524 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Aucusr 13, 
Wheat-growing soil Mr. J. Wharton, of Skelton Castle, said, within the | deep drainage, versus a plentiful late herbage and œ 
d li WA the = basis reap А! the thie cls last few years he h d submitted four or five samples of | after feeding, arising from sha allow dra in А. d The 
Wheat soils. Amon — first class he would put the |g for analysis, and full four out of five were re- | comparison serves to put the question bale You~ang - 
alluvial soils—rich soils, those formed from the 8 turned by Pro ay as spurious articles—perfect | in soliciting discussion, I feel bound my own 
of rivers and estuaries, Other soils might b жа brought | rubbish — not a a particle of the qualities | conviction that the eeper drainage will be confu 
into the same class, perhaps the red m it was|of real genuine guan R. Creyke, of Rawcliffe to improved cultivation, and, in ill lead tp 
to gentlemen to consider what constituted these ; | Hall, said, guano was a | fist ‘applied to all 2 green | increased quantit well as improved quality, These 
but, at any rate, he thought the application of h nd and ce ; and it was found, as Mr. Legard had | remarks apply also to peat or fen-land; an Dor 
to soils would e considered | observed, 25 it produced too much straw and too | that in dealing with such bry 5 K of open, 
profitable. He did not think that the application of little Wheat. In h ighbourh it was now ap- | tions is the induction of w. extraction, 
manures in general use would be desirable on this cl ied to erent crops o Potatoes; they did not so I believe that the most aarm аг ot d d 
soils. He would now p to the second-class | apply it direct to the Potatoes і in the че instance. The | meadow 1 be the 
i ry large tract of corn-producing soils—among | gua own t over M e land, It was not | winter and spring (so 
which M perhaps might mention the d chalk | applied direet to the Potatoes ; as te rain fell, the vith the occasional induc 
i Ifthe veni pug" manure went to t 1 an b ‘hey hereby gained | channels durin g summer "in 
gravel soils, and so on, 
by was pursued on this class of so if 
were eaten on, and so olt he did not ‘believe that 
T 
e just now, a second Met 0 
duced into the course, as he himself h had introduced it 
these sorts of man ould be most valuable. If there 
were a de e from the Norfolk or four-course 
system, he believed that very great ad ould 
e by application eis of о, or other 
manures which might be 
had tried it himself, and viti & considerable e 
species of fertiliser, it appeared to sree applied with 
rst descrip- | 
rail * he david “might be ‘considered one of the 
worst class of Wheat soils. 
gravel ; "во porous so ba 
shower of rain washes th 
summer the crops are liable to urnt up, but he had 
experimented is species of soil for a few years 
past. Upon this kind of 
upon porous or light 
is best d, but u 
sila a v i quantity ola Siirat "of soda might be used wm by 
found 
the guano might b 
toes were up. n th or 5 inches from t 
ground, it might be sown broadeast; but it must not 
es applied to b. in themselves in the first 
nstance, as it great a stimulus.—Mr. J 
e them 
W. Childers said here w was yii one place that 
was su 2 carried on without 
the application of manure ча He alluded to a spot 
n snd 694055 tee crops of 
where no 
ee ena where ad manu хасе тА з into 
nure was 
carrie nes ы, fo d o 
eeding during those per 
soils a 
ese s 
the coast of Essex кайн дй parts of Sul Ks! were and if it exist 
eiae cn from those places to into 
erop of Wheat. Between the 
el 
2 stones of — of 
soda, and upon another part of the field he applied 
21 cwt. of o and no nitrate o ; the cost o. 
other, Viii, at 5s. а — me a pen af ded This 
expe- with those of Mr. 
was u poor porous so 
Timent upon a portion of po sal ‘and the guano 
of guano. 
Then на — an experiment with guano ped, fold-yard 
manure, e m ke. It ткт occasionally been 
the custom to use Linseed-cake the farm б was 
speaking of, and in Fumar tak 55 and in the 
autumn he tried this, 8 thought was the 
best sort of manure for this of land. But in 1847, 
he thought it was, they ben it advisable to ee up 
use of oileake manure and resort to guano, and — 
This efficacious kinds of manure that 
had been discovered, . for green erops, and 
also for corn.— Sir J. V. 
1 distriet * f England 
but still Whea 
ex tent corre ed out by Mr. 
oint well worthy |s 
tieal farmers, The manufacture of 
ich was carried on by 
s, had also been alluded to; and this gentle- 
man's pia iments тее equally worthy of attention 
mith. In ш. 5 's case the 
air chat stimulation 
e, iy o ne of vit ue put. 12 "Cn 
— grown pirar manure for the last 10 or 12 
years, by means of the pulverisation of the soil ; and in 
the other by the EE send of superphosphate. 
HERTFORDSHIRE. — Draining Match at Graveley.— 
gal per of | a 
‘auld n manure , and this had not IN great 
— nothing, in fact, to what it mee — 
ment of teh 
e 
beneficial, and 
if it could be bought at 
tried it upon green eropa, but it was compote fa 
but grain crops were in зау by it; фы 
8 8 
Ess 
bough Lam not p 
rises the ave 
haer ce exception I re 
rmers es a greater quantity of late i inferior 
T ds nstone said there was | remain as cold as ever 
n|inw 9 
ra- sanetioned by t the Governmen 
valley of the Test for the se of drainage, during 
one of the great wind storms last ran and several trees 
were blown down. When ase of their roots be 
came exposed to view, they prese m : even a surface 
vi table you have lunched o K d, observing that 
e of the — —— a бин . — rof 2 
to t — than s, I became inte 
examination, that  aceording to the height of "r^ 
epth o 
ground of the МЫ 
ed 
lere did — 
— 
* I would direct attention 4 
I mean the lazy, reed, parallel Tues rid төш 
total ignoranee 
pow 
another very. tap 
very y well and safe when we were in 
description of soil dealt wi 
I record my great —— M AS i 
As | have 
adont 
e | into the —— of == ——— e 
ciating (with Mr. Thompson) as n di 
r 
of | draining ? 
when ign — е - ay i it is now 
closer examina 
fields near this vet w 
rance of 
— ropriate theory, ied 
da ve de drains as s at others it was below jam 
;| the result — that —Ó stopped — ріре са 
remarks are not directed D! EDT 
or the y out — 3 
or their inspeetors, for 
details; and I feel bound to say that & 
men as well aei 
n better inform 
: 
pm 
national im ce—the clé — wilt 4 
— of out-falls and out-lets. Of ert 1 
if the receiving drains be 
the. —.— of carrying off the water ej 
EN = ee — —— with some e 
— draining, 5 "o 
expediency of draining Gra 
arable land. As all draining 
may be thus put. | 
b feeding, arising from 
by —— — drainage. 
Mr. Bu ver Webster “hen gave -— 
which he yer water d 
the . d rising —— 
drop of water that fell upon drained 
