Juty 26, 1856.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 507 
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dry weather comes soon, those which were sprouted will) the firss or the fiftieth after e green crop break, is | has so much of the mavuring principle m it a, not 
produce too much top. limited under a ee a pdit. a y a li i If and 
In the spring of 1856 a plot of bad Grass, which I | the mode of cultu 
know has not been manured for ten years, was freely | fertilisers. 
dressed with this manure The dressing was as large It is commer Ay to know tk 
and in the application of mag o in the winter I „iek great benefit will be 
derived from i it, bu t care ust be taken to let it lie a 
on the land. Henry May, 
rkshire. 
as can ae ely be given plot and if still adhered toin | | the Hope Nur: cm, ers Yo 
by aman in the ariet t G great by the best f. Boydell’s Tract bi r Bagins Allow me to draw w your 
given iee his horse. Each time the swathe was cl imply ł f expediency. Rotation of crops | attention to an oversight in the concluding rem: 
and heavy ; while on an unmanured portion adjoining, | therefore i t abolished, t p d upon by | y week, where you 
the Grass would hardly stand against the scythe. At | the di a g 1 rule both porter says, “ The velocity of the pinion — must be 
one mowing, when about a foot high, the Grass was |in the aonta "Of h i let fi hat sy doubled 
beginning to rot at the bottom owing to its thickness. | of piee which hie ‘ies circumstances will |as if it were placed on 
oe be a sober me favourable result, when the afford the largest returns at the least possible expense, wheel and as much isl 
e dry 1855 is remembered. W. R. Bow ld ł locity of th 
ditch, | in the W. 'akefeld Journal. 
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idia 
a level 
veloc e geari o! 
i climatic peculiarities modifi- | axis is only half the velocity of the karer mov 
cations og any s em ay be of the top of the carriage wheel, as is the ease of th 
it is the be of a judicious farmer to study ‘the eneratin oint in the vertex of a © yeloid. It is equal 
HOME SESA MANAGEMENT.—No. VII. circumstances prt o a he is placed. J. i ior hery of th 
Ong of the firs t impr roving operati ions of a newly Morton, Lasswade, large wheel, i ; but t you r reporte r Appeare to 
tablished h fı overlook na fast ¢ that the poet velocity of the 
periphery of the carriage wheel ts onward move- 
ifferent things, for the latter 
proper fields. In some respects it is rather a landlord’s 
than a tenant’s improvement, but inasmuch as the Ho e Correspon spon ce. 
tearing out of old fences usually pays tolerably well, this| Common T ingr in Agriculture. woe at unneces- oan of two equal velocities as in the case of the 
undertaking will at least belong to the tenancy depart- sary it may appear to reiterate the same opinions, pbc pres mentioned, the one e being the uniform 
ment, There can be no greater nuisance on a fa sisi additional light on the subjects | y mas around the axis, and the r the translatory 
numerous old wide s — ing earth banks, sur- diseased, yet iti si not be altogether a waste of time the ae. ot. On 
t of the writer, or too great a trial of the | level with the axis you pn percei ve that the uniform 
of almost very species “indigenous to the “district, Neos er’s patience, te mepi occasionally to common | velocity is downwards across the path o pagina carriage 
ey harbour both winged an d burrowing pests t | hinge vahcage nn after all, mportant features in wheel and not onwards, a at the gee the wheel 
interfere with the farmer’s profits. nd h „and embrace more yeo mere mechanical e ; 
the means of obstructing the circulation of atmosphere | operat ions. “The chief objects a farmer has in view in | hence the reason why there are two velocities or 
= ang ha diffusion of light, without a maximum |the cultivation of his land are to produce abundant | double velocity) at the top of the wheel o oe 
which cultivated „Piante cannot attain their being of the best quali To b 
perfect erly Then e btain th p out of tl l routi 1 then being the facts of the case, the important 
