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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



the best possible condition for Inrti 

 for being carried on to it and covered by the plough. 

 We have arrived at the time when the production ( 



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"t'r 



tion will not take place, the nitrogen has not passed ii 



straw ; fix the gaseous products of fermentation, which 



dry skin and shelter from the winds. The farmer may 

 farms, however, where hedge-row thinnings or other 



3 housed on a m 



[rating, by rolling and rubbing the 

 ears between ttiem, would clean the grain from them, 



tions, according to the new and old methods, supposing 

 the present fixed steam machinery used, would stand 





e sheds run up, supported 

 Furze or Fern stalks, and 



My summary, then, of cheap appliances is the i 

 lowing : 



1. To throw all manure into a pit, directing to it 



as cattle food, that the least possible quantity be mixed 

 5. To protect the stock by sheds from wet and cold. P. 



Home Correspondence. 



Gazette for July 7th from a person rifi 



"Tom Tit," on the subject of a cure he effected on 



nearly dead, by a more simple means, v ■/. .. 



t water excepting the head, deluging that 

 with cold, and applying cold wet clothes, taking care 

 thatthe cold should not touch the body or the 

 they were then laid in a cool shady sty, ma I 



Grain.— It has been 

 tployment of improved 

 im to rival the manu- 



lupplying the 



• :ir of a day's work, as far as I can estimate the 



' u u: ~ relative advantages, seems to be a saving by the new 



method of two women, two carts and horses, tying 



sheaves, stacking them and taking them down from the 



W in supplying the country 

 with food m abundance and at a reasonable price. As, 

 therefore, we may suppose that many pronrietors and 

 means of threshing corn for the mo! 





method, which it has often'occnrrp/fa* °™ g ™£hf°*!! 

 ™.„/.n„„ ki„ Tf ... J" "^ occurred to me might he 



useless operation of passing through them a vast 

 quantity of straw. In the discussion at the London 

 oneT r ak er me2!i!lb£J™ P * Pei ' ° f the 3 ° th ult " 



• : ■-■■■■■ -. . .-,.' ; "J r : I./,"".;;' 



it material" '" "pwcS, and 



without being tie" beTai? Side?™ knit 1 



chaff-cutter, by which the ears, with aslil 



possible, should be cut off b**h^~^i£?S£ 



used for hop picking, the long 



field to dry, and then stacked in any clement Stua! 



space occupied by them. The diminished risk from bad 

 weather at harvest, and from heating in the stack, from 

 vermin, &c, might be set against the small expense of 

 the machines for cutting off the ears of corn. As the 



agriculture, may be induced to try something like the 

 plan here proposed. For iL ! - 



the ordinary method of ham* 



corn was only an old scythe, as I am informed. 



for cutting off the ears in the field. T. T. 



Sleep v. Level Land. — Your friend " ( 

 Heacham, Norfolk, having mad 



handrail or slope are greater than tho^^^'v!"* * '■*' 

 fh a oory a fo d r theV^usion taT* *' ^«Sj 

 number of drills on the slope'that he dot VtT 

 they wdl be so much wider apart (therefor* .T-T3 



d^tancrontheonea C s rOP3) ' if he *S fc^ 

 thither, h^wiUhj. , g^ 



may be called one-third, iJ 



diagram the differ 



Steep v. Level Land.— You must « 



e pie about the theory of hiirSeSnUj 

 s produce, as compared with that of the but ^, 



larger or greater angles 



igonalofasquare. Let 

 s accompanying figure 



•om A to D in the base, then form a square, of winch A 1 

 i the diagonal and A D, D B, B £, and E A the sfe 

 row if «C. B., Norfolk," be right, the straw grm* 

 t the point A is at the same distance from B k the 

 oint D is from the point B, and the line A B is *)d» 



VVbeaTin at 5 feet dices, but I do not quote his * 

 recommend his practice). Now it being jtmi M 

 of^clTroot on a the ea side of Thill than on the twit 

 covers, and the thin sowing system being grated 



perpendicularly ?ut horizontally 3 , ™ must ^ *jj 



breadth of land, and that is on the hill « ie - s ^. » 

 Steep v. Level Land.— Your correspondent U * 

 on 14 July, supposing that the Yorkshire M« 

 inaccessible to " mere argument alone, nam? p*""* 

 and finally disposes of this long debated P»J* •" 

 satisfaction, by a drawing of a very break "M™"* 

 staircase, which is only another version of Hop p«- 

 &c. &c. The scientific principles attached t. W 

 question, I have alr ^ d £;^ 

 right. ^ I now beg to say that,' reverting totbeoaj 

 mechanical method in which it has been nitn 



opposite in its whole iengtn to n* *-»-- ^ 

 stems of equal length to be 3 inches "P^ 1 ^^* 

 other by one quarter the length of its > ear .] ^ 

 the four-and-twenty Irish farms^g^s ^n,j,4U»» 



quently it is not cultivated, and this i p t £ ^^ 

 land going out of cultivation in ir • ^ 



Game.-m. Williams has given you ^,k»« 

 of Lord Hatherton's doings at le. - . . 



added that Lord Hatherton "j^JJjjJg & h»r*£j 



let him once apply his compasses to A D and then added that Lord Hatherton m» »- the !**£ 



be grown on a long ascending line (like that of the side this since Mr. W ^j^J^ aT teingV e^JJrf 

 or flat position." A Scotch Far wr. omontal iramedia te importance to ^e f armer,^a^^ y aa». 



Steep v. Level Land.— Although not a Yorkshii 

 offer '? be ' nS U>Cated ' a York8hire -. l fe f [ disposed to 

 Yorkshireman, in not being immediately convinced that 



