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May 10, 1856.} THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
e should be called on to remove it for t 
hi blic convenience. It- never rea ck him ee : he cultivated var wa of Tu urnips. , is not a disease in tl 
ae it on his land yý arasa put money in his poc e Why then call ita disease t| a 
was removed b; by t eam boat aa „ The ‘nah Why call the tendeney tg! certain plants to 
here are of th ood, their natural methods of growth a malady ; a de mins ady | Thi nis we nee from 
cept a coarse MER ae whi oh Gir y “the which can only be said pi attain its worst stare when 
cart £ sO ae sa Sy ye fens ‘ploughing is done the plants are about to attain their most healthy o or | county, abe 
with x oxen, plou hm sù a ir of natural stat te, by entirely running — dt 
orma 
a rows look “as if ae had come ery of. Noah? s ark, | and toe, “Fie merely a fork ked or eset etlo of 
being entirely of rude branches of trees pegged | Aada to all root c rops.” 
Soei in aaa most inartistic manner, and do get It s nat the use of the term 
work mperfectly tha it a AA part of | digita tb pid rot in og Pres Buckman’s oe 
the weed ga is blow way. en kantreat | on this question is imp In his paper in the 
time comes, oie iai of being reaped is) “R fe Soe A a årawing of | 
pz. 
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down ike rass, the mower receiving s on star which is as like. 
mown a hand with i 
eighth of the whole for his trouble in mowing. The |as could be ey and which i is y esebeited as diiinte, 
corn is t 7 in stacks, and oft nd affected wit is f * finger and toe, 
the ground until the outside grows green again, paan this, the root cannot be said E 
There is no threshing pamai in the ongl farm of | either “di gitate, jae _ or a ngere i or “toed” in 
a wea Ithy magnate here and there, and eve! with t mii Tt is fo “gt or Leseetied 
ifa “A digitat p r n says he « Imperial 
round who can repair it, and a man t be sent for | Dies ction mary,’ ” “is one in which the t el 
Hamilton’ s, tbat 
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the 
arms, hi 
crops ur ader those of hie neighbours The best farmen 
the late Jo! 
on 
, the hom 
sep Brodie, oceupiec 
two large farms ; during be same year his average 
produce did no ot exceed that of Mr. Walker. The 
rm ’ wden, 
con 
of Mr. Hamilton as necessary to pay such ma We 
are not surely to infer from this es of Mr. 
the t the 
farms of Biel and Dirleton, ‘that 
We 
amount—50 bushels was the produce of 1854. 
from Pesth and Vienna. The e grain is deen rg ay H “re ie Ta fingers.” Now, none of the degenerating 
horses in the open air, at an immense loss, a have been figured and described by 
substitute`f i ting Babee man answer ‘to this riri A but „on 
the Lena and the Oxus before the days of Arpad. the other hand, a Turnip, y 
et tryer 
member, if he could secure 
his tenants a te, of Wheat, and other crops cor- 
would 
5 ay 
of the estates soon be 
i condition, 
Arpa 
hole is dag in the earth, narrow at the top and broad re bap lobed by the formation of 
below, and an the in is uis deponen, To exclude the g toed in the proper 
— we the mouth is the cavity so deep, nse of the erm, Therefore, to restrict the term 
But however a p the produce is, windy n ie the 
t the man sti thet takes i it on out is let down ae 4 a rope, | age and ote o the degeneracy of root crop: 
ps 
like Joseph into the it, and after half a year the corn | me totally inedmiseible from whatever position we ma y 
gets so earthy a flavour that the reall gets an una- | choose to na at the matter, And besides, were it 
i Janik donted uld u 
pik of Hungary can remember, The ground has been fi formeel} written and done in the matter. I 
about Szolnok, as well as all along the oa co think we should still adhere to the view which Mr. 
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Curtis pey taken ne hin question in Morton’s * Cyclo- | i 
is fat black humus, and consequ aes not po. $ i. pædia of Agr ” that “anbury is a emi in in 
F 
orth British Agri ist. 
Agriculturist 
Bone. Manure in Chester—It must be admitted that 
t 
. | manure and by drainage. It is „potociona that by these 
mprovements the quantity of the her — has crepes 
nereased, and | the quality « 80 improved, int on many 
Potatoes, bat excellent for Rapeseed and Wheat, the | Turnips cen indicated by its other 
proportion of Rape sown to the product being around | fingers and toes.” “Mr. Russell in the Quarterly . Toeni 
zolno With 
as 1 to 90—95 an . . 
and better agriculture the vale of the Theiss might Mama fr Turnips.—The Turnips were Skirving’s 
com uvi d mi fi h P 
to Mezö Tör is a five ’ Joumey,a all Baek alinia 1855, and ‘lifted and weighed on 
soil, a non two houses are to be se elm refore, | The soil is black loam 
fallow t those who really are) laborious under. rally ro of med’ ium fertili ity, and inclined t 
incomes ; fo! r instance, Mr. cas ‘a native of Stuhl- : 
WEEE, rents a fine estate near here of 4,000 acres Manure Cost per| Produce es of 
from the Aimasy family, for the sum of 33,000 florins | ‘applied, | Per aere” | mere. per acre, san akah jim 
ultivation 
One 
Value 
amount to about the same sum—together 2,6007, 
year lately his income,from Ra alone, was 90,000 . od. A 
florins, or about 2,6007. s sterling ; and this from only'a Am a 4} [U1 4} |2 11 24 | 20 | 43) 10 |10 
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d of the land, another third ee grain, a the rest |” Sf lime. a} | sar la a76, 19 16 ilo 
bs Bone-dust.| 44.186 |118 3 | 18 | 9 9 1317 10 10} 
owt. | price. tonsjewt.| ton 
s. d. a 
per annum for rent and cultivation, leaves hi Poa A From the time the Turnips b brainded ‘until the end of wi 
But 
3,0002. s 
Mr. Z pi ows tho ae ti agi pido sepured ihat from each other, About that period “the whole „began 
L Jeee 1. 
