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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Ocroprr 25, 1856. 
Norwvou vast masses of the heaviest clays have been Brought fi £34 10 5, | the work was do n a manner superio what it 
raised within the few last oe and burned to aj 1856. taal Mr. Watiey’s ed Wheat, “produced | was to-day, for to-day they began to slough flee 
Gra bri ck Thi terial ki in itsel go sejr E E T 26, 1856, for 16 13 a | but when I went I got the plough set a little deeper, 
ti herefore SEN and you saw what it has done. It was put down this 
wh pleasure grounds of dó he ape tal 51 3 8 morning i eld of about five and-a-half acres, and 
Paneer hs pres out de foundations and substrata of Divided by three that gives . a ee DT p'oughed about five acres, but I think it is 
all the walks were made with burnt cl pon whic If you call it E acres it makes per acre ... ‘a ø 8 good as six, for six might have been done in 
the coating of Rina! peal was supe: . Hence, n if 81. the same time, They burnt seven of 1, 
a weed has been the present time. The Piat manure or expense, except for tiekti. the and the Pris ear as possible, s r an 
Norwood clays are noted a their great d and tallow Ardea field been larger and lon it 
y ; and therefore roads of approach have | it, and a donkey to rit), for which the straw and off- | would tise reduced the price, and Binge it Pud 
, and Moar to be veri by a similar process corn ms, F ag i yeu "do well. My man says "i do not have been 14d. acre, The rea that every 
We have thus learned some val it wo a large way) I have no land that | stoppage ia” p the c avers n of coal. I 
formation of ie Palace ana its vicinity ; and now are pays better, can form no exact estimate of the expense of repairs, 
ht that by burning till the iron of a clay iás “hee Mr. W. Hutley.—How long has the land been in P I gstimato them at ls. 6d. That would rag the 
fro! to 2s. 10d. Whether my estimate r and 
m a pale, drab-coloured protoxide int 
a full red peroxide, the clay tad ecitirely lost its dele- 
conte thers which 
Grass? 
sident.—Mr, Hutley always asks me that ques- | ten 
On this littl 
of w 
ar is = ht I must leave, but I should think it “woul 
edi 
not e . 
00 acres, the sum I have stated would give 
l to repair it, and I think th 
Pre: 
terious qualities, and ac render it $ 
not only innoxious, bu n t one of the best melio rators of tion ; I do not t know why. fear tee stare of Wheat 
heavy land th vered by g ir 
Great opment is, however, equred in in making u use a of l6 i 7 yout without manure, 
a inches deep, costing lss lld. per score of rods 
a material utter! erly i inert ; n leads to running Siiaknieen: 
che Derbyshire 
mate ; Ido notas yet see the slightest wear. 
Mr. Dixon, on the Potato crop, said : Within the MA | 
iS grededs : etter before efore-mentioned i ap first | th three or four ites letters eaten appeared i Aad = imes 
8 feet wide and about 3 pny deep 5 i in this I throw cs e a aid he had a m of |e 
to tl ti “ania, and that system 
round level, and pl d, was to pean “large miri Another clergym 
“aid e (ae oriy INIA SeA äng sase the | Said his system was directly the contrary, and the 
fe planted small sets. Now, it so happened that, without | 
Ee rang die are Tet cae taken ing aw: f th let! I have in my own m a| 
aithe. S lig ht the fire, and when this is hoes 
ews Wile i is döva up with pi aroge pta 
pr Ba which came Jast out of the trench 
this 
r test ted the experiment of planting large Potatoes | 
P, m O, 
whole, 
ao ta 
reas: he 
coal and the w 
po Eat eg 
— Mr. C 
wear and tear brings it to Dds, Od. a 
There is the expense of taking it oe 
an rump: I think the 2s. 10d. would 
a ne ‘alll, I am n I sh 
2s. 10d; but that is my present estimate. ay 
see the plong gh I like it better, and I think ak thing 
will in time become as easy to manage as a W cel- 
barrow, nal worthy | the attention of all who have land 
suita 
can hard 
an acre for horse labour 
tains any neta matter. As the fire sii increases 
the momy conti, 
Pait “wy 
and maintaining a highly fertilising Seeya 
previously been little better than s 
u Ny 
1854, an ol —_ 
was 
exactly a 
e field was, in the summe 
| 
= | 
mok 
My idea i is a it costs you oak 
to plough w and for 
| advan tage in this respe 
at is another advantage, for if a man Keeps í teams of 
0 horses he must employ them 240 days in the ia 
of horses plough more og 
er 
manure, a or Peto EAS weighed, 
an average, half a pound cael and w were 
ard 
f the form 
is decide 
ly the disease to ‘the extent of l bushel in 20. The 
. arta 
p plough m 
a day, and he must plough early all the yea: 
| bat ty steam E: may have all your land aara 
in the summe: vould be a saving as against 
horsefiesh, but er ye t 
deeper euhivaiio on 
lou ghed 7 7 inches easily with four shares, Mr. 
neath ft, so that it shall be all one. Ido not think he 
t, for I think it would be too cum- 
bersome, and he will find it more trouble to move it than 
to move two. My men can ae the p 
field i hours, and that is not 
j think a | 12- horse e h wheels 
ould be 
a gre reat time. 
| fitted Pete 
So rs ho 
him some idea of the 
e 
T lo ower 7 uppe 
ti 
y upwards o 20 per ce cent. My crop last year, 
tion of an 
which I 
od o 
he ear I di 
eld i y the eden me ire or "25 inches, — ra 
ermost ; nothing mo 
re 
i 
e peop 
ar a splendid Hereford ox held his 
levee, for few Aae who gid not pay him a visit, and 
he was worthy of it from hi oe and breed. 
