732 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, Nee R 
ve boasted of the failure of deep subject. of waste in the management of manure. was гану суша by re — Se 
ae n rud ithe but. 3 feet deep. ih ож d as as ргеүе ental by, following, the preter el of feeding d „ e stare Of the art of 
e райо of actual failure which e ome under the chemist. Economy in the prspsrafion and use of | | their — but a few years a 
my notice, it has arisen either from the pa ay a food, as well as in the reparation and us иф Wa is estimated now no y app b - 
of prescribed theories, and rules, or the v of all | was also in this MY facilitated. Hey now ascertained composition; and so wit ut by — 
syst m: defective workmans big, or from. vial kno M MS SAPRA on, and as we now know; its . external appearances ; 
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treatment of the land after draining. In one gro wih, may be prepared with an He knew of samples of oileak d 
Case I was requested to investigate; the complainant Mee eut to the pole d it is to serve, and may be market value, on account of thait — 
: x for the intrinsi 
t : ch were intrinsiea 
ebam a foót below the сни. of the a dh be yout and grow infe or X, pine and Мане, with.a | shell lacs which were unsaleable bee: 
ditehes which he had allowed to eur and s greater а and е my, of m than it could | ternal appearance which intrinsicall e 
Still that man had boasted at the ar table an 1 5 be under the rough ү а gui diam of mere prac- shell lac could be, and they had to be — 
told his landlord,“ he knew deep draining wou tical experi ience. ro AERE concluded, this part of aud presented in the orthodox Тот before 
— io on his land.“ Again, it was only oi Saturday We subject by recomme nding the perusal of a lecture | obtain a market value. Such were the fy oad 
r'a Succession of rains amounting, to 5 inches“ Mr. еер ally, ger to de Driffield Farmers! blunders of mere practice. unassiste by scene 
filis ye d Amd that à tenant farmer of high character, Gab On mechanics, much. was. gad. The great imo | one would benefit more chan the f No 
living on the Oxford Say. perch permission of his land. оен in, jy of, гуай by the use of more of science, for it was not only the 
lord to put biskk ins-1 Чг стагы the furrows efficient means, were out; and while коан and manure; but those of soil aud a ani dcia; 
0 d deet n apart, and a a well-guide d pe йын among the mulitude that affected him. Agricultural education ought; thers. 
ecause he ira tik tik in those furrows at the | of i AUS eüts. now in ogue was xecom ae he fus, precios to include a. knowledge of — эз 
lowest parts of the field; amd when I pointed out to him position, of the farmer A with that of Tussar's aie of pra Mr. Thomas, of Bedf 2 
his own p oughing i with SM Rotes on end, treading cultu 11 cotemporaries, was contrasted, The drills and ind doti. Mr. Baker s Opening address. He i 
atid polishing the sa me furrows * ha ve existed Soa searifiers, im leme nts for preparing kag land and seeding out that among the names of E men des. 
