200 
THE SE Ou GARESES. 
[Marcu 22, 1856. 
2 bushels per acre being the medium qu: anity 
persons proposing to pre: | kept covered o: mildew 
&e. e ag wae venture to a the sume il to | useless, I ma bon sie roe an ary, ‘market, ‘and 
me Dev mbers of the Bath and | prefe er the abe of planting whole y 
West of £ England Society,* pares stalled I might | cutting them. The ne is whole sets 
drilled by me on my ae pe The Marigold Wheat 
528,00! 1 bushel, or 1,056,000 
re, This will ‘Ne about 24 grains per square 
nure, against rain sot and 
purpose with the high sanction of the — the action of m 
uld be so some 
solicit fi 
Council. „If Kidneys are cut they sho 
W} 
foot, lt must not be lost si sight of that we do not plant 
ordinary Me 
Extract from the Minutes of the October Meeting of the Council of 
as sage H. an 
la 
d 
ts per square 
the Bath oe: oe of England periity fet ~~ ee |f firm skin. In the case of large Flukes the cook m nigh t 
of Agricultur: us ce: Ane and 
pis = beet 
“a daily 
m the 
crown ; these crowns being dried would I think be 
le } 
17 pla 
e grains not t hava ‘germina pom others being 
pte by the attacks ee irds and insects, I have 
me. mg n Mareh, when the worst winter ad er heaviest 
have ceased, But if we are drive plant larg 
grown n 8 inches Legere. and so 
it amply thick, which i isa proof that overfed plan mh 
th but 
nicating he 
make for So eliog the che which he has offered to the sons “we Potatoes let us give them more see “a pre opor- 
an e our 
to the grower, 
this i is no > proof that it will pay to cultivate so high and 
Perhaps this Barley was sown where ii 
corn ever grew before, : and and ona naturally rich soil 
find cultivated in a manner that would not pay 
oes 
and relatives of farmers in payer ive, s paa to assure him that h 
whatever tends to promate aý so desirable an object cannot fail to be ly a (I pate aren we shall hav 
a matter of interest to t ase oduce. . 
It wae propeent iy by Mr. "Acland and seconded r. Dym year on Apri 17th I se t 113 lbs. 
ri pats Y Gopor a ene jabat ma tort al oe : hot into a7) sets. I believe none of fee would jie “failed 
Lied sBicmes Society iòs nsible for the details of the 
Taans to fcar thet’ there fs had it not been for a kind of worm 
the production of corn. Doe: „this te abe 
proposed examinations, are happy 
to believe that some aaitee members of this Society are iaria nearly a third 
co-operate with his Lordship in aagi da ng out the proposed plan. | sati 
ae Nr tions were carried n 
ng POTATO CROP. 
n your Notices 
to 
esi celal “alant, a twelfth par 
Havin spondents irably 
in the deta! Guida 6 some remarks on 
Potato I beg to 
The 
seeded adm I did a weigh tie 
reviously 7 Sa March 15tl h6 lbs, 
ean’s Seedling Potato (a seedling 
aa 84 bushel š pe fı 4} pokey and 5 vant 
eut 3b ? 1fso, I am not so much 
surprised at the result, fo uld be on to seed 
o thickly on a soil poses Bi a superabun e of the 
ece for a erop of Wheat, nty-one 
eoin Twe 
sacks of Whe eat peracre! Is it possible ? T have fll confi- 
offer a 
I did not, count 
I 
of Flukes ; iz was Fluke e, and which it much resem por 
J (al 
H. & 5 
, and burnt, d 10 cart- 
ld at ti th id that M i iesin was based on a 
t Ba apar’ 
sation nt co A up: fik ae seen Hate all's ors mich was “170 feet She rs iaee was 93 lbs. i very | therefore tei stasetaeat woul nee a little e modifi- 
eyes s they Et crabs iw ‘the fer see aa == neighbourhood procured Fluke Potators last spring. their perseverance in what they think will ultimately 
off in the sack, when brought to the garden 8 I e| All of them ns _ into ordinary sized sets, and a|be of benefit to gea nity. Now culti 
wh te ken up, they were Seguna cro satisfactory crop was the result. G. w. Manning, St. | vate Wheat by the eir ey will gain sah 
yielding 17 stone for every stone planted, or 136 stone J — Parsonage, Goeuall, March 17. attention, aid conse quently they may gain con- 
sound and eight stone of di ép, | induced to state in AEA of the verts, especially if they ¢ apen us vere shock: shoni 
making 144 stone in all he ground on which ‘thes inode of eee ae by y profits ps obtain. Geo. Summers, 
were planted is a v i y soil, Pete ver: | at my experi of the Flake is. Early last | Houghton Bt st m, Bi rd : 
differently mavured, and planted on the 9th of Mas | spring I plante pratt marsh be eee er ve eer been The Sto hers t will probably be in the re 
very drained, p 
per acre with Flukes, all all ‘a them cut 
collection of B.S pale Kis tin the night of February 
6-7th ult., , à most destructive hurricane Veran: sed o 
ore than three 
ee were sim Sd 
n k 
ha ed the pctv 
ny pares pores hol aia a > an anes fo to eard ivi r four from the largest oai ah 
ee: grown ng yar ‘before ‘aimee came up, well, | | magnific et 
h. th. 
erior to | 
p! 
