THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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r out. The work 



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JL^J and the wished for " Victoria county " will be 

 Mi** the produce and profits of 150,000 acres to the 



5 and resources of the nation. 



foe soil is principally peat, consisting of decayed 

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6 water is drawn off hy rood diaitn^, -h ■ s, i! ,;.■,<-.. 

 Blades, aud becomes exceedingly ferl 



litf. Being so loose and light, however, the surface 



ag, which is neai , 

 effects precisely the 



« grown,— Wheat yielding 6, 7, or even 8 quarters pe: 

 per acre. Two important alterations have been made 



j.and the use of bone 6 dust. The 



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 •ibom Jo vegetable growth, no that the fanuer"has 



* «ner art*fr l f ° rthe gree ". Cl "° r9 ' and a great deal 



m**?:*?*** Coles <*d, and the°aim »nd » m ™i 



kf ^ hollow H • a Present, to allow of a fal 



^•"tolan* -w 3 ' and specially s0 on farms con 



wiarge drains or main rivers whioh ,.*>„„ t ,tr 



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^overflowea n S w',^?- Uti l/'- 1 " '"*'' ' l f " :U!,J " di 

 2»g C^*** of *w5e sea I 



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Sj 008 of the most prT,e ' H t,,n, ' S ll " ' ' lln •" • 



crops of grain. This was supplied by dressiug thei 

 thoroughly with marl. ° 



It must in candour be stated that unreclaimed pes 

 laud possesses _ the disadvantages of both the abov 

 and it is too feeble to carry grain crops without lime c 

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tains a strong antiseptic |.ri::.-ip|,.. uMch e-m-.-s ; : ■ 

 resist the decomposition ! ,th oi i» own ve- ta ■'< co 

 stituents and of substances placed ;,-, if. ,\l- u:v ; nst .-mc< 



when the disease was so serious in all other k 



cashire produced a loss of about half a crop on vl .„» 



the e*tent of the damage generally wa> not m re than 



greater in Ireland ofa similar 'soils, but I cannot help 

 suspecting that bad drainage was one principal cai 



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be greatly hastened by api'dic- t on ,,! a e. in a !•« 



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 ma during part of spring and autumn. Suppose t! 

 nust h UDder . shelt ^ 2 00 days in the year. Eaeh 



tnnTcows1vm^e e d th ab S u req - ire U ^ * *™ 

 which may be supposed to grow on" iVat/eTof land 



Jrp 6 a r able knd ' then ' ma >" be topped thna :- 



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■ thoroughly drai 



There are three great fault! 

 committed by persons who unde 

 peat bogs, and which are the . 



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The first is, that the drainage is seldom effectually 



tho sfricte-t attention to th,s ;.. ii'.r. «. v- jjthi. a - ! Pl . i„ 



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t i.v U c i <t di.- m. r , eat - i Is is not great, and the 



deep peat land, by which 1 mean "land in which tli 



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■plied with v-.iy little horse labour or cost of iroph 

 ents,it is the material to be used wherever it on ! 

 found. Four tons to the statute acre ia a sufficiei 



third great error which is committed in reclain 



' t v are lu'.ni,,, ,1. Tlu< l< 



, and tho summer 



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n <H poftea str . 



i go-.d Grass land i 



ate system of husbandly, i t then produces »v- r y 

 - ' '.Vh.-iit ; andtiiat in iu''dt>r;>t"' 

 ities. The crops of Oats and Bark-/ aie wry 

 those of Turnips and Potatoes c.ua'iiv so ; and 

 of Grass much Utter than are Welded 

 generality of land. 



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N Mid Vetches; 



twed, for them by the pur- 

 . ^Returns for one year :— 





doubly** when the*] 



ar's proceedings :. 