fime immemorial, AS ш йе са of the water resting | it, toe culti Кр фана the growth. of the crop, for had quoted, there ought 
there for a time, and в "€ to Mi hig he should gathering the er ero n. after ma INS for preparing, it Tull, Sinclair, and others. in. donte aai AN e 
gradually endeavour to js» rid of his high bac 8, whether for 5 K or for food, Which nowra-days, practical skill and secientifie knowled 
and by subsoiling and deep cultivation эе up the soil thank EUN 15 ne ok mechanical, needed for the progress of A (is Wis 
he exclaimed, “ You want me then to buy the land; it | scie we utrasted with the rough, it was not necessary that they should reside ii th 
would take all my capital, and would enrich my land- pid. 1 9 7 alee e el. formed ee almost entire. same Todd toy should go hand-in-h ph 
lord only. I did not bargain for that when I desired to lis of agricult ural impleme н, tw та. aw айо —The, the farmer being himself both one and the, di 
have my land drained.” Thus is drainage esteemed, | science of. Nin urnishing the by tlie farmer and the chemist being g good fi 
апа: i Y у, еы a bay aided. pot a aa ae the aid c of science e y 
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develope its results. In the discussion, which. Са?” | impro ving [5 
note ha. s produced, the * of the Keythorpe drainage AT instractio ns on e piots op Sols | by the indica- ; 
— been m s rs 1 rot tn Na opiüion | tions afforded by their natural produce, The character 
the ystem is об soils being Stine ted by their weeds. furnished the 
— зы e ies pring! 8 0 yes a success, | practic eal s 5826 that „weeds could be go 955 of n — 
I cannot allow th ing 3 
o have унай чач still to pe rform, against the | ahd sandy soils or the purpose, which: it. most. «Ваау | 
fallacy of conducting the main drains with the fall and served, of destroying Poppies, Charlock,, &e., one, it 
the parallel drains across it. The importance of Mr. | whi ris? the панн might, take, to the credit of the 3 | eing м, е 
Trimmer's investigati surface soils and ‘subsoils күп e. The means of im proving plants by artificial, mense a sn ЖҮН. for a dressing of ordii 
cannot ‘be over-estimated; and "as the observations of hyb bride ising, wn the i injury dove in the nurseries of Y б ether Whe 
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Le artinlly if not whol confirm, his views, | seedsmen to age: of seed fy a natural, hybridising et although they Aae to the same hi natural orden, 
we shall find that, not m | the opini ome Were alluded.. to assicas, especially, turned ou be in some cases, as it certainly w wis | 
. — 8 r lamination of heat neither en ve or, the паве» when сяо was used i experience, not only an allowable bu 
rom a re all sorts w : 11. 
rang etiim dj ‘em РЗ girar nsi e another. £s. ne parasites wes fungi, was of the "relations of ‘science and practice, tha 
out of fashion also. Under erthe. alluded i per ng greatly el ted by the botanist. |, and observant practical farmer had in his i 
чей b it become economival 6$ dis regar mee the I teh of. Thanks t p 1. thus lente, т gare now got rienes and that of his neighbours a sufficient and mis 
dy the adoption of éross ain even "Rough the |rid of. W i Whe ther in the practice of ¢ 
ftm poide insisted up on by Mr. mer in his essay | Mischievous fungus, whieh ла. there 3 rer tion or of feeding. The success of the farmer Wis ШЕ 
onthe Keyitiorpe агае 780585 to prevail, whitli; ^ destroyed. by. the. process. of cleansi ing to which our seed tained by his adherence to what his experience nad! 
with "great respect to hini, I venture to doubt. J. Baile, 7 is Bri 8 ted; má; Mr. Ba ker believed that the fungus | him was trustworthy and right, and th ni aw 
Denton. ; which he cons rs the c cause of the Potato, disease, | the chemist could tell him why ; was 80) f ls 
—— Of 19 ( 11585 hereafter Аы controlled ina similar manner, well; but still it is best to stick to one’s own реза 
Fari T Clu owed 1e alluded at some length to experiments.which tallied experience of things as the guide to future eondum y 
{2615 | mers’ Club. ; vidi this view, Mr. .Bollman's, practice of drying the hoped tó seë agricultar al improvemen 
* DON, Nor. Tat the monthly Westf ok this oe sets seemed. to indicate the possibility of union of practice with science ; but he shoul 
M. Suid" ау, My cg du of Writtle, gave a. very: success in this Way, The. subject, of. койш of | арм lament the disappearance of $0 worthy а Са 
аи lecture on enefi „ heis in its connection with the science of b also the small farmers, whom Mr, bg 10 % И 
H terrert wish kaa 
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or 8 full | alli üded 4 to.— Entomolo ain, has А 2 light | «hé wall in the course of it.— Mr. 
