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806 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Avaust 20, 1964 
valuable as those in which they are observed. This | matu red, Even in November, in re 
much, bowers r, may be said, that Mey the choice | will be removed bui the withered s hore havigg 
ise between man experiments with few pre cautio ons, done their worst in having established in El 
few experiment precious, th full ; nor is it an 
alternative should unhesitating y “be rr opte ed. then to find all future crops inferior in quality ang 
ient in cma y, even during the most favou 
rable i 
effects due to the kind of soil, and to the meteorological condi- 
tions. tege eer -T be ascertained by — the 
ra tree nelude different descriptions of soil 
(which m: vin pre in re immediate neighbourhood of one 
The true plan is to und can be well and | defic tá 
effectually accomplished, a ad wher of results is| harvests, but doubly or tr e tha o in unfavou 
required. it is best that several individuals yr "angoctate If instead of this course pir i mitted to run, all 
themselves together for the purpose. Whe — is a 47i e| Weeds were removed by all and every means, 
— — P 2 eren partic x^. listricté Potato crops n: could be "a € read 
for several successive years, so as to eliminate the effect of | preserved o íi be earthed Up 80 as tor 
i we call t 
dation of iat s involves som ention. 
P any lumps contai roken down. "t 
should then be d iren P sieve and again mixed, and a g 
mp en for analysis from six or eight handfuls of the | seen instances in which ae sat cd —— more pervious to the drying. AM of a 
rially diminished by trifling differences, which rendere : 
ss da AAA e » paino o tation whilst the tubers are perm to remain in the lan 
E The quantity required pe qo be bv goes! se pe : à - — : ube 
mix with once or twice its bulk of damp sand, and the | it the result ciple o: i 
whole being uus puse eges ie a sieve, it a: be put | to which I have just adverted, is one of great importance to * to harden,” or Na MU to pi the tubers remove 
into a for use, e object of mix ith sand is to | tbe future of experimental agriculture, and is one of the| and drily s stored as on as ever the stalks cease 
admit of its ape —_ ertet, D. hd prevent the 20 ore dry | methods by which it may be most successfully promoted. As poem their Prin e in a salutary point of view, an 
and dusty manure t by the wind during | our knowledge pee experiments must of necessity mM baloi e they begin to p. the tubers by the | 
nt | f 4+} 
application. It Ra 2 pee kA precise — are 
er to see that they o the proper diadar and | date will put it beyond the power of individuals to make them. | 
this precaution should ever x^ ‘omit ted. FON e e t čá panas ss Mesara. — and Le: which p g pA m oes pt paris land Eu quii 
For still greater ‘rents sm the soil should also be e unsurpassed for mir and precision, y be poured $ soni Ce E ) the Jan fidya tl 
examin x id at ally sample should be taken dust to as an Fees of what. bebo? experiments, ou; eeds whic perpet etuate them and (3) an an easy mean 
be, and of the difficulty of increasing their number, M ire 
before M. dea "begun, w which i i afterward r, 
Pt "abd d it S imm necessary. this agio à scarcely say that the ease is peri x in which - comparatively “dle ‘period of A “autumn, whether the 
e expend up ould ha 
ome ould be dug to the depth of the soil, he y 10 inches, individual bas both a » d i» end upwards | 
from it perpendicular side a -— two or three inches 1 in of 20001. a year for many rs in inquiries of this | P Top $ a cereal or an autumn sown green 
or AH — en. This : td mld we epeated a kind. It id be accomplished, "however, if the means | did bui ts haps bes t of all, under the altered ci 
x erent par o! e field, and t N d requisite for the purpose i by subscription, an Rye-grass wit » 
the s d on 2 ld be carefully mixed with | and this plan fon been adopted by the German mas ul- stances of s bot oropa of dul lian R "a b uberes 
the thron ongh a coarse sieve, and spread | turists, whose Te su om well merit attention. There | crop, ee Ops ^ e-gras ever grew 
a and I was, I believe, the very first in Ireland at least 
for ars back in that country 
what are “called “agricultural Expe eriment Stations, of 
bbs t ver grew heavy crops of such Grass on 
the number is considerable, I believe not less than |... 44 T48 P. des 
es s Asa s LT A dd a tin SA AR jit is se which 
erve, ring t of the erop attention should eight or ten Lin in sminta su ported chiefly b; niles} nd n. 
