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way will as far as five Wr. ground into mat that of the adjoining" acre was 3 quarters and 1 strike. but experience has taught me they are va 
besides which, i in the ease referred to, erty aved 51. This is the measure of the corn before being winnowed; | layers, commencing usually in October, and c, tariy 
e ding. Something Alarming Typ ene vou will therefore perceive that, in this instance, wn their supply through the winter and ear} n 
mentions the a rance, to ery aris extent, of a sowing has not succeeded ; W. Ostler, Jun., Arnold | months, when eggs are scarce and dear ; id ee 
grub or worm, 2 98 80 the ate i in the neigh- | Field, Grantham. who set a value on early chickens or a constant — 
e. of Ep som, being lodged in the joint from Koh! Rabi.— As some of your readers have been sion, mney are invaluable, as a hatching can be 
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hence the ear springs, there eating its way through, | asking Bir information about the cultivation of Kohl j duced at almost any period. Should this find PA n 
and then dying for want of ed He speaks of Rabi, I take the liber rty to send you a few remarks on in your columns, I shall be tempted to 
— great deficiency i in the crop; he has de- that subject, having grown some of it annually for 20 | largely on the merits of my favourites ; D., G 
— the same complaint in . Supposing years. I shall state in = few words as I can the Hydro Incubator.—Inaletter which I addressed ye 
for a moment the same or a like disease should in system of cultivation which I have found to answer | some few weeks since on this subject, I quoted verh om 
an ther season pervade the Wheat crop, accompanied best in both the e garden and ba field. To grow it as a from the County Press of Oct. 29 1847, which = 
by the Potato disease, the consequences would be such | culinary vegetable, and to have it nice and 3 vrs a lengthened report of the annual s 
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d tre n ires to be sown 
yet the difference between these two plants is too trifling | different times, viz. : about the Ist of 3 dA been made by Mr. Bailey, of Mo —— 
ling of uneasi subj inni ay or i i 
f Ha s 
so prevalent last year, broke out simultaneously, that is — two or three sapi eaves, mre should be ho figures that gentleman gave, and concluded 
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from any com mmunieation sts each other; Delta. e finally planted — in lines about 2 feet ‘span and | rected or contradicted by Mr. Bailey himself, that 
Crops in Fifeshire. „at p. 677 of your Paper, 18 inches in the ve a “sated in the autumn | report was su cone correct. The County Pres g 
a report of your Mid Tad correspondent, in which should remain in the nursery bed over the winter and Saturday last contains a report of the mee 
he says he “had made various extended trips, through | be planted out in F de in drills a 5 ‘abot ve meen. in | Herts e Society for the present year; Mr, 
the three renin Stirlingshire, Fifeshire, Perthshire, | well manured and deeply worked pme nd. These will | Bailey is there reported to have denied the 
and part of aR Sent throughout the w ole the | be ready for use in June, July, and August, and those of the former report in almost every particular, I fee 
Wheat, Oa 10 * nd are supe erabundant;’’ he | sown in the spring and summer will continue fit for use | it but right, therefore, to forward to you without 
— informs us „ thet he whole is of fine sly until June comes again; thus supplying a useful Mr. Bailey’s amended report, although it appears to me 
and in higher condition than he ever remembers it,” | vegetable all the year round for the poor who have got | even in its present shape not to be sufficien 
— “that only a portion of r Bean crop and some a bit of ground to grow it in, and especially in winter more especially as as — the Badr length of time t 
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w, will this gentleman, who 3 counties in this The young and tender leaves may be used for greens, | regret at having thus unintentionally y Torvadal inf 
‘wholesale manner, be kind enough to Deliris us whether | but these re ses — pan — otherwise it will | an incorrect version of what was certainly spoken ix 
‘the took his trip by rail, and if so, how he could form an retard the growth of t s, which E amas in | my presence, although Mr. Bai y 
2 alley ma ibly not 
opinion of the crops of any part of Fife, with the excep- strong rich soils will igh: — than a stone each; regret having thus had a fair ley may Ps aa 
ion of the immediate neighbourhood of the railway! | when they come to anything like that ne — er, him of correcting the original mistake, so that, as be 
Will he further inform us how, when all the crops ex- ee = not fit for "n use, as they get hard and | himself says, “the rep orters m may set him right with his 
cept a small portion — in, if he may be believed, he and should only be used as food for pan I friends and the isla? The report of aaa 
could form any accurate judgment as to the quantity nok that Kohl Rabi is the most profitable vegetable | which I — rs as follows: “ Mr. Bailey 
of — ? Yet het tell us s they are s e e nt. that a poor man can grow, of food, turned thanks, and stated that he wished to correctsom 
If yo will that | good management, can be produced from a small piece | mistakes whi ch! had been made last year through a mis 
1 superabu undant ” means “ more ran pemes h. ” — of ground — the om furnishing a good supply of ee on the part of the gentlemen of the pres, 
TIl answer for the Fife farmers that whenever he proves | greens, and the bulbs when boiled and sliced, with a or his own want of sufficient clearness in expressing his 
the truth of his statement, they will five him all their little melted butter or fat, make a very palatable dish mi He said that in the rearing of poultry he hime 
‘superfluous grain for his trouble. But to be serious; it | for the poor, and in these 3 every thing should be had paid 81,0007. for poultry, and in the same peril 
‘is now 13 days since the date of the above report, and | cultivated that is adapted to increase the food and in | had paid for wages in rearing poultry 3000/,, and tht 
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i ospects for not for cattle must m eir seed beds rdingly. sum in wages. Po w. € 
