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426 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [June 21, 1856. 
affecting one soil or accompanying one crop, | does it not follow that the first isolated colonies To thelr eorresine 5." One jes foes pean can bear testimony 
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nother ; some but very partial or local in | should be attacked by a careful forking which, | the water-drill, viz, an One great advantage it socared ba 
t with every th and Nest nsive x Hine van last latya iy ek sie Coleseed 
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h -| gh somet = pepe Seas into the cistern = 
p = = liqnid, an way on ‘owson one field, 
where ; so that Nature must have i h cases pro- | operation, yet being the more so the more it is te aie err naak aa: Snag pees eT tet atear inne 
vided extraordinary means for the nce of | require red, will prevent after expense, Foe indeed be | regular plant, thus showing that if the Coleseed were deposited 
its) macrio®, and it necessarily follows that tee the | cheaper in the $0.60 989 p ready i 
farmer not acquainted with these in call thei The 
eend. th 
Ano’ g 
mp the Dan delion is a the s rapid early growth of the plant. When 
the e e dissolyed 
HNE, ver, i “not ip tthe Gi. a hie cadenl; sand. 
8 i not equal to their powers — reproduc ctio salp. of the cree ping br d; but though a pran of tap- lan 5k aay a a CPS LE în a Summer, 
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s ry mn i r 
habits of tw jean with several heads or buds instead of one. | being put into the cistern with the water, is rende more 
our commonest iene con DAN it mischiev: | The progress of its seed deve lo opment, and the beneticial, because its soma joensen portion s become quii 
weeds, namely thə Tussilago fa sorai Coltsfoot + EFT hich it is-scatteri pi sit Apne 
Leontodon pepati Dandelion. By so i Cc ; its flow 
is r readers 
2. er: ty 
o that allowing t these plants to seed in only a eariy where ey were used on a n iy y state 
i clearly showing, ink, tha e ai ss of the water-drill is 
The C Bied TR chant ith rtial deg Rens it _— oe augment in spite of much y greatly attributable to the action of th ater upon the 
e Coltsfoot is a perennia plant, wi Beant o prevent it n grow full go ; 
i r “me in these two plan we have nantity of superphosphate of lime, without yard manure, butfor 
7 aot crops I always give a dressing of dung. My experi f 
proof of the wonderful means used y the great pere = leat “ch 
| end of their propagation, the knowledge of which in vet ony raya be I have eee it aiway is 20; n 
| : : : : 4 via observation.and experien: les me to.say that t is mari De is 
, the f flowers | jall eral cag is of vital importance in eeesking OOTA te the a: The “different weights of the Mu mane 
shown in my published paper, reyeal this anite > sanefa ctoril 
“ ALF Ros’ N” 
ach of a whieh | ajre Jr, Ruston’s experiments, referred to above, a 
armed wit! a down—pappus s| at } liar [worth record. He has described them himself in'the 
of which itd i of bei eng ng wafted ia one | Rind of coon ie an to yaar districts, s soils) A agricultural i peida of the day, and we shall copy 
ss to another b by sie slightest : lad crops may indicate, in order to which. m we sie sere ap etn a a more anne of. 185s 
meee ay en, we see that in tes gu the Serhi aa and inquiry is necessary 1 thet oF 
er has to deal ue we = undergroun vie s 
stems sufficiently pro def seat rn | ne nran which they thought oiei clever if TR, Mr. "at ta maa ih Mi that A baie "ts eal 
starting point of any rai parry “wis its | they on eae to certain limits ; but no! with- | a set ts with Mangel Wurzel, and test the 
floating seeds affo rd hu ndri eds of chance g nding ei w pic merits of dry and water drills ; is , 
Kra g ‘| plac Te is own fe ones tant growth md was done during the season of 1854,-which owas un- 
s neighbour's ; and i o t fi 
land ; pe if we To rom avourable,-as the drou 
fully oe liei Ant ious connected with ‘the - per- i edge yet Nhe se who have to spy l with them | very much checked the growth of gree 
shall i i 
to 
ag rence at the 
i the o he to the use of either kind of drill, Nos4 
this plan at with a ‘cree ping gorse eri “hi i y des roy with the other i the following Table, wene dia Hilal aed 
and ghost the crop was.a light one, In mca 
avy crops of Grass, hazardous weather, and | those sown with the et a drill were a total failure 
and for labourers every whe ere, unite to make 
pagation ty seed Hea 
peeve early as the first week in| dem 
i wages very high; and the prices paid for mowing pE 
Wi rs make their appearance, until from | are unusually heavy. Weshould be obliged by in- Bes 
a single root as many as 20 flower scapes may arise ; | formation on this ae from s correspondents Res 
these_grow quite upright, tas lly unfolding until | in the several counties who have been. kind enough p HPF 
to answer similar inquiries on previous occasions. 4 r 016.0 
sun, this being necessa ripening. The e pollen or Six shillings per Sei is on paid in the county ot i gy iss i 3 0:910 
fecundating powder having pe rformed its functions, | of Bariy for mowi at Grass, and 6s. to 8s.| , 3 sks a TRA 1100 
