C35 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
the experiment would not gw pa but for Pi on the 
3y kz T 
. years; but 
present appearance of the ca I think I e all bd 
to grow 3 quarters annually, at a cost of 72., which wil | 
pay with Wheat even at 40s., as 1 can aly si command | 
a high price for the straw for onpi The chief | 
ue n I have learnt is that panien isa sine qua non, | 
that is — the plough may take the pee 
er. 
when 
of a fork and is mu 
Balance T nll i. acre re roppe with W heat Ked the interval 
i ee £ 8. 
By 4 qua 
i 1 the 7 a 
Rent dao in a hs | Wht: at Pra 1216 0' 
oe se 10 0| By stra 2-79 
Cultivation, viz.— | | 
Ploughing 9s., har- | | 
rowing 2s., drilling, | | 
"g. seed 1 — 8s., | 
hoeings har- | 
vesting, . threshing 
and markets, 1s. 8 8 | 
513 0 1416 ọ 
1854-5. 
Charges as above .. 513 0|By3 oe at =e 1010 0 
Extraforkinginspring 110 0 | By straw eR 
730 1210 0 
1855-6. 0 
; sas ve 513 0/By2 ore at 80s. S 0 
Extra forking, burn. By straw 29 0 
g, &e., in spring 210 0 
8 3 = 10 0 0 
uiga ai 5 13 o! tf or: at 64s. 912 0 
Extra forcing, and | By 2 "0 
0) 
` 6 19 TEITO 
Total of 4 years’ ex ates. 8 1s 0 
2 
Se oe 21 0 © | Receipts £48 18 0 
£48 18 0 
J.-B. 
Smut in Barley.—In a recent Number of the maiin 
tural Gazette 1 observed notice taken of the black e: 
in Barley, which abounded in the cro of 1856, and 
worth trying. 
one half of the Barley 
ds, t o at, a d 
cow wed the other aed pei ant but the 
peared q one case as oe i. T. 
ee on must ertain the cause of this 
sin a 
ust first endeavour to as 
y 
own fi Il the crop of 1856. I have n 
ansthing of the kind a affecting the Wheat. Charles 
Lawrence, 
_ Rotation of a <i observe in pa ee piensa to 
emaan kA that you ee received m munica- 
tion of last week. I should wish to a ti as briefly 
ysa though 2e dmir ed 
I take it for granted th 
a arin o be understood one in, whieh th 
fallow crop would recur me — ee wi z 
tition of Wheat in the 
period of 12 years the Mangel ‘weal A pk ge 
tirst, fourth, seventh, a 
-o 
he rotation which 
efit of the nm Sdi 
It 
i we 
crop of Wheat, 
he parti icular field is con 
= 2, » Barley; 
old pef case of Bea 
poies M.P. for Nottingham, indulges in in 
a more scou darit 
than the one which I 
ads a 
apc inerea ery 
and I should pie that the effect 
the maona depth to which its roots d, so much more 
ryote which is net siblo from many other 
trust that I may om fagran omer 
betw 
a — though the effect with regard to the pro- 
portion of the various crops would be equally attained. 
* 
Farmers’ Club 
_ ‘Tersey axb Lovrn.—tThe follo pes + sega has 
made to Tan Societies by their Committee 
inspect the ions of Boydell’s Dalia 
rae ‘arming p p &e :— 
sai aei nt to the iaaa Viovdall 3 
oe 
i 
gine, 
e 
| The p 
| acre per e hodt that b; be eman’s cultivator nearly two. 
| With refer the e 
n reason rhe the Sa of at ae it shou 
' of 
i “The trial of Col perehs raat 
s first elod crusher, afterwards by | 
ows, was in the eae | 
g 
e ground, baked as i 
tenacious us su geet erg to the depth of 5 or 
e three implemen Bi a 
goo was made 
with PREA De attached, breaking L the 
depth of 12 s, did t 
as to the atone’ ol iea were attained 
for which aara -power coal not | in our „opinio n be ma e 
available. t o 
parison betwedi the power of t angie & and that of pas 
but according to the best soont enge mittee are mc oy v 
while Coleman s fay rW: 
o 
while Co ves’s ike ens su 
a uniform power of not less than 20 horse 
upwards, and 
were at work, 
mploy 
k done by six loughs was nearly at the rate of one 
S m raction power o ine on com- 
mon roads, a ver a fmi, this was fully a sid satisfac penami A 
roved by th waggons heavily laden wit 
t 18 tons, 
of 
halk and road $ angie weighing altogether abou 
across scarifie m rather rising gro aes nd 
agi wi radien 
the weigh 
bs Rethen,Spe of the engine 
_ Yo ur Committee are also of opinio 
o another is of considerable Portao to the hinia othe 
beautifu' Se eps! of Waggons e Lage aci at Mr. Robson’s house 
were intended aggons thus constructed and 
fastened to his aging) Basa necessarily follow in the trac 
Sb serpentine, 
From the experiments made the above days, your Com- 
mi ittee | are led to the ‘conclusion, t hat the great features in the 
poche a and ietin of Boydell’s engine are, its capability 
of i bas succession—o 
ey see no 
orkin gany o other 10- ee arty ag er 
reat 
MATL 
e can 
g and 
ught, favour- 
oxen ness of action, and 
ent Committee are co ous, how: 
reful trials that men’s minds s will be ~~ A 
pplica 
he opinion 
ultura. aber is 
civilised life. 
