Novemser 14, 1857. | 
THE ee dhA GAZETTE. 
779 
Ara eaga to lay it aside, ‘thereby in incurring a ery 
loss, ee the expense I had been put to; in 
repa ier ni the machine. The framework being totally 
useless I proposed that the ‘maker should a me an 
nair accor ri the he has refuse 
I — been t subjected to to. Id 
ociety to protect them 
an nur 
ame given 
statement of his lor shins s fe asap none the 
less generally influential, though we io not give its 
personal bearing. | 
Home Correspondence. 
Mr. apa ace Sheet.—Mr Pi 
as tables fe has published i e Gazette of the 
24th October of his and the ees on Mr. Smith’s sys- 
tems of =~ sonion eas Imust think hina does 
~ ye an err in: the 4 imt of produce put down to 
must 
and has | did 
e | of the tuber: 
Piper not | w 
any intent rusk or hae haiseath o aw 
e prevalence of Wh 
e 
mildew in Ireland it was 
as mone suffered 
the 
the autum and this 
e case with date saniseedt Potatoes 
not the “stn ction of the tops —_— os gr Atia 
noticing the 
mranraijas that àriled and 
8 tato not suffer more 
orana sown m lazy bed. 
fto oo causes which i 
aud nate the ar 
i poor la: 
sowing which on rich oe would be eran aa = slat 
is capa of 80 
s 
ce 
ging away from 
w the by o sat | 
even ‘the oar lazy-bed til 
sO the thick seeders in mildew, but e 
were there some little more of liability to disease in thin 
crops the thin seeder rests his —_ ctice on so broa 
as not to fear its being upset b acco a Se 
r quarters, which a 
with all Mr. ee 
appea ars to tally more a p 
former retur I have not a 
his than that of 1852, but up to that 
He finds reckless and wasteful ast dco 
ing into the ground more seed than will healthfully 
egetate. He faii that a saving equal to about on 
iwaksi: r~ of the prea o produe ce of the country iiy A 
cma tainty planted are in 
dise: 
ax 
w itas aaa as and e 
sive kind under ere tomy whether of corn and other 
safely 
of the rick 
o difficulty in eerie, ho 
eres will raise, eh should a 
or a maximum nu 
might probably Fò more eii a and effective if 
va from bin: at the ee of a few feet. 
possibly cheapest kind, but 
yon 
especially 
ne e- Toe care aiid management, es 
t 
re upon se est alone is a eters of semen g 
any arkene of bulk i sr p by in 
but to the hard-working classes, nlp ae rieg 
this is a matter of serious ai ence. I hope the day 
not very remote when some means may be devi 
preserv 
renal by Faint ‘ricks under house covering, a system 
lso beneficial in preventing crime by removing the 
nce iscon 
date, and I ara es according to returns since published | be effected, and = main that it is the duty of snd liability to incendiarism from discontented men, who 
in » his returns have been from 34 bushels t ate, whieh cannot uce sufficient | suffering, whats r justly or unjustly, from want and 
40, or even over; should have been no falling off for the pam ‘of its population, to effect naing, destitution, in their ignorance ruining the 
in the years 1855 and 1856 there would evidently be | letting alone his own individual interest in it. In poor | farmer, whereas they injuring the community 
shown a large balance in favour of Mr. Smith’s system. land, aumata thick seeding may be advisable, and i generally, and most of all their own class. Imay add 
Half-a-ton of straw, too, isso very mu what Mr. und it is absolutely necessary, that our culti- | that I believe li Sar nductors would be more 
Smith has usually had, that it throws further doubt on | vated tradens may keep down the pene ea of the m ; | efficient if the top were fiuked like an anchor, and it 
om 
would thus attract the clectrie fiuid more certainly t 
ew 
š e groun occupied by one other, 
o tons. W ese dirty fields I pesa spt up to the thick soles | by a single point. “ 
ut casting any suspicion on e aa trust they will m ost of them, as they do| Lead Pipes.—One of your correspondents wishes to 
to have in me va perhaps elsewhere, —J. M. know ifa lead pipe to Hend water to farm buildings- 
two years’ products ns.—The crop of A this season is in this | half a mile would be reasonable at 1007. cog of lead? 
