214 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Макси 25, 1465, 
[һе results of the experimenta on the germinating € ut here ask if my seed had failed to grow (ua Tia 
Wheat, which he made apium of 1863, а on one occasion more {һап а dozen kinds I E 
even to the lOtb or 20th А. ru 
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вате und: lone—bo (^ for the now ‚ superflaous ous support w which 1 
Prim ive to the ev ause of general e — and for i 
actical agricul- 
he has made o n theg of Barlar. both respec! XR experimentalist informs us 
being oppose to esults of man y experim T I | doe x ail L6) bus ls oË I have had o 
ivi шо : myse eir ha doen: especially on the growing of bor aet rom 80 seed, or 44 bus 
who passed the best pre ia the Eng v per pueden it ra "s A of those who are called; ut 13 years be А БӨГӘ 
Wematics; that I was one of the founders, and am erroneously, be aes ne year, also, in the other of my tedtet i Н 
x patron oft ө Devon county-school, which passed а M But you * сог rrespondent, in the first place, gives, in | 7 quarters and 7 ich p Barley an асг ils Ih м 
number of pupils than any c other school at the last Cam the arkal say г review, а summarised table of the | than 3 pecks of seed, and which I sold for 46 Bet 
State aid and State interfirence in the edu pation vt mn results of the experiments he made on 42 s samples of | а quarter, and the maltster who bought it абетка 
rha in 1 sent 1 t it t ey he 
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among farmers 
I, as a private 
peak "Publio Schools for Ал бури Clases, LU етту; жм ples th d failed from 52 to 92 per E om ies front of my lawn I have & 
for young men in public colleges, as distinguished from too Inl$ ,, » " 15 to 48 per t 9 plot of land, the eight of an acre, which 
early an exclusive professional t training in exclusively profes- Inl) i» La pEr се. with Whent for the tenth time in succession 
sional institutions.” He tl t a Table of the Germina- | being dibbled in, seed by seed, in rows exactly one fog 
** Castle Hill, Feb. 28, 1 Ma on of Ba rley, а and which N Sd with this apart e ach way,so that one seed only was 
It is hardly ‘posible that ed тч of | remark :—“ Notwithstanding A terrible gl of ground. Now, in that plot so seeded fo 
rd Fo rnest тее | which the former had to bear," and which I aber 10 years in succession there was scarcely a gap from 
Ж а field , of pee edueatio “with HoL- | think refers to some strict ud which I myself made | seed failing to grow, and long before harvest the ^ 
who has longest and та san ^ ficiently of any | when the “ Table of Germinations o ALIAE was first | was as thick o ) nd as ib с grow, 
iaa aps teni in the field of professional icul blished e o me here раен who saw it, and with astonishment, a: 
tural education, can fail of 0 victi the Council. observe that I have a high opinion of the many | witness, yet it was поб the be L rop I had grom, м 
ht, excellent qualities of the Ri eman who made t g 200 -fold, and s 
x , aud $ feel certain е he would not produced 2000-fold. 
