Aveust 2, = LH 
are two ro gs handles t o th arios boy of 10 
12 years of age can erly, it. The bottom of the rae 
E AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 525 
agriculturists generally, and therefore to itself by the , used was the common one ; he preferred that to the one 
ee Aaa gee iry ‘vs proceedings. [wi ith the bow. For his if he aiz a quantity of 
must be gas-tarred as often as may be abit ay 3; the present annual report we ex ag would us the othe hes 
shade of the board will cause the flies to jump, and in account of the discussion on mowing and pe |be ree ec a greater amount of wry done. He 
so doing they 
eved aur a man m cut corn with a 
accusto! to 
Messrs. Hill & Smith, of vargas gen have a Mr. H. islop opened the debate. He said :—“ In the jos he would do it better with one without the bow. 
l , and work in 3 we describe | year 1825 I introduced mowing on the home farm of} Mr, was an ad ‘or mowing i 
one of ‘oe ntries for fenci ng. The silver medal of | Sir John Araia Doug! zlas, Bart., of Springwood bg Praa When it was a thin crop it was much better to 
the Royal Aagicaltra tigger was siete to these | Roxb |mowthantoshear. Flourused for manufacturing purposes 
, and again at th e Shrews- | I contin nani th the use of scythe, and for a great | might be preferred harvested with the sickle ; but upon 
bury meeting. Fro Siker E construction they p f years past have mrkar s no other mode of|the whole he thought mowing the best. When being 
many mv decided adva: ea over iron hurdles, espe- | reaping the various grain mpe under my siper | G down with the scythe it was raised ially up 
eially for permanent fencing, both as regards erage | Fo rine I may notice, by the way, that there are | again, the wind could get better through it, and it 
and antag The set consists of eight kinds, various sorts of scythes used for mowing grain ; there saved more stubble. He Leaps. sufficient attention 
follows is the common scythe and bow in matie use in Eng- -| was not A enpas dog cer gah the raking pact 
y land ; the cradle scythe, used to it to be e every m Ae ; but when the 
sal é Ai s 3 Pilo about errar and various s prts of N Nor thumberland g g 
122 | Height! of | Sa per. | 2nd the county of Durham \ scythe wit! the earn vr Aer ose an mae eg = t by the 
#29 Bers. | ES |: Yari S ilt | sickle, it did n iA Certain riainly corn cut by the. 
siS £3 the, used in Flanders, any si ch T have seen used in | sickle a d the RR —mowing generally looked 
ay = Scotland by sons of Flemish farmers who were brought | rather slovenly; $ at, notwithstanding, he would rather 
ft. in. ftin. | s. a. | 0Ver for the p of exhibiting it (by the Highland | hav e the cı wn than shea 
sheep ei i Ha ‘ 3 o | 2 5. | Agricultural Society of Scotland) about 28 years ago. | M 3 odd. pe me 12 
P Sight cattle ... ve are all u: th ogee ose who ar | years ; ut he considered it MEEA toam esky 
— 2 panded ee 3 0 | 3 9 | particularly acquainted with them, but few orig: a crops, and in ia there were a grea 
ri 4 3 9 5 40 | 3 4 | could use them all skilfully. I wil Ta ag be t place | ears cut off. Sometimes after fe aS a pres Bg Tot it 
6 3 9 4% 4 0 | 3 9 |make a few observations relativi the. expense of | would be found that they ot a short yield. He 
7 i s a iz 5 2 > meie and maig ; in the tea place consider believed it took more power to mow with the long- 
advan aoe an disadvan antages arising from either bladed scythe. When the corn was standing he believed 
ese fences are, for t fencing, far superior | mode of reaping ; p b h Jaid 5 
bra ape eaper to E. yöt. ER The dears showing which mode will be most conducive to the the t so liable to be cut off. His plan 
park fencing is much nema than anything that could interests of the farm First, the expense of mowing when he hed. any strong Wheat he had it shorn, but 
and rma Be g Mailing; swathe-raking pen heaping | upo hole he owing to 
hibi e raki a fair avel zA f ha Barley, | thought it possible to mow a strong crop of corn, but it 
his Grace the Duke of Portland, for biega the | or Oats, upon a farm will cost 10s. per On the |m the short-bladed scythe. e 
deer park at Welbeck ei other tand, ie expense of a pied ‘binding and | farmed in the south of England he had had the corn 
stoking. ne e yi be a per acre, being A — “fagged.” It was not a ene but a heavy and wide- 
TIPTREE MEET very excellent address was | ence of 5 n favour of the seytl the. i k into tł ding 
given at She Rhag a as od mae ees = ths advantages pe fom mowing are the So ollow de. The farmers of the 
which we had w room in repo) w give | ing, viz. :— ptr gets a gre ee pea of | Sath of E A cone “fagging” to any other 
an extract from traw to be c rted into manure and returned to| method, The cost was less than it would be by shearing.. 
