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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
691 
for the temp e ing wes Ja 
2 we districts, it is usual (where there 
* the store flock on the Turnips 
is much moor) en to drive them to 
11 
is to strew Turnips ea for the stores 
with a farmer in Bers ickshire, we penned some 
hogs on ips, and some we put into a lea field, 
8 the Turnips in the field. I remarked on 
2 those on the lea field which only received a 
oa were doing better than th that wer 
the Turni ich received as m th 
. the ieee replied, that he h 
» Thus“ Amicus” will admit that the sie 
8 for t 
e pastures 
0 
reat s 
ery gre 
a very good practice is . 
Turnips on the leas, for the ne 
e that be ned 
AA saa 5 ur r e F she eep to their 
od without danger. Thus icus,” without 
cod stock- Tending sy aie of our northern 
nti 
de 2d. Nov 
eg When Se Scotland, as lea "Wheat t wo 
Teng e 
im 
fainty root — take no e bold. 5 s VIR. 
ya 
ad always The earl 
; by increasing this quantity | T 
the machinery so adjusted as to be able to apply the 
aff 
power to Chaff or Turnip cutting and Bean eru rushing, 
© proposes to f: h the view of making 
money should be prepared with 201. per acre to 
ommence work with. Artificial chicken hatehing may 
be eee a somewhat ha rdous . eriment, de- 
ing constant te gp which mi ~~ ore ad 
vantageously employed in tis yy 72 
drain, by obstructing its free ¢ 
es. 
common practice among workmen, in the cutting both 
of mains and common drains, me 1 down at once to 
the specified depth, regardless the cireumstances 
can 
odge a qu 
t rasa cutting of that — edie 
or sus. 
underground from the old set, long before their appear · pected, it ought to be corrected before — 
ance above, enabled me early in June to forestall the rials, and in — cases, particularly on level grounds, 
general fortheoming failure. I have little doubt that whe it is most likely to occur, and where its oc. 
tatoes forced now would enable you to.see the early | currence is like ost hurtful, it necessary 
canker at root, and the commencemen e disease | in rectifying the fault to pour down water into the drain 
from the old set, as I have before informed your readers, | and obtain proof positive of its possessing the desired 
e sad destruction going on lamps will, I fear, | curren uch portions of the bottom as have been 
shortly leave but very few for winter use ; already they | found cut too low must be made up with firm ma 
are becoming a lu The present price is 6“. to 77. to inki erwards. It very frequently 
a ton, a er that makes them dearer th happens that trifling swells or hollows are met with in 
large proportion 5 water 
Wbeats in the south co 
annoyed 
„ Whilst 
s 
ou: would much oblige, 
„ the 
ought to be so may be found necessary to 
preserve the current in the drain; and, with the latter, 
decreased for the sam ever mind if, in 
cutting through 2 small hollow, you are unable to 
serve a depth as may be nece necessary to la, 
i perfeetly dry ; 5 preservation of the current ent of the 
drain from the higher parts of the field i is often of ten 
eater moment than this, 
— raa 
5 as such, . is 
most to be studied is to see that it be of a depth — 
cient to preserve it from inj ury in i 
land. 
more 2 se 
sub-mains : 
man e: 0 
t advantage to the Wheat crop ere The butchers here do not like calves under 10 or 12 
reparations) are sown, — will | weeks old, unless very fine ones; Viator, 
— na and Novem er lea Whe then rainage. In former commu 
less a mi r felons. a poor | this subject (p. 626), I expressed the opinion 
pple crop there will be. The ha op is, | tained of its nee, 
nsidered. a seourging crop, especially | proceeding on correct principles, its execution, to 
seed is ripened, which the Ry seed is | be neficial, required to be guided by right practice. and 2 ea 
to be in Berwickshire, so that there once be admitted when we consider | 3 e United Kingd 
rest, and not two, as “ Amicus” saith, how 8 “it tends to increase the productive ats 3 principally co 
ve I written and yet not shown that powers of the soil, and enables the country to support a | b ut includi 1 ei and 
be grown on lea in Scotland; indee re numerous population ; nd, no 8 n we | locating the ols in the 
d be grown, and would recom end it reflect on the amelioration it is caleulated to produce | of the plan may be required in those man 
from to the e e 
k | drainage of the soil cannot be too widely extended, and 
| ueh to be fostered and as e ed as a great public 
t being made profitable 
extension, how 
e or wen ive, 
good. 
known 2 exper 
result is but io often rie 
least, pe that lisation- of success 
have been rationally looked for. This 
regrette ted, and as it procee eds s in every instance of fai ilure 
defective execution, if, through the medium of your 
widely disseminated journal, I can succeed in exposin 
what is a copreying a few simple instructions for 
amendment, and directing attention — to the 
subject, my small exertions in the cause will not have 
been 3 page The — aeaa noticed 
be looked u 
7 
D 
ö — 
ttent p 2 way in 
S ely he dec ed conviction, that no edn 
W. 
ns eiseness 5 this great work. i look not 
Suppose that he considers them self. ss importa the re und serving | minds dor volun 
y may be, H ik hee an | of attention on that wa g ie setting about a drain- | therefore n any benevolent in arra a permanent 
in his“ Bo the Farm,” age the first matter that requires consideration is the tea eaching and overseeing, A ing n 
: ... ͤ . ET ad alee 
| and eli e paee į aving determined o e 
een ee ee Sela | iraina] e eee, 
95 atel Agriculturist. pet suse of iens outfalls, —— 2 1 is me ERA — 3 
espondent, “ S., % when ti a nature as to influence or ge the whole dae ee. 
s contemplated farm, as omitted system proposed. In all — the outialls ought to hoola, m 3 “im Eee 1 i 
Class. of animals either well cleaned out, if possible rendered free fr the oceu > g is ang aeta PE 
has rence of future obstruction, and posse decided cur- | bour of yo 5 ir enlaries must be sufficient to 
ewe t. Themainor principal drain r from the the — rp ys their seg eae 
hould be cut there to a depth so as to leave its cur- | accomplis W a certain 
ary is the 3 nearly so, * the outfall itself is in floód, | publie light as 1 pegi a — he school. 
cted. I and not at once to the very bottom of the latter, service they may: he amt the ps, and must have (ass 
ar a | too often done, to the 5 of the ps up and serious | — sen tal sgn my. plan) an acre or more of $ 
ty of land; he injury of the whole — | should be paid most.es p Unless the —— on a liberal 
ea t ain those 
Sas on en- 
Save expense, to- havo 
3 
$ 
a than e aoe in ‘that ight | 
e proper frih 
in pro 
El Sates cut the furrow or 
b. mains are for 
outlet into these, as was sta in respect 
n main drain itself. It is a very 
scale oviding for those who teach a 
learn, i n never ane the purpose 
a great natio prie Mi fed . Brown, Cirencester. 
ing —There i - a at ign = in 
8 for feedi 
eee a bad taste, anes 
e 
