SEPTEMBER 24, 1864.) 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
925 
has cut up short in the ve thin and blighty, and 
has been stacked in a small compass, Of Barley many 
fine — may be seen where ear ly sown, and of this 
descrip on the crop is venen good i all the back- 
in straw, and the corn = 
and hard, only fit for grinding quality. Beans, Pea 
and Oats are generally bad, with some okan 
oki ing round, the rick-yards 
come so charac- 
ore than ever 
e 
orm ‘perhaps in this me an exception, 
not grow kindly, MEN we e had 
| ly. good showers, which have —- à the suh. 
A— is very good, and very scarce and dear; straw is 
ery good, but hard and stubba ee this year. James 
Eames, 
: Auchneal, Stranraer. m crops in this 
he from the — - bs ow, and under what condi- 
tions ? P E these condi tions might properly be 
arya ol I hav ends pies cot to speak of them 
pulations: for the venie terms a an un- 
E panne ui. and solid , —as ancient as the 
human family, and “The à hake till, a as the iens say, in 
succession. of Arsch ould 
d itoesbood will be, I think, a fu aa verage eif si 
secured, though in some far ther 
deal of loss by t here is not 
a third of f the i grain of this district as me secured, à 
some farms there 
+ 
T —_ crops gener 
a full ^ ps late rains having 
improved them, Nie he is no apparent scarcity of keep 
liv 
for live stoc s quarter, 
viz - 
y free from all s s which generally 
ason 
and is nive : all ar round. 
ttril lo rene) ha 
KS —The harvest is 
almost a 
| gr 
if the crop be safely 
esor 
€ dintely à some other one of the cereals, We infer 
fore that — year there must have been, whether 
or not, Man m Án or beanie EF 
mu. ch a 
usbandry. 
“field of corn- land. 
jest 
odie 
and I think e will Lge to be very nice sheep Piece 
ss chietiy 
usual poste: rite “dry su mmer, for I "had 
the deficien ey 
E Turnips | 
and t 
jw: 10 b eee din sit has 
ploughings, and a cross- “ploughing fr fe id wi ethe — 
anu 
will be ote as the ien price of. oilca 
t allo 
of 
secured a good plant as r thought. Our friends ned 
the pest, bu t in vain, the 
seemed doomed to destruction, „Mangels are a bett 
f 
at present of collecting 
Turnips for yar feedings and all that I possibly can in 
the shape of chaff, sweet stra ren to form a basis for 
ive kind, an nd fully 
m 
expect to pay rt 2 fag this er The | The 
eep, with 
same 
F 
prices. 
ng 
LI will nov 
pro ofit, and I think it will be much —— cts any 
other. wisi itute I ean name according to the present 
John Outhwaite, 
E WHEAT PLANT. 
ea "hist story "i an ancient 
lise e fi d Wheat. 
ern—the 
lready been carried on rs ey it is 
not a 
bets the drill mere be brought "dies to insert, 
in careful measured lines—not the grain, but the 
stimulus of mener life—the artes Then comes 
the drill, w:th its arg the p ain 3 which 
sido of 
pilfering the Wheat, when in a fa it is the grub that he 
A little ee —— Neos or it may be a little 
Try 8 
while after son, the husbandman will 
Ses tb. 
do for the Wheat 
crop (the pns Whee). e for the rop) at a 
later. time, it is ncidental opera ration ; ;—it is nly a 
rivi w 
feeding, t eve thing clean up by the pe 
November—such is the extent of the failure. Let us| rise Lem iy of the arts of life 
hope that a mild winter may mitigate the y qm by vpn te these things, itn many "à like 
scarcity of food for live stock; and, y teve itn ay thin ngs, eas - ede read in books, you may gather 
t to fatten, the flockmasters may n suffer y of ediitation, while you ollow 
breeding flocks. ey will not Poeti telling, ithe | | path thro wh ici dom elds. This one aa cae sea 
" ears of Wheat carries me A —-—— effo rt to 
condition must be ke ept, up at any cost, for poverty is 
W. Simm onds. 
wer cem 
ose boundless expanses fele má Y 
choke and b poveruh the plan 
So far as the labour or the 
il, the husbandman will 
nt by drawin ng the soil. 
watchfulness of man may 
be at liberty to ride his 
SUFFOLK mlingham.—My former representa- En are spoken o of by Her ds corn fields | horses home, and tbere await the issue:—it will 
tions to you of the — and con mi are rand of the ancient Egypt, or rto he Y iet im of Poland |a hopeful, and yet an anxious waiting time of fiv 
borne out. ,The sum r has been such as to suit our|and southern Russia; or to the r lev vels of the | months t ho ere is the 1 which this plant 
q ity gaily straw is beyond any Western world. I n ts | of Wheat—these slender spikes—must pass through, 
y E my exper as armer of 34 f th r four thousand years, I find| even while they are still nothing more than green 
dura "The grain will ^ very much of it be thin, € in following them cae to where 2 natal 4 "inei un ver l of frailness. Little or no 
ent à unkindly for malting: the Wheats not so | lead, these ie tions bring into view what may | snow E have fallen in January: there has been per- 
extra as to straw, but still m peregi ic acres D or! m over thi Arar 
ake a V bottom round s n n straw, | or r every le th a geris ye Re cee is 
which system has become universal. The yield of both pe B Indies d iden tical with that t t of t he Wheat has passed. The cold may be fach iat 
grains is well spoken of. Beans and Peas not so si fence,” What have been the doings of this chief of = that in the prte A all but the hardiest shrubs 
as expected; the nd of iouse shortened e fruit-bearing plan It was this that built Nineveh | been killed. epar dpi a — Davee. 
