748 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Ocroper 31, 1857, 
ntilation pass. asee the explanation, he fancied that if his lordship | ‘the more the crop of corn.—-Mr: Blood aaa Ge 
ea loge — earth. Let the freest ven p2 ould te ri field very year with Wheat, it wo ould | field of Wheat of Sieros belonging to me there Was a 
Evening Reading-room. oe a neighbouring | produce almost what it had done, without the expense | ” ich — was prt , and the master of the hounds 
smail town has been obliged t ve p their reading- | of forking. He had thought, from Mr. Smith’s state observed he a field so cut u ; 
room sea is regularly Bead thoagh only in a very | ment, that they were to have 5 quarters an acre; but td korere like Pes Gan “the ralk, —Mr. Pattison said the 
small village, because no payment is required. We use| it was something like Mr. Blood’s atenh ¢ who once | result had been that the crop was a very good one, 
the infant school-room, and keep it open from six till | cam e there and said h he had 7 bushels of Potatoes off a sod he found n Wk Shs slightest damage. He should be glad 
half-past nine in the evening. The room is warm from of pate but then it came out that they were ina single to see the heat ters on any field of his in future Mp 
previous use, combined with the present fire; whereas row, oe be s ha plenty of air. His lordship’s crop was a Wm. Hutley said the horses never did any hurt. 
such p g fi m cold. Somerset. iy it dvantageous as r thought 
County Cavan—P tatoes.—Still our report in this Was, Sa Rayleigh : Ny hose will tell you I can- Rebiews, 
neighbourhood is favourable to the Potatoes; the = ro aa a at Atas piara K in “hat way, 
isez is noways alarming, not more than | —M u ou ey on in that way y ‘i 
oe sue aie varyin vig scarcely a tenth toa|starve the public by te a half the Te iy Be on Cl ge hie Ta Storing. hey as hoe other Roots. 
fourth, and the latter but rar ely. The crop is not,| Lord Rayleigh: That is — Sg stion.—Mr. Fos yi T. P Dalle a: Paige a i ee ; Bewd. 
however r, a full one, the rain prevailing so late in the| said he tho ught it was better to lay money out for y» and all Booksellers, | 
spring ied much pinio to be effected when th d grow. a full Ere n the Lois-Weedon | This little tract has been written by a correspondent | 
ground was in preni wet a state, and this has told against plate: cn country would be itar ted, and could not go | of the Agricultural Gazette in consequence of a corres. 
the crop in heavy undrained land. The very dry A few years ago w made an obs year ire on | pondence and discussion in our columns in which he took 
summer has ite perhaps tended to lessen the crop on woodland and stated h e shoot lose 512. b wood- | a part. it is inscribed to the members of the London 
the ognon soils. Adi a G. land on his farm in 21 years. In 1850 he also ppsa | Farmers’ Club, and well deserves their perusal, and that 
afani a whole- |a nites nage his lordship on ‘the subject containing the | of farmers prere: The following gives the point on 
some knd of svete ea I ventured some | follow which he chiefly insists : 
time back to buy f Casella’s barbarite for e w maral} call your lordship’s — to the great — eg as prompted to become y author i in this 
d as it is Peai to support and recommend |1 1 y unp case ving, g of the 
any one who offers to the public a tot thing at a cheap woodland, Slane naka eih ais ara, ‘nm ny e case I iaca Gazette, 1857 (combined with the probability of my 
rate, I must report through your columns ‘that I have without daeng compound interest (as I will endeavour to lucubration not being allowed to appear, save in dis. 
