THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
627 
ile others will be 
threshed off 80 1 in ae hour ; on this 
tional hand, for giving up shea 
an addi orn de ol you * results, Tshall 
with re 
ith four 0 
—— ier instead of teeth, has a strong brush of 
The 
sweep eV erything clean out. drum 
ds and makes its first effsetive stroke 30° 
ru orn at 
not theone taki 
ye gw a saer tha pens 
Seoteh machines I e 
e | the ar A one pipe si 
straw was short and plenty of water, I have |T 
national gratification ; but I will not N the editor of 
zetie to run away w 
so easily as y have imagined, for Fitt 
ka that I bave 8 the principal o corn powi ing districts | 
Tw he ex- | many of them 
i oR re progress, 
betwixt the Thames and the 
ee of ‘Northumberlan y —＋ a rf 
Sige 
8. 
that 
e a ed, and 
reshing, when straw, corn, an 
. out together, w i 
The fact of the 
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ese can only be found north of the Tyne, and ver 
ry 
e likely this i is — -i circle of your agricultural in- 
Spection or observa 
nine-tenths of the —.— 
are, from the bad e 
en 
model 
wa 
rh 
E. 
which constitute the. Seok arm machine 
th 
cu sate bs machine. In the 
Irish 
machine, when 
— here explain what a Scotch oa is. 
Sol three separate divisions : e floor Abide 
teem barn for the unthreshed — ; 24, the straw 
and n bar 0 
e 
ts have been in t 
— Shen and its * fot ‘the reduction of 
il labour, and ma many other appendages of great 
T must now re turn to the & A a 1 5 
bet ayia y you have taken on a "a 74 and 
strack 
1 rane and does the speedily and effie b! 
att 1 ee ed ve drawn out this article to too great a len gth, 
s passed | putitis a comm 
es blows exactly at right 
3 that the — are other- 
dily ed when I prov 
w tion o the peg machine in page r. 
is sometimes par 
even loaded and on the way to 
threshing eee This I have got done repeatedly 
in Scotlan 
Is it, therefore, not a ange . that the 
phe tlemen far of Engla and and Ireland, who keep 
tuds of eber and turfers, cannot keep up stitch for 
sch with the unassuming Scotch farmer, in his bleak, 
i nts? Surely th 
t plans. 8 this not make a good case 
for chemical eee 
The — net I shall notice is the “ peg 
e quite ri iat n the first deseri 
he deum i in which 
wards ; — pegs are ro scientifically a range irs 7 
of blows are in regular wwe. fy precisely oF the * 
as by an * other ceylin adic ater. You w ob- 
al en 
serve that your correction, at page 545, of your dicii ip- 
chin 529, i erro 
ħave roe 8 to state that the pe gi * is ast excellent | 
improvement. I have seen many of them making, 
made, br in operation ; and, of all “gated yet pro- 
datid the peg threshin pene ine require 
po work 
ses. 
Matures in 
in 
ll 
.in the following manner: I applie 
ve soe 5 grew A eter 
exhausted state previo 
e | experiment I 
the nee appenda ges 
f i 
a 
e (about la 
5 | three raian it 
market, bet ‘the rate 
“i the erop, 3 pee ai weight of guano put- 
exceed 6) ¢ 
of July caused it to lodge in 
the cm 
rds the choice | 
tomary 2 5 (7840 ya rds); the remaining three-fourths 
ing t 
| havi 2 rhe in without any manure whatever, 
The win * ourable for the 8 in our 
cold wet pe ae the e unmanure d part of the field, 
etaa, and de that survived made 
from having no stimulus at 
the 
Thinki king af Aer to apply my experimental 
* i fenes until the 6th 
a 3 en 3 tee eate 
t been man 
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the ich 
oi (hresfouths of the whole). 
guano to one- Fe 
wt. to iis. statuto acre ; and the sam 
weight ofa of soda over another fourth, Ae. 
