Goodwin sa of Margate, 
to a piece of common land which had never been broken | might be ascertained, and the dreadful calamity, which 
up, grown over with the Agrostis tribe of Grasses. Th night-st bmerged 8 
measurement I strewed over with this chop was 80 yards belonging to the estate of the Earl of that name. 
by 80 yards. The land adjoining I limed two years since | Secondly, as cultivation continued to spread far and 
—it eost me 7 e acre. Another | wide along the margins of these rivers, a very great 
portion I bone-dusted at the rate of 80 measures to the | extent of their wide spread lagunes and marshes having 
i i i been by degrees 
which 
e nie 
5 