mer us hedgerows eut system, and ia and think for ceri he himaan question at issue is age Does Boydell gain the 
u ory velocity by the peculiar position of the 
to i encountered, The aie torninge in plough- | he may take hints and avoid e "A kno edge of pinion, the two gearing gen each gearing in the 
ing and conseq n the short- | the geology of hes neighbourhood i is prt to the | vertex of a cycloid? Or,as he himself expresses it, 
ess of the lands render the labour to a large | 8! successful management f a farm, both with regard to| does he gain aam effective eae without losing 
extent unproductive of practical results. Hence th g p likely to be most remunerative, vai At pre! nt the rule is, a8 you are aware, 
laying out of the ground in the very outset of hon b f 
farming, is a work of great importance to the after | menr aeaa of l land coming un shih the aes in question is an instance, as your 
success of the operations. It is well not ; y be laid down on a peiacipo, but reporter justly sien: = you will perceive that, 
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new faiie aith 1 + iL 
from 12 to 20 acres they are of a bette 
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fences whether dead or alive should be as nearly as|a similar piece of ground not be able to per-| different though we are apprehensive this is 
possible straight and run at right as to each other, | fect roots enough to feed a single beast, though at the nek ran ck of his opponents. tt ncn = 
e cases it is advisable to plant shelter clumps | the time e as the same. Why ocated that the proposition was a ni 
and belts of wood, and in these instances the curved was this? The previous preparation was in fault. mechanies, with 'prewioupetve data in its favour, } but 
oi ited e i 
vant. 
that Turn’ diffe 
7 is a propri -| and benefited by his experience ; William only | solved by experiment, and the experiments 
provement, it is one which the tenant oeght to “have, yo “half. his lesson learnt, and like an ‘idle sete wich by the Board of Ordnance—the hating . 
rm is mind, and the farm manager to som s punished, Without e a form x would Biddell’s scarifier and the five ploug scat n the hi 
extent representing the latter should have his say in w E sores spe prion in such eas ld at Chelmsford fully bear out t! 
with tl be to super 
hi h Ai: 
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fluous pr r the nelusion that Boydell has way re tha 
his mary care as far as the nature o the e gr round will t according to the nature of theoretical data in his favour, In other veil the 
vikat ii ta h iia diala i the soil, ladies stiff or light, as well as with , althou; 
area parallelograms—he will be omen the bes! fall t If do; — eee rules were to = do not solve his proposition satisfactorily, Of the 
ossible measures to — the conservation of rie be tristi observed on all occasion i rtance of the proposition in the applica cation of 
in coming years, It is for this reason that the curved be]too near, too far apart, too ase, or too aintieor ;| ste agriculture there cannot be a doubt, were 
ie straight line in the fine- ev en the = pet ee require to be tapped, thus | ities ere Sn eise introduced than the at iosomotion 
ing of cultivated land. ing grea e. The next step in advance i isj o of a portable eng ine 5 3 and we mus t beg toe ress our 
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charge } d f 12 o rl4i inches, for 
he ea endeavour to make such improvements on purpose of admitting air and d th d e cages enti 
the old fences as may appear ibm and be con- p roots lie far below the surface, | As a mere scientific question “it merits more unpreju- 
sented — a ve pn as if the land has already out of the way even of the long fork, must be|diced attention from the Royal A tural Society 
been for a Amastoreghe hand kept — — the growing season at any|than it has yet received’ eres sto iw Sane 
laid c oa we Geld be he woul require to be very | for year, but for three or four. | motto—“ Practice with Science. 
