58 
will have as much influence on the current crop as, 
one ton of a phosphate of one-twentieth its solubi- 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
ton as the c 
one ton 
rop is an abundant on 
osing 
waht in every Seles 
—and su 
Are Sota are cheaply 
Y, ] 
food o the fo 
the latter than out 
crown 
Bu ton this subje ect 
[Jan. 26, 1856. 
allude to those who have usurped the place of ste ewards; 
far too many of these worthies are taken fro m the ranks 
| of unemployed law , and 
their sinecures not ri merit but poen 
ka 
And 
ormer. 
if the former should wholly yi in t a; 
while ninetee mp tieths of the latter remain in! r: 
the oi for n the growth of future crops, still | 
it is a gr beatles to spend annually just enough | 
to meet the annually recurring wants of the 
rather than to lay out at once enough to last for 
twenty years. Nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, 
The p practice of nag root crops in the is 
eNe extending, perhaps the discussion af it com 
may accelerate its general adoption 
WHO OUGHT FARM vRNA TO BE? 
«A Novice” thinks they ought to be “smock-frock 
men.” ”I am not, Mr. mip enais a to scree i a 
still I a 
ment is slong at yielding tre, Soils 3 in ‘the oth 
a small one ually more lf. 
permana: a| 
we 
of the lim 
is a little 
h th 
| the * uneducated smock-frock me ae ° gre eat favourites, 
because they possess a degree uching servility ? 
ae grateful to e while 
wW 
eiA Show the right 1 man is not in the o right place, 
have seen cl harity land, college land, S ama 
My 
“ hybrids,” if rg Wie it. 
retar ias px not pii come up 
he has s down— 
5 per My greatest crime amon 
be iol! 0v over 
to 
that of reducing the hiaai wages an, 
those 
a curse 0 EIF we ive in, yan spt 
nagers, app rawa whe f I 
iene find to be t a cane pes Fm above alluded 
Cox, Longford. 
b s the eee ” is that I employ too many 
pen ht j The solubilit a substance | @bourers, -r le spite ey declare «it | to by the gownsman. Hy. 
is retained, although in other respects its ST 
that had e's cats eke 1 the 3 rece tacle of filth, Where 
nature changes, Neutral phosphate of lime, as | Couch and stones and Docks and ohh. rae an for yea A STEAM-CULTURE REVERIE.—No. 
it Banian vey, ba! water, althou ugh | p been gaer gat thrown and gro cannot at my friend had _ for many cal 
com) 3 O | pay h heroi constructing so ovel machinery,— 
the f form in which it is there a. Let it ł up the patent — hap: employing. =“ only snes and millwrights in n his own 
d a heap with wetted | pened to penetrate more than 2 or 3 inches into the | neighbourhood, but also several of our env distin- 
ashes, and its solubility an na pre. Poles increase. | soil ; they swear it “ will never pay I of f engineers and implem: = 
Dissolve it in i sulphuric acid and dis tribute it so|of clay an ings, &e. hi l 
form in which this treatment leaves it is aga as soon 
as it enters the land, the state o. a -_ sion in which 
the solu atio on leaves it render so cih more 
à 7. + Ea 
1 E Se 3 
and ditch par and the 
worst foolishness in the world” to tear at ied nasty 
subsoil” even a single inch me 8 than nt was oh i 
ploughed ; but when I be derdra 
the 
practical “tt Ae schemes which had ever been | pro- 
posed fi or superseding 1 the plough-team,—in short, to do 
mage igh a " absurdity 
ve 
beco: a farm 
y choice but. from Kois my e chief hobby was 
$ 
Rontienloure and its can and for the purpose 
is hob 
thus experimentally establish „the best principles, or 
He 
had embodied in metal and wood all oai “ povery y -a 
vators, &e., he had ever heard of; they w 
stering thi bby I eagerly caught at 
iv L, Lo 
could afford ; thus oudon, 
and was 
trange engines 
arc i briskly down the 
e more | 
then, tha perpho phate oped 
halds within it, the greater i is 3 its agricult tural va lue. | 
cule by rm & A aredtitatat smock-frock men,” put 
ideas into my head o pases to many of th 
t my friend and m 
farm,— 
mages Dae in aa Eon ns, for while I laboured hard 
n the of hor tict 
lhe 
m alongside a Tight no which — 
oops” and “junctions” the 
inclosures. 
e pothery smoke from 
2 or 
of seni is not in our 
L7 
peor tei 
Thus neri a ana a s arkea- s Sella” 
ure. I 
both, pana and by tea es for I was not one 
Whitfield, i 
urely th 
genuine Couch-fire; there is 
suggesti 
ead 
Tux papers which Aa dis in this Journal 
on atir and he ecb and Toe inthe Turnip have 
opened pae to = 
bulbous 
whe o the ore ra 
of mere mismanagemen nt that t they ought cer- | 
tainly to be avoided. d, but 
has | rience. My father oad on vee’ the labyrinths 
s farm-h 
inst 
day’s m: to a blue haze over the fallo off 
from rot Tow Joh wie ich, Lawes, ay, | like watery clouds. Andnow asI draw ni A 
e | Bousingault, Smith, Parke, Bailey Denton, Mr. ” Pusey, instead of the low kle of Bren", Couch, the short 
an a host of other authorities, I studied the herd of e cough that tells a i 
E Be hind that bushy ha a are congregated the real 
Mr. nts and apparatus which I have for years 
tribe of M Ssrs. ome rae and while Aadi th the longed to see actually wo rking ; perchance, among the 
Gardeners Chronicl: Tr ver slighted ` 
Gazette. In my boyhoo! sà I had a little practical expe- | an efficient economical steam cultivator. This 
r 
horticulture, and pla arm-house, the mount not fight through the toughest Quickset when 
— a which belonged te ga school; be the thrill of such expectancy emboldened him? T: 
most rigid bacon a short cut, then, through a stout bullfinch hedgerow, I 
Ki thickest and fattest, a his. ak the hardest sid stood in open view of the mbled machines ; — 
af ter 33 A.M. 
