684 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Octopzr 3, 1857. 
spring Beans the land can “be p ghed a any time in length may be. We have had them dibbled by hand i in o ae 27th August last, prohibiting tke To — 
oh g so as not to interrupt other indi of work ; and ines nearly As chains long without any apparent dev brought t from certain parts of the portation ot 
Gee mere drilling and harrowing Bean-lan d in February t n from a straight line. aea x am directed to state that my lords ee coh. 
or March does not interfere with ploughing for and Daca cannot be properly drilled on n newly prev n-up | ra the Me of your letter, as also of other let. 
sowing Barley or Oats, neither in the preparation for Grass-land. The coulters become choked and can not go addres: o them upon the s ame matter, have 
root-crops. It should always be the aim of every arable pi enough to depésit the seed. Neither doa the | written to “the Lod s Commissioners of her Maj 
er to keep a sufficient number of horses to drill work well on land when very stiff or when | Treasury requesting ‘hen to direct the Board 
accomplish his work in due season, bnt not more. In pieces of dung and bunches of stubble lie about the | toms to gre oe ee ini = a bis which were 
order, therefore, to keep as few as necessary, the labour surface, Dibbling is then preferable. e seed should | shipped r ordered or con. 
pee the aie _ be so distributed over the whole year be put in from 2 to 3 inches deep—the deeper the | tracted for previously to bo fie riae the order in Coungj],” 
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similar pisaa s that spring Beans are so genera y sown sufficient, but on poor land in rough condition Farmers’ Club 
instead of winter Beans. Because, if there a four bushels are not too much. A two-horse drill} _CROYDON. a E Weeds. ae a late meeting 
sufficient ba. T horses on a farm to plough wai sow should get over 8 acres a-day. A horse-hoe should get of ~ club Wood r yee a a paper on this subject, 
both for Wheat and Beans in autumn in prepar season, over 3 acres a-day if the rows are about 2 feet apart. He said: I pate help thinking re weeds are in- 
there sald sea an expensive surplus during winter, A man can dibble from x Sigg o one-half an acre a- nirmi rather than Giuntutshing, and that Thistles are 
which i inar uld n y y- I give 6s. pe dibbli ws | Much more numerous than they were, and this I 
employed. It is very rarely the case that Wheat-sowing | = side to side of the deld, the rows being 18 inches believe arises from the plan of successive cropping with- 
can be finished by the middle of October with all the Many persons still dibble Beans at a certain | 0U ut clean fallows ; enpe mp cases they gain 
strength of the farm applied to it. It is ns a ome sum per bushel. This I consider to be an evil practice, | ™ in et cutting t them up when the land is incom. I 
only whether the ploughing and aortas of winter Beans | as both encouraging laziness, theft, and irregular seed- | cannot alter ya opinion that I have before expressed in 
can be accomplished in due seaso ing. When a man gets a bushel of Beans to panti pi a this ro oom, as to the propriety of having a par 
ere are, however, exceptional cone where land may | aa, if he have any gute, to ia habits about h clean fallow on tight Is lands which is so subject to all 
be ploughed for Beans during h e or 9 mages ely | ant will either sow the ce k, throw some of i it | sorts of weeds, unless it can be all farmed at a very high 
after it, when ploughing for Whea ye not be carried into a ditch, or steal so nen a of it rate. I believe it would be found to be Fete nay 
on properly. It is then that the sowing ome nter | * Planting by the acre, and allowing a stated quantity, | Ways; first, by giving more time to g% rid of all ki 
Beans instead of s jal ing Beans should take ac in with | appears to be as = a Titer ara em as can be attained | of weeds, as I think aga ie no dikoa bi s of ve 
everything in its favour. | when sowi ng by hand essary. of Thistles, and many o 
