858 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
and even these as specimens may be very defective 
if only bulk be taken into consideration: 
THE report) of the Council to the: half-yearly | s 
meeting of the English ie Soak Society last 
week will be facia ima 
Tt will’ be seen that G Pta pit year nearly 
200 ‘additional members have become subscribers 
to the association. = is sare nenas paara a 
circumstance e the acter 
Salis gand the creepactl sof the. Chester 
meeting are the o other topics on which the members 
= 
®© 
are congrat hey are informed of the 
resignation of Pro yfessor Way, as chemist of the 
Society, and of the existence ‘of pe report which 
Professor Stuowps had been commissioned to pre- 
pare on bo character of the Steppe murrain. Thes 
ther formed the subject matter of the half- ato ei above ; and if 
yearly report to to the rae iety. They e ntirely bear | We ask the Rev. S. Smith, of Lois Weedon, what his 
out the remark of one of the speakers during the po ce methane find it to se nase t ws 
enbequent disoussion: that the; Soei iety bears fruit acre, one crop being 24 tons of Mangel Wurzel, and 
oe T ther 16 tons of and sar ear a cost. for 
ad but one great event | ano 
‘country 
è year, and that was their ann: 
Several members did good service during the 
discussion by calling the attention of the Council 
to the importance of a more immediate and fuller 
A carry out the principle: if 
publication of the proceedings at their open eemned advisable, while with the crops above-mentioned, 
meetings Carrots and Mangels, there can be no o ection. made to 
Profesor SIMOND’S report upon ca =o — ee them rm oranie = rows, fn eei is the system 
continent has not e et — on with market gardeners, and i one which m 
ptibhished by the Society, though sane aò ra jie machine fi highly adapted to perform, and which in the 
months ago; einer that it Parad case a where Mr. Smith employs wi at 117.12s. 
diately sent Highland Society as pe er ad yet yet moms p could perform 
soon as it ras rte , and it | 5 
in nine 3 week im in the-colamns of the: North keiko ase 508 Sue or se arr T 
British Agricultu 
1 
The diseussion ibat ent on the reading of 
' have-the effeet | d 
the report, while it will, no doubt, 
of ey: ing the ms a hangen of the Society 
in many im t matters tend to correct 
if in others for the future We. pri but hope 
that veut petites s will be permitted to the 
TO at th ednesday meetings of the 
usefulness be thus conferred 
ety, and greater 
them 
“The policy of holdin 
mthe immediate neig f London must 
_ before pcr 
ee annual nes meeting | 
rai for me to. oe that the satin says that it, is 
requisite that there should be the sale of the a ol 
the one-third of the land, namely, that which 1 
Carrots or Potato 
If I take other works in testimony, I find that the 
results eee are corroborative’ of this-statement. 
In the of spade husbandry in Flanders by the 
iia ‘for “he. Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, in allusion 
e Se of crops purely agricu ultural, the 
amount of labour which a man is sonra of performing 
is gone minu arama into, and the cost when reduced to 
inna standard arrives at a sum sous 51. an acre 
per 
y Ree in the Table you have baan marked C, you 
will Sahai — confirm 
tem 
cultivation u 
for: two anaia and ver system of 
(A.) 
LOUGHING AND Horse PLOUGHINI 
STE 
AS | Compared theoretically. Ploughing in ce À —= a the rate | 
of 1 and one-fifth ofan acre per h 
n double what the- 
[DecemBrr 19, 1857. 
In Morton’s Ree een in the article “Capital,” | 40 horse power locomotive platform, Theret -= 
sy ere p gu mparison. between a mg e labour farm of bf aa aknet sk Ao nt ex. ia equal: to 1a, Td per aca 
a pad akani ret he e far v- f Im hose an before, but which had been trodden aoee ploughed some tie 
s yev of pear csi rym $ D ma s of which wi rawn 12 ploughs at the same spe a down, Thare 
seen by refere his example it is | im the 6 horse power, and 35 lbs. in aker asi: ormo powon aa 
Cost per a of guideway u 
pon burnt clay ballast, 
ngle iron and angle tram bricks used. it hia, 
800 feet of noe brick Bij 
arom vee and providing ballast and levelling as t4 
= 
Adinda Atot 3:20. 
