618 3 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
lik f Æ. ovata, but is much longer rt greater proportion of oxygen dissolved i in, ameda m i small ¢ crop; 192a sma 
and is sky at at the to ise | it thanis present i in the atmosphere, and it hasmany | crop; 324 a m 
t These grain sown and cultivated for the first rs the proportion of carbonic acid that the xfer neevy: crop; and 648 a 
time, yielded plants — or four times as high ; | atmosphere contains, and both of them exert an | *e8ves form a stook ; therefore 
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mated than hemes of the parent plant, and the | Common air contains 21 per.cent. of oxygen, and Alighteropis 0. | 
valves of their glumes had only two awns, of| .0t pe cent of carbonic acid. Air from water on A medhon: i 58 5 f ” 
which one was shorter than the other, and occa-|the other hand contains 30 to 32 per ¢ cent. of A very heavy crop y aeia 
si one was almost entirely absent, so that | oxygen, and .1 to .6 of earbonic acid. | A vory large erop is ” 
each glume had but one awn, as is the case with Rain-water also contains nitric acid and a The usual a for a day’s aide for rape nia 
corn. Further, -as in Triticum, the awns of the | monia. The latter aig more sapotially, ie by vars lay y, is from 8 A.M. till-6 6 Pat; 
glumes of some of the plants were very long whilst | as no to eremi in se is.way, has been supposed | hour is ta oe or rest and refreshment Penta) 
those of others were short. The plants i st to be the main sou of the gece which plants 
had the appearance of Triticum, and assumed its | contain. The secre on this subject has —e 
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rile, and the few rb 1 
or two fertile se s0 that the fertile spikelets | acid in rain-W: pasene has proved much Éra p labo sie acctlitomed td 
only yielded one or two grains. ese grains, | was originally suppose M. an found inla medium crop of Wheat, ia 
being sown, produced the next year more perfect | rain-water nea r Paris ha rdly a mare of smnsieiild pone in that view of the case, 2 willbe 
plants. eir spikelets were more numerous than | per gallon, artk into consideration the | per aere, and .074 perstook. 
before, and almost all of them contained two fertile | annual rain-fall ‘there, amounts to about 9.6 lbs, | an ae be medium crop of 27 stoo 
flowers, and thus yielded two grains. e awns | of ammonia per acre, or 7.9 lbs. of rh ae therefore, Dogs bet 
of the pane vers always two in number, but the | plied per annum over that extent in this way. stook. Besides ne ae cutting 
every case pein further | also found e grains of nitric acid in a gallon of them up i is AUE 5 penye 
than peoriously, sas was often complete. The |rain-water, so that fro m this.source there wasa aaa pers Tires, od cael | 
. grains w ere less compact, Jess concave, less hairy | further oupbly of 16.9 Tbs. of nitrogen Te acre ted with sickles, to foun memsesi a 
at their extremity. The ears, when ripe, separated | annum. Since then, however, Mr. Way has Sic eapingn a 
less easily from the axis, and the AEN were muc heni te : 
more floury than in former year ird year acid in rain-water, and of both ammonia al cateadia ve 
uced plants similar to those of the year before, | nitric acid he finds a much sm aller proportion cote ine differ a quantity of erop p £ 
more pentont: Ehay had -scarcely:any sterile | than had been expected. Tig following is a state- y 
zelets, each of which yielded two and sometimes | ment both of the quantity of rain, and of the 
grains, more developed, less concave, and | quantity of ammonia and ni ge! acid, with that of 
less the nitrogen they contain, falling on an acre ‘a 
“The: ‘next, being the fourth year, produeed no | land during the year at ‘Rothamstead in Her 
notable change. A year later ~ e stems aiiin fordshire. rs 
the height of a yar e ere sufficiently ROTHAMSTEAD, 1855. 