, lying on whinstone es Bm Sate | 
w a| fro: 
re benefi 
Cashi; 
» the others, and fro in that, tire until ms end of October 
st Pe nnn ee Miera ar“ noigams voditi distinctly athe’ ih themselves by a greener and fresher 
oa pes i 
Miscellan lefi lo i 8 
Finger and Toe in Ai wrnips. “a bal a — — to sow ris Bala with Wheat, and next season rtain | 
with a few s on a rece r the heat crop. following is an 
enclature, which, I am ca cioe “i ass = into re analysis of the manures employed, as furnished by 
nom: 
without any discussion, and that assent to the Professor Anderson, Chemist to the Highland and | 
paw ists, i Scotland :— _ 
t of agriculturists, is to be given eee their | Agricultural Society of 
aintaining silence on the subject. I allude to the Guano, Boie-dukt. Phosphate of lime 
mea’ jone-d 
Wate: p erst 8.48 
“finger and toe” in Turnips. essor Buckman, in | Orga nio matter and am- f 
e = oie | Organie matte T 3.95 
tural Society of England, has written an elaborate paper Phosphates Ca uif ete = ne 
on this subject, | 7.38 $ 
‘fi d é 
urnips sho 
degeneracy which takes place in Turnips when the ey |€ | Su 2 nee ape <a 
w coa rai roots. The same | Bend 
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f a mm 5 anced att tie 
writer on vegetable pathology, also adopts the same | i raana equal to 2.34 
views in s’ Chronicle (8th December 1855), | 5.11 phosphate of timed — = č č =< o çăč o< ë Żć Soret 
and maintains that a distinction should be drawn | Mr. Scott tt, in the. Highiand is nb Tranamotions. 
i of “anbury” in Turnips, and| Mr. Nisbet Hamilton l Statisti 
i Lothi H 
rand t I do not hesi s stes ae of fi 
cannot discover sufficient SEA for rina any | parishes in 1854—with Aag reih on asiar greatest harvest 
diester. between “finger >a d toe” an nd sty anbury.” id | kno own—as dorm to 35 bushels per acre.” The 
many in 
will apply them to met clay land, I will not say 
expectation of renderi: 
with 
Gl. per ton, and raw bones 8l. per ton) ‘near|; 
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= e, and good-natured Shiva adi ot a Poor however, those grown with guano suffered less than 
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rmerly. The fertilising pom of bone manure are 
u suchy especially when applied to our poor clay soils ina 
become a Peruvian gol mine ; for instance, l ellow ; aa were sown on the ] 1th Tane, S of oe heel i 
hours the 22d of Novemb 
ously could be 
erop sah perhaps to no iad is the ie of ‘bone manure 
cial than 
to ane which is commonly 1 
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and, of course, render i durable. 
Chester. 
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MAY. 
West Susszx, May 5—We hardly 
continuance of frosty nights as we have had for the past 
weeks, with north winds and little sun by day, and the land 
prevent the advance of cave been 
anted for many. Floeks been 
of | Basi _ yang and no signs of 
ve | the seeds have failed, which adds to 
unina ae 
ng ‘The cx of d oor iot an: age of the enumerators, for 
very ingen Suly, tessa both by st Buckman -n Mr. | | district No. 3 snd No No.4 ies’ embracing four piba, Ic 
Berkeley. But no one, until n I believe, ever | give the returns at 35 bus she! Is—the one, Mr. a right, of 
t of considering the Serivces the other Mr. Geo eorge Hope, Fen 
root to revert to its wild state,as a diseased condition | whieh of het Taaito refe 
degeneracy of. Saree was never | eo: he speaks of the enumerator as “ 
ers, | wi 
the Turnip. The an honest and | ° 
>= aa the disease ad known under the reputable man,” it is i ible to say. In the county 
inappro But 
impossi 
ate name o aao and 108." It is a | generally, both gentlemen may be thus ibed, 
escri 
e Înteligeneo of the aea cers sag | it would appear that, thi h in Mr. Hamilton’s 
F they were AYODE soils. for the | “honest after a sort.” For, although returning the 
=e oy discovering e causes which produced | pr rodu uce of their respective distri hest 
Scememeey n their root cro Te d, they, according to Mr. eager have re- 
to ex r 
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appears to me, is exceedingly inappropriate. Indeed, |of Wheat they, as aaa could not meet their | ine weather, w 
h 
both the writers who are now contending for the | engagements, and pay pai = 4l. ot pea a. 1854 
westriction of the term) “finger and toe,” are obliged some farms were upwards of 5/. an acre. Now, what is of kh 
ficial 
onest in count upon p! 
the. Erais to suppose, as Pro; estimate, they are, like the Highland reiver Rob Roy, year 
cold 
much w: 
a ress the reverting to wildn in | turned it expected, inion ne 2 hore 
on aon varieties of Turnip, the finger and toe, it | enough, he gives as a aioe m that mihe 50 Aircore yellow spots, but still the general appearance is not bad, and 
are gett! 
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till i more s congenial ti time for 
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aeann kind has now become Pea go the priee has 
nging out to market 
month’s fi 
that to 
re hay Wheat, 
and there ofti the unkind 
which we ma: Epstaeione, itwillcomeall 
oes well, the 
it. 
igher, in anticipation 
