THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



price for a pair of wheels an i I m pressing more and more on the produce of the land and take advant: 



is a sparred or harvest cart, e the income of tenant. But the 



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could, because they were Scotch, and 

 never, if possible, take one of them into town, as 



•t of a cart have you got the- 



s? : ' But an ugly, heavy Hampshire cart, wit 



scotch cart ^ns light, holds a, ton weSi* P ™ "-" 

 " L. V. R. » I do verily believe, never 



;o name the date of the mi 

 Sl-tfjs.—: > 

 The much infested with slugs, 1 



London, and asked him if he had any Sec 



" Yes, Sir," was his reply, and showed me 

 called it. I said, ■ That is not a Scotch ca 

 huge a thine for one of the^,-.' 



I asked the , 

 saw perhaps, as he 



i thing I never 



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agricultural shows, rude and coarse in construction 

 those made in Scotland. A Hampshire wheelwright 



for the same monev" viz.. 19L Mr Mat.hor «nt< 



and well InTll 





Mr. 



M.i:h 

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day Maize— T 



Club.— How n 



j called by Mr. 



Keene), as 



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rry-d.-i/ 

 liar,:- 



sequently better, sort than that 



for years as " Cobbett's Corn," w 



know ; and yet I see that only on< 

 Warner, produced a cob of that con 







vhat Mr. Keene' callc 



Corn," though he ought to have known at t 



will, I think, be admitted, that for years there has i 

 fceen a season so favourable for the culth -iti >n of vj f! ; 

 as this ; it has been an extraordinarily prolong 



into the drills and destroyed the 



1 dropping Turnip tons about 10 v>- 

 fields, and the next 



picked off, and on one occasion h 

 a\ 9 acres of Wheat ; he persevere 

 lestroyed a great man,, but the 2 

 cold and the Turnip tops fiv.sty the 



I rhrli!gh n a7X d relUf e it P ?ir'- and "**** 

 30 hard upon the landlord ; but they did"* w ^ 

 lis nonsense ; they wanted pla 

 « w .ed course of proceeding ; th 



try, and they should go on better. But he \Z TtZ. 



? di ?s to say to Mr. Mechi, as ho knew Mr. Dixon and 

 ■ «=ii others were bottled up < 



SL°win, e S Pm ?l Sei " ' tbe ^°° d health °f Mr.'S St 



ea up in a heap, and, by a singular they might get into some argument on his immv7 



movement, cast off a sort of slimy skin— a second dose ments and challenges.— Mr. Mechi said before he went 



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 atisfactory result, but had j some experiments he had made in thick and thin 



the same way as the « Hme and! bushelsaTac^^^^ 



se to— reported, and having found invariably a considerable 

 advantage in 1 bushel oyer 2, he had from all the cir- 



by an action a* law.' ^e was' nnu°l ,v iU> ^ «2t 

 Wurzel at 16, per ton ; and he ^ S * S* 



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iverse the fields to eat them, am 



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dding the' land of these pests. He now adopts 

 iin remedy as the most successful, but at a differ 

 recommends that immediately after 



6 pecks, changing the drill so as to depo-it the desired 

 quantity ; and he found there was an advantage in 

 favour of thick sowing this year, the 5 pecks giving an 

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Wheat is planted, and before it appears above ground, 6 pec 



that Turnip tops • - the figures with him) 



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m over a pail, and then dropping the was 1 to 2 pecks in favour of 5 and 6 peeks ove: 

 tops as before; pr, i; ^ ]ieL He thougbt the state ^ uality of 



land had much to do with 



" Cobbett's Corn '' for 3 



with some of the seed from 



I a crop quite equal to Mr. Keene's, but 

 ttt it has ripened six weeks 



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ne, I cannot help repudiating the " 

 . C. Oliver, Lymington. [The 



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tember is not confined to the neighboi 



Newbury, Berks ; it is much practised on th* 



here, unlike the practical man of which y< 

 spondent John Coleman speaks, always get t 

 ploughed in as soon as they can after it has r 

 fields, and if the farm-yard manure be ua 

 Wheat crop, this appears to me to be the m 

 able way of using it. The system of spre; 

 long before it is ploughed in must, I think, be 

 In the process of haymaking we spread the 

 the surface of the field, to dry and evaporate 

 and moisture contained in the Grass, and ii 







t,.^L e ^ „ . 1Sm the farm-yard, and there- 



£>oneuesu 



, Mr. William Hutley produced the following 

 jment of an experiment with farm-yard and arti- 

 1 manure, : « In a field of strong clay land (Clover 

 , id acres manured with farm-yara dung, 25 loads, 



s manured with Rape-cake and guano, 400 of each 

 acre; between the 15 acres manured with duns:, 1 



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10 on the four stetches, at a cost of 3/. per acre. 



■at which was mucked, and I think 

 raw, but I did not weigh it." He 1 



Miit .Mr. 1 



a gain of 30*. an acre. There- 



ill convert their 



g it to market, and thus use 



!T; vi tv IT ;1 • .The thick 



wilf theM n X ° n ' Vhat StatG and higher ' aDd CleaDer thaD Uie wM a p»* ; S3 



His (Mr. H.'s) opinion was, that the llapT anTguano we strawirbotlTcases. ' With regard to ^J^J 



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quality 



)ecember, the land being strong with sheep's manure, 

 r had too much straw, and had to flag it ; there was 

 _ at crop, but they all thought it would have gone down 

 early in April, if not flagged. With regard to Beans 

 Peas he had also tried a similar experiment, and he 

 id that the thick sown had a consi 

 >oth cases over the thin. He drilled i bushels an 



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 three-sevenths of that quantity 



sowing produced 1 



other case only 48 I 



ent,and 



,.! 1.- iii'..:i..|,t m.:«-h depended mi the n.'.r of the 

 ean. Now, as to Peas, be put three bushels an acre 



Ee thought that, with the aid of these 



rt all their vegetables, all their straw 

 ing of them, save and except that which 



, i tead <>f 



1/., some at 21., less than they cost 



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ihould certainly try again the difference between 



; -nd 6 pecks and 4. Now they wou^^ 110 ^^ ^ 



ik them kindly for drinking his health, wh«* JJ 



Mr. Mechi then proceeded * 

 that two y e ^ s th f° co ^yt!^ 