fairly tried Casella’s barometers, costing 11s. 6d., ae your mpraet as well as doneo in 1 loss from roots and | guise, in the agricultural press of the present time), ‘I | 
i hading the adjoining ls ee eed not touch on the abe ie of stor ring Mangels, for 
costi i A me that seems ey y general consent in fitvour of pies 
is as rapid and accurate in its indications as either of the ment, which I am sure will tell with ae lordship, is the mps, similar to those of Potatoes, which have a 
more expensive instruments, and it is also particularly Bae of aon eats Teh covering of straw or stubble ; but the sheet-anchor 
neat in appearance. Mr. Casella’s endeavour to suppl Los the term of 20 years. against frost is a few m i: coe A map shy 
poan with a cheap and good barometer should be | Dr.—14 years Apu tithes, rates, dest property tax, ; with the spade. Now 
rtyn Roberts; Pendarren, Crickhowell. at 4 - £28 0 0 clapped d etiim the spade ooti fatal ‘tele rats pi 
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having read the pamphlet on the ayaa sddegtnd by 6 years’ interest upon 301. 12s. (the loss at end 
Mr. Smith, m aio he thought this a good of first 14 years) 
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field to try i on this syste 5 6|of application by the hoe (to a much r ext 
to have it Sorted ges cultivated without any manure | cy,—Value of underwood, 6 years’ growth ..  .. 210 0|than is generally practised it is too often entirely 
at all, on the plan of Mr. Smith. The whole field in raadi a elie aA pE a or the harrows passed om eee 
1852 was bigs which went with the other crops, and oss at end of 20 years at 5 per cent. inte 9 | instead of a EA Toa. and -frequently the Lurmips 
he could not tell the produce per acre. In 1853 he sil 16s. "0d, but greater if upon. Salk „payments ihe "which are left to ‘ shift for themselves,’ not for want of gt 
began Mr. Sm iy s plan ; he forked half of it, which was | is us ot ledge, but from the force of circumstances), follows tl 
Wheat abio, and there had been no summer fallow His lordship gave him leave to stub it, which he had | roots to the clamps, where its influence may be en- 
for the sun to play on; Se was not, therefore, surprised | since pas and it had yielded immensel and- page by the skill of the operator, either for good 
that the produce was only 2} quarters. They would lord take a bad piece of wood land, value k a the | or e ‘coal Ce 
find how it increased when the atmosphere acted on the | timber down, and put the money ze the funds at 3 per P What I stated at page 12 in the Agricult fation and 
maiden earth. The result was as follows:— cent., then put a little more on the tenant, who would | zette of the eee ya vith reference e to ; 
Ge posa: readily pay it, and it would be for the advantage of all | c onductio eat r dive: è 
ae produce porres nos itis lee woods cut down after 14 years would often bist I hers quote, by way of illustrating the 
Sold Oct. 1854, at 141. the toad. ` Pp > lamps are ‘W 
1855. = er half produe Peay not pay 52. per acre, Another observation that struck pen of he: Lee goog a c might 
Sept. 21, for 19. os 5a. him was this—he fatt ted a number of hogs, and after | down’ and visited by that degre 
ome Bold pe a Tori ise, 8d, Dee hans. Dia et pee of to-day, the aes in the |‘ AN solid bodies are better conductors of 
- “1857. The. & 6s yard was flooded, t ess was washed out, and he | when the same materials I 1 ch 
Sold Se ts for 10h, Ys. 3d. did not think that en loads of it was worth what one|the more slightly the particles tou 
If they ‘eat the at bec 
SEY cain Di Mio. TORR oan ' e7 ls. 11g, | made under a covered homestall would be. He thought |the worse conductors they 
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Divided by 4 it kn per . £16 17s. 104. | dung made in them was of much more value. Then as | ona cloudless day in summer, that a Turmp p 
That field had been peye wilieoed ma janure, with no | to drainage into tanks it did not answer his purpose— | if not burnt to death, soon be Pit sic ae af 
cattle on it; and instead of diminishing in ne it | farmers, he thought, did not find it answer, for he had |the sun’s rays impinge upon a thi 
had 5} quarters, though under the old Kaini t used his for 4 or 5 years, though it cost him a When thesun goes down eiae eles S bh a the $ 
2} quarters. But then came the old story, that it Į considerable snm.—Mr. J. Hutley said on 18 acres of |solid, clayey soil streams o off 
