Maron 15, 1856. | 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
179 
wo, the tional | 
t proporti 
ta the kind, i and 
manure applied to the land be | 
a ] } } } i 
, y5 > itm: 
fi = pigs. Th i h diff i the constitu- | quantity and value of each. 
] i value of the 
the treatment requir d between a bays arg and a stated, and whether applied annus ally or biennially, 
I fi 
Let 
| him I 
“draining « soils, 
as 
race-horse. With respect to cutting th 
ey w ell 
as most Kidney Potato oes. 
ason 12 
the meadow, per acre, and let the money value of the | 
Ther plante a re herein s ushels, the | hay be stated to its credit, and a balance struck. I | ne cessary); and h r 
ati being cut sets, and every one was frozen think this information will be useful in reference to the | ye A es are bs the surface after g them with 
as h as as one, and elieve not 30 sets failed in actual value, of lan d manag ged iu this manner, and the Tarts ntly to preserv T em Ho accide ent, th 1e 
e batch: these were purchased of Mr. Holland, of | p g I immediately replied, 
ec a Lancashire. I have no doubt, there being | by a it isto be I d t th which hi 
ee comp laints respecting this Pot ato co ming up accurate Tasik can readily be had. Id works had given an opinion on dpe 
t our assistance, The rr agri- 
[ had successfully drained the Kegent’s Park for 
| public use, a strong clay, with 4-feet drains, at a cost of 
102. 15s n acre, on him that on the worst 
and for es 
Ray eep, and 
an acre was the ost thou; 
| apendikize of ton | 
ought 
e wind up bys ree that the neare 
willin ngly le nd y 
nopne c) uch, as the Potatoes appear 
fectly sound ne only seem to be ee Mal as if 
dried c mple etely up. I hav s seen perches of land with 
7 d. 
ota 
no TOM all parties have cate of the Fluke as they 
— und it ; 3 be e persu uade d, and oa it again . poor 
Tass Tarak pite 10 
nd sialing that I had for bred yours bee 
Chivas Orange Jelly Turnip. —During the spring of 
ment inspector « of 
pra well as a Govern 
draining, po 1 Ifwould undertake? t 
ffectuall 
106099 your 
ree 
of Chivas? ° Ore Turnip as ‘bei ing the most 
the cost involved 
far more effectually, at 
e Jelly 
nutritious, me ‘essing the frost better even than the 
Swede. From the representations of your corre- 
uced to 
by the proposed plans, an 
lled “ Agricultural Drainage,” draw 
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F 
PEPE inte 
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and t will n t season | spondents I was induced to sow an acre of them, and | Lonsdale’s py said there given to the depth o 
te its praises. Edwar AEP, Gr. 7 Sir Offtey Wake- | most heartily do I regret it, as every Turnip was | drains wie ce to roa beta and laying th 
man, Bart., Perdisell Hall, Worcester, March 10. utte erly destroyed by the firs t hard frost, worse even surface dry hen, where he speaks of the failure oi 
I cannot Jay claim to the appellation “ grower on a jery h shallow drains to take the water from the surface, an 
large scale” of Potatoes ; but my mite of ex- e, that others have tried it, and what the result in | the advan of den of 5 ancl feet deep ae i 
perien useful as far as it goes. ted last their e se has been. J. D. H.. li Lats last notice of this the land dr y and strengt > 
year about an acre of ground, half with cut sets, half ly very contradictory a ace. In doing this I expected, I had done enough to to 
with uncut, side by side, and treated as to manuring reports given ofi *] ing about some era y 
and ther circumstances exactly alike. The result| Seeds.—I have l but ı no further notice re been. 
was, that so few of the cu vegetated, that ‘your article in the iak: with raie to seeds, tal fm y suppose the returm 
plougbed up the ground and sowed it with Turnips. Ti wh. f first letter should et “old me to n ae none, 
by some to 50w s0 much seed per acre. z igs part of 
pe racre. 
Th z 
ill be kno wn to most 
d a moderate crop, which were the 
poe d] 
oe m 
es we ast nn 
that our ground is a wet, stiff s ot w 
Potatoes of which we grow but A small requis & for 
ae ut a moderate mt with much 
ase last se y y Subscriber 
THE WHEAT GRUB 
Since I wrote to you last week I have received several | 
young Wheat crop by insects. oR F. W> from 
Southam has forwarded some Wheat plants infested by 
the larvæ of the supposed Oscinis vastator, Japa havin; ng 
ulled u t the roots, ai 
purpos ell. says that for several y years 
* past "y ia Ait fi- il far more destructive of 
be 
y th 
ed co haisin for cating the Pai in a house of its 
f Swedes 
2 lbs. 
