802 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
seed should be used. It should be eraga to meal: 
the a thorough boiling of the whole seed is not 
ieut as boiling for a few a a es only the 
so | 
seed e to faa It is a remarkable thing that 
even in the case of siimaa 
roved to exist 
angenan be n SCOTCH aT FARMING. 
re HAVE lately been looking over some of the far- 
d East Lothian “farming, a and as you doubtless gir 
rea rhaps from some 
ation | weapesh 
vhole, 
mitted to 3 in 
very few 
n 
ing out 2 epee d eet of im- 
poe ent, and a system of cu more 
gthened period than is — gu Pro: 3 by our 
— 
ng | mills 
t same quant 
d qu 
exchange three at aai 8), a 
labour in 
m 
my lands—they re 3 3 a vulgar manufac- 
turing air, and I s y face against the 
Doubtless this young 5 Seoth iin hed “at educated in 
ogland, 
ading— emely diverse from 
teu Seateh iit and love — N making; or, per- 
we e he e influenced by 
g objec 
that this anid Tend. 
ers ornamenting h 
2 beide, like his neighbours. This fa et, I meh goes far 
to prove that I am ee. in $ peee y o the steam tl 
as one of the great mean nabling the ae to p 
those enormous rents 
whole of East Lotbia these 
so constructed, thn with half a ton ef coals a 
six or § ds 40 qrs, per day of Wheat could be 
threshed aa rs — sacks ready for market. This 
ity, mp on 
chines, would re 
new without tall e 
of reshing ma- 
A least nets 785 (in order to 
ands, 5 h it 
s it 
only, eidon five or six er iy a winnow 
z 0 8 to mt cost of oe nee 
ne day. The 
and w apparatu 
of one of our 6 horse The 
conviction of the vast superior 
farm ations 
reshing machines. 
ity of steam over manual 
is fast gaining gro even in 
best me ee farmers the 
e g mmon 
ass of the 
prenens letter, » Aan anything like a full or ine com- 
par n betwe 
nts, or whether it is that their manual labour | 
mhii I have yet rde 
133 t than ours, 
survey 
interesting t. 
lars just a the Scot 
periority o 
I am scarcely able w ae after 3 
etot 
ur 
corn · rent, and in years of the lowest abe their — 2 
uch exceed ours, on land of similar v nd 
us, ara 
troduced, 
ull those matters connected. with their farmis, which, 
Inde ed 
crets of. 
9, 
with 
it is all but considered to be a piece of p 
and man’s rent in 
had asked for a sight of 1 his 
— reserve is only the 
jenancies, and destroys inevitably ga t only that healthy 
mutual confidence that should ever eri 
ea ce 
fa ap 
Es 
ry 
very m 
seedy and anxious hig give you the 
advan antages and profits, however 
3 much it enban 
— Me l t d 10 i 
even in the lowes price years 
than we do, 
9 partly f. 
aan over e A ok a 
a pound of and a bottle of = Meee tae day, with 15 
i uently in 
harvest time. This, 2 wi i the v 2 saving from 
an yment of steam. 
must „ che — 1 of labour 
low 
in ——— our best 
enquire how much 
e a fair expenditure | or 
| ae of ane and trie 
e an is 
details and results of 
for . and wa 
2 
“ia ag 
and 200 acres of 
dressing = this erop, 
metimes pepe ed, together with a 
quantity of farm-yard 2 manure, quite uae 5 that which 
is here applied as the sole 3 oor Tar mnipe This 
ra it 
5 to fe ed s 
rease : their lands, that boy can much 
more frequently, ze 
formerly don 
rly abandoned, and 
ow one-year seeds arley after Turnips is fre- 
e followed by Oats, Beane, and Wh 
times the following rotation is adopted : 
: Bar my „Clover, mown ; 
ats. 