All the corn secured in order. The Pea straw is | and Babylon ; it was this - carried conq to the | have been emm e Nevertheless the 
abundant, and will help the storo o of fodder; the second far east, and to the far west, and tothe south of the| Wheat has lived (rn all all this. arctic rigour. It 
math of Clover not eno doe y. ow. The chan dme ee centre; itw was sibl or its s equivalent, that must not t be vec in absolute terms, that the Wheat 
showery weather has co tob njury in the — of an unusually 
to either Mangels, t th f tl wiit bat” of this p support of human 
middle of November, : 
l Para, and Mi the mim in ond wide. 
m Rus 
me gov my ogi ipl a 5 
life it may be affirmed, as shove, t that it is the sepes 
base the pea m" all — plants. Too 
wet in spri n 
Bs 
z 
reason of, 
must be content with it, and cn more cake 
€ for fatting or keepin 
m m 
the 
empire by Vandals, Goths, Huns, and othe Iti is the 
— | Wheat harvest that, in modern history, has favoured or 
thwarted the ambition of military des : it is this— 
, pots 
even the Wheat on al - nod holds the fate and 
n doubt, until it shall be 
the Ohio 
o Wheat ul md T 
It is 
to be noted— 
take leave to remind my city readers of the thy th r4 
ae is only the s ae Wheat that has to ei 
rial of extreme cold. As to the sprin reni anton 
e Barley, the ee they do not appear until winter 
b fairly blown o 
eoe i This "€ apply also to cow | known wh s that is stined to comma nd pal hav e said that when the roller—or let us include 
prac al cept on the larger er farms, t — is | and tbe Mississi i. Fi 
but little fattipg; vt as irae it will r the worse of nations— Wh that E Wheat i is, nn might cha a thing of very small 
pu Iping A the small cro} ts. G. E the world; and uen might. hs meaning iW wi Beier s the farmer retir is 
Suss: nch, "Miura — The ade eat c erop of this | epidiuahtin Do. Mmm e that the sceptre ot wur part of the covenant duly sompleted.-thenit i is ae the 
neighbour sine, from all I can lear , an average crop; | dominion is—a wi other m in n hie covenant — 
ee nbove an average quality, not so cem as was| This plant at ‘power unites in itself qualities which, | and if He were minded 1 ^ de it alone, 
pected ; Oats very light, above a third und er average, |in combination, attach to no other T kind. ET act, me ‘creative force is “always, even from t 
"m tter; Beans very bad—a great many never cut, some 
for “i and some have enough to pay for oa atii ; 
Pota sone, but short crop. As respects - 
peet for for 
b reg 
other insects carrying them off. ‘The only really cl 
These proper ies are summarily as following. 
rat 
ree main 
for the | 
the starch, and the gluten, 
of W 
| (1.) The Lok ‘of Wheat- corn contai 
ing redie oft 
mit 2 
|w while so slender and frail a spike, as is the spike 
| of Wheat, he worked itself—at the = s as — te 
| slowness—throu ugh the rugged K lods; until 
reac 
"^ x ‘Then the plant. 
of the ba rdies am rhap: e bardiest of all plants 
| (annua rad, 
thing the farmer has is Wheat, and th 
ende em n hat at em 9l. 
e; OL course ol E -— be 
$ pe-cake, or Lact Beans; the! 
much of one thing. 
an erre 
po! 
roots, and hay w chaf; ;df t 
moisten well the chat, adding « a tittle salt. The ze " 
rtion of 
The Grass ! is true, no doubt, and the 
produce of a quem 
d | from d harvest to the uet d 
centuries: so it 
(n existence throu na 
; | piat NO Las ont Whont -although Ae a Te “degree 
ept | is true; and more than we can i 
claims 
upon i de Cade now the mie er eder takes the E in hand 
no exact — 
—erring -asking no advice— 
E bei nre tiran ice- 
for uo Pindit they Crit a Ge Mode giving neq 
creatures life and breath and all things. All this 
is true; 
Ic 
ms regard b; 
| the Wheat harvest y special 
and the principal Wheat comes into a forem 
halling of the ve 
vegetal sei M Y. 
open 
which is to incr 
À brie e 
annual biography of the lant of 
a 
of the y 
rhaps 
he baker 
obtain his material ? the miller ; : 
, | use-the customary y phrase, vegetable kingdom, and 
E of Wheat uà Meier rent say we 
boldened (in no irreverent m — 
the Gospels the w 
and (when he vo done his s part) should sleep 
aight a se m 
cnp e kno t do w: for the earth bringeth 
forth fruit of cueing first the Barer then the or 
after that the full corn in the ear: but Revco the fru 
