__ 796 EEN AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. Bhe ettari 1856. 
j ashes, but there the rotten tuber was freque wing would | amputate the 
the failure on peat soil also. eia e aai out by the few lines that I now quote from a letter | ear from the meet straw with | g 
if part of the subject is qu uite beyon my range, yet I dated Aug. by 1830 :— Of the powers of the P the ears would be projected into 
i ith asia food, no person has yet Homes the receptac cle— s bags, &c.—provided vi collect 
| agent in the cases of Potato murrain? I Resta roaching a fair estimate.” Mr. Knight| them in. In the “Agricultura Eye of the 15th inst., 
|| presumptuous at least to try and determine what it pecena k gis highest opinion of the “no-blowing Ash- “ “A La ndlord” i in the North B griculturist proposes 
|| is not. leaved Kidney the corn ike cythe, = ears — 
| First, I f y vi it was his. great desire to prevent the | be fet iby wome n with rs. kni 
l hereditary taint or reven in some of t f l „of blossoms and s eed vessels. The an gg pe ti ı would be more S aie kl y “er 
the Potato, though it must be admitted fn some d letter dt back of whi 
are more able to resist blight than others. Of this, | correct “idea of Mr. Knight’s derin Ser prac be plac ced an 18-inch or r 2. feet projecting rack pharmer 
| indeed, One of m; my work- “I always prat the tubers (of Ash- pec sag “whole, towards the cart, the t eeth of this rac ck being more 
| men this se p planted 30 drills va Primroses and two RERI 4 largest I can raise, and from very that Poe the 
with Scotch Downs (qy. Dons gen eal rule, I think oe dhs e be corn is placed between by one set t of lab the 
cent, on every one of the drills, po the exception of planted i in rows distant from each other in pro om sr be prevented from prt through, b oe 
those bearing the Downs (qy. Dons or Duns) ; all the to the height of the stems; the he Bieke being fall 3 Tee, open enough to allow the weight of the straw 
d ht t eet apart, tubers of the | the ear down to where it is allotted to it. pions mi 
i} the same day. Reports reach me also from various parts | very largest varieties, whole, never oe be more np toe of labourers might then with knives or shears separate 
By su such mode of the ear: the ein 
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nearly escaped tl the ped 3 d ked and inferi 1 inclining towards the cart the ears would fall into it. 
slig ly if at all; but I dis- | alone the kee nutritious fluid is madai is S apia, to Cutting “edges could be fixed to the edges of the rack, 
posed tothink, notwitt g, that the comparati the light, th th.” | slightly moveable by o that by pulling at the 
i These dire were ado opte in practice with most | straw the ser would be separated a and fall into the 
i organisation popet from conatitations taint, If the | | satisfactory» ae till the fatal attack of th itably for wa 
f sng ale ade th h the fact |in August (1847), when one of the most promising purpose. ” Another mode suggests itself by having i 
w failed rally | crops “was destroyed, Recurr to Mr. a flat surface, but, as before, anaig 
troughont U this ‘con county "hat dày in  pertieular localities, article, wherein we uiae, j en just remarks tuficiently 80 that when t the ears are ampu ntate ted the ey 
and even in these but partially, se upon the consequences i paag vay sm eens sets m 
and nooner or oa at all, in others not but concur with him in proposing ‘ ide‘of thi d be 
pondents of ‘his Gazette (July 16, whole gel ER ao Potatoes it wide date,” ha | atone end attached, ea ae toa rane i» bie and 
1853) stated: “ It ese — nees be restric te ed t the rows the handle being at the other end and held by one of the 
at Restro tronguet, - in Mylor, Sh te each other, the | on ly; rn Ta am the that who would elevate it and etait it as 
ddl hey were all planted | ui idies minute Potatoes pri to deterioration, i in size at neea This knife would, i think, _be better af ies 
at the same time and under precisely similar circum- least, as I} 
stances.” l sarsaran nega | Cuthill’s L Kid ingle tub 
cide with this statemen: could be brought to tab! je. To close the subject, I sities it across er inclined le se re gions 
moniacal manures Eha been more than ong poral it wn. be found that where whole medium-sized | would have to be depressed with its edge at a suitable 
of occasioning the mischief, but the healthin Potatoes r of Ash-leaved for nn a use, or|angle upon the straw, which, by Neiag’ withdrawn by 
Potatoes continually raised through their aginicion ` Pn Regents for one winter stock), are planted in February ae party who brought and spread it, would have its 
proves why am Ne ges ammonia | contain ed in 1 the jor early in March, the final result at Sigg will be sr ds cut off. Being in the north during the late 
guano, which I p . J.T. nfortunate wet ea it struck me ne Wheat 
my crop, and I cannot suppose that the same gaseous Storing T ips. .—Ina l y various ways, if n r 
i i ry mi een cons 
to the same sort of c Top. My system for a number of years has = ly to a amy less. No doubt some fields of Wheat were left 
has suggested, I o ought p say “osm asserted, aie women or boys at from 6s. to 8s. per acre, who uncarted and unstacked where fit, with the wg of 
i the roots, and fill them into carts. | getting it Gaira legaro to thresh, end have it in 
that salt would correct it. But a eed and se Each person takes two rows or ridges, of which the y pull | « condition” » to ar 3 but 
saturated with salt are freely used, and yet the ae tops and clear, throwing the roots into one there was Sond or no 
‘ventive is not practically found in salt. Early sowing may | row; in this way the roots which grew on four ridges are | wind, and avin when the inter vening finer weather 
probably will secure the escape of the early sorts | thrown into one row which lentes three | clear d drills | ‘occurred, the wind was very slight, and not near 
isease, because the blighting period Baye: between the rows of roots for t h to ži off the wet attached to the cut corn. As 
