714 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Octovur 17, 1857. 
allotments, incite to active, clean, and liberal cul-; ance at a spot which has its own rain fall to to) and so fost „honig the animal þe 
tivation, and so result both directly and indirectly | receive in addition, and which therefore requires a sios cree: crease the ipecacuanha, clothe ith eongh 
in profit to the cultivators. On how extensive a| double number of drains yit dry. This is ‘nk 1 quiet; if on the other hand jaun ico and fa 
a the Tortworth show is held appears from the the additional supply of water that was kalinded to hett doug gi i si Bp t well to donis 
lowing figures :—In 1854 72 prizes prei gi from below ; a iadi 
A the 266 exhibitors of 750 ri f specimens; in| It has in places done so much mischief that the Morn ya on Pera to ap the foregring, a 
1855 73 prizes were srr to the 295 amper is removal of spring water was at one time the sole | Sr the ¥. will. be worthless Stephen Teale source, 
f 1019 specimens ; in 1856 76 prizes were pmet object of land drainage, hart the main topic of a} 7, ey, Koni, Oct. 1 onckton, Brena? 
the 311 exhibitors of 1126 specimens. The é rticles | paper on the subject, = Terps os Soins 
ncelu = 3 Potatoes, Parsnips, Sra ex ce gaye him great skill in ascertaining 
> CN bbages, Turn ips, Man nt Wurzels, a pre Shs of the land, and the position of ROYAL a EE Couto, 
pples, Plums, Pears, baskets of mixed vegetables, those impervious beds b _which the water is SESSIONAL EXAM 
sheaves of bag confined as in a basin (flowing over at the spring, P. E om cuca 
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and ornamental S on the other, rule was simply this—to find the position of the rots yep ies er give to stock of all kinds in 
e day of exhibition is looked forwards to by | main spring, and to make use of the auger to ta ap = big amd igs sell at be high = om a 
the whole beiei oe as a ge ay: and while it. The true as competed with the mn ne È — e) 
gathe eathe 
rs thr a, . ©? use the earliest, and Pog om Cheah _ 
it bears, its excellent effect as a social meeting of inthe former case, being occasioned by the e ‘pastures get bare. e grea root crops is to 
lasses of the com supply is give an opportunity for the rend cleaning of the 
spot, 2 among the many reasons which should true outletis fasnilisicnd for it, and in the latter, ir land during their g owth. Mangels like a heavy sil, 
country apean peer to follow an the water from the true spring, having soaked into! and produce 3 0 to 3 35 tons per acre in 
example which has n any instances the soil, re-appearing at some lower level, where whi ilst the Swede reaches this in moist situations 
proved in the highest lane goto of imitation. | some obstruction again rea it to the surface ; the | and in counties only from 15 to 20 tons; hence 
dij in all cases, of course, is to furnish a passage | Swedes ea more grown in the north and Mangels 
LAND DRAINAGE:—After having discussed in for the water ion the lowest lip of the i impervious |M in an - If you pae not pmen = rotted, 
some “detail those piee p iowa which affect the ~a which s it, 
depth of drains we have now to notice points affect d hires mide be large enough to receive Ki yria 
y cannot 
their tion—i. yy , the arrangement of the: | the « additions to the water in this asin, w without one—those root crops which require to be sow 
drains at varying intervals within the soil so as to Would find their exit there, and so it is hindered early, as Mangels and Carrots, will have the cleanest 
meet those variations in the quantit of water ew | from welling up through the soil all are aes large land ‘selected for them; if land was: foul, it would be 
cumula ere which have arise; ray’ Pa ing Surface whi ich, when undrained, beco urated | so with green round or white Swede, 
structure of the land, notwithstanding - sis” orm | byit to the entire naea of the Sos ot a down- Sowitie the Mangels on the heaviest land you get them 
supply of rain atar i Ano: Take eas ee | | wards from water through it = ed o si gy oe the wet weather, and apes = 
field and you often ct = it is not altogether | Siriene x ae ace Bo alee into ah aiian her, and go givets 
of uniform consistency to any somsidanattle "Tenth. | PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. sesh 8 uch keep at any one period, 
N Arie the „portion ated on by Say eh ona | Your Leader of the ‘8d inst. on Pleuro-Pneumonia i in replace a ping crop, as mii keep the longest, and als 
soil) is very different in its consistency Cattle 
subsoil, bu Isis a unifor m want of unifo Saag e a good ; Ke my recent observations of the} The uses ae, different kinds of root crops are 