developed to separate the valves “of = floret cis, as, iana ih cll aa OS ogon | Smalt erop oe 
to be wholly exposed when ripe. mature ears Water per| peracre. | per rare, Light 
separated less easily from the stems. sore. | Grains, : |; Grai M 
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“The next year the ears did not brea apetbie 4a) -ovemal 325 1141 1024 Women reaping with sickles will not 
easily ; all the spikelets were fertile, and occasion- | May SOROS TT), 'ROEO £206 3939 | two-thirds the quantity of work. of men 
Jeno. c. 34| 742295 iif" 93803 557. 544 must bee 
ally enc three well developed grains. Itis | 5.1 "| 457713 2680 615 | hooks; therefore, three women 
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The fllowiig is a table of: 
2.98 Ibs.| 7.11 1bs.| ` 6.031bs. | vate of pt wages toifind the 
cording to different Damsa crop:— -i 
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ae = ania Sorgen m Mr. Wa Ay’s analyses lead him to conclude we acco 
above as char 
astoristio of M:sFannn's | 2° ra than 6 lbs of ‘nitrogen in 
We Secon doubt that’ his perseverance annu mar an acre a onnon on, m Bis is ot 
ets — an half a guano ains, 
ee aera? freshing effect ata Api shower then as he states a F ; leh 
T cannot be due to jotia soppan salsa 3h Oa g S n 
ae ing thatt of the w Ermm y r g abe 
2 “Tareas: has been iscussi in 18 i ane i at 
. general at sabject of” Ene oT ht ae a aoa in 1855 contributed but 1000 grains pèr acre, | yery cma erop “906 | 16 | 
ally am a rs which we thought hel big neg more than is contained in A ding e Sini fadene ie 9246 |" 
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saan m the ses of controve ersy—that it-may | -“Pihisds met the ol Medium 1092 | oaos HA 
place to consider in what:way | Ab i 193 i 
seta be wera pr a'short s of articles to state | plants do obtain their nitrogen if not through rain- Very. 2 ari bat 
am not, certainly, ater. Itis sufficient at present *that-we under- g k has manyi 
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dogmatism 1 may put down discussion, but that a | stand that the water falling per annum onan acre 
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en London does not contain more than 7 tbs. of : 
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ae vps it which have been, as we Of the three > principal characteristics of rain- | secondly, it enables an eqnitable r 
, of late andaly at rated. as th 
water—its con they are, in ammonia, peer seroma ont ar 
if iA = 2 A 
grow „e to their | nitric acid, renani aid: mic cr acid—its aoe from domestic 
structure, which they abao piens either in us or owers increased by the presen i 
liquid state. Mineral matters amach | £; i y = 
aie stances—and its temperature—the first is not “the |, can :spare 
wr matter) enter | most important. It is probably —_ to its solvent | shifting of work 
ea only as dissolved in Papaes It) powers and ‘to its relations ture that the | i 
hat nae ern me arent p> rie good or the mischief that it does is chi pes ue. 
mranata wre dar co To these points we shall in f 
" j icle of Biiennt to piante, It SENN 
ente laboratory of the soil, mixesand prepares | ON HARVESTING AND THRESHING GRAIN. 
the food of plants. “It enters thisstoreroom of their — operation of severing the grain crop from the 
od, deposits fresh stores foriimmediat Poy i as performed d b ;moans of the tickle sickle 
l of abundan warehoused - or other times e, and o 
a an coast saith crcl ig thane ago: been introduced. “But, 
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tenth evap. ys as the last-mentioned mode has hitherto only been found | and the penalty of r attempting 
ultimately, without this burden, exhaled from the |Piacticable under circumstances of the ground being | small will prevent the ene 
leafy surface of the plant. On "the aptitude of the xe ae rence Seow teeth ae len 
n Sa as a vehicle by which the water travels | . Whether 
o and fro, and acts the part of labourer and of | which 
waiter, depends the ability of that soil both to will, i a a pl a easure, depend upon whet! her the es 
| food for plants and to convey it tothem. is light or heavy, and whether it is lodged or not. 
_ Butwhatis this water which, falling on the sur- | Before proceeding to point out the amount of labour | 
sad f:the land, acts so important a part in the required in reaping, by either er of the modes mentioned, than that for » 
I of vegetation? It is‘in. the'first place a | it will be necessary to state the size of a sheaf'and num- favourable: weather, that th 
and ni ap ii sheaves that may be considered to constitute | _— any intermission 
ound: to p aan or hea O , and me the e 
enone ame aea 9 wa which | "umber of hours as a rant de a ak thew Pasi ng | the 
peaa PEN aches hensii pees the vlan of any reise of work, ag eye | | each of them 
soil it contains | 2e Of by the marmber of sheaves, will easily be deter. |as the day” vonk 
S | in asimilar way adopted in reference to opera 
that ilaslaadarebiels i eoir B day’ “by one 
! The proper size for a sheaf of corn 11 inches in | built ina stack by one 
d: in solution has a con- diameter at the band; of these 144 per acre may be | of an : ae sara to hand 
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