4g—1848. | THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. zor 
a ds to use, when — 1 
S e a il e spir = 8 in fie pati in order to confine the water within the duct. It 
uare foot, and y made, 
to leave drains open for a con- for half an ac — memes —— le the field, — 
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error, which has — many a strong man the 1 r escape and passage o resolved i * 
sirange vulgar ’ sy al } water to eta drain ; but this is a great mistake, and | Clod-crusher ; with this implement he 3 
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a r as 
5 aving ensued, the sides was with the 8 difficulty a wit a * 
ensporation been so great, that with all the additi as | piece of hard wood, shaped as a chisel, T could d hunt 
eatarrh is gener ose e sg — h tes h ted | agreeable labour thereby inais ggo 2 dis- . vermin.” I found the shrivelled bodies of many 
dy and water, an ike, should t erefore satisfacti ’ etion, to give | that had been crushed but I al: i 
2. oat diseretion. 8 o pre. N isfaction could not afterwards be Å so found some as lively 
—— s white antimonial powder in them. In this latter case such a tit ¥ ia. in wing up 
3 : d night; Dr. ; gies quantity of debris i 
daoil grain morning and night ; Dr. R. W- Dickson, | washed into and lodged about the drain that the passage | unattended te, wo e blades, wi which, had the eld beer 
half a grain of ai Ae tags pig A ee tte gets clogged and unequal to hold the quantity of water | insect as the sw cad fi er ess havo been seized by 
e athe most effectual — 55 dy ar e be a 75 non se pad a e 22 rs at three-quarters of an in 0 long, the size rme — 
der or calomel in grain doses.” gr alter B. top of the ti a isalt on the outside or | without legs rand of a dirty brown col 
nial pow Z ee p of the tiles, a leaves the proper duct [to become | few specimens ina pat t, —— ule maap 
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sulphur vivum, the live or black sulphur, must be poi- | cumstances to fill in the earth is virtuall oi 
sonous, P y to condemn t ; 
a tion aa lg ear — ey = work. There remains no alternative, if we desire eee ph prenre ae eg Baronet o in 
I will bere take the opportunity of naming two very | of ‘he ee action of the drain, but to again lift the whole | one perfect — bed ti — Two 
old remedies for the benefit of the curious, which I 1 k S ea eag or at least such portions as are found | or three of the grubs had boan injured b th fr e 
in this country, but perfec tly T * 8 3 i 3 the ee e ubbish. | stirrings to ascertain the — th . maida 
a: A portion of ground ivy pounded in a mortar, | partially to find a e ap ta ere it is still able | towards the perfect insect. I have no doubt but thei 
tod warmed in a little water, used as a wash in infam- | enable the tip 22 y a Fike ig s gis may —— was retarded by the cool situation in which they 
‘as deep it] w t 2 3 s 1 
— ind ous — 1 3 Ay a A og sens of sludge and gravelly a pated Ter ere in —— —— Hes 
yem carried along, and lodged in 3 is an explanati ion of the disease now ſor the 
LAND DRAINAGE, abundantly testify the inj diei i 
d j Judiciousness of the system 
Tue very — pneis oy Spastic g large yo | allowing drains to remain open and un ekoi K e e Peh 9 4 sit of 
pa . ya — = he | many times happens that the mains and principal drains this grub, and the only remed adopted—a —— 
oopa are seg to slip s wa = in are completed, while the common ones are left open ; in | one, is breast-ploughing the turf and burning it. This, 
— —— — a aie p, pare after- which event the former most probably suffer, and the it must be confessed is a wast as e 2 if as 
pen ge ieg 1 sho bu ue 3 3 con- desire of reopening them and remedying the mischief is much care be taken as possible arry 3 burni 
— ah on Pipa a in | but too apt to be overruled by considerations of the | the charring — on aly 3 — be far better than 
pig iaa — a aaRS aap 25 cost, and hence the work is left such as it is with all its burning the r the turf to ashes 
ren ir practi ice to eni — unfitn ess for free and e efficient action. In short, every | Potatoes are woni S be . destroyed by e S 
. “a eee Gee: Oh eee 1 a re of asg r ee under the like circumstances is said to “ fly,” 
5 |: l nished condition as short a without any cause being» atte 
ue e are si once and | time as possible, and never for one single instant longer the wireworm—the u niversal destroyer inthe estima- — 
rde lin ough. e aying the | than is absolutely necessary, It will be said, how are he accused enemy 
| cn beut eg is a thing not to we to succeed in this! I reply, by making proper farmer informed me ahaa salt, from 2 to 3 8 
N =~ uae 3 is ra — result, | arrangements end provision for the work, employing | the acre, sown'as soon as the enemy w vered, 
Bes r e ; = with the | pr incipally careful — experienced workmen, and, in . ved to be a remedy in the south of England, My 
Bae 0 1 eee 2 intendent vho 5 considerable 1 we Seite. a ae ial here doubt the ee of using salt on their 
