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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Aveust 23, 1856. 
it works, moves at precisely oe what 
t may injure them, or to und right here,” 1 
th axle of the carriage, or as the | sound seed. The rogues had, therefore,: not o marae piano P mechanism are evidenced—this is ma: per- 
eal riage ite travels along the groun und whé en the car- lined much of my good see d but left me little else fectly correct in principle. I will now examine 
i li than bad, or at most “doubtful. However. have d field-pra ractice ; s Soria nd they unceasing jn 
“W. B.” gives the fo! lowing dimensions of the heels, p. the best I ken ieke of the small quantities pred | their efforts to introduce machin ery into the field 
257: sirena = anA 6 feet Hirra rs pi ers ih phony the roport ns peewee be smalle: [ave alrea any a great lot there, and much nore 
diame e given will exonerate me | coming ; hence, judging from analogy, from 
or 15.7 10, rom anyth ing like wilfal neglect. Samuel Taylor — under which of course Boe. are oe ii sal 
teeth must pe 1.63 feet in PAEA and 1.63 by Ce Anget 6. e same resul over in- 
150 strokes by 60 minutes = 14,670 feet per hour as e Po stato Disease aa toe pe its appearance with us pada production. I shall see at seen “100 tons of 
speed of the driving op & whi ch add one-fifth, g t year. rhe crop is go ing g | Tur rnips ‘manufacture d’ acre of land, where 
and we have aoe feet, o | ut machinery there were To erly only 10 to 15 
circumference e aaa or the nart of yer na, and as last year it too fast for the | tons ; ; and 50 coombs of Wheat manufactu on trees, 
carriage. or ed the ded il vary sickle ; og we shall have mee watts “rr only 10 coo befor d all 
proportion the number of strokes per a St bomen ht ya week or days. About the middle l When I got = ‘the feld I 
if Mr. "Boydell has spent nearly 10, ;0007. on this t week mo ost ar will begin hereabout. Barley hs food s was quite mistaken. Someho other the 
hi and very irregularly. achinery seemed 
less complicated : and more likely to succeed, What advan- and Turnips ao better, ert ce e have not had ‘rain | | Sot toa dead ene s and its shorteoming ‘ted to be 
stot far off tł o 
of t diameter and the same breadth re in| been some avy rarest Brood Me ria does well | keep the rate of to that p had 
complication! R. 8, N., Gates hea ad-on-Tyne, Aug .—— | where thick enough, but it is often too thin, What i 
tell be the reason ? s the seed bad ? Ori is it that it is put | at all ! E be jr could not discover any of the usual 
i I think a few _words will alter _your opinion as to the | 
in before the ground = ie Rae an 
and some comes up 
of the spur-wheel, or below it ; 
deavouring to do so, Whether ce Mien is wep eade into 
the spur-wh heel a the apex or below it, its distance 
sly, while the well on ones sale half the summer to 
as them up? Ir neline to thin 
so dies of cold?) r 
a 
k this last is 
the chief reason ; and i if so the ae ought to be | plant?” I fi age ked. “A thing of life.” * So field 
away in pre paring the seed for market. G. S., ctice is life manufa acture? not a ‘dead’ 
same ; but at the apex it gives the leverage as you} West material manufacture, and — is i e of the 
describe it, and on a level with the axis it acts sim mply as Tiree. Teao Crops, i the underneath statis- means whic! zei o it.” The: siga oti the field 
a bell-crank does, the = ieee of whic! ti d emp e for a hig rol of Wer 
other, and in bod the thrust aa o ‘steam from | of of your | readers, development,” iti isa field for ones development.” Why, 
the boiler is the same, rst likewise the velocities. On imi R] see mechanical 
Wednesday Jast, in the presence any scientific men, | eae —|—— | problem (in chief)—it is evidently a “manual” problem 
a traction-engine at ch with 2400 lbs. effective | Wheat first in ear June June 23 | June 22 tery Bae ef want here in this department isa 
er m, a power equal to Barley frst m ear June 22 Jul 2 June 28 our par ig or la 
make that 2400 lbs. draw 4080 lbs. ove pulley | Wrest aati Tene i ee supe 38 pea ioe | eile Our mapas een 