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Beans, with a very black eye. They usually weigh, | regarded as a cleansing crop, it is desirable that it : j 
when well harvested, from 63 Ibs. to 66 Ibs. per bus iiel, | konka be ads mid Ub those who ding to drilling d nd | d is sown with Turnips, as it : i 
and about 6 grains each. Common Horse-beans, so dibbling in narrow crooked rows, and hand-hoeing only, | peg that land gets Turnip sick as well as Clover sick if 
in spring, pyra weigh from 62 T. -m lbs. s. per should kreta a more enlightened and economical course. to nd e 
bushel, and about 14 grains e Then are se ences d sow Beans in autumn rather , useful, h " w pl 
varieties of Tick-beans, or at sa reps <i Tick. can than in spring, when the labour of the farm would | fallow that has to lie so a the winter! when you do 
sown of different oa which are alike in =i admit of its being properly done before the end of ™ uch more harm than good in a p fallow from 
appearance and habits of a snd “ald. The | October. Spring Beans should be sown in February, or being too wet. I do not intend to infer that too many 
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England, as re ye eld more ond ois an than the | to admit of horse cultivation. *Hoeing should take | of it for Turnips, and leaving the other fourth clear 
Ticks. Ticks are better adapted for phe ee light | place early, and as frequently as is required to fallow, will oftentimes grow as great a of 
soils than the common Horse-bean, an they s seldom thoroughly clean the s land and encourage the growth of Turnips as he would on the whole; and would 
run muc raw are very s aie for allowing a| the crop. We feel assured that the frequent stirring o of be more likely to keep his farm cleaner. —_—— 
Sapo% — by the horse and hoe throughout the | the soil has a — taoeiiey $ > a B cr and is good Turnip lands may be seen with not half a crop 
Som ms we'have seen Tic ng Bean roduce | a source of ultimate gain in en pede with |Turnips on them—often from the cause cig Bt 
Ps " Bittle pros pee "lenf as to allow of horse-hoeing | ordinar ary discretion. Mr. Valintine in the English many acres tosow that none are really done well! | f 
wey up to harvest without injury to the crops. The | Agricultural Journal. a a that aa —— by putting a small ome 
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Couch were easily destroyed by being repeatedly moved ; Home Correspondence Barley, anda bet er quality, a; ad better po than 
yet, although the crop in growing looked "o the pe -n Weedon. aes attempts _ een n professedly you would on n our land that to 
at harvest has reached 40 bushels an acre, and in one | made to itd out e above system ing. The | and fed off with sheep; and it et be kes 
instance where the Seas was oe a inches oe the writer of t raged with a ‘a net in the imme- | ame r from weeds. There is another point as reg the 
ing, and th ughing land eran deep 
i little straw allow share donne i tinig unless | and plantation, besides being over-run with weeds and | first time when foul. I hav ave seen several i has 
ell hoed, than such as, traw, which | smothered in Cou he has o i at it is wrong, P ob aly 
covers all the ground and in a measure sm otar the | meaning of so neglected a corner, at last concluding it been so much labour bestowed on it, and it 18 ree Pi 
ore was a vain attempt i thing like eee a 
few farmers who would ap aii edge | more unfair trial could not be given to it. The land ploughed just to go under the Couch, if any, aS 
en up with weeds i uch less page 
growth of weeds rather than destroy them; but, | to grow ently without molestation, ill adapted for | effectually. Another bad plan I 
whether acknowledged or not, it is true that in too | the ct: airy though if fairly cultivated, all weeds | in fallowing on lands that. are lj W beter ae 
m n crop is anything but a cleansing | being exterminated, it is a very grateful soil, bearing is, by the ploughings being too : ae vegetate ; su! 
