THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[SEPTEMBER 6, 1856 
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each animal was supplied. Still, however, ; altern ith 
all ex mare 
the rous 
T ai t 
it is e: ssentixl before 
the 
within such 
this phenomenon has been produced? ‘There are some 
it is desirable that ore extensive series of prac- |p England,” says M- Auguste de Gasparin, i 
ical feeding experiments shi d be undertaken | extra expense of cutting ich rer receiver and making | dapa “who jioni r inch enormous production 
before we can arrive at trustworthy conclu-ions. | the reservoir (beyond the | of Italian Rye Grass. Thecaltiyators vp sion. Grass 
And we are exceedingly obliged, therefore, to si be minus ariin ir inns) that those Se account for ti this production of 10 t the showers oi 
peg ie 6 or Coreen D pupil, f _ Tami impe elled t urge Ta you a further examina- liquid manure drainage, and steam coming to the 
g£ suc r is of the estate to orig inate i for my part, am soon ak con- 
er trial of t food. We must add that wei If a water power , in consideration bi its near — vinced of the assertions of the, Eng lish, Byes have 
Carob s can be imported at a much less to Leeds, Bradford, "A Otley, the he of t = doy Bi 
than oe 2. rig they seem to have been bought | district ; and in consideratio of fi Etl 
at Ciren di 
stant but seven miles fi om „Leeds, the heavy o ooe of 
they have united ittothe active eimai of the north. And 
SAOI airar 
[The following is extracted from a report on the drainage of a 
kin yë E Pekha akn so long ago x ise by J. fpa ile 
Denton, E! sq. It describes an instani 
—namely the use of yf sin water. 
I wave been ove env bove EOS ty in Gaai ras 
pecia npon its capability “of drainage, and upon 
advantage its surface may possess for the ‘collection. ‘of 
the drainage 
rofitabl 
a 
ices g to the 
are, nar upwards of 209 t 
his persed ee 
and best claret soils had never been 
J. Bailey Denton, Q ay "8 Inn, London, Feb. 16, edd 
ce in which ee tor ONE HUNDRED AND NINE TONS, TEN CWT 
OF MANGEL WURZEL PER ACRE, 
ociety al Rochelle lately inserted 
— Ser Auguste 
too have our part to play ; we will search the tropi cs; 
The Panicums, 
cover our Sade, pe I 
making some interesting 
xceed our underwood in height. 
ji and Echinops will co 
nn not be long, I hope, in 
ommunications upon the subject.” 
de Prater = eee T 
0| ANSWERS TO PETENTE QUESTIONS, 
By Mr, Henry COX EEE 
(Co ontini shake. P. 
Describe as concisely as amet can the culture of Sainfoin and 
Trifolium pvoranee! amog forage crops—of the Carrot 
and Potato among r rops—of the Bean and of the Oat 
o crop. 
N, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 
t reque: 
eaaa 
surface, with | 
ae and whic a 
re 
t, having only one small] “I fee. 
property, es workout within ts boundary (the: here boasts 
of which is near] are). The surface is bay mage 
the strata from 
a2: 
ie 
wh 
remarkable ; the heavy clay alte n the su 
with a baly rubble, and sompaa "together four-fifths st. 
of the estate, The ge 
farms are divided into unnecessarily small inclosures, | Pla 
averaging in size 5 acres, and the imines though 
cupy a a lar: arger does 
for the most part judi ciously sa fe 
i estimate the quantity | of la Pari and r 
and th: at a are 
about “100 acres soe that quantity oe ees 
and th 
as peat at 120 or 130 acres, we shall ag to 
ate nin = about 300 acres, Then as to fall of | 
surface, I find there is an area of al 
has an SE a favourable to the concentration of its 
surface and s spring waters, but owing to the frequent 
ce 
He the 
propositions, a 
s the 
of the 
ae however recone mae 
nee 
leaves ss not be stripped off. 
e up till the end of November, when cee 
ae or À the ae 
2d 
oe nae 
the Soucet 
pA +} 
| Sain nfoin ns Eei but very little culture, meia 
ent . de oe asparin was accordingly 
The 
ine 
sx 
ve 
a differe 
_| again agar respecting his previous assertion. 
follow me his reply :— 
si the ane Binet, that the 
so hat sted. 
ariied 1r 
be drilled a young Barley or Wheat plant in Mc 
month of “Apri, at the rate of 3 hha per acre, 
te] 
distru: 
Trefoil with the seed, in order to et 
ln foll Se z ao not consider 
ita good “pra tice. Sainfoin is a est two years 
after sowing, 1 al what we pre in bull ngina first on by 
8th. Tr 
e of g 
in the imate, and in the jii at of the 
il, Fro 1000 s 
q 
square 
he growth of Trefoil, we shou ld Jose the secon nd by the 
Sainfoin n. ti 
a the alien of adhesive oes 3 $ is best at home 
roc ky o r cale areous soils ; a very excellent 
and v 
te to my 
ined 27 tons, 74 Pah but to B can afford to be without it, E vate it. is allowed 
iti 1 | to stay a 
gain p e it i in perfection. —Trifolium 
tt 
e Ini 
h. ai oe a very ap Wheat stubble 
e autumn, In fay 
1 t 
in the 
mayer iiano it produces an early 
ugs go, 
hich we give in full. 
en enters into some details relative to t 
“lst. The Phe 
ant to room A ese bas oot 
h g 
sore ro! 
Carr ot, too, is best at hi 
one we aed ut with, its natural soil errs a deep rich 
ndy loa 
f M 1, 
of root an 
ate 
r size. 
