826 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Drceneen 5, 1857 
week :. (3), a weekly meeting of the Royal Agricul- , and when consumed on the ground bay Yoana ts | is cleaned by the ocasional mitrodqe e 
tural I Bookty at their nat ee A Hanover T Square on | leave the soil richer in organic matter than find it. | fallow, and being a dioh m Hi o of the bare 
Wednesday, at noon—the business to be transacted | 2d, Barley delights in a = soil, ie a p gbi = this crop repeated very netaps 
has ae oom intimated : 4), a meeting on n the same n of the rotation from e dro oppin 1 the sheep ————— 
Sz of the Society of Arts, in their T rooms, wa the manure ‘meonsimed by te Hops ET Home © 
_ | seeds are sown wi is erop for the third year, and for orrespon 
2 “anger bi, Staad, when Mr. 8. . Simxzr K pense does the fourth year we have Wheat, which requires.a firmer! Master. conaca Men —In eo = ye Pie 
e recent progre soil than ley and a more consolidated seed bed. The | farmers evince an anxiet benevolent 
Mechanios: (5), t the general meeting of the Eng- roots of the Clover are the best possible food for Wheat ; labourers in the follow; pic Mel ap ee Of their 
lish A Aen ~ ae Society, Han nover Square, on | thus we si half the farm in food for — and half in | die, the farmer sometimes lends the hind hinds oe 
Friday, 1 corn ree-course rotati oe — Aa corn and | another, the hind redeeming himself as the 
a Pulse sn followed by bare fall eae: Wheat, Beans, | up by the children working on the maa ail pr 
News have been received during = week from Wheat, and fallow ; this system i is s best adapted for „the wages being from fourpence pe and 
Captain ORD and the expedition to the Kooria | better soils A H Hi able to be “ their father’s bondagen” Be 
Mooria Islands. The *‘ Credenda ” plime at the | hausting. The onl y thing P consider is how to get . a e other hand, owing to the hinds i a 
island of Jibleea on the 20th of Pop tember along the wealth arena the above system would not “do at children, depending pi them f e 
with several other vessels; Mr. T, the master r, all on sandy so . The fi five- field course is an extension te ae inadequate to the demands of su 
says, in his letter :—‘‘I at once landed with Mr, | the four-field. pa remain down two years. By th ind is in a sake of ee ri th © following max » Many 
. system you have less land to manure every year than Shoul uld a farmer wish his rk longer hourst 
oe you would have in a four-course rotation eae 
more sheep stock. Less money is r equired for manual | s ki 
> f and horse labour, and rather more er stock. The five- who is is tied “se a sense to the farm b J 
the “ Credenda,” and another vessel of the same size | feld system would suit Nos. 11, 28, 27, 22 and 25, - | positions and circumstances of hinds fn ae 
if here. There is a large quantity of good guano upon these thin soils the four-course is rather di we that an ng. m. for redness + 
on the island, but it will require a deal of labour, | severe. Wheat would come too often. N 30 and aL almost impossible, a : 
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rm any accurate estimate of the quantity on | consisting of clay with a large proportion of men with large a families, who were they to 
ioni i i Wheat. plo 
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and 20) : keep the majority of soils constantly employed. Suc- | in the event of a servant’s death, are so kind as to 
soon fet Captain ‘a ee en na cessful farming be Ree only depends upon the skill of the | the widow her late husband’s wages in full for ef 
get on rapidly ; he left here for Muscat, on the 4th cultivator, but on the great diversity of materials con- | twelvemonth he was engaged, the farmer having to pay 
a a kor a ? tea stituting the soil. Owing to this diversity in chemical | for a man in the deceased husband’s stead 
Risin th mrem ? 68g a0 8 | and pre ae character, we require an equal variety | Previous to such benevolent acts, a kind of sympathy 
urers thence in o t in the c i ands There is ag 
ji JED, addressed to Mr, Josera Hino- | adapted for a three-course rotation, consisting of Wheat, | Some farmers make every effort to. seeure the 
SON, of Liverpool — Beans, Wheat, and fallow—this latter is the impo ortant | abundant crop of f Potatoes; others do. 
