362 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [JUNE "m. 
is to be restored? The old people of the neighbour- | growin ," we believe that only patience is needed | which every young farmer ought to learn who wishes. 
pibe enlm itas one of the bei fe eling pastures | in shh to ultimate success; for when once the to become thoroughly master of their culture, 
of the district; but, for a long time, its colour, | manure i mii about throughout the soil among| The first stage in the life of these plants is а ver, 
tardiness of growth, &c., have shown its poverty. the roots “of the plants, -— must begin.to flourish. | strong effort to place their ots and leaves in 3 
In answer to the question, we would remark, in Perhaps, chic: there i dieser ig still needed | position successfully to discharge their subsequent 
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the first place, although it may secm opposed to ex- in the wa food ; lime ma absent, and in that | functions under the peculiar emergencies to 
perience to ap A o, that w not believe the mere case must be өйы ез аф 60 o shels an they are ature appears sensible of te 
ure 2 25 in itself anything to do with | асте, slaked with soil in a com t heap, and|w 
its bx «s general, where land has been laid spread about in autumn, will Hlely endis next 
down to Grass, there has been a large produce for | year 's crop. Or the texture of the so oil 
the first two or three years, a gradual dwindling | faulty ; folding it with sheep, might do it good in 
and apparent impoverishment for the next eight or this way, as well as by their droppings: ог the 
ten, and at length a gradual re-attainment of the use of Sir Bos ARD vtile il p 1 
status occupied by old pastures in the neighbourhood benefit ри growing plants; and in that case it 
on similar soils. Again, on those old pastures, should have heen used in March, when the land | yet a 
where frequent mowings and grazing with young | №. ge “soft, and the spring growth had not yet 
cattle, or, as on dairy farms, with milk cows, have | begun an 
been pin. for a very long time, there has been a But whether for irrigation (the carrying of the! 
gradual im erishment of the feed—mosses and manure), or man nuring (the furnishing of the manure 
poorer e ein — displaced those of Te to to be carri ed), we know of nothing (after ^ lan 
or these have exhibited a less vigorous gr 
the one case, they tell us that, while the eiie en w face upon a poor Grass field, as liquid . 
growth of the first few years was owing to the store We were lately at Tiptree Hall farm, and saw a 
of artificial fertility in the soil, its dwindling Was Grass field opposite Mr. Mecui’s house, which had 
ing to the exhaustion of that fertility, and its|been “laid down” when he first undertook its 
subsequent recovery to the creation of what may be | —— and which till this year ы been blue, 
called a natural fertility of the soil, by the decay of brow y colour but the right one—poor Grass, |110 а iv: 
vegetable matter on its surface, and by the long and | and Yielding but little of such as there was. This| Evaporation always. carries off heat / 80 tide 
undisturbed continuance of the various ice of | field we saw sending its vigorous shoots through the retain the greatest amount of sap n the Mos 7 
disintegration, whe ther by worms ог by rain, varia- snow in April, and again, three weeks ago, as to pre 6 A 
tions of gag re, or Mug. atmospherie age ncies. | green and growing as any one could wish to see = frequently of the highest importance—to M 
In the latter case, we are told 97 - observed It had been already drained and manured, Wurzel and Swede fro 
‹ ase of quality is owing simply to the exhaus- | ultimately, we believe, these wou uld have нум д | earlier period at which they are sow: 
tion. of the food for the plants more Sed than the pasture ; but the delay was too much for D effi ub 
Sources, natural and artificial, of its supply have|and he has accordingly tried to solve the problem best means for Agen. А sufficiency 
2 been made to yield it. In neither case is it|in a shorter way, and has succeeded in his attempt. the wants of roo 
S ‘and in neither can it, we think, be The present condition of the land, as compared with the granja degree of heat. properly drained 
us asserted, that the mere age of the plants, or, at any | its appearance in previous years, is due to the liquid | Pever get into that consolidated state andre! | 
rate, of the pasture, has had anything to do with manuring which he has been able during the past lands do, for the percolation of the water al | 
their vigorous growth, or its productiveness ; so that| winter to give it. The * ok this system leaves them in a wee and open state capab 
а crop of Grass, whether for pasturage or mo wing, | of manuring to other crops will be a proper subject holding water, owing to the. great affinity which 
is no S r to the simple rule vim guides the | for pm hereafter; meanwhile, its undoubted exists between it and the decomposing Y 