=a 
iage 
aon np 
o as the Carrot, aila" I soil 
er acre over the land a abont 
tion of tid a and an i m manu 
I know of so fo wd i nAn 
sow bro adeast 4 
d 
q 
- 
and sudd to th 
Bilsvorubtie, l doubt if I ye Coe aaah ea 
ptt 
ung, 
ws door war 
an acre. 
3 99A 
9 y} Cal 
e seed was sown on a hotbed, under e giest, | 
the seed should eg ‘th 
rather pate sand the first week i in “April, P aed 
rainthat falls upon it, oe thereby militate nee fous the fase in 
wi a prof = sowing 
then 
ep onoi ie ug iaaa a ai a lus- | e: 
Artian et den sudden iohango:of -apil mah thotapot 
which he brought it to proo! AARAA 
fields through which the main | have projected 
d of Nov 
nd 
upon | circle every 15 
six „more than tl 
e Mangel 
SHa Tant 
re when others sow the 
is essential to success. 
nine months’ growth when I 
em as th 
if put in ith iy 
. re eae oaii 
s, they had i LS Aes that peo or 
Wurzel 
at the 
ng rs 
sary that the ground 
ore aces reie rore drilling. A sai a Radin 
ual would be well drilled with the would 
| Er 
e upper par Ay 
r Town 
yo ers, ‘the size of the sae was more = ea 
Wurzel do not 
eir proximity, as a as ors res t. 
tw: 
+ one 
a4 first hoein 
g 
doubled. | tedious. —There is which there e ia 
C., 
ia tanding 
na 
"5th. Baia | but it will yield jens pret in strong clay, sane, 
arth. I 
no crop 
ee lekka a discussion tian the pera 
commodating and more rk for 
ket the Ca rrot i its best hom 
TE Tg 
S 
oil ; in "it 
the whole alike, he n w d. The drains s indispensable with us. EES having pre- [or og ear f it is to be grown on the two latter 
were cut southward down the land, equ'distant, but | vented me from irrigating in-the two last sig am | descriptions of soil tout it — be —— in — 
instead of conducting an water by a receiving drain produce in them has not ane the figu r November, that is, if the bog h ave been dered 
into the field-side h, he oles tobe dug in| I have stated to you < however must be quite dry by drainage, but i t p 
the porous soil, into which he collected a quantity of take en not to give water excess, otherwise the tions of soil, then March and A time to 
and rubble, and then all will be apt to become one 6th. Hoeing| plant them. If planted ona tony seale the double- 
wet land. to empty- or Tena poe into them, so that in| is necessary after irrigation, for en the water mould broad plough may open the drills in ja the same 
wing nn they overflowed and d th =, st rene ie Br Ritin sun and wind, the surface | manner as for receiving the dung. For Swedes Mos 
till? he said, poe not „long before the gi y 
Shale had "altered itself; Ta the earth.” rare nthe chert vered by the foliage, and and by splitting th es they are covered ; Pes may 
[Mr. Denton then goes into details upon the after the third hong! it is s diffen lt to give a fourth ; | be h ed the re a and earthed uj ae n with 
of supply, and the direction of carrying channels nels but neither sun nor wind can then dry the roots ; and | the dou sia plough, and when ripe m: be dug 
which the drainage and sprin; e water of the estate do ubtless, under the shade of the leaves, combinat: ither 
might be conveyed to the which accelerate the vegetation of | should b stored in lon w heaps to pre 
power mill. ] the plant. Mangel Wurzel plants which are brought from iako ng, and S go aai plan is to cover p vit 
Thus several small springs at the north-west between it and th 
of the estate, which have y in the 
would be made o the main, b 
forh 
the stem when it commences to run, the root then | Potatoes. 
‘the soil without allowing straw 
beet Bor le have said, to not ct your 
so) 
driest seaso eason, a, se 
it is right I should loi that the contour oi 
duces me to think that 
£ : 
were an effective arian stopped. ath. 
gens 
gs 
Ss 
© 
B 
por 
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24 
bA 
ae 
8 
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be consi err November the 
the quantity of water each sp: ber i 
water as soon as emi 
again NB 
eee 
absorbed b 
now retai Sug “A the clay lands, to be 
by a Sadara Much, very much, is| “Ifthe pla 
A the sandy analy subsoil ; much is carried | heat and mois 
the ‘peat. The water aie by the first would b y J 
Do not ta 
weight of 
obtain a a DETA 
abundance ol 
nts have 
ture, Bea 
In Octo 
ie growt wih of t e plant is | prevalent I 
ke ber the roots till ‘November 
uld | when bearer has wholly ceased. 
the roots is double dif 
like that in question, a | 
anure, irrigation, early | s 
tie, and a well- stirred soil are a Sin 
months of vege 
etation 
me eat agents of naghaitioe, 
3 if rma. rad clouded sky renders | the 
| before, and = 
oae rows 0 
are A serae in March, and 
Piket 34 
collected by 
which is anod by the second would be intercepted ;| 
that e off by the third by division would be =| extraoräinary 
‘the rain as it falls, 
een those which presenta porous surface an 
as mg oy concentrated and 
‘to the point selected ; but 
certainly not the 
Saint-Gi 
grown which weighed 132 
5 oean framan manden 100 tons ł and can we not | 
ultimatum. 
les, 
urze! grea 
How many of such | recommendation in 
Pre 
The Apam which I attained, and which | 
to the Central Society of me Seine 
The of the Paean dies off about about August or 
parm allowing plenty of time for the Turnip. © 
swell, 
n the 
spring 3 and if some of the Potatoes 
the roots of the Turnips 
tural Society 
ri: Ayi d dry and give plenty of 
