NOVEMBER 22, 1856.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 779 
Some years th see ser 
the ence broad and ake, he roa | Bea maa Aluka Clover in groning wall Fare meet oar 
ese gent pue element i table lif With mod oe 
indifferent, the farm buildings and homesteads bad and for laying land ape rm: a paan that peesrairsed Joz ipp ied is manure and peter era 
ak gph H particularly for the present improved A F ssa a penaa a E n he plant in suitable This the system of pipeage enables 
e ie Tag aad Se sioe tafordshire. He Reg ie ap tart sigma et E aee ect Secnrdanes wit saaan nami pragad = 
SA ondorik ring on the Potteries, S, but is fairly | rim this year for t culti ost farm. This farm | °PPlied to grain crops in such a country as France, whereas here 
vil is that very disagreeable district. | has been entirely acid. eer buildings at the krai e ty magr ig egy N it is accompanied 
The village is about two mi = 
ag wo miles west of Newcastle, and hehe The new fences are now well eA which eae ith the time at Wheat crop was ripening, cape 
three miles east of Madeley station, 
Ps r y would have been 100 bushels the Scotch 14 Engl or 
is Perang undulated ma imka When drained oe cul upwards ‘of 85 hectolitres the hectare) peter et tense be 
an med it is excellent razing land, and with ality of the nn aE Tl bea a ecg pam rhino field that did not lodge, but on it the 
Deane roota tae crops Wheat, Oals, Bacley, Swedes are the sian the most Cha pi and “ie hectolitres). ‘This hi ye e mya ri sae 4 be 
Th 3 4 > clea inest crop T have seen this wy penaoa attributed to the thorough admixture with the soil of the 
e gardens and pleasure grounds around the Hall j Hebad Gece Oe PARA T n various manures harg had aae aian aes eng aps 
sa at rr ra beautifully laid out. The | this er erop. Th ere are two very j aas po the ete penas oe pipes, er at Terg bait the coat cost 7 my formerly, 2 as the 
ass ers, plants, shrubs, and trees, are ex- stead, , underground pipes laid, with all other necessary miinaa onig hanst by thoes who Bavepipen”. (1 Snt Bae 
eedingly numerous and we rranged ye duci patiia : ths huid supply of manure must be in proportion to your command of 
effect. My favourite flowering shrub ueen of Whether this be a rt Je speculati tt manure, On thie 5 oprema oe gw ert pancreas oi aining 
o . i ation or not, from n this ve to observe that whatsoever may be the rem 
ote (pis À p is cultivated in the eA per- myw practice, and from want | Tisk in England in the cultivation of Cereals water this method, 
beautiful ei atest profusion, cost than I have hitherto seen, I amr S yS a na be pir tsinony ree 
utiful walks and drives in the gardens and pleasure- | am faris to nei As to all a — eaaa aiana nara pga Eraras n 
Gr o mongst rocks | d trees, the former clothed i d on cultivation I a agin ili pie bestara sey Pee, bet paagi feat ehit 
i erns, Mosses, Lichens, and other rock plants, | least doubt of a proper remunerative return, It is very | CUS me that he has had as much grown on a farm belonging to 
either natural or planted, and the foliage of the trees | clear that Mr. Todd, Sie e simdeingiede. Jain at. him in Scotland, as a feat. In this feat of Mr. Telfer. he used, 
very healthy and beautiful, particularly the Oaks. To|ness, Mr. Stanier has ver nating joo work = x lameness ger eo pi Maana aa FROT ioe 
: . t Ork uan is vV: 
e and inspect the gardens thoroughly would require | which he has to pay alanis Mr. Peake, of Bradwell new implement for ita distribution in solution as iiqaiiod 
a man a whole day. 1 ki never in any other gentle Hall, w E a AA a pfen ? manure; but in other farms, which I think the most important 
man’s garden where ry part was so well | „gai i eras, prs F X cold, paide > examples, 40 and 45 bushels or heetolitres are given without any 
the tf pero so ni both in yee open grou d and | stubborn clay land rea ea aia may be PiE Pr urina aa manres o A S A E ane 
in the forcin ing ses. The old Hall, ban nice 7 Ana E N ish an example of 
taken down and a new Je eh ilt Piy, pren kA Shama Aiokh jator Ar eens ae a practical rs attendant on the minara; An S ake ab- 
I ik a th e built (not yet fivished),| property, Mr. Henry Ralston, Honeywell, near Keele, | stract or “ geo | reasoners” in political economy, who have 
el é old one best ; Ping but substantially | is commencing i earnest, Thisis his first season, cates sistences assumed as a present general 
and his green crops d correctly managed. te condition of a less and I m bei 
tte squire—an Foci man—is true English gen- | He won the itd prize ie Swedes and re fires fo oma penang Srp aage lire pe pee trary Oa 
Eis tans m res id oves his bara his s gardens, | Mangels, In my opinion he made a mistake in letting | obtained from inferior soils as from superior ones; verifying 
Toni S, s neig ours, bette: too aripa before cutting, by which he lent the views of the great vegetable physiologist De Candolle, 
ndon. Ei soul be well if more pment gentlemen | far more than the seed, besides being thrown into who "predicted that the future of agriculture would depend 
followed his mple g n n arrangements for giving to plants food and water or 
weather. Mr. po ean am Mountford, of the Snyde pao in | moisture at the same time. The -2m of Mr, Telfer’s farm is a 
d Mr. 
