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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE m 
hasa gravel or sandy porous subsoil you may go four | f 
feet or is deeper, and pie 10 to 15 yards apart. | 
there can be n 
e, better than in other situations. 
E ality of the x» is decidedly Lauri 
dmitted to contain more sacch 
ari sgo n pars of tke interior where high farm 
g so 
`| turning the ag al — ral tim 
he 
ficial, The CEN is, however, an — infallible 
remedy for the Moss not only de estroying 
| preventin 
of quick lime with 
wo 
ne byte : gens light loam, 
h 
mixed and the lim 
on. M come to thejconclusion that on 
pax said Ho De ed with great benefit; while on pr muck ? 
sit a e either with no advantage whatever, | the drainer; but we must not be led awa k 
it Misadvantage. The character of the soil had a | theory of book drainers, who tell us if we drain dee ep we 
to do with mon Si ala hii E ets ep tai us x may. drain soil, Ik 
ies of sa ere w: onge 
the roper ine matters, tis pr operty of retarding the put in four and a-half feet deep and 12 yards apart in 
eo When applied in quantities of a . | strong clay land, and in two or three years after, when 
pu rtainly retards the growth of plan the clay got close over the drains, they were of ver 
sli ce T utility biben ipe TR Tow z M 
it wasof great © aro edition, and the final | little use indeed owever deep we in clay lands u 
E E larder pr produs. Tha: plot decidedly | We t not go too wide rt. It is highly recom- i 
to Mangels, In the eastern counties the | me by experienced drainers to put in air drains | Sainfoin 
use of £ had ign ding the rowth of where convenient, allowing the upper end of the drain 
3o ight soil, weh ather were | to lead tch or some other open place to admit | e 
only halt d By ea 
tle Fa m be allowed W kr m the 
same big as this dre is gi 
and root je that they aas in the 
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a [pem - and enough corn between to pay the 
expens 
tains, ‘It drain ning is doro y carrie d out, i it secures 
tl in the soil which is best ar 
to insure its roductiveness. Water meadow i 
s mprove, the | water brin dion 
e 
fertilising properties wit d 
artificial manure, also the cartage ein dde man 
ait 
fia vere used with it. 
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but a above all other Grass d ston be kept re 
hen n the fi 
me et p Walton-on-Thames) n having 
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Origin and ao of the Sockburn Short-h 
with Remarks, an Appendiz, 
wh 
rs. In Prose Verse. 
Hutchinson. London: Printed for E 
9, Budge Row 
A aj Gh of this little S pect has lately pm into 
our | and as contains probably oldest 
except when you tur 
of getting dry as soon as the S rte are drawn out, the 
water will do twic hen 
at all accord with those 
Beto the d i 1990 2 : asa foul devise: in acres 
jas obliged low. es by the side of them, and 
preron and two bush 
Misi vn ee n r the whol U 
e over es. p 
Mint Emi te E Wheat D Tooke reis narkably well, 
ab oe gy he v a large ; but the 
it is rer boten to the student i- Short- 
= aee 
rep rs from the date (1822) 
of traw per 
à produce of 3150 lb. per aci showing 280 9 1b. per 
5 ss a pia — of 
S apportion to the Wheat, and shat was ao - d for | we 
Mr of the P The straw ies n the 
More mineral matter than a ph 
7 tly had a ppc weight 
bin lag Teplying, said it might be supposed that 
ments with Mangel ose! were not carried on upon 
mesial, but as pa rt of his ordinary farm practice. 
rine on loam resting on yellow clay. Mr. Kerey’s 
Pittis and eat, also what as termed ure t 
mila vie ooo he sa Bat salt wan a oapital manure, the 
Breed with, gentle "M e tended to TRES Poad 
à Prbleeoor. | 'oeleker that, when salt was a 
p herb ooked better, and the kattis lands Or ut i ime is applied i in a raw state in n heaps 
eas contained of it; nevertheless, he doubted hathar the|of about a bushel, and spread? abroad as 
pulverised, it vil answer a good purpose. To ma crim 
li ca t 
ute, at abc three v waggon 
5 
Scrapi 
Agvioulturists did not w ula 
se Wire what they A needed wa $ good o rx 
depend ym on ol EA value of salt and 
e | mended, ta Statbráshire : lanes pr veins oity ot 
butter, and cheese, and cattle, they €: uaily use a large 
qua ge d boues to seg m tilising qualities 
taken a Accordin pri izo in the 
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Yevotses thus a top dressing for pastu n strong soils, gaano, 
t one period and not at another. 
the use of salt might be advan- 
Speaking pe te he doubted 
now paid for that article 
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uce. 
