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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [June 28, 1856. 
vead on the wealth alike of Peter and Paul ; the plan livered by the Veterinary Inspector will be put by | him | ke n ee produces in this boasted ¢ 
of high farming is Dee fa a for rol is Sime on the present day. 
poverty of low farm ing. J. M. Goodiff, Sc | for publica tion.—On th Mr. Raymond Har ray, whom I have now imes = 
Wireworm.— In common wit ie gor pee Sate arming | Ba arker, seconded a Mr. er the Da thanks Of ‘tie when have gone thither I have always found 
new broken land, we are somewhat troubled. with that | | meeting were proposed to Professor = onds for his| them exactly as a ke Elisha, that is, at m in 
terrible pest the wireworm; I 1 valuable lecture. Mr. Miles, on putting | their fields orkpe p sometimes 
experiment upon them. The result I subjoin. If you | the q i ied ly, would take | ploughing, gging netimes 
think it may be of miter to bref tar farmers, and care any Profeeee jour of Rot | suggestion for a distinct terme dhe in the seed for the crops, ometimes 
e to gra it insert ld t i e a few square yar sels sor was t on on 
guano, kelh: blood inate nitrate S under the notice the Publication Committee. He | which to pe out their experiments. They per 
E imi negra but powde ered, and salt, i n | passed a Mek lagti on the clear manner in which | about 30 miles from myself, and pia 3 do not se 
the fo! emg ome nner as many the Professor had rendered the scientific details of his as I i but th 
placed about a peate of each; 3 in one hour ever ry | subject intelligible—Mr. Newman, of Marnhead, re- | with man was on ati chang: 
wirew dead. Now all the above named sub- GFS to the absence of rot in sheep fed on the water | father arm in 
ta g g adows in De kiept where no stagnant pae 
t time I on 
are I found the 
eld in the midst of 
nearly a dozen workpeople f forking out Couchgrass, and 
p y d Mr. » Se ott alluded to the Port-| the son wa: t his also among workpeo 
with the worm a double pricey may bepained i land w: lows water > an 1 | hoeing Team shirt sleeves. Shoul 
assisting the crop at a critical period and crippling its | on which thas e put a certain time before reer be said, as I vo it wi 
enemy. By the aid of a powerful microsco un I cou ld | sent t o the ra ne for the pafosi of having the rot| have been Couc , a 
discover the cause of death from both the sa he | gi hat ge ought not ; and I am satisfied — next year 
lime to proceed aa) bli sters ; but « of the others 1 could —=—=—[—[—[===========___ the e will be none ; but Mr. erie = ame tenant 
I should prefer to r guano or fresh slacked a ring eck wa da. e, from a long period « of ‘amet ‘arming it w 
3 Mes ESSRS. HARDY AND Son, SEED-GROWERS, MaLpo bens poms ix 
lime, because fro’ m their ight feathery ton ‘hey = ‘ Elisha the son of an was ploughing with twelve aac ener 
very inquisitorial, seeking their way into e ook ai bbe oxen before him and he with the twelfth, and Elija ah passed | POOd ; but notwithstanding its pov rty 
ranny; at all times applying it o the. fresh iinoa hy bina ‘ani saet bis mantle upon him." 1 "Kings, xix. chap., grass, there va nag field rd Fine a a of ioe 
pre asi a wireworm oa bei turne plate ta poms as aink is to be found in the county o 
o the - surface immediately seeks to hide himself by Mr, Editor,—In the whole range of your reading or | Essex, 
b | experie nee have you met with a description, or seen an| Now a common farmer, on taking that farm, would 
peat “the warm coat you, are providing for him. | [ppa of agriculture equal m this men by the | h id h ld thi i il by fallowi 
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and imitation nine | he had been able to cleanse it from Couch and other 
weather permitting, Sawyer Spence, Hai inault Forest, | bundred years before the Christian 1 Brac or two thousand weeds ; and he rae ao eaea rightly, but Mr. Hardy 
Dimensions of Short hora Cattle.—Seeing recently a | Seven hundred and fifty years from the prese must t have a crop o hurar withstanding the poverty 
corri hipon ndents respecting the | I will answer for you that you have 7 f Bie a aA S kne TE w to produce 
not, nor j 
measure: valuable ge one, and to cleanse his land during its gro eth, But 
of my bull Grand Duke 2d 138 ae Although h he i is ve the m a could common farming have accomplished this? ? Cer 
bull, never, I beli © prophet hah wa was plough in in ‘his field, € or on his tainly not ; but the Hardys are 
is a noble animal ibi sth hi T 
= fine quality which is characteristic pi Mr. Bates’s the | elf. ‘We boast, or modern farmers boast of ish i 
tock :— their Royal and other ‘sgricalearal societies peer sivas, peer thin-seeders. 
