THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
690 
Viewing it entirely in an 8 * and 2 | 
touching upon its adm e principle respect 
the 8 training of the p javani 7 ee ns 
proceed to give a te ere a neh 
This school is exclu 
Lot age = = Union. 
f th 
They often amount to 00 i in 
— — wi —— — such an re vee as 
may remove —— of — ort ineapacity, which a 
productive of future pauper o facilitate the 
eans o 
they leave the school. en of 
For this purpos 
5 boys tent this — aa attend 
the Hable, cows, p igs, e.; not qui any girls 
are instrueted and employed in Doussheld — sewing, 
i i The afte —— are 
rnings 
he — 
nost wor = 
ists 8. 
9 is owing to 
which is from the drains of the house, together 
with all refuse matter suitable for the purpose, collected 
in one large pool constructed to receive it, whence 
it is drawn out in pails as itis required. The following 
ro sq 
uare yards 
under cultivation by the boys, from the crop at present 
lande 
ARROTS. 
Ibs. N ares qra. 1 
e 2 an 2 
28 
bs. 
22 per acre, 
2; 
1 26 
YELLOW Wini 
; ms pare 45 
and t 
rmanent and independent Tivelinood when | close at 
-| finding i it 
of 
to the land, and | Sever 
ae 2 
ere ee 6 14 2 
. 12 3 
1 
2 
. 
Roots and tops 
Roots alone 
— * eee 
11 
16 
14 
ä —*—ů333ũ2˙ 
16 ewt. 
h he has only | m 
On this 
s estate, but which 
end “ha and to cultivate himself. 
į — 8 pr rity chs 
— cause, how 
to tety fallen on 3 itis Turn nip 
ound a was of 
no use, and rere the m bey do et as quite 
mawa way; he had “consequently — to lay 
down drains 5 “fee t deep, whic 
Charring 
Whitmore 
attraction n was the process of 
foul stubble land. With a th to this, Mr. 
said no one having foùl 
he could always obtain it he would never use — 
Mr. Marts: e said ites: he woul 
a much 
Continuing t thei t down banks of 
the Sev: — ee next thing to hich the att 
"a ention of the 
to the 
mode of Irri 18 
by means of water brought 
rrigation that i 
7 Whitmo: 
found ty the side of a hill considerably above the 
level 
ws, which 
re, and by means of seri 
a ei morial, 
f ing put on 
erfa got down to a ton | can 
! he 
> 
| ee = — 
‘already emptying itself at the 
to be rather 
whi ch were 
remarking on the cost of all these improvements, Mr. 
Whitmore said he always considered in farming, it was 
not a question of what it costs, 11 stat 5 will pay, 
and if it yielded a return fort sa 
Applieaition of capital, W — 4 was 2 55 make 
that good land, and he thought the best way to accom- 
ieh that object was by feeding and breeding upon 
or that purp he cau the mill which 
san mea 
2 farming manufacture, that w men 
of manure. He believed till that was carrie * t to i 
fullest extent, they could never know the capabilities of 
land for producing, and would never derive 
the crops that a might. therefore, was 
a e 
show oe science of farming resolve 
of manure. Nothin 
we — 5 of ~ on 8 ag eA near the Iron 
on the oppos the his field 
large eT oi the vi sci that had been removed, 
which Mr. more proc aie o explain. nani “m4 
as ve iai desira ble rove some of the high 
land n to this field, — tha nas ‘cl iteelf, 
which runs down to the Severn, requ 1 
troduced the schon of pum pi ng, and con 
mon drain, which carried off the su 880 ous water into 
vern. Sometimes, however, it happened that ‘the 
and to prevent 
valve was place 
by means of that the 
the. * rose to the lev 
closed t p fah, a secs 
While engaged i ation he e a BN dis- 
e ‘amar (pais aaa Ati of that meadow 
ery thing he to improye the high sandy soil of 
of the age fin its containing so large a e a 
— mina, a substance which he described a 
— fe — After leaving this place the fe 
of Potatoes, which were produced on a sa soil on 
the 2 side of the rond, leading 
vau was tri 
m r 6 per cent. 