occurs at a season subsequent to their maturity, or at | taki ing them up. It is icone thew convenient for filling | the Gimes hi E Sa were unoccupied, it occurred 
least to their state of equal succulence, Sied E think | by fil they might e been very profitably employed 
they are most liable to injury ; but in my case some of | each side of the cart without „confusion ; one third are | ft making a aly “constructed se tape , and 
the latest planted tubers and least Taxarvent 4 in the yards by cattle, the | s pla 
tion were found to be among the healthiest. ing hird y hor horses a hirtii ng it en an a 
Coldness of temperature and much moisture I ke. T} q land are drawn toge- | subst: for wind: would have been it sails and a 
been as predisposing rain, nd shakin g off the wet poe drying 
but neither cold nor moisture prevailed ae our | containing from 8 to 12 one-horse carts, tess are | th iderably not wholly 
d ed the unmistakable signs of disease. | afterwards covered with stubble and 1 ould have been vastly retar a > whatever 
h be do 
ing causes of the murra 
About the 20th of last August the temperature was | earth, we aten down to shoot off the rain, "Thos See aed have been shaken a on rine platform could 
higher than the average ; the waned wits steady, | that d | Ea e been easily collee re If it was only sufficiently 
there was no apparent combination of unpropitious | or made narrow pits an eai thatched with | q dri ie farm itn tt piat mall stooks 
-cireumstances. Moisture !—the soil was too dry, there | stubble, bat iot covered with ear It stori ening in the centre if 
was neither ‘assem below the surface, nor in the | Turnips more ge meny pres tised we wou uld $ ‘see | | circular, and lizh if rectangular, it would have 
se the malady. fewer Toten onesta nd i okl enyi unt of dam 
It was sees tho aidie e of Aagot when or three a be gd a It is a! sserted b y some farmers that fe i inevitably did by being allowed to seer untouched ia 
ae. of os calm, and rather foggy nee relat us | the of a ficial manures is inj urious to the keeping | the fields gg pee s ape and 
e ques I 
estion, is not this bli ight ? and then we qualities, and 'predis poses t the Tur A Tear This dapi peit Zah ough w ay, a r sacks 
anure produces H ced to form the heer to collect ie “falling gena 
faradvanced in their growth to receive seriousinjury. But | anything in the roots to cause this, but. by producing a foege a few preceding harvests have been very 
Y3 favourable to getting the corn crop dried with little 
| disease had appeared in various fields, | and having arrived at maturity, t the longer they remain in | eronatite, surely 3 cer the harvest is overtaken 
by an 
y will be of frost, More | unfavourable wet season, some effort to alleviate t _ 
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and there, or milar affections on the see sot feeding. All hele n, are ‘and e customary business of the farmer. W. misgis awe 
Syeamore resin a plantation. These effects—so urin ng the day coin sppeopriaing ene fro m | fear the scheme of revolving platforms will be pro- 
monly percepti tato led me to etait pe When night comes this process ceases, they | nounced whimsical and im racticable. 
with more competent fedoras mae currents of elec- then i absorb oxygen and gi give eof carbonicacid; therefore| The Advantages of ad or pasein | Grain at de- 
tricity ppacwnnly eap ively nA draw oh ety it weet iy the fined intervals and p uniform depths are ze are the 
their apparent, ricious courses. t cease w nourishment from the soil o | following :—The nia as pone to grow in a 
and me te a egona a, ae, most ethane rd leaves may still r , but the tempera‘ or reai araok they can be rege oe way ; the 
attractive of the nanan being low the plant i is yent ing more carbon through pa straw is clean, stiff, and erect; the crop, however 
of festa in the of igen nal than what it is ab- | heavy, is wek? laid or lodged, Frere co-operal 
orbing both ‘ton the and the soil. G. Murray, | with the reaping machine; e grain grows, if 
Over stone, in | Planted at a proper and waster depth, and 
g of Grain.—I have on a former occasio and grain are of great weight. For the last 9 or 10 
e | your columns iR that ee machines to. be | years it has been my endeavour to invent and perfect 
perfect should be made adjustable, in order that during an implement that should plant the grain at defined 
, might b be d | intervals and uniform d e same 
time 
panen from the straw. To e ao desi |; cose ieg ag deposit the grain with the 
deratum, the cutting oe high of the reaping ng machine ith greatest accuracy an and at the rate of 2 or 3 —_— day 
ts and | ‘ an 
ith n fat tigue to himself. Whether I have a! 
whi g by hes the on ARa teeth between So compli ed this it m ust be left to others to decide. The 
forthcoming Sm: feld show will re the honour 
introducing this Koitin to the public, 
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machine. The anes of ae rod pow be to bend 
down the corn, which, soon as relieved from it, 
would spring back and be — between the comb- | Farm Memoranda. Esi 
| like teeth, and there amputated, as at present the straw | Disney : continued from p. 781.—Relative to 
g | machine ; Br eans of oe | in sheep, Mr. Bakewell has attended m 
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experi- g adj dbo t- | men in Englan ex 
| ne son r the ur descriptions of ma sand tl the Tenga | tion, that this disorder is owing solely to 
d with the small porti off | land bei y from rains whi 
lone with it, would be nearly uniformly « on oe jo lng. springs that rise, He conjectures do ne 
I would, however, suggest that parallel with b Ans which springs in in consequence pe a sino a ae 
| advan the ew cutting edge, there soul be a li nature that it occasions zt a his facts iets 
igher in elevati r | whether this idea is just or ail ry is na aris emits 
blunt edge for the purpose of bending Tack he ear that | floods 3 (in whatever ener 
Er between the comb-like teeth, and thus P 