Taking f | 
well gro 
ing e Times 
of Saturds z Feb, ry ze s struck with the ‘fick re the 
the previous one. yielding not more than 12 attikai r tub 
stone of seed, with a great deal men poe aoe ones from pi tubers, 
From th Pota 
| they begin to suffer from | the violen! nce of „the ba 
eastern coast of wee did not experienco Ù 
en 1 my field. After this who one 
eirp This was a light not on nly a g good, but t the J Al Po tato. Tho p poor magna 
the 
visitation hw a . toy hour, p towards th P many 
an sak ae yells Al came | 200 bushels to sell I am certain, that oo would all be 
E ll; at the ti £ “tak pose 
ns a “had Baana antige mot king up, those, fo eu tiree I am pieeting saye acres this + Aha 
of pele or thus, cut sets 15 stone per | {8hion, being satisfied from experience ® that no R 
Woah, anont a, Soh në. Š can arise from dividing the anea Potato. C. 
stone, E EE S as the | Thruston, Talgarth Hall, Merionethsh 
mana a true progressive 
storm, and "that ‘ts probable Tne o f movement would be 
from west to east, across the north of Ireland eg centre 
of Scotland, I made ibplicatión the Trinity B or 
a eo of the reports from ferenn light- 
u 
brs uses, an abstract of ee Li og n Table I., and 
Rae readers will draw E.N. E and W.S.W. 
Pont +h from, 
ground on which they grew the previous year, were ae ae aaan 
quite eq nal to those of the first year I bad ame be oe re Home Correspondence. 
Thick versus Thin Seeding. Tu agree with “ Faleon” 
oor ps were the sets planted 1 more “than two | | in his description of poor lan 
e different stations in the following table, they 
| willl think SN] ae aa! rims the barometers, 
| there observed, fell a as the storm’s 
ade: 
inches d 
principle on which 
deep | planting, and buying the seed 1 just when i 161 is wanted | the farmer sows thickly on pote Spada soil. _ The 
er number of plants fou 
direction of wind was from So 
At 
e Fluke is nothing but a late Kidney tesa i r creel he 
uth and S W 
West ; ; the hours of its greatest force coincide very 
closely with those of the greatest depression of the 
Barometer 
tnt 
shiek ious! I b Diffe 
Stations, observationofBar.| tion, noted at | ence- 
P ; stituents necessary to all the 
apart in the Tine; soluble food found in a "barter ‘soil could be placed i in 
field. A out [a jox Xtaposition | with the spongeolets or mouths, 
Scilly .. 
.../5th, 9 a.m.| 29,91 | 29,35 |6th, 3 p.m.| 56 
Cornwall. | 
Edystone 39,21 | 29,70 
Devonshire. 
9am.) 
theory be 
o f e, and my crop would 
his; in tee be expense of seed his would eost | correct. ould ask ‘ Falcon,” if he ossessed two 
9 a.m. sas Bayer 
Dublin 
d 
e seed was large in sie: The It 
Fluke when planted i in the field ‘should be dhog Tarps ria. Piae pë 
light as possible, or the |acre, and the nc sown nan t manure, would he 
diately ra planting. The of Fluke in | | allow the former to be left 10 inches ha asunder and 
this vicinity : one is ccc the ieri worthless: ; ‘et | the latter 20 inches ? This, I believe, is “ Falcon” 
Esa. "Boato, when cut into very yellow, 
boiled is satt se as 
variety ajes 
> 
a bite it wi Cie ehaed + te re than 
e good one even into bad repute. se 
alous of being tikite tau. DAVED = i ten eer 
myself to see any pr reju 
the advancement of our profession, nor 
a correspondentin the agri 
e Haligoland a 
e 
St. i Catherine's s 
I. of Wight. 
are 99,34 
| 
la 
7 wn so) ms saat 
ls 
3 p.m. 28,8¢ 
Longstone i a 3 p.m. 
Yorkshire. 
a) 
oe 
8 
wE 6tb, 3 am. 29,86 | 29,22 
cultura! 
Paper, writes to amy if the Fluk 
I 
up time | save them ‘or possibla. -1 
with satisi action n we 
longitudinally, end have very few vielen in the piece. I 
At St. John’s Point, Dundrum Bay, at the height of the 
storm the barometer feli to 28,91 at 11 p.m. of tbe 6th. 
ch 
I think it emt that the logs of the reo boa! ~ 
5 : 
data bi end the. wes of Ireland. P. P. B. 
Mar 
shall r reap 84 “bushels 
Messrs. H. that th 
armers | who do not “too often experien 
consider the Fluke Potato to require good Pas 
ground in pe field ¢ culture. The cro pee = em 
from the garden is imm 
being too thin in i soil, and | f 
Tarde or iec Feodin mater tah I Jast addressed 
Epas hoggets 
average ; 1 have in the fi ug 17 Potatoes, <a 
ing 20 ein in a row of I rarka G. Dad: this in soilsin a “high state of cultiva! tion. 
must teach us more about 
mpm ki | 
in a wal led and covers shed cps saat wie 
t per 
-Lhave grown P to a consi thinly, and the destruction of i 
he 
head, incadig 
Of c 
much more must be known about 
e as 1 bushel per acre on 
sa; 
On 
t 1 bushel sown with 
few soils that 
the mediu three- 
rich in the constituents 
seaso 
not even then require and b 
5 . 
there is proper ventilation e 0) shee in various 
directions to carry aw i 
tions, h shee 
ty. 
| Whea el per ma; 
members of the E nant er advantage, provided thatit is drilled in non D; 
> 4 but there are do n 
16 
a Commi pecks. 4 vary q! the 
tes in pests, 1 
teness of the season and the state of the 
arrive at definite CO8- 
nab) 
clusions, If straw was too abundantly supplied the 
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