of ti and ipare: with so little a mixture of clay as to 
f the most barren in the south of 
of Early 
and of ‘Stubble ‘Tarnip, 4 
3 lbs. i 
Turnip Ibs to 3 Ibs. ; 
Whi pear woul 
ilst in my opinion 4m. of new Turn nip 
fficient if 
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England, The surface for a few inches is san 
underneath this there extends down 
mix sand and grave el, which from ha aving an 
for oy ia a 
With paame” to tryi: gs sl fi 
bia my gpa in my Aor and apt the pros of ‘it ‘into 
By this deseription there are few of your readers con- 
ho will not see that the soil in 
Se by my plan you get good and bad if these be 
misek togeier and so have a better chance of ascer- 
taining nie percentage of good and bad seed. Thomas 
— —— Grower, y de C. 
er”: an circulated b 
own ere Boe ¢., does not, as has been stated, 
as 
Te 
Eo 
c 
the pe aer Wheat than the wireworm, whi 
accounted for, the parent fi 
of ae young ry aga althou, wa may do so on 
Rye. “R. F. W.” adds, that ke always ag md Wheat 
which has been eaten by these maggots in Fe gid 
= — te suffer from the wireworm in yp il, Ther 
ited 
of number of beds at a fixed price and the use of two 
Gon from i its original constitu s The | 
ROY. 
qui uestion is one of the easiest to drain, and most calling 
for very deep drains. Hewitt Davis, 
Old Jewry, March 12. 
3 Frederick’s Place, 
Eocicties. 
Ata 
A 
EEKLY Carini, 
t | Vice-President, i in the Chair. 
r 
ICULTURAL OF ENGLAND. 
March 
12.—Mr. Mires, M.P., 
N a 
s were e secured for the use of the members. 
CHURNS.— 
bine of ma 
ds pge club 
eA wh has beco 
t present the c 
coon of an hotel. 
d numbers, ga by the 
el a hou ould 
ee al topics. 
kno 
2th of 
an opporti 
Stiernsviird’s 
Aen = 8. Ss of th A 
the Committee of 
E 
e Club. 
A iden Drainage by the REA reg me at 
Alder: ot.—I believe n no question c: maids fo 
tion 
and 
f, L 
er We 
shoots be- cereals. ¢ 
ic 
| draina over 18 inches for the more aoet pe “of 
sandy and tet ares and a fans well known et 
under the advi the m experienced drain ing 
the Paris pert 
resent occasion tiga bef 
and under 
baa! in tose 
—Cxvurninc with New MILK. 
case used : 
imens of 
taken before several committees on the subject of land 
ane ning, the Inclosur e Comm: issioners, w who have the 
Churn. 
infested orae which _prove 
E ee, R 
os the advances of t 
of i 
minute. 
Persons succes- 
2 do 
the country the little grub described 
oe Teche: za ae 
not consider any as | 
Stiernsviird ... 
that are not m the depth of 4 feet. This | 
Burgess & Key |6 
5 quarts, 
quarts. 
sively em) 
ne | at seered 
g5 | Revolutions per 
IL—G 
say, to ap 
that no Jandowner would allow i _ for, or aun the 
d admit 
oh ng bse use, and | in- 
by Mr. saia ae in the Linnean Transactions 
off the you ow the 
as 
ime necessary b, 
RA i gineer r todo 
joe ery well? I refer rs he proposed an agers erect | 
ago gnawing the young Turnips in the 
early spring, ja find also in the rapa of pres plant | 
Temperature of 
cream. 
Revolutions per 
minute, 
as made public, for tenders for the drainag 
ofthe ate of the Alterso 
moorl: 
soon I learn eT thought. it a 
advisable to inform the military authorities of 
specimens 
small and leader white worm, like a goie Filaria. 
J. O. Westwood, Hammersmith, March 13. 
Hom = orrespondence. 
Meadow «ra ra ing.—Can it a cs with 
bout to eommi 
ke they we 
the 23d February 1 wrote to. the commanding 0} 
engineer informing him I 
yee Sates a Government gead of drainage, and 
had had large experience in in that nea, 
and advising him that the proposed plans w 
“seria orth is the produce of and iture 
of cpp on a in Middlesex, where 
Lond 
the expenditure would far e exceed, by some miak ap of | 
pounds, what was necessary for purpose, and 
— 
h 
f information on the subject, On the 8th inst. I received 
procuring en which can be re! 
ee ees of va ai duced se? ed 
ar with loads or 
the works, 
sand and gravel form | the | 
letter with a memorandum of his clerk of 
wherein he piinas that the 
low 
er stratum only, and is not the th 
