pe THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 141 
em than Whe eat. The mere abstraction of the oil 3 of Rape, namely, an early dwarf Rape b- | equalities of any existing assessment—nor with what 
тай would not of itself, he thought, exhaust p for him by his bailiff from agar the | property in future may or not be eligible to contribute 
онр of fertility, if the other constituents of the on Rape, and the Irish Rape. rly " ed, towards the support of the necessitous. 
lant we t ret in various s ack into the — guar ed a mixture of the dwa ЕГ. Rape s ith | distinct questions will, when separated from th 
ра d With regard to tl oil, nat ugh 5 ted by an early variety of Turnip; this he sowed i | tand remo 50 e more equitably negotiated 
its colo dodour,it was xtensively for preparing | first week in May, and in 10 weeks got T: excelent * а proposition the monetary portion is not a primary 
inferior cloths, and for the мечет “of lighting ; Olive | food for fat sheep, which being fed off, t moti h ri will rations effect : saving 
oil was well known to be а rated with it. Colonel | ploughed, and the season not too late for ач. a apy pai ated at about halt a million annually, and a much 
Challoner remarked that he grew the Gold-of-Pleasure|top yellow Scotch Turni he had met with in the | larger sum contingen 
Flax with great tage on I nd, which seemed Lothians, and which gave hima very good crop o GR 
peculiarly adapted to its cultivation; while from Linseed, | roots ready for use in Novembe aptain Stanley Carr P OULTRY. 
he could not get back out of the ground one quarter of| was the first contributor wh communicated to the ^ 3 
the seed he put into it for sowing. He put the straw | Society a statement of the management of the Rape pli th pne tri deir virt af -China fowls should have 
le, and found that it made a in Mecklenburg, a district in North Germa ‘fie red. to fho foc. "T have chun muted 
into his boxes with the cattle, Е 1 in Ме g, a 1 many much difference in the colour of the eggs laid by the same 
litter much superior as man to that obtained from situated in the same latitude as Yorkshire, with a| bird. I cannot account for it, but I have always seen them 
on s ; the seed he gave in winter to his pev. however, uae , drier in summer, but tighter in со and weather than in ot. I have never seen any 
m milch cows.— Mr. Druce, of Eynsham, | colder in winter. arks in his Prize Essay nang e ibts of their pe wy Ár Dublin, jr а —— 
stated that he found Rape better on strong arable land (Jou mal, L. 4,025) 5 Where the land has a sufficient| the roup, as it is v now, from long wet and then 
than Tares. He erop of 20 f it every | proportion of clay, seed is sown broadcast іп the етот. Phat pure faces and е ts — with r and water. 
year. He sowed for it in April, and it eame up in of July or beginning rof August; this crop is greatly | wich bread and ale every morning and sven od gv ari 
about 10 weeks, when he soiled and ploughed it in. efited the following spring by dustin gypsum over valescence I have found a sane ч) of hey accept — day 
only sowed the dwa ape. sidered feeding off | it, about 100 Ibs to the English acre. In Jul the seed do 1e good.— x G F. If they sı ne no check, I certainly think 
with Rape as the best preparation for eat on stro ipe, and as the weather is generally fine, is trodden hatched ré SS оз it is Me va 22 Ie 
land. Mr die had observed at Caen and Rou by horses, very ditiously, on large canvass wth of May chickens.—C W. I cannot tell you whether м 
that in November they wed Colza after Wheat, and | sheets in the field. ‘The oil of this seed, when purified, Cochin Chinas are falling in public estimation, but Mrs. Potts’ 
that the plants in the following summer e trans- is without smell, gives a brilliant clear-burning flame, eee —— they — — hatching e —Mary. pa 
planted i the most simple manner by merely turning а and is universally used all over Germany, in the saloon | chickens than anything else, and I er feed then 88 
furrow.— éne Risler fayoured the members with | and th ttage. The value of the crop is very pre- eriod.— Competitor. You are not — rio: breed prize birds from 
a statement of his experience t e continent | carious, because it is subject to so ma contingeneies ; рж Мр T p itn m 2" ur Progen p pent aC por 
connected with the subject of Rape cultivation. The the Turnip-fly, slu up and caterpillar make war upon it duce first-rate fowls from E y. Body, Ms pte ху a 
Rape, he observed, required a fertile soil A which А when young, and w ower a small beetle (Haltica 
extrac I amount of marturing ma It was, nemo rum) often 4 away the blossom-bud, or lays its 
however, © e rs lar vie in the petals, ultimately furnishing every Miscellaneou 
France, in Belgium, and in eh and o pod with a maggot, which either eats the „or, Agricultural Dulness 7 Commer iad Activ y. 1 
parts of Germany, as the most profitable crop for rad forcing the pod open when nearly ripe, causes it to fall |a n Englishman, T like fair play. rnal re of 
ns. He believed that this favourable e out. When spared all these calamities it is, however, a а течне е rance and т is ure тей. if 
m their 5 — us circumstances: very remu ng crop, th from 107 to 20/. an it has not sa * the inder, a leetle 
1, The p pes n the conti e | acre, especially if there is a foreign dem T aw | annoying. said " xa "eta are 
high value of Дәрес 75 fattening eS: in ше same | is qu peros d, and the ashes scattered over the | odious.” That of ( dais a ae elass is Peculiarly so, and 
manner as inseed-cake in England. 3 use of fiel metimes в —.— the soap-boilers, who value | shows bad taste. There are plenty of ignorant and un- 
Rape straw for t pose of ier When t the | it highly. are then given for Wheat, sown coge tradespeople, as our ba nkrupt co how. 