132 feet per minute, d P s of 2 s up an|- H; Terre iF COMMERCE: sophers -<. coer striving to. the Tong 
inclination of 1 foot in 10 feet at that speed ; the de 1854 1855 g: “ elemen 
weight of thi 4480 lbs, besides the August 10 Ši ww.) Augnst13 P 
traction on the level, which t 20001 August 2i or te Trent ue upon a resemblance which does not exist 3 here is 
more, making together nor bere: and = will prove | "Te rvest will con to tó x the ae ey an ir g ‘the growing of a sack of corn to the 
that increased er is and where can it be| will “te aay to cut before the end af al week ; b nufacturing a piece of cotton, or a hat, apts 
eae the le ws gained by working the the Wheat s not nearly ripe ye . M. 0s Rughy, But this is evidently question of how 
driving-w! bya pinion at the apex of it? James| 4 ih kak PEN on garment, to Pg t make a cotton 
oS Camden Wor ircular Tillage-—Without prejudice pla ihe ake the sails and ro 
—With a view of settling the point of | x reula Tila os y lette ts nt pants, Aaa ees ship, but ho make lax plant ; not how to 
soso for cattle, a Samuel Taylor | went to Chelmsford to see the steam ploughi ae make the alken geet a make the 
y rest assured that cattle will not eat Pa red at | quite satisfied invent f se k there are no conditions Mulberry tree ; not how to grind hresh corn, but 
whatever stage neo i cut, it |in this problem to mplied with, save to make a Wheat plant ; in fact, not of how to 
ie designated Cow Parsnip bafiies our u cv ming | whereas it is a problem a fall of epee economi ical, manufacture dead material, but of how to make things 
as well as his own, For ory a Nar it is not | social, re and De life. Thinking only of eans the mechanist 
to be at, for it is e extreme, and we they study is this, name ely, t a power of steam eae the end of tillage, making no provision for 
grow i H. spoiling ee indigenous Il k method” it; hence e the contr rivances in the field” lead to no result 
tor own climate, we repeat it, is very service- pee e, without change or alteration sents t 
able for cows, pigs, and” rabbits, r not for and pied at this siistake on the part ar the eeir the hom Isee the reason. Never having had to 
ith rtion of corn or bran, and may | an hanist when they have a precedent in point so deal with anything but the 2 ore a dead on 
rear, and whether green in May, as the introduction of st an i d mg steam machinery, impelled by a false 
i A wi and " 1 analogy, 
ofthe ew varieties Sel method of io years rg as Eira sani? tiroe salam 
m- tillage my especial study, and for 
t peri Hod. of time have been knocking at the 
pis ys 
neces yom ie ‘tela, ro oot to increased ms cheap 
producti viz: : Ste and mechanism. 
i 
hen 
hen 
athe hy 
-m the compartments, 
ay be wafted all over, and ulti 
Tere s$ Ww 
ember that, searchin ing for H 
or “cow-mumble” (for this 
ei), for pigs and rabbits by the 
e the means of F Paying for abe this 
y Bai ve arisen from my not uttering all y know, and 
I alors (out of regard’to others’ sentiments) I Lion 
month of June, w we every | concealed g facts which have come to m 
partridges’ nests with their | kn owls ge in the course of this i estigati Howey: i 
eggs, either in nten tionally or accidentally Pay ane since I know the right introduction of steam to the 
the old birds off repeatodlyy.ex using them rsake | fields will be profitable to the $ and high] 
he cireumstance of 
S 
Wie would Culti tivating | this a in the pom aoe 
beneficial to 
and also to the 
I 
the labourer an nd t 
which ‘is an re consequen to gentlem en sportsm 
than to to ourselves, we admit, b but nevertheless worthy of | 
notice. Hardy & y Maldon, Essex —— 
We have also received the romero A ANF. Taylor, 
tton P: inthis weekio so touchingly 
th 
arge, 
will now spea ak out and Ia ay bare my whol ore 
[and its unexpected eet be fore the rea va = the 
Agricultural Stem mares them to pro ce a 
veri rdiet pirga The first unex 
I have 
mbine ek me 
O CO 
pen |7 nor hich of the three to seine to the front rank, so 
to lead to cheap and successful steam cultivation, C. 
