Aveust 23, 1856.] 
English or Scotch methods of sowing (by dibbling or 
drilling the ee with the plough instead of ploughing 
seed broad cast and so thick ly int to the e ground t that 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
meant something very different from the ehai crops- 
571 
atmospheric changes from a temperature of cold to 
of 1840, — as 
jour er ops r date” tated 
f 
ce the lat 
Eais meani si of the word ‘ pergu 
er hand-hoeing impossible), the Bean erop | 
Its relation to the wants of the nation we did not refer to 
to 
pest uld he “decidedly ameliorative, and of the in 
= “pete ially. _ The brea dt! th of iand under Potat 
greater 
tainted 
inferior | —on this wh The corelu- 
toes is sions drawn below as t “ average”? meaning 
continuously increasing surplus of f are 
Mr. Gr ma roa Guts]; and that orn 
fairly be inferred by the 
farms x; promises 5 well. I see fields of Potatoes around 
very lu: EAER erg and Pep AE anon 
of “blight or any d _ Yet “or hope that 
for cows, pigs, | 
orses has been so ily established ‘that the extent 
e dim set ee For cattle 
oh 
and h 
of their culture will n 
heat, 
d lurid Lior at to sudden apaan 
been truly 
shine in the This 
pentir this last a last fortnight or three weeks, which 
has brought all the various descriptions of corn here- 
| abouts, and seeds we cultivate, ially such as 
bom planted too thickly, to pre 
| substantiated by an abund 
f 20 
it may very 
our speculators, capa , and consumers that a aini 
1856 m a much greater he cg of food 
many plots of “ rough chaed” Wheat will eck and 
| not half the produce ordinary perfect ear from 
“es va ant ss in 1840, yi g ; gr othe: 
decreased prices ning a insisted on, h f| be say “of crop from eve: 
supply w ould be s d fi ; 
E-AN mei We ot fi 
to be 
preference to Swedes, which seld cee or never fail if 
piee 
in enorma and practice, and m must have a g ucena 
fairly treated. It is bu t now in deed tha! s any of the wasteful gr. err and decreased production. fot not ballon interrupte ld d, 
common farmers h ach your v s in the which is blowing ae fully ripened corn o ly, so 
Turnip crop ; seeing, however, the kandee results of | stat a d aye made public, but I feel impelled to | uncer the changes of this climate of ours, We 
th tice i instances, i om be we ted by all “remind y you of the one side statement you have made, | fear ose sudden changes of weather, so contrary 
the intelligent cultivators within a few yea! ich if not ec? lead to much misapprehen- | in re to heat and cold and wet and drought, 
I have yet to state the seh of sel animal | sion isak: injustice. no opinion age nate as to|at this juncture of time will have a bad efi 
d wf boa Urii ai less than 5000 | the t of the forthe imig harvest. We have not|on the e in the north of England, bringing their 
acres, or in some acting within the parochial hy s aon our hare,” for amid these continuous wet late crops on too pre! maturely, as such changes of 
limits. days she is cmt a aoe ve and uncertain r h lly 
There are 381 ae te ae of working age, 21 has p such bright 
à h d till p Sred and October; 
mules, ret? 148 asses. Ther 
ye under the plough 
(the and mules I omi m the estimate alto- 
asses I aie 
gether), which is at least doub! 
f h 
aeri s, that you “omitted a very impor 
shrewd observation about lias ave: rages, 
that the average of our “patai on 
ja inaa It is presumptuous, however, to attempt 
to battle with the elements 5 but pooh = no reason we 
in a full ratio with the 
uction or rather over, and 
not 
if your | anticipation of a saa “inorease e of £ Eyn; 
ding against the 
wewt; leaving the rest oc ar v Aia yi the oe 
ver of all events. Hardy & Scn, Seed Growers, M 
Boydell’: s Steam Locomotive—In your: report of Mr. 
the merest tyro in 
uch allowance must be made 
r the e vari ious deman nds | for spisial di labour by so many 
0 
gwan the means of procuring is eces: 
n increased degree ; ay, and the amartani too, are 
h within the command of the mass of con- 
There they frequently must go to dispose pe sumer 
town. 
agricultural ager a am hi fh be small in bulk or 
— and for the gi coals, 
man E dey may w: 
or hats ni ta 
I rs have capital horses, 
> 
e i 
56 
y 
them well, 
rejoi 7 
g cluding’ the hard-worki 
‘has 
the driving wheel is not real. 
tage gained by the position of th 
But the reason given 
viz., that the Setanar t of 
produce effect as if "it were placed on a lev 
ith th 
is incorrect. 
n 1856 Syn ay were in 1840; and no doub 
avail E: selves Pa is and 
of o men, i 
and hind oi 
ce together and be thaakfelr Let me be 
iy soe rejoi 
tood. I do not Tiento with Tate state- 
velocity ; 
of itions o 
of the pinion and the drivi ing wheel move with the san > 
ind this without reference to the relati 
their axe 
have 
3 
ug 
nd feed 
Page agric erase es y 
ght, 
ajorit; 
lim animals, siy of the to heavy drau; 
but little fodder, Pag: little expensive fodder, grazing 
during eight nies Pile gg AEE EE. 
the remai hs fe onths on straw a sae 
rate supply of indifferent hay. The who ho! 
half a dozen acres and has one horse finds ¢ a neighbour 
unite their horses for 
thus bo sz parties are 
ds | blest in an 
‘ac what shoul 
pany your dave ma ha m to even “tw we 
secure an increased average in food, we have ak ac 
increased and increasing multitu de a. apm T pn: 
sth 
for consuming it, John Grant, n, leo 
Devon. 
