346. THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [May 28, 
utline of the proposed measure, which pn known as tlie“ Essex system of draining. ne would prove quon to the rius comma 
P ied apart coniicit of our readers, and | | drains at first rarely exeeeded 18 inches in depth, M am induced to my own experience, a 405 
the ultimate эн of which in Parliament it will | were filled to a certain — with brushwood, s sult of cons iderable — on its use y mde; 
The obj ect of the Ъ is bs. зоне and sometimes even with straw, materials which Ini theory at — this. subject has long been fami 
ls retentive soil served to support the oof until a | to me; but fro n the high ses of the implement. gene- 
| junetion with the sides was effecte These perishable | rally about 25ʃ, 1 ubts were entertained whether smal} 
: £ h | materials have in many districts been superseded. by | farmers—those who grow from 10 to 25 acres in Wheat. 
are unsuited to the V 8 age an the tiles a i f various fo 2 aud sizes, formed of —were justified in incurring so much expense. Pres, 
br ee 0 e ü ommunit as it is hough a prospect of | vious, however, to changing my plan of seedin | 
у spreading, an s likely before very long to more permanent benefit than can — oped for from the and coveri ng hes either the harrow, cultivator; ор 
t: ina totally Quel! system of conveya ncing. | | | perishable materials pre evio usly named. small pl ough ; Ie fully —— man ny fields with э, 
peach адь ela About 20 years after Tull, the agricultural writings Wheat dr — m in a adjoin ng counties, in my owwang 
of the celebrated Arthur Voung began to appear. The other State 1the Eier о in re. cases, 
HISTORY OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE: No. V. practice of Young, like that of many other teachers, is | of — ing - —.— and actual r in the same 
(Continued from page 332 said to have fallen sadly short of his preeepts, and fiel 
tradition deseribes him as the worst farmer of his date. Wit n the past three years. these observations hare 
I fear, however, that the character of amy and every 2 — over drilled fields, in the aggregate to fully 
i it і reformer, iven i es ive of. drilli 
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ost of Pari ы ga riters followed in the wake 
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cen afterwards during the e quts a that the is to be received with much caution; at any rate, his 100 acres in my own e and for several of my neigh 
first great step Ms ae made in agricultural improvemen writings deseribing the then state of farming in almost | bours; This year w * all use it to a greater. 
by the introduction and cultivation of Clover. In the rto 
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Surv 75 d in observation, prove him to have been a careful and intel- In no instance, either in my own or the experience 
1604, * — byes * a Rande: афи aon ligent observer, and well qualified -€ the task of an other ы gr ther results — been carefully ir knees 
: : ‚= 1 censo i iti d red, h e ea 
re ul co 
of much useful statistical information dani ing on his | the most ‘profitable 1 first in the saving of seed, and 
th uni farmers. | favourite study, and contain reports of numerous — secon dly i in the increased product of grain, varying from: 
The introduction of red, or as it was then called the ments; -— in 3 and grazing, which had been one — six v seven bushels to.the acre 
Great Clover, was chiefly due to Sir Richard Weston, cart ed on by various men eminent in their day The t common mode of co covering — broad~ 
gs some te миной as Cromwell’s am- | РГ ractical farmers, . eec eem lands in odi. al east — is with the harrow; a and if the land is well 
i Weston on his the ren of England. These letters soi l prove prepared previously, 4. e., in fine tilth an anova i-o 
of! th — then w; as it — s been from the first, and pro- the harrow will so im pron — — — 
* bably will: remain to the end of the ehapter, — while to leave much of the udin ered 5 near the 
who had. been a —— himself in cS у» beige егч — wes ата energy, and perseveran utstrip | surface that the first ailing rain reto will expose 
steady and munificent patron, of agricu are progressing more or less — there no inconsiderable portion of the grain. True, 
1 t che cultivation, of se A urs will "am be found oecasionally а farmer Slowman, whom | this will sprout and take feeble root ; but it is generally 
the alternate testem, ч its origin, nothing can. urge onward ; ; and, strange to say, it not | thrown out and killed by thew — з 
The cultivation ng the in i ~ ho 
ee. pee Mia 15 а farming his own freehold. An amusing specimen of hence the necessity of adding an increased uantity of 
even ded to Ireland, yet it took nearly 60 nue this kind of farming is the hero of an ver m “told of seed to guard against this contingency, To provide 
to bring it into a regular rotation with those of the old Francis, Menem Duke of Bedford, who had made against this loss » seed, my broadcast seeding has. 
