THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



[March 31 











a fossils; I he grinding tl 















S^edT" I 



















■i-urth. 



soil and air, 



agents 



n rendering 



ave dug altogether fmni tins pit 



'mM?™^' filw P we fil i!!2rwd 

 ms (generally found lying at the 



1 to grind" them.** I caiTaccounl 



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tea as a sole dreiSJ ^L^ *3 ■ 

 ends did apply them exchuW l 



Home Correspondence. 



myself and some of my neighbours, as an*?m J^ k 

 upon the old broadcast system generally followed upoS 



: -■'' ' -' -'"-^ " f **Bex ; which merely coiLu, 



ploughing deep and sowing the seed broadcast, »h» 



nearly 3J.per acre for the hoeing only ; thls.widi ibeothj 

 attendant expenses, often prevents many farmers from 

 engaging in it. But the mode of ridge culture ttut I 

 have adopted, will not cost more than a fourth of Out 

 a clean Wheat or Barley stubble early 7n "autumn* ;"? 



Horses, lollowed by two others with a strong hornet, 

 with one share precisely the shape of the comma 

 plough-share, but any shape will do equally well if not 



is crusted ; subsequently < 



li tertiary drift gravel (for 



'^"sulSte 11 ! 



'"'. ' "■'• l " '-•''':• ' ' : >\r\ ::-i. - t,; ,..„; 



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ut 2 inches, or a wooden stake will do equally well, 





n £ or J of an inch deep, and cover the seed with* 



tit roller. The time of sowing is the month of April, 



n an average of seasons, as the Carrots do notnn 



eed stalks so much by being sown at this titne,»d 





Carrot seems by October to ha- 



wth ; by this means of culture I can get them singled 



by women and children for 6*. per acre, and the 



ire hoeing throughout the season will only cost li 



acre. I find the white Carrot thus managed is 





hey are clamped moderately dry and secured from 



p in the damp they will keep as long, and that stock 





ir, and the cows give more of it, and 





ave grown 15 tons per acre on a Barley stubU* 

 hout any manure, ar.d 20 tons by sowing 3 cwtw 



ruvian guano in the month of May, in wet weather, 



en the plants were hoed out. Wl 



i if I have derived sat 

 last year; I unhesitati 

 for I might saf. 



a upon Barley and H( 



of s'ved S e e s any ^^ 

 obtained equally 



Invention by a Farmer.— I ohserved in yourleadisj 

 article of Saturday, Jan. 2 7, a statement that you wooM 



introduction, or implement, that owes its origin, to » 



farmer. I feel assured, therefore, you will be glad » 



hear that in the county of Hertford, where V e ^ d 



by a practical "ngricu'tur^. *'' 



ting into very general use throng' • 



the inventor has had it registered. I "^.g^ 



oftifoTtter? ^^ 



error into which you have itmdvertf ntly fallen. Far"* 



our own error, but that of our correspond-, 



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roe* thin^rou^bject^vaTto remind them tbat*J 

 arts, and agriculture among them, owed their PJ*^ 

 fir the most part to unprofessional men, ■ ^ 

 UDgracious a-pect on the doings of amateurs j ^_ . 



made a^?eek a ^n7e I on"Ec"e1^S'3 ° f ^3 

 pig», and which I was very pleased to see, Vj, 

 inform the inquirer that the plan 



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operator, having provided himself with an a 



