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THE AGRICU LTUR AL GAZETTE. 





ice to the thin-seeding of 



s^have been all a 



Jiose who engage in it, if they would only bethink 

 lves of their actual position— as addressing an 

 e of 8,000 persons, interested no doubt in any 

 ;U ral topic that may be brought before them, but 





•-•-!■_•. But I appeal to all the readers of j 

 Quette, and I ask if it were possible for me to m 



ns devoured by the^ 

 "ra of the moth had 





XVseT 25 ' and" aCC ° UDt ° f ^ ^^^ " ^ 



S wm 20 ° g ' Sept * 25 ' the 1 uantit y of Wheat 



yf and u ^'remainder of theYewTas^Ti.meTout 

 J™ grubs. In Oct. 30 he says, « the field was 24 

 taT n f* n * lth H bushels of seed per acre, and 20 

 «*pei» «5 a Prey t0 the „S rubs » but four acres of Jt 

 4e4 1 !! I . Wa t, 0n i. Ijr Sh ° rt and ' of inferior quality ; but on 

 Te rj fiae^ t d 36 busl . lels l ier acre < and the W^y 



**» rfff 2 aU ^ e ™ y,d ^ ' 



fcf* 08 , but the 4 acres es, 



* CJaT" ° Dly Sh ° rt and ' 



^^bSp?' ° nl y for fowl's, and'wo"uVnor g rind7ne 



**t add a woraT 6 Md the qUaHty Vefy fiDC ' [ ^ 



v? 8 ' n »t off 6 l^ bnh to na ve been grown off the 16 



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X>» «Pe, 



ifanda^h 



as regards any inconsistency 



'" ** -ere well to ask for 



ce.— Ed. Ag. Gaz.~\ 



ormercase, 1 bushel produced 10 bushels, and'in the 



%££& S&:« 6 L b ,e*lVf """ ,hiM "" 



able (ban .oftheprac.iceof thick-seediog. But nUTEs 

 t»ke , short Tie* of ,hi n .,„d OT , and com™, ,b,ir 



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speck of blight or mildew was to be seen ; not a r„o! 

 of Wheat lodged, and what even surprised me was tha 

 „,u;i^ on ly an iron ft , nw ^. v:ir . lU : d llis >.,..,, f ,", n '. 

 our's, and on both sides of that fence I'eas wen 



lent quality. From Mr. Davis we will proceed 

 it is Mr. Mechi's system to pla 



we will go to Mr. Piper. This gentleman's W'l eat was 



duce has been nearly SO bushels per acre, or 

 pecks from the 2|. I have also done a part of the 

 same field with 1' pecks ( " 

 few days I shall finish tin 



Wheat in four years, 'si 



each acre of the same field ii 

 of seed only, will b 



■ .V;il necks of Wheat. Of com^e I , 





ploughing, thin, and 



Vowte— <;. inik 



Dthblvn 



scribe the deep draining, deep 



scientific seeding of ; .:. i. *l\ ' 1 

 ins. irir. X..v. 2, 1847. 



>*EL pure iy a national "T ~"{-:—- 

 ^^t^ eofa 8-^tnre wl * 



send you the result of my trial of ! 

 dibbling machine, and in doing so ] 



' 'in requesting you, should you 



considerably less cust of both seed aud labour than hereto- 



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 ,.| K .. , ,. r r .. : ... I .- ,;. ■:• i -w becomes the duty 



: ■ 

 , _ IS ;;..'! first used Newberry V machine. ..niy a 

 " f .i.,»ltf-r..« l -l -■!■..■. and which worked easily an acre per 

 d-iv and perceiving it worked best upon a Wheat stub- 

 ■ • ced to try the following experiment :— I 



the 9th of August, and on the 23d of the same month it 



ploughed, then sown with white Mustard on the 



On the 6th October I put 100 sheep upon it, the 



tard being at that time about 18 inches high. The 



being very clean, and the sheep having made good 



: i, I decided upon dibbling the 



Wheat without again ploughing the land, and on the 22d 



onimenced the operation, using 5 pecks -* ~~ A 



I I was 



exactly in the same way, as the weather beingwet when 

 the sheen began the Mustard, I considered it too mncli 

 aked, in mly use that term,and it was thinly ploughed 

 and then dibbled. The following spring I caused the 



: 



^?^Zl£ ia ^ [r ^ a ^^' ° ther n t! - ^eadiant whIJh 1 



° * l «ntiti e8 of * ^ u : . : eshed out, and the 



w «eat per acre ; that is, 8 pecks and j field. Soon alter Harvest 





who is fully occupied n 



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words, every 100 lbs. of Potatoes (on the ^^J^ 

 food "man!* And, although I half dread to state the 