the involucre closes ty over ver the dying florets, per acre for mowing Clover ? What are the prices | Pry, Vent 1 3 0.4.0 
oe the flower ivi ts head, by which the} paid elsewhere ? Information on ihig point will be | None a =f Eem 
es act.as tiles to the Wob, Aer el useful both to labourers and farm ad i Water athe Zab 14000 
which the seeds begin to swell, when in order ripen | Da mee E eve 
sae mc sis 
position, now exposing | the seeds to the heat of E he | Bote Ee 
rays, and as the ripening process proceeds the ‘Within the last few years the practice has arisen of | ghisi water ees SA 114 0 
jnyolacre. gr adrahy S bask, or becomes reffeord, or water in which guano or other soluble manure has om None ee: g : 
leaving the seeds with their now expanded pappus, orm ary The practice Originated, we: believe, | CHON Water lgewti 11.8 oamto 
d wings, in such a position that a puff | with Mr. Chandler, of Aldborne, near Hungerford, hd Den eee jis p 
of wind can in the rea iest manner sweep them all | Berkshire. is drill consists, besides the ordinary | 7 (20th Water tent. 76 
with the ripening of the seeds the | arra ents for delivering the seed in rows, of a tank | 
leaves have begun to push forth, and as sep grow | from which the —_ is either baled out by ot “oP 3 perfi conclusive 
t into'a broad and flat surface, this and the — ts, or pan pe b s to | the water il sia animent of ay yes ae 9 
whitened heads of ripening seeds soon attract the P equa! and u quantity ‘The last:column iseal- 
notice of the farmer, which the conspicu hich | livered he produce. But we havem 
yellow flowers had fated to do, and consequently thal! the ground. s p2 southern: and midland counties of two years’ rahaa for Mr. Ruston in the following 
toe is put in action to destroy the pest, which is poelen og a dry May presents often a great | statement for 1855 perfectly corro! rates the other. _ 
fast overgrowing the youn g crop, but it must be | hindrance to thessuccessful brairding of the Turnip e says that since the previous year its use in Ms 
obvious that its use at this time, though it may pr “| crop, this allied of Mr. Chandier’s has, as ny be | neighbourhood has been greatly extended ; m aie 
vent the perfecting of the later flowers, must’ assist, | aape proved of great assistance wherever it has ‘peak J to its valu geal fen re ‘oi undergon it 
in the most perfect sowing of the seeds of the earlier Weh ne ave bifore: ue sb letter<feent the inventor. dated ie he deal l of "cen ang a P prehension, have 
wers, and if we bear in mind the fact that each Jan, 7 of this yer, in eee Goiats Wat heh plia hos, of ts, ae have pro- 
head of flowers mav perfect 150 seeds, and that arilied fale = acres or Turnips annually with it -nounced favourably of es 
there may be from 12:to.20 heads to each root, we on his own farm, ith very successful results. He} submitted to a trial. The in ie appended shows 
shall see that if one head has been allowed to ripen says, that in large distri ie of Berii giin his | particulars of the. different trials made thi rea. 
its seed on is ample guarantee tia ms aalsa drill is now a constant e | Ruston, the whole of .which-were with 7 Mangels 
of the pest, and we shall therefore urprised states that. the water-drill js especially saleable for| He-says that this- year he made a precisely he 
= ~ Fa Suri = Colia t appearing p where but sowing ze seed, as of Cabbage |'elass of experiments with Coleseed, and Sank 
yon Troon good, He ex = ae CoE oe ror sry anti wayne recite mae: Mee ay 
‘si traordinarily e Ao a o grow en > the weighing machine as the 5! 
Single r > "We ‘have seen mi three years Colts posse rg by this- plan, so t the Satire peine from 30 to. 50 per coat. 
foot completely covering .a field, where. origi- da Y sate ill all other things. being 
mally there were but a few. of single Amil ARENA Gree ised byt hia figami ix i keisar Pai dy cin i ae says, “that all 
a cage an examination of the natural his- ooncinsive. Sent GS EELA expen KE ‘wall n those Bey e 
is plant, then, it appears that, in order howe y examined »? 
per! Sec rent Sse Nese RE si reac should Perhaps, riper pN ‘best at testimony ‘thi that has yet Maes were inspected and carefull, ribon rhon, 
carefully watch the appearance of i Isle of Ely, whose e rae te with it may be | best Jand th n bear testim t accuracy 
as by using the hoe then we despoil West, of which, introduced oo the fo lowing lett : » 
by an fa op. ocess, we usually sow the seeds, “Upon referring to, the aries below, it will.be a | 
and at the same time ent off the head s of what | Thar nd ne ari, Venny Road, Chatteris, Jan 8, 1858: | that tn: Nes. 1, 25 pas. Sees farei pi YA 
be nd 8 har indar omen ‘how, T have found it Henly oa jet re from bot p“ ls, than that. in Nos. 1,2, and 
port kaon Last year I sowed 44 of Mangels with it,.and | 
350 ecrpeaf Calesced., In Carya I sannin aicertain mae | 
of rows with the dry drill, yee we of anon q 
ance ‘i other. "Wise: had been perms 
soWn.a eerste that putin with the water-drilk appeared four d the 
SA a a Sin 
‘more level plapt. | ‘The n sr eT ener Lag 
. Asfar.as yow could distinguish anything, farming 
are left, could pick out the spots where the ary drill was used. 7 nan 