was an old “aera as Mr. Hatley I had amanen: but in the | wood land he had 112 quarters of Wheat the first time | facility as it received it: 
memory of ace t bee though it | it was cultivated; he had now planted it again with a | nothing to prevent the streams of toms bef 
looked as if it it had een iat Smith Veuve “ & The health dressing of guano, &c., and he thought it would answer Now, let this path be kn ocked rs a 
of Mr. Blood,” whieh was drunk with chee: well.—Mr. Speakman said when the Mildmay estates | rises, and a wonderful change will have 
+ ong ap aa ae this th a pre paie s they should pro- | were sold from Moulsham Hall, there was a 5-acre field its conducting powers ; it "r neither 
a s agricultural me $ e was n ' i 
os mab dn ndeed he might say he had ceased ta have kao he bought, and it e an awfully b ok s 
history, and Tarnips were se! ch algar rows that there | he pipe-drained it, mended it with town muck, and he through their interstices, which i 
no pleasure walking or The agriculturists | had a first rate piece of Turnips. After the Turnips it | And here is a proof worked ou 
ee only to thi ee _ Te ‘could ag ny _— ‘of the was seeds, so that he had two crops off it; then came | culture of the surface of the ground 
i ra Boe A ro, hon e errors oO a | Wheat, a useful piece, then Wheat again and eat | ment.’ These, what I shall call the mec 
= +o get as much as eae eat ‘of ihe ground, not caring’ one oie He Whea it four times and never grew less |in the soil, filled with air, w 
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Ne Wi as r. SMI a fan 
heat convi nik tk eare Ai happens, it should grow a great deal more. He had pulverised surface is a ore 
ground, a shee gmt ng should think parani Naai Sealy | it with town = du T 4 ie = ticles of earth soon disso lve, and the Ae 
= in wishing him and 2 cwt. of guano, and he meant to put it in | the better for this occasion, tae 
Mr. r. Joseph seph Hatley being e called on for a statement as Rivets He was sure rs weak: pay if rye tise it it were. After this sealing, Geert 
toa of Wheat he was raising, said he selected | well. This being his own land he had taken some | the air in the soil sr a i 
f l o as muc is land as you do to |ent 
Wheat. —Mr. Foster, on being called upon by the Presi- | your own, he will let you take the same liberty with his. of eondaction 
dent, said he was sorry to state he had no experiments| The President Gare “The health of Mr. John Hutley,”| “ There are ile which go nder i 
the results of which he could lay before them. Formerly |and asked him what he had to say as to draining in |as ‘brashy,’ ‘ clayey rotch,’ ‘rotchy ¢ ys 
he, like Mr. Hutley, made experiments in Wheat growing | Dengie Hundred.—Mr. J. Hutley said he had drained | defy the cunning of the farmer, as in 
from a single ear, wh a ari well | frost ‘kicks out” Bony 
Lord Rayleigh called “ Foster’s pup.” He continued to | indeed when they could get a draft, but in most of their | water enters this kind of surface | me 
cultivate this Wheat till it ont-grow hi him. It was now fields vas could “ast get ditches deep enough to take the | stones which are in it, and wea per i 
goei largely in Devonshire; and i answered well on | water away. He had ee most of the charity lands, | the air, till the whole cultivat a 
_ some lands about here, but with Peo at last it lost in | which his lordship knew, and found it answered very | mass of water, stones, clayey loam, 
e gave it up. Mr. Hutley had an well. He had gone 24 peen and piped it. I think if|late sown Wheat; let a severe 
ernels he had found in an ear; with | you went deeper you would not get the water to draw | state, and, from the great 
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Wheat—it was not an un- po drains.—Lord Rayleigh: What do you think of soil, the expansion is 8° 
a to 08 kernels in an ear—he had | rolling the heavy land in Dengie Hundred ?—Mr. loosened, and the future crop Sp 
a handful that averaged 108, and one with 111 ; but Hutley : It will not do at all! I was for rolling, and | better remedy for these oon 
never seen it in any other Wheat except aah | my man said ann ust not; I said yea shall; we rolled | ploughed, than that of early at 
working of the 2 acres of land referred to a part and left a part, a and there were iwo or three {that the surface e may oa pare" 
p he hought hie lordship | quarters of Oats difference an acre. I can only say 1 before winter sets in, ani Teast 
ed this, but, having | find the more stock I keep and. the more muck I make | down so that it may 
