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the drains, the 5 in gent tubes 
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known from certain — such as that of the anne 
absence of any phen row aio ee e 
of capillary attraction, between and water, 
or between glass and etm — Scr in — 
cases leading one to the idea that something equi- 
valent to repulsion is in e 
same truth is indicated in the extraordinary amoun 
An at the force 
inversely with the. dimension of the cha nnels in 
is k nown direct ex 
eultural MS and the r 2 many л interesting 
ante 
articles in the Highland Societ 
a moderate size аге S 8, 
large bulbs, whieh, heal des, are m affected 
by frost, and thus have their — deteriorated in the 
ason mportant part of the 
to be, of which ean — grow the greatest 
ound! for if the large 
re in the gross — though individually 
oots W. 
a | inferior, “they may — n » o yield the larger amount | pe 
= 
We ee then, that 
periments with glass tubes 
ration thro ughout the 
both these facts are 
is решу increased by the latter in the case о 
clay so 
бр correspondent vi (pnis ” has, we believe, for]; 
once made a mista states in page 364 that 
oes n — — it certainly does contain 
water, and it — it with greater force than any 
t wo 
that мае” is in it any well-digger, much more — 
analyst, w him 
Take, sii cases of sand and clay, both full to 
the Are and s — a drain to be dug as deep 
we believe that on the 
ан the water will begin to trickle, 
t of the soil at the 
or, as e phra 
, and perhaps — till double that — in 
the case of the clay; a column =ч ater 2 fee dmm 
e suecess of * — on am 
— are, no doubt, particles at every variety of 
distance from one anothe 
clay wil eras Visible ni the naked eye, channels 
mi proba 
observable under the microscope, and ably — s yield the the : 
interstices Wer in particles large enough for the : 
ess of If we suppose such a medium ora к ee б: "of 
after drainage—a depth of 4 feet of it Ring upon season, while the land is left ee 
& lon, the water there will 7 It to impenetrable to frost, which is the life of Ж. and half 
various heights NET o the dimensions of these е. al hae i ing qualities, wiry 
channels. Or taking the case of such land after innutritious, in ve of the want of mutual kind 
in, water in it will be a at us | ness, or the fundamental want of the means afford 
o the — - benc 
Out of the acid it will at o 
9 — bene in the microscopic e e 
it will remain at a certain he eight above the level of 
being, ho 
not stagnant, for it runs out 
emptied ` 8 the outer surface of |} 
О rom o vid er su 
the land. We think that the t red i 
page ctly ill het s ot the 
of water ink soil under 
gravitation, capillary attraction, an 
— — 
I НАУЕ м lub 
value of I 
doubt on my own part of the u y of its 
visab root 
. 
y o admi | 
in the drills те een distances 5 te маена 
properly ; and then growing the roots to 
— — ne ama „ind 
if 
narrow drills, and moderate- 
was generally age a thro roughout the 
‚ notwithstandin that can be uns 
mi he 
r 
crops ; an 
rience of farm-yard 
т, even in the case of a|n 
land 
2 
in 
relations | resul 
the combined tima of | ci 
evaporation. 
ism pis comparative | fi 
small roots—not that I have any | dli 
impossibilit m 
d. Turni 
I|season; and found d Turnips singled 13 inches, gave me 
and — E 9 to 10 inches." 
| shee S fonder, м 
. You ask 
seoonanrim per 
of an experiment I insti Atuted this season , аз to this 
point, in the growth of Swede Turnips, which I shall be 
glad if it prove of any use The season is the great 
imp nt tumn У Паре and in your climate pro- 
bably still more difficult t here ; where it can 
be ted, it no doubt serves a good p , especially 
ils ; Я — the risk is great, of enter- 
torily. 
Result of Experiment on Swede Turnips, singled respectively in is not sufficient 
lots of an acre aueh, at 8, 11, and 14 inches, one-fourth of each 
lot weighed gave 
Tons ewt. qrs. 
ic 4 8 
No.1,ati4inchesapart ... 
„ 2, at 11 inches apart 5 13 0 
3, at 8 inches apart 5 T i} 
This being at the rate of— 
Tons ewt. qrs. 
T i "m РА à B Ч i per acre. 