ns. E до: ў it strenuous efforts to i і 
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en fr to ; 
was common заав. urging tio ploughing, with two horses abreast instead of four or harrowed in, rarely stands too thiek at harvest. If the 
of Clover upon a slow-going tenant, to be met by par rg five in a string, among the tenantry on the Woburn | shovel plough « or small bar-share. is. used instead of the 
remark as that it was all very well for a gentleman, but estate. Finding on one occasion, spite of his teaching, harrow, a vered 
a farmer must take care: nus rent. the old team still at the old work, he dismounted, | too deer and is necessari 4 irregular in vege — 
EN I eus Er. : tallied. ined, pen meet Mov arranged the gear,and with his own hand debve'a farrow | if hoe: dees not fail entirely, to farce ee the 
pois the field iol 9 | with the pair of horses yoked abreast, leaving the td ах and this irregularity continues, bo 
first 7 timation, — й орен г BA y еа, idle. Having finished, the man could n р f head and maturity until harvest. a 
бугюн у 
die e rlier date, est the fac rop is inte 8 with gre 
n Of. & inthe Improver Im- tie his 8 0 Jo! could find по better — — to hie best Wheat is . ted to — m pen 
is 1 of at some | farmers could no — shatter c offin | the harve 
The 
“that 
excellent A — study of Arthur ee — . affor g; 
ioe which E i extended the patient —P а ly accurate picture of leno esce either to ditione ae —.— = 
to the field. Blythe's book is the agricultural state of —— towards the elose of | Jarly even in moderately windy w eather) or cover tie 
est stes d. work ir which may be found | the last century. go may b —— from the seed with regularity ; in places itin quit taa 
жө tae: convertible, Шабар jj 80 so: beneficially | experiments recorded, that a great desideratum at that in others, again, as much too v This 
— since, by n Clover and Turnip substitute for Turnips during the rigours of | haye, with others, long been are of; though wi 
between the culmiferous crops. — r when they could not be drawn from the 3 practical knowledge, could not fully compare and appro- 
The winnowing: machine. was first anner from owing to snow or frost; and the Carrot seems ciate the am pic of. drill husbandry, over pete old 
Holland in 1710 into Scotland, where, its use was, pub- with this object увсын of — 
lily. unced from, the pulpit, as mpious, unicus The letters contain aeeounts of such essays, with minute | We will now compare- the two y by. 
the will of Divine Providence, by mre wind for par- | details of the cost and resulting erops, but the introdue-| what are, in my opinion, the advantages of 
er. use. by human. art, instead of soliciting 1 by tion of the Swedish Turnip in 1790 effectually accom- dil. — the seedi 2 
or e ee the eumd of Pro- plished the object in view. The introduction’ of the | of the branching or 
Field Lettsom about | fy 
h 
— ma by a horso after Turnips have either decayed’ or run to seed, and | most varieti an eee 
4 r he hadinyer „Тру іар inso even the earliest Rye or Grass affords as yet no bite, | broadcast 24 bushels 
of hi could completed — of the peut —À saving of on 
times sear pest the ner the usual charge: 
a сс more dioi be added; for a — of and the —.— wilt дай nearly: ог { 
xisti Bog nd probably: $ | 
that | 9 of history. Mechanics have lent а powerful aid to the 1 im din n 
ve | operations of husbandry’ ploughs s ploughs of all kinds have been over the shove а bend — 
by ; ng machine, first invented in 1793, cents account will stand 
i Д has been peen vii im — and improved & steam has | бб менене Wheat 
1| lent. his giant force; guano and other c i Bln er 
| manures of easy distribution offer novel ee, to pop seam pr dollar, cibis eee P 
| the improving ` rmer; while the establishment of the Todays — eee ee 
& e 
history of British’ husbandry, will exercise a not less on drilled 5 реске 
ure | beneficial — the culture of his mind than on 5 days’ team and drill, at Masi. ааш” 
"by che tillage of his land. Farmers seem to be rapidly | ; * 
i acquiring a taste for more intellec: tual pursuits than: ET 
which porters the — of their fathers: 
daily, — 
in alm 
en from rones —— 
ooked: 
ow. AS som йн үт almost funny. As the diamo pon booke | а | —— lora day's wori —.— 
vhence its brillianes from attrition, so this commingling sod granted ; but in a large field the drill. wil 
to — g of the mind mus good. а-дау with the same ; 
work for eres 
. There is reason to hope that the f farmer; who follows | harrow i 
ae perhaps the the most delightfal of all sécular-occupations | 8 
Ls ime 8 + wW who 10 opens far his only; when my own i 
—— and — the volume of — | on whom I can rely 
