76 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [IN. 29, 
greater in quantity, is not in my judgment quite | that every farmer is liable to be selected, according to | Chilian Wheat, about сув 8 5 ago, I have — 
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ichness m raw | the favourable view his roduce T present,| varieties m ach shorter w tha n Piper’ Y" got 
cream. W. P. ому» * Colu "^ "e a visit from clouds of Elon — who begin at sun- | some which, appear to ty Sa Den Fev. qualit 
Draining.—It is gratifying to those who take an rise ap ie all day unless disturbed ; [ ese tul 
interest in draining operations to mark from time to | watch, hree may be seen at a safe distance| I xd т 
time the progress which truth and intelligence аге r i a lofty Oak or solitary Ash : at a fitting time| ties are very di to "When atise, The 
i over error and prejudice, We have seldom | they telegraph their associates, w who may be half a mile samples were beautiful white нн, уегу much resem, 
seen a more happy illustration of this than is exhibited | off ; and with as little noise as ‘their cawing propensities et sa Australian ; but, when grown in 
contrasting the letter of your correspondent, “ Н. C. will permit they go to work most n they resemble Rye more than Wheat, and three year? 
J. R. A." of and effectually; no hawks trouble them, nothing sow vtm not much improved them, It has » however, 
the 8th inst, ; in the first we have Mr. S. end ing|but a gun will do, 5 NE m porter with enabled me to o obtain crosses oim seem bet thes 
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we have a ical statement and, in a general sense, | gun ; one or two days, with A + diligent use epl 17 8 TN the highest manuring pro — no tendency to lods 
one which experience and science have ү зше to be | will teach them respect and forbearance. But t they If we could obtain a variety of Wheat of good q 8 5 
. In the remarks which т. Jue to make, it | inerease and multiply beyond Leonie. if the ap Medos vue instead of 2 Ne of straw and 1 of Wheat to the 
will be more our aim to record our experience tending of the highways or other village ер си ed acre, produced 1} ton of each, it Es: be very profit 
as we hope to establish a fact, this to combat Mr. S. a price upon their КА: ; for n the ey а | ably cultivated by agriculturists ; d the differences i 
in his rather antique notions. But with the idea of | nuisance in the corn fields, but ей M — stop | the chemical composition of grain an cai straw are nots 
placing the question in a variety of shades we will take | up spouts, and rob the арча п. In all cases ће gun is and gm “ to make me despair of this being dong 
the liberty of quoting Mr. S., which is as follows :— | the surest safeguard of our fields against rooks, larks, other, It may be asked, where ean а 
* A doubt can hardly be entertained by any practical | sparrows, and means the элмә are сМеНу"Кпозп to short ad Wheat of good quality be procured? Т 
man that a drain made 3 feet deep will be a sufficient | injure d Beans, and Tares, and these they will thresh | this sI am afra М the . will be, * Nowhere at pre. 
depth | m 2 purposes, in most if not in all as promptly а and thoroughly as a flail would do, par- ha But ean none of o r expert manipulators, who 
dior from assure Mr. S. in this pr уч "уры we eae m: wild pigeon, if your Pulse is near a wood. i exceedingly when he cross-breed a Fuchsia or 
an tant in 5 l. s Mr.S allow us J. ough, January 12, dem eranium, turn their va Rer to the cross-breedi 
practical wh jen we inform hi him, that peni the E ^n Pigs.—In answ en nqu iries made in of Wheat! Canal egi: oyal Agricultural 
st four the | your number of the 15th te referring to a com-|offer a premium for the production of short-stra 
eA en of p Hewitt Davis) of е 50 miles of | munication of mine on the subject of greaves, I beg to| Wheat of good ау 15 Do none of the great agricul 
drains 4 feet — in а very tenacious clay ; and the | state as to quantity that I used half a саке, or 5 turists themselves see how desirable such a Wheat would 
site of those o ons have been at different. 3 the we Арн to — улту" of water, that being the capacity of be for the agriculture of this country ? Apparently not; 
