4—1853.] THE 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
59 
time, till No. 38, which is a 
lds for a short 
Saintfoin oin fields field the ey no 
drier soil, was ready fo for them, in which fi 
in as before 
iving about 111 
м зы instead of 255 and 1 Ib. of 
ntils. Besides the 315 lambs now in No. 1 
nd 5 fat tegs at bees Barn, re- 
nips, and Carrots, 
нела чет. п 6 lots 
rainy 
than it otherwise w er d have b 
efore 11, which would n 
nearly as 
— кре е ters 
h 
an 
ien it does not requite speed, and to a certain extent 
it will ‘cut laid crops very well, and it wil work on wet 
ground without cloggin ussey’s machine, u- 
fact by Deane and Dray, h — few p to 
reco dit; but, as manufactured by Garrett, it is a 
much better impleme i 
nt. 
ble, and easily 
place, and not liable to get out of repair ; but it is hard | 
h 
work — ez orses and requires great speed, and 
does 
r the corn at the side (except with a tail- 
which y in light crops), and if 
the ground is at all wet, it clogs up and will not work. 
It does less w d t horses more than 
M* iek's. sskill manufactures a reaper on the 
Hussey N it is owever, as s Gar- 
rett's. Bell, in Scotland, has a reaper which goes in 
front of the horses, and does away with - necessity 
for- е the field before encing. 
It deposits the co ly, but is à казе deal of 
trouble to bind e iet It has a very good reputation 
in the north of E wo M but.some people say it is no 
as goo as M‘Corm 
No. 6. "Flax —— sp is pulled by фра ori in as rule. 
er as possibl not to injur fibre near 
e roots, nor “the seed. Itis 3 ed and tied 
hak 
into little sheaves, which are put into small stooks, and | 
ed 
allowed to get as 
an 
great extent is the want market to sell t 
produce in, as at present there . ot been sufficient 
Spirit in the manufacture of icle ommerce, 
to manufacture it IE way medy | con: 
this want several of est and most 
influential farmers in any district, favourable for the 
E e to combine —— and estab lax 
which the Flax fibre could be 
oor fit j^ tà directly t Б the mir linen manu- 
Maret who wo uy it to an unlimited extent. 
ent, howev = there is 
— the producer of fe 
manufacturer of the fine Flax fibre i into various fabric 
every year articles of e 
un 
0. 7. Draining is necessary on all retentive soils, or 
all al soils so situated with respect to retentive soils 
with the exception of as in 
y chaff per head, 
drained, would be a 
alon 
ut 4/. Sometimes stone drains 
ne are used, and eee stones on the re of tiles, | 
fig. 1 Some stone drains are made of large flat 
or has it ever been a question whether trees in such 
situations — or ouglit not to be grown, for all admit 
that they ought to be t the "ne 
; : x 
g 
uestion at is is this, ought d 
such trees are worthless pollards—to be permitted to 
in hedge-rows, overhang and shadowing 
cultivated fields, and sending out their roots in all 
irections among growing corn? I for one fearlessly 
aintain that all trees in such situations are a public, 
ell as a private, injury, and I further maintain that 
the axe ought to be laid to the root of every one of 
hem. No real improvements can take place where s 
trees are suffered to grow, and consequently, wherever 
in fig. 2 see tes © denud of ere we 
— ve EE bes E 3 mais o de witness visible signs of intellect at work; there the 
loose p to In stone dra r can make re ting vements, send his 
greater fall is necessary 3 in tile drains, and ph oaded waggons with corn to market, pay a hands 
care mu taken to keep the зм ый, ежа ів 5 rent, and live аз а farmer ought to live. But wherever, 
the — ан іп all drainage. expense of stone in passing through this try, we see hedge-rows om 
vaa 2 N distance . which the nite arable farms full of trees, there we also g on 
e to be &e,, and varies considerably, from the model of the 11th or 12th — and poor and 
3, de Al. or 51. "Diving wi "E аса is usually done in ignorant farmers, poor an -starved labourers i ; and, 
peaty ground, in which n will last a long time indeed, there the whole of such a country is full of gloomi- 
without deca ying. Iti is not, о however, a good method of 
of und, and it isextremel 
оспе KIU 
liable to be — 
d 
it has 
| con early twic 
as — je Wheat aa ead about ч эке cent. — 
ently, as a op sagesse | 
equal amount of 
са и 
оуег r 
чишү the farm ror them, let the beams of the sun spread over 
— — i caps 1, A — ы. whole fields "ne ere they ean only partially and 
is done in peaty districts usually, and acts well whe ts penetrate, and let the fertilising showers and the 
there are no heavy ani or carts to pass over i impreg with ammoni wise x 
drains and break them in; it is do to the growing crops and t l. But Mr arcourt 
is calle ER m" oe bottom of pa: Nee 2 has as g a dread of thin-seeding as of field denu- 
laying t — spit of turf w was taken dation of trees; but again the r pd 
a these Showierg anà then filling involved appear to be unknown ый ha 1 t d ж, 
h. Dra eaty land illustrate my reasoning on this m y one out 
should always be pete to settle many mples ; if he will eod me with a 
before they a d raining visit sometime before next harvest, I wil under- 
thi al no expenses take to prove, and I think to his own satisfaction, 
attending it, except manual labour all that I may now advance, ar : E d 2 
is » god à in all -cases the practice he turns into ridic at least 
where e don SN some merit in it. ntleman A my or 
possessed and oceupied.a good-siz ; 1 often saw 
to plough p first б inches — = i uw d ed » h him on 8 farm Т 
the hills nearly, or 
manual labour, and — n the drains are nearly ing, Wh ich was, of e old ] 
completed, n dern back th the о soil 5 m ihe plo Si at least had existed ‘without change m at E — 
No. 8. There have been i Tur cm ns assigned | Years. He, of course, w untiful see won Ear е 
as the cause of blight in Whea more pri, S f from 2 to 2 and 3 Pc té 
иче to be true than that which attributes blight WR аре 8 . 
