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when Turnips are grown for seed, “ the manure в should drilled with 4 bushels of bones and 80 lbs. of — cows consume each daily | * 130 lbs. of Rye- i 
contain more nitrogen” than when bulbs are produced, | acid per acre, mixed with soil and ashes. f the with 21bs, of oil-cake, so а an aere of ye-grass 
I would rather maintain the eontrary. Iam willing, Swedes were pulled off, and the remainder — on the yield 45 tons of meat in the six e which is the 
however, to diseuss this question, and I therefore assert land by sheep, which were allowed 1b. of Linseed-eake | case at Cunning Park, about 5 or 6 cows can be fed on an 
that the same amount of nitrogen in the manure whic А it per head daily. The n —— of Wheat were drilled | acre in that time. Mr. Telfer um all the kinds of Man- 
o raise a maximum crop of bulbs, vill ais а about 89 inches wide, а t the rate of two bushels | golds, He prefers, however, ong to the globe—of 
mazrümum crop of seed. To cover all the espedibats per acre. The April Wheat appeared above ground the long yellow he had 25 ins ihe long red 23 tons 
which may be had recourse to, Гат ready to discuss two or three days before the other, and in a short time | per Scotch acre. The following is Mr. Telfer's state- 
the subject either in a * scientific,” “practical,” т | took ға very — —— which it maintained up to ment of his fum for next year, with his estimate of 
&potation-effect"-point of view. But what does Mr. harvest. — s White as À excesivo the. expected produce, per S acre, these being the 
Lawes wish to imp on his readers when he has as to resemble — more t — The April quantities EN hitherto raised :— 
put E following passage in italics with the capitals :— — did not tiller at all, an e "the rst week in Mangolds е. 
we ten to cultivate the Turnip for its most natural pro- une was one foot taller than the other: it was, how- Саба; "QU EMIL Wr 
ducts,’ — treatment it would ‘require would — more nearly — too thin on the e ground ; and I intend in future to Italian kyai 6 5 
approach that — e sogar dud, Peri t; мне еар sow it at the rate of ten peeks, i instead of two bushels, n his land he lays 50 1605 of solid dung p er acre— 
anturat преси of the plants, would be. greatly lessened, it tha == aere. The April Wheat was 1 — — 1 wet whieh t is ее in, and immediately before sowing Не 
т of the plant as а FALLOW CROP would be lost.” later than my earliest autumn-sown ' Whea applies the guano TEE rate — which i 23 followed | by liga 
Mh would the four course rotation be se pre ved Z cut on the 4th of September, just before a geld s — шап Мт. Telfer's esf or his cows e 
the Turnip if it was grown for seed? Because the see eat ‘sown on the 16th of February. It was а | time of my visit was as foll — 
ins oil, answers Mr. Lawes ; but — 1 any one e bes eavy crop. ай .. 10 cwt } 
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мет = give another answer to the question if he would “The Hunter’s White was — — te н d 2 — em — 4 on mie ol ls. cows: being 
simply think for "ow The Turnip is a’ biennial | Mildew that it was scarcely” worth harv FT — 
when grown for seed; the rotation would, of necessity, mained a ding —— colour а — end E P September id 
be “ Turnip bulba- Turnip seed,” The very comparison It was eut on А. 2d 
which has been made is — rid lieulous ; w the | fine until it was wes carre The i iod rums Mr. Telfer mention "d Mp quantity of urine pro- 
Turnip is grown for seed, every o t it is its | Wretehedly bad nant and мау qual, ‘and, being duced by a cow is nearly equal to the quantity of = 
own fallow plant. In e eases out тат ten 8 manure totally unfit for rad ding into as used up w sud gives; 10 sad" that the A hel obtained from each is 
is given for Turnip seed or Coleseed than for Turnip | ther tail corn for cattle and pi i s yearly. Mr. Home’s Report to the East 
bulbs ; and it is known dist — seed is very suecess- A rood of each was eut and threshed e pos AS Warne Club. 
y grown on many very poor and light soils, which having been marked out at the time of sow The 
only grow bulbs by much forcing. The difficulty is to produce was as follows :— 
b the seed will follow in due season. Can gest Home Correspondence. 
any one yet 'diseern philosophy in the following APRILWHEAT. Wurre. Dahme Selletile » Small. «Parm.—1n:an..drünle- 
a 
darkness visible." Thos Best Corn. Tail. All Tail Corn. 
— of such — must, at «Ане be as wise as the Bush. Pecks.| Bush. Pecks|  Bushels. not 100 miles from Saxm in Suffolk," in such a 
author himself. One Rood............ ал. 0 22 ж way as to lead — readers to suppose he misre- 
м bL. "e sooli: x" Cruciferous 25851 Turnips and Rape, for | Or per Aere 4% 0 22 0 16 menti his success on his two acres of land, І think 
rogenous product, oil, sem to abound, and wre it only justice to John Sillett (for doubtless he is the 
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might xs 2 3 manures i i 
— DOE such gym n like manner as that of starch is * The straw of the April ‘Wheat was long and д nin mp ed to just ое tI — Tr 
int the Graminenus family, Also: “Yet | adapted for sets — of the Hunter's White w 1851, a — " harvest in . 
much of it is als 25 маме the 85 * lieab small 
it is not the se ей that is t te object 5 our e, Betta so much injured by mildew as to be broken in ise ui about to —— nts app le to 
Mihi ke place under a soméwhat unnatural | Tabular Statement of the Results s of t the асы à wie Whea 
or ari f the constituents of supplie ied food, an and under : 
such а condit: of cli 
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I must now ade ert to a characteristic i Е Es ек Б? 9 — id of — мн — Produce per Acre. REMARKS. 