experimental field "i every gradation of depth from 15 coppe о the sort buy quantity of word I 12 yok the exception of Mr. Raynbird, of Hampshire, 
to 36 inches, none of those depths have been found so me. Bary th find g good Oats answer 1 well I a one scientific operator who i 
efficient as the now uniform depth of 4 feet. We have | when Barley earer in e as happens tbis . P pr 8 such a Wheat. My om 
inings е one fact is worth more | year ; the d is mixed thiek with the sou p instead of attempts at eross-breeding are su b as may be tried by 
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where we write, superiority, in the strongest clay, | question is whether it would pay for extra fuel and spes in conti ous drills, and then sowing the produce 
vf drains 4 feet deep over those of 3 feet чанана Peek | labour, as € doubles its bulk ds boiled, G. W. of these. At the second harvest I arem wl select such 
equal On another point, Mr. S. Cultivation of Wheat. — It has hitherto been а eic i Т from both arieties, and a 
says the less the distance between the drains, the earlier | difficult matter (at least in the wet elimate of Lancashire) | time seem, by their quality of. grain, an ; 
and more uniformly dry the land becomes, m rain, | to ascertain how far it is prudent to manure for Wheat; | of their straw, to be the best suited to my wis ishak 1 
Our lessons of experience have taught us to believe for in unfavourable seasons the plant runs so much to has age no 13 to the accidental contact be distinet 
that this is a fallacy, and consequently not placing | straw, that it is liable to lodge and become mildew ed; varieties, that we owe the numerous kinds w known 
the q in its true light; for we  bave|in which cases the manure is not only wasted but is! to agrieulturists, and whieh differ f aah other in 
observed during the continuous rains of the last 13 injurious, as appears to Fee the case in the ош, quality, yield, and ee Valen in the 
few months, that drains 24] feet apart convey the | south of England last year, and as was also the case in | va cts in which the ey are grown, Fully 
water as soon off the land as drains at 15 feet apart ; the north in 1845, when every shilling expended in аан z — inability to do justice te this important 
and our own the din is that there is a limit oo all | manuring the Wheat crops о ripa Apnd made tl bject, I yet hope (if you do me the honour to 
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at least a shilling worse ure had been | my letter) that my remarks may induce scientific men 
But if we could find a : Wheat à 80 Bn in the | to eonsider it ; for it appears una ccountable to me e 
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pation than it is at present; and we might con- Pleuro- Pneu ek aie of my cows was attacked, last 
€ that the means Yarr may б duly apportioned | fidently calculate on а far greater ‘production eae acre | September, with aci quede fei and di ct 
ot effect intended t e produced во as not to than we can now. The - pring appear to me to be | under care of a person sup have some skill ia 
the mark, е озы eno i ae money ге dh of T Гел ы ? M wing a shortstrawed | such cases. Shortly after, a subscriber of yours, 
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' to suspect that he has revealed this fact, that he lodging, an ahd wi ith po^ less liability to mildew than a | recipe, as gi р i 
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Tas yet ra om] to learn before he can plaee t e | long-strawed Wheat. 2. The uei io: rain to е е ыч а" On 3 e d 
question in its true light. We ы not to identify straw is greater in short than in long-strawed Wheat. was attacked with some disease + 1 decided on trying 
ourselves with those who assert that no soil should be 3. As it very rarely lodges, it will be far better suited to| the malt-mash, &c., and gave her a quart of stron 
pere feet | deep; and further, we think no | the pcne than a long-strawed Wheat ; and | salt-water. By next morning her bo wels had got | 
— т nt, tha Mt the | no doubt o or sonnets will occur T the minds of own — Aus better ; but the i 
health scope e roots have experienc agriculturists. When making these|w o than the cow tkat died had b been аі after 