Smith’s returns of these tien igiortioad compro: cage: Many women and | pipe 2-inch pipes earth set 
short of those zi —_ on e | children have m y large sums by pgh them at prices | in Portland cement, at one-third of the cont, "and though: 
or not, Mr. Piper in giving a o erages varying from 1s. . per bushel. At the sugges- | I have not yet full the work I t t will 
last e eight pai ought alse also to aoe given those of Mr. | tion of my servant g oseph ena bat I have tried "E answer, and be so mosi better than me that por se 
Smith’s for the same as y observation them for pigs, and find it very sw Much o f the be no eg of the r being poiso 
goes the returns of > ‘wo plans had previ —_— erai and aridity natural ener i e Acorn seems to | one know o sates piin eg en preva 
much hs 2 z! shen e dissipated in cooking them. At first we boiled them | used for a iin purpose? W.E. H. 
interest, bearing ont opposite "principles b both till they burst into a kind of jelly; now we boil 
ng pr et to the oon k mn of such y: 
too aan 
ct 
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Xh 
bein 
of our staple food, that their merits cannot me 
disoussed. is oa to find so > small ana 
ng for all the inorganic substances 
beg nto vier ay the deep pation of Mr. Smith. 
plan shows the mistake we are in, in sup- 
e is dependent on foreign 
supply of manures, which if his et were brought into 
gene tice mana cr a e Mr. Smith’s rests o 
e soil 
haust. 
ls; terea them. 
iot errr 
_ | spectively ? 
about 20 minutes, till they resemble a ym psoas 
and then pound them, and having si 
flour from them er sro fat pigs, sor the ‘hie pee 
again for the le ix th 
for the fat pigs with polled aed. 
then lie 
k greatly, and 
They eat i 
ote Dig 
own, which seems to prove that it is 
Many of my neighbours have 
n at my recommendation, with the 
Can 4 u inform me what ar e the principal constituents 
of the Acorn, and pen shoal be added—Barley-meal, | t 
n | Indian perder bra’ ea-m: ini 
fat and for lean a 
pigs Te- 
PE — een n [We have no 
analysis of Aco corn flour sen 
especimen of 
sion that it is therefore a cause of rust, which generally 
attacks the W 
products and only sow 
Is ae water at the roots a fain 
acre—and yet for very immediately — 
oer to ire macka Ritak of mildew on the- Po x 
, it so suffer 
generally out of —— the ocak affecting pas ain 
when in Grass although a e time 
308 
oS 
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. Smith or Mr. Piper wer 
— severe te cee from an than their mec a in 
year 
feet apart with Catages. interlined on a wet, es un- 
s Whea mised well but 
severely aincked “by. tea “that it became of ‘ttl 
Bios this was a nice bone for the thick seeders, but it 
ears after 
ks a is s0 20 dependent on other causes, 
eep $ 
ng oo 
he st igen nt long — ore, ‘the naa pro- 
be seen Grass corn. The | 0 
gr 
from the for 
| merely that the introduced stock is 
t 
n around us. 
sown in rows four | num 
a | ask whether he en of yea other analogous 
a| weed introduced fro 
Productivenes. eae Foreign Seed.—Will “i sei af 
the highly remarkable article « = weeds i r las 
Number have the kindness to state why he etpponed that 
i ign seed 
e vigorous sa 
ve no doubt ' th at so acute a 
steak ae ason for his 
=) 
Iray, 
plants now naturalised. in, abundance fro 
seed, which are 1 and m 
ve writing from home T cannot ivi to his letter to 
me Ee 
So again, Dr. Hooker in his admirable Flora of New 
Zealand has told us that 
. foci from oiean seed, whilst the same è species 
is likewise an aboriginal ; the- natives in this 
being ab ra trifling differences to distinguish the 
o stocks. Might I further ask whet 
nigra having been in 
as a fai between the two species, 
ustard ? Wouldit 
eases 
r land beating out, 2088 
greater or lesser e li a ais previously common in 
any pm field or win, 
Bromley, Ken 
The U savali of Corn and other 
farm? ©. Dari Down, 
Ricks.—How 
"it th lo if oara the more artificial position on} agriculture, 
much — and cheaper would" cme in the long run rc aner ba vs i re, arising 
Í 
Farm comms 
DON: The oars are from the Rev. 
C. James’s opening paper on the education of the agricul- 
tural labourer :— The “position” Ti the British Farmer. 
—I maintain that it is a high and dignified one, fraught 
t and ex- 
ood or evil 800,000 families of 
p Dealing the interest that wields- 
y 
entire 
rs in husba 
e power, pareren in wealth, cheri cette 
freedom, and perme the happiness o 
; and is from — 
[part of the public 1 burdens 
at LY 
theo Sta 
priti vr nist, Asa 
ited States there gt several oe 
y depen arn 
, | those of the same 
he that, until they gi 
| se ha so ac tty nee until they feel th: 
to “the mgt = ‘he British farmer, there are, 
ce is calculat 8 millions of acres, ata rental of 127 
rling per annum, in 
a a farms .oceupy two-t 
d. e number of farms rs 225,318; the average 
size is a acres. Two-third farms are under 
ge farm 
co me the 
denis are 97,000 E 
body of men, 
veal a multitude of ci Ao n! And are they aive tó to. 
i i they know their -du = s—and,. 
n- some parishes 
the scl of the 
Education.” 
class 
they 
which 
of labour = 
e greates 
in those very schools of which prs gi pone Guke 50 si e” 
Need of increased Skill in the Labourer. —I sa 
Get. 
is very questionable y wh ether | 
= oer 
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