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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



[Sept. 1, 1855. 



there are large and numerous areas of the Wheat plant black 

 and dingy in colour, and this more apparent in the more back- 

 ward breadths of Wheat, but even in the more advanced the 

 straw was coaled its full length with red dust (rust which 

 covered the reaper's face and arms with " a coppery hue ; the 

 ears contained many shrunk corns, and the character of the 

 sample denotes there will be much "tailing" when it becomes 

 to be 4t managed." "Horny berries" are numerous. Some 

 fields are blighted in patches, and in other parts of the country 

 the whole field presents both in the ear and the straw 

 a dirty smutty, dingy character. Indeed, smut prevails in 

 certain districts also. The yield of straw is bulky, but the 

 generality of the ears are small, and unevenly filled, and a non- 

 aericalturist driving along the roads of this county might 

 imagine by the sight of the numerous " aisles" (?) it was a tine crop ; 

 but they are like the painted sepulchres of the Jews— the inside 

 not so fair as the outside. Mack bearded Wheat is to be seen in 

 parts of Hants, but though it yields largely the flour it produces 

 is rough and gritty, and not so sweet as other varieties. The 

 size and bulk of straw is immense. All the early-sown Barley 

 looks well, and the bulk is great, but on middling soils after 

 Wheat (a common Hampshire rotation), the yield is poor. The 

 land bears an analogy to stock ; the well fed and clean an! m al thrives 

 and escapes many disasters from weather, but the ill-ted are poor, 

 mangy and miserable. So on poor s »ils or lands lacking manure 

 the crop is poor and light, and more liable by reason of its back- 

 ward new to all the ills of blight, smut, and a poor sample as 

 well as yield. Hampshire farmers are late sowers in autumn 



and 

 rule, 



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lot only of the minority of farmers. Oats are very fine in some 

 districts. The black Tartar on the strong loams of this county 

 are the most prolific as well as the most profitable. We may 

 here observe that there is a general complaint of ail the cereal 

 crops, that the straw this year cuts "so dead and dull," and that 



MAPPINGS PRUNING KNIVES IN EVERY VARIETY, 



Warranted Good by the Makers. 



TOSEPH MAPPIN and BROlllbRb, Queen's 



*J Cutlery Works, Sheffield ; and 37, Moorgate Street, London. 



Drawings forwarded by post. 





SCYTHES.— Boyd's Patent Self- Adjusting Scythes 

 may be had of the Manufacturers, William Dray & Co., 

 Swan Lane, London, and of all Ironmongers and Seedsmen. 



A liberal allowance to the trade. 



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£ ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 



MEETING AT CARLISLE, JULY, 1S55. 



First Prize Awarded to 



RICHMOND and CHANDLER'S No. 3B CHAFF 

 MACHINE, Price £7. 



REAPING MACHINE. 



TT T ILLTAM DRAY and CO.'S Book of Testimonials 



^ ^ V f from purchasers of their Patent Reaping Machines, also a 



morV"nif^""~hang about the Wheat stems. All this is true | List of Prizes, and full description will be forwarded, post free, 

 enough, as I narrowly observe all agricultural phenomena j on application to 



from season to season. Peas are not a good crop. Beans Wm. Dray & Co., Swan Lane, Upper Thames Street, London, 

 an average one. Potatoes sadly diseased, and the tubers 

 very decayed, even when as large as your fist, and six or 

 eight together so on a single root. Swedes mend rapidly, 

 and the late storms have set them onwards in growth. All kinds 

 of cattle look well, and there will soon be plenty of food for 

 them. What the yield of Wheat per acre is this harvest we 

 bave yet seen no samples. Much was cut green, and housed 

 green in the straw. As usual all scrambling to make ricks, and 

 the boast how many they have each made when they meet in the 

 market-room ; the condition of their ricks seems to be a secon- 

 dary consideration. B. S. T., Hants. 



Wester Ross, August 20.— Turnip hoeing is all but concluded, 

 and the work has been greatly better performed these last 10 days 

 than it could have been in the previous month. The ground was 

 so thoroughly saturated with the incessant rain that our hoeing, 

 grubbing, and harrowing had only the effect of shifting the 

 weeds from one place to another, the continuous growth being 

 little interrupted. Our Turnips promise well, and as somewhat 

 beyond an average breadth has been sown, the likelihood is, that 

 of this useful commodity there will be no lack. Never did the 

 Potatoes present a gayer or more promising appearance, yet 

 there is not a field in this neighbourhood without unmistakeable 

 symptoms of the damaging presence of that dire disease, and 

 still we have hopes. Its progress is slow, and should that slow 

 step be continued for a fortnight, the earlier kinds at least would 

 be well matured, and what would be saved would be fit for food. 

 Last year the remnant that was saved was well nigh useless. 