Dial 
pa pie s toit it:for all 
waited by the pinion on ioir 
ing wheel, by means of a lever ; | the rai ait of t 
Draw fT PAG A 
Vitality.— —Some years ago a Mr. 
r are = whieh in 
effect by 
within the parish, pan many horses are employed in 
also ha cal aleined lime to ‘the farms. Individual farmers 
and other cereal grains, and which he mi 
uch an energetic baa to the plan 
ch it was so required no ther 
a good deal ridieuled 1 at the tim 
| seed Wheat 
communicated s 
| that the field in whi 
This was 
na thing of it, but t is tl ther re no! 
. o whioh 2 a canal bears it, and peor of sea | 
sand. The drawing of culm and coalsalso is to be added 
m the eee atan: 
A piane at Table 3 shows the number of other sorts 
of live stock. 
CATTLE. 
e idea than 
mean to = either Mr. Bick any o 
knows how to com she such a zp ey but Sf he | 
ed, allow 
o 
possibility | of such an operation — be deni 
as the of the leve 
case of this mies is ge the ease, , it does not mat 
EE d SY ¥ 
if the pinion were un 
axis ining a with it, pressures exist (e. 9s 
pre pihe of tk 
Two years 
old and Under 
upwards. one year. 
Total of > 
Milch 
5 Cattle. 
r| 
ol, at | 
Cows. ah hs | 
© 
g” 
ate 
been apa 
toi grown from rre! seed. For instance, th 
unflower grew 10 fee and the ry ah ma "feet 
295 1675 
| 
moving itself. 
ground where i it had no difficulties 
seal iai one sag oa 
<$ but when tl plants rip 
d e plan 13 of the second 
SHEEP. 
One year and 
upwards. 
Poultry. 
generation did not grow — than 5 feet high. If this 
ing has to depend for 
succeed, Since then Tha 
arious notices 
me ust growth was not o to a stimulus communi 
to the seed—to w it o aap < is 
a = uestion I have asked two or three tim es in 
columns, but to, yap I neve er could get a reply, 
t, and on 
op 
zaie 
420 1881 
When the horses, mules, and donkeys (all of whi 
oi + ope ip ae are added to mn a stock, 
r that Grass land is ently stocked. 
4, 
= 
ndsome dairy 
to advantage in any fair ip 
he United a Kingom, and some of the sheep breeders 
stock. o particulars has progress 
the improvement 
of swine has been 
Beg wip 
~ The br 
especially heireda a the 
year have ee 
tion of his 
rresponde - 
ed. seed in Austra 
ae 
this e mies which 
hronicle. pa Number 
ions given the cyli 
tie Gardeners’ a 
some dime ensi 
ment, th 
— “seca 
a Parnes 8 
not give the 
portant e 
“any 
an Aust 
84 lbs, May 4 Ang! be desirable t to grow our 
din A 
+ 
lieve hat 
oving! I 
pf ed iad rend result will 
size, quality, an ai early 
maturity become heredi ma y 
who can tell whether by s so nae we shall not have | 
will pay 
soft 
& 
Es seb EERE 
E Guy Clither 
rvin 8 you pe reports of the Whea! 
tricts red over the United 
pred tha that. par 
weet in o own i coe » if o 
2 a 
, clothed, and fed. our own report 
I must 2 a a future page to the distinct considera- | | were worth a vig we could ER now A T 16) fairly 
es 
on 
wheels at the upper part oi 
ae sei Baye in insists with much confidence, 
I ae ee oy it! else this would be 
as “ W. B.” tries to 
ina iat pra it is fo utterly impossible 
mpi 
Rais at p. 507, i 
ot the slightest difference 
to comprehe end. It makes n 
described it in York, a ome he has noted it in 
No. 3 
his 
ginal references, namely, 3 pages under 
from the erank-shaft he driving wheel ; and that 
“the upper, ae of the per moves twice wice through the 
the axle and fulerum von the ground,” 
average, W 
d they are found 
ving 
of the 18th Auga ust a ‘very shrewd 
the f 1856, 
grains by men ‘one-third than ond ou u to have” 
wih the Ate od railway are. A point in the circum- 
of the pinion, or in the circumference of the 
(i 
