AMI'aLUKli 

 is generally ph 



THE AGRICULT U RAL GAZETTE. 





Lr,...ii .-till eLiy ; and the lower levels 

 a good depth, upon brick earth ; this 



ig the last 20 years. The pastures are a 



■v/'S:;-; 



— aCTeS - should only , J** Point ; ^» 



«. The cost of manure purchased, on the average of of ashes, sow the remainder" broadband* h^t 

 he last five years, has been 101. per year, over and altogether, in his experience, guano «... ^l** 



y ton of straw sold 



i ti.-y of manual labour employed, with the wages pre- 



r- horses are kept 



employed, and also a working nag horse ; five labourers 



M rter and shepherd, four boys, 



Vbout 7 acres of meadow land, per week, carter and shepherd, 2s. extra, boys and 

 land mown for hay yearly is seeded i. The rental, 35*. per acre. 



ralways cut twice, second cut ! V. re pigs sold 'fat in December, 



| three southdown rams, 60 horned ewes sold fat, 160 



Wheat, out of Clow lea old, the remaining 



ed with farm-yard dung; 2d year 60 ewes kept for stock to bring Una) 

 aanured with town dung, at other season. J. B. 



i hay and Turnips beiug all 



r«.r,!i r '; 



J. B. 



Home Correspondence. 



T:inn-hruiLd Wheat (p. 363).— I possess a specin 

 exactly like the one figured by Mr. Booth. It i 



the person who met with it carefully planted ev 

 grain, in the hope of reproducing the monstrosity, 

 might have been anticipated, he was unsuccessf 

 though there seems to be no absolute rule why a p 

 disposition to produce twin 

 through the seed. The 





ve faculties in the dibbling of bwH ££ 

 wing used to be chiefly confined to «S 

 a mere act of necessity, where t v - ^" 



2. That the seed i 



*»t«d in the heS 

 ■--table matter (una] 



■ 



ire, it may receh 





antages of hotiq, 



r quantity oi seea usea. ^jxew Husbandry, p.Kj) 



, = ling is only necessary ; yet, in no case is i* 



nc-o-ss-try to have the soil finely pulverised u b 



ing. The advantages r 



-resent hour), tfc 

 l may become hereditary. Th 



a different and expensive ; women and children were often ea- 

 i (from the and thus the business was slighted and impe'rfectly pep! 



DBd has of late years The late inventions relating to it are so useful and 



measure be superseded, 



- 

 one pei act., ;/ 



\ ae.it fu!ion.(l,.'l tuns ,.er :;tro, fed oil doubt that farming is most profital.i.. ■ a in the growing of Mangold. By the newl; 



what is ;, jractised, and the invented this difficulty has been 



foundato. ;. There ig also atfot her mode of raising » 







Nation, Mr. Turner, of Bar- 

 ,-e of his own use of arti- 

 ficial^ manures as having enabled him to adopt high 

 farming. He said—" In his youth he began to think 

 that if his predecessor grew 18 bushels of Wheat per 



«p on the estate, he had the 

 keep 300. But 

 how was this to be accomplished ? Why by the great 

 secret of all good farming, the grand pi i 



Turnips Mangold Wurzel, and green crops, and be=- 

 hus enabled to fatten a greater q o 



cattle. That was the great secret of farming ; and if 

 any one put that into practice and did not turn out a 

 successful farmer, he should be disappointed. Perhaps 

 some would abk how he could grow Turnips, and would 

 tei ninvthey could not be grown on some particular 

 sons. We begged their pardon; Turnips could be 



mastered. There is also atfother mode of raising i 

 crop, that of transplanting, which has not as yet beet 

 tried extensively, but which is highly deserving of 

 notice. It has long been the custom to raise Swedes in 

 this way, and if the extent be not very great, the method 

 may answer well ; as in comparing those grown from 

 «._»„..„ i:*.i„ j:« ;„ .i.„ ir size anfl - quality'. The 



d, with a cross bar luring 

 oper distances, tbe labour 



,ucr. If the seeds are sown in i 

 garden or any clean piece of ground the latter yartof 

 the end of June, or even later. This is a great adju- 

 tage, should the weather or other circumstances haw 

 thrown the work of the farm backwards. Besides this, 

 there is less danger from the fly, as the seed wA 



have set in for good. A trial has also been ^""J* 



nave been made, and that a successmi one, ui ^"-d 

 Wheat by transplanting. This was done by a noWenU 

 not far from town, and the produce from a singe pe* 

 of seed was from 7 to 8 quarters an acre. At toe* 

 kinds of experiments by amateur agriculturists do gocj 

 as in some cases they show the capabilities of sod, ^ 