publish during t this and next week letters po lih to te ч rld an мн which he does поб | But so much for my practi 
y practice, and во much 
on this subj ject from Poe XY и eonsciontionsly De velve t be be but 1 beg g most of the productive aud Кеи ш powers m 
сфе ; que tedi.in -6his respectfully, and in the most friendly spirit, 1 by it, and here I might come to a close, but ny 
attentive study of tho o are intereste to repeat his experiments, and if he will do so $ pe readers і hope will excuse me P 1 give them a glori 
subject. In бее let us refer to one ot the certain that he will fin d the results wil iil be very history of some experiments I have lately m 
las upon the list "en written os M is fi he will, | purposely to test the vital powers that ther 
M.P., who m чаў be n amed along wit in fact, find that Wheat of any kind and и all kinds | different kinds of cereal seeds; ог pecia vilis 
TESCUE and Mr. HoLLAND as having e yiri is as well able to reproduce itself as is auy othe: lcs) huge if I tM give ie results of them, and they 
most meosaafaliy at that union of gener an d that p thes ely: (шш Шап 20 samples d 
whic on under what аш дегу as acti Ms my à bos it ie г M e in my T m rden, and ess E 
^ svstem. assure him tha 0 no write this from opinion | ower- pots placed ne dow in a tool house, 
is ва tha half-time systé only, but from p p nd the results of frey, n they TE genii, that not more mic 
Tue Yorkshire papers interview aged: but we zi to SINSA гт. to opinion 00 failed to grow. I d bs both Уей 
only, I might ask, Why should the Creator have made aud jw ey growi ng in vases chimn 
between the нта алт Е tho d Wheat, the staff of lifd and Nod 6f xen i Igi Ene P um, c ir 
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Steam Plough err d and the ЕЯ D» kind than is Barley, the food Е hogs, or "Oats the |in these ib seems that а позе every seed ye Iti 
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А d of horses and of до, ask no sueh|true that Barley grows quicker than Wheat, buf 
issued his order forbidding the passage of loco- questions, юу full well that ifm if man were so treated | think not more ЧАШ у ; but ibis ose Mee 
motive engines on highways, except between mid- | there wou g be disposed t ЇЗ ӨР Tad blv. thal 
zieht and 6 a.m., in a certain district in that во, ries 1 could not discover it. with about two pecks of Wheat and three of Baer, 
ounty. Although several of those who had signed | But I repeat, I t : do from 
that report now "declare that further consideration | obtained from long experience and carefully made. 18, if they any and thoroughly cultivate their lands 
of the subject has convinced them of the baseless n riments. From lo бе, тес I pem. for let | put them in good —€— and uy in t и ir seed a 
„character of the danger which they had antici- | me inform my readers, t tI com aap agr пет nature an nm sense direct, see ed, and 0% 
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г 5 ап n em not use 
А в estate of nearly 2000 a and o , what is now | primitive tool imported from the centre of Afric 
-  Wuflcient, and refused to interfere for the removal | erroneously calea thin. seeding, the СТАМ system of called the pre-Adamite “drags,” a model of which 
of the NE which tbe Secretary of State had husbandry, ich i km it, was be was exhibited by a swarthy son of the desert in his 
Eu 168 toba honed: h that this diffi p than E ма ееп H on any ven ortis or | Arabs tent аб the Great Exhibition of '51, 4 
given, 18 oped, however, lg + ie. pem nce, whether guts small Оп that esta te An d let t them поб trust to quackery of my kai, 
t £1 such as о seed before using it; 
akefield Steam Plough Company, but alto and ne never on an d ift it qu ac ck, 1l et them get their si ^ 
us = to put a stop to ens m power on hire for 4 pecks an mes and „very fequi vi very P less, | by some yin gipsy, who will tell their fortunes a 
муше, me removed b time, and for the same expense. ul 
| eim ofthe Bill just introduosd уч Ж; Hor- | grown ; and, my respected readers, should you donbt|have often said before, let them trust to skill and 
| LAND, M. Eh into the House Thi truth of what : am writing, as probably you will, | industry, and then they need not fear for the results, 
і вш, certain у ^ei ihe ee dva | T have abundance of proof that I am stating nothing For my part, I scarcely remember having à rai 
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acted in the recent К ше he has issued, declares |, 296 those brilliant and never-faling crops, my se-shoes over my stable door to keep wi 
that every locomotive propelled by steam ог any |11005, were not produced by thin seeding. only; mu tiding шу horses to себ th. Nor, rr 
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oue ете ve RS a less depth than 9 inches, and often one | lest it should cause your Mies id 0 n P 
plough following another brought up the soil to the | Alderman Meoki is a thin-se 
k Dope road o or public hig way, shall be depth of 12 ше and then followed the roll, scufiler, sometimes, and so is: Mr, Hallett; a the Rev. S, Said 
pae ed according to the following rules and |scarifier, harrows, and then o-peck man, and шш] 
i regulations :— had been co аы ted, the drill, which was then first | more—and whoever saw m aidew. E. our ш! Ж 
"n used in that part of the ey, put in the seed, and | have r заг thick-seeders' crops nearly inel а 
joe Чад pepe nent udi, а сал! шо a additional person | never more than 4 pecks ап acre of either Wheat or | but never did I see it where two or "ree p 
ы роге, who shall take charge of such Án ons ачу in, i — as I have said, so | acre of ET RAS e used u^ . Wilkins, Wiz 
e MS eel nd m усы лаа рч Sess : peck was used, but that was dibbled i in by | sonage, March 11, 1865. / 
signal the driver of such locomotive when », shall be t th fi ; ; c c 1 
necessary to stop. ог slack iix this Брага Бано et me therefore ask, f Wheat Were so defective of ТОЎ. 