eather acting upon crops, which uliar circum- | è Successful grower of long. "s light straw, d 
ied are liable to becotae bligh — more than others. Mtl ec epe „Шай, thi p 1 arid Bien d 
It is been found by experience that crops which are very | put What he di i om pi ddl "a 
much forced on light san oils are more | In this рассо? the old pe s Tr 5 T 
c blight than erops nak i serta and ground on | "48 gathered to his fathers. in s T IL 
ood Wheat soi ils. Ther Gaon why arti. | #terwards the fi de * one of the“ C. W. ! 
Tg PETS esr y ially hool, a wide-awa who о отн 3 
Jeman’s оа en —€— ara n b 
since on the „College Farm this year fields No. 18 and Sent 5 , f 
part E а des 3 had been to — with ko and from that he becam 3 and took the gangs 
weno 97 and of Nos 19, 18, | question ! and what vilium: 
ed farm! -— how would Mr. Harcourt’s heart 
n No. 
не 1; "which — not vu top- ы in fact all No. 2 
as bette t than any of sz — ae- 
ularly attributed {о 
palding 
itrogenous compoun 
flour, stare sequently 
blighted Whaat i is — worth half a 
sound Wheat. If, therefore, the . 
bushel =s blighted Wheat to sell as poultr 
he had better take it and spend the m 
n e . 
try food, &c., 
и ey in buying goo 
Wheat а rA a bushel, which, in arison to 
cn r really worth 6s. >” bushel. 
. А only pursuit o 
which - entire dependence on the weather f е 
success 0 ; аш ——2 e weather in 
this — 8 c to any 
or definite plan of eultivation which n may 
remains for along time, even in dry |. 
a dense mass. 
— which 
weather, and then leaves the soil in 
aining by 
digging, &c., of the 
Piece work, giving about 4d. a Mee for a drain 3 feet 
would про ced at E) 
A distance 
from 20 to 30 feet eg main ‹ 
or 84. e pole, De would be about 4 feet pars 
The best tiles are 2 in in diameter ; 
very ul: ub no tiles shoul be used of less than | 
linch in diameter. uld first be 
à, la The ds, and ll o SERE all small drains, &c., 
this rate the whole expense of an acre, tile- | 
and for the | 
have pre- 
viously determined on ; e he is obliged to modify his 
and that 
the best advantage who is able to make 
man farms to 
; — best of his position, be it what it may, that the 
weather places him in. 
H., and 
Never before i in one Journal 
called the Royal 
fixed | 
ircumstances М 
А hand 
the year 1853 
the 
sufficient t quantity of labourers. ve 
wit NA then сый with them, denude 
have beat to have witnessed the havoc ! го were 
felled, hedges inn аа ditches were cleansed. 
drains from 5 to 7 feet ere sunk, and everything 
the farm underwent a 2 d radical change. 
d жешл: ploughing, that is, 
r before seen done by the 
s | Plough ; 
Harcourt never saw 
t 
Pulse Be 2: as 
st 
stating facts, let me as ders 
J eed whieh i is the pusee benefactor—the man 
who b common 
— 1 George Wilkins [We sould be дый of amore 
etailed account of 
which result in average crops of mit 6 quarters 
Wheat deserve i itation. 
court stands s 
Mr. honrats, the felling of trees 1 of 
feel 
thin-seeding, lest ee country 1 should be denuded, 
te the 
trees, when standing in their prope * places tha is, | 
here common sense and nature desi 
esigned them to be ; hood of Wantage had 12 2 кү" 
һата 
: e Great Exhibition ¢ he charged me 
el. А " correspondent inquires, in yo 
ber, for Wheat to sow this spring. 
ew 
escaped blight, both the vu = 
to bos in I knew one gentleman 
