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THE — edere ede AND AGRICULTURAL — 
[NovEMBER 26, 1864. 
a saving would be effected both in the purchas 
manures and artificial foods and thus the soil wold fa 
rgu- 
converting he vt i 
bour; as far 
mit the M 
t in "vow at 
increa: sing g cost of la 
i 
per cent. within the 
1 t 
me ulturists in the last 60 years, dt | 
Pr be DO that hel D of beef, mutton, &c., | 
bad bee ae pe tanto 
arable la i, 
Nor 
be nerease of, a 
in, deed ad fed land. He. perc thought 
it would be well to look at the Be avn ments made in 
pem 20 years, 
cow inties, ‘ore they we nt to the 
1 
mi cht 
ask, dal was the use of ds alow to the pu i ke 
should it be idle the whole yea 
management, the use of agricultural machinery h 
the facilities afforded by railway — eh m 
(2). On sowing more sma adr s by farmers. 
There vs £ semi at the MT “time, and he 
the ex , and impoverishing th the per spa 
ers, &c., 
also been of great value to the farmer. G. Murr 
Rati Seedi eral 
en y, an 8, 
was considered "reet and put 
falsehood, and I was eve 
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by pe edd persons for “ how fats ngled notions” as 
irustw: orthy it was said, a nd that such statements as 
the follow wing ere declared ‘ 
by the now the pric 
fürrer— more of Wh 
—in not sowing Wt etel Sainfoin, pest many 
seh 
el 
ud ori rtr u 
y cour 
no Y the Tu up Swedes, Clov 
sed to do? dt 
secret lay without eni 
in the pai ero 
J sh A 
low. 
dihat fea that they 
other, instead o! 
Sa bi articularly Clover and Sainfoin. 
To the honour of the farmers, he could say he h ad 
never been deceived by them. He wished he could 
of agriculturists generally, and. the publie weal was 
actually [e ip that “all 
cereal 
rightly managed, "I had wn many 
specim. i publiely exhibited ie. were 
whilst from 
reign | &c. 
cou 
‘ould Bot starv NS th 
weeds so effectually in any other way. 
want of a ex E of fallow, on nearly oa ilr, 
they oft en obta t a middling cro effect 
had the hine tad crop of Turuips Swedes &c., | 
had on the ee with them thi It was 
(3). Cn the keeping a sufficiency of farm horses in m onmes but they v dodi not find 
good e oiia for T That BS, was lost by jt fallow. Let an 1 acre of 
keeping pom badly as certain—and what was often |a field intended f det Turnips, &c., or where e intends 
the reason ainignel! eg n four or five 
of the Aspe of the nay at the same time a ehe ly 
capable « "of Lo mg c: — " ee mune 
the g ral order ing, 
: ould | 
and, fro: 
Eey believed, it “utvormlly’o ial out, at ‘ee ya 
mon A" in the United Kingdom vd 
arti ficial food for 
kx 
la 5 
beri jn he trond 
good com 
Caird writes 8!) And Mr. Alderman J. J. Mechi s d 
in his late letter in the Times and elsewhere, that he 
has this year on a large sc scale on cheap land realised 
lga rains for one," or 59 bushels per acre from 
In order to appease the anger of f my 
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jong manure for his and, Tai by so doing g 
fus 
his horses out of 
and his pocket; when, Bid feeding his — well, he 
"- often make as much and better manure with 
his h orses, And often there were not enough horses 
I the n. there to do. He 
necessary, and al 
if the scarifier was more bri as i it was by Mr. Marma- 
duke Walker and others, a great be tin wos be the 
tent and often. better crops. . ot H 
the 
1 peck of seed. 
brother sentar for m 
I back 
seeding, viz., advocating 
Ot oo for safe Se m pid a line Z 
tween the two extrem peck and 2 
3 a M contending, as I had done P Me before, anc d 
rs on | to 
n use obsolete, 
the 
Pii nk ther utet E by n fot I 
enough than W. keeping too ma that any 
pasa got puo - not teats | at all, or only ; M lf 
done; and h und over working and under 
f Mr orses UM wn ihe. He mentioned the error 
M fatenng cattle, ee, &e., on soils and situations 
ada it. 
do still maintain, that 1 bushel per Ys early and well apted for Pp farming for stock T" d 
planted on perfectly eu ultivated land, is quite sufficient | be a more profitable method in many su "A 
ofazy good grain to be planted on any solis * situation, for the pocket, as wal as for manuring the F nd 
allowing for all casualties the iens a nt the 
to various in. ha and its butcher, would mostly prove a benefit to reg 
"e &e., ns its growth, Now that Mr. 
ploughed too 5 deep ‘ie not conned h in "the. pisce ni 
leaned 
being ploughed only half the depth they often were: 
or even by raftering—that is putting one half on the 
other—or only half ploughing; and when cleaned in 
the spring, ploughed to the: tig th required, as the 
summer sun would benefit the soil more than the 
winter frost and snow, although both might be 
beneficial. 
