THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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Btone with occasional fields of clay, r, ■ r 

 draining. N( *ed to be pro- 



duced are the same upon all 



^ense of such 



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The deuth of drains is a | 



such drains run first 









over that of shallow 





this supposing they n 



ust discharge 













age, ameliorating its 









all drain;*;.- Mi- nil 





placed therein to ca 









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education and scientific knowledge be applied to ag 

 culture as well as to every other art * Why should i 

 the principles of agriculture be taught in our scho 

 and colleges 1 and this first and most difficult of sciem 

 be rescued from disgrace ; and why does not i 

 Royal Agricultural Society offer prizes for the fin 



have been led to these remark 



mined advocate of the old plan of farming. 



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then he goes on to show the great advantages of thick 



Croydon, a farm under tl 



*the a farmer! y [M 



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But lest I may not be understood under this head, I 

 xpluin, ii reference to Mr. Taylor's data, that his 

 verage quantity of seed Wheat is ten pecks per acre, 



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Jsdford and "dear Coke." I am old enough to re- 

 oember the time when that notable letter of the 



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Mr. F. » L'hy,i,:i : u 



THIN SOWIxN 



a fortnight before to the farms in the occupation 

 Mr. H. Davis, but as I have been solicited by so 



before harvest, I have thought it the better plan to v 



t disgrace the otherwise eulightened I 



useful purpose. But, b 





b thin-seeding system 

 *age, Wix, Essex. 



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 The object of the Society which selected me„^ 



i^moreadWSJo»SS. , °'!* 



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iLS^trrZdtfBeSf^^^ 



ihat various matters connected with the rom^ 

 md economy of the Flax plant should be tffiS 

 uvestigated. You are aware that, until withl^E 



peaking of the obj* 

 ctention of the Society should be ebiefr 



analyses of^chemistry, as regarded^ 



he thought that, among other me!£t2 



| lied to the making such analyses, be 



generally. He 1 « 



to Dr. Hodges, that he had a 









should steadily be 



he f ssi 



by the Royal Agricultural Society of E pg ,an ^' iflE 



position of dressed Fla: 





x E i P ?io P n e of Flax fibi^j'and upon analysing d 



. t ^'LfeTShe^meral in«**j 

 ; prov.J, and N-^- 



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show the usual quantity of w**» {ha , e ««* 



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 produce of ™« V£ D % of • ■■& 

 ane has totally forgotten i thee ^^ * » 

 scutching tow" which, ua" «"■ 



