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FEBRUARY 27, 1864.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 203 
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improve, far from it. au | Wheat may y be improved | the old-fashioned halt-e xpl led syst f using the soil | p = Be ores on € Lande, O 
achine at all? Bean s 
ooo addu pe Seeing bris — condition of various regions of | tool; 
I then went = £o Pire do ye the earth fro e exhaustion of the vegetable mould, ow dba te, the round was pe" f g 
take the eem Een the say s Fang edoa] I Meer sium recommend to Baron von Liebig and | moved as Varia — I and I think 
his followe ers e form a compan forthwith, with | greater width than those we had on i 
F tem Manor "Horns Brighton, Fe 3. 9 nS ; F rd "pecie t tien is i 
a 
the 
Sart ER MOUL America and elsewhere into high] ] 
is the natural mares nd growth conversion n 0 doubt no Very difficult to effect, as they mimic Wi ds 
eq or the superior order of plants vain not be much discommoded with warehoused | acres of land to ehe pare Pe winter sowing, "ires 
bed prepare f Ad De e fime, It is com- in ds of vegetable m ould. No possible i amt could | short of six or — "à tional Midi could hav 
peel of disintegrated r ock— -drift or Jaenstrin ie and | enter u ues pka favourable field in rospec da shieed the thin 
h : 
edi here w | have t ing been over “the Colle ege farm weg a b 
with more or less organic matter slit of the | to the Jin ability “of shareholders, "à the marvellous | wy, a ow visits in the Cotswold meten Ia e to 
remains of vegetable and enintal- life of past ages, | Success of Baron von Liebig in repairing the great wit! d 
And chen as these remains are plentiful or defi- exhaustion of much of the ‘lands of mee ny will dispel accomplished on it. The young Wheats after it look 
cient, other things bei f| any s of the undertaking. As one uncommonly well; the land treads firmer and better 
the soil, excepting where from pasion circumstances | 8$ à prospectus can be got ready and re the wise | on on t duel portion than rus worked by 
A nd thoughtful ier pm wa by T Johann of hors rags diese m a field d 
ds axony in person, will has en to enter into the j th of October after Rape, the steam eui 
* s coc of “ie ale mond in most cu scheme. The money-holding Jews, particularly pape of which did not brad a the whole field. 
ed as a caltivator and is found deepest and Rothschilds, countrymen of the Baron, s ind ne though sown the same 
aie he E eode osit had been | 9ney speculations, will no do oubt afford funds & wi | Fe rm, or ook s pes o wall, a sth 
richest where the rock « d qi un limate | required amount. Baron von Liebig and his follower! | ae a be ae tait: at Bs the sa 
most Ee for its increase, an Blum ‘mr © | must pardon me, but really I cannot treat the gom z 
anda fair supply of moisture had been pop ous tor of his mineral theor ory and the iiio e soil w 
rad Lm pier am. Mai sconmulation useless warehoused organic remains (veg er oui) d 
E th a scien ifie subjec 
Sper een tart at era EET atte, 
dee! fud stimable richness, as from that of a | Goun ie Hi aaen 
common onda ire» to three feet. condition as a se ^en bed, Me and aoe i water furrowed, 
vidently connected with the or tne escape of surface water, and covered with 
NL the. hci am vegetables and animals. A WEEK UPON THE ee good plant, it treads a a and promises well 
Commencing upon the hat rock or pure mineral earth Concluded from p The detailed account thu: s given of the steam culti- 
inferi i getati STEAN CULTIVATION ON THE Rovat AGRICULTURAL | vation at the Cir rencester ‘College farm has been 
Lichens, Mosses, and deep rooting arborescent Fern | Corrmaz Fanw 
transer} h 
ARM, 
In another field, where, owing to th edged ae of 
the land, the steam | plou gh Ki ad m ade indifferent work 
an A dint of tint labour 
in properly turning inde small portions that were 
missed, and rolling with Crosskill’s clod crusher and re- 
eil 
hus 
as „bee en | by the present fum manager Terps describes the | kind tat the real experience of the steam cultiva 0 
