THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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unfortunately they are usually kept 







to prove rather the means of for- 



;,., ,: 













ingly strong, relative 

 ferent soils, of differ 



to the comparative profit of dif- 

 nt courses, of different applications 



of the s 



me soil, of different modes of a 







Keep your accounts in the mode of 





; Grass is n 



lore profitable than tillage ; keep 



From 



a different 



method, and the contrary shall be 



this we may 



conclude that for half a century, 



keying 



.. I.U Will 



t^andTaT^en'in^ArUmrt^iml 



they perfectly unde 



rstood the art of « cooking ac- 





AL AGRICULTURE. 



and Fn 



nce reC ourV 



isited a part of Belgium, Prussia, 



Irii 



count of the crops and foreign farming, now 

 foreigner has a free market in England tor his 



fiSgC 



which we t 



, we entered the great plain of 







hout seeing a hill. It is a' sandv 





easy cultivation, and "requiring no draining, 





g to the eye a succession of gardens rather 

 farms ; Rye, winter Barley, Flax. Potatoes. 







$?£ 



dwellings. 



Every crop was good, some large, 





erTtobe 8 







en, excepting a few in the Wheat. 



Two horses, at most, 





ploughed and dunged with stable dung, and no 



Wneat crop was good, but only a small bread 

 grown. The crops of Clover and meadow Gras 

 large. We saw no sheep, and nearly all the catt 

 teamed ^5 mU UVam ™ ^^ the bSU distri 

 strongly reminding us of England. Here weaw a" few 

 sheep, but more generally cattle of a black and white 

 pastures, the 'droppings of the 'cattle £ spread 

 fresh, so that no clods are left about the fields as in 

 through the great plain of Duren for 30 w j I, 

 more Wheat was grown here than in Bel , 

 having more staple. The land is easily t 

 S °In refurnuT'we Yn^' ^^ ^ and Potatoe »- 

 France* whidf v^S stronger ^and ^hj) 

 Belgium; we saw no failure in the crop" from any 



great extent ; the climate is 

 than in England ; they are i 



No^doubT tt P quali? of The D se d iands g * b' 



i3ilC£ g € d ii a F j 



n?s fnumbts 'of J^i S* *""»• t0 be ^fth* 

 whfch ^ described no? on] A g ricul 'ural Journal," 



manure of the stables, but also the ear I 



: 



industry and skill, owe 'ffir^a^L™ 



oc a c r u v S- f A L L d lIle w r paida r< to ■ XiSSS 



a^weredallourqu^ T M "" ' 



;:;-,, . ' ■"""' " : ■".■':■'- 



farms were largerf frL" V 7^' 



-ummer 1 1? *' t0 50 *' ^ 



ttr a nt d '" df T Le8 ^^^^ 

 muna7? ax Jie en who^a e mou g labonr * nd a small com- 

 GovfrLlt ^ ° D ^^VfecSpSftole 

 meW^" EDglaDd at D ° Ver We had to ob «Te a 



of Kent, f 0r 40 m?lw nlU i*" 60 ' In the Weald 



kind wa 8 to be i ■ a &1 ° S g °° d cro P of an ? 



EM W. 



Near Reigate the soil improved, and with it 



The only district that could fully compete was 

 Farringdon-road, on the 



addition to the 

 she must imita 







irrrs 8 



of the well-known p 



■!:::■:, 



3 are, in general, illiterate quacks, whc 



»r the general benefit. The sex of mosi 

 adult state is marked by several pecu 



B 



With regard to the sex of the egg, and whether or not 

 it be fecundated, many persons are gifted with so wr 

 rect a perception as seldom to predict falsely. In the 

 latter case, to the practised eye, the size, opaque appear- 

 ance, peculiarly marked character of the occulus ovi, 

 and position of the yolk within the egg, when inspected 

 against the light, render the latter quality unmistakeable; 

 with regard to the former (the sex of the embryo), the 



pointed eggs, some preferring the flavour of round 

 ones, as containing cocks. Certainly this is not infallible, 

 but coupled with the following more certain criteria, the 

 jver out, particularly breeders of 



&c, but much improved, being rendered softer and 

 more friable after being calcined, by putting them into 

 a clear fire, and when red hot taken out, to be pounded 

 ~\ becoming quite cold. D. S. E. 