= Very Conte rable curiosity 
in examining a pan of Turnips p yang 0 
enid a piia bras spied 
be Hen crop was that 
. 
acre. 
bo — were pretty good, but in co 
bien it is impossible to judge of the 
M 
eine 
with P and 43 ¢ 
So man ceed eta 10 e 
they 
1 then returned to This house. About 
e d the ev bam was spent 
in ej ika and agreeable manner. 
me Corresponden 
as am ce mice adji dida the silver 
fois — not yet bee e among the at valu- 
e poultry in your co — 1 27 7 2 
pais of notice both on ctl 
productiveness ; they are 
legs, a very pretty he 
ba Pere nd 
small bodied, p short blue 
ad, with a fu 
eding.—I have read with satis. 
3 in TE 
- ees it might appea eles Iw 
n, a ments that 
t 
d to view a remarkably A chee crop the 
h. | years, and thus 
His yield of 1847 Í understand, was 
e 
were very | and 
are | precating 
faction the Rey, 
thin seeding, an 
r. 39 0 
quarters per acre. The opinion of 
practical 5 was solicited by im, and 
given oe my If of 3.q 
to give . 
withheld writing upon this subject 
TSO! 
to Mr. Mechi and ve Aye 83 ban iip 
has become one nterest, I consider 4 
should be ae aa, it T did not contradiet tate 
correct, and which kini 
3 1 is at least equ 9 
Mr. Wilki s sates, e chat I saw Wheat 
Mechi? 8 —— this 
manner in w 
d ases, also, ge 
is year’s 1 ‘ed tk 7 chooses to 
accept the cha lenge „give the return of all i 
rup all doubts upon the subject, 
s under 5 qu 
or sown with 23 bushels per acre, ap clear 
as I then stated, eat although thin sow 
thick sowing, as it is 
education was limited, and too muc 
— ae work upon the farm to allow 
time sufficient tly to become, competent 1 neet A 
point at the same time that I 
oppor rtunity of. ~advaneem ent in le 
cal experience, whieh enables me now 
with Jateen upon this 
r 0 
markably short bill, rounded, aid shaped somewhat like | Robt. Baker, Wri 
a sparrow’s ; their colour white with very regular black | the following: 
dots or moons on their wings and tai ey lay well; — Gazetle 9855 
mine enced early in February, and are laying now Wilkin 
1 ma 3) 3 any do not show any inclination to sit, but biit — 7 me 
in a hatch their eggs are very productive. I have had | farm, which I will take at. quarters an acre, 
14 chieks out of 15 e It is necessary to keep a game | that the yield of Wheat on M 
a aar or two, to perpetuate the I find rice at 1 than one-half of the amount h 
to 146. per ewt, soaked all night in water, and then my authority Mr. Mechi himself. 
rolled in Indian meal, a very economical and fattening | for the credit of your journal 
food, occasionally varied with a little Barley. y hen a is statement or D 
would have commenced laying earlier in the season if enough to publ my. i 
their roosting place had been warmer, I am desirous of Mech fails Ho justify my assertio n. I. 
heating it by a small stove or other m ans; ny of | to you; Bela 
our numerous readers suggest the most economical! Fe ar “ Amicus,” not 
heating app»ratus for the pur “yg reasons I formerly ‘advanced with r 
Turnip fly.—All me to suggest to your agricultural | Lothian and Ber 
readers a remedy a ravages of the Turnip- | their lea, as at 
fly z it is both cheap and readily attainable, very impor- | three more which may 
tant points in the es atio farmers, who too often, and lead him no 
through fear of a tri g. outlay, injure their own | countrymen as wholly 
interests, 80 it is seen that the * M know that th 
work, procure s and sow it broad the above counties, and as. 
sprinkle it over the young plant, when the fly will si lamb hogs receive a full — of 
nd by magie, and will not near the again, | winter, it is the general ¢ 
so long as th ins pungeney ; but should | the Turnip field, and 
— fail before the plant has outgrown the fly’s influence, | the only part adapted in this season 
then w fair repeat the dose oot. it i ally, and ou 
can assure you, from satisfactory experience, that it is ye that 
a most effectual cure for the fly, and a fructifier of the | store sheep ought to be strewed 
soil, as my present crop of Swedes ( irving’s Purple- not be much harm 
4 bears witness, some of them being now, 28th Sept., and is poached with 
. in circumference, of eigh- | year’s lea, the poaching would 
[Poe Aeng Turn rnips t twice and even three the Als 
have 
only part 
