NOVEMBER 26, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
1141 
equal importance which I could cite to show’ how 
much more aera * would be to us to use our 
But Mr. H. Harrison has asked me to explain how 
18 ia pe Wheat can be pes bo haz lsn T land in 
shall have an opportunity; and, mor 
able, should it be his poe IM 
farm pri roduc at ho than to sell them to be 10 crops in 108 and to | cereals, Wheat, Barley, or Oats, o same land 
ld t y». gen Ir. Curtler "ins inquisiéé I now apply tive! “bud, “fret, I vill succession for ve any years, if, as I have exyliinsit 
for feeding their stock? Well, paradoxical though d | state that the late Mr. Ae “of Colne Engame,a gentle-|it be generously treated, and as a generous steed 
some it may appear, Mr. Curtler n i not fear a|mau well known in parts, ga E 2 2 bf should be, always ready for his work, and never over- 
dearth of such exports from us, to ra following Wheat on the sam nt E » many su worked, vier burdens laid upon it than he is 
reasons, perhaps more paradoxic dude ing c as better in “quality zer able ar: so exactly should farmers treat their 
adopt such systems of economy, be uso cannot | quantity ‘than the pisdeting o set which I think proves, | lands. 
do so for the reasons assigned by me in a former|and o awed that more can be done in i this way My readers will also allow me to warn them against 
letter, to which I add ot of which “ the than ae stated i in the letter wherein Mr. Harrison all kinds of quac cke ery. To poison seed Wheat in the 
least said is soonest mended.” But is it not xplanat 
that we could ‘grow [o SOUS md E them with The principle then is sat the ied to ^e e land | but to do so now is a satire upon our age. To su : 
profit at such prices in your market pala. defy | i it be so de erp and | that pes wetting of seed Wheat with qp 
competition from our revu m nion tiende, w may thoroughly drained that ‘it may receive the fertilising pounds will prevent ‘ing is of a kin to the nailing 
sooner or later become our mutual en le doo to keep out witches; but 
es ; it is not only possible, but pide Y. a but to percolate thro ough t down 
ment, if the people of the United Kingdom would but peopl í7 ammonia et Pet renin 1 yc there JP reir have their A charmed, which will 
ecome, as they should, and sooner or later must the soil as it passes through »t d water is| be equally efficacious for good, of less expense and 
become, united, " though 1 do not expect to see the purified in passing through a dom Me filter. | trouble, and can do no harm. But sete n» let thin- 
happy day. Wehave in I By such the temperature ry the oil is also | seeders rely upon nothing but skill , and 
of bogs and reclaimable land tively d, and consequently the additiona will be sure to succeed. Tm Wilkins, "Wiz 
value ess. These, if ght iseis ld t tretch out papas: Nov. "gn 
give your stock feeders cheap Ria een ees food to | here and there and everywhere within hele reach pre tl tl 
fatten them; g your artizans and manufacturers | after food proper for them to rad ue for the ERR 
cheaper rus and cheaper materials to w , | nourishment and ia POE of t rowing plants, Home Correspondence. 
leaving | all co ed fair profits ; Bi the Irish| that is, if the een previously trea ted 4 The Important “Subject of Wha ut is to be done with 
lessen the taxation on all by an increase of taxable 
property: create | consumers of manufactures ;—in a | plo 
its weakest 
tg. appe eaders who know |I 
Ireland a thretdbara oe witout facta to sustain my | an nd 
AT t thi 
e ofi 
E ion in hex 
This 
statements. 
it ou ye to E t by 
nd thorough clivation by the 
and agriculturists. en a desire of the former is to get 
another, 
TE 
Q 
; nor 
nk so would n 
mis stake I could 
bo T country, for 
be web with. be i 7 A 8 inches i See: ift thes 
I say, and much more Ke an ever I have said; and I| 
will conclude this letter with an additional p. I 
that hir ig! d : ublic 
would "e ^ of going 10 o nches , and it is certain 
cases. 
