January 17, 1857.1 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
43 
cutting off the herbage and turning it into the furrow, 
and the latter araging $ in woe et and long Grass, and 
aped the akim-ooniter. When 
Houghing when this.is no 
diaper this ajon 4 +3 
very Rares i sag have 
high place rs have scare thet ‘the soil should 
ae: disintegrated as by a g m 
experience we find that. not only in ploughing: fe for | 
but RAER A for fallow "the sounder 
ith 
We prefer the operat oa of | in disinte- 
? frost is more lone than my 
ised. cen a 105€ ould 
land ee afte: ma 
u 
r the 
path meas and different 
umber 
to d 
present day we- believe. in many instances th 
been used 
e hares and other ga 
to haveused our old friend “ the plough;” for rs ‘euch „has 
been the progress in the art of plough making, that the 
draught is less in comparison of the work performed than 
any implement agit in agrieulture. 
earifiers at work f 
ing la a pia 
rendering it four- 
e of is being cut into 
of the remaining pre- 
With a 
pr 
Ba E 
13 3.8 
rg 
a © 
gar a was 
the Highland Society of Scotland a ill-founded w. 
the pons at is only English plough com ting 
| per one-third ng Pi g| 
i a a i eS a aaa ia a a a ee ee eee 
one bee yer: 20 st stones and the oth 
 drau 
_ The progress 
tion of English sgvcaltaral mac 
d fest implement b; 
A Exposition, 
Productions re 
or one-fourth lighter 
es performing its | 
le. this was ie known in 
the e 
a fore oe trie n Sco ect | 
ground. seman can it “tp ‘aa | some) that a wba plough 
ean take less power than a swing, whil hav 
much more weight to 
vexed ane for 
eco 
certain inclination to go Sooni an the soil. 
ra tendency to dra o the soil is re; 
n them, 
ce 
n the other hand, the ae plough i is kept: "a 
ae ‘the aot se dee eply by the ploughman, w 
Ww gh 
om boar it will at once be 
weight at the. per of s0 a a ng a lever throws 
e, which is of iteelf eufficient to 
account for the core dferene ee in eee biao- 
ea hikes n s purely ideal, 
read ay. reen revise de iiuhd 
width, and i he the midland eiie aot Eng us e have 
Seen mere boys using them and Ranke’ my beautifal 
and uniform work, =! 
seen a this 
h ad 
this subject we would merely state a 
fact or two. As long ago as 1842, at the nop ‘Agricul- 
M were exhibi } 
ght of 
| enà I have trie 
We akai pedt 
to 
ld Go 
a | and such like implements answer ‘for 
y the wheels which ‘are with the weight op 
t 
whose | P 
n required upon the handles to main- | 
- | space when placed 
| pn ater 0 sann frequently urged is its great weight | resort 
ie | Set to work and the land drawn up into: 
:| as are thought es by this ‘eras rean soil 
the 
awit 
to prove that the-we vterplovgl has little to 
do with the drau ght, sana’ ini wnctgs bas beensaid 
_ toveatablish this 
Sabha boom msde tan ‘the perfec- 
very mani- 
ht to trial àt the’ a 
for being tested side by side -with 
in-eve 
part of the i 
| —_ ae 
of hints and suggestions gi 
given to Asera ate persons 
me haem seno one n agriculture. This increased - still 
subjecta eng inteligenco” of the Brn farmer upon tieso | 
hopeful, but so great are the diaisna which at present 
„ta pri correspondent w. 
of the Paris trial of Ae a we-should be very 
ary robli ged.] 
ON SECURING AURA IRS FROM FROST AND 
I reap with much interest sc) 
Dun i pd the sic ar ae be and hav. 
ex ck pan ae on 
aud quality of the crop 3 ites, and | 
Mangels all cae le different ities 
large bulbs reful „arrangement than 
e soil, whether lig 
obs, te p ture of 
nd, Sec 
oe r heavy, wet or dry. “Thi hirdly, the object of Saita | 
whether 
or for 
for immediate consumption in the home-sialls, 
permanent aera against the E R A 
me in ot ld. I shall begin ie 
desirable to have easy access to w 
d various der from topping an and tailing 
hom ote epos nme Soar a in | 
Beri yer | 
in the field, carting them 
the same 
but in ‘both cases the apples, as the bulbs are called | in | 
eee are not wholly free from as of injury by | t 
fro n in the event of mi 0 
we we i i 
injured by th 
e in any g= bulk. 
which on the'whole I am “inclined t 
spe ee roy average of our seaso 
is that r d by my friend M 
ed by“ 
Chesterfield’s farms. I give 
We consider the early sown Swedes to be full 
r by the rem m of November, in some 
es rather ea “We then take the first favour | 
late opportunity.o £-theJan -being ina ny state i 
our operations, when all spare hands, _men en, 
is own account of the 
rse, or bi sickle ms or reaphoo 
of okehe pian 
him at Bradley Hall and otai of Lord | top 
e hi 
; | mus 
even improper for the 
Ae Am: REA A RRS Ce ARTE 
they have the protection of the earth partly round their 
roots 53 such, owever, is 
Mia 
act.” 