Bi, who I believe is from the West of Sec 
r. Thomson, his presen Keele, » has aona the cultivation of his farm and | C°™mon sea sand. It is thus descr ay Mr. By civ in his 
from the blow 
report, as “an old enclosure 
Unet ia dzecton the estate has undergone, andi | a ono eee 
tho: going ar hand. pa t improvements, by | Sorel ceo he with the land, The mieie ae the | great as that exhibited by the richest specimens of fertility, I 
pds ade ems the land, making exchanges so nd their Kooy Shak:tmiiieommavia. Sn ihis andea nhaiig janpi anne 
ake tbe farms more co opening water- | landlord at the head. They have ann yielded he avy crops ‘Wheat; great 
Plas. draining the ditches, and stocking up old! stock, implements, roots and seeds, wi re whee Feat een ae ian tte — 
ences and p: ting new ae where required ; tk d lik Enolich sand soil, which the severe frosts of the winter have not made- 
impro oving the size and sha ape of the fields, and in- | men finish with a a good dinner and wine. Mr. Jose oseph aa Wilmot, an eminent agriculturist, who has had under his 
creasing the and reducing | Stoekton, of Neweastle, is org retary to the elub, a mosnagement th estates of tho Duke of Newcastle and several of 
the annual expense of keeping up the old fences and of fill with credit. W. Rothwell, the be largest landod p rs—has on a farm near Congleton, im 
cultivating small crooked fields. New roads are made Haydock Park Tain near Warrington. š Ches! fies, inaa fiot i mai enara an a as thbatof 
y more convenient occupation of 3 Mr.Telfer, and excepting the W heaterop and the Italian Rye-grass 
the and belda N j me pera pete oe lity, jesena ee 
farms. y! manures whatsoever. on peaty sand he 
homesteads are erected, mo KEFR apted for the Benity MR. on ADWICK | gets a Cabbage weighing 30 Ibs. on every superficial yard, or 
system of farming and of feeding stock. There are few oe priania age we rb ihe eran pine be: aio Ea 
e i were braies je for new culture from their 
es A m, of Stafford where greater im- | PROGRESS AND COMPARATIVE POSITION OF AGRI. | Poverty. Mr. Wilma's outla fee; Statoing. this, had 
ements have been made in the buildings, farms, and| CULTURE IN ENGLAND AND ON THE CONTINENT, |®bout 5l. per acre and abont 24. 10s. for the distributing 
pen do not forget the labouree cad hie Saari, that lees (Conia o yian E a a tion e oe OAE 
o not forget the labourer and his famil The view of the im ovement hich I have deseri separ SaaS 
to Which tha Lat ib era ily, that class | P aha the Rote oe w ens “a 99 a gegen avai ready | earthenware is dear, The sandy peat den was valued at 
i h ole world is indebted for its food, its | by the application of capital a 4 yw practicable, | 15s, per acre Acero after the improvement it was valued as 
drink, clothing, and shelter ; for what would the land be | auction per appear at the and machin te. hol ap worth from 40s. to 45s. per annum. The cost of iron finery 
worth, or how could welive without workers? He takes care hopes where the farms are small, and the owners poor. But diteibating ap apparat ae aeii pi aasa ee ae 
that the labourers on his estate have comfortable cottages | 9» 8 n pay een and I invite particular scrutiny in a al ee ee E ee ee ibution, in: 
waa about to advance, the new system of high pia tieg | ng nee We a i tain BG gringa 
py e interest on the outlay, would be, if done by gravita~ 
and gardens. There is no village in ngland wh eam 
. ere the | will te eit nd more etoniioat applicable ot 
3 to the distr 
cottages are more comfortable, more convenient, more | petite culture alisi is commonly s s Mis siey srik = ie omy. giant r ‘ier pens, iso se yim Maie 
in better taste than in the vi j i È z wear aud ished min 
thing without Enos any one except his u 
the 
A om asto the best mode of doing it, Here ste deemed by them, to have diminished immediate advantages | 
the ` tage 
a is set a wg can be seen by any one. I) it actually brn = Bye Ss aa the removal of na- |as 
see that many of ‘the English land- calmer aiei weights to long distances, have led to 
oin: au te right direction as respec cts the suggestion from the aoe lee fans Dates system 
8 p: 
cottages, as Ï. as will eae. f to high cultivation on smaller farm 
whi 
The pe pi raa who carried out this new method of cultiva- cluding 7} per cent. for In the published minutes 
complete y the agricul ery Sire will find data as 
ties 
are requi; consu 
additional stock new buildings are necessary. The produc- hich the answer has been, that the labour of 
duct in this respect, this 3 
tion is Tan and the crops are continuous, or d t ready very high. —_ that new seater yo 
are calling meetings seu the sul aig and to ine cut more =n ntly, and at new times whe nite Pe pRa eN o man ae a rigger — ccna og as much gee 
ew nyde periei i distributed as by letween 100 and 200 
A 200 men, 
These p amir eee to the old farm managers, which | ting ma ure from vessels on lean back as in Switzerland; and 
that ita appears in England, that as much manure may by the im- 
roved means be distributed, at an expe me off ams 6d. to 1s, 
as is egea re for T on e aas tte m commonly 
in use in ao ye nen hen the term aaret e Y prann to the 
new method itetribution, I would observe that, as the chief 
vos ho of the General Board of Health na England, 
whilst I have protested against the retention of manures in ey 
in cabinets said to be inodoré or chemical mani. 