farmers sell their seeds to the oil crusher, they gene- | broadcast in Septem r. Heywood has said that there is a national loss of 
rally e it a condition of the contract that the ae toms soin 0001. a-year in our t age, and added,“ 
a 
porous rbs wit 
with which it comes in contact ; but being a hard 
if not already pronen, it is, before ec ridge for ced 
— giae b 
required a soil more strong than 
igh a NY one being that which was best suited for 
T nerally the folowing Mie 
In some years ; th 
in others the second, acco: 
rea к 
I 
8 
the great injury inflicted on the Rape crop by belies ih in 
те early part of the spring of the en year ; 
only ADS. cl which appeared 
1 manured 
1 
| 
the Rape in 
f 
to it 
viously lou hed up.— 
that the harvest En 
in the year, 
however, in: diy weather, to getinthis crop, in consequen 
of the pods beco dried up, and shedding 
their athered in ; a loss 
then 
3 
. us ripe, is either carri 
F а waggons with rie 
5 and eig ie is oftener the out 
being over cloths cU on 
qe beat with 
in the fields, by 
to 
s remarked, that ho |i 
cel 
; rods.—Mr. Fisher Hob 
e for particular ipa three different 
эй. md so o del the develop р 
f fertility might 
e communications then made to praeri 
roan fe eir monthly meeting on the 2d of March 
Rebielws. 
ur 
ratchley, M.A. 
Tus object of ше Mer hese remarks is to show 
that = еч e that societies in the nature of 
ed the : ne ise- | 
uld be fo ia 
be taker: § in order that they may “ pe 
сфе pi channel for in 
must refer our readers to the 
A Suggestion for the Abolition ition of the Law of Settlement. 
By W.B. West. . Pamphlet. 
Tue amendment of the Poor-laws is a matter of such 
importance, and will probably be so 
that any pel pro by a 
acquainted w 
soon a 
and h 
git 8 
e enll Зена to Мг, West’s pamphlet and the plan pro- 
oved b 
y him, 
* The plan proposed in this paper differs from еу 
i the assessment of ed 
the 
eil Ba e tid their usual acknowledg- | 
ad- 
ves үсү: А аз а ану 08 in the kin 3 
rein ig 10 
еро | 
person who is ly | and the 1 
; as turned his attention specially | 
- | to their а state and working, 2 gor ug 
r, n 
sa farmer's a a as if the farmer were to be the 
n assure you 
uch attention having к 
| Governm 
calculation n that the outlay will not exceed 5]. per aere, 
paid off by 22 instalm 
of нт 33 feet to 37 rad p 
of turf draining, tile pipes 
as the 
din June; it was esie] i 
k cloth ; or, as in | In 
, threshed 
short | 
б 7 err it may wer ым be vgl eme m | this it 
to lish equitably, without a national o 
ifi sent ls 
now Midi throughout the coun’ 
the law. It proposes to continue the thay o of, an 
the adm santa of relief by, boards o guardian 
maintain the neat ail mht of electing 
0 eee pr wee. 4 
сеси іп the ki and 
maintenance o 
san ip as 
esse 
„an 
with the custom in 
or the pomme of an effectual control o 
A: 
increasing o minishing pau 
I 
into the а 4ч of the La тиз pes rating—or t the in- 
— 
the right, now in apa s of MOVER, pup funds for ier i 
E y 
r ry 
—— for Wheat, upon wet soils, ha 
п 
ш. ргїпеїр алан: Aney 
rom their a form. 
The effects of the Pies ав 
have been so satisfactory, t 
again 
raining, while re дыт! 
een planted, 
pide 
d much of what has been planted т il have to be 
who permits any one to inspect t ; аш 
would advise those in favour of — — ^ 
