686 THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL — [Jor 16, 1864, 
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supplies the . growin g crops with just those matters | the adoption of large pipeage for the avoidance f | th 1 essential iof "x 
p and carbonic se which are wasted by the) friction. fo this end, also, the pump d | then ontained, but notwith 
b sc nd skin; a nd i ther efore follows that, under so as to thrust as nearly as possible in qo direction in | o£ dry a cnospere v si 
he | which de. vater is to leave them, and all the vip the manare, and therefore the Grass r did S 
the soil fay igo the whole of the food which has | [Jenn are made by large qua adrants, so no abrupt|nutrition. As this is a subject of great i e tai 
been ares pe change of flow or angle in the pipage will lead to farmers, I should be glad to hear the i importamos to 
No Alder: c more perhaps than any other | difficalty of motion, "There will be a hy drant to every | pra acti cal gentleman on this | matter as it ma "Ml 
place, we sg an adult ee. E. waste of that | four acres, and from each hydrant ; whic is already too rd a, 
camp, if properly eco sed a ned to the la ad, on gue will fit to one another ana to each aydrn but, judging Mn a often see A thé mete L. 
would sitedues tho: fo ea wih n. C onvey the liquid to the ps Bag y acre | Yorkshire, many of tho former appear be ot 
Department gathers and administers. All around that | or Pape eabute, 2, ditate d by | Mr. Oliver’s opinion, as it is common for them to le ^ 
camp, too, ter re lies the be st p ost: ma aking by which a man, will ear ry ib at his will over ds suu so that | the manure for days on their summer fallows "i 
this waste, as raw material m 300 tons daily with | ploughed into the ground, and as Mr. Oliver says, I 
into the on of which it thus ns es as the plet t have seen it like short dry hay. ZZ. Harris on, York, 
representative, Blackburn is now preparing his land for use. To | Jude ngo 1 
A soil which is ere machine for the PM ai his Ad he is with teams of four and six horses drawing| New System of aed —I have just seen a copy 
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plants, which together "mak e the sponge, standing| inches wide; and following this is a stro ng sub-so ournal, in relation to the drainage of flats with a 
ground, I y, by which, the requisite | plough, tearing up the furrow in its wake, eight to t defective outfall. From the stand-point of the wri 
raw material being supplied, the crop may be made and | inches deeper. The ferruginous pan of brown and of the remarks the Views are correctly reasoned 
grown. The Jand around AAEE answers to this|black concrete is thus broken through, and when e fully admitted, neither i 
description. It is a porous, almost barren sand 3 and it | weather has had its will of it, the whole will be a porous|the theory wivanced adequate account for the 
is so much the better for the purpose which is here| sandy pebbly bed, some 18 inches deep, into which the | copious flow of water found to issue from the drains, 
required of it, In very wet weather the Mad collects | water will sink readily—so readily, in fact, that it is} I cannot agree vii "the writer in saying that the dis. 
in pools upon its surface; but that is to|feared even 700 tons of water daily would disappear rau of the water from the drains is dne to the 
12 inches beneath the surfa ace there isa Pesce pan, | from pe side of an ordinery irrigation carrier, without eurr of the str ream pulling the particles of water 
as impervious as concrete. Bre ak through th at, and| extending over a sufficient surface thoief $ 
you dig from 10 to 20 feet 1 water, | field, and so yield a profitable produce. ni is on this | an. adjacent stream, 
through sandy beds, which are porous and need no ground chiefly , that Mr. Bla ekburn | has _adopte d the furrows one foot deep Mi oad 4 8 or 4 feet “baldi 
drainage. The süt fatio is partly covered with Li g ,leaving urface of the w: "s into which they flow. In - 
and Heath, and, where used as a parade and review whatever remainder ‘may pass ‘his pumps for use as in E the former opinion, I may ae state that 
ground, this Ling is spy bi and leaves the - a| ordinary water meadows. he drains exeeu Mr. Bowick, 
sheer Tn sand. Here, then, i d machin His operations are at preseht confined to a few acres Trienni Farms, Bedford, are discharged [^ vertical 
only of his farm, If he shallsucceed in getting 30 or haft a short dis tane e from t water's edge ; and 
30 acres brought into fertility annually, he will i to tl use assigned, 
pat te cture, her waste of a well- ha camp. Fe. land | his object ya less risk and smaller outlay than if he In relation to the latter Opinion, it might be partially 
is to ed in for nothing—the waste is to be given a on pted to realise his plan over the whole 
te emium to any one who will take it away. to, there were no more water to discharge than the 
be desired more than ie as a good - for sip The plant by "n he expects for the most partt y be truly 
enltural enterprise? — Hitherto contractor: he camp into food for p camp affirmed. that no such | case occurs, for the rains that 
classes have My ie Ps Naoi seg with straw and | is T Italian Rye-grass, This, one of the grossest feed often at great 
food de stabling an f the best cattle foods we m is admirably | distances, pass to a a large ex tent into the strata of the 
have paid, w e beli SAN dd. pet. p^ per horse for CNP nad ^ the purpose. Sowin gowa, me ee acres| earth, and re-appear in — x Je vales, A 
p the first instance, and applyi g 40 O|the numerous swamps ar 
for tł r acre, at interv vals of a macie or y tsittbonts - every district. m this fact is adaittel, ‘on 
he and less 
of all the oder] Waste, The Alderst M t every y cutting o f this crop to every acre, 1e draiüs ap ppears more e: , 
ha all the waste of aaa and wey i will in rid of at least 300 t ons of liquid daily trough paradoxical, Some days ago I had some conversation 
have erected or oe filters, where the summer, for the cuttings will follow one another n the subject with an intelligent agrieulturist in _ 
lime water is with the ram. e the sedi- intervals of four or five weeks, And if the meret Renfrowshiro, who denied the facts in toto. “W. 
