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Mar 10, 1836.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL tele a 
farmer, id Se i Abbott's usad rfolk, This 
yi the wel!-kno 
eventually feet high Paul, 
sghtines of ao stumps is another - objection, gal vigor- |is a modifica’ 
hoots would not issu paom hem. Itis better to have | machine inclu fe in in 
howers res warm! 
the sun ad "hie natural causes of evapora’ 
they penetrate it not till the 
Ea nd strong stems than Pr feeble ones ; i 
t are always the nee ich have their cutters ze on its periphery, and made to revolve | to their reception on their e ce ae crust 
was nearest to the ground. Mr. torad hem es|so that ades entered the soil at the b ning by the closing effec 
all the a oe trench, cutting their way upwa: di grati to beas con i 5 braket by 
bound “al eu 
2 inche: 
a the loos 
tat i wha motion 
Are not s 
is the tool wishin 9 ur or grooving Maki x a shor 
"The yet of weeds and the perigee inflow of 
5 
a 
ve 
aS 
used gla adze ot 
tion cae for cntting aed H oth large and small, | chain from the windlass 
the 
of a portable pe et | = maint: ain the fertility of the soil as to re 
1 elements of the food sl nts will so 
er re 
5 
and our woodmen cut closer than 2 inches ; and the | immediately in advance : and by simultaneously windin, 
stools as treated by them do not require dressin ng as up a single » chain read, the horse- work also 
Mr. Monter. uggests, unless a stool here and panic slowly TE itself arogeing the rainal behind $ 
| y the Lois- 
Weedon ee fie! a and ogag d in such al veg? o fer- 
tility it ring it it 
jelding grain crops, as we see pro 
x enough to p the endless driv: Pes chain at a pro tensio 
k and ex 
may need pre 
moisture Saa rodging upon it, At the ‘general felling and the horse-wor 
the wood i tirely ent away from the adjacent apart for the 
by 
ator a enfhicieat Al green crop, and such an amount of manure we may 
tw in their wal 
terp 
raat 3 oy in this oot every Id t 
f small capital may thus be enabled to 
fixing rails if necessary, to keep ¢ off trespassing cattle ; ; the cutting wheel or dise w course, 
1 
laf 
thr regulated, 
The i implement p 
h him of large who does not avail himself 
|a lev yer r frame by which the ' ie of its work could s | of ey natural resources. 
When I speak of the deep winter —_— of the 
ov 
The api Tan of fresh earth, to the roots of trees [similar wa, 
even in deca y may prolong their con: 
almost an inde finite period. The sap lings 
and Huntingdon Willows, which will grow 
n 
how 
of the Bl whi chi in curvature are Almost of a ican this i in pripahie to y Fa “jor who 
freely in any | quadrants of a circle y of the ven- | wo! uld give as hig h ren r land w shallow work. 
4 ji + + th ap for, 
er desirable it may be to deepen the ac 
-yet it does 
rie soil, may be la ayered v with especially good effe ct to | tion is that, instead of th Ae 
the 
E Pig: lly 
soil backwards and fecting fi it up | behind, the teeth | zepi to me necessary for the purpose of “obtaining 
fth 
treated like their congeners within the boundar ry. Where | ae thus the broken earth lies in the way of upa any y large quantities of crude soil or to do so very fre- 
ornamental appearance is an object, the 3 we of | the tool’s re ata ; the tines are unable to clear them- | | quent] 
Oak, Spanish Chestnut, and Mountain Ash duly selves, and much of the soil (as I saw for myself) is give a supply of them for ye: ars; possibly once in ten 
encouraged. How of gir is the Holly says —and | carried back over the top o ylinder. The rotation | yea +g ne more than often re to bring uy 
happily how well otect itself wi ith its f“ touc h| of the subsoiler also acts against instead of with the | fre thu and placing our 
me not” prickles ! | progress of the carriage which supports and the power | rows of grai t 
for ages trampled on, ill-treate A by man and beast, the | am ‘propels it, involving a great expenditure of motive | the fm rT. each seen once in ten years would ¢ = 
olly often stands, a vestige of primeval forests. To | for it tainly not be any oe frightful amount of labour, 
avoid the naked appearance eek nentima, atr ripped o| At ‘first view, I must say, the strong curved tines— | incur any paming expense. 
