| JAN. 5. 1856.] 
-THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, _ 
the reservoir beneath it, which may have surfeited it A ie 8 ene not wrong in ing of section | proving from 18 to 20 bushel: s per acre. Of Bi 
with water in dry seasons, and have ig on tead the 3334 of St alee the Ferm, ” "De Ma dden | and Oa ts the e report is but indifferent, both being sadly 
descent of the ra water in wet seasons ? h i calcu ulati . In Clover and hay, more particu- 
how is this reservoir itself supplied ? surely H 1 fb d dung. larly, we are o better off than in most parts I have been 
colation through the superincumbent (impervious) Farm dung. | in, but we shall want it all, and it will require the 
| y. If such is p% state o ase, then th b dust equals, as megeetayens mattar ..  lton |strictes — my in the use both of it and straw to 
t effective e most scientific ns have ” ” ” Mt easly dissolved ai aii > 29 » |ecarry us on there i t of Grass again, the 
been resorted to to oben the desired end, and we all uf > a te 39 E ot crops are so anarei ri pre 10 tons of Swedes 
owe our thanks to Lord Berners and . Trimmer W 4 _ ine matt d 5.0 » |per acre being thought wel of this year. Mangel 
for so forcibly pipe our attention to the ‘bea acon of arthy phosphat 28... 188 5, Jur el, the growth of tional Mire 
science which st t Bu t He then proceeds e add al these separate benefits —to o r shame be it said—is ve; ry good. The Wheat 
then it must be parva? that the ar could h i lt ean the ap ar seed time and the 
Sa vec d, thou dust l to 30 t hig h prices hav and induced many to put 
i 
gh at a grea ater cost, in the ordinary wa; 
t If it ; 
oisture to a natural drain lying be eneath i it, s 
a les 
h 
W + pe 
dent own showing, before 30 tons of dung c: 
lled 
T 
? p yest ea to Dr. Mad- 
an be 
of m 
it it would do so, epo ugh in 
drain placed in it. Scienc: 
common sense said, “ 
iei “detected Bes pbc 
Let it do ork and 
| 
we will make it subservient to our purpose. n [Th e Key- 
l £4 ie a 
arying 
a substratum of cla ay exists beneath the polite L 
In organic matter there must be 4 tons of bone. 
s Soluble matter 
bled 
every penea acre iier Wheat. Relph, Pentwyn. 
—Fro 
to 
co; ie the Wheat crop in this ‘immediate . iorri 
| hood quantity, 
a little short of an average crop in 
» easily dissolved do. ,, 30 b bnt f 
azote 73 , E 
s &Z0 ” , s Tadiai AA aa 
„ Saline mi blighted, 
year, and from 2 
. Ba 
to 4 Ibe. lighter: than the average of 
tter 5 
n is ie one that l ton of b 
pious soil part ing it w the q rley an average i A quantity, but a good 
peyi this case pa submit that there is nothing at agricultural v PIi if we tal 1 — wil Phos. kell. “a 
| iance with the practice of P damio engineers. An | | the highest erate conferred by th only; Berxs.—Fro 
-error might have been commited for want of r for | | 183 times better than dung. | ith is quite Poth i esih engine et for hire) ‘upon my o own a as well as greet 
want of geological knowledge, who aboet h the Sep of others, Lam happy to say the yield of Wheat i is much 
draining the soil in question would have dealt with the | tions and if so trust some one w e right, better than The heavy 
porous vein, the natu = ba i o a beneath the | rectness i in such, A S (hiekan the “ Aas Wheat lands are quite an average crop ; the deficiency 
clay, if he been a existence, and n settled) is o "the ret im- is on high and thin soils from want of plant. Taking 
_ with the clay itself ; feeling “satisfied that the clay yr | por rtance. _My object is is “not to ay "A tention p any | the two together I am of opinion that the Wheat erop of 
not so impervious, but that it would part with rrors in the , but to obtain, “sat ni. 1855 is not more than 2 bushels per acre short of an 
“superfiuou us moisture o the _absorbe ent „be d be piis heka discussion in ae “pages & ripe, average, although 8 bushels’short of the crop of 1854, 
IT ly. Martyn Roberts. Of Bar.ey about an nienie crop quality ones i. 
who have with so much pain | —— Se Oats above an bushels to s 
l and r efreshed the Sry of “all but are. is, I think, | YIELD OF THE PAST HARVEST. bse are few Secseay is grown in my protien 
W sy ict I am not able to say ew about them. 
Poari d bave been drained in the | CAVAN AND LONGFORD. ate of a wild district of Ay Chandler, Ailton Hungerford. 
-ordinary mode notwithstanding kick “a res that have | e ee 08 the border ake Fr et ig eee ted aw eee Be Sy 
ferso vang A mae fe ae te Podaret ka ‘farmers with scarcely an exception, and containing, it e Correspondence 
engineer could successfully administer the ordinary | MAy be, about 100 square miles, there are not, I believe, Farm Dui who are they, o or whom is they to be ? 
q ; ad | natural | 10 acres of Wheat, no Barley, and little Turnips o € me to gain some information on this 
drain he would have to make a far greater outlay. er green crop. The Oat crop, which held fair | questi “peli ve I am not aa e in the to be 
A The trial pits, which constitute an Tapae feature pae of being over an average, has disappointed | gratified on this head. Although I do not remember to 
in Lord Be erners' Tores ae ould n e used in the | the growers ; and, on the assertion every one, have seen the question asked before, still I have often 
their expectations, and, freely upon when I have 
stiff soils. 
