494 THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. (Mar 21, ig 
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classes than was furnished by the middle-class schools | decreasing the supply left on | hand for sheep feeding. : And | the soil I | amid HI 
of the m what p aid = —- at the present day as meat men He | away. 
4 aid it s satisfact y to find that Hu rem all the Beet, one- -third of the Sw and a Mr. oops concurred with Mr. May 
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Mr. Horn st Pu af the common "Para nips ; of edad e regard | bad thing it was bid have ill- bred animal eating wha 
they were a pour in one point—namely, that the | to the bulk of the crop aa othan y Seer ees Thus about | every man of discernment knew that it was easier ad 
basis of instruction for a well-educated Englishman, | half woul store y 
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ng of artifie ; 
t for hi d a ero dt Barley as | was that so? It was the farmer's own fault if ¢ t 
the sh sept AR Ic "of im as CE fro 4 m Me soil he | Why did they not feed their ewes better, in which e D 
armer, he ail ave ee knowledge, and that | iat apportion—15 acres to 20 grazing beasts, 4 acres to | sure they would do the land as much good as other ani 
practical knowledge must be connected with science. 10: anes ditto 5 teres to cows, &c.. and ( dim ‘would be ho he " Mn was, = ee ee n VAM ma cii n of the fin. 
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Science and practice must go together, and the|i in rore. The baag as Mole Eye eu es ep isi return to ANAC E ET from whe mre in 
difficulty was how that was to be given to that very | bout 20 vul io fit them for the "uteher ring which | much more highly fed. Mr. had Y prop 
large and scattered class to which Mr n Hoskyns | time they would consume 7} cwt. each, a of 26l. 5s. advocated the growing of green OAE, d: ust have 
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wor d be 123 tons eac ich w aali be chai rged w ith 1L. 6s. 3d. Vetches, but it dould pss jid produced ats v ex| 
the third A the cues NO deut the oe of the manure | friend of his had said - the looked on the im 
by about 21 ; but it should be mbered that the | exhausted arable Ta nd as a udi r that might 
cake given ee a considerable qua; eae of natural food, mereces ier pin if the land idis a strong, cold, clayey 
and w puld enable 15 beasts to be kep d in the ‘place of|should be drained, sh quid be well manured 
12 cake. young beasts j^ would give half|good manure; if it di light land, Should 
^ pia of cake and half the quantity of roots; i clayed, made to grow g good on and the Tung. 
consequently is eir manure sould E u^ ess in bulk and |should be fed off with cake. With regard to what Mr, (gs 
inferior in qusc charged manure EUM had said about claying, he thought that Mr, Gates 
quarter ins iof a third of the eal cake, which would amount to hardly have gone the right way to work, and that had t 
e | 10s. each beast ; Mr mm ina em 0 have meet ms of | clay been used m M x age and applied at " 
manure each, the aene. ost. f arti ifi ial feeding would be | right time of the r being sufficiently to th 
1s. per ton. Fro Yom his own Fetütms he found that the sum left | action of the air, he (Mr. Woods) w wae confident it w F 
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marked out a limit, his tate hle& on education 
connected with agriculture and drawn the line at 
the holders of far f from 300 to 300 acres, just to 
that ree 
f far v ad, a e young | been so pulverised that it would have been readily inç 
a Mog srg DAE bog |o de. E s "ur don MCN hens | with thesoll. He had layed some p^ putting n 100 
ppanisjioip. m bears would show a Tu ‘return, for the 19 | acre, and de "s no wp of ag to be found in that 
of education h te charged x SEND g raw ight land. but j^ agre 
not leave the lad who was intended to be a farmer in Mavhow i in saying jd should save their farcnyar manure f 
th he lur ch, after ' having : assisted to give him the benefit thelr Whea! e thou abt they would harako think it righty 
ect | apply raw n under such. uc Edit ances. The qu 
tated him by. means vof f prizes in connection either with 
ith the natural sciences, all of 
whieh were pees d with agriculture, but that thay |o 
zne months. He had reat doubts upon the 
the r. Mayhew it not $a pot a, Pas: approved of hoeing 
ould be able to hit upon some plan for aiding those Win, whos we Wari bode s. very good bidai 
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pro e after leaving zebooh and ave 
them an p eroe i p bris "en. nowledge 
their 
repeated cropping. ith regard to cial fertilisers, 
the sciences connected with 
caution: they xen po pon use required much care 
= cake, he believed it a 
ange Br od We t e operly used, and he knew a) 
inteligent farmer on had Tost sight or ten 
arlin; ngs em na rely, as he belie exa, thv eh oe ee 
ative a he be Hio, nson's system of growin nips and corn 
WAYLAND AND WATTON: The. Restoration and | to remunerativo, any Nar with artificial ma Cow: P alternately, for - mien E improving his land, wat 
Improvement of Exhausted Arable Land.—Mr. J. and all stock usually kept in ja. s farmyard wae ATA yield aw certainly vel o "o ceeded in pi 
Mayhew lately read a paper on thi subj profit by being fed liberally. With regard to ahaep | foading corn every wo years on pe pA bork than 
1 a means of manu facturing Pct (oM manure, half "the ever did. 
