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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Jury 19, 1856. 
oes by the fly. 
W. C. Maranh ` Bling, Southampton. 
' Cavan AND LONGFORD. —Wheat little but very 
cnet moreove: 
could do this. For the pockets of the 
aries vete ew we cannot. We po megs to | 
eat ent makers 
set of i 
plements pom he i is aale to purchaw aaier 
Gem nalfy o f being pointed out as quite out of 
da 
he ground, and 
in many cases much more than suffic ient It is there 
that the reaping machines would come into play, and 
the tru der them popular is to enlist 
xen on their side, by 
S 
e: 
abridgement of their toils and by ferg 
which Sage ean obtain | by means of them r 
urn: 
imar generally on pad lands not 
ual, ious Saturday 
There ‘reports rts of some appearan 
blight on the] Potato Ie pre but nothing on which Le can 
breadth of them, and as they 
a ce on the prev and 
Monday, a pri trial. before eo coe of ‘+ 
daira mine for the which, 
ere offered to one c i 
w- 
agains 
as If 
ne orfolk, again, is a level 
in aping 
county with Jaze feld 
ich re l 
grentet advantage. 
thei 
machines could be used with the 
per. 
f the: ey can , the hom ity of rakings are very (Bek and 
since the appearance of the 
in Ireland has suffered “severely ‘from 
to cause its rejection ; I 
this year. I have for 
ears gro mall pateh, a very 
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W, ra a RR CE 1 
P 5 nere 
Baat 
the farmers 
| yer be induced to ma ial on their farms 
g- 
for 
the Introduction of the reaping machine into general 
a adv: 
at 
ould be 
we Fdiorh to the im plements in moti 
Of these the most iaut are the pla 
us antage. 
yard. . 
y wh a ai 
small one, of Mummy Wheat, whieh 2 ae sp wee 80 
much from na sh to 
7 
la} 
produ 
shrivelled and sh thal t 
than beh ed ile mg * si in tim ile e pateh there 
aee jury piinati as to, ‘numbers and priem Neg the 
hen the flai 
ri rule, the threshing machine the exception, and it 
years. 
e W hat a change has taken place in the process 
il was 
not a rusted leat 
mn: J.M. Good: Serabi 
Huriniso W Eent mian ap Oats on 
farmers of the neighbourhood, and the other half of 
coon Pep gai valley of the Tyne 
5 
on 
some of the a. members of the Society mo 
ibl the dist ict. ie a sh ould also 
d ns for 
was chiefiy ı used in Saatan and the border counties, 
Thrėshin achines were to be found in some v 
fag cultivated English, Counties worked by h 
Now the un er, 
= 
H 
well, and if blooming ti uncertain windmi ‘il are reall for t ven 
be a full a arly spots the ear is | A trial of this } 5 — think, under | threshing machine, even in ‘on Ween two 
fully out, arm days woul he rule of t the sole questions 
generally. “On Masa oeg a lan! E Jenis iNe crops | fi or any loss which ‘the ey the fixed and the locomotive steam engine, 
very from paisa ‘anders ken at the suggestion „and and eee threshing | machine | to select out of all the 
— We 
indifferent indeed. There will be no renal 
till the k of Augus 
ociety. 
many farmers who w 
iz 
y e uld allow t 
ay bar teste on their land Eo eom penasti, so 
tha — wae chie — be for the p l 
open field t 
exhibited y the flowing makers. in 
which we Lisi them Pid + hee 
¢ might’ mm ‘considered n necessary 
em. Let us proceed, however, to reco 
place at Chelms' sfo rd i in the de; epart- 
to 
rd | vans essa 
ord 
on fo a Turner, ie, 
am threshing 
fo llow. wing 
& May, Whi 
were exhibi ted at wor = EN 
Fall th h 
ally t 
| tant n implements in motion. ‘Tl 
Ther re had been, as we have said, the private | 
k, and 
The 
e not wholly conclu ded on Tuesday. 
™ Potatoes 
wer 
of meres 1s me" riage Sh siege an 
besa but be before it 
will be ae to dapt. ‘tel to ‘varying js SE E irb 
in the same done by the plough 
| | worked ia tae power, and | wit ith such ee puer 
n this 
iest crop r has 
done mischief io “the hey ae crops of bart “especially 
Barley. Half the hay crop of this district is at th 
the fourth 
generally ` abundance h 
both large and close, the exception is whe: ere the 
after plain tee Bo which Hel plant in spring, but 
plain fallows are ed. S 
fifth time. The alternate sunshine and shower of the | di 
that the day may b 
stant. Still steam pgp ae is making a 
amount of progress. 
The rospingy ate a attained success, the res: 
f ady m: 
| prize at Carlisle e; Garret 
fixed implements for threshing and dressing the grain 
for market at one ba Paap also peace portable 
haking. nno omg, same, p 
achin they also 
d 
e opera 
and al: 
their fixed engine and rete re ra mee 
mi 
"11 a} 
omotive. 
jing or fagging, but and 
| whether like Dray’s with _ the “it datvery tiny | yaa) 
is rema 
som and Beans are all 
that + savainetngs ae 
ts. 
