THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



er I have frequently, when all the priucip 

 ds, &c, had been gathered up and placed i 



en round with large rakes to rake up every particle 

 Grass or other vegetable matter, and the email 



. drilled into the hea 

 riveted to the head, with a .spike attache 



for our modern theorists, 1 cannot for a 



i of Holkham. But do 



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prevent it (the handh 

 should always be in 



particularly as they ; 



burn thoroughly, with 



Hiv.'.u , to erect the s,d on end (if they are not square) 



■■Is which are placed in th, 



middle, only having their grassy sides presented to each 



side next to tit. ea y «j of the ] 



whole to be set up as compact as possible. Wi.e n the 



heap is thus erected of a dome-shap. , 



I -sod should be 

 placed. Auy clay, with a moderate degree of sward. 

 nded to, produce a qua 



previously described, only a very small amount of 



ashes can be procured, and the entire destruction of 



the clots of clay 



Is, according to the state of temperature and the.ti 

 ; beginning and the end of seed time, even on 

 :e ? If they do in practice, I have never been a 



itherto stood tolerably high. Suppose, by way of 

 hange, we deliver over our Clover layers, and other 

 inds intended for Wheat, to the tender nicrchs of the 



■ from Mr. Baker, of Wri 



tirely of the seed therein deposited. This is clearly 

 a palpable misapplication, of the system. But 

 1, gravel, 



3 generality of N 



My first experiment 

 That part produced i 



e provided against. ~.\. y y' u Uht , 

 ■— Will Mr. J. \ Va ; 

 DOTW, and be pleased to ex", 



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D00 years.; and^ the ^^ff 

 ich extensive gavelkind estates are to the f u 



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:r (modestly) suspendinj; th. 



' ■ '; lht -v of all : :.m- mm^e.die property for Lor. 



■ f. r - J - Earner may rest assured that the 



made liable to legacy and probate duties (though U 



< state requires no prolatel 



: - i he will astutely discover and show how i' 







Correspondence. 



dly alluded to by 

 :rhaps have beer 



tice have been in some degree 

 right with all, win 



understood, I wish to set n 





;ially in thinly populated districts, of meeting 

 iiands enough to get in the whole crop by dibbl 



siderable breadth from being so deposited every j 



It la a practice the importance of which is att> "t>" 



great mistake. Tl 



the crop than is generally imagi 

 suppose, for arguments sake, tha 



id, suffered myself to be beguiled" in to "the practice "of 





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1 freely own I k 



' darkest " of th<. 



i :! on, of C- ,-Ie- 



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to speak out loud against the 



save money, and ultimately to lose ] 



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be relied on. It is a soil 

 poverty of which prevents the plants fro 



Acorns.— Thin being an abundant year for Acorns, 

 arties who use them to feed pigs will do well to damp 

 !iem, so as they sprout similar to Barlev, auvr.var - 

 rying them on a barn-floor or outhouse. They are 



rfo°od e of\he 

 4 lb. of mad- 



they will be liable to distemper. The pigs while' on 

 Acorns should not be confined in the stv, I 



jestion. To 

 give them 2 bushels of split Peas and 2 



. 



f Turnips could be 8 



sively practised in England. 2. There are one or two 

 papers in late numbers of the Gazette in which 1 think 

 the writers have mistaken their experiments for original 

 discoveries; these are— 1. Aeration of La At 

 p. 611, Simon Hutchinson says, "on the 10th of 

 February, 1846, I recommended (in a pamphlet) this 

 practice,at that time entirely new to the public." Wow, in 

 the " Potato Problem S lve'd," by the late Mr. R A: :!. :r. 

 of E iinbur-h, pu! li he.l M u- 1815, it is said, "Atmos- 

 p'lciie Drains. .v. — hi Loudon'- <. m: mr's M>." ■ , 

 for July, 1837, I threw out an idea that the tunnels 

 formed by drain tiles might be employed in conducting 

 large quantities of atmospheric air into the earth ;" 

 of the drains in a field might be atmospherical^ c ■•- 



night or day, dry or moist air could 







• -oil, must e 



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)ur drains are used only on wet soils t > carry . u ■ 



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ig water to pass into them from a r< ■: rvoir. i ■ ' 



tak. n in in ^ oui u's Suffolk Hep. if. V U '• \, . 



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