THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
_[Aveusr 16, 1856. 
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e Nursery, near Sout thampton.— 
e7 a 
t of tl day, but h 
Home Corresponden 
Lodge > hav 
| received the eet tad :—The White Clover Pattie on 
roa la 
| n 
States, | parts o rge quantities of see 
le of the oa ene of harvestin ing to an | save 
of labourers, th e cradle se w- AE 
but it is, I think, of qiia. a differ ent deseription Tr om 
any used in England. It 
m 
rm common white or Dutch 
Sutton & Bone; Seedgr owers, Reading. 
letter addressed 2 me io 
a 
att ected especial 
notice at the time, and was, I perceive alluded to in the 
o Mark La ane Express « of the 28th inst. a must quote 
nd spirited n manner offered his eg ops 
ore productive and | £n 
ite a 
5 72 DUEL hope to 
Trial Reaping 
Hobbs hag = the sa publie- 
d grounds to the 
s “the arena i the 
“aa 
P 
do so next week. 
Ara Lope CoL 
Machines.—Mr. Fis sher 
oi arge nu 
ose interested in reaping by mara as cal as in 
steam ploughing, were ee together there last 
hie never “spent. 
and 
ment exhibited, sads the hearty ap pee = 
The occupied b 
hich I have t 
offer. “TI recollee ve 20 y ago 
ahh I had 50 a 
cres of Taripe destroyed i in oe ‘tin a 
week, many of which had been hoed twice, after the 
| scourge had ty Mos more fortunate 
| that ad escaped were attacked by 
in the season, which ate the 
acres upwards a 
stands very light, less if it is very heavy. 
© | were security fo r this 
sh 
somewhat sca nvm 
ofh eavy 
grain stan 
neighbour of mine told me h 
Oats in a day, and from seeing what mak he could do 
on his farm, which was next to mine, I believ: 
1: 
receive end refers 
0 nes upon the leaves, H which “ had not been seen for 
ve it to rn the last five or six yea The Load that came 
r Ma he: 
b ee ssful cultivation 
of Taan fp ahrete hess ‘pro viding food for cattle and 
for horses—the effects of well managed drainage, 
aE pea! ds, were seen tarong ee 
vest work w busy operation, and there 
true. T y only used when mÈ unde er my own not ice w while ig reside d n idenhead 
is very much lodged, so a: it impossi ible t tioned 
pick it up with the cradle ; one man following to rake | p by the writer in question, This caterpillar first attracted 
and tie P each band of harvesters. It i 
aid 
writ 
S | my notice when I lived at St, Peter’s, Isle of Thanet, in 
1821, for I found plants of th ab 
he the Savo 
O | fectly hi the 
following morning. er circumstance excited par- 
ticular ere te as ‘hens one plant so drooped its 
immediate neighbour was 
the next to fail. Fora time 
ing 
t, the instant the last sheaf is — the: 
” the and 
Wheat, soa Pp ex Apo ng so 
air so sori is it fit to carry i soluti pi 
vould | nA injured by standing Tengen, 
I do fests point Gat this ji in the hope of re farmers |e plant, a em dingy gre 
ree mice do san ap yatra , but it is of course of | into a sort of rin 
powerful aad the 
was seen coiled 
jalga only. On Thursday the Sed ge —_ 
For , B 
tng weather over all. 
n Wednesday the trials were in the presence of the 
our machines appeared—Crosskill’s 
Key’s M‘Cormick, Dean — Dra; 
their tipping platform, and Hussey w i Palm 
delivery. Where the corn was a standing they all worked 
well, and would travel in any direction—where it was 
id the: n em c 
o get i in a field of grain, | was discovered, and in 
ork for men to do « guilty ” oun 
tected, as it were, in the very fa 
yd wef Besant, or short blade prerai till the period salere to in 
oes, are generally saved from the pre- | Express. I do not retrace the exact da ia 
pre disease it My fad Sgke and h ot weather after the tain little doubt that the fearful destruction of the 
aut 
same posture, sentence of 
is 
c Lane 
blight sets in, urnip bulbs alluded to took place in the autumn he 
taminated sap in inthe Teaves and E ay; and such we 1834 or 1835. Then se carcely a Turnip escaped, a 
wok we may venture to say are safest left to chance. | this not biy — —- put far into Docking: 
TEN 
iit T enter- 
the 
first two use M‘Cormick’s knife, for whi 
es he charges 7l. he mas y apiece, a sum which 
venture to predict will end in t 
heir disuse 
Hussey’s knife, especially the skeleton form 
however, hamshire. I w e habit of inspecting the cro altogether. 
og pull up) the Potato stalks when luxuriant c rops and gardens Buit M ie, High Sob Mikeni a fol of it, seemed to us doors | well fitted for its work—and 
are attacked with Ln od. in order to "bleed, asit were, &c, In the latter — the able gardener at The | the greater cheapne form delivers tial 
the roots, to save the tubers from further decay. , Abbey adopted every means at his command to ascer- “The t tipp ping platform delivers t 
‘To pull them up is to kill the plants instantaneously, b bel corn ‘intermittently in the wake of the machine, the 
ing in disease, and 9 er es i aw wee He kept several of the grey meyer in soil, nee the — Palmers to be tied, or at least lifted asi ide Ae 
unfitting them for human food. Asso and in due | onee. Palmer’s 
‘to this practice, th had th side did not send off ye iaae: 
S90. vill not prees it sing ea 
and only fount our Laat ace, terminating in a devel ent of several 
ther they fae pl gi e developmen e 
recourse to it or not, moths. These I saw, and soon after i it was kae ounced 
aay veny as Ethe Soika er. 
ewe a the corn 
th well, 
M‘Co: me with the screw 
y continuous 
the bight itself in prog int that Agrostis t, excep 
“of prowth in Oe iota aaa i it all amounts to the same grt at ich 2 rw as g as Bell; and Bel, again, 
result at last, except that decomposition takes place very | | se by etait Bostic hog ane er reaps ree nn san nem which came out well andet ¢ difficulties w! 