Smee koi computed at 160 
and 6 boys at work, the prize of 5/. offered vie ue 
open 
anu 
applie wt, of guano, l4 cwt. of salt | iow acre, 
pee over es sets a the Ki were covered up. 
The Potatoes came Shi me in fine condition, be 
able, neues large all, and were planted whole, 
at at the rate of shout. 26 sent on wn acre. 
ure that I know of for tatoes, and 
mon monly mit is po and ‘ait This year I Penh | te 
‘a as g enough without ye , and lw 
probably mistaken, , Some years ago I ook u up foma a 
1 
bushe! weigh 
upo on j beli 
acres, was 2916. bushels, which, at 40 a A he the | 
ons per ri 
pike p! ited wer 
-| some of 
ewe str: 
ing size- | 
The best | we 
which I | j 
APA iE? t 
any feld, would be very advantageous. 
ieve that p s railwa: <3 to be a most valuable in- 
Then as t reaping machines— mi Bo 
chased one es se tried at Chelmsford. The ciety, 
fused to allow one of these ssiaitiions 
o he taniri till it had aldiinone a further trial. The 
e wou ert him 
‘or me, a w 
neighbourhood, and I shoul 
August. Idid not get h Ti gre a a ‘oe Jost 
the best time of h At I 
was too feints erso Sii 
tae, 
ned, and Iw o the 
trial ‘of these apasa = Mn Fis her Hobbs’, , wliere I 
a 
ear 
Be copies 
ot bogi harvest so soon 
as could 
ita eae Ei to the skill of the whole 
nA show of 
ing 65 lbs,’ I had of Wheat on Jand ai = 
tre double dug, miro on aaeh I had increased c 
or the Jast two years; it was strong and laid, but i 
bya 
I shall an have the most valu able week in die year to 
to| io 
phere. I cultivate a a geod d eal o of my Jand se 
ouble digging, wpe m ir is mam sae: by it. 
iani is the w ing our best land by Grepo 
tragis 
, then 
bind it, edi teh it = > of he zà ja mei uaii it at 
_ The ese two reapers, with t the carriages, cost 621. ; jwe 
will work one of them from morning till night, ile 
cultivati 
beng the which i z } 8 
eo 
others. The next 
Wheat on which, as I sta ted last year, 
he | we ve bring i it up in ‘this w way. 
Sib to the steam-plough, that! 
ise at Chelmsford, for I 
nich 1s never 
My idea was, 
three are required for some o seated 
t I have to refer to 
fhe ode 
anufacturers to one, 
that a plough of ‘that Kind might be ma ade to plough th 
ure goes in yan 4 ed 
3 
and I can give youa statement ory I drew out this 
hag 
a ‘of the field. Directly I Jaid my eyes on that at 
bandry before 
I can 
morning. I do not know in 
mixed up with that of hey felda Dat o on n tls plan 1 ‘I 
have had it i 2 
RE 
The 3 
‘The ‘balf, i. e„ one acre Wheat, and the inter- 
_ vals: the was 24 qrs, 
: 1853. 
1854. -other half trenched, Kissingland, pro- 
Sold 
le 
Chelmsford, I saw it was the very thing, and I lost no 
Thus 
seed ; every ie vegetates en at the same time 5 
the v very moment ne come et there is food for them 
lime, which I use, “vs : leave 
in giving an order for one, which 
time 
a two months Te 
engine, work it es te 
f Ran 
found that iie 
Bang 
expect 
I received it Jast Monday 1 fort- 
Tuesday. Iw my 
would 
whieh i 1 is one of six-horse power, was 
e i fans of uss, = batar Bie ae re Bi oem ni in 
ae then 
you to judge pret my lence grow when they 
On 50 acres of Mangel I hav Poaiibtly à a rod 
ill, th 
bts put in Swedes with 
a day. 
phos- 
Mr. Dixon.—Mr. Cru w 
sa being extremel dry, 
= hav no difieuliy i in ariliog six acres in 
it one and a half | 
` dneed 5 qrs. 5 bushels. October 6, 1854, 
Re ii weld: ee ae pa 
aas Red Sire Wheat, blighted, produced 
A es Sold Seprember 21, 1855, 
| the fate fò ni 
ing ae time for $ stoppages from be mis ng E think we 
Carry forward 00. L ETO 5 
ear mate the working ti 0 hours a d 
for 1 Cdayic: Up te is aiie eci jte th nión Wi 
se bad it 14 apa and dednet- 
ale ry part 
and | these cro’ 
Py wit 
phate of Time > the sere, and on a perfect jek nt. 
believe the implement is a ost im ape one in 
of the kingdo 
de kingdom in the eultivation of 
