becomes 
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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
o that without these 
It define 
education as including not merely nor even chiefly | o 
storing the memory with information, but rather 
training the whole man in Christian a and 
good habits, The ee of a class educa- 
i a failur 
at m 
n A ral distriots, S, 
owing to the early age at which children n were 
n, 
n 
r. JAMES’ 
ental authority and 
men niy erren a 
SA E of perei 
s both ctive 
ie tig Pom at nae 
able to assist their parents. 
, our soldiers, courageous and 
enduring in the battle-field, have proved use- 
e betes pe that 
from those of sae susronading field, as though the 
more clearly to show the fact \ on ‘contending. sa 
The farmyard i is ramik a 
sent to the muck pay in "that fetuse 
oiii ng whichis on thrown out under the 
fowls will eat these useless seeds, 
and ee e pye is true that they do in reality destroy 
one half are ~~ up by them, and 
an — becomes 
p 
© 
Bi hag 
from 
B 
dave hi 
The following case 
arvensis, : vopi being the P Mustard 
which was too plentiful in the . The 
seed of this Flax wa Sas in another 
fterwar 
part of the farm, thus introducing the Black Mustard 
pak 
arious ways its weeds got ti 
manure heap which was tejd E a field of Beans 
a bir i they v were seen large stripin the 
of Black Ma Mastard; and this is now the general Char- 
rvensis—a ‘circumstance which 
a -eier api is ar 
think partly accounted for by the greater fecun- 
e 
Tity of the former, when onana with the latter, | “” 
of w l 
| NOVEMBER 7, 1857. 
out these weeds ig ; the 
in adjoining and in ne I ae ego trouble bot both 
it 
Parliament making weeding com co 
: $ ; ee p in such 
situations, yet it has remained f = AA 5 
Melbourne ‘compan 
ke a state l 
i AP Pe eradication of Thistles an under 
T the Baat wit 
it is no wonder 
minated, 
that is are on ect increase, 
royom nner CHELMSFORD. 
SINCE the tion of harvest everything as 
rait he we ea hai as been propitious to hs: iene: 
autumnal fallowing has proceeded vigorously, and with 
rat ie be as can be mi accomplished in an 
ire s 
Sg 
All the | land or on this farm upon which Rye was bp 
acres—received two, 
bouring man is | our census eed marg vying us the follow- gE 
often driv he p and destruction by ing oala 0 ofi incre ts et . sation and as aniey: Mo ye 
the slovenl d reckless soit Atrocity of his wife | Sinapis arvensis, Chak, “4000 seeds toa =e between, Ae S guano or other 
at home. Besides home duties and handiness, and| , nigr lack Mustard 5 manures, and is now cropped with Turnips, Ca’ 
besides the reading, writing arithmetic more | The manner in which weeds are spread over so ome | and Colesee , which to extent have suffered from 
generally taught, AMES recommends that our| farms may be observed in the increase of exotic | the continued drought, but since the late rain has 
agricultural labourers oe ave their children | species fr e ae = foreign seeds, a circum- | fallen have again rallie now appear promising; the 
Et. the imperial weights and measures, to k stance which accou r the increase of plants in | Swedes sown early te in June have sued 
accounts, and to m DE ae He would retain | our English Flora within thela st few years. How-| severely from drought ape ate also Ar 
an influence over the puana men of his parish by | ever these, as being wholly tipan seldom make geao Suing op; Ti aditi ps pe s ir renal, "> i 
patronising hardy manly g summer months | rapid progress, whilst uch reason to | po] Mos mines the Potato, Rapper bali P be worthless for 
and eve schools in winter ‘Guns ea over young | believe that foreign seed of an indigenous species | p ain wie ote mee 4 
women by taking them in rotation into the house- | is ee more prolific t hat grown at hom rates i 
; es It is sane evident that the Swede Tumip i ssie 4 
holds of the farmers and the ier veer one day in th at weeds are often multiplied by the very | out—whether from too fr t repetition or fromthe 
eek for instruction e- aima management. atone apn ed to get rid of them e | plant Teorin weaker, it is impossible to tell—but for 
wup men and women he would | but little doubt. This ack easily be done, either by | several years upon this gradually been 
permi good cottages ants pete s for them as subdivision of creeping forms, such as Coltsfoot declining: and when brought into comparison — 
they ied, and good s shodliaw for fiir and Couch, or by sowing seeded wee Mangel Wurzel exactly under’ the same treatment, an 
A i 
In the discussion that followed the introductory contai 
lecture the principal points insisted on were—(1) 
the fact that that ; early period when the boy is most 
to be at work; (2) the policy of — 
on which ev Baod: 3) th in esi aie 
e 
d over it xtent. 
