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THE 
AGRICULTURAL’ GAZETTE. 107 
the days are are short, gh — 2 is over early. The village 
r, has at reverence for learning, 
his own e in gigan ntic characters. When the novelty 
nam 
of the school wears ff he is is apt — се his 
and discontinue his — ance. 
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onal checks 
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ces are not sufficient ; — — if possible, 
tinuous methodical control—gentle, if — will, 
a i d steady. Every parish h 
ML but 
I have iraperfeetly 
of this — 
be 
the causes It vo be said that 
shorter =" may be given ; that rur ine to 
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explained 
се is common to all men, — young evi 0 
Moe have a right to expect bet 
th 
spring up between the minister and the — portion 
m 
of his floc 1 ment they are turned adrift upon | i 
world, and have most need of counsel and enc ge-|4 f 
ment. Let us remember that this estrangement is|d 
t not to give u 1 — 
but calmly 
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ect whether means may not be found to remedy the 
ca 
audable anxiety to effect this object, 
this whom I 
Animated by a 
some of the cere i in —— deanery, amongst 
may mention the . Ommanney, of Chew Magna, | tim 
and the Rev, H^ — of Wrington, have 
endeayoured to draw the attention of their bro a 
clergymen and 1 landed proprietors to the practicability 
boarding-ho 
of establishing lodging or -houses f 
agricultural labo A particular plan 
have repr Д drained the land ; in rare 4 cx deep | luxuriance to the straw, but when it * materially 
and 45 feet wide have done the same ; in others, 4 feet | assist in the development o of a flower head and the 
dee = wide have done goo T — pudet of heavy seed. Last year n lost a crop of 
ground 3 feet deep and 24 feet wide — one bett i Vheat in consequence of its being lodged, though 
whereas the ew ема апі former re would have |some say their chemists tell us it is the want of 
thoroughly done their work. there * we of | silica in the straw. No doubt that if there were less 
the clays Arpa pe thoroughly Pree а ake € dee eep | organic matter in the peg less silica would suffice. 
and not more than wide. Before i — let t This year I anticipate a better crop from a closer lay. 
me ee ind I . vtta. ough drainage—land so The Wheat plant, I ‘should suppose, an excellent 
re — can — - — ди, so as to induce | subject for experiment with liquid manure b 
laid p 
; the —— Pale о pass ough the drains, | who have pipes.— i fof words on draining. It is 
i t 
— nor other aan. properties said and written often enough that 4 feet drains mus 
falling with ү” rain, or put on by the farmer, Бе best for this reason and the other reason u 
can be carried off the land ; nor can any silicious or|far as my experience goes, where the clay is very stiff 
other mineral properties, required for the making of | they are a co yp iri ae 3 feet run sooner and 
straw or husk of the corn, be drifted into patches or | much faster, -— of urse d onde correspond- 
i instance t| 
them in the nearest state of solution, in which state obvious: when the * is quickly drained off de 
alone тч аге ей up by the plant. Of course, іп air permeates the soil, and the plants flourish; but 
undulations there must be some water furrows, but let | where it is left to evaporate (as is the case here with 4 
ible. e cro 
gerou Timber.— Y our an 
at the vigorous onslaught of Mr. Wilkins on the timber- be charged 5 or 7 per cent. on draining that 
loving propensities of Mr. Vernon Harcourt. The latter | little or no good ; and the worst of it is, draining done 
would still see here and there a tree dotted about the at one-half more expense. It is annoying to all parties, 
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ung , Jan. 
like a tree away, and reserve here and there patches of| Cattle Feeding.— Will any of t 
But 
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land to rear timber in masses. But why have even spondents be enough to give eir experience as 
these? Why have any trees at all, except a few about | to whether cattle that are receiving —— lbs of Mangold 
the house ә ornament? Does Mr. Wilkins consider | Wurzel or Turnips, 7 lbs. of е, һау 
mercantile article, entirely valueless, and | ad libitum, per day, require, for ys to obtain 
se with hi e 
are bet 
= the majority of your readers are prepared to go induced to make this inquiry by the circ 
ngths. While ad dmitting with him that there is a some of my neighbours’ cattle had a — better hand 
—— quantity of unthrifty timber, whic will never pay | than mine had, that is, they were d 
for the room it occupies, and ought at once to come | and you know ‘this is d deemed a matter 
* The establishment of a home for young. —— ЧА 
g house and premises, w 
labourers, by ren 
4 acres of land ait y — the building to be arranged 
separate for 
for г э%- эры — and a 
management to be 
entrusted to 
тоте баа ог — acting under the parish | sown acorn 
be — too far; Pers to maintain that a certain if he acer oun f he be loose. Upon ae how 
quantity of hedgerow trees go far towards paying for | they were fed, I aer that they had not been allowed 
their ground, by — the force of the blast, which any water. Mine had. And to this they attribute the 
would otherwise sweep uncontrolled over our denuded difference of the hand of mine and theirs, I therefore 
lains. Does Mr. Wilkins know that the vast thought I would try the experiment with four oxen, and 
proportion of the timber wh — К Жи Ms cut | accordingly I did not allow them any water; and Ё 
own — the last 60 years either found that for the first fortnight filled themselves. 
y they 
| —— ber, or timber — — planted чә бн equally as wellas when supplied with water. Their hand 
baled wf inst man, iind that such is the greater portion of th Iwas very 
| timber now remaining? If he doubt iet him 9 , and thought Т had дней а 
ple very im 
timber merchants of long standing. The noblest Oaks dis = but my pleasure did not last long; for after this 
in our English parks have their origin in the chance time they began to refuse their ce and looked very thin · 
, nursed by the Bramble. They arose thi indee ease their green food much, 
were gradually thinned ; the Bramble died away, or was for fear of relaxing them too much in their bowels, and 
grubbed up ; the fence disappeared, and there stand the | thus lose the good effeet of the Linseed cake. I there- 
earth- born | giants, having braved the storms of centuries, | fore was — to allow them their water again. I was. 
their stately shadows. | surprised to see how voracious they were for it; they 
the evils p: — in rural — from 
corded villages and Seger habits, and to train up 
Amd what is the inference t why, hat Mr. Wilking's got up, — — tumied эчу 
theory is a little too fierce, and that while too small | their troughs like dogs. It appears to me that the roots. 
i di ent water ma 
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Arthur Hallam Elton, т-а Court. 
Home Correspondence. 
Draining —I have read many letters and articles on 
draining in your columns, and the last from Mr. Р. 
Mr. 
other 4 feet deep draining gentlemen ; indeed so 
80 far as the Nee is concerned, for T hold d rf wien f 
memory of his predecessor for having yielded ithout | ci ing fluids would become too. co The 
ec eory o of i struction fal " 44 11.2 5-2 x 
our elay soil 
better ; still, 
4 feet deep instead of 3 feet 
been drained 4 f. and 
Wide, it would have done much more for the crop, simply 
by increasing the temperature of the soil. 
also observe, that on the 32-feet wide drained ground 
You can perceive the difference in the erop from 6 to 
9 feet on each side of the drains, from the time of its 
Coming up to the time it comes into blossom. The 
dispute, now, on draining, does not appear to me to be 
80 much upon the depth of the drains, as upon the 
distance of one drain from another; though some of 
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16 feet ing | South Wales, conclusion that it it might z 
feet —— for I have generally noticed ‘that the worst cases of 
36 feet apart. Have we not been taught to drain mildew were sure to occur in the first sown, whilst the 
y and i teac some i 