tables upon p | 8.4 fairly represented, „Tt is to a very large rien: it 
— Yd n e Rr aie sin n stile earth, The to a llege f. s, 450 being | will be Seen, an experience of annoyance, accident, and 
wherever this cct is greatest, the product of the scien a aried in desea and and the cost of the operation on the 
of man is greatest, and can X "€ ed with less | wholeisd Pme 20 Liaioüibus 10 to 50 acres eich, | whole has not been so much less than that of horses as 
exertion of, of labour (warm climate irrigation excepted). | A consi iderable portion of the occupation immedia ately | | in some more ceptional cases it has proved, The 
But it unluckily happens that man himself | surrounds the bu wildness, and i is s easily acce ssible, —À real and ulti aite experience, however, is seen in 
is the great destroyer of that which is the | intersected e verae rnpike a 00 | the superior quality of the work thus done. he 
tance to himsclf—that upon which | acres are diffi approach, pr resent | an irr egu ial "te e (single operation after harvest being itself more 
his existence depends, least as a civilised d face, etatiodating in character, and naturally of inferior | | efficient for fallow and till ge purposes gren a whole 
has hitherto depended. I believe that no quality. The f. by itself not capable ffording series of ploughings and M by e-power, 
pointed out this fact, perhaps as bein beyond 70 or 80 days employment to the steam plough and the ne oed accomplishme ent of it dubi 'the short 
Yet even nder the culture of the nthe year, a breadth insufficient for the profitable intervals w clay land is fit to work, doublin ng and 
highest civilised, lead ding, and mos mg race in| working of the apparatus. : Under these circumstances tripling the effe ct, 
North ae the Re Australia, New Zealand, and | work for the implement is sought in the neighbourhood, | This notice of alis fora has been confined simply to 
m exhaustion of the v iecle nd it no5 unfre ly hap that R ence | the experience cultivation on it; but there 
a p o n in Britain itself, of the adjacent occupiers is consul e wants are many n in its management deserving more 
80 ties are present for its increase, the olt of 
the College farm. Our r neighbour Mr. Dewe has notice than can vd e given to it now. The sheep are a 
destruction is going on. is : will — hith 
t us at ees 
the Co ed—th 
ment ple the steam. yog; two years back, he has found a capital illustration of the Berkshire breed — the 
Hay te mple of the destructi fon, | it ample work for six weeks or two months i neach year. dairy include a number of well-bred S minii cattle. 
"T ; similar in "thia -€— to other coloni ght and múch | The buildings, though a systematic and e labora > Pile, 
f hd is abundant. In all the best soils aa er it vni the b m X n «gr dered from t the 
dich away from the | thoroughness and depth the tillag fonction want of cottage accommodation for resident akonei 
pe of the Mississippi valle ey and interior on | by the v plou 
the b ugh ie en satieiently plain: | | The cultiv. ation of the land is forward, roads and fences 
South side of the lakes, the land by reckless culti- | Owing to the shallowness of the surface, the pow he ar 
yation has been robbed of the vegetable mould. While | expended i E a the soil is reduced at dines nearly 
they had good forest land to fall back u D, no en- | to its amount; th ting, howeve: 
deavour whatever seg -- to k 
s forms a capital Tre a to werent A; t Kerber College. 
eep € the natural | jg morad: by the frequent breakages of skifes an Vm. x a 
ene poe, din - M: e fie mede A cropped w With | shares, in consequence of the implement fo ouling rm ESSE ee T EUR c pas 
r ing " ants— deer 8, 2 ipe Obaceo, | jecting portions of the limestone . On 26th . à 
Tarain i it would no lon pay cultivate. | of August we commenced our teem work by diggi Hom e Correspondence 
"qd he whole of the good land of the Eastern | at a depth of A inches a Wheat. stubble for winter | Halletts tana om quite agree with a that Mr. 