Thus it is that the vom of i though of Couch is eut 
one ` was a 
— An 
the vapors 
possib d (4) the sy n our re- 
instituti tions proving a um 
house as | of 
SOW] 
our register of 
EM a >~ gL agmatine tg a a 
"| <The Black pen ad wm ro of the farm 
eA aes oe 
et | in sources „giving way: the former was 
in 
paste. at on part of the same field, it is not of half th 
ar 
about 
8) So f 
H 
-| As regards ing weeds in hoeing, it may be | eith 
sacks that iti is too much the > practice to treat all 
sa 
not ex 
uality is reduced als 
leads us to conclude for 
we now | 
value; the weight of the ae 
that ot latter, a the 
©. Propo: 
our aroaren 
having E si nearly 40 years, 
certain that for every 
3 sects or 
valuable ; = the facility with which it 1s 
during severe frost, places it in 
urnip. 
For a long time the prejudice of farm 
os overcome. Its best mode of e pplication Wa was 
n giving 
t be to encourage those = eer s the erm et at the same time ving it 
who have such eee already in panini through | we sow the À rmer ; mi in od to this subject re ere la t ne Hi ved, scou er 
e country, and to induce many others to establish i sadd anak horse hoe, though in vantsod to pigeon alysis of the wake from 
them elsewhere. expeditious implement, ss disturbs the soil to too | pecove lo pa ba upon this farm 
SE eae ies great an extent d eradication, burying ased “thronghout . the”? whdlé ica 
WE referred last week to the various methods of Seeds of ripe ones out of harm’s way, and frequently | those disadvantages se. Pr 
ation in actual practice around us, | Stirring up the soil to such an extent that new | out the autumn the leaves are aitt up. 
They ae the direct sowing of weed seeds with | Seeds are brought to the surface, and heaped up so | pulped 
tl their deposit i in the land along close round the roots of the crop as to be some- | with cut chaff 
with manor tkci r distri tribution by the hoe, and times mischievous unless followed by the hand |straw; and cows, o 
from waysi e pr arks last w hoe. A case point came der our observa- the mixture, th 
related more RES a to the first of these sources tion during the past year. A piece of Wheat gey a a 
_ of mismanagement. We have now to consider the Contained m of the Ivy-leaved Speed van on : roots 
: manure re heap as aw weed bed. well, the only horse hoeing of which so piled the aalit by hi ‘4 at that season. 
4 1) 43 PEPEN soil ar und the roots that was nearly one chee Bae 
‘aed distribution, a all sorts of seeded plants are choked in June by the enormous increase of the es the disorde 
unhesitatin tingly mixed with manure—either on the ore It cannot be too strongly urged that as | later in the season it can 
farm or in ee refuse where ~ nearly ifferent soils and districts present of | these eras it is always advisable to com 
is eo As le, under the differe hich do not all arrive at their | dry a of not only 
impression that as the leaves and stems of weeds | Most mischievous amt a growth at the same | but f rendering it of greater 
ecay, so mnst the seeds also; but let any one period, so there ca uniform plan of action | it was applied for the 
Srem e the plants that grow on the top of an|adopted in dealing with es: either as regards | found that the 
manure heap, and he will see weeds seeding the method or the time of pie but this should | second vegetative process 
. in atificiont quantity to stock his farm, and if but a | be regulated by a knowledge of the nature and |*¢ agai = ig 
few plants seed in this position, how 2 regularly it habits of our enemies, without which it is vain to — paren Mee decidedly betii for fi 
-bec sown when the manure is spread. In no pe of ec much less extinguis pe saccharine at that time becom ing 1 
other w account for “the frequent intro- era places A neglected oo capable of extraction, proving that a chem 
duction into a T ve field 2 such plants as woke nurseries Se be note wa all | in the root had taken place, rendering Í 
Anthemis, S i hamomi opodi 7 um, even will 0 observe how fields i eir proxi are | and deprins and conseque: uently more 4 
‘Fat hen” of some counties,” "Stellaria media, overrun with their peculiar species in s ite a the | for cattle. monly ` 
see Si bursa pastoris, Shepherd’s| MOst careful farming ; thusif we have Thistlesina| The quality is this y atmosphere being 
ur and others of a like kind which are be edge row or neglee corner shall | temperature with a t has 
its production; the weight g 
age, | Never be free from them in our fields. We cannot | genial to its pr Ft excoot joe i 
ets Coltsfoot or Dandelion by the roadside, with- | ascertained, mie ‘The varieti 
ear very consi i 
the clay and loamy soils, cage 
Long and Globe Red and t ree 
the first and second varieties ar 
