OCTOBER 10, 1857.] THE AGRICULTURAL SSS ETIE 699 
aes retains them. The roots of the a are enabled | meadows, especially those on which a coat of mould had adjoming, which two years ago was of Carnat 
and deeper in search for nutriment, and in | been carted, and perhaps unequ ally spread, by aibb bbling “an Rus ma not ‘with Se 2s 6d. per icki? this Pareinar’ 
iy p weather | the land is kept moister, jian ira ‘the baking of | in Tares or Vetches. He even extended the practice to pared, and burned, and lightly limed, and sowed with 
the soil prevented. old worn-out pastures and Clover that had become | Red Lammas Wheat an excellent and clean crop. 
are sive tages which me there os drainage are spotty, and had partially failed, as Clover cro > 
; : let > ps occa-|I have now on the same field Swedes, M 
due to both aie nical and mec al causes. Chemical, ponaliy will. The plan attracted notice at the time, | Potatoes, as fine as tres dite iii Tt run 
inasmuch as the S i is admitted to the soil, and nsomuch that it began to be ise by the name of | of s > hink > 
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drained soils causes Hea eon which chills | say such and such a field wants saltering. I don’t | the nature of the soil and the acreage, Sutton will 
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ges are seen in the lightened draft; |a model of neatness in farming. By no means; atlis a fine sort, not th Silesian, 7 
orses aki as “gen as four did before. It is| best it had a scrubby a aan but at all | Dyn 9 Gioent. [Sutton supplies iea it. 04 for old 
frequently stated that drains draw water from the | events it was better to cover the blanks in the surface pastures; the Clover field, No. 4, I Atm with such in 
surface; this, however, is pret a mistake. The first | with Tares than to leave them bare and u ae April last.] ' 
thing that t takes s ce is the water running out of the Now, can this patching system be Mat aapar tom re : D 
cells of the clay in wa drain ; the successful action of | case of our frien ~ “ Dentatus”? I write in utter i Socicties 
drainage in irag i y depending upon the formation | of the present state of his fields, or to oe lea t the | ? 
of horizontal fissures betwen the drains through which | late rains may have promoted the germination of his Royat Bucoxs.—At this sana eeting Mr. Smith of Wool- 
the water flows Past page 650, col. e. small seeds. Drought we know often suspends, but does ston described what he helt done with his steam plough 
The e cost of dra e depends on the frequency of the | not alwa: ys destroy, vegetation; and I for one shall be since harvest. Being determined to make the best of 
drains, the eattire-of ofi materials, and the og of gA hap poy to hear that this is his own case, and, how- | the fine weather, he sent his engine and two additional 
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stones or gravel from ls. to 1s. 4d. The ever so minute the plants, even a end average of s 
price of tiles varies considerably. The return is always | of September. But be this as it may, it is not we eiibws éa EE eee: UE the» work 
greatest on that land which was originally the most too late to dibble in the Tares, which, if the true | Eight men, at 3s, 6d. a day . £9 
fit to eut in One boy, at 1s 6d. 12 day Lianne, EEIN 
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portion of his mage of cropping. Clover Mr. Smith, to produce the flr amount of work in the 
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inch bore; 18s. for 2 in 5 
for 3} inch, and 50s. for 4 inch, and 60s. for 6 inch. On | white, or Trefoil and Rye-grass, by which Clover purchased a set of implements from him, and, according 
an average it perhaps S napete about 52. an = to drain | recurs only once in eight years, still, with many, to a letter from Baron Rothschild’s steward, which he 
4 feet deep on moderately st rong land. It i ae to | this is hardly considered a sufficient change, The read, his lordship was rena 10 to 12 acres a day in 
h es — te style, and self so 
merease the corn crops one-fourth and Sl rops parties are are rate sty. ! haiam 
rather more, and may be considered to r return. 20 per | forbidden. en, shall be the change ? ap 0 th ge Monday aat He 
cent on the outlay. frequently thash that Tares might tageously supply 
Water does not find its way a at an angle, introduced as a cropinto the rotation, either to beeaten off farther wud that after his his (ie Smit) plough pl 
but soaks straight down and gets in from horizontal | by sheep, by mowing for soi iling purposes, or by making cae age lent the 
fissures; in heavy land it ‘ake; a time ton th ike to into hay. ‘Perhaps the last is rather questionable, Goding. Whiting wore it ni es TAN in atid: 
$0 that drains on clay soils should not be ex | inasmuch as bei ng very suctlont wien ent they rau set ot tea Wines its use, and 
to run freely before the first summer is over. On light 5o much time in the field—groundage we call it—as He had 6} acres to aia at na 
land the water flows as soon as the cut is made. e | greatly to increase the risk of Coarer tnt to hay; but and the a got through ren wo of at halfepast 6, 
return you get for draining depends on the damage | with good weather I do not see why Vetch hay should and the next morning was in their ploughing field for 
done to the land by the water; a farmer may generally not be made as well, though not perhaps as got as hibition, ¥ where in five hours and 50 minutes it 
drain ona 14 years’ lease, though it is better for land- | Lucerne or Sainfoin. The grand thing is is to guard sidagiad 54 acres, and showed splendid A= As to 
lords to do sige work and a = tenant a reasonable | against overheating. There is no fear of its ak heating the rotatory things he would challenge the roundabouts 
In many cases t outlay will pay 20 per | enough. Samuel Taylor, aoe | for a thousand pounds. = Smith directed some 
cent. in the in increased corn mae ey without calculat- | Conveyance of Water.—You published lately in the tions to the difficulty o; f providing economical harvest 
ing thei improvement to the root and fodder er crops. Agricultural Gazette a paper by Mr. Chadwick, giving carts, and then to the practicability of clearing foul land 
iliac taal tac an interesting a ption successful experiment with his steam cultivator. He stated that a field of his 
SL RIEe Toe ar Camper made ar France t o convey ape as to a distance, by made foul by the turn-over plo To had 
Home Co orresponde means of a posh formed in cement, a canvass hose being perfectly cleaned by the pulverising system, and that he 
Thin Seeding, Late Ripening, and Rust “eat the used as the core, s should be very glad to learn if any had grown during the time of cleansing the four best 
dice uni l our columns on the subject of | of your readers n communicate er facts as ~ lay- | crops he ever grew in the field. 
seeding, few, if any, have said much of its conse- ing down a erori pipe for conveyance sd water. I wish | 
quent late Tipening. In the south and east of England to supply water to a farm hom er from a a of) STAFFORDSHIRE.—Steam Cultwre—At. the annual 
bare or so more or less may be of little importance, 600 yards, crossing a valley 60 feet deep. I imagine meeting of this Society Lord Ha ke as 
poet se in the south-west a system must have strong that this can be done at sma small expense: by laying common follows :—“It was now quite clear that one of the diffi- 
kins indeed to counterbalance the evils of a late | tis eee in Roman cement. ies with 
feet time. I have seen this summer the cutting This not cost i , 
some 35 acres of thin-sown Wheat, and the result socket pipes. ‘For the lower part of the valley, where | domestic OD taken th 
thine has been by no means favourable. Up to the the dip is the greatest, T should use about 100 yards of inquire at a registration office in Birmingham whether 
of coming into blossom wen crop looked very | cast-iron pipe; and at the lowest point I should fix mG ioe Di any servants in want of situations, and the 
rust to fix on it, and when | small well, to to take the sedi mer st a water | ei 
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apart in the rows—the seeds put | skilful dealing with “thal most abundant and valnable | cies. He had, together with his able agent Mr. ] ; 
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