Go ana and you will find the subsoil, which disease, made at the cost of five good bullocks, lead me | First, they afford excellent food for voc alee 
also must be drained onsistene . to conclude that even in this article popular error on | all other provender is scarce, and wi out roots we could 
Oye | í popu Pat : 
excep i 
nsils in roots w 
at w. mation of the t; moreover, in som d| Wurzel, = Sey > is the most fa 
perfect uniformity, it is is plain n that the absorbent fatal cases, the lung seems a lightly touched, the grows best on good rich pa but a 
aes Sy on tir we ce ee for insuring the percola- effusion of lymph and serum ifling in amount, and | light ders if well manured ; 
wards ought to be per- n of the saves s0 eent that] hardly a 
sev 
the The Carrot is a valuable root, ahiri parean 
fectly eqniidixtent- on the unequally constructed redna part of it will refuse to S in water, As in the | soil, deep and light, either sagen or peat, andif iin 
ee deteni ias (or the drains which re- majority of febrile diseases we are driven tpi =y that | at e with farmyard manure, must have it well 
present them) should be more uent where the an animal poison, or balanta germ agast has | and short. me 
water naturally tends, whe, alter a showe z. Been introduced from ys smo g Turnips are more grown than an any other roots, e 
less of it will be found. Of course as the object =a engenders tn the blood a quasi fermentive diobachans white varieties grow almost any where, bul am tee 
the result of perfect cultivation is S bring about a having for its object the decomposition or expu arjo of particularly adapted for rich 
Moe consistan cy to a greater depth than karta atio see and wes a fac sini Si ablished i in sma A since Be al the latter they 
; pathology that certain morbific germs, or disease-poisons, | sumed on the grou kandi at 
naturally exists, we ought not to accommodate our habitually seek their own iar arem channel Taik li e not so wal 1l adapted as the Swedes. 
shly to ture, or at all events plenty tend to associate with delights i ina ‘goal open soil and a moist 
he — ee of funct se onal disorder which mer pro- | renders it Aae am suited to epider j 
uce some specific local c Thus small onl One sort of root can: replace another 
sult we must not in practice put out of sight kindlesan acti stit itional f fever, aeri in be used 
the ainai to that uniformity which nature Eion matt lds to acute general | th 
; s. It is an extreme illustration of the illness inflammation of the throat; measles attack the 
g structur ! t 
so; respiratory memb; fe 
drainer ‘which is sionat by the capta ny ‘he le ladon wits he pan tie ae a oak 
pey aes =— ai “sled >y Aey “perience of error ror error against a would ae te as a aos, 
gy en ed ae amd gee Fo 
m again just now, as it ant be ay ak seme is a very — rs from the} sam 
al. . . 
“Tt is only tea to say that notwithstanding occasionally befals a bullock from transition of tempe- | er 
the strictures. it has. been eae, the rature, especially as I believe from cold to hot, as e oa 
varying sven wy the subsoil does require ` . D beast finds itself too abruptly trans- 
i y herbage 
, arrangem from the bleak moun an 
drains which would at first seem to be justified b a i aes lodge and fatting diet; for such an attack the | m 
the uniform abundance of the cel = edy would be bleedi i i 
and by the uniform luxuriance of 
desired. — — if this departure from saititest 
rating on every separate field. 
j 
is still piae need of acco mmodating our pr his scourge that he should, on discovering a stricken 
to these sources of irre irregularity when jent on animal, if it be at all diti 
the of any extent of armas oe ra in this make the p- poese mes per Jt forthwith, and s 
case these variations of structure Should circumstances induce him to attempt its cure, 
than the more immediate subso: subsoil) BE wo let it be ed at once, and, if the weather be wintry, | burn 
yeaa rons quantity of water — ` = ma Fen clad ; — the re = m= and accom- 
remo particular spots. e whole fes nyse e from 2 to 
_ theory of s depends upon these variations of to sof F blood, an d insert at the same time a large 
prings depends upon 8 
i on ie r structure of f the land. a h pes issue in a dewlap, aer Fras n “font of pontine a oe bject : 
é ; tion t not, after the absurd some ers, with | gran araar in growing 
a connection Pia be a string and needle, but with a carving knife pare the land for the corn erop, 
packing 
a and cotton peer eare oar gam ister eve ht, for 10 
do a reservoir of the water bol eia 
e upon the surface of the land pees rere ve eek g 
ne pt , calomel, an 
fener ema of | so that a root 
Berghe) cake 5 fhe day Saye hie 
hi poo ges ag. uid E 