c 
Eu, aq 
rou might lay 
/ 1 4} 13 f, 7 a} 
w water, in defia ance of the dread and yet the drains 
might be well and effectively laid. Two statements 
Y 
n the 
x, that is, I und erstan: d, water | 
in the compa 
lower scat? and ranker ground, 
, de 
k suppose oe t 
e 
ficient in yield an aoe bad in a 
was standing appears also to have suffered fro pares 
ng too quickly, and, ne not well filling. 
d has 
suffered Pennie by 
on 
I am steed to eine that in 
e from al 
rities at least. But pa ian state- 
ich keiers further com- 
of M i 
A r whi 
(laid I understand 4 feet and 5 feet deep), and 
= the out still ae with its tter. 
a ie so adverse to 
me who understoo 
se soils 2 feet or even À fost & me Sia 
is ev’ 
thei 
hee 
r land 
view of the case, for a 
ore and still hat it 
the Bos lvoe: 1 confi 
a person may be fond 
advisable and profitable to 
Peai doubtless gentlemen find that this 
j thie is not on ly opinion, 
n the | market price. without any sn le 
of sal ange on account of apprehended loss by Tisai 
from necessity of the holders, a h y other 
d i 
Ma 
However, I wish to be undar. 
or | 
| stood | 
tnt the Seals I am about to make are 9t 
5 baits but merely to provoke discussion, and to ar 
fris 
beg to ower 
thing like an accurate opin n À a proo: 
following | as the result of my. Gace: One large a 
x if, Scrabby. 
LK.—As to the probable yield of the past ‘har- the f 
the: 
f take the 
nd 
on Tepe rken pé be y binaar À informed. As far as T am 
y that it is the 
A’ hi. 1 +h sA 4} 1 
a te 
oY? 
heh re yy Ca oa Ba 1 
3 
discovered the depth at which water may be eco 
A removed from the soil, after having enr 
it with its ammonia and some other —— matters 
) which it held in chemical combination, The question 
arises how ~ Mr. Mechi’s i irrigati ion under aa 
esirable, and whether it is not abso- 
ous. 
occasionally, with an unusually rapid 
field, ag it “on Beet 4 ima 
This district and av 
30 or bak n 
conflicting 
bushels per acre, this year yielding 3 
customs. Doesn 
behind th 
—Im Sean aa 
he have a learner 
an apprenticeship, as one may 
of the fields 
aa ine: Kina ‘of sco 
of this description z Ae 
ourse Occasi 
the water might become me ae by the silt or chet 
tary matte drains ; but 
of the a ‘choicest R x ve have i in the county, and I 
I ie. on ee elds, and Inee 
r deposi 
eat Mr. Mechi to sae an that the water was 
oured with the colouring matter derived from 
If the discussion is continued at the Society of 
poi MA iy be alluded pà if es ie I haps 
through your columns they may obi 
Chas. F. Humbert, Watford, fr 
i TEA aie CONSTANTS. 
i ' scientific agricult 
te 
many inn 
ason Of a mate chia 
e fairly o 
Wi 
ween cot on: Turni 
y or en to try on their |i 
cal | bein; 
not go out of my own parish, producing from 40 to vn 
than 
have 
the foregoing, for one hears yo they expect to 
two or three horses kept for them, and ali other 
pasai per acre. On the whole, I 
a deficiency, and taking the quality of the grain into 
consideration, I am inclined to think it will be fully, if 
more than one-fourth below the usual average; but 
uld imagine s county we were Nang affected 
with blight than ote pariapi t the kingdom. Barley 
n quantity or ps age * 
that th 
“ii 
gloves ve ia ae 
excep 
like oracles about the 
ona ngines, &c., but it is said that 
do Sails y deputy except receiving their 
that they ehh deem it derogatory to cast their 
their to touch anything 
cally upon a few of their 
t top 
na ti ero 
either 
nd yal probaly not reach an average. 
vement uth el the 
t of their | f 
nsumed too phos Hay i is “the Theat crop I 
while by re: 
j education, all mAy not be able to to p of th 
s value of these new man of treat 
may be called ‘ i Cons re and if 
discussed in able columns, and 
usion arrived at, it would be of great ser- 
farmers, is question 
d settled : 
a Mon 
that though a gis Poy of Wheat would most 
p 
y the weather. W. £ sae 
ding you a report o 
| appearance of the chee previous to last harvest in apr: 
portion of rts ne ine! in the Uske, 
which may be called Mid-Monmouthshire, I r 
robably be | a little un 
e pa 
under that crop. L fod my stateme 
to have been inform: 
eee ‘of Hubback es am not sure oft th 
the true 
a 
Z 
& 
g 
28 G 
PAHE 
as I am 
Can farm-yard dung be entirely and efficiently re- 
manures ? and at-what cost? Or in y t ugh 
form— What price per ton can we afford to give having been a fair average, vi viz., from 24 to 26 bushels | limited scale. A few. are said to be farmers who have 
dung on me fond to equalise it with. guano at 137. | per acre, t tried for Ives, and have been unfortunate, or 
rphosphate at 8l. 2 _ Would a mixture below the average Weight, whe on i hy paee anne som: 3 appears they turn their abilities — 
d gare. ae ae E fer soles, ves 
deficiencies? How are | district I have heard of ct te ee th better | at the same time they have unsuci 
ise have, heard of marvellous crops, with better same object for themselves. The last class L shal touch 
dung ? "nen “what are the 
3 be obtained !—and at what cost ? 
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