, (6). On the finding constant employment for agricul- 
A, abourers, and the benefit that must 
, (4). 0 
o write, the most noble 
Mechi, jos tought ll t i wore than he wed 
ak, and has aequired such admirable yields from y 
and pore 
of all agriculturists, reget qui th 
" carried out, Wh it 
gentlemen as "well as farmers to do with as smal 
man 
n : 
reat number 
could? There Was much work that t might be done js a 
e 
sometimes 
P ha 
come to my rescue, declaring his success, from dcr a 
pe the stra raw stacks S no oe tha pris z all, must 
1 by of 
lé 
bol 
gente. unmistakeable, I therefore v 
nce more to -— 
tyir ri 
asi 
was satisfied that a man could either by the day, M 
winte Ta 
less 
how many things might be don 
that for the bes 
and staked 80 badly, 
to be in njured „if not 
ete 
A 
that it as much 
im vd “produe the best 
m" 
nm whieh I planted on the 
Ist of mu in ng ans p^ 8, E he than 1 peck | t 
per aere, sra o would zw wat a a Be in 
travel seven miles 
lder 
t, me, and other distinguished 
im I Nee at this built 
h I admit not | inj 
M: 
the flail, the straw, c! kir &e, W 
b 
e land by steam i 
eed ek pee d even if it r 
and as e said, often 
uit i solle? 
ch | things were left to i3 p Fo ng, “how many things bev 
- | left ate M € ether 
expedite 
the piece, nt as much work in eight hours in the 
on 
^ 
ond onid do good an dubs 
atigue. 
poor Ne as Peine dici pi 
ee a aif 
es, 
mould, chalk, m: 
which was known to pa 
t Mechanics could do m 
the work in wy) hs gie and whi 
both for Agen nere 
eigh di 
thin, 
would 5 
hem aati 
x 
that if a portion of it n the old s way by by 
aaa wane 
be found 
nid be 
much m ore benefit, particularly . in the Ainea season, 
— ji yis saw an “amount E 
eh p tillered or 
surprisingly, 1 forming very many fortheoming ears, and 
POREN pag apg like plants of Pin 
t 
on eerte men in the unions, an 
r, which in „the 64 years of tb 
floor or two to the barns it would be ag 
ng the winter mon mite ata any 
9€ hiatas ly pall ben covering 
gn perma with I usnriant b and so str rong a 
robust, and 
te, and ially - on cul Ae it must be much 
to naie e vantage to thresh a portion, if not the 
hole, of the corn in de old way. 
on "c rom free frosts or pated to destroy them pee 
(5.) On the necessity and use of clear or whole | 
tar hi is 
astonishing lo Aadi 
‘ood farm- 
5 ~~ 
Park, Sevenoaks, said : They 
and low yo dirty Tetine | età ; 
He would endeavour P "E them 
could n carried 
on, or something encor Bee 
that good and profitable farming 
out without P. And 
many of which were 
taken by men o 
es a te men of prn] 
TS 
os x mc farms 
means, particularly poor o 
non kolini than to tak ethem), so that they could not, „if 
they 
| portati 
severely felt by all classes, but more parui by 
rri Recon à of the poor, county, and 
auses of so much of the land, even 
g farming, often disappointing them in not 
obtaining crops as good as they felt they had a €— | 
to expect. Li ime and chalk w were known to be uch 
were so inclined, farm and anaes em t 
tage, or as many of them would he to do. 
so so that ho g might be Ba 
ng that men of capital co 
Bat pe 
them, he — mM Ao wien ‘all the 
ned aiti a Profit to re grower, 
his capital and labour. 
not gi were all the 
e land some- 
he pret there sould be lite doubt fat a A 
of them would much i: qp their Root, Clover, 
her reall what t they 
in the country to be farmed with s any benefit to! 
and for that sent nearly all over t not be allowed by fos floris and 
tbe world for bones and other things, and the their fa to c ref | 
for them was that they were longer, and he hoped t| who wished má 
img dearer, who was it who got doing would set their hearts and minds to hee e 
best of the guano, bones, &.? The men of capital who | as much labour M P ri eeo hm % g ue. 
h must tend to get th increasing population in 
va | ‘aos hope ' "should thin k there p bu i fow Wood conc cluded by p king ing dero members va ere for 
vith | would not apply. Now, if they admitted that he was | outburst of appl ponts 
ideas, the poor Dr. SHORTHOUSE ose said —With regard to 
elite eae pate hn heavy it to | Wood had said that all land required to be fallowed. 
