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rove land, and аА. 
he leader, perfect their growth and produce their seed, something wrong in this mode of trying to improve | land, and more frequent D Ыы; Which ы 
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the 1 t tl is some | Ше crop of T he 
lly divided, and instead of | agric ultur e by awarding premiums, or that there 18 so P urnips in t 
2 sap is there na eid eg ua nah Fass dois ex sed, | other thing ма prevents феі farmer eoi adopting the | of the lands during the driest eia "ot the year b 
ad is invariably productive of a better aud more | improvements? It may be pus MIR AR Is bars AD сее? Ploughings sid, two drillings, dissipates ^ 
d quality, I am bed which the farmer is placed which require to be | moisture, which is amply repaid b | 
po orci ей БИр Кыр pn domi pue he is placed in the same pos à M Gore 
in general were ор l hia A5 tak em, (2. x 
amore attention to this particular item, in their practice, | as the manufacturer, so as to induce him to take | stitution of the soil itself. In South Britain 
there would be fewer causes of complaint,and consequent | advantage of, ; and adopt every new improvement n ure Aap n once lost is never recovered during that 
better feeling, with less discussion, existing amongst them | agriculture which the object of the premium is intended | year, as the due are few and distant, and the бет 
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respect ch matters. My attention was first ealled| to produce. Should not the prizes be offered fort ystem that must н 
to D раба point nt by а ее, fd some yearssince,| whole of the farmer's stock, or for the management of | growing TUE theidung must be cove diro. 
«who had conceived an idea that if he saved seed from | the whole of his farm, instead of E for the best beast, | cast, and the Turnips sown on the flat ground "E 
els iece of Parsni s which had | the best sheep, or for the best ° Turnips, &c.? | of machines with lengthened coulters to make 
«dem sind dt pur ben he would Кош abled {о | во that no prize be awarded ЫЕ rx that whieh shows | the deposition of the seed. This method has ari ruis M 
w and produ ce some Parsnips which “ vold kg the greatest profit as the result. The landlords and |the dryness of the climate, which evaporates the mois. 
the natives," and, consequently, did so, from some of| their tenants are much more пор. асе by eustom and | ture during the frequent stirrings of the ground in the 
'the fines t of them, which was sown « а bed didus prejudice than any other уне of m If an intelligent | early season, When. the soil is cloddy and crumb! 
=- „= Мө, e ensuing season; when, to our | ап scientific man be a far ЕЕ" is ham mpered in his | the evaporation of moisture is complete, and the surface 
urprise, was not a kainin hollow- ode of ңеле: E by his landlord preventing him from |is dried into an arid dust in which no seeds wi 
rmi cir M udine ponet fosnalbough going out of the custom of the country. * The land | tate. The success of the Turnip erops almost хыр 
the land had received an equal am of dre must be farmed according to the berry: of the country, depends, in dry climates, on the husbanding of the mois. 
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gered and toed in every NM чү deformity. Thé landlord and his tenant ; and the intelligent А Me this be lost without а source of recovery, the chance of a 
result of this er ere win led m others апа I| landlord has ignorant ап pre judiced t о dea crop becomes a most precarious expectation, The retene 
have invariably found the DEASG which I now advance | witb, so that where the one is anxious he Бн, the | tion of moisture is considerably inereased by the autumn 
to be correct, and With out any desire but that of serving | other prevents him from doing so, either by ignorance | fallowing of the ground—the s ring stirrings of the land 
those who feel inte rested in the matter, have no hesi- y Aum some of those та which bear peculiarly are lessened, and the exposure is much decreased, This 
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been PAY successful, I had a of Ше variety | the ерон of agriculture or the permanent im- | are shallow and hot, and the climate dry, Aut 
known as “ Jersey Navets” 1 аг, Ше produce оѓ | provement of the soil ; indeed the want of security for | fallowing has been devised to yield this advantage, and 
seed Miet from plants, from which the central shoots| the money expended in improvement, and the injury he | it cannot fail to produee the results of its merit, J. D. 