abe idea that i in all states the 
lt a 
eflluvium arising flor 
dre are "e "i bad it as a 
exis 
depends upon the manner in which the fluid has been 
oil 
| treated, If E closed up in _cesspools, without access 
it will in great majo rit <7 
t *o53À 
ht not be Vir Ri ^ 
the late a the DAM he | 
obtained. di is quite certain also iva por a 
13 
= 
m 
inhabited à houses "en 
h dra 
pue rich" fever ; but the li l p " 
f the crops s attributed to the seasons 
or no draining, sballow and |n 
agri 
Agticu ltural Society, in in the county c of VR n e 
le. town of Sligo, the ch paleman, hua 
E of one of the endut, EEE compotito ors in 
green e opping, P d, s bn rence 
ot pass over 
e has 6 acres ot Swedes 
that may challenge either, Puglia a; e " elan 
po better" I do 
b. n 
es Hd e 
ea by insufficien 
fertat. euitiyatiom = over-thick and ruinous 
Ha 
seeding. dIs 1 would undertake to show, 
also, that the gi aid other pests on Wheat, and | 
the louse on Bea and Peas, are ) wholly, or ae i 80, 
nose, yet ange in its deleterious propert br 
| ieu aie d innocuous. It is — A d perfume 
pro from common drain that 
engenders disease. Low damp si ituations ‘owing off 
| Mises eint are not perceptible, or scarcely so, to ve 
olfact ory n are more insidious than a good ho hon 
1 q 
r 
know whether those Swedes eat y tea P ordinary 
arable or reclaimed bog land, but suspect t hey 
and odis ay, ars whatever. instru- 
would pant have A the ph iste as the adig: 
ments tad petes and m owers pplied, | 
the pleri ais the pom 
featur E thei “In awarding the above 
pret s, in xm T Petal case, the judges deemed it | of the crops and badness of the p ASODS Pope cease 
right E give the preference to Turnips gom in NM |to be hea rd: inde ed, "reflect ting ith candid 
soils." Some e reo ders may AES, the judges nly be ashamed to 2x com- 
case, g ints, but t humiliated when given ul ce 
to tk £t th opinion is, that the lands of 
the growers of such crops on i nad ris But such gland are capable of growing food enough for all 
not the case, or at least ETE pot. id be so, in my aie the inhabitants of England, or at 1 rn 
tleast. But hear the judge * And they also | enough, and I do not despair but some ae oe ober |! 
at 
recommend, tha q 80 far as practicable, a a distinction 
and perhaps ere long, this will be the case 
res 
| dressing y i crops, bei bees = gett ": 
a W 
Ki inh Mer where real lache is overlooked. 
acre rte is both difficult and expensive, 
and in its ural state, to be remunerative as a 
mall 
dedidit 
land? 
€ and proves the of the e to be 
nnless extravagantly employed in enm 0 
liquid manure be profitably used on ara 
It appears Tos ed i 
dee the contents o I Jand not 
answered the purpose blind acre 
n 
farmers occupying dry (re-claimed) bogs have a 
ay But to retu 
cereals, ed. Wheat, cau se iw 
from the painful and dangerous ard laatia state it 
of ie E ae a to alm sy all eid Mi 
orld fi of 
decided Mean dà over the clay soil farmers." Observe, is now in, o 
good reader, that the words “ clay soils” in Connaught | growing countries in the wor a sufficie 
do not p the p ASIDE atta hed to “clay | daily food. 