reward their ilf exertions sor prom 
H _ yy! EORGE ALINGTON, Chairma an, 
ve publ 
of treo st 
Gri ROFT SHARPLEY, Acthorpe,. oath Fras. SOWERBY, 
sate ‘arene Grimsby, and 1 
Rebicios. 
Words to Labourers, EF By the. Rev. E. F. 
Grey & Warren, 131, High Street, Croydon 
Progress the Farmers Watchword, &e. By ‘the Rev 
Ti — Grey & Warren, 131, High Street, 
roy do: 
These are pamphlets containing 
a by the President for 
Agricul 
Beynon. 
the substance of 
the year of the East 
periodical n Association on the essere of its 
swe ae The following passages the 
ts in husbandry sufficiently Sadie | 
oat “tingly feeling and wisdom by which they were 
"I arana cu it remarked, that ‘good masters make 
” but it is, I think, pink true, that 
‘ good Revit make e good m asters.’ When I see that 
some 0 “4 those to whom prizes have been awarded hav 
been 38 or 40 years in t = same service, or employed sa 
the anid e farm, I © er how much must have been 
end ured —how ‘ali difficulty ack hardship must have 
ten o0 frequently undergone—how much ‘give and 
take’ ans rape — been—how much forbearance dis- 
played by the t . sativa, and by o — 
to the master, ‘tring t that Iong course of and I 
think the fact of this long service alike er itable to the 
sem er asi and ren oyed. Living as I have now done for 
any y n the Surrey Hills, I know how arduous 
in cults tivating the stubborn soil—I know 
you meet, and 
toil in heat and winter’s nen oe 
times not remunerated to the extent which 
might wish; and I confess I i 
vou biie i 
| the difficulties with which 
summer’s 
eS lteter peaa u their 
$ 
—of W 
n short, sare. 
ov 
made a m 
$ Lieutenant, and who short 
e 
our master | 
i you, and | 
by them on the 29th h and Bist July ult., on the farm of Mr. , feel ~~ much allowance sh 
SS Eee b ht for ice epee se ent was one A you, if at a yie me, under ci mAN 
ion engine brought for the as : 
e | 10 horse ie aera ads by Mr Burrell, of "Thetford, with Mr. | ai “el of temper, an un by 
Boydell Patent t Shoe, ilway, Attached to | | ig i expression should. exes 
the is the 
Te 3 sos ie to your Committee that the ploughing on the | | peA er) s the a t whi “hg mikat 
| first day was not so succe essful as anticipated, owing to a| an who desires to 
variety of causes unconnected with the traction power of the | of his se 
engine. Amongst these we may name that the ploughs used | ee r, er 
were not constructed on the best principles for being thus a oa 
‘ked ; further, they were not welladjusted. Failures of this et m e give you a few of 
| kind are not to be attributed to the traction engine. The om- i .* ve hewn the remark k made, that 
mittee feel convinced that experience will shortly r medy labouring man h deed hee 
defects in the adjustment of ploughs attache d to this serine, A k 3 
and they would suggest the practis tay of fixing ploughs grave, p n ver by 
within a frame, or some other mode, in order that they may | raise himself to a higher position, 
work simultaneously n 7 a be hs “But banen A mething more cheerful—so 
arrangement of this kind, the ighing was imp u i 
an marked nner o tit nanos ay. Indeed, before this | ; sie er. ai e, I am 
trial closed the general company aad following the Ea jt mi instances on record, where men of 
| convinced, as it would appear, that the problem © of p ing tion in life ha sen to stations s of emin 
| by steam had been so a aiy a solved, ne nus pad 
may enable the father 
thie example of the hon. 
therton, th he 
z 
f= 
3 
manufac turing but in a 
rn 25s. to 30s. a w wak 
raised t 
occasion I allu 
he 
e 
Queen Victoria, on 
u 
of the who 
ed I ag 
matician at King’s ae 
of the y 
who 
cei the other 
aspire pAn 
a will all. beco 
a at if 
ork, for yo 
Th 
tural 
out 29 nilo) 
believe, a and the popu 
the mte oat 
ing net 
pa but 13} milions are 
b 
sterlin. 
Pe 18 or 19 milton rege 
lion quarters of Whea and taking 
sumption at one q 
made in ort 
statesman, 
find that we eel to import £ 
home 
ported more ° 
above 
mers 
ually for 
for ithe m 
ann ual a ’ 
In 1856 yor im 
grain, of which 
uarters Barley, 
million 
meal and flour. 
t from 
