658 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [SEPT 30, 
much safer tiee than sowing so much in the tion of the soil, and its condition as respects: ts the amount In hens rere ge fed the win el 
spring — ar : alimentary principles which it contains. Judging as gga 
Weare well aware that there is a distinct line — the stubbles which I examined, and the ear of the e. T 2 ; 
the geological and climatice influences intersect in: stack, I w say that the produce was ater... m E | 
tices ults, and should make us Law ous 
ting the Nr of those who live more 
favoured skies; 
e are arepe 3 of n. pry it 
e farmers o 
would be much the interests e the 
north that they would suit their eee so as to 
raise a greater proportion of Wheat, which is rapidly 
becoming the n article of human sustenance, for 
even in the “land o’eakes,” with our increase o 
tion, there is actually less — man re into meal 
than there were 20 years ; NV. 
NOTES ON SOME ENGLISH I FARMING.—No. II. 
mene DOYLE, 
specify the modes of practice | 
humble aila distinguish Mr. Dav 
er extensive Englis rs, I shall refer to the 
a 
1. 
n e from the drains, i 
est and most een pees l 
2 *. reason for not 
the expen 
own, } 
ugh it as or pipes 
. where labour is 
is from | 
In 
ytd 
— to ordinary 
hrough tiles n| Wheat. 
ho but a mird of ‘the English 
ere is a decided advantage in favour of screened 
1 or small stones | 
pom ha 
2 of jud experienee is in favo 
been * limite 
The waste of seed corn is undoubtedly er ven 
— if — economy of Mr. Dav. 
rf pker invites iah m 
„ the p probabl 
Bom. single plants plac 
rom those raised by äibbling, i aeg no sieg 
loss: 0 ost — 
8.88 
8 8 
ne who choos 
calculating the difference between e quantity of seed 
1 nder the circum- 
t 
i 
5 
— 2 
~- 
and on that 
cres of strong — which is till a manne 
practice, I — 40 acres 2 Ae 
The cultivator, — eep in abit, 
5 years, of dibb ling his Whelt eS learnt by 
W 
material for drainage, if even very lightly covered with | w 
Heath, Furze, Broom, , or brushwood ; and the 
Iris 1 r 2 “irequently find a bed of gra 
beneath h 
feet for drains on arable lan 
nearly established that depth as 
' isso in 8 > lesser 8 on * e pasture 
or meadow lands says, in his“ ing Essays,” 
& Although no one — 
in oes 
aps — m the reasons ie going to this denih., which apply 
are equally applicable to Grass ; indee ave 
2 pee led to thi — that such deep drainage 
y be ous to pastures by depriving them of a 
he eee of whi ah a 88 
epe admit, 
at the same time that 
ace the matic 
ool and moisten 
instance, grostis stoloni- 
fera ioin Grass) — a ee 5 water; but 
is no doubt v utable: ies . 
paar il rey ap — ~ esirable to s 
test such by accurate and repeated experiments, 
_ Doubtful ae ~~ nature ought aperi e 
rest, when it is eas y practical means. 
„Mr. Davis, pim a not Aak a so, is peculiar 
in his opinions rega the disadvan antages of thi 
ra 
la 
I have pat ere that Mr. Davis advocates od 
this 
Far 
re p more sensible a me Tam of 
fle 
dibbling, sr oma 
been 
e| 
only to 
hd 
ing or drilling, a8 as 
diihi for boing Be — “ina 
wet seas ‘hie tion of the dib a cup o 
8 1 m 2 reception a the seed, 
must be v nies its germ rmination, for 
Thus showing that the bie: 2 hen er. 
eja nor ip of solid organi 
as fou 
gin 
of full seeding for Wy — "hut that experience has | į 
— per cent. of the egg, 
- | pally of 8 of lime. 
Tring som 
posited on the egg f 
arming | of lim 
and the Miko 
12 be taken into the system of the e youn 
with 
fed hen nd that hens pty 
’ r cen 
ng 8 17 per cent. 
th 
EIO 
and to 
The shell is not 
ss. to carbo 
per e 
ight. 
unless the a has acce 
e form or an 1 75 
wi 
ae of Fiabe in ta n acid. 
iron w 
f the e egg, es 
of the egg appears to be fing 
ith hate of lime 
egg in 
phosp 
pul 
oat is e 8 of ally mates ore 
r s the crop should i di e of when obtained, 
last 
o — 
called - good luck,” and these very useful pirane ; 
| not sige at han d, ani, if 1 the practice of them en. 
N nly 
heat. 
Thus it is found that i in a B sg tin 
laid e es surrounding 
first, protein for nutrition j 
and thi miy, , various salts for combining with the * 
of nutr 
THE TRUE PRINCIPLES — FARMING, 
(Continued from p. 5 
L endeavour to explain — Auen principles 
were the closing words o . 
which N — serve — a text for the present one. 
ee r simple resent inquiry may appear W 
of your readers, who think this the easiest brand 
1 g, say aly there are — n 
themselves 
says, 1 you can't 
do this with anything like success 
and perseverance combined wich 5 
then i ve a fair por 
jana s. ee an is 
ont infant. root. has to 
01 
a Bee objects to the 
of five ee the space of a sixpene 
which I have stated is suffi- 
ntly strong to caim a an ay apprehensions — he — from 
n that nce has 
very thick Wenden sowing ded ‘aibbling, 
and not “between dibbling and — 
8 g, as Mr. Davis sows and mana: 
is remarkable that * A 
in 1375 71 found in the course 
east of Pagan that tos ranger i produc of corn was 
obtained from the minimum of seed sown =S that pang 
—thus he attributes his Wen * ing so many 
Po ain in succession from one N ts the deep f iid 
— 2 aan of the soil, e to his applying manure 
rops, and ne r to corn, 
ARAD 
with horse- | ye 
render it more liable: to in injury 
— 1 yore it would also cause the 
| to the exha 
ustion of the 
* 
and still more to see the W 
| vasse g ia the fifth year after eee; which, had also 
been grown without any manur 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION 
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 
the Change Chemical. Composition of Eggs 
during eee — T of this paper 
gave an account of the results of feeding a bantam 
eock an 9 alon ba e end of a week 
it was. N that the cock had 18 es (a 
gramme is 15} grains English), hae l the hen had lost 
21 grammes, had laid in the ea an egg | out 
weighing 22 grammes. In e Barley, a 
certain ee of carbonate of — had been con- 
sumed, on being examined was found to 
iva á . 19-49 
x ae “x s. 27.84. 
gt oe ore ore en 52.67 á 
: ra 10% 
tive or rotten state, = °° the con 
of He animals ; a fi aving ; 
gases of the — ii 
e beco aa like,” ready to. en s 
source of life,” as the food of the plants; it aloa gr 
a great deal passes of ha t the intestine 
deal is taken from the or to 
But as it is not profitable ga . to rot crops 
stock in them without giob in weight, 
some othe aes 
hat 
can obi 
— 4 val, 
arrots, rae 
t case we had better 