ne-fourth entity without m fees 
The Whe Caceres’ with the guano and nitrate of 
and the ears, mo 
n the part ma 
er seen 3 bit Wh m 
the ear, and the sample was very in 
being evidently de 3 
erfecting the grain. The cro 
pate the depre Abe of the bir The portion ma- 
red a a produced to “the statute acre 32: 
bushels ah. 
eee — bushels = — Arcos each, 
tree of soda . 1 
Unmanured p art 
give these det 
ditt 
alle “a bay pe a was 
N — of the. 
od 
"Ater th 1e Whea! ma 
with a dusting of 1 ewt. gu lon over the entire field 
acre p “rood, to keep the the plant 7 
during the win 
April, and the 
as still farther varied by co 
each division with guano a 
of 2 ewt. t 
n in the 
tie 3 
mple ery indiffere dition to this draw- 
ee 8 being very ie Wheat grown in the neigh- 
bourhood of the ing much earlier 
e least | 
consideration, therefore re pl ease excuse my proliity s = 
poen mes Hunter, Glenville, Co. Cork, August 26. 
ON THE Series & OF W ng — THE 
SAME ND IN SUCCESSI 
(The following eters apponi a Prae or h se 210 the 
LETTER I.—I pontined to send you some details of my 
pt to grow Wheat on the same soil year after year. 
e ward, and hope they may prove inte- 
ing. I w 7 into these experiments by reading 
Liebig s bikai on the chemistry 
suming his neat to betrue, itappeared to me to be quite 
possible to grow Wheat on the same land year after 
year ; as, according to that t theory, the carbon, oxygen, 
umble ¢ the 
a diagram may appear a 
e a circle in which 
in 60° ; now it is onl 
the effective power of the dru 
OW reader ma 8 
or count for- 
until you come to 
„the Spe mica the 
irresistibly prov. sg — 
i take’ ed that the first l blows ‘of 
‘Place 30 ° passed and distant fro 
rn at right angles! 
6 9 those anc ai substa 
„ for 
* 
rops Coote grain and — are supplied in abundance 
fone the soil and atmosphere (or perhaps to speak 
more correctly, from — wee Sid se we sri ee rw to 
a small — + of the whole weight 
1, to experiment on h 
by a succession of crops, which had j 
t very fo 
and —— of all vind Ba oa rset ea ed 
of Couch Grass 
ecked over, the 
up and hastily pec 
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d threshing machines. 
— ad if moiin English are 
R an rm soil and coal ashes, at 
the rate of 40 tons to 
to 
owever 
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eory, and | o 
f 1067 lbs. of Wheat, and 211 stones 7 Ibs. of straw, 
or 33 bus he te — h if we add 
. | be 
that this portion yielded a 
than 
2 2 the other fields, it hes attacked by the birds as. 
ain was fo: in the ear. Notwi 
ing ing all the efforts made to 
n- | feeding upon it until it was cut; and it is a very 
series modera i to 
work ; and it will, poa be very difficult. 
ose W did not see the field when it was- 
and appare. 
this field ; and j 
living they found there, that beth en when our 
W 
as fit to eat, they continued to favour this 
Isewhe 
with their } preference to going e 
I estimate the damage on No. 1 at one-third; Ne. 2 
ne- No. 3 at one-fifth. This later than 
the others, and suffe ro f : poe . birds. 
The following are the results: from yards ma- 
n wih N were obtained 1042 lbs. of 
Wheat, or 273 gone — 60 poh u to the statute 
acre ; i to this, as assume that one- 
e statute acre, tof — — i is por. 
tion was 188 si oo rpe mee the stone. From- 
56 yards manured with No. 2, of Wheat were 
btained, and 15 9 Ibs. of straw. — is equal 
to 273 bushels per 5 he —— added — 
estimated damage, it is e l 
acre. From 0 E manured with No. 3, there- 
Is to the statute acre, to whic 
estimate of 
to 414 bushels per acre. It w 
e a f ar greater 3 of straw 
p acre than either of the — and from the sort of 
re applied it was expected that this — 
No. 1 “yielded straw at the rate of 297} stones pe 
No. 2 ve ” ” 2467 Boi 
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