in either making or altering fences. An im- This ts only we a lished by sowing grain — 
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downer does not like his works to ‘and wide ough apart in the step = Mechi’s Gathering at 7i iptree,—L e o 
upon even though they should be less perfect work amongst hous niey at first, and on the Mn Mechi’s gathering 7 this year but did not perceive 
e himself could wish, and the zeal of a fore ‘ai as the crops attain grow wth. _ Man nuring ‘airy any particular improvement either in hi 
3 ased prod 
nce, may in this senate? | Bway. When it can be | obtained alter the two first years’ when compared with last year. His s cultiva- 
y Fence. | d have a good supply ; there is | ti i high and ive, though no bo in 
Between the com g out of a farm into fields and hing superior to farm-yard muck well looked after, the a direction, and ‘those who had not seen it 
determining its rotation of crops there is necessarily a once turned over with alternate layers of b 1 hints, from the clean- 
very close connection. And no doubt the success of and rubbish, ashes, road dirt, &c., t rtain | Ji f the land and the heavy crops produced, tl that 
is in eve n nt i 
system of c 
ed. A third of th th g 
on ste pping that may be adopted. In should be dressed with this each year. To do this stock enterprising perseverance, The gathering eas aes 
one sense the cose “rotation of crops” might be_ | should be kept, and the farm not left with scarcely an larger than I have corer it before, thus showing its in- 
ee a ut in ‘animal, because provision has not been made for winter emma interest, but there appeared to me to be many 
another ald either des uch deleti f th i ints to be attended to. | vited ee however, be that as it may, the hospi- 
nor think lig ian 5 ‘the “evil vate which wend inevit- | | Farmers may say, “ We know all this ; tell us something tality of “ mine hos ly distributed to all, an 
ably spring if carried into practice. At one “new.” There are some more common ines to Bira esh the w arm generous x reception given was only a repeti- 
other tion of former years. Indeed nothing could exceed the 
ingredients required for any species of lan ne only day. ‘Time enough for theories. Fale diali 
e applied aired by th M einig al 4 sa est fi =d 4 Cap Seta for Guano. About themideot the and the patriotic desire to benefit the agricultural 
diene in fallow oihane ki Mianet a different Lindof op. month of May I procured tte vegas works six gallons of interest of his count T Although I do n not go the 
reals after green crops or fallow, and not in succes- ammonical water, or e gas- water, or the water which whole length wit . Mechi, th 
sion, became the perfection of farming in the eyes of | float th fi ft I diluted i that the farmers of peers aio greatly i indebted to 
many, and to speak of growing Wheat year after year its amount with wa atta rom a pond, and applied it in him, and though they may not acknowledge the fall 
the most objectionable of rotation systems. Well, in the > morning to about twenty square yards of the force of his remarks during his life, the time 
this there wasa gre eat deal ¢ ofsoun ndcommon sense, but th The day turned out sunny, and will arrive when it will be nerally admitted he had a 
mora ions i w to look At the place in the evening, ohh lo! very clear percepticn of the future progress of il- 
nature. He could ni was scorched as ee as though we shes principal object of attraction at Tiptree this. 
Wheat’ in any season, „except a tes eoa niee it had been burned. I ught it was all ove Pie year was the “Great aan Plough,” which may be 
kind of Ensing crop during the str s year. Now, seeing any Sache oe aon it bad Page the erop. ares ‘the future “leviathan of the soil ;” and all 
varies ce has come to his aid the case is | However I chance soni o go over the lace again Mr. Mechi said in its iene is likely to come true 
differen ae may Wher after sain or | this day, a pae rise found the ‘Ge rass of a dark when scientific knowledge reduces its ce aa 
if he indeed | ves i p! and i: 
‘an length of time, provided he amply keep down “though it had Sa hi cer ured in ee winter. I Mechi’s idea of England rear erir self-support- 
gl ag 
ad bee rting country 
eile This he may partially do by ivan of |and I see yen that there i isas a5 much more re Gras s. Ican is by Mpi A ne when once the spirit of 
the soil on Tull’s principle, and partially by the appli- | confidently assert that it so pee ire for Grasa and our si mamy and m uring interest is directed 
cation of suitable manures. On argillaceous soils the | corn if appli ie fin a judicio I think that it tothe cultivation ws te oy iter in the shape of amuse- 
latter may even be dispensed with, for a time, provided | requires ten times its quantity « of nana water to use it ment or occupati either wealth nor ent erprise will 
the culture be very complete. And in almost every | safely, and m be applied in the winter season or in dull be wanting to seg the sens aii into a smiling field. 
case the yield of any particular cereal crop, whether ' showery weather ; do not choose sunshine. If the water It is true, as Mr. Mechi said, the land does not increase 
