case re 3Us. worth of guano was a along 
with it per acre: there seems why, 
provided fertility be in this or av e er way pre- 
served, any crop which the farmer pe Should 
not be taken on any field whatever which he 
occupi 
‘aly is well, we think, to call Ba Sint espe- 
of Seo ttish farmers, who than 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
{ stow my Mangel Wurzle on the usual way, about four pı 
or five feet at the base, and then packed up to a point | 
d well turfed o yr leaving chimneys of straw a out |a 
veiy E feet. the 7 4 age oe stacks at both | 
p 
a & 
a 
com: 
the discoveries whic e since been 
rule proper for EA yee when 
(1) Oats, ( @) Sin ©). nigel gi Ups Fe natural 
Grasses fo rs, the om cannot 
S 
ch 
W. 
ve answered the question—What is fertility 1 
and when commerce has furnished the means of it: 
artificial maintenance. 
Home Corresponder: 
The aago, of T the Working Man. The pesii cir- 
om 
channel for the publication of sugges- 
Ea karingi sa Pee o ject the welfare of the working 
classes. It is quite impossible in either one or ri 
mbrace all the pete sannogie 
with the imperfect Pi of labourers, 
poor ee particularly as the space alloted t +o 
with s 
08 = Globe 
, and su perphosphato z disci etion, I wou 
recommend in addition. have th 
ber 
| this Wheat,” ata aaien ae prove that, with the aid 
mmediat the other if|« and 
oa 
r 
Srami ding word “ esi wi 
[DECEMBER 20, 1856, 
a an erect position, when ali around it went down and 
ke ase laid gre ngh neglect; and I also Peps rea 
secured a of square yards of the ears of 
my general ti llage circular method of 
s of pot could be 
del in the 
xhibi nd a repo orter n, deseribing pri 
corn cutting appara tus, Ma riera termed 
“a number of scissors, ge tended for c 
Now he ight hay peser 
or 
bee 
limited num g to 
we could cu 
acre 0 Whe 
very respecta table roots, on soil so near “the slate bank 
that it is a to piteh re ae on it. S. P. 
Feeding. —1 past d my eed tion to this 
ng, age signify in your last 
week’s Paper t that cane peo na on the subject would 
a be unace eptable, I shall be happy if my experience 
n be of service. Ib 
peaa wri 
A culturist, pra, us in pe 
lab ting eal 
collecting, a ei ng, Pi a tooking, pitching, bind. 
ing, carting ; unbinding, unpitching ; Stacking, thatch- 
ing; unthat tehing, unstacking, unbi 
re of the improved Essex breed, commonly known as 
Mr, Fisher Hobbs’s ; the bo ars principally of Mr. 
Northey’s breed 
straw king o If nearly all 
these labours could be avoided by ok ng the simpl 
in an erect 
expedient of 'maintaini ing the Wheat p 
be d 
which with the same prime quality are rather 
re than the short pa sort. I have accommoda- 
tion for 57 feeding of 3. The errs one 
onsible mai 
This atter is done ever 
y, howe m at 
rich dung. My steaming apparatus is 
Meuk sim; RE bat most effective ; thanks to Mr. Mechi’s 
oped, is there not 
sufficient inducement ? 
who 2 in this as na oneni other matters of the 
field. C. Burcham, Lon 
Societies. 
sa 
GRICULTURAL OF ENGLAND. 
10.—Mr. E Den: 
? 
r, Reeve, 
of Randall’s Farm, _ Leatherhead, a am ent of the 
rey ~ 
n the pec 
yras necessarily limited in a paper mendation in your columns of Mee -Wi — pity? A 
upon its columns. Nevertheless a few | | tinms’a boo k on the “ Combus' of Coal,” &e,, I ca Weekty Council, . 1 
wade aay t induce inquiry d le ad t steam | ton per day of Swedes with less than 5 bs. of M.P., Pre: aiden, in n chair. 
change i in what all must deplore. Th g te | coal and a little wood, Owi ng to climate our corn is | received : from Mr. 
illages entails so | not of first-rate e quality, tity by | Park, on Wine rim from t 
y i hick ng scape the i f Bar es and ‘Oats, whieh we | with camples of his different vintages ; 
ledge of th ho li fi d eall dredge-corn. This erop is also better suited to 
from such tri it may be an advantage to al! | ourland Jie i pres 
whi d y — and n Si in every fie ld, from stiff clay to light Barley soil. The | for dair; ry stock ; and from Mr. man, 
bac li would willingly perform kind ce oa enter pis of pid al is met by the miller’s customary | liarities of his Lev er-Churn, 
fully into detail. n is a most co: This covers waste and} SpE 
Eiri term—instruction should be ee much 
$ than the mere mec chanical operation of re; eading 
toll of 4lbs. to the bu oT 
carriage. For the Dr. and Cr. account below, I Ewe 
hen an average pen of 3 pigs for the sake of concise- 
Se lied’ aching Chan k to feel R. Account. £ s.d, Cr. Account. £ s. d. 