s i 5 ра ө soil, or, in other wo A words, the deeper assertions, I ought to state that my experience of ee a 1 then took from her ү quarts of blow, 
Bor ebe e f roots in a soil free оѓ | Wheat-growing does not extend beyond the counties | which came М: copiously, but І feared in too ый 
P. Mitchell res more abundant улык i" gro of York and Lancaster; but fr what І can learn a quantity, as she lay dow. а immmedia tely after, 
К Руану RU MM ot yan. 14, of the agriculture of more southerly districts, I fancy | appeared much иы аз a тшд bout 4 days, 30r 4 
M E аА his: г ане of smail | these opinions of mine will be found correct there, | quarts more were n f. her, Wes also came very 
— Ta noticed Arog Md dd кк, erate I xw. Bees ME to p des my assertions, and I will freely. Meanwhile the malt-mash was given 5 or 6 
*& f r | 0 во. ve been experimenting on the | times а i difficulty ; i t deemed - 
unt for so much mischief as не by them. | growth of Wheat for the last 10 or 11 years, particularly | advisable to force it д dion on peter of her 
season, in 8 я muc А, heat being | with reference to the practicability of doing this on ће | weak state. After the 6th or 7th day, she showed signs 
1 ME me o; y uio peeping | same land year after year; and, that I might do it in| of relief : 15 the 10th day she began to chew the cud 
| Rfid ef bout M sees dis morning, . my sed aad o tako food herself, contnuing gradually to impr 
LT 5, 3 ery irequently Y ti t i A 
E Б bet а м as gasi use аа of straw woul on discovered that the advantages of Tcr gu. wit th like : а eie the iid ше being x di — 
. ^ proofs of the "needs thea s abeat E * larks, and with | manure and high cultivation did not insure good акр hed given 14 Ib, salts үче hearing fro І must say 
‚ white pieces of the clans io^ am 23 mips of small | of Wheat, inasınuch as, in our moist climate, we had not | when my second cow was attacke 3 aight an 
“ыт o pap of Wie about in the drills. І | опе summer in five that was fav urable; a. d € felt t by me, as an adjoining d had 1 28 of bis 
| stock not long before from some disease. his is 4 
0 in ye ge ma n to your =e | 
them rtauce)—and it d ais” pros ie e an ae ШАШ 
ig whole time of a person with a gun killing them | wasa straw во short that i woold not lodge whan Wenge | enti Рала Метей, Clenagowan, Maryboroigh 
nd the birds Liat sid E Tho аа ste b pomi 7 d; » T consequently pel a “query to the Chemical Works.—The downfall of Mess rs. Muspratis 
k : : what was ortest- n's t and majestic chi y Newton - 
e e = месе 8 ets Le, re Wheat known, and was told that ie EM or “alkali me caused mu 
4 0 . Hooks dis td f so. I therefore got some of|rejoieing amongst the farming community of South 
esely 184 3 Pipes, which I have cultivated since | Lancashire for miles round where it once. stood ШИ 
mproved with 202130 гей Wheat, but the quality has | now, alas! no more; and had Messrs. Muspratts pal 
E cus the third su pde ear ; and this , e full amount of 2 said t done by ther 
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the | 2. The proportion of Wheatin Piper's Thickset i is 38 А Сулга коны he h had been for Je» К forth | 
is е К the gross weight of the erop ; in the Henin Бый ш 8 d which were port ш 
many crows take a|3. Not h Au T of my own erops only eg Pe Geek | trees шыл oca ДА hg ape ie Bees crystal | 
gh le е ing-machine, it may seem rel But his d only 8 | 
rough leaf, | absurd i he э y pe ^ ed; but Wheat is better | few miles ka a ж à е d Mn 1 
ong- 3 L] ) 
son : 4 a и g-straw t ME epit, a = ы) bania of the Mersey, and have commenced erect 
prevailing in the | they arena well apt to the cutting of laid союп, кыы to his ML Med ene a 
sates in del vt d and therefore a variety that always stands upright will timber па Messrs p eee fe ] 
am + CL better ai to the working of them. I martyrs; for there он эн works 3 
nec Sa ME or the ey — in (by | St. Helen’s, several “about Wigan, West Derby, and 
" heat of uality, and with а | Garston; ; and we mai ui stop 006, 
do equally as serious and gre 
of young | success; but, thanks to Aale they 
consequence is, of Liverpool, w who furnished me with many samples of | Aad tes ae rige fere retro 
ade k sg vimm — "imn shorter than Piper's, but hitherto with indifferent and not all, f 
à young M thei 
aie es Brownell’s, | dama heir 