ari beast Tot Seat bda farms, in which one disadvan’ 
suggestion 
a practical SOR ition of kias ca Has which I have 
ven actically to extend the | 
this system operat pulations 
ere is another — at Keele who deserves | area of cultivation without extending the roads, the hedges, „or | any form, I have equally protested against the method A 
Th 
notice, — Mr. Jam Young, a tenant farm 
m the village, and ga I we comes from 
ed of Scotlan d. _ Great is due to him for 
superintendence, to i ase the gross production in a emcees i liquid manures cultivation near towns, or even to plain 
5i four-fold degree without are portionate increase of the fixed i 2 
cha oi tion. 
payiea ninie atebir or villages by the method of submer~ 
sion, which produced ague, a d diseases injurious 
to men and to cattle. wp found my ates confirmed 
Mr. Telfer, of Ayr, who has adopted the principle on a small 
raaa and for his | farm which has been the subject of much aabo of which | experience and by the latare Italy, which 
it is worthy, and who on 25 acres or 10 hectares of sandy land | in several parts prohibits the of water 
in his p 
8y, ndustry, an determination in ying = wa hong from its produce 47 cows a Be bull, assnred | meadows nearer than six milesto towns, But I am enabled 
his ig views in Sei me a better — of culti-| me 
vation in : neighbourhood surrounded by men whose | fi 
from his own accounts he can onstrate that a to object to this method, which will appear hereafter to be 
y ine team ine. 
Q r's yield in this 25 acres or 10 hectares are thus stated the economic ground of the expense of the works, which in Italy 
crops chase hi 
heavy Barley, Oats, Beans, ars produce from 47 was 30,660 dui 
adopting the he 2 the a superior ati, produci: aa butte: lg which, carried 400 miles will give it—in the intervals of horticultural culture of two 
y Morton, the editor gricultural Cyclopedia. | bave amounted in some instances with the works to as 
hi : 4 by Mr. ‘on, of the A 
p wef = the pine ror the 25 acres under irrigation there were eight and two-fifths i much as 407. per acre, and ie. England from 4l. to 307, per acre; 
a 
R 
= Idi ae f Cabb: 818 pe ‘hed, one-tenth of the quantity is better 
ielding 150 tons oi ee S, Or T acre; | | app 
anes, yielding: 10) & age = 
to the London market, ileus a first-class price there.” I | doses a week of manure highly diluted,—and one dose of 
ve these particulars because although the gross amount of | water in the interval, may easily test the capability of any soil. 
i tless a fact soundness ol 
eni 
30 acres this crop , ae t 
(sown on a bare fallow), which in September had a most | fips are too Sofi st S inetr. rri teirinn a | |of animal and vegetable matter indicate and 
the maraichère cui to whom | prese: 
mee of the causes of rasan and period ais disease, 
appearance, full of plants, of great variety, and | as they are termed at at Pari 
" i è | for tie rural districts all continuous offensive smells from, 
very luxuriant. The Alsike Clover seemed to grow | Ihave poen ral ob Saniat ier reomeepnne Ag a denote the loss of fertilising 
In answer 
well e gene: servations of mi on tbe great 
Mr. Ford, of Badnall, near Norton Bridge, a very advantage tint system of liquified manure farmin. ia spia e tome matter, loss of money, and bad husbandry. uin e honan, is in tha 
farmer, laid down 30 acres last shold On A | to offer under the climate and soil of France, = Telfer iind eieaa a in the farm- a in urban as 
Barley crop, which has now the appearance 
ob-old-xiols/ito ame in May, 1906, as says, “Iam fully alive to the advantages may test almost every species of p eri a mlt 