ition un IN rendered unfit t. a aa ort piian popu- | Vetches. The implement got over 7 acres per day, | Shirreff has written respectin ng this Whea There 
de oduced nd with the drag attached, making a splendid seed bed. | cannot be two opinions as to Mr. Hallets having 
ir di is iously providert eyecare of agriculture | Tho &tartimpkton f coal was somewha large, viz. devot eat amount of time, care, and attention to 
obtain immodia well to increase the vegetable mould " sto 15 ewt.; our engine being only 10-horse power, the coal the growth of this particular sort, but it is a matter of 
E immediate return of cr, crop. is more per horse-power than v^ zs be required with | Obscurity and doubt whether he can establish much 
Europe ate g apu in — — any | a more MTS má viis Oar ^. -—- Wht a ctim to TM à : P m Poa In ms 
and France, subjec ecrease in fertility, |a piece required for eat, wi e autumn chased a 1e 
1 ‘though il A soil has been | turn furrows in the place of the di Ve heat with - idea of giving it p ee using 
» has occupied the attention of scientific | fair work was mad t of i "The steam | | heard and ead so much abo ut 
lt, Liebig, and others have been | plough leaves a some Wagner Surface than is| intment at the outset 
ation of the growth of plants, | desired in a preparation of this nature, and one or two | for on D ‘the bag, instead of super 
ave learned, were|extra strokes with the dra 
ad th ire 
n to | presen pem - I had fairly be een led to beris Mix 
uently destitute of the|obtain an even seed bed. On the College Farm n2 8 ud a 
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which practical expe-| acres were ploughed, dug, or cultivated at depths | mel "inferio lor Red Wheat of som e 
i nek d lonr, 
x ^ other, faint faint 
ive which alone enable the mind varying from 4 to 12 inches. It is in smashing up | and weak in colour, and totally unlike the genuine 
judg ment. Liebig, in particular, an | onr stubble les at the latier depth that find | Red Nursery. H ving bough the V heat, however, I 
S devoted much attention to! the greatest care is rege eta of ae employed | determined upon giving it a fair trial upon a Fick pieces 
is more chemist | with the apparatus, cet of — and carefully put it in according to instruc: 
d naturally, like the man of|a skife and turn-furrow, and “slackening the speed, |tions. There w hing particular about the growth ; 
i with leather, | the operation proceeds regularly, and the strats, it tillered very well, certainly, and grew a y 
b chemistry; so|on the engine me gear is much lessened. — An | kind of straw, lon, considerably than ordinary kinds 
is minerals being the average 0 of 4} acres per da ou rk with this | of Wh u what that a 
y of the veg the depth just named, the co - ing extraordinary—barely 10 sacks per aere ; like 
went so far as| tion of coal bein ing barely 11 cwt. I cannot speak too | the vi ,a coarse i saad and faint in 
: grain, 
ignorant farmicrs to feed the highly of c Comma of the work performed with | colour a very bad millers’ Whea tt small as nae 
reat the la tter as | Fowler’ sT- tin eultivator, whether running at a 
a shall low | the quantity, Ihad -— MÀ ad irf custor 
ouse, as if p is o gas furnished with 7- Ea at a low figure. being nothing particular 
s stores, which a a being shares, -— nci the surface of our bare fallows in T ^n E favourable or other 
ithout A help from | Pea stubbles, and left: a first-rate preparation for tle to the t, my i pretio ms 
that these new-light Wien; ese J the prudence mi operating thus that any, discit of hea lanted 
faik to the soil as an |a fena that had been d for so anny under similar circumstances would ha 
or woolprieating food, and wi xai an of the wether, was questioned, | favourable a result. Did Mr. Hallett when he started 
would work with more facility nothin ing c ala have answered better; from 10 2 a commence with a false ear, believing it to be Nursery, 
lumber. Why do they | acres per dy were tilled after this manner. The pr or has the Nursery Wheat degenerated under his care 
bee aber. W inerals in to | app ppearance of the Wheat plant and firm con dition o of and; Jattention? The prolific beh does not amount bed 
budding, without belay | indebted to! the soil is the best ves of the efficiency of the | much, as I remember 20 y 
TS ago a crop of 15 or 
