THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
the 
di its will reflect for a moment on 
n the resistance to à blunt and wedge- 
the sam 
The quistion of the f of steam is one apart 
amer 
LL econo: een 
ploughing and 
former to —— it when team сай ivating 
i u 
and is not neede 
eases which admit of no doubt, it is N a matter of 
тыа д ех ent, and, recen the, introduction 
of forking machines, I — 25 before long to <r Mea 
ers 1418 
of ‘comparativ 
out my qm sspe Ti bere} Чо the. crop by the use e 
of these with the old i 
machines inst truments 
of pma B. Samuelson, — 
1 IN SWITZERLAND. 
Your readers 
traveller i in i ng there 
Germany, seen in going to a 
and the Wheat nearly ripe in 
t plains forming the land 
in mee and Germany; they | ¢ 
uch beaten id wn b d and rain that it was 
difficult to Judge of the quantity С e doubt the crop w. 
y. Th 
of horse- 
orking it would be Pr e: the | e 
several s 
sla 
e | transport 
gay with flowers as the Letter of Борзна. Cheese 
and butter are the great pro The summer is oe 
in ae they 1 pe in tter, I 
a clo 
сера 
fiim the milk of many proprie 
possess the power of preserving "their mi 
— through which a stream of ice-cold water 
Th eir cows, the dun, are well-shaped animals, with 
silky skin, and excellent milkers. Some 4 — 
agriculturist should devote a summer to 
rt a her hem 
a valuable breed for hou 
they must — анан of Napoleons’ 8 summ 
there; it is the great source r the wealth of Switzer- 
land, directly in "the i immen 
duee of the land ; and indirectly, in “providing 
ital to carry on their 
their foreign trade. 
The present summer has been dry and warm 
e ountain Pes At reese 
31st July; there was a gre 
people và banners, I “Virgin, ке, and “prayers were 
e day throughout 
— Wen were — ae is as 4 inches thie 
at Milan; — midst the mo eh * northern etis 
ce o 
— appea 
ne, Ches estnut; and the Walnu 
onal foliage, — 2 "e 
committed its whieh as dar 
| preme partieularly in Italy. The horses are good, 
spirited, — and — Thos. C. Brown, Cirencester. 
pw in some 
‚| chased at 8s, the bushel 
which ke 
ol cheese houses, often min 
select’ and | fi 
€: England. They Чома 
ing. oi 
travellers into Switzerland is immense, 
on his e 
1 it occasions för | Y 
ee manufaétures, and matter, 
b 
[Ocr, 8, 
truth of this ; and, after all the fact is not 80 Sur : 
as Mustard, Tam m pe ersuaded, is onl 
and within the last week I have а 
this year's corn, 
for sheep feed, as othe 
cites 9274 b boiled Niph. 
mise or 
Ay X 
re many a labourer wii b 
ringing into use the La fork, Ж, ТГ 
Мор, conv 83 55 in your useful 
n their my m 
blacksmith: рае: 
thonght 
long 
su ery purpose—digging, ‘couching, 
in the stable aiid yard, and every where i 
po I observed one man (at tel come into 
1 2 lay it 1 for the o ll prong; ; Tack 
we: not use the. 