 Since dry weather set in, the fields have very hurriedly whitened 

 to the harvest. Last year we commenced operations on the 28th ; 

 this year we will commence about the 24th. A few fields in this 

 neighbourhood have been already cut. The crop, on the whole, 

 is rather under an average, and the quantity of straw is greatly 

 les-i than last year. Wheat on deep well cultivated soils is 

 heavy, but on fields such as this, blight and rust to some extent 

 prevail. On lighter soils Wheat is thin and stinted, but will 

 yield a good sample. Barley that found in spring a suitable seed 

 bed, dry and well pulverised, is luxuriant, but where the soil 

 turned over wet and unbroken, the braird came up thin and 

 starved, and is now an inferior crop. Oats are, with few excep- 

 tional fields, light throughout the north. Peas and Beans are 

 grown to a very limited extent in this neighbourhood. Con- 

 tinued high prices have given an additional stimulus to agri- 

 culture in the north. Improvements of all kinds, such as trench- 

 ing, draining, liming, high manuring, are carried on with great 

 spirit, and in this way some security is had against coming days 

 of adversity. Wages of servants and labourers are still on the 

 increase, and although provisions of all sorts are high, i o 

 whisper of dissatisfaction is heard. 





All the various modern Implements of Agriculture manufac- 

 tured on the most scientific and improved principles, suitable for 

 home use and exportation.— Address, Richmond & Chandler, 

 Salford, Manchester; and 32, South John Street, Liverpool. 



Catalogues Gratis. 



Notices to Correspondents. 



Agricultural Education: Subscriber. For Turnip husbandry 

 the best districts of Northumberland, Berwickshire, or East 

 Lothian; for arable dairy husbandry, Ayrshire, Galloway, &c; 

 for pasture dairy farming, Cheshire, Gloucestershire ; for gene- 

 ral good arable management, North Lincolnshire, Norfolk, &c. 

 But every county can boast of instances of energetic and in- 

 telligent management, in which the circumstances of soil, cli- 

 mate, markets, &c.,are perfectly taken advantage of. It is hardly 

 likely, though, that a young man would be admitted without a 

 premium either received or paid on to such farms. He might 

 obtain work and receive wages, and would then be responsible 

 —or he might obtain instruction and pay a premium, and the 

 farmer would then be responsible for his improvement. We 

 doubt if any energetic farmer would be satisfied with any other 

 arrangement than such as would involve distinct services on 

 one side or the other and payment for the same. 



Barm: A B says C. Clifton has furnished us a method of pre- 

 paring barm. Will he be so kind as to acquaint irs with the 

 quantity of barm required to a given weight of flour? How 

 do^s he renew his stock when the preparation is exhausted ? 

 Does he resort to the original process of manufacture ? 



Cheese : J J B. You will hinder your cheese becoming mity by 

 having new boards for them to lie on, and by keeping them 



continually clean. 



Lime, &c. : J T B. We should be disposed to apply at least 

 40 bushels per acre, now or a month before seed time. The 

 ten bushels per acre as an annual application is proper only after 

 the dressing which a soil needs at first, if it has not been 

 dressed for a long time. If you have arable land you had better 

 apply the compost to it, and let the water improve your 

 irrigated meadow, which it will do unassisted. Pull Thistles, 

 but trust to the water to kill Daisy, Rib-grass, &c. 



Pillars of Rickstand : J G B. An ordinary height is 30 inches, 

 and the cap overhaogingabout 10 inches. But mice are carried 

 in the sheaves from the field, and rats seldom fail of having an 



• opportunity once in the season of getting in by something 

 lying carelessly against the rick. 



3traw with Green Clover : Birkenhead asks for any instances 

 in which this practice has given satisfaction. Mix layers in 

 the rick according to your judgment of the quantity of sap 

 remaining in the Clover. Of course the Clover is dried some- 

 what, though too green to put together by itself. 



Wheat Sowing : P II. Loamy soil well drained, in the county of 

 Kent, not exposed to the attacks of game, vermin, &c, may be 

 well seeded with 5 pecks of Wheat per acre, in rows at in- 

 tervals of 1 foot. In the experiments at Whitfield farm all the in- 

 tervals from 6 inches to 2 feet, viz., 6, 9, 12, &c, were tried, 

 and the 12-inch interval was most productive. 



*** As usual, many communications have been received too late, 

 and others are unavoidably detained till the necessary inquiries 

 can be made. 







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PARKES' STEEL DIGGING FORKS X DRAINING TOOLS. 



MESSRS. BURGESS and KEY, as Mr. Parkes' 

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 upwards of 1000 of the Nobility and Farmers, members of the 

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 Price Lists sent free on application, and Illustrated Catalogue 

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Manufactured by 

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Strong Galvanised Poultry Netting, lOd. per yard; Galvanised 

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Illustrated Catalogues and Patterns forwarded by post. Deli- 

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pHEAP WIRE, GAME, & POULTRY NETTING 



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