sty 4 e oot, open Ta. pertoni. ği EA 
Fitting fuis h joints Mee 
Fishing +O Wio 
Panchetne pala in iron ir hood 
Contingencies at 10 per cent.., et 
— 
Cost per acre, 18l. 5s, 4dy rie tt 
emaer ane nean oer 
THE LIQUID eet gp FARMS OF sonaa, 
HADWICK, (C-B; 
THE PAAR Gazette of the 28th 
rency to apa 
Farm 
ean ion 
ly —— 
e Jarm 
Erran= x= 
“oF No rapean is takemin the offi 
ca: of guano, at the a of 8 
rp estimated La as n 
of the whee about ree per ann’ 
as himself 2 pi, the at tom 
whic a ie professes to pi uote hissa 
sume tod 
tained 
isigi 
e Board’s report about his sor ah or 
one else, vi tin the yeui i a 
noted as ~ Board’s-— 
ian unt 
eh inate 
of =. 
e agriculture is nee STEAM PLOUGHING. Fortescue, the cont ol of ir ron 
x x sibs. of coal per hour. and steam power” is is stated aa a a 
the regeipt ‘from Mr. with diferent Dla Siam aoe 
ADWIC - manure | * 8 x "8 hours &e. 
ms of Scotland, wri ertain stric- | 2560 Ibs, , oF 28 ew ne s. por cw. 25 z Indood, 3 i Lees p 
tures by M. BARRAL on the agricultural reports to | Oil, &e. = 2 0| 
the on — Board of Health, by: whom Mon {1 coset 
ee farm pas = made publicly and generally | 
oe st one 813, trictures we vertently | 33s, for 8 hours and for 24 acres = 1 
quo’ in a par. h taken not f amis ipri reine an fae 
= attack \ “i ich rfi conten p tainod cx DORA OT |’ Or44s. 6d. for 12 hours and for 86 acres. = 1s. 8d. peracre: | Lee 
i HING BY; 5 Senge that it w 
but picture which it gave of Mr. TELFER’S Same ees tae | ie 
fa rey .. 40s, | the firs 
ish M Weare of = ingly glad to.pub- | — | ficis = 
è CK Sr epl y upon the eepe subject, | ; 160s. : 
though y hind by the 160s. for8 hours and for 24 acres = 68) Sd. per acre, 
length of fom laying all of N mane ths . (3) manure, bat nat 
66 ' ” i lution in water, 
) Brom.“ Morton's Encyclopædia of Agriculture,” table in article EE oa aye 
et AS om EE rt oina f guano, an whole 
aai EWAY STEAM. Rent and | Labour [Gross 
ng A ep assed 5 Acres. pasan Daaa | Remarks. 
on, this subject at ee = ie Oe! e vaf pek W Rotation, — 
“Incoming , now to the evening, | 4% == aji 40° |'2 0:0 748 oO» |Wheaty Oar. 
“namely, “the large P be derived by this busbandy | 40° 40° |'510 o ta ro ‘thoes Yor eats 
age cultivation,” let me state at once the prin- | ———_—_—— PEE | na for | 
_ ple upon which I base them. It: is simply this; | Difference +1910 0! 4.9 0. _ |eattle. | 
spade labour is often used to cul same | 
— ohana ite the same. ©) 
pa oa ent ar arkanai pie more costly | Extract from the report a Treasurer tothe Industrial | any | 
pt A i r pr ; a < 
sont al mamaa in tath cents." sean ti a a on 
ant: ure in b ocean aa GRE: expen in manta fa Sponges > ne. The li 
cultivation is. æ cost, including. deprecia- Aod 
tien-of material and the bier for pir gn the i aam, eon a mpar 51. 68.. per acre per annum, and is.taken 
work, performed is canal in amount.and depth of tilla at/2s. per aly for wages, beside the <P eas of manure and 
to, common farming, at annual. c charge than | ““Angual apea upon which items | 
1s required for horse if ja ly 
the depth of the ploughi r iee I tt Nore.—Tho. only crops in the above cultivation were Oats, 
ag that com &e., so that pte cost of my 
- daced in extra pringe -iye ot ploughin by actual test, 
r peg form | Hard ground trodden on by ‘workmen 12 12 n 12 months. 
equal, sj high ly 4 
- the cost of horse 
<. If L take 
Lina that 
jin 
the workmen for remains. to be 
RA which subtract | the plant. in 
ico per] 
