602 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Aveusr 9p 
common se ~~ eontinue the process, if acre. I Lage ov 5 one farm of 230 acres, To a = cents; average about 80. 
possible, up to p time of flow une ;” | 25 dollars years ago, but was now worth 3 iles, and. t 
ering in 
FS gy the hoe, cease to pulyeriso and the plant 
may starve:” ‘‘clays an ae E 
pulverised to the letter, or T re may be 
failure.” Were these stipulations hate at 
Rothamsted ? 
The pre y panty 
ag te 
in 
seems to hav 
the he and ho te and w 
produced a miser 
that for the fourth c 
necessary stirrin 
ith the wae 
halt os es strips, yielded 21 bushels per acre. 
A yieorovs discussion is proceeding in the agri- 
cultural Suras on the weri of the rival reapers, 
Judges and manufacturers differ on the point, an and 
the controversy is kept up by the contributions of 
independent agriculturists, 
Mr. Dray protests against a decision founded on 
the short comparative trial at Salisbury being taken 
as of equal weight with that at Boxte are? where 
three instead of three hours — ose -= 
arly on the 
ome Ka elsewhere 
e imple asa before t 
paneme dy known, 
mpariso on ‘CoR- 
Hu srahan anh by 
and er and the: thar by Dean and 
Dray, wives a preference to the former on the 
several | points o of—the knife employed, its efficiency 
ment 
for the third rigs was k ally 
. | fact the subsoil oe clay, ine can hye: NAg 
me aste 
Mr Reid and Mr was 
of implements, defend ‘their tan 
rmer ion, 
taking the Į 
of Jabour i in harvest work. He says, as the result 
I saw a man n ploughing a field of Oat-stubble Sets had th 
p last year, and that was too he: vag 
The plough was Ti aht, ib Ms broad share, and cvt a 
furrow 8 inches in n depth an fully a foot in breadth, a ef 
did its work remarkably mall I took ho mh the ir ee 
ssisted in tu 
borne its twelft 
lmost as s arp as a 
plough-ir 
up a urface soil becom 
prairies, r a 
matter is in excess, for 
PS pire t in their serene a peaty soils, whic 
de 
er to be eee eho productive 
Ther peke weeds to, 
pr airie kias, ‘bub ‘eet grow up wi ek e veo 
ummer; and to keep them down, the wie use 
of yey tig * among the iui 
arm I v 
consi 
Masy was p e a great deal of it in crop. yi ow 
lately visited California by driving right westward in 
his own waggon, a journey of 3 m athe? greri 
only 70 acres Indian Corn, 30 Wheat, 50 
g Wheat, but was now 
p pean 
There were 1000 sheep on the farm, which were partly wa 
ed on other lands. The nated Ltarinianh of the grain 
mo hine a 
gs aie going No decay ; 
required eight to work it, for it was not pen} ky 
tended to cut the crop, but also to thresh and sack it 
er 
I also isi 
mpeg 4 
acres, for whic 
vided this eer ee 
bie ach had abou 
came out Farò 
is family 15 yea 
upon the farm, ee harvested, and threshed 25 
acres of Indi and 50 of Oats and Wheat, and 
arket. The yield of spring 
‘CoRMICK’s | machines for Grass are also coming rapidly into 
knife will cut through a harvest vithont laa the best aged farms little rotation is observed, the 
mt of order—that with it two horses can walk sa gore mode ee! cropping rane whee Corn, 
autumn at, spring a e prairie farmers 
od case OF Hesse Seip! r ordinary paor while i i have the idea, that “land has new life put into it by 
inh our is tints e ns able ; that the cultivating In orn.” But no other crop possesses 
friction in ss neg lat e implem h us— | oT? eater capacities for eee ne ° aeri liberal —- 
1 i fact written by one who has 
made ph yi mind on the cabinet of a 
fair that others write on the sam 
subject, ‘eee da goa eh gegen satinfaction which the 
reaper thu is giving in their own ex- 
aa ce Og ree of their neighbours, ~ Mr. 
