THE AGRICULTURAL GAZE 
: OCTOBER 24, 1857.] 
STEAM Te gs 
Te steam oi aream is now a 
me ural s 
_ At t the Long y Sutton Aane a last week 
was the su 
S, 
sen that = 
steam i in the most ee 1 manner, pe the 
hour. 
acre in one 
usiasm. 
Mr. Fowler, who was warmly greeted, said it 
attendant 
and the eprom is constantly in 
that t 
pron per hour; that it 
an pgp 
TTE. 
731 
Mr. Mawby said he had calculated that nearly 150,000 re- 
t at our 
of the 
plough | 
had 
ploughing done by, 
of one 
was Sank ae eat 
gav 
pe He had : always understood that a reservoirs 
aa very injurious, niet a a rsa f bad grai 
always wn Now farmers were alw ays 
carefal to select their fba, and hould it not gro 
all alike if it were ploughed alike Sor Greeti alike? 
oe the stea ig ugh they would have no re 
e men inst 
their ray a- eld, 3 would ride like gentlemen: 
+i 
IUCH tioning 
“After j 
ncluded by express ‘elle H 
iculture would be pe 
late meeting’ of Ft Vale hy. 
le in gt achinery w 
dise 
y Farmers’ 
or a effici ’ 
at we must ye 
armer’s caltivating implement driven “by 
Diret a aa at Acton, where the S. W. 
Mid dieser "Society h their annual ploughing match 
and show, Boydell’s Tractio m Engine rawing Fowler’s 
ere ci ork of ploughs ro a 
he principal attractions. 
is v 
eeded, and 
Leon a on 0 
ete ve 
g his 
uld come v sn all re hief f opérations | So 
b; 
small we are to suppose that very Tittle 
I am in some jager whether so con- 
subsoil Smii 
n it admits of question whether the 
e 
no 
und that even in the most worn lan 
an an inch o or r two of fresh stuff had pa paeten over the 
urfae st two years, 
with the d deep pal for som aie but we have no 
of this, and we wna ascertain 
eq 
depth o bro per 
thi » done nearer the rows Hage Mr. 
daa: T Pow it would be ill done 
ascribe 
Smi 
the roots, 
ailure 
r fille rcely ripened. 
| Smith directs the “first Pking soul approach w within 
Ar ches rimira rows, the su orki eceding 
him great mee to me to respond to the toast inst | aoe Correspondence rom the rows to the haea oF. ¢ 9 inche thus t e con- 
given. He believed was the first time na Lois- Weed sE re seem me many have under- clu reer haath only be 18 in ide in the centres 
a toast bee n pr ‘iin at any agricultura taken a Lo e rn culture without due atten- | of the To promote the pie of the 1 
meeting. “Success to Ploughing” had often bean | tion to its eantseal vaai an with but little regard | crop both ate een the row n the outsides of them 
proposed ; “ Succes: ture” 3 ac on to the principles upon which it is based, nay, som metimes | that have not been stirred by “the interval worki 
: toast. : But “Success A Steam Cultivation” was a overlooking th ltogether; hence failure and unsatis- | | the oon should be broken and kept clean of wi 
recognition the principle of s cultivation. | factory result nder these circumstances may J. M. G i 
It gave him additional leasure to respond to the pear be — ted to ri ap in it, and the more | hin late Ripening, and Rust.—A capital 
_ toast, because he felt that it was ie any mea: S s infe e degree ith’s good opinio xt to me Tete one from which the Aas tribe of 
a vagal e = had done this grent P he , con wider- jin way in which I “take it. In the first — ab = rrigible thin seeders may derive a vast amount of 
W. sO 
dian E t 
om many conn oath der aval but ‘he | EXI to it; 
r 
self—Mr. 
€ 
= 
TOSS- 
in his o 
$ e ir ae ar each 
way, to solve this great problem. at its solution et 
close at hand he had no hesitation in saying was his 
belief, The one z = day’s 
l the same as to take 
A best principle a ed it on vt first day i it left the nre the 
_ shop to bee 
ener, retty ea 
w engine of th 
a w ould be sure to be late at its destination. | — 
So it had been wit with the 2 steam plough that day. 
h 
in thanking the 
in which they had 
per acre. 
best po of 
noticed on land 
it by sheen, we choad grow 
: Wm. "Moen followed, stating that in aea 
, he steam culti 
if it was not to be done without that it was use 
En seal hoki ier a prize of ecessary 
igh shoes, Remar on the | depend on the 
The gs 
re- 
esita- 
o; 
en eae 12 months that 
hest 
highest 
diteri between the use of of co 
as it 
company for the very 
received this toast. 
A be expos 
m jand t 
ing on land wi 
cee He tho 
ploughman had 
lal 
t the Royal 
E fe ch toast wi Boydell, Messrs. Cross- alter the “texture o 
: kill, and ar daran raes or four of penan were all pjer- | Whea 
ent, | the 
- Smith says, 
out and 
Mr. growth that they carry on 
their being. 
t 
d. crop, 
prems upon. it kely as 
eedings by 
t, he adits, and ra 
[tarsa necessar oose on the Tie a 
bento on nn under ordinary culture a man wou 
ext thing is to bear in mind that 
To the vib n the 
y toc 
oes 
i the a h ey 
be that amount it it is dere grates 
e first and deepest 
sur rfac as “ge pro 
josie and enable the soil to 
all or ime | ome from the s 
come re the tillage of the crop, ni here as in all thin | 
is indispensable, and in nothing | 
in Wheat, as Tt is Brent poe rd 
=a eager 
ve ev 
“er tilleved Wheat he sca age 
name. 
os 
ree depth 
brought up may 
actions of frosts 
m 
forking i rvals to 
winter Ara in, oe the ri matte’ 
evere disintegrati be ie 
sif 
I have leer ‘that a very superficial stirring of the 
as he appearance of ae plants aragi 
luxuriance of 
sth and rapidity a 
pissi pe 
At this time ed senket 
p? 4 
I 
relative 
sia if res al will but incline their ears to hear instruc- 
and pe wise five more redolent 
‘truth 
see 
ware: bo peg wei 
a full 
take the crops of any given district, 
e proportions attacked wy, pase si ee there al 
| all form r to 
| corre rer ir t “F, i ” why ai wR: gW and apparen 
— healthy a sown. em should be more liable to 
maple, e, than the Wa inde and appa 
st plants? indeed ! 
ers 10 per acre, 
time of piriy it most probably will do, 
intention to enter upon a a ag page en 
piem of v. broadcast. 
"T, L” incidentally ins i edge Iw 
should si 
Hbave 
the seed is exhausted, and in 
suffers ; the stimulant afforded b by the he breaking n ae of of the | 0 
wigs! 
it ever 
TE is only 
sed tor ob- 
lord ir feeding is matter 
veient The roots of the plants may, 
erive nourishment 
Still it 
-E 
that | 
ood; how 
n 
tters found in 
aat ty hick 
as the quantity of inorganic ma plants | 
supposes, 
uxuriate in ‘the bro apna po eryk I oe c 
ead. as - 
clui raising to the su a small qu 
soil that has ega seen the light of day, with a view of | one, 
ning fresh m f much of 
of abn is priame > sO ne 
inadequate to the work to 
veal be next impossible to get thro he Wheat — 
wing i asonable time; but oar upon it that 
wherever precieable the dibble stands Al : 
“F.L 
. . i 
5p 10 pecks 
a e od proia good and strong, a plani aa 10 posia 