had been removed at^the time before specified, which | sustains by ‚ваше, prevent the farmer from entering on | Swedish Turnips.—1l send you, at the request of 
irue as it was possible for them to be throu ugh- | any expensive V nega It cannot be expected that | Messrs. Charlwood & Co., of Covent Garden, six bulbs of 
out, not а deformed or à discoloured root Мр. зр a man will m t 61, or 8l. per aere to improve the | Swede Turnips, grown from seed bought of them, which 
amongst them. If th ce | farm from w may be expelled at half a year's аге а fair specimen of about 5 acres of Turnips. The 
to particular varieties, itis also so in счете © tho notice, to Sa бенаїп De of every sixpence which he | soil is tin LONE фа partly gravel, with a mixture of 
I have not known it to fail in any cas may have expended, will he be very anxious to chalk i e Turnips etie up well, bu fell of 
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I om been given to it. Bernard гу обв? adopt an biu ved ils ot eulture if it be more expen- | in Айй, po а second hoeing. They were 
Jew. O sive than the one he at present adopts, as the improve- | in about the 8th of June with 20 bushels of ashes and 
Moral p Intellectual Кук in Rural Dis-| ment may Бе for the advantage of his successor, and not | 2 ewt, of Lawes ворегріа hate of pan: the land had 
fricts.—An inhabitant of a country village in an agricul- | for himself ! These are the great drags to agrieultural | bee een dunged partly in November and partly in February, 
tural neighbourhood is або с of eios e a weekly | improvement. The farmer, investing his capital in his | The ОА ошйуайов of the field was аз follows;— 
evening meeting, for the advancement of the moral con- farm, surely ought to reap the use of the farm for such a 1850, Turnips, a very good crop; 1851, Barley and 
eo of the labourin пе clamet, uniting, if possible, i amuse-|time as will enable him to recover the prineipal and | Clover ; 1852, Clo {ер and 1853, Wheat. In an ad- 
etion ; er of such an mE interest of the money he has sunk in the improvement ; joining field (the soil rather better), I have an p 
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much obliged to any of your readers who шау have had | on it, they must either beat Ше expense of improving| Tanl: and Hose—I am a small man desirous of 
experience in the management „of such o aw. and | their land themselves, or let-the land remain as it 1з, following i ant == wake of the great Mr. in c 
would kindly. offer а few suggestions tol the establish- | for farmers will not expend their capital on another's mand showers of ШЕ, e rain upon m 
ment of an d adapted for the hard-working land without some security for it being a profit to | my vili. bo эй» he probability of i ич», 
m peasa e poor man, at times but ill | them. A И. ofan id iara аа to my liquid-loving vegetables, 
supplied with the common ЕЕ of life, нй toils| Italian Rge-grass in Scotland. — The Agricultural My farm consists of one acre, cultivated by the e 
from sunrise to sunset to support amily, and поё | Gazette is very lively on the vice of Italian Rye-|devoted to "the growth of Italian R f img 
rci re x “sickly A одам, Some occasional | gráss, and Mr. Caird has got into hot water. -T | On its confines are my stable and eun ih pared 
tion ^x an intellectual A: ealeulated #0 wish you had been able to come to Scotland to see the | floors, and capabilities for washing them Кепе шө 
humanise him, as it were, and to raise hint above the crops of Italian Rye-grass both at Mr. Telfer's and Mr. а tank, into whieh also flows ihe sewerage from 
T LEM fiet wor king all day › comes home, | Kennedy’s; they are truly wonderful Mr, Télfer's 50 house; I have also the command of water fòr 
eats and ТЕЗ, d then Sleéps till the peep..of morn | cows could not consume his seven Scotch acres of Italian The problem I require solving by some of yo 
awakes him, only to — oe wonted labours, While, | Rye-grass ; that is à fact. His Mangolds and Cabbage | perienced readers is, to what height ought I 0 pump. 
