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ite altogether exceptional thing, and was cal-, and which often greon seven or eight cwts. to do , gone to perpetual Grass, for be ec 
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better a as to the work of thre would have rendered therm unprofitable,” sia. tgs 
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quantity of work per unit of? time than o the points: of the discussion upon these we| We nee d not stop to site these statements, ay l 
likely be attained under ordi Siiy eas: shall refer again. they sufficiently contradict each other, Itis no more 
e power required however would be necessary for agriculture that wild plants should 
greater pien a long rope was drawn over the! Tue farmer will soon be ibd himself for | hold a place in our fields than that we should 
campaign against his tal enemies, the | up a stock of savages in our land 
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Amos, of the Boxted experiment, m ae natha in | culture has taken possession of the land a deadly eitek therefore, = present aspect of 
both ways, in order that it may appear as an/ war has be | only against i 
average probability. It seems that of one hour and, natural denizens of the soil, but also against many | not in a satisfactory gps ; subjugation of a 
six minutes during whi the implement was in the) foreign invaders. It would indeed appear that | enemies is only partial, and the efforts directe 
hands of the engineer, only 16 minutes were lost in | some eo es of weeds , such as Nettles, Henbane, against them have been but desultory and uncertain, 
minutes ow-thi stles, Docks, &c., track agricul-; We hear of no systematic plan of action with 
. the ta time, and during those min ‘tur E aak aripa jy its dominion. Cultivation | regard to them. Here and there may be seen 
1 pe e pionghed = the power | etsalls introduces a large number of species in its| farms kept so clean as that weeding is byt 
abel ig Emn 214 horse rhe oe cost per acre is made | train, and those, too, of a kind which for the most} a small item in the yearly expenditure: Conch 
the subject of an slationkte calculation, including) part are highly pro olific. To what extent thisis true | has been banis » No s presence felt to be 
the several items of coal, labour, and oil, water, may be gathered from a pep bn observed | necessary in order to stimulate the intelligent farmer 
interest, and wear and tear, and removal from one|in one day in the month of Jul e cleared | to “work and pulverise his land” to th 
place to another, and it comes out equal | ground in a new soltimmar i in the keat of that his crop requires, and though these ins 
to “7s, 2}d. per acre nearly.” The judges say Saratoga Springs, N. Y. :— are confessedly rare they are still sufficient to show 
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expense incurred, and the degree of success he has 
honourably achieved.” 
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which the prize was offered unfulfilled, the Council 
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he is adequately rewarded for his costly cr in 
this matter, it will be not by the patronage | 
societies or r individuals, but by the » actual commer- 
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“ Upwards of 20 years ago the proprietor í of an estate 
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pasak for each of two brothers, the third preferring 
SETS o take his share altogether in land, ; ee 
=o. regag S Here, then, we see that cultivation has greatly | “ The eldes est married a lady who had 36007. in money; 
increased the list of — and what is true with | this he anpiied to + es payment of vag brothers, 
wW respect to America is equally so all over the world, | undertaking to pay 5 nt. interest on re 
few eeen T oy oer per sen ese and so it ever has been; and it is also true that | Thus he involved himngelé in in the difficulty of aye f 
various substitutes for guano; and several corre- such weeds as are more particnlarly agrarian not | 420/. a-year‘interest. Now his whole income "A iis 
0 of in many instanc 
vial irt Highland tety were a ten made to subdue them, absolutely 
“aA Wednesday occupied with the same topic |i¢rease in vigour = cuban ane annually get | io keep up appearances pretty ` nearly 
—their chemist Dr. ANDERSON having most sea- a firmer footing in t and to such an extent father had done with a much larger eae Pt 
sonab| incum branees. He was soon heavi ily in debt, e 
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ty but a wise provision in agriculture, =“ such as draining and m a See | 
so a fin commen in os, - i seasons bro ee oe or ara muss dren elor 
oburnensis edition after iuz ing up around him a | 
7 H 20 aon 5 bs oom X the the wonderful powers of reproduction c of the common estai k asing. In short, in a few years a mar is n ruined mh 
r icus an se of the fol- ssi his property came to the hammer sw 
te Towing langu age : “ The second brother became a law student, d | 
“ Now, what is tho inference from the facts are an Í 
'ouch-grass mac rp scan by a be extirpated? 
labour ? = may be inne to say, ‘A = neholy 
reflection ! But I say no, not at vidence 
4 | could i have better con ntrived than that ae 
h should be perpetual, and that success should be yi pro- 
ch he portion. op oil is not gegen th on we ‘ought to wi “y 
out of our fields unless e roy i 
because, if there were sii, or vary fem all fisids sada 
.| be « , and no praise could light on superior modes 
of tillage. Some may say again, ‘So much the better, 
—But I say no. thi us 
present guano | 
Excessive—beyond that whieh the present state of 
market for š 
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forth our labours’? Sterility would have seized 
our Turnip lands, which aA soma in a state to|* 
bear their relations of 
riodical 
renewals o of their fertility, H braig all nh ous tae have | inco 
* Most of the Le Grasses hav. become natu 
in America; at leas zen i se 
|e almost any mniema e T be g gathered 
gathered a at a single Da Shine oo reference fot eat te those 
sidered as as may more truly be con- | 