Pest object T have ‘in view oe pound with an impor the mnd, which is > piel to leaving it in the | Strong crops he sheared, and others he mowed. 
t purpose, embodying the great question, whether sh | ground, especially nee misa pe apane i this| Mr, Tweedale declared in favour of mowi He 
hm i Paste a we ee ba seme a o mnan ste: beads a pm The or believed there was more straw got by mowing, and that 
Just imagine what would be the result of ving a fortnight’s | ought to be m: 1 ins > was of consequence when pra = to be saved for 
holiday to the British si h. You laugh at the idea, but it is pea a the mow wef Ft isp it down bett: d hi cattle. When the corn was wind got through 
a fact that now and then you are on verge 4 tak 
You have wheat at 20/. a load, and is that a war pri 
have open to you all parts e world, and all the corn 
markets of the ? You go into those markets and bid the 
highest price, and ght, it ld be said, mmand 
most ample supply. But still food is sca: . Thatis 
not to be denied. And why y it? It is S nd has 
wi done her duty. ithout referring in a spirit of vanity to 
anything of my own, I al m prepared to tell you that if all the 
lands of England were VA in the manner that this m 
on betters ae ne r farms pe, Pee would not wes have foo 
o feed own le the aid of for 
e it up with less liability to pone the sine ol “tt it s _ sooner, and it was ready in or one e half the time than 
also tends to the safer and more sp y 1l g 
the crop, as the corn does not stand so and | was withered was seen, and the sample of corn 
closely compressed in the sheaf, and allows ei wind to | not spoiled. By mowing Stier samples of Wheat wicks 
ass through with greater facility, and in most in- | produced. Mr. ipa an he could not get his men 
stances it will be fit for EE three or four days | to use the Abe rdee but he had been told that 
earlier, which is of great importance to the farmer. 
pase remem mber about 16 pame ago, having afield of Wheat ok the common coal 
enough people reign im- 
rtations, but dan ld hav This will be 
proved if you take the acreage of the country, n 
it, though I sorry to say we do not know it correctly enough. 
I thought when we called on the Hon. Mr. Cameron he would 
have told you that while land has no icultural statistics 
they have in the young and comparatively new colony of Canada 
most correct statistics of every bushel of corn grown, and know 
what 
i rn 
they are doing, for they have got over the oe Bh ha on 
agricultural fe a the 
this subject. And I believe the 
mise — of erento their affairs is a 
delusi Recollect 
a perfec ki D and 
this, —you cannot do away with the albam 
eee set gente cannot do without them—you cannot keep them 
i d: he: 
in an humble position. Eve clint ay they are increasing in 
gene 
bear wit 
g 
bankrupt nobody will beliews us. noe on 
looking eds’ ‘ans 
Fagg tomes and influential mennig, I see thats we have lots 
hen stooked _ The Chairman said mowing did not look neat. But 
ee pr toasty formed a broad table-like e top, a though 
well hooded, and would have been fit for carrying on | as far as economy went, mowing was the best. He 
a short bladed ra better = toy a long one. 
very hi gh wind, eny the whole of the stooks H one the bow and cradle did 
ph levelled Me the ground, sed fi the work paea It peia ask of the question that it 
before” tl very wet, the rain so penetrated t should throw the corn; it wanted so i 
hey 
ted something else to 
could dry through “the Wheat asine assist, ed = bai ye would ng through it 
ti 
the case had they been mown, as it would have been | Upon t in while oe though mowing on best np 
me three, or four days earlier. Iam aware that | H red am  Aberdee n scythe would do the work 
better ther. ons men prefered poate a 
the grain being of an inferior quality, or rough i in the long pull eight of the blade; 
ing | hand in consequence of clods being collected ny. ie. but mowing aaa the. short blade did ie require such a 
$ | swatherake 5 igen wing, the weeds great va Work-people, however, had a prejudice 
collected and the seeds into the To rose at 
get 
Saisie the eas objection keep the PES Sip separate 
(* No: 6 has four bars and chain to’ 
large, seeps canons poe a men 
of doe rs here, and T wish that amongst them I could get a and thresh them by them 
physic tha at would cure prejudice “When I say this I do, not that I can sell m me pai at as high a price as oa Calendar of of Operations. 
intend to riai at prejudice is coi culture. hope sh D; ualit: Vi 
my agricultural friends will not think that I look on them as v i mae. ne mie me — tied “tie ‘he later JULY. 
