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‘The following Such is Mr. tg oe gh sano he of his cates 
OCTOBER 17, 1857.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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groan may replace each other, according to the season 
which the land is ready for cropping. 
pae ees HUSBANDRY. 
WE ral numbers of o 
in some detail the research of Mr. Lawes into the 
of the Lois-Weedon experience and the reasons of his 
em following from the pen of the Rev. S. Smith, and 
from the eaae number of tlie English Agri- 
cultural Society’s Journal, goes even more fully into 
the subject. We toro more than once of late received 
ur Paper reviewed ir 
causes 
Wheat, an an 
be a sAn answer. 
his uniform succe 
1. The land at ei devoted mejia eat is Wheat — 
being Wheat land naturally, the other being m: 
ling, The rit do eral fi food fi for the Wheat plant is ‘thus 
the following extracts from his] paper - will 
He first states the causes of |? 
1 food might not beina 
assi Pnilation without exposure to the sol- 
vents of e Aer ag a portion of the subsoil, as it is 
ay leggy ought to the surface iS Avo a IREE aap sum- 
from the same acre of sry ro crop is grown 
expat Wh of foes rows of Wheat iow. pel two, as the case an 
demand), a foot from row to 
running between each triple or ng Sage row a Base of one 
year's — being the sgh for the n alter- 
nately from year to yea fallow paren is “limited, to 
3 feet; because, with ene, the oe of the produce of Wheat 
wl be greatly diminished ; uld not be worked, 
4. The bringing up of the 5 abeolt a the in , however, 
is not enough ; thie. rere of the system are—that. this 
subsoil be literally pulverised—actually broken to 
pes seal go brought at to dust, and then mixed with the 
peal ar Fo le. 
hont which itd 
a6 
P. 
A few moments’ consideration ‚will show at the 
w interval of 3 feet B 
grea pete the 1 prineiple wo om 
c su ces are 
to the porous soil either for future use or to 
ew up a once by the unco; sonang rootlets of the growing 
rousand upt kaar fer the 
il, forif 
pyre surface become crusted 
res of the dropping atmosphere fall o 
indeed, ages paly to be qui p 
it, 
exhaled again, while ia air, 
jor — and untold influences for good, passes over 
rovision of this substance within 
the sol. r a L Tare pds that. over- feeding the plant with 
us food is positively injurious. ving 
givens of. “ae Wheat crop for 1966, whe was the 
meian eeina ees OANE 
ear’s crop, as a 
it in min The oo 
was ad 
ese over-luxnriance and 
ges analyses of his for ar Sigel 
‘here the premises of an 
fa fe ton, where. Mr. angsty has given | o no conel ernoluslons, howev cg araram have the slightest interest | 
oa 
I to disencumber the question of e everything in 
istak Lamig hat aly panne vb id hore: a ya maa the wa; a clear erra” 4 of we real point at issue. 
food, his Wheat The qualita voluntee: Mr. ‘Lawes is—Can the Lois. 
abundance 
‘after year for want 
and valued the 
ent, prof ux bad acved in opg 
minor detail, it might have been overlooked. But, 
to say, that in essential point the con- 
i pen Erda Beeyan ia eh to vitiate 
Se ae 
Wo me the fret edited 
could not 
aaa Usp ow 
b- | fied ; 
its | amount includes 
and also the ninth edition, Teee in 1852, containing the 
directions before p ublished Mr. Lawes having entered 
n 1851 2 will for his first crop aie only 
to sam edition of 1849 for the rales aoe laid down for pulveris- 
ing the soil. pees ribing t g of the inte rvals for eA 
fifth crop of Wheat, I s 
ep; and sh 
winter fallow over, I giv e m 
which moves, w. me out dam 
follow up that w 
crustates, and as ‘eek as og! 
These were the means i 
very beginning. Di r. Lawes, i 
system, scrupulous usly carry ‘them o ut? 
The winter fallow over, he gives the spring heap with ne 
fork; and after me foes long as the gro Lo es ap would perm 
what followed ? araen A op the eth i hoe, and =) 
rse-hoeing ee AE of evading the 
rule and defeating ijare pear for, “i "the expense of even one 
d-hoeing to Er the work ill, he could ha 
tanes and done it well, Or, if I have misunderstood Mr. Lawes, 
and the two mf ld hoeings were oy for the Wheat peat and 
mest = ioe intervals, the case against him is stronge ; for 
py ae an occasional spuđding is to be hon Ao cea my doep 
aii the surface in and as 
wing © will eth 
here are rainy Pict ‘however, of defeating a rule. By col 
sper is it, and by going beyond it. ‘It is certain,” says Mr 
e persed amount of labour expended upon the 
m the Lois-Weedon one, was quite 
ree. amount of staple, ne of Spiane o 
atmospheric influences.” I have wn how 
t of it rba kot ot tilling wis 
lan Aire d mine, or expending upon it the same 
amoun: ton of pt I have only one wang more to do, and that 
is to rad how fatally he erred by going beyond the rule and 
defeating it thus, 
il as 
inefficient to get Td 
urfac 
ak 
again, as for Birley.” This thoroughly pulverises Pd 3 inch 
sopla. In the second week in Septe is in, and 
onth is np, Then, when the ane, of “Wheat are well 
marked comes the digging “a the eter With Tarp to 
m wW 
urning point of 
ave horse-hoed six | & 
ming | nU 
in this. condition, I will only add, in conclusion, 1 that I do = 
believe there is a farmer in En ore ag 1ainted with h 
business, hg At mn, not share my 
were sọ bad, at 
Vicarage, Say. 1857 
a | ON THE EXAMINATION OF THE TEETH OF 
CATTLE AT etry ne: Same etry EXHIBITION: a 
{| By GEORGE T. Brown, Professo’ Ore nary Surgery at 
Royal peara e n College. 
