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admonition, for their own interests 
country at large. ore corn € t 
pesi hy hook or by — or 
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sequent on free trade in 
sensibly felt t 
Es: 
Agri icultural 
the attention of agricultural implemen 
and the welfare of the; Dee ep  Draining.—l h have a few acres Ames 
s 
sand оу e divi 
e — en it e desirable that | part, after the yellow elay which prevails ‘immediately |a 
h the 
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be grown in this | yards interval, and 5 to 5 feet deep. Part о e Tand 
y be 
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han at present. — "А y 2 4 8 Son, Ma'don, ete ere in the clay, showing а sid hin dep bi 
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кка should | beneath the soil is passed, lies on a very h ard a 
in the — of the judges ‘of d at the Lewes | of the very pui rains of the past five months, in the 
awardin 
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prize to srs, | course of a few hours the surface water had gone (the 
ng w 
Mes 
Ri “Мир апа Chandler for i re st chaff-cutter, the field was miserably wet before the draining was 
j ag say (vide Jou al of the Royal Agricultural | executed), and the clay part appears as dry as the rest 
0 
udges beg to com-| of the field. tus joining this lies аг small field, | b 
i Г ide, and 3 feet 3 ог 
have occurred, that all machines driven by horse or | i. e. elay with beds of pe sandy cracks permeatin 
3 should E perfectly under the control of | it in almost every part. I may say further that, | secing 
the fe m under all circumstances, and suggest that in | the wet state of much i this field, I have put in som 
sud 
hat are not 
arranged » As the knowledge of this intiniation may | irregularities. These have er shown we infine 
me value to t — manufacturers who purpose | in drying the wet surface and enabling m ough 
exhibiting t their chaff-cutters at the Gloucester Meeting, | 9 inches deep, where in ба фз it was — ould 
Perhaps y 
in your сы mns. 
me 
u may think it еа while to give it a place | hardly draw my Carrots, many of which had wi in 
the ground. 
чу? СА а Омар 7 реч aem a Draining —My remarks on this subject have been 
р с тты Lab 
и а. An anonymous correspon see to prove 
lly 
eulty of providing labour — . in e the value of deep draining, states, it is generally known 
prey syn dlink d for our ortis the roots of corn plants penetrate to the depth of 4 or 
particularly labour of su ~ a kind as in egree 5 feet in favourable cireumstances—a stiff clay being 
bj i n 
le 
df. 
To aceomplish this without i injury to 
y sugges 
was convinced that both the steeping. 
the dust raised in the 
y ; 
may relieve the ratepayer from the heavy tax ‘whieh is the subject under consideration, Mr. Mitchell con- 
tras emen is 
ts A е 
е heal th, or to ; E my notions antique—that I want experience — eulo ses | h 
labour, increases the difficulty of this problem of the | science and practice, and in my opinion repudiates both 
day. From rom a trial of the dressing of steeped Flax straw, | at the end of his letter, by what he states with regar 
formerly e at my tion in our county gaol, I | to the intervals between the drains, and his declaration 
bein feet 
st the straw, and | of being a 4 fee drainer in all clays. Iam obliged, 
ж'а, present his invitation, to see the draining he is superintending 
of se 
insurmoun untable objections to the w I, d. ign rocess | for Mr. Davis ; but I du known the London elay |; 
in prisons, and the first objection would Ak ui rar to | Many years; in 1818, and subsequent years, I drained 
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aren Ж e hod union, work 
e Чеге ore ANY near London. In the Weald of Kent 
s have been tried in several instances and 
seeing or : soutehing, аза Йй 
prisoners in separate confinement, and to paupers in 
fee 
ffording еј n» ill eh the work redone at 23 feet successfully, 
inter of five or six days. They | wore э nt ed at 
rk: 1 ‘will here mention a piece ich is pra and 
at no cost, in A mode of ‘planting, Then pese mode of pl Ctised 
a yard apart ist set the plants. in rows one yar rd from sai үз 
ts! and p lantod alé 
but by this mi ge 0 plants grow in circles and n otis er mately 
there is a loss of s The plants should ver at pues 
of a series of e ane T angles; and this m of planti ing 
app plicable as well to oe “and all large p' pony Pa 
the verte: 
stiff | d з 
s A 3 th ite s ide representing tl iste 
be directed b the ыйа intimation, which appears | blue clay. e field is quite “ dry.” VAfter the heaviest one on the opposite si : je distance be 
so | additional drains 5 to 61 feet deep, accordin ng to s antics ите 
the rows, while the hypotenuse (or ‘either of the ой 
pest will represent he re 8 om nce эге 
оет bea: 
other, ту їп — mber T8, the proportional d. of » x1 
plan 
whose opinion on all que n practical agriculture carries 
the highest d finds it аНЫ to put the manure into 
land a lon ng time before па, ae planted, if Pay in 
— autumn; тА е we 8 manured in spring, but the manure 
