business of f. tail business, too—de soma 
` ing nodoubt in all its facts on those great natural laws 
ed geologist, the botanist, 
= 
Fesruary 7, 1857.] 
the plan and even the full details = a bap arranged 
ural year ; but you may be assured that your 
roy result may be bad netwithstenditiy a good 
and its details, and even good it may be, 
ite ‘of their defects, according to the tact an 
and business habits which you bring to bear 
on their superintendence ; and these are what you 
cannot learn from nai or from 
is well to gone in mind, else you will be disappointed 
you so apa a studies for the 
field on iii s you a ply them, and instead 
of the noble scope eons intellectual. exercise and 
es, you fi 
to your dis eal and port 
truth of the matter is that you “a entered o 
d 
ee eee 
solved bones, one of common salt, and one of nitrate of 
soda, would form a a good substitute, one which we would | the 
his it + 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
might throw away ya! gaeh in that way. As faras 
d 
recomme nd for remark in conclu- 
rn 
age 
=) iit 
w he new kind, the mam A isa grent 
n hea manured soi iss e t it will not, 
field pyan pi Serma it nAn in ga Pte pede 
a whole are the only 
rop ; and as they grow few and of |r 
D Sianio size, the difficulty of anes seed is vonsider- 
able. A variety known in the west of Ireland as “the 
sien tant” was br nise over i 1854 by the writer, 
The first year the produce was aape yA ve t in 
Pren and 1856 the reaga was “0 atip ns per 
maae acre— growing with strong shaw d long 
aire, pen ay having an pried en mrt ecole». 
They are a round white kind, and our 
dvise us that they are worth in the 
= per ton of the price of 
shir 
SE 
fr 
Pta A adii a 
London pann within 
Regents. S., Inverness- 
rE AGRICULTURE. 
w I consider Canada the right h a, of Eng ‘nd goe 
ad 
(near Goderich, 
the su 
91 
rice good farm in the count of 
Oxford, 6 miles away ay fan Woodstock, on a good road, is 
worth about 102. the acre, sterling money, and wit 
f | that di ing like a town, won and is 
pi 
land” is getting more valuable 
every day, and sells very 
rapidly, Some e or 50 miles n Woodstock, 
Lake 
ath of 
, tive 
= prak 
cting a margin 
ii agits of m directeđ 
has to be done, an oads, 
and few shops to supply yourself at, and jr erl ru 
ad a Foe tre 
y he | would be gla to see it filled with good men and tr 
y bo ore worked o I do not 
pe aye se e pine e expended whether i is ii ro: have the on for fa nas lan ‘all Britons know the districts personally myself, and only judge by 
Jung eise wihat- | ought to have an regards takin implements and | what I hear and the stock I bave se ught j 
ever, articles of various sorts, I would ae ie face against a | and that part of the country holds good sh 
This, then, is the case for oe practical part of an | hand flour-mill, fo eat can be paaa e pe ssed | stock as can be found ia. a world. More to the west- 
efficient agricultural educat d not be | far cheaper ina publie mill che n rned maid Di evoñs are rath 
stated as if antagonistic to the other; neither is = hand. The golden rule in aag siping in konida may be asked if Tn Aactiraiemicy Canada so strongly, 
antagonist ; each is complement of the ot as well as farming, is to . me — possible | and pow orc I think it, an admirable country, wh 
Both are n —they are perfectly negheialitige| results from the least le labo e|I here? I would hat it was my idortea, 
consistent obviously a às language 4 is with the fuller — of labourers it is impossible to mart ws napilit as | not my fault, my lungs, not my head, that drove me to 
meaning which experience gives aply by hand as by and by a little of | a place nus there is little, if any, : 
what the Yankees call s log: exes į. e. mutual assist- vijoi t the snow, which lies om 
—_—__ ays get a ags of Wheat to the ope sure 1 the upper province for 
EXPERIMENT IN POTATO GROWING. mill without a great loss of time, Churns ean be bou cold, which sometimes, th 
p 
t shes nths ; and the 
S. | not often," falle Gloi zero, though of no mg ng to 
f 
Ture out of various remiss and very good qualitie 
the commana. ete is aeina trae tsar’ Cottage stoves a: t Canadians are particularly | healt rames, are rather tryi 
_ his future z a pgn Te having led to results satisfac- choice in, an a of. of | myself cannot endure and yet have their 
tory in regard to produce, while the returns from the | 2°°% carpenter's ols, however, se of the gesn mo Me 
modés of manuring we re contrary to generally useful carpenter's stamp, not of the small reei artiecle| Before I conclude this I should like to est against 
red : PIERS. the decided tnferiori ae Éan e be very useful. Attention shou paid | the iahiko an article in the News which 
of guano alone as a ees : ay the > superiority of | t2 the temper m, for I have g chisel | appeared some two months ago, and which I first saw 
small Potatoes as seed abo: sand ordinarily | 2P2P in my hand like a a piece of glass, frei levis einen: noticed i Canadian paper, with a most indignant 
sized tubers—it is believed that its “publication will rve tiously used it „r frozon:thio Di e against the ignorance displayed in it, It com- 
at the present time of som nal bodiment. s regards cart wheels and aston, I believe a pair of | pared the progress of the States, as contrasted with that 
The Geld in whi ese eget la ki hem, such as mates ured by Messrs. Crosskill, weal of Canada, by the simile of inié rifle and a bow and 
clayey loam, drained, and in fair birt condition, | Pe Very useful, as a cart is extremely handy in small | arrows stating that while the men of the States were 
It was planted with Reg ant Polato rane ie jobs nt a place, though for general work not equal to using every applian and capital to push 
gravelly soil. The w. d, except the drills e ols the lum ne t ingenious contrivance com- | forward in the race of im vement, i 
npon, was Manure with > ea Ron posed of fo ur se connected toget erch | never changed or made use of their intellects in the 
manure at the rate of 15 single horse'cart loads with so much action allowed it that the fore wheels could | Jeast, Such kn ledge the writer of the icle in 
ys oe acre in the drill, to which was ore mada i ee peye y pole | question never could have derived from rs or 
pt wing- | writers in always appreciated 
he = he ais didie mans 24 Aim rot agit, vor trees fastened to the pole by a pin ae the eile, Canada, and are thirsting ¢o possess it. Da th : trary, 
ta the lifting from 23 ctober, and so that each horse must take his share of the work, and | I have seen articles in their papers showing that the in- 
crop o P the field was 5} to porin ila? can give and take in rough ground, and a bolster on the crease and prosperity of Canada was beyond their own. 
