Decemsen 31, 1864) THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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therefore not placed in dt fir position as s compared ‘the Zi imes, and anticipations Were formed of the rofit | enough of their produce <i il 
with i foreigner, and, although many — im- | it would some. day yield to the rate- -payers » E I. | he had ad gone cou imo do QM. 
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to feed him considerable assistance in meeting the | about sewage. the oe there once was chet gas. It Soe taken 6001 PT po uini ma at a yc) 100 acros, after 
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g ]l economical as compared with manual | was equal to the rainfall of half a 0 acre of land, betta A e — long straw under 
found steam - all e ien à 300 feet I : ow higher than the’ Monument), for 19. or 1s, — they ape it cit make chad, they would A à that all 
intained that corn could be threshed at as cheap Tipos i v * " er o a good retura for their root ot erop, the " sot wok ie fear her A 
he maintain ptree got nig 189 feet ve the evel of the a sd corn perience 
a rate " em labouras by steam. He would appeal|and if sewage could be = p 300 feet, it ge wig = oo ora: tle exp v the henni tan oe 
ical men oad me x that was not so. | Could be made to flow where wanted, each farmer them instead of bei aaie Gi e x c 
m : į | having his tap and meter, d. e à what be took, He e e acd cut up inte 
impression, derived from his own experience, was t ^ could see it all in the future, and he p how it could be done, -— MI — e f re pod eg e the sheds 
— little of the new machinery which had bee | bonnes b he had done it on 3 wa for the last 12 or 14 years ; | heap, but be taken divest tc” o Pick | 
troduced it was just as easy supply sewage to any particular | expense as well as gave i i 
— they grew their corn at the present time at | district as it was to supply water or gas. He need not tell exped him: bo had tried {hem Tl 
HU them how absurd it be, after feeding 3,000,000 shee qu haay 
uite as t an expense as they did half a century | upon the beat cotton cake and Turnips, not to let their ezere i Pope are pe appessiato their position and offer to 
H did not tbink ie. obtained so much work saath fall the land, but into some nj dre uring rive nns sheds for sit cattle, and 
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= — PE" as formerly. He should be very glad if R propos barns, lord should Ba; awe 
tell: him 1 ld but that was just what ere doing in a gee TS but r cattle under cover ; o LI. 
i v0 by the recent invention e qos if they | farms, for consumption in the metropolis, er the result was (Aci ig nd yon rss fold and n IST Eo 
ploughe ed AM steam they must have am: to carry out | poured into a river, to be wasted as far as nature would permit, the qualities of the lati ated in the alr or washed 
their corn ; and unless they — iren Dioon Wai a Bal Mao onem wird SA ay by the rain; oe ye manure was equal to any 
- of "tbe cost of horses he maintained that the use of SEPAN of thinking men in various parte of the kingdom ; 
eam was an additional e enge If Mr. Me chi co uld and ratep: t t 
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meet him upon all occasions, bes se he — odes of rivers, to ren : 
ruat thing that wad. mi the greatest good | trot that kind would be carried, because it imple "Ne. Parron explained that he was not opposed to 
“He had much leasure in eeek the logical dicus that bringing back to the land what it had improvements or to the use of steam power: he had 
healt th of Mr. Mechi; and if on this occasion he could | been exhausted in ust be restorative and fertilising. | merely given the results of his own experience, Viz., 
throw a little light on “the subject of a Jesi e, and e would now tell nm a little ex Mad eom he had | that manual labour was the cheapest, He could thresh 
teach him how to farm at present prices, he should be poh in thin sowing. He believed it was —— that | his Barley by hand for 20d. per quarter, while by steam 
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. Mxoni said it was eat pleasure to him than they used to be, ry) sot Ie Hsi T ie vette E 
to come once more nee ds d by whom he had| Mr, DENNIS: Where there is no game. Mr, Pamala No; I ge ik y 
always been received with kindness, even when| Mr. Mrcwr believed that partridges and pheasants were r. MECHI: pist is another thing. My arguments 
questions of iR improvement were more | great friends of the farmer. ha n referenco to a fixed en 
Mr. Meon did not say abba, though sometimes when he TTISSON said on 4 uin of 150 acres it was 
was out shooting he wished there were more of them. On a cheaper to hire. 
Clover ley, which was first mowed for hay, then manured and Mat Not if you grind and do everything 
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found only required one peck to the acre, and the remainder of | Mr. Piresidi: With regard to — ng, h 
the field was drilled with his usual ego bushel of | been a practical farmer nearly 40 e: had CHE 
upon tle possession of such a President, and he con- acre. The Wheat ca , bu as mach corn as any .of bis nei duo. gone he never 
gratulated them also upon having two such zealous ee rp eae Oe te pions it. Bo it went on till had a weet crop from a thin go His largest crops 
upholders of the Society as Mr. Pattisson and Mr. Hills. | the spring. 2 ore) began to tiller and shoot out | had plant 
und was covered with a thick net-| Mr, HI: You could not call 20 or 30 — ber 
ws | every a Totes a thin plant, I can resa r A 
1 from one kernel, and in many cases from » to 30. As farre thing —that if the price of corn is low aave han 
were the order e day in agriculture. _ They co Mopeoche ed his um T ay E opinion that it | farming more profitable than bauking. 