в 20 
he nu umber of roots ‘in à 9 8050 А реле weight was 
H 
Geo . Robertson, o 
ar Kelso, a bare extensive grower of 
Cali 
pni in ns * эы ensuing Turnip crop, to be sown M 
in May or Ju 
ne, p фер the land to a 
when exposed to the winter 
cleane a prepares for root 
enero 
application of manure—I would sa 
manure, bones, an ne 
ed—with the land well prepared, the 
the pl oed t i 
8 
i 
AB 
ek Bo 
H 
produce a large and more healthy weight of crop, in 
point of kipe i as bec - profit. I have had ме year 
20 n my two farms, a most 
— crop. ебе — I ought 5 ha 
that we always consider a sine a restorative to 
; and by — the Spi 27 i 
are enabled to horse 
pean th 
y its exclusion from a 
te tin con dying wind, the surface being closely covered 
by the 
Mr. Robert MÀ me м Mea valuable table of 
made and other arti 
the Жөө — "Club, whieh I in- 
tend sing to i - Harkness, in case he should think it 
worth whi publishin ng in the Journal. 
The next extract is from J = — o „of Prim. 
— very rwickshire | Į 
“We tuve two classes of soil on which we can success- 
^ | 
Lt. if n a second |i 
I made an experiment in ingling 
2 tons 17 cwt. more 
e former were larger 
top. This season I shall 
and more equal; having less edi; 
single my Swedes 12 inches, 
t opinion is from Mr. 3 the successful 
Staffordshire 
moderate. 
ou the result | b 
- | generally ad 
venture to advocate e uem of small roots com- 
ared with large — or instance, measure 
rind of seven n 4 Ib. ro and one 281b.; which 
produces the most rin of rind is of the worst quality 
—the solidity of the x = es the weight." 
T xtract is f a letter 2 мб: Mr. 
8 cem son, East rides y Kelso 
“I аш quite against autumn tillage, as T consider 
the land is ae so much poached. that 
deal more harm than good, and ean manu 
rfectly clean, Mr. Wilson, of Edington Mains, has 
een trying the v system this — and it is 
considered uite a fail objeetion 
i b Ano 
to the syst r is, that I think the land n E be 
th 1 well plou чм "p — that season, with three 
or f. orses, if it cou uld b npn and in that 
que cleaning i is out of the 
* In regard to the powini E oit in 1 from u 
o 20 inches, I consider it madness, as І have 
th 
with the small ploughs, and I you nev 
plough too much between them, long as d tops will. 
alow you. In narrow drills you w tops 
instead of roots, as all plants — air, a 1 know of 
an instance of one of the best farmers in East Lothian 
cutting off a part of the tops, to all ore air. You 
eak of growing roots in the narrow drilis, from 18 to 
0 inches eed and the етери from 0 inches apart. 
The next is from a very e . on his own 
proper ө "Frederick Roger, Esq., of Nentham House, 
Se — 
to your inquiries, I beg-to say I mademy 
aris 28 ppe apart, which 2 фат vos m Я 
3 
be eee 
efr to pre- 
whilst the weak 
thinning —— — e hand 
ing larger 
prevent the possibility of ihe workers leavin; 
As to preparing the land in autumn r ne 
егор, it is — after рт eorn e ‘ish 
the advanced season o 
уем 
d | give it a very deep furrow, per leave p exposed to the 
commence 
frost until the spring corn is so А 
working it. I have this year 150 ips” 
next extract is from Mr. Gilbert Steward, of 
Der ng хыл Roxburghshire, also a very extensive 
Turnip farmer. 
м. H Gene condemn the doetrines of ae 
mpany. In the first Ж ара keen 
of id in 
tilling — cleaning 
it qui —— 
autumn, 5 : LA X 
d never be properly cleaned 
I would therefore say, make the dri 
: om 9 to 11 
consider - тода 
more labou —— 
in — the crop 
sized roots, 
Й or moderate 
; in the 
first’ instance, read to you an extract from a letter from 
— of Spylaw, the President of the Kelso Agri- | 
are then invisible, эл фе deeper уон. 
the amount of weeds you. 
; greater 
Mei itr. miam if 
e 