ron sound Pointes ; with perhaps piap reais top of each. axle with an upright at each end, | He never could have derived it from to 
aere of di es (the 3 ese were not weighe “or pee a between which ean be fixed every style of box or rack, | | countries, for ith the course taken by 
sound ones ere vot suc good — that 43 tons t the whole co: poiing far actual tourists, coming into Canada at Ni crossing. 
acre came up e shipping fa Ad iach rid riddle, | "S° I ever saw, aaa _— horses have the greater | the Jake to Toronto, and thence by steamer down the’ 
This in ordin — would not be reckoned a very | P®tt of their’ stren or’ the load.” As far as the!) St da fo Montreal (whieh a wot ate > 
great result ; but year, when the failure is so ex- | fe 80€8, they veld very good and heap | Smorl. enough), must have seen that 
tensive, it may be considered Saee 3 in Canada, if required. I say if required, as they are a | public wees te are superior to those in the 
the ascribes it almost entirely to early planting weny Sate implement, denot great waste of | States. Perhaps he would wish to insinuate that the 
| re found that ai agen field ted late in April time, and gror pea of sige A, ; E requiring such | magnificent -= of cut s eee and docks at 
same Pota , though with a soil and situation | ™ article, bears, &e., = e scarcer | Mon or to the — tumbledown old 
‘more Taen Ba ‘not adie much aroi Y ear, oe aan a deal of aoe to get A good wooden affairs on New York, that oe hendir a> so 
_ One-third of ity noted aged fowling-piece on the contrary, what with ths. apail, and Did he ever compare the St. Lewenieeand Welland 
The drills were ia iated to each different mode| ™ ild du ck in autumn, and A ge Sacks sive > ship "n. with canal between Buffalo and 
of ing described below ; and with exception pene a ee ? Did he 
Ot the three planted with tha oa. hed of time bone s a ountry numbered fifteen times that of the other? I can 
Poe ly sim namely sets eut from moderat ely s ould feel inclined to recommen ae way i of imple- fearlessly assert that ; in _nothing is is Canada behind the 
| oe ara chaff-cutter , Oat-br ‘and Turnip- -cutter I must now covsiade yi letter 
Lot 1. Manurea hd oe of 4 cwt. of f produced per ee soas to ven al that sort of f work by horse-power. He shall be most happ; see aes 
REY tine, . l imperialacre a ars T had Barre eee a that may be put to me to. the utmost utmost of my power.’ 
Same manuring, and top-dressed a 16} Heading), o ~ of aide ene ” safety ho two} 4 z 
CRNO the mato of 25 londa haugas ted for thr hee og n easy, 
Pe? Baa of dung » 4 18} oe cont experience that yr: 
“poy top-dressed | 4 153 | wo pat horses could wank it if iiri mi by car Home Correspond a 
» 5. kn as iste -> Yaw A d feeding (with one of their own mea machines with- Blood Manure.—Allow me to protest the system 
j Bam NE and ies ” 5 8} | out turning a one horse t dro haff- | now too commonly observed of calling things by the wrong 
‘with anis x planted } 5 1o} | Cutter with the most perfs ease. "The e advantage o ae i name, thereby misleading the public. In: of the 
Tt will be ob ots ia was that when work was over the draft poles | 24th ult., I observe that in the paper i ʻA 
the result observed that in each case of top dressing un and a box made on pur ed over ie Scheme of Cultivation,” the writer states (7) that he. 
Withstandin tod h and this not- cyli F then protected from all injury. I} sho i 4 tons manure. 
Breen and co iat it had the effect of ping the shaws would not recommen y to take them out at first, | N ly d 
withered Y growing long after the others had but when the farm is bought and tae he — they d adjunc 
! va can be shipped from London to Quebec to phosphates as ti 
al si he i alates caring almost where the arnips. s 
farm may be. re which is found to sueceed for roots 
Should an emigrant be a bachelor a vised ne e | is neither more nor less than | sphate of lime, in 
time with a farmer would be of immense a tage to which a certain quantity of onia or nitrogen is pro- 
him, for it would not only show him the nip in which | cured from blood instead of bones It may be 
things a: I would beg hi inia good or bad according to the per centage of soluble anā 
done differently from what ae are at home (delightful | neutral phosphates contained, and it is neither 
word, by which England is n Canada, | nor worse for n E a aa instead of 
and long agaa it be d n- not eei hurry to condemn ; It manifestly unfair to 
but it would also teach him the value of the articles he | pa beh ip tits character 
will have to pakner may save his pocket most the constituent to to which its value is ipally 
| materially, particularly in land, as that is rising so fast | i 
[in value that some hardly know what to ask, and he | manure. 