в comparatively stale. The sine “should not be: kept long 
enough w Ше seed- bed to dr raw one another, „because it makes 
11 d tol thick sta 
Mr. Fisher ied favoured e d with a state- 
ment of the which the cattle 
Cabbage was M = tbe — counties. He 
had himself found it a most еМ йө green food 
is stoc He considered, however, that it was a 
particular point to sow the seed in the year previous to 
the one in which the crop was required : he had eon- 
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such as the early York, Sugar-loaf, large De 
Paignt on, and large late York ; and he bee out = 
is stock 
workhouses, which labour, from the personal inspection sel over the deep one, Aem have answered well I 
опе ui 
e prope Ara 2 m Weal, and am a ore attentive 
what 
of prisons), I am. enabled to state is perfectly 15 can ently accomplis эт hed—not merely 
inspectors 
healthy, and well adapted for Pes 
room, ог a shed in а yard. It is al 
ative, — Ses process is so simple that i 
one women, and on 
— i in the work. "aon tools are 
a separate cell, a | what is desira ble, ey what i is practicable: We shall all, 
ib e шпег. most likely, be eventually satisfied that the depth of 
through the harvest, but by care in the e 
could if he liked obtain for them from the same source 
an Bra ga supply of green food up to Christmas, 
in do» would be ready, and of sufficiently fine quality 
it ma M be learned drain must depend o Ted texture of the subsoil—clays 
ed aryin g 
y portable, and сч Aas depth will үлөр at that f point where saturation 
pms ve Bi the ye ana. "ee ESI iniured. ested—the water ascen „more. rapidly than it 
e no donbt/ dfe 
І Flax dence ail from thie point during Tai This ean foes be 
à , y market for 
Straw is 92 chief obstacle to the cultivation of this ascertain ed by € s of experienss but the expe- 
ery easily 
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350 М 451 y " $ SDR ake TGE ro a C 
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“chaff. 
wal eos 0 han 
above пао 
ouses, ean in no vy Kes ian fr vib 
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proper depth - that soil. 
suffered to remain on the surface » н - a ee 
even an hour. Qu ickness of esca is the 
та гы of draining. W. C. Selby, (А-ийн — Seven 
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Hh d Societies. 
i з 81 м 
wi. 
there “ROYAL ate Sa SOCIETY ОР ENGLAND. 
to! A WEEK 
an|in Han + quale; e last, the 23d of 
ste tow „ Fach m esday 
hours. Th MS y metes Fe hokey 8 Colon 1 CmaLLowER, Trustee, in 
> cha g the chair; Mr. elyn pe e on, M.P., Mr. Drue ce, 
nixed with | Mr. Ga desden, Мт! Brandreth ag == Fisher Hobbs, 
lly pay for M gw Mr. 
ssion on а 
sh. II. A. ‚ and Mr. pra 
y. li rust |. CABBAGE сте James А. Legard, of 
peel Lenton Hall, near N Üngham, favoured the Council 
ге; q| with the followin dieses am is management of the 
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benefit by : 
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stocks of 
= * r seed; 43. g those of the closest —.— with 
150 least ровно to burst ог run to seed, and with shortstems 
The stocks were remo e garden, — the seed collected 
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e profitably | V so much in ir degree of porositf—and that | by 
which could be obtained that hire 
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to an to Covent Garden. He had not found it 
referred to 
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plants for the purpose of ensuring goo bage crops. 
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increasing demands of machinery on the one b gi 
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MAREA. contrary, be made by j but in 
management exceedingly table as manure. | 
à | Lincolnshire iier did cent these things, eu T 
apart in the rows and produced nearly 30 tons to the ac 
коч. {ор8 апа ra eig LM soil ng loam, not 
the manure, eight orse t-loads of - 
ing ed puts on habit, the power manure and two 1. loud of gas-lim сое dr. =й ca tate ee ‘the 
to the —— v ui Maker, which may rud ded Met Wheat stubble, Vili Vis thee eared, and the long | OccAs 
him to We simple work ma —— in in the. autumn, to keep the land hollow and 
e easi ] ‘expound t winter. | as 
* y adopted for any industrial establishment, or | The land was twice ploughed, with the ordinary amount of |; 
tic asylums ; but for ha cleaning and hoeing, and the estimated cost of A Man - hes 
d : ving = 
water available for steeping, the тї 1 5s. 6d. per ton. The Ca Саре stocks w were planted in the 
g. n process intro- f ; 
üuced by Mr. Warnes will be found more remunerative and sown in the жее tea р „The seod was eut the th duly, pro 
in neral, and the pra ired of dressing Flax | were pricked out from the ei: ke 35h Beptesiber 1901, and | 
vill ill afford a ready means of employment, as such know- | Planted out. in the 2 last week in April, 1852. Th 
ledge is increasing in demand, G. A. ng very dry E: they were watered 
g G. M. with liquid “manure from the farm-yard three times, at 
he believed, they reckoned the Rape crop 