Homas LYALL, E Gayton Manor, says :—‘‘ We 
have in this neighbourhood four of Dray’s ma- 
chines at work in hands o good pamal 
farmers, who are all perfectly satisfied with them 
agi” 
| farms of 140 acr 
r purposes. 
: cat of grain enedided out by ow in Illinois. 
s 
nd giving a good return for On one of the 
so pert of diffarent t ages were kept; 
which required = ’be foddered 
bt = uite as w sy — 
it. f the 
which pomi to fiie: a 
the sian praen machines 
apparatus is light a nd 
cereals are nearly all cut by horse power on the 
eag He bought | i 
PE ~ 
d urney o 
tance ar about 
with hay for 5 months in 
fie 
The whole pai 
he stalk is green and juicy, a 
eaten with a high relish, 
mbes as boon 
bon and -n and is in th 
corn. ripens and gene or p lay 
The cl osing perio od of feeding, in 
sa upon r 
m 
n t 
bushels a sufficient load 
ra the whole Bre of the: toa 
se > days’ tio 
The pro 
3,318,304 Dials of Indian 
335,008 of Oats; 120,868 lbs. of "ot wile 
butter. These figures must furnish a 
per ar ra those 
sists 0. a 
be seen in the distance, a circumstance 
vented its being cultivated, Behe 
firs + 
is one of the first req 
he will rather hew for eee af 
than sit down w 
of coal exten 
will no doubt 
very n 
ln- 9 ed | o r fi tae 
shir ite faction, “1 | ae been: a great waste of grain in the harvest- | rapid in its growth, and holds out 
have at work one of Gomina and one of DRAY’S, | ben ern’ bes were Overeroweh with what had | of grext atitiy there 
and at the close of the harvest you shall have the l ig WR 0 aa Boy etbedlingpentas- | Nap : od 
: f : age nearly a foo e crops often | th , but that t 
result. With res ct sb trial, on a | ripen about the same time, an pees are quickly e o Tan A om 
small field of Rye, it was worthless as a test of | cut d immense quantities are shed out, gre fertility o i 
C L was not present on the Saturday evening | Corn, however, is not liable to waste, though it is —— physical co 
when the trial took place; but on looking the work | to stand in the field long after it is I went into | do with the mattar, Í 
over on gg ii ek a opinion of one of the | ® large field which was still vintoatied: where bern stalks ites and sands of 
labourers, a re than o intelli- | Were standi Oto 11 feet high. The owner told | under Apple orchards w at sade 
graos ios st anes stated Tiha the lives bese, |e ee ree be injured it yas | manored, and yet a w, 
wi e man on the box, did ow ni anuary e cobs containing the | Peach trees o not bear w 
eit x, did its work the best of e p i | from the i ns, a they h 6 g bison aris the: blossom 
The conclusion to which all that we have seen eae s, and are thickly covered | in spring, : 
by folds of sheath, The stalks of I Co hat the 
f th y es o n Corn are not | farmer told me t 
` t x R rao ourselves is expressed | eoll nd us ma spring, a roller is | winters entl 
V 
arn quite as much money. 
e is no doubt there are ree isis manu- 
vers g that will pay any extensive occupier 
Pere 
PRAIRIE FARMIN 
farms i 
a bushel; the a 
nat | thee cpanh, weed 
by a rake, and 
which Wh n harrow 
amongst the stalks o of T tndian C tla which would afford 
some ion in winter. 
he Eger! of this part e Be prairie to the 
shipping port of Chicago, a portion of the raised 
avery y 
e grain 
ear sent to market, the quantity varying 
ing to the price. farmer from Dumfries i 
formed me „that, for the last 15 years, the lowest 
price of In Corn at Chicago 
werage price about 50 cents. 
1 winter Wheat had been as low 
A ei pores obtained in 
Robert 
* It is curious that this 
ture 
wae ~~ 10,152 Ibs. 