Length from th ing . in, paar sgl a ; but in i a up 
of the tail 6 farmers excelled all modern ones in the culture of| and | a stran 
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along oad b their garden ike appearance, 
d poets hac all modern ones ; nt it is osteo) the pipera crops in s year, I think, 
cortili that the learned of anga understood wha st Messrs. Hardy have six fields of Wheat, per Fe tity 
A was the Rei ood of plants, and what their seeds were \ of see rere varying from = spe 
10 composed of, equally as wei as “he profoundest ana- | per acre, to 1 bushel ; and the patie Re Br 
ik 8 gia eaten do at the pre ay. If any o e | and to convince his bbe val the folly of thick- 
es e Diar e R 3 dou! bts this, Bes him attentively rend = books on | seeding if possible, has 3 acres drilled with 2 bushels 
h by the i agricul ded down to ose anci oe an acre, 
his large size, his yt Aad to the ground, and his; times: and i “him carefully reflect be immen The seed, of course, was put in va and 
width at the hoel bone s. It has been remarked on pet ana countri es te eeming wi He inhabitants were | vary in width between each rie om | to 3 fee 
looking at him, _ that b is legs fro; rom the knee to the onto ose countries, and | and it was ina field of Wheat of ti 
foreign commerce or foreign guanos, and h found the eld rn Hardy, in his hice Helen among 
ina picture it would h ve been i y P fs forced Ban orkpeople between the rows, forking out Couch, 
tion. The chief portion of his inii is ads up a as itj t I here he and gg, te ma penan horsehoed. 
ought to be—of the great depth of his’ frame. Si; _Is it not scenic roa ia a E odern “Malda miles from adie igo from 
frequently desirable in cattle, while who attempts to improve Hy “ae ulture of | which Ke Aa and wfe e trains; and the 
of Jeg is always to be d. ~ Gra = this c — and apoeni if he Pake bia object I have in writing agin to recommend 
2d is in thriving condition, but thin rather | ments, by which m ec alon aah can gentlemen who may v visit the former we at the show, 
t, it being an object to prevent so et Pr i i aan mark ms ; and should 
W. is and es of the whole gietertptrad the ey do so, they will see as fine Wheat as can be 
If the world? Tull experienced this in its most rancorous from 4 quarts of seed only, = we as 
le and publish the | extent; an nd Tusser is reported also to have, met with l peck to 2 and even to 4 pec they will see the 
the hing b l f 2 bushels an Ber ea. although I see 
à and writings he was s0 anxious to serve ; Dut espe cially | have not seen that plot, I will ees to be t 
he Roy oa ciety, any | if tl made on EEA scale only, and | worst on the whole fa arma . I write thus content 
wishing to measure the b l or other stock | the experimentalist occupy 500, 800, or 1,000 | be k m xactly, an and 
a y rmission from | acres of land, ‘Legal a the agrinlral world are up in| the best crop: Ti ai 
their owners to do so, I may, in conclusion, state that uires no small quantity of | l peck of see and I ceeded eit 
is ] ton ] quarter, and that | nerve to bear up aga inst sault, for beds ap Beles, or napa or r Vetches, h half a Saale 
the remainder of the season| Tt has rdy,| Iad so, that Maldon nly 6 miles from Mr. 