exper of the farmer in every ot ä applicability to our Grass lands mar be usefully | matter always present in them 
that, if a ero be wanted, the Lau pinta m st | pondered over by our correspondent. Mr. Месни»! Undrained clay land 6 
Ъе on the ground, and they must ust be placed in лр field was a new one, and his is an old one; but that, are 80 consolidated that they plough up 
stances adapted to their growth. as we have said, is not a material point. The thing like bricks in a brickyard, while the sn 
mw i terial bet is,they sam have wanted food for the = ee into fissures under the plough, 50 that it 
Gras ts a considerable | upon and they have wanted that spread | possible to br m down into a "- 
Den ur their e modes of cultivation. | throughout ‘he soil in which the roots of ots plants | mould, retaining at the sam e time 
If a one че has failed, the remedy is gene- | expatiate Lu the case at Tiptree, these wants have e. ге 
уо : you did not plant the right seed—or “ae supplied, and hence the change visible on the Properly draimed lands of the same 4 
E mund was pre-oceupied by Couch—or [4 surface of — field in question. other respects turn up very differ 
have been Аан the grubber has been found i 
hot s meh enough of food of the right sort for you A WAN a sufficiency of moisture to promote it is found necessary to, у 
plants. It needs, therefore, not only that лософ we healthy «д ит лз of Mangold Wurzels, Swedes, keeping the harrows, roller, 
occupiers of the ground be displaced, and that the up to it finishing the пету 
soil be enriched by manure, but that seed ч hai — зн of the United Kingdom. The moist . — yoking, ‘there is s seldom р 
Жа» ET —— of the right quality be sown. of Ireland renders a large area of her provinces an Proper mou ul same na 
o do ibt, e first starting of the new ae exception to this rule; and the same may be said of of moisture for the vegetation of Mangold 
is oan ti but in the case which | a few localities in England and Scotland; but, in and Swedes, In cases of this kind 
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wants invigo it would ferent crops being grown as the result; for, unless | ung unt 18 1 t 
Н tie case of other crops, not only to get rid of|the seed germinate freely, and plants cover the rolling ; for when it is wrought in te 
| s we do not want, but to sow or set the ground equally he crop does not turn out a heavy working has the sa l 1 
| plants of the kinds that are required ; for one. Hence the maxim so studiously observed by of the clay of а brickyard in a pum 
— are either natural to the soil, or, what is the successful W of retaining the natural sap of |t for baki 
game thing, — M are alread: many gene- | the soil a no 
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having already: lived. and ¢ died x upon| During the * — season no lack of moisture also in the putti 
its ефе and they only want fa ome A evi has been ES in getting in Mangold Wurzel, for the drawing of a 
. Stances to start into ing. These cireums unless where sowing was postponed beyond its usual | When in such a state is sure to 
then are what alone need be supplied, in a in ae "d period. At the = time, exceptional se seasons, 
the change in the character of the pasture which | like the present, ar are not those in which the calamity | from 
is desired. If they be present, the field already at issue is the least likely to p" met with; for а the highest importance, for by this time 
| 75 rous growth, and | long continuance of heavy battering rains has onl great, and if accompani ith win 
la e at i ne soil, closing i 
and diminishing acity for holding water; | moisture, 
while the ploughing of such lands late in spring—a | ra с i 
: | practice widely, exempli ned this year—renders it|on dry Turnip soils, 
more difficult to retain. a ciency of moisture, | seldom 
| especially i in the absence of efficient drainage, taken efend them from pa 
It is not * да to get in the seed with a ony bs dees Л уни ч, 
sufficiency of mo ; the soil must also be placed | EO this. 
in a state dedere of гел it for the use of ће |in autumn or 
young plants, for if the seed germinate quickly, as | ma be loosens De 
it will alwa; асеў X p3 warm drying weather, under spring, retaining upon the surface 
e|the circums n question, then the young had been finely. pulve 
plants will be ойк of a hothouse constitution, taking care that they are np 
PUE. hat w eds rly noticed. H 
А of , so that by July their leaves entirely c — г< 
of age ground, defending it from the parce aha rays of ҮЧЕ Erne nia? 
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эз эрт guano over the parch i Shaking the 2 development of roots. |adapted for Mangold Wurzel, or 
th farm dung, and he has Mangold W urzel, Swedes, agens Carrots, and practice a. 
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н crops, luxuriate in dep rich soil, A considerable divers 
о the striking Chur hi Tadieles deeper im it in search of whether Turnips should 
1 h | moisture when they first burst from the seed than | “ridge.” The question involved 
| Although it is the first lesson | iscussion moist 
