THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



inking farmers. The c 



sowing so wastefullj 

 magistrate' of high o 



wnoie J4 coombs. And to this J state another pl< 

 . ' a parish 

 • ■ 



rage quantity of seed planted 

 my parish, and some answered 6, while others gi 

 7 pecks as the maximum average. Now, taking 



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 loners has not amounted to more than 1225 bui 

 the difference therefore, between the Allesley and Wix 

 farming m seed Wheat alone for one year in 



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.Study U. - i. worthy a „■♦■-'-- 



50 bushels of good 

 would sell to the milh 



tbroughout this ext 



) the West Indi - liphate and cat 



*« .... ! sulphate of iron, nitrate of potas 



vhich are formed by the com 



•uly intended ; and when t 

 lemselves within the legit: 

 nployed, have rejected < 



ineir own vicious interpretation oi those phra* 

 What had they left them, except gravitation, that d 

 not act chemically ? The language in which the p 



nical agents as the other 

 he .best manure for Wh 



.redients,"' 



bee "Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society,' 



: Wheat or Tun, 



i oat per acre 



3 well worthy "J, 



pondering up 



i, in my numu 



' " ~ " uiorm him that I have j 



lelsthan'lTpecrXe 

 So not in the least fear 



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'? P D » ' ^ theSe ' agaiD ' are ^^ J W0Uld be ^ 



J. B. and all men who follow his system, again to c 

 der, and try at least if they and he cannot amt 

 teir practice. But beiore he attempts to do so, 1 sho 



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• And, in conclu: 



-J. I).'.. 



ran profitably i 



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he writes, also, Oct. 30th, : 

 requires less seed than poorer m n k 



experience or practice, for the poorer my Snd u°the 

 less seed 1 use, and the oftener it is cropi ' 



y of seed ; and, besides, whenever I ask men 

 -tried thin seed- 

 ing on poor land, every on, 

 he never has. But some of the best farmers I know 



r, Wix, Nov. 16. 



ubstances.— The Royal Agricul- 



iTwhSTJld'SSl f e n P the 

 inces employed are not strictly 



' this Wheat fioui 

 the bread. ^Two' 



was economy which 

 e and cheaper Wheat 

 If. Itisthebeardec 

 ts, the grey and the 



hegrej which thou,. 



this bread. They are both profitable ^ 

 tivate, being hardy and heavy eared. A 



Swedes for my cows ; but I do not find my g: 

 Clover crops as good as 1 exra 

 may be attributed to the soil, which is on the cla 

 rock. : y rotation is root-crop, manured and 



-heat ol 



ley, sown down with Italian Rye-grass &j 



Paper and other 



so, do you prefer it to JUak, .' Would you i 



cattle-boxes for my co 

 of the straw which I , 

 ' Turnips. Is there at 



iring and fatting calves 

 1. Would you "advise i 



bstitute for i 

 . Warnes recc 





md dung. - Mona's hie. [You would see Mr. 

 iuxtable's note to « R. B. D.» in a late Paper. He 

 10 longer employs a sparred floor with receptacle be- 

 leath : but a whole-surface floor of wood, from which 

 , boy is employed to clean and carry away the dung, 



ompound and cooked food, and greatly prefer it to oil- 

 ows also : though on that point we must refer you to 

 .iiy correspondent who may be disposed to give his 

 xpenenoe. Sand does well enough for stall-fed animals, 



. i— Our Beans 



are out. Sow 2 feet apart, « now or never."] 



*""•*"!/ 11': , u ,l Ul JfJlir 



» i .e.it's ii juu-j a l out st< . | ing seed Wheat in 



f of other steeps) in the proportion n 

 by Sprengel ("Dunger," p. 453), 1 to 50 water, which 



vantage from ( 



eps tried, compound as well as i 

 actual appeared to be gypsum (sa 

 1 sulphate of ami,... 



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iers' waste, button-makers' dust, old r— ' 

 hppmgs, blubber, oil, rape-cakei 



uly from recollection 



atrictly chemical! Are rotten straw, deai 



Si; SB 5H5sc ! ciaj 



Health of Tot 



question, and that is, "that everv 7 < Dg ■*»! 

 com through the , ,i t.r mou h {1 1 "* *» 



mixed and rather short dung, and oth«i.»i<u,! dD<1 *»a 

 for Swedes but these failed fYom d rough t a Rt 

 seed Jo P r ! oduce ed a it cro 8ai for ,,ind S ° ^ ***t 

 well'; so SatTrictly^y M^ld^wi^sJlS 

 Turnips. After the field was cleared I p £ g SfK 

 December last, to be exposed to the frost In Feb™ \! 

 1847, 1 again ploughed, without any more ma^TS 



heavy and then with the light ones, to make a smooth 

 surface, and afterwards opened the 



or two seed* into each hole, and two lads follow these, 

 to tread in the ground over the seed ; so that eight per. 

 sons are employed to plant an acre 



• 

 slugs frequently creep up the dr 

 plant. I set, the last week in March, 4 lbs. to the acre 

 of Mangold Wureel seed, which I got fiorn Mr. 1 .:. . 

 of Smithfield, and alth ;u ;h on this oct t- i 



give it a spring and render it unpalatable for insects. 

 When the plants are about an inch above the ground, 

 a man with a short-handled hoe goes along the ro»s, 

 which are two feet apart, and cuts down the weed?, 

 and a few of the evidently superfluous \h„'-. - ■ 

 days after the first hoeing another i< How -. ai -1 1. J • 



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t tcli ot et\ tninsp ai . : v ith a trowel and a bail of 



e the ground. Now I keep a 



in the reason. 1 ought to I )n„,r 



i w ■_; • ot Mangold Wurzel as of swedes on^ 



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 it was in July audi 



''TIwis^Them^ 



valuable in" thlTway ^rejhan jjenjeft ™j£ d 4 

 r 5Ttons e together^ P onie in the J« d "f "^^ 

 v.V'other'ntter^ Ten throw oo ij 

 round. When the carts go j > " 

 ,ld Wurzel they take a load of dung fijm*^ d 

 ,use, to be thrown on the heap ; and at w ^ 

 inter all is ready to be turned and laid m J ^ 



ZTrt Pain, jun., Old Oak Farm, Si^ 1 ' ^ 

 Vlr nnd Air Drains.-l was glad 'o «J^ 



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