Fuproary 21, 1857] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 123 
praised very tne = effects of Odams’ nitro- 
r LA 10rnal estate to his eldest are for carried away in drainage water than is brought in rain water. friend 
| aa e Soy eal hence 2400}, rej Ani grepia en influences which in this way migni hava phosphate or blood m upon. his corn crops. 
000i. e 3 en anticipated from the percolation of rain water throug e os ee . 
p e With Hee shes Boil aro for the miost part checked by 1 ptive properties | Wishing to try its effect ‘open Grass land I obtained 
| and his wife’s fortune he took on a long lease a | of the soil which Mr. V Way b cred nve ted. 2 ewts. adapted for corn (it is made corn and 
sum staid e hundreds of acres. This a —— Espey b ape derived — sage pede Me Turnips, the corn manure containing most blood, and 
. <6 i easier and c r cultivation of which craine and 18 my ~ 3 2 n 
e got possess of it; but he greater fertility of such land is in a measure due to the | WAS recommended by the agent for Grass), and it was 
with great energy and judgment he laid out most of his | whole substance of m ~ "ioio aaa surface being brought sown in April upon half an acre of uplan anes 
i i ing i is i ~ i and ri . 
pe -s j i lation of a'i i and 
zh live stock, crops, and impleme The object of rer then 1 is ole the percolation upon the Grass; if amything, it was detrimental, 
Hog ara i sold, S000 to him ; Pais yenly pr profit is ee ee Oe so- Th this and commence -ayp Dee bot the hay was cut it certainly was not better on the 
t 800/., and be it remembered he has 180% a year | finds sufficient. And the points connected with the practice to | half acre than on the adjoining partsof the meadow, nor- 
interest money par eee of + late = her's a jo Genie se the ta ee the, depth as pos soil hice perme fo | Van thoafter Gratisan th + This: 
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property. Some of his children assist him in managin the constitution of the soil; (2), the frequency and ane a or me adow has been mowed every y earfor =n ee an it is 
the complicated iene of the farm, and he can save | the drain to ge game with the rain- ny and with the cry ad ssa dressed: with. farm-yard man ut last 
two-thirds of his income., It was supposed of per soil; (3), the arrangement of the drains uni ae ody twoor three years previous to {hisithad 1 no manureexcept 
would have bought part of the fami but | spond with the uniformity of the supply in rain, 0 the ere acre I have mentioned, The soil I should call 
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ferred remaining as a tenant farmer under rainwater throught ee ane EE EA on 0 a gravelly loam ; a rotten quarry is underneath it. E 
erent and with an abundant money capital. The) ( to depth—its principal limit is cost—it is desirable on have abe several times es dressed a small pateh of Grass 
different lots in life of ag four brothers are often the | the atest of the greater depth of material being thus fertilised | land on similar soil with a, of lime, but 
subject of conversation in their native place, and most he tor gl me ae 4 He 2 pgp es + perdene ee? | never obtained a beneficial result.— regard = 
le think that the ‘third brother, , though not the Sabuk thiveene thus brought into use 18, 30, and.42 hundred tons draining land I cannot help oe that the nature 
Palet, is in the most favourable posi n, because he | of earth per acre, which is after the rate of 600, 700, and 800 ton me po - the source oo pom ater aa so p- 
y risks ; reas court! for ev drain | the sos the drains. e have in es frequently 
ai i. s a largë r bearra aun of shad evigh pre oi be the cheape rint the a Fong mn is regulated to some the pt = EPRA th under field but the 
un “ | extent the capillary attractiom of the soil upon the water in 
ginally unproductive. result; however, has shown | which I holds, a considerable height of column to give the colliery hpna aa _ A a ns yor eds nd the 
pare hE ege one industry can effect for the 1 under whic a en lately wor and the 
The great t surprise is among his neigh- (2). The frequency of drains must be greater ve rding to & he | field—a very wet one—is quite A 
nie so comparatively rich does not aspire | TO eons acetate falling in poo to Sea se tr the | before the coal was excavated from under it . s. 
to be a proprietor of land instead of being the mere cul- | difficulty of percolation which the land pat a yo ractice eodorisers and Disinfectants.—These rms have of 
tivator of it. But on the brar er Basa Gos: see the | the quantity of exit provided in the least efficient drainage is | late years been rendered “ familiar as household words, 
r of possessing the o nile uch land. if | Sufficient for the removal of the largest probable rainfall. ‘The ome m — who are concerned in, ie suffer from, 
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who had no capital—whom fiey at “thought the most desirat e Dy the fact that when smaller one is used a very pate pete 1 testify to = veracity o 
pega oS = family. The extent of ape spk in his | slight displacement breaks the continuity of the pipe. made.by the writer, who, at the co fete of the 
t a short-lived semblance of social im-| The following is the annual rain fall of Great Britain : | work, had every peee to witness the processes 
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Read Mr. Parkes’ essays in the Journal why English and will meet every ment pal io destroying foul 
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Agricultural Socisty-— Me Girdwood’s essay in Blac pis Canta inate ground je —_ is that agent ; for. it « can wat Be safel 
sof Asrioulture “Mr, Henry Stephene on Sg gg sserted that in every case where loosened soil is 
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however of TT ins seg es ese ee wat it I Ha of this truth by having 
May found that the rain ailing oida anu Sa Firini oe found a quantity of green and fetid oes in a garden 
shire during several the monthe of 1885 contained the following iia Aa pan ; a plant ina pot was near at hand, and without 
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f heat consequent it, As much heat as the way, viz., with red and yellow from the same seed, one 
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C Dar aual rainfall as leaving the land by percolation | of drains shonid be right down the slope, simply because when | page 76, if prizes were offered at the agricultural shows 
ot fin ng this, the third Ait in Artun res nn once the water gets into them, the shortest way out of the field or dhe. best breed of rabbits it would be a 
ntroduces > in the the Best. 
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is | OF aae WATER, case of spring drainage—tapping stores and reservoirs of water 
meen fertile field. m= he S = mrt a hs in providing # be scan exit from pa ve 
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Some of this food to waste into the ‘ine, : 
following figures give Mr. Way’s results :— Ont this Tast point the it pane een mutated in certain spots, 60 that springs and hatehes divided into stalls, a model 
SAMPLES 
Home Pag epee 
Artificial Manures.—One of your correspondents 
suggests the Merny of the pelt rr Tet individuals with 
different artificial gm, a a two to 
ech ageri beg to send you the res fot my aight | waa Ib t the other was 
‘experience with or two of Last spring a | and flesh might have been t 
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