-often in the tubers when left to > chance, whereas if the ibewo pon the leaves P hea young Turnip plants, | tte work of the others—charging a l ae 9 
but well remember that the ravages of the grub were | leaving in its wake a clean jane of short stubble, ve 
1 n place before > horribly Taro ive ; insomuch that a person had nothing | CO"? laid, ears together, on one side— failed o! A 
egok on e BAA been "perfor ‘The value of the mo o than just to disturb the ground with the | ridged land to do its work so well as Hussey. 
ato consideration this It will, we 
ooo however, ig have t: 
Off 1 rod of a Aine erop it will a Ba und 
that T cwt. at ee of t may be cut, or 8 t s per more of those bu 
hand or a stick when he w 
oles, s, with perhaps ten or 
i ietin gA er ass th l 
manure, and if taken into patoes with the chance of aea Sa a3 toot = oe ENN 
orCa 
jaca 
award of th e judges is not yet published, 
should euppose, give the a of merit to Crosskill's 
Bell and Dean and Dray’s Hussey with the tipping 
slitionen, with 
Mr. Fowler exhibited his steam-plough at work wi 
great success and promise of future usefulness, but to 
e must = fi ir. Amos’s 
to be transplanted tween “the rows as soon as ‘the efer another week. M 
Sorieties mor h is eae evidence of the power 
no material loss even if the Potatoes at Mich Sa employed, e ‘ensbles us to say kya 4 acre of land i 
il, for let it uae BEN pam EEE: T, rse power o only of 
will he. only small, and small geet: be if left to HIGHLAND À S The meet ae 
os T then tea oie begir and | at Inverness has been successful in bringing out for| It ia fbcal to overrato the value of. ‘Mr. Fi isher Hobbs 
i be deca: as h tne @ ab- 
bages, &c., being secured except for late ones, wi which | north of England, notwithstanding the difficulties in | sources of economy in agricultural labour ns hich i 
would be of little use = value, By a * the | transmitting stock beyond the railway region of the | promised to us. The substitution of steam ance 
Potatoes at Michaelmas we cultivate the land, and pre- | Country. bout 70 “eboethiartn competed for the | that of ho: in cultivation, but especially that of oie 
pare it well for the next year’s crop, nae if a slight | Society’s prizes. The first and eee | prizes for old | power for hands during harvest time, whi h ate 
dressing of guano is applied before forking up the | bulls were given for animals bred i steam-plough and the reaping machines now p d 
Potatoes, the green advancing to maturity those for young bulls were given ra Mr, Willis, of are the two great agricultural problems of the ys i 
will be very much improved, and but little if any loss | Bedale, and Mr. : he latt is especially pressing ant iore 
sustained, even if the o crop enti High stock was p t _ good numbers and | portant now, when every year we a S 
Hardy & Son, Seedgrowers, Maldon, Essex.—P.S. ant quality, the prizes being given to Mr. M‘Rae and the | and —_ from difficulty in finding hands at all 
ears of our best improved se i ght Honourable Duncan M Neil, the Duke of Suther- | time, we En 4 thank Mr. Por: bs for a gre a 
Wheat growing with th Potatoes, with 1 foot of E ER to re A pe Mr, Mal colm, of PEE a M‘Combie publicit ity given and a excited for it 
parse pe ie weigh 10 oz., and if eut off at the upper e first prize for the polled Angus breed of | it has ever yet adr in England. 
paige a pound, w which, | z% + Pitas It 
the weight of 2 20 ordinary ears, will Sree i an idea to | W on cogs an animal that has carried off the prizes at 
Berwick, Aberdeen, Carlisle, and re never having 
management, A. H. aten. 
: White Clover.—A writer inquires the cause of White| The show of shee very fair, Leicesters were 
ch Clover appearing in the pasture fields and roadsides. I well represented, ‘aa Cheviots avd blackfaced sheep 
o al considered it must have proceeded from the |are a good show. The implement show was not a lar rge 
idence many years in America Sing A discussion on short- horn breeding took ng: 
the forest, no matter how 
tide a a mere i in the course of two years, 
) seeds of an: kind had been 
sown and „the 
THE ROYAL ÅGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ea oad held 
 -Bebtews. 
A` Letter on Steam Cultivation to E. ene B of 
Haversham. By Woe — of Woolston, 
oster Row. 
wl coe Ji written letter, d describ- 
on poi 7 sie p: 6 pola le the differences 
etween A” plough ropriety 
opr the latter 
by st 
tbeir annual show at Atblone this week, Tar —— Tien drawn wer in 
P of stock is unusually fine. The first a on plan of ap piyi ing steam a ence as ê 
appear, | short-horned bulls is awarded to Grand Turk, idling: cultivation, and lastly the eth "Th pine are 
in Scam a ae Mr. y bler, of Watkinson Hall, | cultivator of land by $ ject pore x 
H Tara (i ?, 1, subiects. 
D Batol heard co thay | 
fe eabject George S. Ropes, Hew 
Bono Publico, has taken th tha second prize. we are 
unable owing to 
«The 
and spade.—® 
ploughs simply 
The difference between the plough 
approved of our common 
ge aden ta 
