644 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Szpr, 23, 
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REPORTS OF THE HARVES T—Continued. 
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COUNTY. WHEAT. OATS. BARLEY. POTATOES. NAME AND ADDRESS, | 
~ ENGLAND, | Abu i i 122 
CORNWALL ... e. — ndant . Ses 115 | scans uc 8 than any las t year W. SIMMOND: l 
| Rat nder rage Abundant Rather deficient all but Bots J. Menz, . 
Rather short and. inferior 2 | 2 oy ten 
Yiel Good H fici * H. Hur, 25 — 
Bin oe cent ha | Under average A total failure 4H. 1 Germains 
An average crop, some-| Considerably damaged a Worse this year than ever — 
what injured 
JERSEY A ⁰oꝶꝓ q ]]] ̃⁵¾˙—¹ A Pes n Disease has gy mt 2 W. W. CHILDERS, St. 
WALES Good Universally dis H R. Sanppaca, e 7 
Under averag Average Average More diseased ITA 2 year 2 Eat GRIFFITHS, 3 * 
1-3rd under average ei Aae Nearly average The rot has been destructive W. EDMONDS, Swans i 
Average rage Average Far below average J. Wittiame, Co — 
— Inferior ` Three-fourths diseased, and increasing J. GIRDWOO0D, Chirk 
— ome n enc 
A 
0. 
singular occurrence 
3 "anticipated ‘that the etre le would have made its 
arance in our county eee ell, noe result 
an my gossip p in the Gazette rs been, that various com- 
ments bave passed ulit ity, and a end 
friend jokingly W told me heat r all s Tompson’s Wheat 
ha d that I ste co al 
no B seed was put in; | 
that, for 12 years, the land bad been cropped with Po ta- 
toes and Cabbages, and never before by any ce cereals, | 
Allow me, in oe to add that k eevee anpi in su 
al 
stance what 
guarding myse 
either affirming or 
I saw and heard, 
self iol We thought presumptuous in 
r den me e panain ity of the tra 
mutation of corn; R. , Collis hall. | 
Hil ide Farming. —I thin 8 dia of the matter 
in er would be the 3 oh yi tag of the facts | 
r o the ee ced 
mod 
ality where it’ 
the di ee is tP 
to ey eye; John F. Peacey, e 
Experimental Farmiag.—In a late 
0 , ai correspondent 
offers nce toa syste 
ing for Ireland. Wa Now, though I sympathise with Ire- 
land and h I consi 
sE 
E 
Te 
HE 
Ta 
RR 
t. be The problem once solve 
be equally . to Ireland as to England, 
ae position of both coun with to production | 
and employment is . the remedy must also 
similar, Many m icul i 
many men 
— 
I conceive both Engish a pden bo Ibourers 
l classes and countries 
may be effec 
benefited; James B. Tem 4 St. George’s- 
ad, S 1 jenny, 34, pl 3 
7 gta el 
‘Tes. 
A correspondent " ~~ prise Gazette 2 | 
some 
the 
re | table, or N re ai 
— 
of experimental farm- food 
tually hav 
| fine, and far nn cago to the other seed beds in the 
n | garden ; I did not observe any liking by the, birds for 
e Kohl Rabi al but attribute the paucity of plants 
5 — — oa season for every pr a on Be 
plan the last week in May I d of | i 
the pants iai transplanted them in rows, well ma 
with 75 m- yard dung; the 
5 om a 
pass ot later, are very go as 
cricket balls, o I cannot observe t 
— differene ce between those transplanted w. 
manuring and those let in the seed bed, leg i 
Kohl Rabi is = dle, ‘the see 
the same as Tur those transpla ste 
of June cet pa Jais se — aa — — 
larger than an egg, a sickly. The arp 
pears to grow toa — size 2 — the green, and I 
think is a hardier plant, bat on ge 
invaluable ep ‘foo the s 
is a clay loam of rather inferior 8 as to t 
The soil 
the 
ractically, but the ~ 
3 E. 
said in pra 
bulb is about the size deseri 
top or 
fr he 
apex of the bulb, is bee ‘relished by the members of | ab 
art of the 
Snot ev 
t in its present state we neither 
Peel the bulb nor * the 1 leaves, but serve them 
up entire. A its use for 
t, e. 
as is the practic 
My experiments 1 
a stat 
= 
5 
ter 
te of the inside of the — 
are fond. I have only to 
A. B. C,“ that the bulb 
he season than the 
much — and that 
pak in May, now average 
0 inches in cireumference, be that they 
were not er, 
Thin Sowing: To Robert Matson, i —-I should 
ave very great pleasure in accepting your challenge as 
ral Gazette last week, but 
integ — 3 bee 
stalk, which m 
add 
1 
3 thin linc: 4 
e I have no hesi- 
tation in asserting, and I believe tow will eontradiet me 
ho wi t 
show you that thin 
e spring, and as one why I 
challenge. I venture to say this to you, 
ving seen your farming, I cannot be s 
a any eee on your 2 
to the very important part of good 
the prevention of all interference 5 
full of the corn; and I believe b you, as little 
as to any one oo the old bry can neglect i 
this utable: but you may not yet have 
the e hoe, which 80 
ing, from the rows all weeds; 
osed t 
to not having attended 
bus 
+ 
culated will ‘fin d room 
8 
. I think è 
mg. 
best | s 
An average. 
ing 
son pe 
oul 
-< a A 
The two should arrive at the same onan, You 
and l and hundreds of other practical m 
fered as to the results n sienn and “ne sow ing, bu 
I take it, ee reasoning h all in favour of 
n the first instance, I 80 many mre as can be 
re is it — terminate? It 
2 bushels ‘produce more than 1, why should’ not 3 more 
or 2, and 4 more than 
tone 
subject which I 1 25 in 
d the ſutu * gress o of a 
essentials a -= development, In 
gar rdening this has long since seen necessary, 
s ever att 8 d to. I . taken the liberty to send 
glial of mine “ On the Injury and 
om ibe Thick Seeding,” and, notwith- 
a experiment, let me a 
w 
5 
orchards abound, aks, Ap 
to the shade of desea fe Se Cider-making 
and the breeding of “ He refords ” has pis oni dea tothe 
ae on corn pte om to which t te climate, 
hum ie 3 =. . 5 92 70 2 3 
dow 
cannot 2 Wing a veel change sisi be reed 
and a nearly double amount o 
the effet ‘in ‘stimulating = aee of into, ee 
hing sets 
constantly employed like 
_ not therefore help 9 
ountry neglected, that the principles of i 
culture might be tarrari known and practi 
= _ en the 
lowe ing prices tends peculiarly to ‘rel 
istricts er ‘skill and “espa have not pa 
sar 
of he and 
are allowed 
disease m sega = the proper tillage 
prevented. Tara and warmth are 
| free 
timber and — Tan 
mpro 
of roots nor carry a la 
ust fo! llow. 151 is therefore the inte: 
al 
mg 5 — out, by i in every way eneourasing 1 
whose interest and his own are iden tica! 
‘kno 
an instance which came to 
„ a 
Paige 8 stem by requi 
ae rae? e 
o part o 
í these improvements vide this co 
thin Rea a with you, a have me recommend them to avail t 
tage of a 3 3 e plants | vantages offered by the Royal A 
3 t. Cirence re a: 
g any proposition, 7 sciences bearing on agrieulture 
and by the result. Brown, Cirencester. 