in useless j | stantly o ot. These ain soils; this, how is I think, a fai 
** 1 ae — _ finally e e up. Be onerous pinions e eee re are are im ig for —— tte since its gh n ency tom oi pried sh 
— i ices eal = z :% -e 8 edges; for, ita on those who would expend their mon ey with | would be much abated during the 3 and before 
however j ed, and of whatever mate- | effect, and wae oxpect to find etic i in the result. | any further cultivation of the land would 
the roots of these will assuredl R caps 1 
— i l y pene- | Replacing the earth into the should always be | Breast-ploughing vat utting the turf in heaps, and 
* r their e eee anything | done by hand, at least so Lenten e be eee. 3 1 4 d be Hee nsive, but i ‘the 
— — haat B ae more liable to be to protect the Mes rom inj T e expence and destruction of the ae is at risk it surely would be 
an other ins, and at the | expedite the work y the practice o ing | a į if this were done, with table sprink- 
g portance, so they are most in the whole with the plough; but, unless more | ling of either lime or salt between ev: 
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tines, involving not unfrequently in their carefully performed than we can expect to find at in the heaps leav it together for 
nit s asi the Sers drainage. If outlets the h hands of others, who feel little 3 in the geros months, wouid, i T havo no doubt, destroy this de emen. 
should be made ae ma = es or trees, the 8 me is * a method that never can be sanctioned, so apt or | insect. ——— 
lifted and renewed ni ms equently cleared out, o ain is injury to ee 3 the horses setting “chee, np its habits 2 se to be still further 
‘ore especial] e . sharp turns should be a rt r their í sae into the drain, or the tumbling in of large studied, and if farmers would but seek diligently for 
i y e case of the principal pas ains | stones, which must 3 break or displace the tile; the cause of every ee va ee crops, es 
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circumstances that scarcely 2 amount of caution will where insects 2 u he destroyers, some- 
d | altogether prevent. Parties may rest assured that they en = least ga ng remedying the 
i any disappoin evar adie whioh it must be e. bes: 
the work by the means I have now recommended rather 8 hate inherits ; B. 
than the other: at all events to a certain extent, viz, Some Thing which sae to be known.—A_ corre- 
- | putting as much earth over the tiles as s sufficiently pro- spondent reminds us, that in referring to the 3 
teets them from the sources of harm now narrated, i issi i i 
that vail drains should herm without ning out a game certificate, we should 
= neatly marked out and rutted off with the a they have aders that the privilege can only 
in „ ‘the claimant sending his nam name to the 
it 3 eee of stuff excavated, as such sa E sg urka of the petty sessions for the district wherein he- 
tile. | and is less injurious to thes of the tend dan when ich 
i i for poa e inspection of of the tax collector, to see who is en- 
finis! re titled to tho benefit of the Act and this brings to light 
efficiently . the more durably vog they de, para Something Comical. —Namely, these 
8 t drai the 1 ine nee pomija led to do something for nothing, as 
ork. There is something about a well-cut drain that mpelle e 
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The other end of | pleases the eee, ee at a glance; J John Duncan, 
ame time, be | Thornbank, St. Andrew’s, N. parie a Sirange.—Our per last year contained a 
ded with, to keep out — —[— ſew rks —_ a person bas by e er at 
a barbarous Home Correspondence. finding the plants growing fi eee Long Red 
ain drains, to Clover a: ~~ m = —Your correspondent | Mangold 8 to be > Yellow and Red Globe, and 
r what I | N. B., of observation, but like | for ge he 2 had n e explanation. Ap- 
common 8 is Aey a e 8 One of his remarks | proving of thes e especially Globe, 
are = closely connected with a cireumstance to which | he a an en quan “ei of the three * 
say half a dozen of each, in his 
finds the plants have resumed their original character, 
ing and ames year, that I venture to mention it, partly in explanation ; 
which cannot be of his query, hoping i it 22 not be wholly useless. i 
oe to fe good substantial | the whole field; all are Long R te 
y Whe epre toa N ased from Hane ibbs. I 
after Clover POR — ie ave asked for the reason — question ow can any p 
nd, | of this in the 3 ee and the reply has been, seed? Here is es fact of the Yellow and Red Globe 
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ust after C on some s Wheat is so pennak at from seed the " 
liable to fi 3 ie That is, eg i e after one season, the Yellow and Red produ 
pbc 5 se naceounted for, | exclusively the Long Red. m alogous, 
- | till spring, and then. 
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s | man ee fatted 25 large 
br ina malt mill,and given ¢ 
so numerous just beneath the surface eee. 
eee the space of a | success ; he fancies 4 bush 