report both of it and of а interii discussion, Shish upon su bjects of the bre dat terest to agriculture ; the Bennett; he 125 not believe 
upon i iling this, we must be content with a natural history of the wire worm, the aphis, the slug, &Kc., science ‘shuld be in separate 
101; oth The lecturer gave a rapid sketeh was alluded to, as showing how the destruction. of to the attainment of the best 
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the practice of the farmer Т, aud recite d the many instances And th 
scien : 
ineo 295 мара , » botany, е entomology, ‘niechanivs,'| ferred to allowing the natural means for that purpose to | policy of urgin g genie edue 7 
nen it had been have full seope, The sparrow and the crow were, whe pest elementary and village ais a ut ps 
improved b. ee discoveries of scientific allowed that full scope which is sómeti ecorded to shaw, r e о Wheat ө 
If: with tlie them e whi id fancies of individuals, | after Rye-grass, stated the experience 
Жер be Atm der con- agricultural © plagues“ of as high an order as those bo ally, th 
a grew ul s 
e strata was referred pes they aré “commissioned to keep in check. believed that the great point was to 
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g а. safe and tr groundwork on 3 Б scture ass from going [o 
NE EL tekih wit "which mt practices affected by both, were next alluded to, and fre j^ the Wheat er 
x hv tering ‘and — Mr. Baker —— à very interesting lecture, amid | He admitted that Буе рова. when h 
| the. e of the ery numerous assembly who had | {о seed was in effect a green 
ther listened to i by general remarks: on ‘the usefulness of not, however bog rs 
literature i j seeding ; and ава ral r 15 7 
5 — xj! kin of Tussar, as the type of literary agricul- opinion that Wheat atter R 
— hit ‘had d thus | turists—beitig’ as the stone to the seythe, ex. Dant a good suceession; ^ He did ^ 
Harte de structure of soil himself he helped ‘to sharpen others. He believed that | ance of the "xm ghee t4 
1 age, was while agrieulture- needed for its success the ёй jentific 
TER the i importarice ot gedlogical knowledge бый oF aman’s whole time and energies, and "ih айд, p — rience ha — ee . — 
a guide to this was thus contended for. The great | thus agricultural writers and =” men ‘genera wi first to lay hold we the 0 J 
. Ys was alleged to be а | rarely made successful his neighbourhood. He eon e 1 
ап rinciples, such-as geolog Young, and Tull, and I Теле vel ‘tat Tis ege suns like the past, PT of guano ra еї 
were yet to be obtained for their guidance, | were useful in the cause of agricultural improvement, | ordinary dressing of farm manure 59 
mistry wasalluded to as illustrating | and 4 — the loss to the пената oF "i crop of Türnips. Wh 
of: food and. the growth of crops. Thé | unsuccessful essays sent in to the Royal. Agricultural of аур nomi qe, ки 
; wf and 1 a t Pi mi be i in шде be for then i Dx and . must be the result of pra гасі: 
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was now ain hap-hazard. appi estion "dn M le Nesbit hi r Y 1, уе ду in some oiher way. | stances of season and soil—inat 
prae Li — Mr. Nesbitt d Ba 2. её. am 
composition o of i i and of ine | plant to be gro ollowed Mr with a definition of be remedied by апу а 
manur 
"^ Practice’ was just the routine essaie уя which the 
p th — uring became t the rt of — proe nducted by the farmer year after year, as he was mo y Mr. — her 
ying the сіерсіев of the former іп те to the had Ser taught by his own experience and that. of. his ing effi 2 75 e. 
— ы о? erat ‘he Practice е — | Lir дерман, — teaches the reasons of ай the ; hat th in e nonet T ' 
e bia, — successful suggestion for results we obtain. The practical mind aims at the | increase the produce of th itia | improvemen рай 
— or ir being rendered soluble, — pero nge of Pu rir 5éiertifie mind rufa lagi) ther "As Sr ehem Lem ps 
Morus. 1 ce, was, — Аа a the explanation and inquires into. the reason of the |'science, so, by the 5 
ufe aii с. ө tad y tion | effieaey or otherwise of the details. The application of | believed that still greater, Б 
— аА g ow : lites; EIE RT science to practice since the days of Sir II. bey and й 3 ob 
applied, a and ‹ wnd oe lm men, have nol womit, Sineé 7 2 first . publications has | E ites 9 
2 in an immense step re 
ent ie te SE Pee oft et K EN E E The Farmar’ Read 
x x лейсе of the best kind, chien fbr the mae: 
cal | processes bal Wow a clear advauae booed e,, бырп) 
been « 4 б i d A tract of 12 pages, 
for one oF moro, : 
was | lated cost of work 
odi alidw газјат Ton 
