43-1847.]_ 



E AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



JUJ-S it too absurd a theory to require refuta- 

 Fjf my friend cannot cultivate laud on my system 



*£zL Sete success ; and that it is rapidly extending 

 S&ftand, and will extend the numerous proofs are 

 clear and convincing to be mistaken. But with 

 Ul-l to my own doings, I shall seed the same field 

 STtttumn with one peck per acre, which I seeded last 



JhTe°nsed only 1 peck of seed, but I had then no 



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 . lamed and scientific friend has constructed one on 

 Lpose for me, and which will be tried by me this 

 MB only, who will be able to phut 7 ncrcs a <h\ with 



J, it will be a national benefit, and be the best gift ever 



£ bellowed on agriculture. But should it not succeed 

 k* will be my own, and I think those gentlemen 

 ,ho eunot understand or appreciate attempts of this 

 tod should nevertheless be charitable, and spare their 



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. , Oct. 13. 



i good deep loam, rather 

 t important 



are not well ada] 

 s ; 1st, Rye, with Tur 

 Rye is cut ; 2d, Oats ; 



fa What, the usual 

 ■ the lame year afi 

 Poaioesor Carrots : 4th, Rye and Turni 



sand becomes a goo 

 Omrj and if the soil is fit* fo^Barley/t 



^ "taunted for Rye. On the heavier loai 

 >i> for the seed frc 

 prepared. 

 The land is so cultivated as to improve f 

 w soil, which is abundantly mai 



^ areVlso~u7e"d w 

 ed, and are considered excellent 



he field, and it is left so for a few , 

 e may suck in. This should be ac« 

 iddle or end of April. The land 



. 



. odden in by nier 

 Is in gardens ; kl 



This is a wo, 



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"■oies deep every yej 



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^e£takeu e, o U To d f U°em & spread evenfy^ver'the 

 *«J»j • e Corn ls sown - When the ground is 

 JJged again , cure is taken that the place of these 



aside. T 

 : deepened, ai, i 



' i been put on. This 



£SS ' ,aS , be ? tleated iu this manner for se 



fSS* ff 2£f T y be 'r ked u p° n as a s * 



»aUT\IL!i Cles dee P- Potatoes or Colza are 

 'biehW WUh a doubie P° rtion of manure, after 

 T ^pa S A 8 ° Wn Siightl >' man «ed, then Rye, with 



^ii« 12?^ and stored for ™ ter use ' The 

 "6 «nd all?he ' , ed ^ hUe the Turni P s were S row - 



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 *?» «d it Xf U Pl ' e ' ' nA - ! ,lt ' 1 <>vt r it si n. c - 

 rf ^ and a™ Xpoted tothe mellow : ,, u u , , 

 ^prenam ' AS soon a9 *e . 

 ^ , ^ulveri^the^onTn PlOU8llin?and - h *^ W " 

 "^Ottih Jl?/!fi* , bo . wli!, g-green, if there is no fear 

 ^thenj. lSamdedl «to beds, with v 



manuring, about which the ± 



careful. On every farm there is 

 w , orE «». the dvJ,^' m , ucn the urine of the cattle 

 ^ d where tt?^ 1 ' '" Un 



. 



t^enta.onVy ff made t0 Under S° the P utieIac " 

 E?***. NothiL "£ m,xed with olhers > p^^aiiy 

 tsT^ 106 ' when it u ° B at or Putrefaction more 



I it::; 



undergo the putrefac- 



;" c n the objects a( 



buried half an inch de< 



only on the lightest soils^ 



boards nailed closely ovei 

 the grouud, to level and g 

 the plants of Flax come u 

 them also some weeds. J 

 inches high, the weeds are 

 and children, who do this a 

 both to see the weeds bett 

 with their feet. They tie 



possible. 66 This iaSeAi 

 been bent down by creepi 

 the wind in rising. The 



lowed to ripen, the Flemish seed would be as good as 

 tat from Riga. But it still remains to be proved 



When the Flax begins to get yellow'at the bottom of 

 te stem, it is time to pull it, if very fine Flax is de- 



:ic ; but then the seed will be of little or no value. It 

 , therefore, generally left standing until the capsules 

 which contain the seed are fully grown, and the seed 

 formed. Every Flax-grower judges for himself 

 what is most profitable on the whole. The pull- 

 ing then begins, which is done carefully by 



collected in larger 



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baudhs, raid placed \ 

 other end is spread t 





sufficiently dry, they 



middle, and stacked in long narrow stacks on the 



are long, and 6 about 8 or 9 feet high, and 20 to 30 feet 

 long. If the field is extensive, several of these 

 stacks are formed at regular distances ; they are care- 

 fully thatched at top, and the ends, which are perpen- 

 dicular, are kept up by means of strong poles driven 

 into the ground. This is the method adopted by those 

 ping till i 



too large to pi 

 s broken off, : 



or on a cloth plai 

 eld by the roo! 

 Lfnaeedfells on a 



jet-bat. The bundles a 



Home Correspondence. 



.•;' prevalent iu the noithern pi. vtuc 



igh as any of our race of d 



perigrinations, traveling 



ick breed, and of goats, generally jet black and very 



we 'in passing. & 

 ■ ' only, with their packs of dogs, often as many 



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20. Thed 



vith another sa 



ancts, marching round a 

 ,a!ly day and night, eve, 



■ 

 [ and round t 



,s to take repose, 



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keeShemtnaTr Ejte^s rfS^ or 



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-trade, is different. The bundles of FlM ;in or, but there .a 





free from the seeds The whole is then immersed in the nver, boards loaae j 