“ Museat.—tI left the islands in an open boat on the | feature in all clay land cultivation—the soil is allowed | Durin ng peac me farmers set apart the best Grass 
Ath inst. and feather" pti on the 9th, with the view of | to remain exposed to the — of 88 atmosphere | field fo he hinds nace. others a field wih cll 
procuring labour, for the want of which we w t a| during a whole year, chemical changes take place, eaten s han by shi 
stand. Ishall leave poate the islands with about 150 amongst others the absorption af x nitrogen from the air, | allow the cows plenty: of Tornia ast pai tect ‘turn 
men, provisions, and some cattle, in a native craft | equal, it is calculated, to cwt. of guano per acre. | the cows in spring out to a Clover field; others allow 
I have chartered for the purpose, and hope to reach the | Mechanical tices fc on at the ae time, and | little else than straw. Hence farm servants 
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es will have come from es y when we shall| The four-course rotatio rried jats on the Royal | saries of life, and even luxuries, e e isn 
commence shipping the guano on an extensive scale. Agricultural College ay Rete au roots, Spring corn, | nei i at tl 
left at the islands her Majesty's. ship Cordelia, the mer- | Clover, and Wheat. This isa system Aee to good | Owing to roast beef being one of the le 
chant ships Virginia, Paxton, Saxon n Queen, Oceana, |land of a moderately light character. It is often food in En ngland, some infer that the Eng 
Credenda, and others, You may be of good cheer, our | difficult to get Clover so often as this, and when neces- | is bother fed than the Scotch labourer. | 
sare most promising; there are not less than | Savy it must be replaced by some other fajai crop. The |per week is the average rate of _wages in I 
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ea AGRICULTORE.— Continued, the enog EN of = rotation. 4th. The seeds afford | who has no animal ‘wees for dinner generally has plen 
Question 3.—Explain the principles and of iquia | the best possible mechanical as well as chemical prepara- | of gehen milk, butter, and home made 
ae ion ol sah which requires a consolidated seed bed |The number of ass ntlemen and Phen on. 
eo gree an is an ent w = we e organic matter furnished by the decaying their children sup off porridge in the mornmg 
posits the ice an pone Clover vince any Fa ial that a Scotch farm: servant lives 
zi timeas S. oe is drawn. ly. horses sa ation four-course rotation is is usually obtained by leaving on the most nutritious kinds of f 0 kint 
manner to the aren Ada ure drill. * differs e apy for _two years and mone s them the second. yet iaag an English y newspaper 
running down the funnel into the soil is deposited im. | Weeds are not so plenti ful an upon our limestones. A | graphs as the follo i 
_ mediately before the seed, whi th Pan in the | five-course rotation allows the i to keep more stock i ute wet 
same way as in the ordi ip drill. The advan- | than a four-course, and he has always a bite in spring e grocer, the WER 
tage of rars 2 is best seen on light land, where, | 0n the two-year old seeds. On the Royal Agricultural | ase e the spirit of: the oe 
‘from want of moisture, the plant is liable to suffer from | College farm, No. 1 affords a good example of a five- wages that I may give yo hn ay’ work s 
the peering Tn such cases this method of wer 3 the | course shift, as the Clover remained two years before Bad be enabled to aged 
root erop will paa invariably insure a plant. being ploughed up for Wheat. also that I may 
iu fact, i Se ike| . Bote aey evils a poetics cf isvessential, ing industry to act 
come up early, s; the}. r rotation of crops isvesse ersevering in y a 
leaves pure developed, and s spar aoe pre- indeed Eke into it on account ofthe comparative perseveri for old age.” I ; S 
yent the hai the fly. Gi heavy clay land Dr, | dearness of land and cheapness of labour; in the coloni nies, | with an income of 80,0007.. per a , 
Voeleker estim ates liquid aime bot lightly. When where the circumstances are just reversed, no rotation | home farm labourers 15s. per week, but ; 
waċh land bakes up summer is adhered to, the land is cropped un exhausted, and te ing a spirit of disc 
formed, and by these the liquid manure finds then abandoned. The object of a pet i so | 0 
its way into the drains and is lost. Under e ordi arrange the succession of crops as to obtain pei pline 
airy um however the germination of the number of corn crops with the least exhaustion to the 
seed is so mesma’ by the use of this drill that | land. wens n wane sivagn be sngrings thmeera ji 
. soon sufficiently strong to | 8°Me crops w. when managed, actually leave 
ond its re into the soil snd its leaves ato thesis the land in better con scape cn F wW 
osi of food, ani p an op bes a known rotatio was two corn /to 
_Turnip-fly cannot do much mischief ; 3 ie F- when the | cTops a W, m since the introd netda of | larity or power. 
rough leaves, which are the true a appear, Turnip cultivation, a great revolution in oa pets ae i of four : f 
‘although the flea may still feed fed, growth is so rapid that | of aope os inkan: phies =- Bhe -font r | his farms, but a good many gentlemen, 
aS are unobserved. ' latest improvement S°me modification, is best adapted for tolerably Tight high sounding titles are contenting t 
> machine consists ia. the se seed and manure being | land of medium character, apenas of being sheep fed. | hinds still live in—and notwithstanding “ 
deposited at certain distances, say 9 inches apart, so | The Turnips are well prepared for, the land REST ments of the age, and general diffusion 
that the roots could be conveniently hoed out to 18 deep in autumn, well cleaned in spring, and manured, | ledge are still isti a 
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Question 4.—What is the object of a chine ? pe- | Barley and seeds; 1856, seeds mown and fed ; 1857, | also state there is a 
ssonibe a Thr, Four, and Five feld Rotem state to what | Wheat, The five-field rotation is merely an paiman, in the roof. At the renewal 
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fom the rien ‘Tespectively adapted. Give examples of the four-course by allowing the Clover to remain. i 1 
the College n | down for two years. a paesi adapial to those soils | 
er Of crops, to which there is a limit, Sia which are not good corn corn producers, di 
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