OCTOBER 4, 1856.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZE) 
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trial to, and a more minute inspection of, the imple- | 
ments and paoho for which prizes were offered. | 
That to which the i makers are 
soil by chalk, lime, or marl, it being never mjet © 
fingers and toes like the Sw. ede, which renders 
Pad highly valuable to those who cannot grow the 
eya ugh want of chalk, lime, or marl, which is 
tena 
expe nsi ve operatio on for = nt farmer. | t 
dì 
th ree minutes |o 
e, s 
for a threshing-machine, two or three EA Fe a 
plough, and 20 it for a scarifier; and so on 
e | tio 
in the st eine of cultiva- 
farms 
they n 
hundre 
so live, how might they ‘live, what might might 
Pa a were e Paes broug! oe a ped 
ee deen 
wail aTa dotted pists 
dful ; 
he land would ahoi ae perks good. farm of a 
d acres here and there would yd answer the 
ne 
crops, b yield M N 
3 
we 
would 
the 
wi ill na ‘ove on rate as 
manure as the Swede would require, you would raise 
ae sin more Ma ngel Wurzel, that is_ to say, if your 
not be suitable to the extent ba their holdings 
smaller one would not p t. I 
be e gla ad to u nde! rtake 
and a 
ay for should 
such one 5 E Bave the heart for 
t I have 
crop of Taaa, &e., as the Swede, but r ind 
will n 
through the bere le 
capi ital, Would any one make up this defi sae 
pel l join me in the cd with thig op 5007. Fong suffice for 
It is plain that the 'classifioation of STS aa foe give more than one ° ploughing. It may k is 
by which one division o niy whole serie s fl y confi aia be cleared. 
tried each year, is a ae: fe ement on to seed so much a: id g > 10 per cent. as the minimum of his 
system which has hitherto ‘nae aes Atoll, and sown = 3 pins ‘being ‘able to cultivate them ‘alter aid F TM oen, Sadly Oaie 
l Of hei be ecr income o my own. odiff, Scrably, Cown 
adeq _ Srez i - neon oe AIO This root will also keep i e of perfection for m an. n j 
facturer many a pate is highly ft wa winter food for .S. By Mr. Butt’s census of 1835 the average value 
have gained tiise ita crac in the ar range- | cattle, ‘possessing more nourishment than the Swede. | of produc in Great Britain per acre piai to 
Ei lt whi n Ireland was ony Ql. 9s. Is 
at Chelmsford, w here a portion only of the imple- |t r Chri p ? I believe the relative 
ments were submitted to examination dint rom 
E filers of the ee ed ths late pt of the 
people, I should think it had rather deteri __The 
iorated. 
Home Correspondence. 
Boydell’s Steam. a —I think “ W. B.” 
nts ar 
tion trustworthy in proportion to the greater time | but it has been discovered that pe cause of its not 
and attention which were thus secured for it. Sojagreeing with cattle did not arise with the roots 
far frm their tomers having any reason, to | but in the mode of appieno By giving with t 
pariso with Mr da i ome ra. which possesses binding constituents to 
n this movement the se serine ee relaxing effect produced by the Man i +, 
AA s, they have every aada dea. adi then ‘the tradi feeding Mo ys this root will be obtained 
the result to which i sle d. Spi xd of by son 4 Pigs ood crop to c culti- 
Messrs. Howarp a “The new gerra TERR e e, r ensiv 
Ghe-caimet dut ireje seppi ihe 
at 
heel 1 when he says, ng nthe 
of ¢ main success 
groun and that “the aoe of the top of the 
sitar is Sia on of bs bottom,” 
e meeting at and the or ant of eee depends ; 3 will it Bs ew be attended The fulerum of a 
regularity with which the trials were conducted | with succe 285 to ete the rotation of our root crop’? | wheel is the axle, and the velocity of the circumference 
ost be ge y gh z oe cig So strong m that tach hange is wanted be the of a wheel is precisely the same at m anat the 
r meetings. e thi at a l it may be the |top, or er part of its circumference, [This is 
witnessed the trials at Chelmsford Ha £ oye been | means of arousing the attention ee n : angul 7 l ith movement 
convinced the new arrangem b hich may be | forwards—unless the it is plain that wher 
improvement, and worthy the ath ne other bene fe alt agricultural communi y. John J. E.|rolling over the it is always stationa 
icultural societies. It may be argued that other | | Robes, Bursledon, Southampton at the point contact. ] is no wite 
societies cannot afford the expense of the necessary N nia gene TREE craft in r, and if “ W. B.” will assist Mr. 
i : . | INFLUENCE OF EXAMPLE ON IRISH | Boydell in experiment, it may benefit 
sd (Pe nor the time and cost of lengthened | s t % 
AGRICULTURE. both, Let them anh pos ro and ad it from 
trials. I » they ha ad better not offer pri cg or haf Fi co tha 4 
in such ane worth |. TT is really reviving, in an ill-cultivated and se he frame of a four tit hangs 
: hansa district, to hear the mieis, e the remarks, “the plum! kgs the Stata er tthe ch: move the 
ng OE are eee carriage forward 6 inches, and they LF find that the 
| a if top of th de, an the 
FAILURE OF THE SWEDE CRO ne A All non to admire it and express wonder | bottom | heel 6 inch other side of the 
Tue i „injury sustained by the Swede crop zan b ; the oe ie Their 1, and it is ut 
Fexiously felt, t greater this ye atification is in excese, c jin ble it e a Mr. Boydell, at p. ae ig 
ny past seasons. 
p it as though it were his own. | 
a pulley 132 feet per minute. This is 350500 Ihe. 