ment is Mira. a pun dried, u f other tein is likely to be realised at Aldershot, | replied he, * can never rise above its ;^ an axiom 
that it is worth tl t, and tl 40 or 50 tons of green food will be obtained per aere | to which no denialeau be given; but on reminding him 
still a filthy stream, The results of the. en are | Where now a scanty coat of Ling is = Mey EUM of t well, as well gton " 
twofold. 1 ields. This n be the produce of fir (which are identical in principle though differing in 
and in indictments for nuisance, o unt of the | second year of every crop. In the Spine of pe third detail), - was somewhat e aia in his re í 
imperfect nature of their process of “disinfection and | year the 20 acres sown months before will be | farther referred him to the e 
the resultant manure is "- consider pA b neigh h- | p loughed up, and a Potato erop will be grown to come sien y epos to issue from e bottom of lakes i 
ing farmers of very grea im 1e. e pro alien + of | off early, so that the land may receive the seed of| rivers, that en been fatal M E 
facture are thus i oit, even with the|Aanother ftalian Rye-grass erop, which will yield, as peron when the ai feis covered ' with but bare 
ore, i i ormous eak o 
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their manu 
bonus which tbey receive does Government, to secure| before, in the fourth and fitth years, an en over ti erre uio unable to- 
an adequate return, It is thus un planters that thay | produce of green food. apponi the t eau weight. p ro area 
and the ground is| That is the scheme. -— ev s being deeply and on found in dry as well as water, but we are 
thus open for another arrangement. roughly stirred, adc is hinged ow confident in clined to puget T the e RAS the e se ae 
vou a ntirely 
i The principle of the new arrangement is that the expectati ion both that the pese of t To ne will L cerca met eiie AM 
contract, 
g ua ing i d owing to the Bese 
l be. fed. The liquid ill be m over it | d 2 
Meets M So pues "— the sale of A ems j areas - r alike in every description of strata, or in every loca 
Mr. Blackburn, a als of Aberdeenshire, who will flow on the ordinary shedding | principles e | possessing FA swamp ing ant and sour water. 
in his own a gentio re iderable - peep ai MS aliau Seow d sal E bon : beca Ain in pen a few lines on this novel sub y^ 
w it isi à cmd sense of the word. Davi 
een |sown, and t 
à i ciency « hutribe MA mi in Re qr o nt ee ir d high | Kilbarehan sley, " 
i iq’ gf ope tee eret ci RUM up in n pm fora, andluxu-| Clover a mk or without Itali inp 
been in the habit of vtt en into the land by nd abs a contrast to the waste d sates Mae va a bre eor ui 
water applied throng! Piping bas at around thom as the ly stream is to the and | to vini ans — ute 
induced the War Office To attempt at which Fi d severa - 
abatement of a great nuisance by its clan in i a which these green crops will be deir carrie’ d 
great advantage. He has bird. pin them ap flo where an utterly barr: w prevai T 
170 acres of the land lyi 
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Wege in te instances which ated y exist to| w 
ss of Mr. Blackburn’s 23 he 
foretell that his 
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as London sew: head aed s 
is 40 or.50 gallons o and of a —— 
This liquid comes on v Mr. Blackburn's Camp m 2 M 
two points. At one x thes farm buildings, chiefly Land,—in your last weathers vob - 
cottages and ^ e being erected, and there | velia e paper read by Mr. Oliver, a — 
it is proposed to to erec T8 engine f for the ^ Grass Land, «e in sehen he stated that. manure lai on ! 
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utilised, kibo. | "— 
d land. | t; 
d. 
2 with fi pit the si e! pl 
iron piping for distribution through Pe rouble y ou ia ew T i ee ee” Cele batt 
Mer that ha manure on some 
Get on tin er NU wan where it wal or tne beliet was -— DE zig 
; so much so that it became like short hi 
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soon as 
Grass | ong A d be eil wya 
r^ had been laid on the ene asi Thats, 3 a 
derived all tbe] sowing iov er te 
RR f which | lost time, sowed d 