ee 
2 
oo 
E 
midst all these many 3 that iti is quite 
ible to give more than a faint idea p- 
N there are still so 
ould be 
cia 
snows, shou 
aE ropes, s —* over 2 other at 
Y intervals, = pi a a omae sak few 
na 
gleams of 
sunshine make the snow glid like so many mimic 
avalanches. But still more extravagant an expenditure 
abour does it seem to an English farmer, to 
sands of “straw whippi m t 
P 
any pecu 
And even when a single 
Bean stalk and broke the brittle — part, leaving only 
ved tside, with 
across the field in 
8 woke I — could as zonvines him that 
be tied “ whippies.” 
em !” | judice in 
with some of the | ment I cou 
ad bee mbue 
. ae high — aristocratie pias of factories | i 
ions 80 the | i 
enuine romantic 
ve of his . Scoteh hills, whieh he epid on 2 isn 
ed 
hole is, I ve, 
not much above 2007. very little more . double “the 
o | cost 6 h thr 
outine of | vite 
c 
5 visit wil pea 
e- | many farmers tha ot be an uliarity in | ins 
pias he physiologieal E of their Bean stalk that ren- 
X- 
that smal 
l 
The selection — so a A 
stra 3 
rea the e 
b 
are 3 
6 euperior re 
sion th ularity of i 
seed is is paa as hó a si 1 at which the 
w miles from Haddi 
foot of the 5 hills, I cold he pa Ae 
n fi 
good reaso 
columns, J 
te e farmers 
the Seoteb, 
not fear to . * on your. 
e some very valuable — 2 En 
rietors of as m 
speak from ee bee that a m 
good houses, and live in as 
cres 
and veri 
e for 
all I oe said of this — district, 
e them that the day is come 
when skill and — ae education is is onp 
with se te e on itherto humble and mach 
sta gre ape sa Bias. the soil.” The Lothian 
the in the march of improvement, 
— — soe pe their. pig J. F. 
CHEAP MANURING. ite IV. 
We have 
cheap, cag essential, eh 
A the soil by average cro 
ed plants . But of th — enumerated, we may trut 
four, Silica, ‘Alu umina, Iron, and Magnesia, to the m 
ene of ne 55 (except mere peat, sand, on 
a fifth, Lim of good hu 
constituer 
of our 
e particular crop or course. 
table will sar the clearest nt well as the s 
LO EOE INGREDIENTS CARRIED OFF BY AN 
RODUCE, ee TO BE RESTORED BT 
ONERE MANUR 
2,73 
0,29 
3,02 
4,32 
0,92 
5,24 
— — 
3,63 
6,89 
10, JEL “20,56 25 
Wheat Grain 25 bshls. 
Straw 3000 lbs. 
Barley Grain 40 bsbls. 
Straw 2650 lbs. 
557 205 0 ae 
5.25 E Pass 
9,22 25,16 
352 14, 
355 —— — 
12.47 
8,15 
11,38 
14,53 27,52} 2% 
8,80) | 
ee — yi 
siss 
Oats a 50 bushels 
w 8800 Ibs. 
Total 
19,85 . 
enna 
— ant 1 
1232 1 
4,30 
2,72 
Beans Grain 25 bshls. 
Straw 2800 lbs.] 90,21 
103.81 7,02 
26,70 7,7 
222,56 7.44 
50,44 99,81 in 
Buin 36,71 39,84 
1731 18,16 
6.76 9,58) 28,00 
an m 
1 ar 
13,60 | 3 
Total! 
Red Clover 4,40 
noon = en 
s 1000 lbs. 
08) 50,20) 
13, 
= 00 
2, 66 
r 82 Rean 
231, 11,48 Gus! “34,07 
weneee 
— 
Cabbage 20 tons 900 lbs 105 
v, we have to restore to waa 
e straw, i 
torres 
Turnips 20 tons 
Tops 1850 lbs. 
he best supply of phosphor! 2 
will be bone dust; because the tess 1 
it certai th e ie 
never know how much he was we 4 
dust will contain e, 25 per cent. 
and will require on 
third its weight of strong sulp 
ende luble; and ches 
cost, either in crude 7 
the pister rina liquor of 
P the most ditheu 
b ber centa 8 
prac 
3 ; leaving ae 5 . the table 3 
was | vided for 
r 
e now to show the actual quantities of these 
ur respecte aló 
