_ 695 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
[Octosrr 10, 1857, 
Mr. RowE commenced me. six steepingvats | 
ach, but having 
found that wood begins to rot in “the course of five 
or six recently put up nine 
es = (each capable of containing one ton | 
of F mstracted of Seg s puddled 
-is more han 30 miles. 
— from this Flax mill | t 
r district are not to > 
ioyment to 
though the distance 
The social advantages 
surrounding peasant la 
ren inc okie ive; and one good eftect is, that no poor 
0 
earn tie in the mill, pom though the amount is 
any cases would b e entirely unemployed in 
in an assimilable form. The exami: 
t the Lois-Weedon soil Sxamination show showed 
Rothamsted soil. pon says, 
have little doubt, that a fi j mtas. ho = 
degree of the nite 
han ical division, and of po conj 
absorption. and liberatio on (in 
maintained a 86° in all seasons. aw feld. labour under the rbaa weed-encouraging ow, it ‘ites us. as kate igen isopen 
remains in steep for shorter or longer periods | system of ordinary Irish husbandry ; y it Mr, Lawes to deny his field the p 
according to its — or its rigidity or softness | them are too delicate for any severer occupati reer Sur as found successful, ‘anand 
when put into the water. A Pity am engine keeps|than that which some of the eas a one id idle fa to assign as a ca 
1 in motio 
y a 
several purpose 
soutohing, separating the tow, and thereby dressing 
th arious degrees of fineness is ingenious 
and effective. 
Formerly all the seed was destroyed by the OG 
cess of Sai the Flax straw in foe Sy pre 
But now the operation of ripplin. 
Amay h has put an end to such a sts Mets mana ; 
even where a mill is not available to the Flax 
grower the process of hand-rippling is reied 
resorted ou as ar great value of the seed has be- 
— a 
o 
will yield about 20 spite of apet which is worth | w 
from 12s. to 14s. per at the current price, and 
the value of the seed i is robes a third of the whole 
crop. The maximum weight of straw per acre (seed 
ality, |? 
aie have “oo alrea 
vats now a pt number of tons of 
w K OUa she immen: 
val several thousa ap poun s sterling, 
do not sensibly "nini sh, as there is a continued 
ical course of purchasin 
ombini 
manufacture of the Flax 
expresse il fi e seed. 
Ona es platform saries, some inches from 
fire-proof roo 
the floor of o 
wW. 
revents the 
is metal ri seed f ished 
z the platform by the Da which pak cg i x 
whole surface of th 
different 
seed The at when full 
se Picks of the | Ti 
affords them Man men W 
attend Bi their mill work w 
pa rning some wages an 
ocoupied ; or thus much social and moral g 
heed to them and to their families 
some Aia availed idani of the ne 
it more particularly confers upon Wex 
If on moorsan ich are not distant from 
Mr. Rowr 
duce: 
os TA ae tried the a Weedon 
ing for four 
accordin eeding, 
heytt for the rationale of his failure. After the 
fourth harvest the s divided into rt 
portions, in such a man ne ted each of the fo 
had an equal proportion of the trenched and forked | © 
fallow and of the stubble ground. The whole was 
then oy he prep: for s nene in 
ordinary way; one portion was left unmanured, 
the second nl: mineral manure only. the third 
— salts only, and the fourth both mineral 
and ammoniacal salts. Tw 
ed in the ordinary way ; 
ft produce showed — 
has philosophically 
and sal 
largest of all, from which results it is ‘inferred 
that the failure cs a Lois-Weedon Wheat 
rops was mainly to ‘‘a deficiency of 
senltis ne assimilable nitrogen within the 
soil.” And w a suficient cause of this defi- 
ciency in the fact that the mesa pe never 
attained “ anical co without 
which the necessary y action between on pee atmo- 
sphere could not be expected to lace.” It 
mt as = 
n in the application 
land, of plans h 
y crashed 
15 ewts. per aay, Pi worth 107. 10s 
ae purchased by farmers for ROE) cattle 
averaging | 
per ton, is 
| statement is, that the system is far less promising 
than has been hitherto supposed, and must be 
of 1 time or money to render it complete, is 
critically suited to the introduction ofthe Flax op iat iar angit vi inglane iero d ye 
i y favour distriet A ‘which his at i hae a aire. rules, At arg attended to, pe it a rere of their water 
tuated, it would not be very service: mre n as successful at one place as "at the has n ae te , but 
ikky iy aarep of a ani of toto tarde h Lawes insti of the amount et a to yia next portion, d 
be o a rg cf opriated to the enigs in the soil and subsoil at Ro between the drains is laid ar 
i the” last a Wak spective pess of oan ete pla censi worked 5 SE 
of the plant, and again air 
e| System of Wheat grow with an | dre 
DEAD eran of about 8 to 12 Stony per acre, 
"i judged of by the results 
han the produce of 1 1300 acres of Flax |it is, the analyses ae petas sy the condition of 
passed $ through this mill in the course of the last | two piec d, one good, the other after 
; farmers o adjacent counties having in | inferior management; the present oonditin and 
contents of the soils te not therefore the causes of 
the success or failure of the = of tillage 
employe n them; but, con , the differ- 
ences in the tillage ‘ave pele e differences 
in the ee state of the two soi 
e think that in Mr. Law. ing up of 
8 or 9 inches of raw elay at one time in his trench- 
ing, his too scanty see s commencement of 
S i j 
- | the fee upon a bare fallow, and his withholding 
of the re = te uisite summer ings 
hoeings, there are suficient reasons for his ill- 
els per 
bus acre, bec 
Sarain dr — 
h 
cent. pir the latter 14-hun- 
rogen 
eathe compared 
with the character and capabilities of a judiciously 
xposed, well mellowed and aérated subsoil; but 
ited as testimom 
ue tant of the ex) 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
SESSION, a JUNE » E 
PRACTICAL y Pinem — Answers s 
selected. from the papers of bade ochin eritage, 
and Norman. 
Writea short Essay on tor which h the sy paying eror Bi p=- 
. The depth and frequency 
arallel D: 
3. Action of P. ri ad 
4. General cost, le Droge ye exposed mth 
the 
It is far better to have a general £ 
t princi les of drainage, than to follow implicitly 
ay Areva: mae stem, which it is folly to smppose@® 
bes ted to every case. 
Parallel s to all strong and ee 
cious soils, to many loamy so d indeed to at 
whose subsoil is not crt porous to whic, 
the proper escape those a 
light at the surface, at a sh ii 
tiff soils 
g ter . 
e drains may 
from 10 to 22 yards apart. cai poe 
uire as as fou ur drains ina chain of 22. ‘yates 
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