, one, and more generally — ‘the land fouler when the | the finest quality of grain, and commanding the highest not giving the seeds of weeds ime ughing V% 
crop is reaped than when so price in the market. How can rage een yield a full return | many fields would often be cleaner if one plo to Kit 
To obviate this evil the’ cultivation of Beans, | where weeds are allowed to t he place of crop, a and dispensed with; and where land is very pect where 
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whether sown in winter or spring, must be such as to ‘dein their seeds from year = ear? “J. B. M.” whose | lock or many other seed weeds, if time wh 53 down, and 
allow of horse cultivation; and to accomplish this the preg page appears y~ a toy Agricultural Gazette, Lent corn is to be sown, to harrow the eer instead o 
sufficient width between the rows to admit of horse- sais ells aed Whea! ee cannot thrive. It may | ploughing again, which would br 
oeing and a be added that wide ‘ill her corn or roots should | strike for the crop, I am convinced weeds would 
When land is of a very pia nature, and contains a have the intervals kept perfectly — clean, and free | that on all light lands more corn and less better than 
good deal of Couch, th rubbish, well horse and hund hoed, otherwise it |be grown. Striking I believe to be much iige fmi 
in summer is to "e it up in winter, in rows from 24to | would be preferable to sow thickly, allowing the crop to | drilling; and I think, if more practised, it many fod 
28 inches apart. e winter’s frost will then so loosen | take care of itself, as many of the old school are in the of benefit to light-land farmers. I 6 witha single 
pics that in the sing the ridges should be divided, new | habit of doing. Early dibbling or drilling immediately | fault g the time and PEE but Ido: cannot be 
and the Beans be either drilled or dibbled | after harvest, when Nature deposits her seed, is the only horse to a plough ; and, if so done, it 
on on the top. By this system the horse-hoe can be set | and best time for the experiment of thin seeding, allow- | very expensive plan. The effi of, pettit, 
early to work between the rows without injuring the | ing time for the roots to enter dolj? into the sabsoii, corn that it d to le 
Beans, and may be kept at wor work late also: and, in| which will materially assist an early growth on the and „to geb achoad of the, w + tot 
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well followed up, entirely clear the land of weeds, and | severity of winter’s frost, and by the same reason will | quire quite so much seed. I have ee of M 
; of a good crop growing also. The cultivation of | enable it to derive nourishmen t from below the surface. | in favour of so spe. Be pe nothing om 
1e same as for Wurzel and Sw ve seen 
3eans b; ; ots grown on 
ridges ; and without ridges foul land cannot be cleaned | - The Turnip S —I have noticed the occurrence | my opinion. It ma be done with a¢ yut in th? 
at the time that a Aani of corn is growing upon it. of the larva of the nip Sawfly, Athalia spinarum, in ‘and is not clean and ready in rita ele 
ordinary n land is free, or nearly so, | considerable numbers in some parts of this county. I|sced. I know from fa ; 
from couch, 1 tees ch pao aae of Beans upon the flat | saw on one heed four Bay osad entirely ee ly Mangel Wurzel, of the Globe 
usual and mathe very well. The rows | the grub, the land appoint a as if never sown. I hear | in reasonable time, “r i e last week etn 
i n last year but ly. The Nove good c 
ao the horse-hoe to work Feely —— them with- | pillar of the puss moth has been also very plentiful, the | be mended in the rows vith mol 
out smothering the plants. The n horse-hoe | dung attracting notice on the roads and footpaths under | they are jarit Aere: e brought of Pa 
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e left-hand side should go as | the consistency of cream; out of 14 bushels raised in a| Long Red that grew from por 
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ot to interfere m 3 only 2 bushels were sound. Lyston. favour of the Yellow w Globe, til the E , 
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hi loeing on the surface, mittee of Privy Connell of Teale to EE RA: the | and much subject to weeds, I 
ing of the roots when horse cultivation is | receipt of your letter of the 15th ult., -addressed to| more room betw een the rows, z preferable re, Ye 
Beans can be dibbled in straight lines by | Viscount Palmerston, and forwarded by his lordship to | think that 3 ft. by 16 i amo gan P"? -i 
a8 by the drill, however long the ——— the order in Council | as there would be the same q ; ee Sy 
