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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
whether to the house, or in the autumn 
after stubbling t 
just ready for porking, and the other | 
our land a would | 
for rearing young s 
r a a 
it answer exceed- | 
ings, Two Ws 
Sher Ree till 
mally lessened. Let me, 
all your success will | 
deed no plan w 
answer gi = whatever age you keep the 
n food. Your cow 
wi 
bushels of sand, and turned over 
e seed s d 
be lng of and so ok pie te ts | 
bari i Care must be taken to sow the whole 
i : 
i 
ther drilled 
to the latter plan; | 
is not | 
= covering of damp | 
to soak the 
might 
a Te es di cs, in ited | 
for Grass and Clover and land generally, and T 
have no doubt that there will be leaf and Grass and 
_ straw enough this year farm. Take care that 
the manures which sown broadcast be ly 
ce ae fete Bac hs. ite 
aon Ba eg along with an equal weight of 
Gk F Whea: 
of FE Whits Podra very generally Pewee gars in 
condition as it n ir, 
mildewed, ht pei 
under 6l awd veny in wet years, and as high 
| 
al| —— Hunter's — An one of the oldest and most net 
vered about ha euy ago by 
bar, East othian— ox 
ur calves two or Exe tem weeks old 
ed | offe 
| rather mild, such as prevails along the shores of the south and 
of | ¥ west of Englan: 
grain round, 
a clay soils, TRN soft dam 
better. The se ma; 
sand at once, 7 or 8 lbs. sslkior ag 
t isan old | © 
ricte—a ae ai 
. from 
han average le ngth of ear, which r runs a little to a point; 
smooth chaff, free from awns, grain bright, plump, and trans- 
producing a beautiful sample, weighing well in the 
net 
| ira tland, lf a 
Hunter, Tynefield, near _ 
—o 
the 
gel cultivated i in most of the easte 
and has many newer varieties s—re- 
ll suited t li ils, being hardy, 
| tillering v viy freely i in spring, : and | continuing its 5 growth auy 
till autum thela | 
little awed, a cr pe running toa point; grain ofa faira | 
ne hard, close, flinty texture, and weighing w 
ibs.—later in coming | | 
White Wheat. b 
ae a Wheat, selected by Col. Le Couteur, aas gg ey 
838. 
aep e 
| ighter class 
er vera or m Fooly- -eared Wheat, much api in fre 
sex x and © paged short stings be rather —, a 
chaff white and downy npare t whitish 
omon four abundant and of v s very Sie sehr Iti is E pro 
lific w mona n light land, but.on rich loamy soil it yie 
peranan bs 
| -Lammas Red has abundance of straw, lo: 
| from i wns, tapering slightly to both . extremities, Sow pe 
| grain iaaa but a good deal apart ve: pe wie i Well adapted for 
| Secondary and somewhat inferior Not so hardy as the 
| common Red Wheat, and requires a in where the winter is 
h 
—— Spalding’s. Pa oa of Ae ee i Ey the Red So > 
originally from Lin of biek | 
ps of tare i mown. 
arkaly tall, petite and | 
ag h col ok adap CH 
ý e aa a yellowish o co rad we apt 
x a Wheat climate rb 
my a our r foe two or three | an 
and Golden Drop varieties; | 
and 
sgat parti articulari 
lodged 
it is not tut pont = 
dish variety, is | 
Wheat in Ragland: 
| for good land when can ent to be 
ears are apt to break off ai 
-— April Wheat, w a bearded red 
sadin ta 
ped, running pc to a poin 
the upper er extremity ; : and of a reddish Teed 
colour, we sie ng rem: oc iv bly in ie bushel. 
A very early | 
eat, an time Sn Te Sn 
and will me 
r Wheat. 
nsideration of per and of 
mixing sorts which ripen pretty 
her. A i greater yield was obtain 
mixed seeding than from any of the individual so: 
THE WATER DRILL. 
To the farmer, March is a month of boxe and 
nae. e d tediu 
|in iivariably ras nt otis 
f 
ds for spring 
“fields 
stretch out before him rabies” hand of the sower ; 
and his fallow lands, designed for green 
ess his active efforts. It will nei aeea 
po 
crops, require | 
be thought | e 
he cul 
no 
cost. Such t being = results 
means within cro 
hem, The. use of artificial | 
manures i 
ge 
eseed siete without nt the application of i 
some one or more of these many fertili 
continually made 
have been established 
viz, that grain 
ures, 
| their 
r lar growth. Hen 
‘the intelligent farmer learns at once what should be the 
chemi. ies of = Siksi manures he requires 
and is conse- 
led to put Age gi, manure in the right 
economical. One 
ther difficulty? however, still presants iteclf, and that 
soft | tion 
ve er 9 
ites Fenton and Red-straw t 
niacal | nutritive oa of t 
equal to 
[APRIL 25,1857. - 
is, how 
fertilisers, Suppose for 
phosphate of lime as contain 
aie 
and lux 
it be obvi 
being § poia ed i a: placa 
with the water. 
ficient = thoron n nls mix it; 
equal and perfectly 
But to test this mee ‘thoroughly, we have 
occasions, in sowing Coleseed, placed t 
—_ with the manure and the water i 
t 50 
on two 
he seed in 
the result in both c a perfect 
ute thereby sty showing that the ¢ 
ght ular equal, But 
Prolene ion as the equal distribution of the mam 
| be, it is ponte not t 
advantage we 
inna 
e only, nor pedi o the he dhi 
ived from the the water 
application 
disa 
and 
frequent i is now of 
| vigorous _ 
uite common. 
healthy } plant of mae Poem bette 
t 
water-drill ae 
and re a plant at all 
apis great and very Martir we seas there i$ 
no remedy so simple and so certain 
as the water- The action i yt water upon the 
sot aa phosphate of lime — ct He 
pha 
amp 
ing to the plant in its 
st foun sane 
early gro 
d it mys an ba. 
“more opera p 
bes uan form with the w 
he ordinary manner, 
obtained 
te 
l ven retary, oie ite adoptiot ee 
us | principle, wou ei 
= aap culti ivate unkind and fi 
more precarious Swede 
Hens iti is desirable to find a substitute for deprive 
ing our cattle sé sh will not dep 
the soil of the constituents 
of that 
hy growt i 
in the p it Wurzel or Beet. 
very satisfactory degree of 
First then, as to the amount of produce. 1 a 
30 of Bı 
that of the ily 
Store gw will thrive better 
additio; err. hakere or 
cake. 
es and fi 
14 Ibs. daily v py ees It is, 
milking Ft beasts that I 
and after January I give these px 
most Suay te a $ 
to o opely ee üfaat 
uses 
he bene accruing nthe a the 
farmers 
which te 
which are necessary Nod 
fe 
