THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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to us, wit of the present day, as gi ven in modern 
week on farmin barbs I am struck 2 the fact that whilst | rie 
formerly the pj erg — raising of corn 
appears to have „ and fer- 
ely e 
tility was omen — a good ti age ‘aud working the | 
ce the derivation of th 
appears to me to 
wc fae value, leading 
g 
y practice has improved, 1 gen ve 
covered the W cost of manure, and 
larly of that which is raised artificially on the farm, 
I am aware I am broaching ideas which are not in ac- 
ings as the best 
tainty that attends Corn crops 80 raised, and the —— 
moro perfect tillage, and I have frequently felt inelined, 
from my success, to take old up > 
better working of land as 
8 mt day, but reflecting on the difficulty I should 
ve 
in 
to combat the prejudices against 8 ——— — 
ment of agriculture, I abandoned the attempt, and it is 
he 
place, Old Jewry, London 
Antiquity of CES Draining. —As the 32 
of or frequent draining is still by so 
doub d you an ex rom Salmon's Hitters 
of Hertfordshire, published in 1728. Until tiles were 
used th gh x and the neighbouring 
coun as bes it at i 
years a 
memoranda of my grandfather, a —— of Gilbert 
White, of Selborne,—. t White, Servald’s H. 
y an invention that ared th 
Essex, which they call eal dry-ditching qo 
inches deep are ona — across and athwart 
D, 
ere there is a ee So carry ae the water 
The — ` egg as laid by the he 
— . age is completely out Heroded, that i insi 
= sn om _ — over a beasts that eat straw dung straw, and the and the | gua can ten I e e er ge 8 
that none of the surface of the field is lost, as must be eee teas ee ee ee ceedingly. My stock of poultry bei ng somewhat eo f 
weas Oe — om ~ 63 eee. 1 tant the owner ofthe ol and — I sat an attentive listener, and heard 4 ~ 
— i eee stu re: 5 m to sav dians of our interests will - | hens. 10 pr patie ste bs 
And some only draw a lon ae r gir durable enough. | ply to secure the roperty of the e ene it e * which had — ra Sg 
ETC 
| who ighest e er for honesty and in- rendered fruitful ti 
See: is telligence. The effect of such a law would, I i Phe pine ned 
much — ee = y 32 — rie pea er the — would have f ra. Aar ig ha of robe esse is 1 
that aus tad a TOn n; the in-coming tenant would willingly pay for | only. Th 
—.— — CCC 
— 35 3 6 16 3 ani cua * ice wae Seca be cheaper to him to pay for . 9 — paii eee nane a 
this ve -pa in hard cib, 3 —.— leaving the pees * tena se på er sa t 8 bad rp tion eee ee 
condition sò o re i 
— *. of every owner of the 1 erer a land to fertility _ Let not the absurd notion | havi apang * e eggs 15 ae sh 
self these questions I. 1 Are m 2 ar at 1 landlord g decisively in this matter, thus clear] = s 
Itivat 11 tlie ee * we leur he will pac to pay a considerable sum for the i ma 3 — e Wg nowt 
travagant farmer. e a grain of fact o f thero beng # favouritism a 7 a 
labours | 
— Hewitt Dalle 3 — 
| 
| parish 
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its properties that were 
dest | animal consum 
on 
t | which are not themselves made profita 
Lincolnshire 
r sh 
| — and which every custom and law should encourage 
| — stands the lowest in money value 
in landlo 
1 ? and 3. Are there any old customs or bar- 
improvement that I can assist in provers doy 
myse 
respect 
Me and teiefly that the land at pres 
ſorthamp 
developmen: ? 
whi whe prs ains 2.000 a 
uch in — county) after allowing one- 
w is for purposes which + will 
more e |a Were quantity of — het it now does, 2247 75 0007 
and a year additional on the average of years be improvingly 
ra fro The 
tillage. | e 
“4 et om i effeet of this would b t the 
labourer would cease to be us 0 — 
and t and for labo 80 increased as to 
render it doubtful whether it would not exceed the 
, as 
then, asI d 
les upon prora eally productive farming can 
are, the breeding, rearing, and feeding cattle, pe aaah 
this country is peculiarly calculated ; that jus 
a 
he ha 
the cog Grass land a man Fr. (ex 
good meadow land, which is always 25 l advantage) i is 
4 
ire is not well cultivat ted, nor ever | since 
r 
eog hea: 
can ruminate upon at certain ‘periods of the year ; that 
every bullock from *the mom 
= 8 be kept under cover ; z that the making 
is the main object to which every farm 
of goo 
ould 
1 I proceed to ask what reason can be given for retain ing 
much land in Grass, which, of all the plants a farmer 
Id 
“pre fact (and if they ar 
treat them to Fosi he delusion no ea mike 
y class of 
cepting in the —— ae 
which = “incapable of improvement, unless 
graziers, can give more for them — 
ö I cite the remarkable cas 
land alone = not have ess worth a. 
t it is calved until it is 
as s for 
| me Ser success, owing to 
| venting them fro 
hi 
| mendat: 
mmon sense, even to ee himself upon his 
w to recover it by 
right, and nomen likely to be called upon to act as arbi- 
trators, would award com tion for ext avagant or 
fancy farming. I the Times a few 
0 
rty co-operation n of the own 
of the soil, I trust it shall not resis 
Salt.— 
you 
re respecting my Man 58 aer Wurzels on which 
Ih me of your correspondents w 
fect crop, without any variation of root: in the ring 
of 1846 k 3 a dozen or more of these roots Dy 
garden seed, and in the autumn I ere, about § 
5 or 12 Ibs. of pee. which JI sowed in t pring 
f 1847 ; this seed I w uld have ed per. 
5 for i true Long Red Mangold Wurzel—but to my 
great surprize Dee ief of the crop turned o 
and Red Globes, neither of which had I ever seen, | 
understand they a in the neighbourhood; but 
we put the 112 lbs. into 3 trusses instead of 
ee are sold 
— 1 
of 3 bushel 
ondon resonant guarantee only 185 Ibs. to the io mae 
you 40 lbs. 
9 some yea 
anon pa e tried 
with very 
o the sa rants oft the 8 1 5 
m eating poison, I have adop 
w 3 may not be ge enerally known ; “its simplicity fant 
as I 
tion. 11 you should think it worthy o of insertion 
in your ss ee J think its use will be peris 
with suce 
it along the beliy, et the in 
it up, takin 
arsenic, then sew 
— inj uriou sly. 
Manure 
manure, which is felt throughout the whole pRa ‘ot 
his farming, and the m i 
ischievous consequences of were dug not a single unso as found in 
are visited upon the farmer first, and upon the country | dressed portion —F. P. B. M. Jen 7. 
in in the long run. In h at I n by in- Drilled Wheat versus Broadcast.—“1 will pit m7 
e | ferior manure, I quote the following article from an broadcast 8 your ent said — Shaw, to Mr. 
able Journal :—“I r to understand the truth = Hillyar Northa Bete Will 
this, the firs hing to pe d buse our min eiie, Wheat turned 
that the manure has any fe rtilizing | | 
not contained in the food which the 
upon the land 
by passing it through beasts, 
table by the process 
han The 
= get. ‘oh tho landlord instead of the Ne l 
would give the 
min Thomas Eilis, Pe N 
with 
have not broken many e calles beipen 
ber, an urze-like r hedge-row timber ( 
ought to Þe e ornamenta, 5 brutish a look, 
may sa . 
red 5 and , having opened 
W. D. T. dressed a 3 ns r i 
tim- 
which 
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1 3 the . from à London ad. ; 