2 | It may be well to 
rows, there was much less 
1 Wh 
k here that the main ‘difficulty 
masg has aie 
meh es | shall tres le 
5 
nn Dray, a lo! 
” This then was the pe a a threshing machi 
ad pen se Ree mplements, hp para ve science, 
skill, ca and a ent makers 
ing machine are ou“ it 
The injury done to the 
chinery was formerly the gr 
The ki 
— od deliv ge 
M‘Cor 
n. ick’ ppea place the swath | 
eveniy than Bels, which “tt een tina by the 
elas 
has been dad i em stiff pea and 
some fields have been pec thinne lan s by |$ titution of tic belts for a revolving web. The 
the stems roots having become ee jag the | corn in this machine falls dir ai backwards, parallel 
surface of the earth downwards. s haye been | With the course the machi d it a livered 
much damag fly, and are n and in| parallelly with this oe also, only a certain ‘way’ 
rather a ious situation, still with a favourable being on it as it leaves the web, the ear re i falling on 
aui may ultimately prove a good crop. H the „land from a greater heleki than the root end, falls 
is generally in the rick, and a heavier crop than ith so the swath lies some- 
been for ope, Fehi] aan t across the of pads joms onbin the binders to 
ZŁ $ X collect it a apers have now made such 
Han’ of , hay perfection that no large farm should be 
crop g y well s edes and Without one, whil the smaller farmers, there 
Turnips very much injured by the fly. spate asi peoed | ought to be f labourers going about from 
-—some disease. Wheat promised we in April, sin farm to farm rea with them by the acre, like the 
ich ti th itine: grill some districts, an vee =a itinerant 
not good ; n the ground ; very uneven, and con- 
‘Serb ghd ya promised well ; but has 
fallen off much o! 
very much 1 Tike f raab tation n ripene: sS; some say it 
_the frosts of last week, and Ran week before, how that 
may be I & not know ; but 
fi 
oe non exhibitions alone wo 
t wh: he 
considered. ci thse rather tha 
the so omposed i in the a “The ol Seot- 
tish tive mills r d it almost to the stat 
very long cy however, when feeding with 
various sa, Braa in which straw cut into chaff enters 
largely, the more unbrok e straw comes from the 
threshing machine the bet it suited to the chaff 
cut As regards clean threshing, the different 
implements appeared near], n equality. 
the ers 
of these implements pay the t attention ; we 
observed several which d it considerably ; when 
pointed e was always exe ered 
ssity. for os the 
machine, et us here adve: q 
whether to a farmer about to ai a threshing- 
uld furnish. data for 
‘from A ool n Hants, to Dortieeter, where I have ie eseas e not more pi gag wem ision, 0: ether the more protracted trial- re 
-travelled last week, I can say that the erops confess suprises us. Their value consi so mu a aoa on the farm would not better meet the 
generally s ot good; and the Barley, ially, in the lower price at which. they ry rn es as in | requirements of th It is worthy of consideration 
has put pici look. There is no distinc- the comi ommand over it which they As on the farmer | whether the* furtherance such more effective and 
tion—chalk, land jaam, seempalike affected. The he grain ge ring A protracted trials of the comparative m of the 
Turnips in good. James Eames, Beck rani On the eastern and the. western sides of | diffe: plements, be they _ ploughs, mee A 
Farm, i: Pecan prac- | machines, chaff-cutters, or anything else, wo 4 
x d of cut g Wheat. On the | an objec ect well worth ’ the attention of the Society- 
tern side the cut it while the A te r the assage in whic] i estion was throw? 
GREAT MEETING OF THE AGRICULTURAL] Jen z ; ae report 
SOCIETY OF ENGLAND AT CHELMSFORD. a nares napunan tafe “the reget 4 plemeni some: 
o rx . 
Tue celebrated that fi by the millers. On the eastern side, on the | thie’ ike thie egaet likelyto beadopted. I tis s said that 
Ka bear an 3 annual somite quite as cece to our | contrary, it is dead ripe before being cut ; there is more | rap award of the = e for the best reaping machine 
corn ti e population of the district ca t. | to be deferred ti me ait when t ial w. 
To the journalist, who has to chronicle these | The district is therefore dependent on itinerant harvest ee on the ioe of Mr. Fisher Hobbs. he 
annual Meetings, it would certainly be more able if | men, of so hom it would e rid, The We must not close this brief enumeration of 
he could announce annually some innovation farmers are often short of hands an titi k without 
processes of ploug hing, sowing, reaping, and threshing, | of grain ied from over-ripeness, On this. i pa Clayton’s. combined elay-preparing ‘hoe 
which, ou y d, only int there no mista! si for the broa: | making machine, 
beginning to attain attain perfection, while according to some | the fiel soon as the are out of it. aval the poste which claims ti to produce hone ‘20, 000 to 30; 
aeien n: A inet m AA It would be shed corn 
well perhaps for the 
be pugag 
g tosize, 
therefore, comes "ap ant Roce pew- mh h 
and it proclaims in g 