= —_ aa a carelessness. oe as iti is one poe | lo. 
leanest I ever eon no she in Po coe had any re 
ter or su ped to 
pets 
o milk an d | ceedin 
lly 
va alvays wi with 
| without a an 1 attempt a at classifica tion. One o 
he had t 
my eyes; and as I had previously supposed such in- 
haldi 
not only several but scores of tillage machines intended 
iig iai the*ostler.” His cattle 
> under his hedges ; e chara 
Sr he most hard-working indus fimer in "the 
neighbourhood, and was particularly noted for his 
mode at market, and much deria by that mo 
ost 
e yard was 
-itis a mistake to o suppose that substitutes for common 
pooping rae digging are of very modern suggestion, 
studied pes 
Besi 
Lyra ope side of a hill ; it had a pond at the bottom r, for the sixth English | 
A in which was a very sm mall spring, all the palois a sf a Engines and other inventions 
f th d h Re tty inland or upland, and to fer- 
ben down the “ditch ; he regarded dung almost as a | tilise barren sands ;” the date being Jan. 
nuisance, l 7, 1618, = “ie patentees D. Ramsey and (unfortu- 
two or years more washing before putting it ¢ on nate cognomen !) Thomas Wildgoose. T 1623, Alex- 
his land ; he always cunt 3 bushels of Wheat, ploughing.” 
of Barley, and 6 bushels of Oats per imperial acre,| On Aug. 6, 1627, W. rater and o thers patented 
g les,’ atrue believer in the doctrine of the more you | an “ Engine ‘for earing, ploughing, and tilling d by 
| Sow the mo a s ye reap ; and con- | the labour of two men, without the aid of oxen Or 
| side! that y instances the seed was calculated by | horses ;” on 17th July, 1634, arham 
f the field and 2 acres in 10 taken = patented “ Engines for ploughing land without 
ag ge “i 
4 
nereased mri oi x. winter of ] 
ta 
up with meres and hedgerows, we see that the waste of 
thorou rough 
This old gentlemen was a 
-ma kers. 
ater of books, book 
aE no tieer ca 
rage 
say is a true t type of some of the “un- 
ock- frock ee still li 
est invention rep’ 
The my ingenious 
i iniefatigable friend’s a fo ‘that patented by 
| 
sipiy ecome liable t Aone 
:_| of England. Ts this w A Novice” recommends for | Van Thornhoff, Jan. 28, 1785, in enalotie of a 
ue to `g greater exent e each Te serà Apei | bailiffs? I apa bef I am a farm bailiff from | for digging up ground by m ur; interesting 
PoS or PaaS P| ecessity. Some seven or eight years back there ly as being the first ines meea e of which We 
against severity, Then agai ar an insects an | pened to fall in some straggling farms which had been yac t, and as tainin neiple subse 
eee 5 » the od — eat their way a | managed on the smock-irock — ‘i ae ere quently followed in other inventions. It consists of ê 
into a further aving a wo T occupiers declared they would pl spades united side by side by a er 
the action of frost and other atmo spheric causes of | Engiand at 2s. 6d. acre rent,” can wurybod aye ais ning two shafts at top, a block of 
injury. Both of these considerations render the looked at the land declared “ they w would not have it at aed working with a joint between the shafts just abov 
subject one importance, and the rela- | a gift,” till the lot fell to your humble servant to till it. | the shoulder of the “>a Upon this block vr 
tive economy of the various methods of preserving | But of course I did everything wrong. 
ought therefore to be carefully considered. wi deep,” I“ bought too much stock,” I “ b 
S forage of fifth o labour,” I sowed “ too little seed,” I a he arera of the paies aro oe oct 
the land is rendered worth! by yog rakes A he | money on artificial food an Akin I aps the ules Diack natin ng as erum. erg at 
w] 
> worth the expense of Seating he whole 
5 es as tho on 
ae are worth the of harvi 15, 20, 0 or 
——— a Ries = as to the 
th most costly mode of 
carrying home the heaviest crop of roots does not 
a fulerum. 
aur Senna 
broken off is cast 
amount to 6d. or 8d. a ton—it amounts to 
less per oo “hybrid” or 
or the RAEES ian 
|“ too particular about a A war or two of meal” oa ‘the steps backward for another stroke. Fori eci maven 
—— and yet with all this mismanagement I | of pac the tool round at the end of what may u 
nobody. I have made it pay 1/. acre rent, | the furrow, a stem ing two smail wheels 1 
ane a fair insere pine money spent, while those very to the foot block. _ The ee 
| persons w ot have it ata Sag have b d 
‘presingytdding fo 1 genie Reve there is | done wit a AA ASAE SAA 
Nene 
yer and engaged both foot and hand Sey 
them. Van Thornhoff (a city merchant, to 
