THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



[Oct. 23 



There are ma: q 



a of this descrip- 



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 ng during a period of experiment wo 



.0/ Question— What is the average yield 

 'otatoes 9— The Irish Estimates of the Potato 

 i I have always questioned the aecur; 



B applied to Ireland, and c< 

 ivcn in February) have been f 

 omparatively small amount of fi 



a reply to Mr. J. W. Rogers' letter 

 _iven a number i 



7,000,000 quarters). I tin 



is year in Ireland, from short planting, 

 3,600,000 tonB of Wheat (that is, to 

 '• ink I shall be able to show 



i table, and I abam 



think 1 was 

 tins will be 



1 I rarely obtained ( 



; simple 



2 Mr. Rogers may 

 often attempted on 



quarters), I fancy I need say little. Why, the wh. 

 agricultural produce of Ireland, corn, cattle, and Po 



value of 36,000,000/., and the population is oi 

 8 millions. The entire quantity of foreign grain i 

 ported into Great Britain in the year ending S« 

 tember 5, 1847, and which had to supply the void 

 Potatoes, Oats, Barley, Beans, and Peas, did r 



talked of as a deficiency in the growth of Potatc 

 in Ireland. The importations of Wheat amount 





•otatoes in Ireland 



marters, so that of last year's importations 6 milli< 

 marters, and 6 millions only, supplied the vacuu 

 hat the loss of Potatoes, the deficient growth of Oa 

 md Barley, the failure of Beans and Peas, a deficie 

 mpply of winter Greens, and a long unusually seve: 



four readers to my article, in February last, head* 

 ' Exaggerated Irish Estimates ; " as, on perusing it , 



Jewry, London, Oct. 11. 



Land will grow Potatoes with less preparal 



admit late spring planting. They, too, o'ecupy t! 

 ground only half the time of Wheat, and admit 

 piece of 1 



time of Wheat, and 

 op in June and a 



-aud a difference of more than a hundred per cent 

 deducting the cost of seed (the principal expe 

 growing Potatoes) remains in their favour. The error 

 in su P , smg so large a return to be an average growth 

 .. is, . ,i : . . m ttt „ f. m calculations based on in forma- 

 tion taken from gardeners or growers on a small 

 and with very h.gh cultivation, and also from we 

 crops when fresh taken out of srround : in both 



ways wouJd gross nii.se.. 



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. return them double the yid 

 obtain, and by the same means might Wheat be mad 

 to return 7 or 8 quarters to the acre in place of 3 or < 



acre ofXtatoes returns haf to YeTrawn^ Thodd t 

 made upon the yield afforded under similar care an 

 expenditure. Another source of error has probabl 

 been in not allowing for the large loss of weight th 

 sh out of groun 

 - of its weight is water hnt WW 



hereby to cafcu 



md of that of 

 lative ' ^ far - mi ° g culti * vation the'above prices bear 

 raised, and if this is so there 



bether or not a pound of Wheat be not in 



d jrso e wV mus5rokTsomt oTher^'caSon 

 for the general use of Potatoes in Irelan i 

 cheaper production, or their larger produce of food. I 



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vr::;: 



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;ions of the dis< 



ly sorts are secure and w 11 fl p ' 



districts near the Malverns, the city, al excel !?» 

 tirbourn^ a sound nt bu n t ^ KcDt ' Chester to £j 

 of age has' raised' for 0^1' from^t^lZLl^l^ 



ess*?..-** B ^-.. ??£EZi* 



Onymal Subscriber. ^ 



Potatoes.— 34 a 



1845, Pot 



1-iO. 



■ ploughed in; March, 

 to bouts; middle of April', pianted'SoS 

 very smallest, 2 feet between the rows, 

 plough, so as to leave the planting 5 in 

 k in May, lightly harrowed, and flat 

 ond week, moulded up with Dloni>h • 

 hoed and weeded ; first week in SepteX 

 op taken up. Light gravel I) 



; - 



r diseased ; Summer Kidney, -^ do. ; Goldlinder, 1 

 ilf either of the others.— E. D. J 



Food of Ireland.-Y our correspondent, Mr. Rogers, 

 Dublin asserts that the deficiency of the Potato crop 

 Ireland the present year, is equal to 3 600 000 tons 

 Wheat. It appears to me a very wild sort of calcu. 



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3,600,000 tons of Wheat, 



■at, IN Ck. , ; 



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Sbotittit*. 



[CHEMICO-AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 



ULSTER. 

 Oct. 1.— Experiments uilh Manures: Dr. Hodge 



:id previous to being al 

 s of the other parts c 



paid for at the usual 



albtmfnts^annorfthe o 

 half and quarter acres, render the land more product! 

 but spade husbandry, and more minute and garden- 

 tillage improves it greatly. Is it just, because a t 

 expends his capital (his flesh and sinews) cultival 

 highly, to compel him to pay twice as much as 



digger and delver, if by toiling early and late he 

 barely pay his exorbitant landlord, provided his cr 

 ndant? But should he (use 



"ngency, to which his plot is Hal 

 ut the great boon. It would be well, if throi 

 g questions coul3 be answers! 



i- i:iri:i: 



■2.V.y, 



' farming land of the same description 



s Chronicle take up the subject, the^poor lal 



■'les.— In your last Number, 

 ve a method of destroying the I 

 nmended by «J. (. V/' 

 sntually prove effectual, seems rather too tedio 

 leral adoption. I would, therefore recon 



b weed perfectly. After 



| i ng, when the gh 

 a very little care the Thistle mi 



this very trouble- 



r r-; 



.f'r,'i',-:i. 



•epeated mowing 



a spud. The expense 



I spuddingjwhich k< 



Near Cambridge, on recent enclosures, and 



ham, Chesterford, Waterbeach parishes, all the sorts 



were sound, but not as mealy as in former years. Herts 



was directed by them to sow uj 



Analysis of the Husk of Buckwheat.— At tne»* 

 onthly meeting, Dr. Hodges stated that he had been 

 nsulted, by a member of the council, as to tne 

 the husk or bran of Buckwheat ^f^J^Z 



advantage to this country. 



Farmers' Clubs. oftheeven - 



I . Burrell) said that £ » ^ 

 judgment went, if he deserved the tna» ^^ 

 ;hbours, it was for trying experiments, a ^d 



ng them, as nearly as he could, the truth. ^ 

 lotion of recommending to f££ e £$£Sr»W 



, - - .. , ;..',.! ' 



n which the Royal Agricultural Society jas^ 

 DDinion that suffering cattle to be exm 