l (3). The drivers shall keep upon the off side of the id; and | th AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 5i 
| n ие as possiblo for r the passing of other | ** DIM of m would lead us to believe i&| 1. BEDFORDSHIRE.—The education of farmers #7 
| (4). The whistle shall not b did w ў s, would those magni nificent and never-failing crops |in my neighbourhood is of the ordinary puer | 
IM des after ed z ра were from | unfortunately 16 is поб thought necessary for m 
y much to! 
nguages 
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mE. Xe d "E К S h small nay, almost hom c quantities of | know much of art and science, and ver, 
MM n паша horse or or carriage putting up his | trai! ned 
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о eem SEE bo driven more than four miles an hour bs But, now ^to a littlo of my own praetice since | their after ca lling in ү; failing Б y prompt their 
y, or more than two miles an hour | I Б been in my parish es Wix, now f years: and | or Aot e о Judge к Шеп selves. P id 
school her When 
seed ? Impossible, ги cis crops pee pum failed—been |loss they neglect to study foreign 
which 
(гой an m: town or village. 
р to 5L and 10L are levied for infraction of the |l "2 Бе ая brief аз I ca ve years | tural t 
NN restrictions adig th | - rented two small fields ER the side of the little glebe | young Memes enters on his father’s far 
g s t witht elds w de (pie foul | sidered quite sufficient for the young 
ploughing purposes, TT De I took t TA and so e first year I fallowed the | training and the study of agriculture 
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which the ier contains for ensuring sa safety in|»s шапу, ‘getting out mountains o 
e presence c of this ne w passenger along our уо | Did I burn Phem P No, I did доз тр xg зе Good во e hould be g 
which the exigenda of modern. Perge, ane have |27 years younger then than 1 am now, but "^ too | colleges where special training and ins 
x into existence will cient ; | old. to dissipate into the A ee, тай by active com- | branch of agriculture are imparted. 
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et now possess of putting a stop to | | combustion the exact food tT should want for mv Wheat | duties required of h n farming (00 Об, yli 
become a most importan branch of rural | ^!9P; 8nd so, become delightful mould, it was | goes at ай e dark, "put Mr degr rk 
thus finally be abolished, all carted on the land for. my se crop. |at his expense. "James Ross, 
was | Luton 
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THE GERMINATING AND CULTIVATING OF the Wheat I ne ed 2 п асга,| 2, Bxexemms.— The grent песен н | 
; I smovrip dai pesi а. a Tittle of the "Mad d th of schools, 8 1 
4 boue o ee ae aa eium bled you on "d mueh ко; "t the. arenge y ield of the 13 ine vi e ink, for a a EE 10 
j scientific Ame ре апа | 44 bushels an acre, ард one year (1847) ) tegi eld wag | educated, и pem whose future 
айа сыа be published | 55 eria d Now thís being сазе I w ill е was de Miel роп, коша parati 
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