their position N their Maker and their nah "i pigs pu pat tap to ee mie _ N nen 
bours, giving them a taste for useful em ingen aia arketvalue. 9 00| gler, at 6s. Sid 19 19 1% 
and a hatred of Silenoas, Y t preparing you rs. of dredge-cor, | 16 loads of dung, 
value character above all things, sowing the bell Poser bids t ABs. 2120/3 pi Oe at 
is 2 pigs’ 
of truthfulness d hones >» and inculcating a Fuel for trais Arit do.. 0 34| 
proper distinction right and wrong. mm Attendan iea eeks saone. _ Gross return £22 213 
eases of sickness so prevalent in ill-ventilated and:| 4 °7t. of stra Ea tte! P 2 ee 
erowded rooms, where the tiated Expense of feeding Pa 154| 
į iarrhæa. aphpre in tie 
ne th £19 15 4 
ear the dung, it is as much 
g the 4 
T a 
ieee It does not 
ee es mysen 
I cann not gi stimate o 
| the expense of rearing pigs toa piper me for feeding, 
that it costs 11 week 
ecency; what must be 
f | to pur 
e | Holswi 
ECIAL pe sae Dec. 10.—Mr. Evelyn Denison, 
, President, in the chair; for the purposes of 
receiving the Judges’ report on the trials of a steam- 
cultivators, and of be oie the General Committees 
suing yea 
eae Council, Dec. 11.—Mr. Evelyn Denison, 
M.P., President, in the chair; for _ ot pe to of receiv- 
ing from the Implement Comm d Live Stock 
i ir respec orl reeset e ions uit = 
to be offered by the Society for the country meeting © 
next year. 
Aunit or Accounts, Dec. 12.—Mr. Raymond Barker, 
V.P., in the chair, Colonel Challoner, Mr. sam. 
Raymond Barker, and Mr. Dyer. "The accounts 
w ined i enin 
Dec. 12,—Colonel oner, 
Tru: air. On the ae of M r. Raymond 
Barker, seconded d by Mr. Wren mas the baer to 
per 
a store pig gain 1s. Walter 7. Bullock, Higain. 
orthy, Devon, 
Reaping Machines—My last letter appeared hard 
upon the present reap ing machines, and aen nce ria a 
I d 
“semen rene mother, ' wife, or child, unable to 
afford relief by chagaing: the foetid, 
room for one at least free from th 
de by t 
as 5 taken into consideration and agreed 
Sena Meetine, Dec. 13.—Mr. aani Barker, 
NE in the chair, "The Seer etary read the following 
condemned the attempt 
reaping mechanism, in lieu of the unassisted à soyihe, 
confre might be enjoyed In vain does physician 
medicine i; 
r 
EPORT. 
The Society consists at tee present time of 
85 
so much 
foo 
ee 4 horrors 
~ Prospect has the minister of religion of making any im- 
most zealous man would be deterred r 
labours of ing. In this l 
I can only int to what I shall consider the per- 
fi arvesting our Wheat crop, viz., b 
“ topping rs it (when standing in the field), so 
nm the than 1 
y farmer that so great an | 
attained, To whic h I answer, the sole 
laboure rs (meebanieally 
of Wheat with the same 
rena chow geese ete 
iii ve mos my ior dat 
certainty as udp dams atop it acre of “ hedgerows.” | 
But to enable a farmer to maintain his Wheat in the 
SE oieerraes oF abpa institutions so requisite 
to| be must divide his fields into small allotments— 
which proposal for the subdivision into 
does is the v f operation aon which 
my circular system of tilling land depends fi 
its success, The i i be d “ Would it 
| pay to maintain the W. crop in an erect position ? ” 
Ask the Messrs. Hardy ereer A consider it — 
pi Ac ier all their toil and e: 
suffocating, noisy Ps gpa 3 such oe not my intention, I c Life-Governors, 
e intrusion of oi others, | desir substitu e former for the na as a sent | Annual Governors, 
ers will have observed | fe-Members a 
T mak disti with a A oey oe 
a F live pl d with dead ial W. aiding m'total of 0020 Meriberd, r A 
quiet der tk d is to be dealt | the list of the Society since the last yearly meetin; 
e with by inanimate mechanism pron i I ‘oul |. The dena he Earl o Powis and, em gage 
ed | the present contrivance unphilosophical because it is Gannett by ie t transfer of Mr. Evei Beatson, M.P., to the 
demo- permanent and expensive; and o- d the decease of Mr. Hampden 
what | mical, because it does in no wise abridge the after Tar urner, 
Pr Funded Capital of the Society stands at the same amount 
reported at the last general meeting, namely, at 92647, Ss. tta, 
i Th 5 ted Stock. of 
The following Prize-Schedule for the Essays and Reports 
next year, to beisent to the Seeretary by 
to be subject to the usual conditions of 
adopted :— 
d. 
1. The results of microscopic observation gat s 
to the coat aa of ———— 0 0.0 
ae ae ridge and 20 0 0 
pasture land after d ang fee) tere ele 
3. ioscan tion of soils by admix- 20 0 0 
ture with others ... âp: “no one . 
. Destruction of vi inhame the homestead nop .0 
and — oe 
vantages of entering upon 
s in an sad, svar ean together with 
instructions to f ns to the young farmer on: biaatis 20 0 
6. The i imepiga of se ‘or Barley at. 
tdistances wii same | 
of seed; and alan Lagoon quantities of 
° 
eo eo 
the Society 
avail themselves of their me heat consulting hiss, 
from his laboratory chemical Chemical analyses at reduced 
ME TEAT ieee 
Pe ee 