Burcham, London. 
Zorieties, 
RICU JLTURA 
Adjourned Tid ria taf pate gM ashina at hated ree 
Aug.13and14,1856,—The a 
%, 
r their “ Improved 
Mr. Wm. mons the sum in 18% on his 
mproved Hussey’s Reap _Fro om result E 
eam cu ltivs ation will 
he triala th 
n made this class aei aaa es 
ib 
various sorts of Poe are nr ums from pires 
bron leaved and cut-leaved, and Dersen for more 
on 
, and h 
g cast amon, oe farming i in Norfolk, and 
im rovement has bee 
: ese Ag that tor general harvest 
of Mr. Crosskill and Messrs, 
of an i ais EA, pains powe ¥ ter ee with 
the idea of tiling land by s team power, and w more 
mixed with other green m The sheep generally 
ee year, from being put whero i t grew. Myan ir 
anir ae, to os 
Tt thus |t 
in the earliest numbers of the Arictare Gasett 
care stly na “ha W. H.” and « Ib 
k con a Kerta 
high aer y sid, ai. 
a 
aes ce: gia are to be preferred ; but for tata 
only, they think Mr. Dray’s decidedly the best machine, 
H. B. CALDWELL. 
Tuos. HUsKINSON. 
Wx. a ALCRAFT. 
CLARE SEWELL READ. 
Boxted Lodge, August 14, 1856. 
F IRE 
Royat AGRICULTURAL I 
ast w As of thik this ‘society 
riva: 
3 of late attempt Ta got siya: w, planes, chisels, hammer and LAND. S 
extirpate i from the p Miian and arable fields, but alas ! | all ates for action ; but with Vra I also pulled out | the Tati eutenant made the following remarks :— 
it all the efforts of the plough an spade, - Lord Ba con's Novum Orga non Scien on or “ Art of Wie ye t 20 years a epee tiie million of Trish acre 
runs-us more and more.. It o the causes of | have been reclaimed dow the 41, beh ee 
plantations, yet its large s deep roots | things, =r Ga. the Tron in ene matters of td a Loi wit ge iT the popu- 
must rob the trees of nouri. ent, a it r matters lga Ezpe erim ent, &e. =e Tfr t read | eee pt than a million acres has added to the eolit 
an enemy. ovice. I have had, as I expected, | that eonan every aa vated area. I 5 however, w to d at om “generalities o pro- 
applications for seed of this plant ; which, so far as | then proceeded Pl “investigate this peblem of steam | subject of this sort, but I will confine myself tand that which 
I have been able, I P ksn if . gress as contrasted between the present ye: m the very 
ve been » I have had great pleasure in supply- | cultivation, As in duty bound, I first inquired ower immediately preceded it. I derive my information fro! 
; 3 but I regret to say that n have been unable to do regen echanist had done for farming and 1 found aot valuable returns collected by the constabulary of this con aye 
_ this to the extent I wished an d hoped, for the following | as compared with the day of no machi inery, he h ma be is a matter which I e Rae te England. 
reasons, w I will plead my apolo; ogy ` wit th y | “a dee beeen Passe aca apita , are collected annually, : ari 
various quantity and i iw a very short t time, and | be it spoken to the great credit of the Irish gentry, deed ar! the 
letters reached me, but <a no time in attending to infinitely cheaper t ome before the use of mechanism : | people, they are furnished voluntarily, se isnot suppl > 
-them on my return N Aay (the 2d.) | s ah be nto chaff and steamed, cake and | i7Stances i pone ae MW ell, fnd irom th hese retu 
I found the the seed ; and, nie oe sed as f aaa for animals; Beans, Pess, Wheat sag yg A i cme given to the public—the time eas 
what I did not expect, a o ai af: it eaten and | and Barl Hëy gro onha in raa quantity ; ; in fact, the power | yet arrived for their being sufficiently ee e nee 
carried away by birds—,; answer to the|over increased prod only limited by the | pose—I find that, rw n e yaad: nik E 
4 : the poisonous ee. ot | mechani: eiee tever was done w hail agg hig pane gg an inerease in the gorii of at on eat of 83; 
too good judges, either excitan At a tinh elsnger Pa e than before. acres. The increase in crops 
iaia a 