га No, said I, iti E who 
a tall man, W ; ie 
injured by it, an was Ww The erop, therefore, 
must be deficient. In the end of August the only cora 
out in the undulating plains south-east о is me ' Correspondence 
Oats, a. seanty crop, not 16 bushels: to the acre. The The Bei erry Shrub.—The rt note 
Wheat and Rye were all carried, and the stubbles signed 4 South Hants” felt obliged f for the notice taken | I 
ploughed, - of it in a subsequent Nu mber | ot of a 
e great power of the sun, the less skill of the hus- —— of your 
bandman, and the want of suffieiei ital, combine to co rrespo ondent, because he states there 1 is a ro and low 
render the e уй of corn small in this great wall between his shrubbery in which the plants stand 
district. 15 r i nure | and the field in which his corn grows, an 
is p oek is kept on the r is a thorough draught. I would not be afraid to converse 
seldom to be , excep ting in de i rom valleys ; witha person in the scarlet fever with а ro: een 
so that fertility is phir Oe to the vicinit ns and us; from my fields k over a valley through which 
to the va dome ust, there vo strictly flows a considerable river, and еп вее the clouds 
natural, sueh]as t periments of Dr. . showed coming over from t approaching — 
land capable of by simpl 5 — without whieh | stream, pass downward instead of following their dire 8 0 
this district of light. so oughed in po 3 the line; this we attribute, in our simple philosophy, to — taken right across the 1 70 (that is to say, across i 
sun not bla — * — „but also separating those stron current of air on t tream, and this I apply to | fall of the land), i instead of up the pot the case woul 
ts which the requires from the soil. in poin —" the Berberry. Since this| have been very different, and land Qu 
ict isa ect con n England, with her | subject has been mooted, I have often mentioned it in | drained ; for, say am ec drains 
flocks and herds, her store of Turnips, rich natural pany ; and whilst, on one side, rsons аге | fall, then we shall cut off the water as it is f 
Grasses, and Clover, with the assistance im- | positive and are ready with numerous tH уе on the | natural fall of the land, and thus lay the surface dej 
plements and ial manures, with abundant capital, | other side there are as many sa —.— !? I have fact they believe the motion of the 
and skill to apply it. About the great towns, as Stras- | run my 4 acres through the machine have just | surfac e the sam ab 
, fin of Carrots, Poppies, Hemp, Tobacco, | two sacks to the aere ; so that these pretty: ‘shrubs, sup- | a drain identical to that of a wa 
and Clover are me and o но 06: opes ч Vine is posing them the cause, have done me injury to the | lands, which appears to me absurd ге 
e capital and th of the towns | amount of 207, or 307. ‘this harvest, - M RP ME however, very positive on the subject, and 
alter the face of іре; ; but hy Mare districts root еч ut. one have t South Han e had practical experience to prove 
small part of th per roprietors are [We do not emp Г say that the — of the blight m by ou 
ly the ае; often. working and living 
We must know the climate, the soil, and 
inc 81 1 tie 
“generally 
ut, imper growi 
large size in thet vall ; 
207 have сес іп T» beind to equal the fertility of 
valleys ; for, in addition to the 
contain 
in fine order, and sed im their chew, She nes 
strong sheds, built „ roofed with 
Е, ма 
mie Wide the уне 
ic ay ich the ыр po 
siderable part, for the pastures of Switze nd are as 
as on — weben 
of | spicuous as d ine ule 1 and n 
— on des erus may not both 
A often occur 
together ; — that that of die Wheat poti caught from 
tort erry is ee eet € d belong to two 
so that “ rational 
bushes; like 
may by checking free currents of air facilitate the 
E — rust in Wheat. 
Italian Rye 
— Your eo: ee t 4J. Wa" 
— for — re lant, Таш 
borrows Y» J 
to their being per- 
ot to — tei vpn 
ys ссе r which was published by you in Augus 
"Qharlock. —I have a word or two to say on the sub- 
ject of this cents ne, weed, so d ics 
vd rim ge ch has — 
lant 
d 80 I fed it off, sowing the 
| assured me y bushels last at T 
a Am € prie of Y Whe), to be manu bref in | 
- You may rely on the 
em awa уои E pea мый aware th 
where the roc pears, as it often does on 
à hill, a үе laid atte the line of the 
e také he hole of the water F^. 
the с is totally di 
cistern is, in fact, 
consequen 
field Again que dk my sheep are luxuriatin rer jd 
The farmers н 
clay—and со 
Still, although i in 
lid at pro ШЕ depth 
su Jeet. C. 
* ПТА —As ata gre itis 
scheme of à pig farm, 
he f and that 
to supply that eant wan en 
nd bm тт 0 culti vate on с 
attention vie 
would amply compensate for 
a | such а ri mi ' 
m ly of aeg 
erate supp 
inestimable value, as 
excellent antidotes to the 
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зај у! ad 
M E effects of oer | 