ill, O; ecasion | father and so ought t to be heid i in be ioe at Tiptree Hall, a the Mesra! Hardys’ 
I ma y perhaps send you the Jinai of my yearling highest honour untry, farms are only 7 miles from Mr. Mechi’s; and I 
‘bull by the Duke of Gloster out of Ferret. Willoughby | and especially by every Sle of land whether he | further add, that, my 
Wood, Holly Bank, Burton-on-Trent. ssess_thousa aA or only one wito acre. These | recommendation, and visit these farms, if they will use 
Cost of Mowing: —You ask for information as to the ri who possess” t NEHA abutting araar side of my name, and I hereby give them authority to do $0, 
ce paid for mowing at this time in the localities of | the ‘south-wes ka about a mile hoo wn of | the Messrs. amigas are real John Bull Englishmen, 
hesr inform Maldon, are by their skill and practice approaching | ¥ will show very attention, and explain to pen 
3 s . per acre have been rto the practice sag skill of the ancient farm y Op i asm 
paid for mowing natural Grass; 5s. 6d. i is! en I have read or whan ia E; the real Model Farms. George Wilkins, Parsonage, Wiz, 
instance paid for of Clover, | but they have shared the fate and persecution of all | June 21. 
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ree I believe the price is now rising, but it has not o surrounded them. Bear in mind that Miscellaneous. 
itherto ran ranged above what has been paid during te Elisha, when the prophet threw his mantle upon agerem. up of & d 
years. The crops are good. C. xP. Hu mbert, Watford. |him, was himself with the twelfth yoke of oxen, | that, as a rule, it is a practice eag se ib 
and that all the other eleven vee “sap Sana An | br f good soil and 
ipti unskìlful man would have been a and not 
Srorietips in the rear of his A o of ‘Pioughmen ‘sn ‘pl hs | are 
and oxen, and an idle man n riding push which ae one time I thought I pote break up, i 
ROYAL AGRICULT eE ag L SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. |into the field on hi EPa giving m er ths so bad ; hut ; Atopa — plan ; my 
WEEKLY A afte gs me 25: Mr. Mires, M.P., Vice- | ploughmen a Took only ; t Elish ha was at ork, and | farm ing farm herever I had 
President, in ad all his men at Ess before him, ati he nhen anei ening the Tarnips on E the o ground” $ had bea noa 
PARASITES IN ioe irii see that every one of tbem did ya work well, that | herbag r friends ands g 
the Veterinary Inspector of the Sosy, “del. is, ploughed deeply and bervagtiy, knowing as every quality sy ee a a oma if a kex pasture in 
vered th ome ae of his Lecture on Parasites. | skilful man knows, and every farmer ought to know, | the te their bor upon it with Turnips they will 
In the former part he had opera td the peculiarities | that aga of Seug of corn annually come to el it ot good quality ought not to be 
p g annoyance to live stock | nothing fro of aving n y- With 
on the external covering of the bin | A passing into thoroaghly ploughed or dug before the seed was put | to s, of whic! entlem 
the interior passages h the mouth. In this por- into it. lisha ther refore in Palestine, o n his s large wia i om kins a goose, the Seana thing is to apply 
tion he d welt on the natural histo ry and el isti b if 
4 l is suitable. 1 do not know a field in 
ued, l | Italy, with "ki s occupation of six acres only, for he had | Cheshire that, when well arailied; ould not bear 
kgia of the animal body, as ve ee i as alimentary Ys 
no more, I have no doubt, as they were preeminently | The effect is miraculous : I could refer to a farm where 
canal. He explained the varied forms of Aniston wise prs and ES ind dahin wished, i ones applied to land of t kind produced fii 
Structure which these assumed e | especial care that their lands should b eerta b descri From being amongst A 
a r which they nis. abd, and “the pac og cherie they sowed the was to Pe it became among the very primest In Sf 
‘ea which produced. | p me thirty-fold, woe sixty-fold, iad some a Herefi I mak it is a matter well worthy 
by coloured drawings highly andred- foid, oth erwise the increase of crop, above the | coueide whether i is desirable to “conclude that ne 
investigations. According | quan so veel have been perhaps 
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