its sylvan garb exhibits, even the g Oaks bolted to the shaft or to a nave or socket, and fitted | Brio or fresh mineral 
Savinnie relieve it in some measure ; = aoe , how- | with , the inorganic ar of sae ever hay 
ver lim ted in extent, may be felled in successiv o por action of spades—appear exactly , suited to k i they take up. deep 
ns; look and prize-up a strong subsoi pans yi slow motion | | forkin ng does not appear to be, requisite, since “a the 
t i d p fit than t p q with which they are driven cme ost important | production of good and remunerative successive crops 
M. D | principle (of which, indeed it is the ie es example,) © of Wheat, and of course of other cereals, mere and very 
in the pear of r tary diggers intended t | ‘ ithout even can 
A STEAM-CULTURE REVERIE.—No. bat cers nee considera k gee nant ie _it_in | be estimated as afallow, seem all-sufficient (aided by some 
A. preparing and saa als isd But ideri n ly | the i nd organie matters subtracted from 
whereby land, which in its natural state has but a thin that of stirring and v peed sag instead of so trench- soil by the pace crop, and fe pes may have become 
urface soil capable of yielding only the at pe scanty | | ing, no provi being made for gpd burying the | | necessary f from the absence of fallow and deep in average 
herbage, may = ens yh or ae “sat 1 of corn, surface earth ; and ane their 
that the teeth 
broken soil, an 
Pulse, shru s!” he igirsounding | | downward through the crops, and Mr. Piper’s experience gives 
title 2 a scheme med Mey i Btls is, bg awe | hard ground in ar ape ireton th the ps of f Wheat on the same 
Bryant & Toth aridum. ess travels, renders necessary an amoun ‘of the full th’s wha ns 
and pf ra ig | power tor i its propulsion, I do not ‘wonder "that all cee betes aoa or fork or stirring js any 
rejoice and blossom as the nos | of it my 
When good old Jethro Tull farmed a Shallow soil on | friend’s repeated trials. 7. A. C. 
1 foot apart, a and this merely with the i 
halk } the weeds ; as these hoeings with him are only two 
— exposing the substratu the intervals, in the crop, and indeed as the close: of the rows pre- 
order to double the thickness ot i good Arye nder his ROTATIONS OF CROPFING. clude a greater number, the derives no benefit 
oer not os and at great risk of famine to find |f fallowi thi b idered 
aaa of plants. Mr. Smith, of lee Weedon, not | 
nt staple, 
qs 
deepens his ow salen sS SO 
with such an artifici sial dependant on onin by a large amount of | a fallow, either i in the disintegration of the soil ‘or in 
] hi rying the our r dais bread, and is it not p 
upper staple, pei a up the bad “subsoil to be Ere rig so p because a the Now to make a b gi g Al tl ill b Js 
meliorate 4 and transfor: med into rich mould. The ADS r ha nds ' ? Is it not absurd, | h f the land, will be to 
above patentees in a different manner propose to an i 1 sow the ae cores in rows about 2 feet apart by 
1 il t heri speak Irgland, “for there it might bee xpec ae the ordinar he farmer’s disposal : is 
it into strips— a one ata S upon another, shoul not tye one-third Sal ee Lats oduce ae Bs might 
ze prar 
; forne 
the future work may also 
and leaving errang i grka of chalk, sand, ytd and o! hia o do } —that effected in the same way 
aaised to the soem to ee and atm and by the same implements as used in the common 
spheric Cora oer by a of progress —that e the rich age ag fallow crops; there is nothing in it to perplex the 
novel instrument ome " tg i land- amped plough.” peed sums which place ine far beyond, the reach | simplest, it is all plain sailing, only let the work be well 
This i is a sort of trac n paring implement fitted with | | of competition with his poorer confrères, th ag nc done, will be well repaid at harvest by a 
; t | superior crop, increased fertility of the land, and 