e me as the thick: s wing, Woop said: uds 
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ie must have "md supatenee Pus e of f dor among amar 
their own rm and when he | seemed to duy a of steam the other 
used I peck per acre they were | Mr, Mechi, very itie. of whose profits probably were 
they very carefully kept the farming Mr. Mecut. - an acre, |—seemed to think steam 
fied him for that poi tom - He sca are we al 
steam power in agriculture, because it was contrary’ to | 3 
all experience, 
Mr. ParrISSON : I mean on the question of economy. ed, 
. Mzour: Of course; he admitted that unprofitable | Separate, 
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straw weighed 23 tons per acre. On the other part of the field, was a great advantage to be able to 
— Wheat, 1 bushel per produce | and send it in good condition to market Tk wan also a proat 
Sinet in eve else, had a tenden economy. | Was 6 quart h r acre, with a much quantity advantage to cultivate their land very quickly after harvest ; 
[4 he k pese Vim pen upon the nnd Hei hed ind of straw than where there was only 1 peck of seed. They | but at the same time he was not at all clear that incurring a 
r 17 years, in times when as very must not eme MM. that he advised 1 — r= — ym very heavy expense to h that object would be certain 
unfashionable in this emnt? H į ama if = ar thresh 70 quar- | all circum but he thought 37i 7% 48 | to yield a corresponding return of profit. e application of 
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sowing; and n “with recs ped may considered yy per priv nd sewage eer Whether by the use of steam or of 
there w redir M should be a to know y to pe farming pay 
ture not make so much as that), dy the enving "ot Pen a few with eat at SL. a load, and although he pg the Chairman 
evid miy cms à aa fat Lined aoro in ed tiain world M adt was notright in saying ‘ho w as going rry imp tng ae 
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ce before them in eve shape that steam was their ry ue je, amm d so be able t6 form t their sir own thie farming ae J "uoopo f E $ w ione going 
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crops grown—that for 1,000,000 quarters of seed they only got Farmers! Clu 
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Caird's statistics; but if they multiplied his 59 bushels by | MORAYSHIRE: Turnip Culture.— Sd 
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profit He had happen d fr Tom 
who lived by the oats of t aie MR yn dd Dim 2 DOES ud — oe bs Soap 2. ben ae p. 1238).—Mr. Rose, Sheriffston, v next on this 
they owed a great mide. the use of the steam plough, not | Detter than the average rate otiosa was suffered waren thick | subject. As to the time of sowing, he thought from 
at ihe prope tne. i ne of oe thon said hi oon - he i swin 3 This yest had been Ae: erop because they | the 12th to the 15th May was about the proper season 
pron the next crop by the 1st of ‘October before there | happened to have a — Birt n e x epi the for himself to commence getting the crop all laid 
d they knew nbderemir e. land could be | few frost d lis Bad ui wd igh arming, kept the | down, between that time an , or at any 
kem Y up pokes | wer a awe A aes checked the growth | © p standing ; but if they a moist and warm seas ris the ebd of We His va meia of 8 4 
CON € became on fe pos their Barleys would have teen laid flat, the Clover would | rate y- p 
saritiar n set eve hing right for the spring | have grown through it, and the yield light and deficient in| which he did not think should be sown a May. 
iat hoa been the effect of not using steam in early | quality, very injuri ce “wd ot p for yellow Tursiph would never sow them 
cultivation this year? Those who unluckily loft their wor | Most people were e th mer * on June, finishing about 
be done in the spring had fai ed in their Mangel crop, whe reas | Seeding; but wher thick seeding ed in loss they Turnip 
result 
those who, like himself heard very little pcb it. Well, then were they perfect et 1 He: ivy meint have every 
raion aces ism propad aair TU MD Musihusi mue ad of is eese sri wa by tha, timo if poesblo, Generally a 
T a ean een consequence.  Iiberefore in | ug for agicutare waa somot srna 
p it would require two o or three months to do by drained naturally, but 
degree desk rity, 
“vial manure t 15 or 20 
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manures—such as dissol es 
almost, asleep, but still the Iture ‘treat em at the most tide-drawn manure, ra thing of that sort—he would 
only all da: sed agricoducing a result. 
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to horse-pow uld say that t did time dos He was so 5| Sees. Turnips he seldom gave t yard 
the grave Paar a sleep. ot 200 years, farmers were er with Wheat at tree p rices. ecause he had it not to give after expending 
h lade — present prices were low, and one piece of j much on on the Horgen He would just give them a 
subject — th rfe to another t advise he would give them C A erre ferente sell their | little pm anures—say three cwt. with 
iugo; he lal e at ye een em rE from al ght n bus c ls of crushed bones. He 
perm odi know it bad not gone off the farm, i-e not get bis Yellows and soft Tur nips dunged at all 
again in the sha XS increased s year. the different varieties he would 
g €— e tainly pre for j Pomeranian White Globes to the 
Greystone, and thought them an equally heavy crop, 
tation : th . He was glad to see many farmers were 
of h and others the question had e $i 3 his experience in this matter, beans one of the 
fashionable ; they saw long leading articles upon it in| greatest mistakes made in farming was that they did not send 