Sex of Poultry.— A. correspondent, July 21st, asks 



(See No. 25, 



" V. S." appei 



:;o pointed out i 



r paper the mode adopted to cl 



J male and those with female 



Farmers' Dictionary " just com- 

 pleted, and which I have not seen. The author states 



"-"ingthesex, ; posed to the 



tances afforded by » V. S.," who will find the details 

 ited of at pages 153, 4, 5, too long to be now extracted, 

 ■ing already appeared in your paper of last year. 



C. Reardon, Bermondsey. 



Vurnt Ears in Wheat.— Can you or any of your 

 ders afford us any information as to the disease which 

 ses what are here called burnt ears in corn I What 

 Y be supposed to cause it, and how it may be prevented 

 avoided? It affects Wheat, Oats, and Barley, but 

 re especially the former, and some kinds more than 

 ers, which are generally white Wheats, and this year 



Hopetown or Sheriff is most injured by it with 





ever is not the opinion of the most 

 intelligent farmers in this district, 



lary precautions m 



»w (except iu one v,,y partial ._ 

 began farming) suffered from 1 per 



7 



crops often affected with b Unt ^«»?** 

 £££ more'ti \Zl^' ^ £vt £} £ 

 complaiuts also of the «JH£Z!££ '" i *C 



ZlZa^ZXZ G/LtTr of ^'-2 



I have known a pony fed on U foTsoS^** 

 ferring it to good hay, and showing by itseL£l£ 

 the food was appropriate. I think it iTTZTr! 

 market gardeners and cottagers shouM ^JT 



is worth more than the haulm. It is capital «b2* 

 when dried too. In the north the small iuml. 

 gathers his Potato haulm slovenly together andbj 

 No Q theory /of' the Potato diseas? "«? "pSjjJ 



an agreeable change ; in some respects more e 

 than some other vegetables to the cook, and it . „^, 

 good kind is secured is not a vegetable likely to k 

 given up after being once tried. Like all the Bri&s 

 tribe, it should be boiled, after most cooks consfej 



jet at the Aj 

 send you a copy of my letter a 



Lord Chichester. T. Beaie Browne "Hampa, Atit- 

 My Lord,— I address you a 



dec^iou i-i Cla - !., first prize, and justly a 

 impute no wrong motive to the judges, thoop w 

 public did not thus charitably judge them. Iter 

 could not be a moment's doubt that out of this- 1 "" 

 class the selected f r te by far the 



more leggy brute no man ever saw ; and I heard 



twelvemonth, at the great pul 



ited, and he was knocked down fa 

 might safely say never did two such horses at t 



: 



decLion XC was /ust" if the Society deem ^JjjJ 

 had hair enough to make a hair mattress. No'JjJ 

 pose, my lord, that the council, like other comp 



sen by the vote of the .members, ipj 



will be the only way of giving satisfaction to then* 

 stTouf ctTderatiofoHlfe 5*ifl a^g 

 sure very shortly we shall have a council "^"j^ 

 Bkowne, Ha'mpen, Andoversford, Gloo^estersbire^ ^, 



of^^C^W^rnoS^J.^* 

 at the market value, when we are feeding ** 

 towns, those articles generally "P^,^* 

 amount of horse labour, and are probably wow 

 they cost. On the farm, a ^^l^Ss* 

 must be adopted, and before we ^ ?%£&,* 

 may be worth in making beef, we mu Sl *" , 5,^ 



Let us begin with 1 



and no more, for feeding cattle. lte^flS 



be true, a bushel of Barley will "P""^ Btflff J 