into a cu ‘sg up and avail themselves of the light thro by its greater fitness a succeeding crop, whether of 
then delivered on one side in a s wdered | fallows by the a Weedon ones to pi their grain or otherwise ; if it be desirable to lay down to 
earth—this being effected by means of ra ipii ai may qual ?—that they do not G ] ill be time for t three hoeings before 
with blades = igi in a sere such ar of thorough worki y nd from n ot being oppressed 
form (like the barrel of a pug-mill pped and uncropped, doing the heavier work of|by a smothering ae Ae gt grain, the air ey nerning 
po sag ma shefi ee inside the. deep forking (and not very deep either) in pti dead | along the intervals, they will mdi more luxuriant an 
iven k from the roller-wheels pra months of winter, when i is so much m re easily ad vanced i in autumn than | if so ier among close 
PRETE attainable, and when the violent h Indeed, take it 
I did ak see this euisaee however, at ae frost and thaw would or ine and at ae crude | in any way you will, the sto ro. perem a of our grain 
friend’s rendezvous outlandish d portions of subsoil, and the lighter work of crops will be most ‘advan antageous, not only to the suc- 
tillage engines; only to the future fertility of the 
the Operation to be params, combined with the actions E N egnally p ning be, are in operation to land, but even possibly more largely so to the im- 
P E and to enrich the whole | med I have no hesi in saying that 
of the i newspaper paragraph in by pact aap workings to th in nine out of ten such a will 
proposed for foe rae ap “~~ soil bodily into a reoaptaste tinual _saatont t few of th 
ee the manner of there Ar sca of aerial w 
pounding and com eatin it av ae ers, rollers and ings serving ee ok 
sieves, extracting — mixin and manure, alt Paf tthe soil but t to feeding, through the leaves, 
and then disc „and spreading it again as a the 
sheet or layer i ill bring to them at harvest abundant 
condition Haban Could the “ transposing plough % their toil? 
be made to act, i it is possible that some work might = Ttis not a question to prt exclusively and in its 
tion,"which, never stinted, ever fed, | expect 
reward for | kee; 
iC 
growing 
In offering these views to the consideration 
} f our husbandmen, showing how without in- 
found for it ; integri 
than one devised Ray a it as a ext but to adopt o one sof perpetual fallow, one 
which which eve every: crop 
ing one, 
the expenses of farming, 
pasrar Bia A apa ma H es availing themesivea of 
le be 
i 10 y would bea preparation for a suc- 
in View the introduction of the Turnip crop on p ceed 
lands, enabling the roots to be fed off whe -| that of the cues aaa crop, w where the corn stubble 
this Le carried 
wealth, as the rich among them do by drawing on the 
banks of Peru, I do not object to their employing every 
re grown 
; into effect by tilling and should be clean and broken, and as fit for the reception 
sowing the ground in small squares, leaving spaces |of a reese, ri tosh the Turnip track. 
Sea bemin their primitive state for sheep to tread this, the e grain ust be sown n in rows a such Soy Saaai Uh Sole, tom eptation ot larga 
jad the number of revolving tilling-eylinders or es A the whole time ts growth, even ee, its blos- the reception of more and more organic matters. A 
diggers—which, my fri These stirrings, sftes the aceper forking, | h 
by attaching hihid a a nae pneumatic locomotive, and : 5 tee ai appears oe me as | sapere all the elements that build s seps 3 do any exist 
drivi ergy or pitch-chains from the | necessary, cept where it is required to uproot weeds, | in must be taken 
crank-shaft o te « me anon ed a fac-simile of| is to keep broken up the thin crust that lies on the/|a comet much vital en Sor i the pent det 
the r patented July 29, 1847, by Mr, Joseph | surface, for itis on this crust that the dews ok hake tal dence grew th aud perfection, It were 
