THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 





present state of farmii 



one half of the field had only about t| pecks per 

 dth no view to a saving whilst the other had 4. I was not informed of this an- 

 omenced, but they re- ; ference, and in the winter was surprised and alarmed 

 ^growtTfrom'sowinK and had the whole looked equally bad I should have 



r f the' field limes not 01 Jj ad.'fij £*t 



•ing his error, and is true th. cl up<m ^"j^J 



of what was my practice, a 



t I did not hear of the misi 



a sown in the fields aside 



greener, and at harvest was taller, stronge 



nd that these V : 



than about 30 grains. It therefore louows tnai 

 j grain produce but one ear, 30 times the seed she 



! acre of Wheat produ'ees only 30 bushels when moi 



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a little seed, poor land requires very much more.f | there was ample space for all, a period bete 



» further into the facts I bi 

 u The Injury and Waste of Corn by the I 



1, and only by the death of a portion can the 

 • have acquired room to grow. That all t 

 cur when more than a bushel of seed per a 



any oi in v farms from thin sowing, ; larg< 



which are ever found in thickly sown Wheat. 

 L am aware that I may be said to have made e 

 allowance for the loss of plant by birds, insects, and tl 



ure, with a hard c 



Cm'." 



9M ear, and the yield to be no n 

 than 30-fold. Did the single grain throw up but 

 i stem, and the ear from it afford but 30 grains, certa 



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wing grain. The 



remainder is a clay varying in stiffn< 

 very ordinary qualify. The arable 

 divide into five portions, c " 

 propriated to corn. The s 



ground is prepared only by 



ree-fifths are ap- 1 

 illed, the Wheat ! 

 lantity of seed I 

 1 per acre. The 



stems witn ears iroin eacn stem, containing /u 

 grains, and a return of 2000-fold may be realised, 



seed is exposed to, no provision beyond this self ] 



fter Peas or j per acre are sown. The closer observation whit 

 i application | table growth undergoes in gardening has long suTce 

 raised from | taught gardeners the mischief of having too crowded a 

 poorest land plant, and notwithstanding the higher rent they pai 

 -*~ A make the most of their ground, thei 



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ot till then, will liloucester be the master key to tW 

 ?v?rn iVe com d risS P ° r the nt FSS Ct '^ ^ of *• 

 lineral basin of South Wales, and in short eveWtal! 



,.-••.,.. >. ..:.•■ ..:•; v\ i- :.. . ;,;, , a vi-il ,. a . . 



; but the only part in actual operation*? Z 

 branch called the Taat Vale Railway, extendin, fJ™ 

 Cardiff to Merthyr (24 miles). Meantime thTaojJJ 



focus of passenger traffic from AberoM* 

 lC es beiii^ bj coach.it follows as aouml 



SIS 



ignation to the will and pleasure of the whips that 



one of the Hereford day coachmen, a very quiet, 

 ady, respectable driver, and were soon bowling jLbj 

 the road to Ross (16 miles). 



fair specimens of Turnips, which were being fed off bj 

 sheep. The ploughing is done in a workmanhk* 



who are up "totLir bufun^and the change from Glou- 

 cestershire to Herefordshire is highly refreshing, and 

 augurs well for the superiority of the latter in the 



of my friend Garrett's corn drills, on a farm near Kxss, 

 the owner of which told me that though it had ' c05 < ™ 



whVctuld D so U weli e ap°P«ciaTe eC the merits of the machine. 

 The circumstance in itself is but trifling, yet n»* 

 strongly it argues in favour of those great na 

 exhibitions, by which the most valuable inventions u* 

 brought from the remotest distances, and """JJJ! j 

 subservient to the improvement of 1 c 



Ross is a neat, lively little market town ; u 

 pendent of the beauties of its locality, and its many*£ 

 great natural advantages, the stranger canDot app^ ^ 

 it without feelings of reverence, as once the a 

 the benevolent John Kyrle, so well known w 1 

 schoolboy as " The Man of Ross." This was me 



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