turn to my subject, which is to show a 
poorer 
y effec 
ar arden, a he 
n | rapid absorption of “the solu ible salts, and the failure on 
x us i^ cold surface 
meti on colder impervious clay subsoil. A clay soil | on n the same land for many yea 
in Connaught means a rich, strong, arable, deep this, after thoroughly draining "id ‘th oes vu dpi = Ly sere ot land not broken up, Falcon, 
surface, resting on a calcareous subsoil, or limestone tivating, the land must have dt to - the requi Pas us Arable le Land. di e pee the last few 
bed; such a soil as an Englishman would de ght in | site plant constituents, if it hav naturally t 
using his e pega cultiv ators on n fo r the wth | before, and this iy m must v is dpt he ft 
of any farm Ye ght, tak * e , and the supply must be that its uio to some extent gim te senfem to 
and many other 1 parts of Tead ee hen rendered dry, |o of t proper kin mes just as a A must kee ep the interes ts of the agriculturist. That the change 
Swedes and many other re jut his strong box and his purse who 
crops than their best arable janda, Can vo bec ager stantly drawing the pont articles from then; l 
rendered dry? Oh yes, they can— both his | of doubt atarim cesta 5 proba harten not 
anpa bogs, by t the use of steam- wrought e Mn "5, t I h- | fea —— of seeds, erg s &c. ; it requirestime 
the spot; and by such powe l | es of much value for grazing purposes, 
do y with the du^ that he chat xol labour i in mo "Tut karing” n rmed these preliminaries, the |s that “before making exte naive “alteration in — 
redietüBoi woul ious ort will put in his seed, and grain by “ine well 
e 
more eas, as in effect of emigration 
Ste ower applied to such reclamation a will effect 
a Becr revolution in this respect than it has prad 
effected in gono cultivation in Englan 
return to this latter subject aj n. Edward Carroll, 
College Hotel, College Street, T "6 
ee ee lo 
ON THE GERMINATING AND CULTIVATING 
F CEREALS. 
Ix my other ile on this subject I have treated | 
of the germinating powers of the different kinds of | 
Wheat, nd L showed, from lon ng experience and many 
experiments, t ly the same e" all, dete 
difference was not sufficient. to affect the crops of one 
BÀ 
o 
aida no ot “thro 
by childrens anda, as the comm 
; 10, 
| 
; and consider the ‘probable rana 
country, from bs 
effecta of soil, p climate, or it aee be rs a com 
the 
y | namely, 6 and I have 
ijt under most liberal treatment "d 
near 2 20 in hole: n I Pet let Sed p but 
or two met seeds adu and specially of More ode in 
one cepe -- Tena land-cultivator, whether 
ould act in this obviously prne 
that it will be impossible for him 
o g re ^s than 2 pecks of seed an 
acre, let his ear together as they will; and 
he will farther fad, ‘that his crops will gro’ 
his straw 
| dub; and the 
in them finer nee Mont ne and 
winds n 
rd o: 
peo 
to get pues his 
will vb 
will be 
veral EE ef 3431 hai 
; he 
r rains, for eu eh 
*3 Jag 
w up 
thicker and stronger |i 
e ears on it larger and fuller, and the grain | 
1 und: d the same time wethink muchof the painting per- 
nent pasture ^ 
vette Tetho 
siderable im 
but of these 
hardiest and most perd are the ples affected by Fa 
causes s which i injure the Vital epist a the whole; 
repeat, so seriously 
uri affect the crop to any j injurious ddl 
xcept when a homeopathic quantity alone has been 
ud which is but very seldom indeed, but i in other 
cases, according to the common quantity now sown, if 
lf o 
ed as t 
kinds of ende bending their heads, 
bowing, and t x br pe rade Boreas id 
n hodie = A I know 
d | best feedin oe gm pcm 
ng e land. A great 
por the light, and some of the medium soils of 
a much greater quantity of 
ortion of t. 
this country ° will produce 
Fleet 
But by so Mm ist, himor E 
or tenant, may turn his Ae aioi n into a and 
fields will smile and iu at and Ate him whet 
one- 
and grow, the crops would be all the better for it. 
Eun 
and i ot by turning ‘the arable land into Grass, 
but vh Hte 6 the produce of the arable land 
into beef or mutton and wool, that the British 
farmer can enter nto compe etition with , foreigners. 
ever 