i g eig hpr mouth of the ox 
importance justifying 
The atn exhibited 
some notice as equally affording room 
arah ent. 
In the case of the sheep it often happens that the 
age is not TOT gpn in "3 vey classes, the 
ressions “two teeth T 
being considered hrai menning ‘that seth animals 
rien ited s no e perm 
eth than | the number sta 
o Tith such a system of classificatio 
nno positive diffi- 
culty ry exist in the the 
o 
mind of the examiner 
prem ve the pre vaili 
preg: osis that those pairs o 
onè 
we beco: 
be ser at “atl exhibitions to the we. system 
of ahred as the other anima 
À h 
present 
m iann he oer ee from the bri ust | This 
a as au ares ao tote c and al Ae 
Eees: the published rule in 1851 was 
italics, that “To bring up ous; this warning boing added the 
f such as that at a! 
B 
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rte oe fixed oo for 
is-Weedon, the n farmer having 
understand that t was nothing 
mber 4; butt thatita depth of 3 inches, 
paneda na stiff ‘soll, w h er r come down 
to dust than 4, he would confine to thas, be no 
for he would recollect that fhe he petit: up only 2 inches 
Hoel ag still, from the moiety of his acre, get 100 tons of 
In diggin intervals of clay land then at the outset, I 
cast that ip 5 pike: of well pulverised tin to the mt ts and 
po pi the top the 4 inches of tenaci 
iets apart 
oo wt i spit, ae gee being fresh roa Wi for the fork. 
For this first operatio nse as the 
charge increases for the eros land and for ony: gradually 
inereasing but partly pulverised depth, I og Ha average 
yment, after a series of years, when sarisi a me 
broken and I go back again for 
depth of a single epit, A be 1l. 10s. or w Tas. hich prd 
e throwing out of the sto es and the weeds. 
pe EE Y 
Did Mr. I 
er | the rule by going mán it? Let him pony il himself. “The | 
provani intervals which were not sown [were] trenched 14 to 15 
nehes in December, 1851, forked in spring and vs ore | 
the very ptt (that is, in prepara 
tion for the second year’ 8 serop); ni all through the’ l; during | 
which there were only three 
ag e 1 minor errors of execution sink ini 
of all args f of soil, there is oe 
which the Wheat t plant pal Armsan e e sickens almost to death 
as this d tion of mr eee a e c 
n 
f 
f pa aer iee pe ada taad hy aoe 
abe ps Sagarni of one-sixth of the uce; or why, 
ce is quoted, since the licence given is wholly 
i 
asan ge Now will: 1: dwell Poor 
roller after sowing and i H 
the sowing twice out of 
which time, according to the 
for exceptional — 
ercrop.” Nor need I, lam 
by, without notice, the i 
laboratory ; 
Weedon plan of growing Wheat Vordi out with success a 
Rethamsted? And his answer, after a trial of four > a, 
that with the same amount of labour and the same 
means as those 
h pay a o 
duality blighted and been fulfilled, the beee sowing, at a 
us cla to- | molar 
inches Me dig, either at aot very ry aualow ow spits, or at 
months 
pair also, though t 
d| and 6 media by which time the three an 
ted | perm: 
ake 
om: to:therule, | 2? 
of 3, to the 
old 
The dentition of the sheep ma: 
e lamb of a moni d has 
par of broad teeth 
hese pod ia i 2 years 
or tempo- 
At s thise years. 
in the mouth, and 
ig.—The restrictions in the case of this an 
do pot extend beyond two years, before which ine 
rmanent dentition is completed. 
-| I have found during b, investigations a case or two 
e foun 
_of startling sepion tiy) in reference ia prt ot of 
the | the evi no scruple in asserting that 
or permanent. 
teeth are usually in 
is cut, and is well u 6 months, the four 
e tim sty ibn At 9 months 
ae nite of e ee 
Peed chance of 
attempted imposition 
Pe a horse it will not be necessary to remark, 
Sanaa ia Wn h Yaa Kid: baias eect 
| is “ae and admitted. 
“| page of what would otherwise 