1 foot per minute, or exactly 16- horse po 
w, mis is ¢ clear that no age pg nation of 
and 
oy 3: E fi di poh vi able, d gu 1 ; 
ie ausing l y anc m iby y cases à |a apt rs 7%. every y eget os: Be P y Now 
droug i e, is safe ; ; the feeling ‘prevail an gin 
the les er! eaving npr any ‘signs of Aa ati I | much Iabou and so successful was it would be 
am a speakin g “of the some variety, thoug h the cruel t rob it, it would be on to spoil i it; the 
bo will apply the 
namometer and ascertain the stra fg age 
the p ba as at Hounslow he will find the loss entailed 
all are rowed 
better. 
sent ted itself was the Black fie aise though { 
h ad, 
its row 
3 
i But he will add. to 
s, for 
ar and the “taste, little as it is, 
phrase can ps ar think, | 
| to ghee steam feria og: and ascertain the [power required 
wever, nna disappeared v wheels being 
he plants, leaving the tnt almost in a state of | u — hands St been created, f th gine. 
nakedness. This grub gnaws the roots of the Swede, I anything co maa Bi better for the coming 5 prosperity | nes wi F then see m naar hb the sag He oes mace 
have not as yet noticed it in the com Turnip, but it | of the c the spirit A she this garden is in using such a LA ae for steam ploughing. I think 
has sadly destroyed the Carrots in the same manner as regari ani The farming of the er of this garden | “G. P. S»? makes an error when he states—“ The 
Swede. Seeing the many evils to which thi t power o: is me: | by and is 
has been exposed this season, th h tati “ *tis he only ae how to manage equal to the friction or bite on the ground of its driving 
wondered at, and our only way t il are the es heels ; ve added “ power 
finding a substitute. al ee ‘expressions of all w o pass along or ae to gaz required to move the engine itself,” PRRP friction 
Many persons advocate the growth of Potatoes, as Aan My too sanguine in my of the Sik wheels on the nd varies the 
they are a pag Paying crop I only requires a ‘and pane a nt to nature of the und and the weight of the engine 5 
aclean ae for but tl y The y 
not generally bats s food for live stock ; e practice is what we meats ro to leave no tive power, I am afraid this is 
it is uncertain eror e liable to disease. | institute uy nine- esee cur farmers. The only y vege- early the case wih Mr, P Boydel’s enging that the 
To Biko. a good crop of Potatoes we require a ve ery | table save the eterni al Potato—which, as the s ore crop greater part Fi the power produced in the boiler is used 
equal te — wh moye the maehine and it never can be an econo- 
uncertain clim: Far are generally b l means of steam ploughing. R. S. N, Gateshead- 
more alive to tho real tray Si he Mangel Wurzel, it is the ng ets rs only fruit sie ‘Blackberry, ‘the raed On- P 
being more extensively cultivated, and is this r and Poor Rates.—Being a consta: er of 
looking well considerin ng the Mogi eather = have had. | a little Turnip, Clover, pEr Vetch es, with possil bly here | your Paper and a t farmer in England, I ha 
f writing abe present subject is and ther fa salapi only to say such things be, saves been expecting an answer to Mr. 1 y e 
to show ihat the Mangel Wur zel root ar made a urzel. a ng of the country generally. On | tion fo t j“ in | the price 
good substitute for the Swedish Turnip, which is the ag th ks a of Potatoes is | of xr is regulated by the price of bread. This 
by year becoming which | followed by successive cro f Oats ng ue the assertion is utterly unfounded, and were he in my position 
naa S continuously grown this root, for we see a pro- | fertility o will | Mr. oyle would soon 
reanty of this root, not “to k of the “numerous 
nd | pi 
e Nature gives, 
ermit ; ; and then these left i in the full possession "ot The 
that Jabour, hegre hens he else, is only regulated by the 
soil, 
is enc by “the fertilisers that kind and or 
ly and miee. In your last 
le compares the carrying out of 
praising 
week’ k's Paper Mr. ML. Doy 
T } 
more a age ry and 
ps. h WwW firs! 
Presents itse lf to our notice, and I wili now speak of the |t 
advant: 
yeoman 
in the aon of landlords residences 5 the eastern 
, the “(by very far) 
Firstly, our climate is particularly advantageous to 
its growth, as it flourishes without i nterruption in a 
larger proportion of the country, say ni nine-tenths, 
yet, such is the ferti 
Jei smalks or e Jaser holdings, is under = execrable | 
ans; lity of the : 
at a withstands a long drought better than ar any 
b 
oil 
ha h 
other roo t erop, t itself 
ing moisture trom the atmosphere. Then, again, it is 
hoat injured by the agent which infest the Swede 
more rete tly than 
wikis iene grab, 
jra an occasion: 
that the improvident sho 
rates keep such mreti) persons 
| it then een E which one-half of the land 
jis in an ae 
e root after they ai sr a nic ig size. 
of thet 
‘the rest producing but indifferent crops, the holders of 
to private charity. As Mr. Martin Doyle shows such 