Mr. Law: med to think 
— fout "e salt — 
s gy he ed ark 
Pis rud and pm wed 
bun o : almost & the f first soing [iN 
an 
corrective, of salt, and in nine 
eg to was 
h gaveit a dom. eee. land entirely but in most cases gri 
Wurzel without salt, but this year | can bi by merel 
MS né relation to this ques- | which should consist of the finest and most 
it. He d he crop see 'm ial Grasses an i 
9 had been as stead 
Busy v tnavine pak, sequirad F earl to loosen the soil for th 
g à marine plan! fequi arly in sprin oosen the soil for the 
consumption er sane eter look a little oa ison of t y. ad wn wi cup 
Lencther: zur merous small spaces Between the Grasses 
, and supersede t T ig gt 
nn 
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the „pas asture is very fi oul wil th weeds and m 
pienine 
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Clubs. It is a good pra these seeds at the 
On Grass feat LONGMAN read simo time as the top drei. it "ss is je appli, ES 
sai ý months o 
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^ our wet land, draining is 
a che} | of ite tle use unless it is | seeds; 
Re in ep. ed land drains | protect the young from frost. 
er yards apart ; | in July” and August, im 
an vipat feet Sails ha the o 
he ae description ; but if land | ge c ily an indication that draining would be bene- 
aie bull. sheer m fall (or 
loa ixed u Up | remains of S 
ith tl f di tches, nem by the road a -— 
wom 
pe 1795. My un 
there in rss” 
s Tes 
ee ee ye of del y gr anything like a par 
g t ay m 
Highland d Society” s Transactions Ts artificial manures | &@ 
re 
no more land than w: 
eat 
sowing renovating seeds, — 
w th ont 
guin d 
thus described fi mory, by Mr. Thomas 
Hutchinson, of Hindwell (Nov. 13, 1821). 
he was well shaj almost 
ES "B symmetry! darkish red and 
8 | white, flecked in ber ste portions, but not in large patches ; 
pro) 
the white portiooe. not distinctly s 80, but PS or d 
with red, like th is "tm terror m i 
TO 
Shito 
t | = a great milker. este oina bs bat two ca = ives, iia upwards, : 
rS zio 
y was the 
redi ve to uke Seymou 
d Ball were 
Mr. 
prem w Sall The premiu d " E 
other dnd. ditur. Their mother — a lightish M and white 
e 
rds. v" Wu cR ——— - got t by the Dalton bull. She 
| e use rdi 
W, — I can remember, had 
very po ik ing bon y uncle used to prize 
3-: 
er), w: of [0 
EE (1 believe ot Eu cep (ana n 
o | burn bull, as it). The f all, the mother of 
state 2l 
EAS it with some zb: 
old — cow (do not mis not 
"di e dam As f Mr. Thomas M s cow, which Mr. Colling 
e presume that the granddam of Olo Sall i is thus 
history y "of the Short-horn 
particular strain of the 
“When I first became possessed of my brother's cows, I had 
LE er tu was se! 
way I dosyb r^ teive x weeks ET asI 
pte E ce = A owe tr I 
rU paying me for her milk, 121. 
es rearing her own calf, which was then weaned, 
Gf alogsther and ablo to provido for te; it having, for two 
o veal : 
meal, 
E very: superior touch which this cow 
ed 3 kom UM LE I almost ever saw. ree Farbetige, 
[cm ‘of T Bisho pton, killed all these calves ; 
the statement. ud «lh 
breedin; feeding, 
rete ys devel cows pick me out Eu " 
dix to the pamphlet gives an account of 
meetings from 1785, i qe m Agricultural 
the the winners— Charles 
P egre 1785; F. Walker, Ii Brabois 1786 Thomas 
87 ; R. Colling, of Bamp- 
| ton, 1788 ; for tbe best bu “ag The D decloly tested 