€ gs w has caused much m — a n and dnt " 5. 5- Acre. gs | 
usion. This is a habit in him of sa . — вад», Bushel 
the Wheat or of the Turnip, when he i is ne ө of e ther (a 12Mr.Cnórumz,..|-April Wheat | April. 10 Sept. 14 2 Probably — Too thin on the ground. 
Rt he which his readers are led to suppose cann 7" Neal 2 So much mildewed 
— or even more truth: Coóllin's titio | ‘Neatly a ue 
of the ober Ж He further еи his — А, и : r spring Wheat а month later RR be of little 
Pre garb, which serves to give them а Philosophie 2. Mr. LIx Tow . April April 20 Aug, 20 2 274 Stra ори strong, and quite me 
look. Those who are off nh — , and interpret him a à from mildey 
literally, are misled. I could show some rather amusing 3. Nr. NWA An foe a unm qi ense a : 
passages in his flings’ of this quality. This is the ; Yd rnc Ail 4 Sept. 30 2 84 Suffered from bad weather, uiia 
history à - Puseys © vete "oa олаи Morty шан bushel more 
Rothamsted. This is also the reason why Mr. Caird, 1 i 1 IT , per — 
vith all his practical knowledge, has allowed himself, in 4. Mr. Ourfrwalrn April Maren 16 Sept. 7 23 15i оо — on hr n 
his Eng P Agriculture," to write of the e practical Hunters | March 16 Sept. 8 2 23 e Sub inthe weeks 
— of Rothamsted in such’ DM that if I had ‚| White d — 
е so, 1 would have been accused of ridieuling Mr. ; „gedi 
Lawes’ labours ; several of “thë — —-— | W | | 291 Straw b ee mages years беды 
lready |5. Mr. WIE dui i "bell 5 бийс nildeWel right, 
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Sept. 0 . 
— are tin ged with this fault. Two paragraphs - April 5 From three 9 
which Mr, Lawes has directed my attention: are d da adig | Е фес 10 "e paw beam 
be sed of; and I Pme t of our ill . Af. DOOM gi! April April 10 Sept. 4 2 431 Straw long, шы and strong. 
consider. that my additions are just as Hunters April 10 Oct. 2 2 16 (Straw so much mildewed as to be 
right and true as his t of the truth. What ; White - ET M aie [UU Ne От tomer. 5 
is the use of bringing forth such sentences which ean ments by threshing. The grain of the April Wheat is eia and having read Sillett's ong ri T also, for 
only мех and darken what should be plain and rather small and lean, and aues s to be known by the | further lee C * trained som the hu. {9 
-simpl mera, * they will buy it freely. Moat Hall, eie: d the rest,’ ^ Ani the Poit ti abl, and «5 
wwe n „ fess the state M M land disappointed me. It wa 
in which it is — for "feeding (or seedi — pu rpos es iin à weed enh 1 it oed Ji accounted for, when a very 
!! а. Sate erate comet 9 n 
M. “From which, again, we may PUMPA Futter tut de APPLICATION OF LIQUID MANURE. that Mr Эшен, be being a i od r man, considered he could 
cultivated bulb’ (or euitivated веба) is the result of à continued |u A get his house up cheaper by working at it himself than 
accumulation of secreted matters formed rmed in quantity beyond. the |, CUNNING Pank, Near Ayr (belonging to and farmed | by trusting wholly to hired workmen, and had conse- 
essential requirements of the plant ag such.” by Mr. Telfer).— Oct, 23, 1852. — This farm contains | quently neglected his ground during his building opera 
-I have been taken pretty sharply to task for stating 48 acres, and is entirely devoted to a dairy-of 40 cows. tions. He had 4 Shelf fom Ма libor on N 
_that Mr. Lawes’ experiments “on Tarnips were not so No corn is grown on it. Hay, Grass, and green crops ground (perhaps Diapers ie but Яс bad termine 
^as those on Wheat * challz therefore, are ‘reared. There are two large ‘tanks here, the | to cultivate Mie wa narei with Ms is; and, 
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duetions which have them are in however, are not covered, which is a great drawback 
harmony with either the science or practice of agricul ' | gét this defect remedied: iet 
ture, E. Russeli, Kilwhise, Fife. гк зз urine only flows into the tanks, the solid being kept by | able time, 
"APRIL WHEAT. 
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and r whether the “earlier,” от even the later, | fields by an engine of three horse power. 
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Е. | hithe threshed, I believe it ave n | the ‘one month’s growth. еа ot ' 
5 4 eee "The | summer — 11 of Grass ;— | 10 indeed he priced what 
184 j treatme: ph fes land had been as follows :— | 1 € of Grass will yield 6 ewt. of excellent hay. he saw at 23“. PEF 2d. Tess ioco. nothing t 1 think if you 
Mei wedes ; manured with a liberal | He со; voe dl Moos PPA o ago tan will take the t 40 
tradi -yard manure in ridges, and the seed edit cok r nourishment to 1} ton of Turnips. Mints | ity a ed iro И ine а уп 