singular in this respect, and as being the only class that entertain | 9° equal when ae 1! spec _ APPEARANCE OF THE CROPS, 
and cling to their prejudices. I recollec t it was said that | objection, I have t er e that ‘th were ‘the veena no the growing in 
team bo: l er do, and would never cross the Atlantic; asti En the eoma EE “9 the crop, the an ear boric a: gk Wheat): Oates audi mire nd 
good. > ğ ley all 
that s were impossible, and the panini tric telegraph was d shake and pro e soil, so that nothing ood promise a2 taki bayer average. Beans and Peas about an 
madness; and these are all evidences that prejudice is not solel; my T a: roaa Aki piia 
n agricultural complaint.” E pith pdy but as the seeds of weeds | a urnips, es, angels a regular 
A plant and look healthy. Potatoes are free from disease and pro- 
tee ea eta | generally come tie e threshi e along with | hfe. John Adnams, Thatch faban, lly G6 
R cbietws the grain, they can be burn after bein k EVONSHIRE.—All grain crops— Wheat, Barley, and Oats—in 
ad $ b E AEN -machine, which would obviate that | this neighbourhood promise well, at least a full average; some 
T g: > 
objection also, Nol t ave said in laces ee may have arisen to Mores in ls oe are 
Pr pres of Bes w aigiela dF te A Bhs ge the | favour of mowing standing crops, the cases where prion Se sol vir f cy nag rae pe yeahs vas eee 
ia i with the meg a ti eeting *| shearing would be found advantageous, as will be found | capital condition, though along our hill sides there are consider- 
Lamb » Northgate, W this year, as the crops are so much lo dg ed by the | able pthc 7g Bor yet cut s er a whole of this Soati has been 
The Wakefield Farmers’ Clut f its dis- | continual rains ; and by = w of the sickle crops of es ac) D APEE ion 
+, . eas z. . r Á? 
cussions resolutions for the benefit Ri it: this d p may be rea with less loss than by | wirewo; aist and weather have all been against them, and many 
and of a eneral blic, } th I have now to make in conclusion, KE karo been put in too late. P begin to show disease in the 
Ë publi i it a'i hi dopted s t eaf, though as yet the tubers do not seem to be affected Jae 
of public spirit an tk y mowing the s grain ough as yet : 
sons of the i R fat Benson, Th tock. 
E : ti : he ex 7 : Teas z and where straw is is a A ent you a report of the crops in my i 
xclusiveness of any kind, such a: mediate Aiad. The Wheat I think is more than an 
present perity. ba ve | acre, or where | only available to convert into manure, at | average crop, and is dying off of ac = oa ae will be ready 
rules preventing any communications at their meting ee a a acre, lös. pee ihe pretegpe $ pact od AR atea isig sown... Tht Oats 
drie rhe cate member. We cannot think of an acre—a i iom wed re importance to the apy upon t i soils are upon ib heavy lands very 
ae ng less less likely to advance a club, either in abet I Sate ted to show that the quality of moderate. The Beans and Peas ee a great crop, and any Se 
timation or ‘ae at of its own members, than | grain is not t deteriorated by taking the ponent oon at ce very eiaa a tae et cet oe ce 
me “ia of such a rule as this, Members join | I have named ; i firir Tomika hi ry bad; I have ploughed up 40 acres, and 
pro oral and really not to give but to receive siderable advantage to to the fi farmer by. grid ta g a pr the land piyi white apr Mangel Wurzelis very good. 
n Mergent ten t cn Lowe crops of the | Wm. econ ed itham, July 
who the subject that is bei pe z aa adi of the| Gramon ran —I be Fut. ; patie ea pon tone 
i ia all 1 kin we not so heavy 
di finds himself arent by such a rule as we corn had been shaken out ty oe hen: i in this e sy the country. The harvest, under any circum- 
have mentioned, every person present is injured by it. Schol h the former speaker that in | stances, cannot commence before the Fm wig kud aoe hth 
sre way to in the membership of a society of the iy oes weather the scythe would have the advantage over ao ee mana Lianncliy, July 26. i te 
ration by increasing its usefulness and activity—infor- be sickle. He believed “they were getting more ac- j| Groccnsrensame. — Wheat, average; Barley, good; Oats, 
ka d be welcome from whatever ene and uainted with the > scythe, and that it would come into | average; Beans, good; Peas, very good; Potatoes, very good ; 
ae Waurzel, very good; Swedes, good. Harvest general, 
k ibuted, the „Duri ring an inclement Mangel » very d; 
it can be circulated y t ke th about 18th of August. Josiah Hunt, Almondsbury, July 28. 
wW the better. et | Hay and Clover better than I remember, with splendid weather 
akefield Farmers’ Club does good service to | the work Arp and there was no doubt that more m; Man ‘ood ; Greies and Turnips backward, 
g > to secure them; gel g 
P-) 
ps 
work could be pran ah the scythe, The scythe he | having in many instances suffered from the fly—now doing well; 