Then as to the quantity of the crops, it is now well | About the middle of March, or a few days later, is El Dorado, &c.” If my quotation of the original repot 
enough known throughout Fife, that though the Oat the best time for sowing the seed for a field erop, bas then at length called Mr. Bailey’s attention for th 
crop is heavy nt i i i 
y, the Wh of being 
not above an average, whilst the Bean is as decidedly | pricked out into a nursery bed, if the weather was to such a glarin mistake whieh, by being thus 
wit. I must say, that under these circumstances | favourable at the time of planting, they would do very | ferred to your columns, it has — circulated more ex- ; 
an average 2 with fully ee ppe exposed and | well without it. In es find them to do equally as | tensively than might e have been 
growing as fast as the continued rain the thermo- | well to sow at once in the drills in the same way as that gentleman has no ground of complaint j mi 
meter at 60° can make “it I — ayit 2 rather hard 2 a bout the Beginning of May or a little earlier | although I must again express my regret that 8 i 
‘to see it published through the any te and breadth of | if the weather be favourable ; this saves a great deal of | correct a statement should have thus found eer 
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spondent further informs us that the damage to the | mical plan to dibble in the seed about 14 or 15 inches | value, since they are proved in very m 
‘Potato erop — not exceed 15 per cent. Really the apart in the drills, dropping two or three seeds into 3 the truth, even at the eleventh hou YA Suber 
‘idea of judging the per centage of diseased tubers| each hole ong the top of the drills, and when the | and Member of t the Agricultural Socie fee 
whilst whirling along at the rate of 40 miles an hour is| plants are strong enough to be thinned mh to leave Cantelo's Hydro-Incubator.—As a — 
2 8 ; only one plant in each hole, and otherwise hoe and must follow the course of Mr 
Poultry. — The many admirable articles your Paper | clean the ground the same as for Turnip spied when | what I saw at Mr. Cantelo’s. s 
has presented to the public on poultry, must have ex- | the bulbs get about the size of a man’s hand, raise a of July this year that I determined upon 
cited in many, as in me, a great desire that the subject little earth to the stems with a hoe or plough, but not myself, The es _ I 8 
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‘particularly to small farmers, to whose wives and weather without being injured by frost, but whether dryin 
dau eee it mainly contributes to farnich 1 their few cultivated for kitehen use Fe for stock in winter, there hatched Bis day 5 8 > felt th 
a requirements. There are many ladies, at shoul always a portion of them, ee to the e of the waterpr 10 cloth, and 
in the” counts country, — take a great interest in ee pte up in fine weather and stored the same sieri 8 1 next saw the different 
poultry as ak anand unfailing amusement. The | way as Turn * to be at hand in case of severe frost or their hydro-mothers, from a da 
subject then being profitable to some, and highly inte- sn j plenty of manure and dee eep osters. . were t 
ng to others, why should not every encouragement =e on food strong wall, a heavy erop might be ex- were hu so ll. grown fowls; and 
‘be given to it, so that the best breeds may be more pected, perhaps from 20 to 30 ; in | f. in perfect 
ougho n h e may be called Turnip soil, Turnips will give a still it mhe me that the place out. doo 
should it not be considered an essential part of the | heavier erop; I m may add that both e Rabi and | unsuitable for the full devel 
and deserve the attention or the Royal Agricultural | Turnip crops are greatly increased in weight by hav ing E. Hulme, Clapham. [Thanks 
Society! An “exhibition of the different breeds would | the ground subsoiled, which, ge the exception of will you be kind enough to 
* undd attract great attention, and create an thorough 3 is the test improvement that February. That, if favoura 
a. ee in the Society’s annual Show, par- farmers can — at attention A ; and as we have] deed, to Mr. Cantelo, and e 
ticularly to gentler sex, to whom at present it offers — about 1 i mvc I — favourable result in the summer mo! 
s. If the m eemed wo o send you a few remarks on io 3 that unlikely. You are altogether 
think the a 5 plished the work, 3 ell as — the be neficial Talai characier = the correspondent whose © 
. s pa ; arisin m crops having a deep loose soil — their] you con 
r of the Roya „ Society. pres, run in, e green crops ; “Vari s Alex- s — of Poultry Keeping.— 
_ Comfrey.— = answer to“ Lusor’s” inquiry respect- 8 Heath Farm, Athy, I — 12 years of age, I commence 
me Ste Game Fowl.— have “yeaa with massed me father had a great prejudice agains 
i grown it for two years, and cannot get either cows | articles which have appeared from time 8 time of his father avin ‘peek se 
eat eee on Baar ae of domestic c poultry, but g Sa unprofitable stock kept, except lap- 
been a to my t 
- in the s ring, and cattle generally eat auything | am — merous ei contributors none have only a Grass field to run in. 
= a with avidity when first offered to them. “ W. F. L.“ aui their | — or their voices in 1 of the game in nt expenditure, I found my e 
-asks which i hicory | fowl. I will premise by stating that I am an amateur money, and that I had the chic 
cidedly of five-and-twenty years’ practical ee during books, &e. I was so proud 
quires a deep soil, and which period I have tried nearly all the popular | opinion being fully established, 
| ies, namely, t i Dorkin di as 
being taken with it; A North Essex black Spanish, Polish, and Hamburgh, almost all the Many a good laugh I have had 
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pecks an acre, The land is —. — wil drained, _ mmend me to a well fed game fowl. I am| hatch re coal theebiekensand twice he san 
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aware that it will be objected to me that they are not lasting layers, are e 
py was SS well manured. ce of f the | good Is ayers, and to those to whom this desi sneha um is 2, —— tar he e 
thinly sown was 2 quart ers, while | of paramount importance I would not not recommend them; them well; these never cast 