by means of our schools, incúlcate moral and reli- | are astonishing. Mr. Kennedy's 460 sheep in опе |theliquid into a tank (railway station like) t0 permit 
gious кра ma isti а dese for mental improve- | house, divided into rows of six or ei ght, is а beautiful | the ready distribution by the hose and jett EE. Ой 
ment into the t mind, should we not also provide | sight, and four months is the time, so. that during t the year e а 
some means of А the lambent flame thus | three times 460 аге fatted of. In five months the 
-b ! o | Italian Rye-grass of oneacre nem 70 sheep; that is, the eti 
ished in maturer years by rude hardship | circle of cuttings of a certain number of nid feeds thes : зеи 
reath 460 sheep at the rate of 70 per acre; I believe it is the GAN, WIGTONSHIRE. con" 
‹ he prev: ; sin О poor eem pig edulity of some|vest havin 
am Moxieating drink ; but let us | persons s marvellous, It might earar been well if the | the home farm at Lo 
са не 1 | EK gone to вее Mr. | Colonel M‘ 
уе the roo е rankling at the соге; сап we | Telfer's fiin. A well-known Corr ефе 5р in the County | estates to particip 
поё strike still deeper, and, ын? cultivating the érude soil | of Ayr. [We guarantee the exactness оѓ this- festivities of this jo 
ote bu heart c xe the taste for such low pur- —€— presi А 
соопту gentleman тау expostulate in|  Osiérs.—Having been fora number о ears conver- j 
bitter terms against the vices of his humbler brethren, | sant with the cultivation of twigs (Osier), I isv of SACRE А 
айй forbid his cottiers to pass the threshold of the late been muc 
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DEN t will all this suffice 1 Constanc ure of a plot of from 10 to 12 acres, most advan- | of. the proficiency of 
"rt ксы Я " Н m ор tageously 99 marsh, h have for 20 eulturist, he, in returning thanks Jj 
а en | cess: pr y been most productive and lucrative. d b or Maitl 
MX = in А a man, ог д set of men, to adopt a | Forthe last two years I havehad very fair growth on parts | tbe Lon Ё m He stat 1 
UR T2 dd - e which they at | of t other parts yiel ing but а sickly growth, | him of great gratification € he could . 
БЕ ene opi bos — ' who o Ecl р wish | not at all encouraging to the grower ог buyer. MayI - his tenantry who had taken а. ose | и 
om mis оо arr a man поси beg to gie of your numerous correspond- agrieultural m teen of the ему bon aa 
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e Eiso и uy eras ceres this is the case? Or | under their weii т pts "dud me мо dae м plo ot high f sia dn pru — 5. f 
p'e, to whom the premiums are offered, so | course they would advise for th d 
Lori orant or so prejudiced {о old customs that they are | twig, which fi € ble t ud чата is а 
Es their own self-interest? It is evident that | domestic and far economy erkbins, Cahir 
- s о offer the e premiums expect that they wil have| Autumn rire of Stubbles.—The autu tumnal fallow- 
considerable effect in directing the mind of the farm т | ing of lands that.are intended. to be planted with green 
quire into and probably to adopt such a line g the following season, is а recent i introduc 
ractice of agriculture, and under {оду affo: v i Н н 
able eireumstances із atten very considerable | was year after year providing an E ^t and #' 
! че 4 -— vu or partly cleared of | rative source of employment to the ^ inteligeit 
autumn, an soi ing d ог | conducted lab rs on his property dea 
$| paniy pulverised, a very large is given | to himself for this, for кў» the labour mei js 
the work of the next t: orth M woul H 3^ satisfaction in the 
f England nd the whole of Seotland do not gene- making. ом We ME 
y allow the intr uction of any autumn fallowing afford to бон it "But when es pem 
ground, September is the general harvest month, Айа his labour-bill one of the bes Syry 
= any entertainment of the process js g capi e had great confine 
mate is so very uncertain, and in n many |t "s pere of agrienltural [mero 
z if as to demand the whole attention in | in the f such а te as lie Вай the 
Lis cq kaving to, dhe ment Үр he wonk | of seeing ronn fo e lle m 
ciue e meros А e urnip soils in Britain are | ment of his estate, an "phe 0! 
аһу й. Does mot this abow det со its eode ola оной; uut the those who were во much bound up ine 
18 | opposite advantage is enjoyed of a cooler nature in the perity. (Loud cheering.) In In returning hom? 