p d to evi ery its progress, e tim tions, to which dem ent ins $ me pere cm P o ry Since then almost every good farmer in 
which it brairds in each plot, when it comes into. ear, if : their entire object balas "o carry $7 Mairie n various | Ireland has ee a ale or less degree adopted 
cereal, and all similar events should be carefull ed. A | departments of agriculture. They differ considerably in extent | the syste: em, modifieatio of ig M. b his own 
knowledge of the rainfall and temperature during the time of | and the particular see uten; nts of experiment they prosecute, or t I 
the experiments is also of much import d the necessary | but as an example I may instance - at Salzmundo, in | pacunar circums ANONS. < -4 | 
information on these p ints, obtai ny ological | Saxony, whicb is under the direction of rouven, an able | has become less profitable thin a 4 increwel prot 
er er in the io. bourhood, will generally suffice. The | chemist, and author of a eonirse of lotur ot Agricultural of animal food, many of the ver A Ms farmers in | 
perfect plan would be to have a rain gauge on the field | Chemistry. t includes a Peg ri i — cattle — for | Trel laid dien their lan o perm anent 
itself and VA the sangi of the solar e were also ident feeding experiments, and other ary applianc The | rean have $ hont 
the results would doubtless be most interesting ; but thes cost of —- ting the "station was bebwranti 4001. and 500L, and eee (or for meadowing) in stad Me Qus & Core 
eee: -— "which A dn ire expe r see ado ed in x r penditura about ini; but this a. dona a pat include crop, Of this I could adduce many impor! o E 
e present state o cult op approaches | any e ATE or land, manure, labour, or ca! ood consumed but to sma 
maturity, the proper time for omes a matter | in the experiments,’all of which were supplied by aneighbouring | ni NONG nfore S b M n gel it " 
demanding much careful eoguideration. The general system | proprietor free of all expense. The other rimental Stations | 1a" n especial degree, una 
is to collect the produce from all the plots on the same |thr en ry were conduct a similar plan, | fully practised on the small farm at the Albert Tnstito- 
day, and so far as root crops are concerned this is probably | thou, ces the means are smaller, in which | Gl by Mr. Baldwi in » agricultural ral T 
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said to be ripe. But it is quite otherwise with 
them the period of fati maturity eres beg enrol attended 
to, and as the effect of some manures 
int, it would be wrong to — n wt the idee on the 1 aii 
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ot quam that the minimum outlay should not be less than it | Royal College at Cirencester. Car n growing in Ireland 
oie unde, ne Ed Ks . pd fotata » this | for exportation is utterly ruinous to the Irish farmer — 
is it ever ag ikel; 
lot in deux. any, or say 10007. a-year, an ust be added on a scale greater. 
are pes to be shed, peor i the M weather is windy, or to 
m the first is ripe, e the other: placed 
ata dosi vn = 
the day by day and gath in the 
dition as to ripeness. The crop has then to be w weighed, the 
bulbs and tops of roots being taken separately, and the gro: 
weight of the Asie i being noted 2 E... oinei, while the 
Beparate weights of zrain and stra e left until it is conve- 
nient to thresh the em. "He ere the experfnen nts termmate for 
0002, ney the nt of sci la n 
agrienltares The veneers die sindum- pti B dot a peters aoe of : e thon foul from Weeds--is utterly 
the m. ee it be thought mor i to ascertain the 
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go ork,and support a periodical, in which the pena g their J tof 
labours are given to the bast. We have here an amp ruinous. It is true that some few who are in point 
enin it ine detta pet usly fo ee “the Ir this is country, om industrial intelligence in advance of their meighbou 
may expect, a prese 
at all MENOR to that which is made in (Pose , somethin, g | have of late MIS converted their Ba p 
might surely be done. If an institution of this kiad could be | feeding, and by such means helped to 
established Tn Scotland, Ishould myself be glad to goptribute ground, whilst those who grew it for expor 
towards it both money and labour, and I am satisfied thai EM to slip off the ground and seek their fortune for better 
it were property started, its results "would in the course of tim b d tho Atlantis Or ak Oe Antipodes, 
be in the highest degree beneficial to agriculture, Or worse poyon e SD DE * 
I know not if I could feel justified in the eyes . 