B. thus sums up.the advantages of the placing 
sys 
is Fin ren f, removal from podu field with the -least injury 
m heav . More preservation of the 
3. he, are ing «certain, supply for 
» te stock, in «severe weather ; and 4, Security against 
the destructive nee of posed 
Though not immediately the subject 
of eatile . food, the allowing may ‘be ame to your 
horton rea vase the unpre- 
now in the 
and pring vegetable over 
autumn, to pull them rs a expose their roots to the 
Suisia the weather fora day or two; he after- 
in some 
mild Jate- in 
repeated the seeond and 
This practice stagnaten the growth 
t, hardens j dee and invariably enables it better 
= Aas 
even a re otra E time. 
to w 
this poe which was followed „last autumn 
2 i an. 
“May not,” asks Mr. mere in conclusion, € the 
same cause ats re ly in the pre- 
| servation of vegetables g also assigned as 
a Py ioe Swedish Tart rn ny s being better preserved.by 
the a ~ ke Aam! Ta if eia in iim fields ?” 
Tie the managem White Tarnips, 
| which a as 1 rnd a the ‘omencement of this letter, 
t necessari ing to 
si be nso see e or r light, oot or dry. 
advisabl eve 
for it ifi 
injury y of. ‘the toe 5 ; vie be the weather ‘wet or dry, 
t soiled as to be Purei and 
isa ee and sib but an economi 
don 
commonly 
tops re prte and only on deep. 
of good Turnips from the field mare of a mu päi Jesi 
than can readily be hare om by | mi 
those who have not trie en aa | 
manner we e to 
ETT 
If the 
proves very ‘severe, a ight covering eh litter is thrown 
upon 
“The depots are kept ‘so far sacred as to 
ted t 
land is toe wet to be ‘carted: 
to be only 
in cases of emergency ; such as when the 
upon without injury, in 
ies 
ee aha to the ‘store in pre 
the Turnips are removed from the: field, the ploughs are | 
to: zed r nee | 
become pulverised, and ork expedited, as 
and 
harrowed | co 
applied. 
I need not rem 
ee, 
om prre he Se 
pra 
eep them h 
ay, they pees in quality, and a or cui tobe 
eo b ore solid and nu 
here 
‘ary, sandy, or gravelly loams, 
ining, and yet with Dhidi dehintna 
snes e t of bulbs. 
It so happened that the farm ` 
Norfolk was greatly rat ened 
field of White Turnips (nearl, 
d detriment to me, the real owner of with, 
peat my landlord would have deemed it- ia greret ‘of 
s | presumption in me to question his right to the run of the 
oo — mab Be: considered his abl od Aor sot tI 
g them from ‘ti 
depredators,” Farmers jora, vole vii. 39. 
In the same volume, at p. 297, Mr. Blaikie See 
to the —— ma ‘the follow tow :— In the fi 
week of Jas pr 
ber we secured the produce at tw 
prin eres of Swedish uraips in the manner called 
Turnips as were not con- | plo 
uch part of those 
remained in the depdts the whole 
ry severe wi 
ashe. st o except by occasional 
of ‘They were very little injured by the bevdsiny | 
of the weather, while two-thirds of Popis: a of the 
eft i 
tten; b 
e paris of the es ere the snow was 
iifted off, not one Turnip i ined sound, We 
e date of this eter (April, oat a va 
iddonatsle’ ‘quantity of placed Turnips perfectly sou 
and good remaining im the a dts ; the bulbs ave 
-| thrown out young fibres, and th tops m _— up. 
Were we tor e these sc a and replace them on 
+ dal turf, ithe ve je vegetation psa be checked and d L 
would con 
the severity 
hose | hands, children. 
emne e B Turnips on ve ali 
appear Pern that Swedish “Darnips pares recta | 
er an 
eae 
pins as to 
h to p dapat ot 
"Se ‘tnd rrow thus ae 
open a passage wide en 
with two ho orses ianidllet? 
deepi 
“4 over `’ 
second, o ‘necessary, «a third bout of the plough ;-@ 
man flowing with whoe-or his foot to finish the-work, 
and see that each Turnip was fairly covered’ with earth. 
When these double furrows contained ' pro- 
duce of the two stetches right and left of a, with 
only visible, ‘The 1 
tion, viz., opening a way for ‘the plo 
the opera- 
š comer and 
d | placing the Turnips in the furrows (observe there ismo 
s ilingin thi 
his case); cost 4s. an acre. The 
4 ing, as the land'is 
p hafe’ 
the man 
ere A ia 
~ if y 