By exhausted arable land he meant land that had h med, would, with the enid of artificial 
ill-treatment or otherwise lost, i uetive- inary 
was, the constituent 
had been 
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reduced ag 3 Duxsr.—The nth kas been mueh drier than 
d in the soil to produce tà hire, which would ; fhis upon the it a is; m total ete “onl amounting t to 
r : ; de 6s. 8d. verbial | e rn 
As 
to fully 
there was 
mature a To a certain extent 
exhaustion ot ght arise from the production of an 
sg pmo i crop, although the previous treat- 
ment might have been liber —- 
he beast med, they T 
to pay 19%. 16s. 10d. per score. helvdtng aie and 
fave iod bccn profit 10s. per rage ees within s" — 
at pow 3p cash r wee ing & the f y. " ‘od 
of oo ck to be P« Pion la b hs it a E pa Mme for a Mec from that date; during which parte! 
which w manure (thou enero p Aet yeu ere were two rimy mornings, an although the ‘he 
B actu per ton for feeding with cake, to be equal to the | Was not severe, Grass began to disappear. » ger 
n- | 26s. 3d, charged to the soil for the sheep-fold, night of the 15th we had a gentle rain, which, when $ 
sed bet 6 and 7 o'cl Be t morning, amou 
cea! ween 6 and 7 o’clock next m : 
SE Moe Seu M bed x Manet zich d e: oda to more than } of an inch. This, being followed byi 
great inj ure of the ewpa, and. h Eie mild day, had a very beneficial effect on de vii 
lad set ome Raa rs “te indie Cem bankdag softening the elods i eer y to innod s aud 
tom had m ans experience in such app plication, ti il the 19th, wh with; The erm tà € 
Mr. Mayhew recommended the. carrying of all farm- 
lated aoe the a iai : s in a raw state, th ereb indeed i; in the height of the , day, 2 M s 
8 immer 
: : <1, | morn ings were dewy, and the days were SU 
the Wheat erop, for which it was betes | The weather became € e the Lo Min dt 
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than any other manure, by doing which they pore Gl the end anh of te Mace 
ceeding root crop, and slight shower on the $ os of the 
im ved system of farming to abour. —Labour, which in the beginning pret 
In conclusion, he spout was considerably in arrear, is now ig 
d to e in comple 
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some exi te vem ~~ ee that it yielded the larg e|time, However, as was to be expected, them 
of the the samo med. by, divenaea capital employed, bliring al we. the | diminished acreage of this crop. Besides this x 
verage amount of . Therefore all the ty an Ard of iem a system had fewer ** seasons,” as | sowing Grass se i and e n fallo tantopere 
should be with a the | they were ealled, t than the followers on either of ad vigorously prosec and for these foi 
the danger of | tions the weather 1 j^ bin all that could be ex 
are 
the vicissitudes ort ur climate, to which | largely d as an auxiliary E the rami ne 
| on the exhausted rakla, paa hys blige their assistance cattle may be held for some time 
b joint Bi a e or they became so w sickly tha 
r han 
the relativi tahia, of WO 
manures, Pot how should they be 
at a moderately 
n 
ith 
D he first was to manu stragglers most low country flocks have 
irum e greatest amor riched natural manure, and d ord T lam! nis making li 
ech i past it produc abundant root and green crops, . ew in thinking it a very expensive item to cart ; 
chiefly artificial manures, which were the 1 lan better to give growing ^ oE esides losing 
ied hater ¢ hong e, where rapid tity, and consume all they could with the | much pate en ‘don — which, besides 5, which 
ary on cake. Leo ae Bri improve their | dition are casti rf also “ coatings m 
dM sheep highly. had discontinu: 
a great de atio : 
gebe qxooping Vis now favourable for mabig. s clipping 
! were kept very high, have already made a beginn stath 
with Swedes, and on. T 
g them every four poni "m y à LAS Sag ick né pen may be ra as : 
between the same kind of E irds superphosphate and 
land, whic Moog ensure | tj T 1 which more could be 
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grown than from good LoT brought a a [3 price f for T uem 
and; ! 
ud are early e E 
pem lat 
with eid Heat tae a. ia ai 
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