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nutritiv: of the produce by 
It was my kaa to have entered here into some 
details eiae d the exact sd 4 «idera which 
it is des me should be under 
say our en 
Home Correspondenc | pects, so far, as a a whol, seem very favoura e as regir 
Potato Crops and Weeds.—As we in Treland rd all crops wi ithin n the range of my acquaintance, 
P li eat where regularly sown 
action of nitrogen in the state of ammonia 
and as Kec n which form W exista in the bones, would under fi MM lai monct bids fair to be 
e nd : P. nterest. > series x experime o. on e emo upon us for r your supplies; and as “a deen M "te least an average crop. Min i XC. ing sh 
effects of the saltso h is likewise much requi me etter. " e spri 
Tus dier Ubro ot potas a the alleged vc boucles of tiowdl. quantity or quality of such TI: must in a con | Oai ts a utumn sown never A short +e atri 
of the British Islands by the modern system of agriculture, I el likely t0 
expressed the — That, so long asthe present poe few ade on our Potato crops and t colle eague 
here was no proi peg be a ammonia or phosphates | the Weeds, may r jd tpe t of place at "this eis s ll 
depend on aeu mar irkets for 
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being exhausted, but that minution in the available | and let me add critical period of the year, locally and in | Beane wherever g grown ko, on ph sam peeping | Te ww, never 
of potash poserbitity though a distant on: | be which 
Fg “gs present bred we ihr we little v too many perti er called “ the starvin ng month of |p , promised better. The pre bó may e said bad y^ os 
regarding the effects of and what there is is con- July." yi As man of our peculiarities sound strangely Lm peo to a greater range 0 
. A few years ago experiments were made at m | Po tatoes f. been foosabtinn | in the 2 bal 
e ates t sita and the re nea io g remarkably hg whilst growing, oe 
wey on obeys one case so remarkable, that the idee de "e mere f. iie Bets te rm crops most the me ag at market is ge ly good, t bia 
gentleman who made the ke migrant emer a fr yooeurs there yon wili be suroto fnd therobbing produce is by many conside Me | gus Still, d te 
"M iro then aon genere e cause of E Weeds revelli in fed to to plethora. This is remains s sbogenee E. 
remarkable difference, and indeed everythin relating to the | vislble even in scantily supplied, as well a in many weeks, by jodiciom be : PES 
go the sas of magii Mak are sonetiota deed qa maactres | 36 it LE. fois a mort ef e. tor A omea ET Duy de euet. Or wig 
m wh e 
for the -o under the impression that thoy musy bo usini, timy or. E well ied in py ee rer | the mildness of the iter and their adaptability for our 
Irish soils—an 
tity of 
te ep ensi un one s NUM irj» cea ie | dereal iene in ‘ou meadow well as r gree n fine 3 ne is case i 
aee nat we are still greatly in ant of 2 complete and M uas worse than all stil i in pe Potato nn ina markelk 
cà — ings ry into the relative nutritive value of Swedes mo ecial degree ever since the fatal disease of this | This ca accounted for only because of the immense 
fateni ng of stook also meni eis nay ir Tt has Neon cans "e [e De in n 1845. soon as this fatal disease makes its | qn sim di Oe ed to Glasgow, Liverpool, and, Thee 
brerred by a Fre’ hen a horse was | appearance, the terror-stricken and ts hits and culti- "t ar re LITE pompe are so p and so profit 
h oa supplied with v id tar ie pni sted ed weg nished. | Y& Ww Beat uen aa ws gea a 4 
zie - asia it is the eeds thrive, when, having got ful 1 possession | i > 
io be Aineen Boater A a Ari ously be a Lof the manured land, and the result is that by such full, | Cat p fand Lp Etward Carroll, Dublin y 
ples = portance ce to the farm omplet: 6 and uncontrolled occupancy, even pth three! The Number of Cat Cry / 
MSSE ined to ts will find, sod of — Ae year, the next seven wil M LR as as E. Of 
that as in mee cs, the hm ee ace n it, and | present in all the other crops adv —— al Kehe öv ils calves, 31,414; sheep, 341,408; pij i pa 
pom what at ob gp de bres eee of troie m arising from the penny wise and foolish policy | these it was found necessary to detain 126 
T has | in neglecting to clear off the weeds fi " A Potato-|on account of their being diseased, es a 
lanted lands du Ew the latter part of amy and all| calves, 4398 sheep, 550 pigs; out of which t Hed 
troyed fit for human Tbe 
be 
em be ^ — August and T,— in cely ever|condemned and destroyed as un hun 
being in FD sgag in which he | spending y: ‘thought in removing those Weeds till fhe 299 beasts, 51 calves, sheep, 220 p id 
ail the detalis, for y rest assured | Pota time comes round in the month o si Power in se the flesh did joo APPT appears 
| November, wh he Weed seeds of all kinds are| impaired, being delivered to the consig! 
easel sitter te. ation ar all shed, "vad onthe of those perennial ones fully| from this account that of the total number of animal 
