require to be to be told what that peculiar ir method — 
was this—the land was ploughed into ridges 5 
only of ‘corn were e drilled 
oot or 
would grow grea 
ee of the method, that good crop 
ars’ practice 
nure, 
— enp but a A ‘there is evidence 
that 
the je avera c be obtai —— without 
nure for some seven or eight — re the very least, 
ted ma 
Ff the = tenant, and also on 
e landlord in “aividing ‘h farms and 
ccommodation for cattle, — 
hat I propo — 
a certain portion of the farm be cultivated in = — 
manner, that is, with annual crops of corn; the hors 
the plough, and ‘the cart or Tes Laue is wg, well ai 
the capital required ter it. Let 
priated to the rest of the farm in —— with — 
sent or any other arrangements —— t may be ‘thought 
better. arrangement be- 
The justification of suc 
n landlord and tena 
Tull's method, to which I will now proe 
Tull's theory was that perpetual — — of ‘corn 
might be obtained withow 22 Se 
‘he had nee good e 
ove 
for perpstülty. But as Tull says the land 
d his 13th’e 
this — soar ‘which it may 
cropping without m will n 
land, 2 Price tillage on nly it receive: 
may fairly be inferred from Jethro 
culars. says 
‘weighed — produce of a yard in length of a Haye ‘with 
only two or 
33 W without auy fallow or dung. 
crop, being —— , likely to be rae 
greater than any of the precedent, i f the e year prove 
vourable.“ 
Only he maintained in theory, and defended it by | ve 
— res an produce 
ut — on * merits of — 
and he states that w 
say up 
o not prove that the present 
>| The — Pot ghings consist in ear to 
n Wheat as you tan without ploughing it out, — turn 
8 to the tops of the 
e 
— 
re is as ren 
— —— —— Aeli, a Ay time—man or boy 
n Harrow wing ——— a — 
Dr 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
roduced a sample of Mr. Box's eighth year’s W heat, | 
which looked — fine; and also observed that 
eat this year, sown on land of 
roduce which ‘was it 
aunders — 
Ks — which w 
7 orfs sacks 
that he had closely ‘wate he 
seg the ninth crop without dung. The land was 
very poor, and certainly not —— well 
attended to; but so satisfied was he (Mr. Saunders) of 
system, * he commenced at v. 
t and 6 acres of 
~ Market Lavington. 
failure And ‘now I pro to relate my —— 
las ast year It was on 97 fa Wheat ‘stubble i 
very ordinary condition. —— of the ‘headlands, 
which were uncultivated, t poles, and the 
worm made such ravages A that at ere were 
but 10 plants — — — of length, equ — to — — for 
q e field exclusive of headlands. I 
| ascertained this ty. — seer | the — over — 
entire e five longest ridges, and the remaining ‘si 
rance the same. 
80 grains of corn. 
10 more similar plauts on every yard of Seige This 
ave drilled ‘three —— on 
"ying over the o d an 
— 5 hoeing eat the middle row in the spring, except 
neies in — outside — The 
aisd to 1 atre, and 3 pecks 
Had I done ‘so last year, I doubt not 
. 
on 3 
going ee to 
as to the “probability-of a crop by the Tullian 
“Ts agreeable I should be glad to go further 
mrad — subject. I will now — with — aoa my 
te of the ‘cost of thus — = an acre 
ume to yon a . a day throughout 
dis year, and the cost of a tea 
for mber of working days in a year, — I take 
to be . om 200 to 220. who 
drives the plough I assume to —— The 
first pl oughing into ridges may be done in the customary p 
me 10 hours or 14 day to do an aere. 
Brett the 
one deep furrow from each side — the double or treble 
row, whichever i then time 
r 
ale up a —— 
ridges but expect it will be unneces- 
sary for the future s ‘are cone 
raordinar narily does ite ege method ‘clean the land. 
den ean sur Couch, however, must be 
wt out in the usual way, d — once out this — will 
—— it so. I charge — ced acre with ls. 6d. 
pay the rent and taxes of the ‘headlands, and the 
fields ought to a . — arge — 1 — to exceed this. 
bser ve ant vate © 
‘then 
5 — ten ‘year after year in 
—— E into 6 feet ridges, one da d a quarter 
—.— ; three Norse at 8s. p. 
e day and u half 
eg an acre 
Four hi. 
and one horse, one-eighth of a d 
0 
Drilling man, boy, and team, one-etghtii ofa : duy . 0 
0 
year 
acre of Whea + the poon 
— down by the late Mr. Tull, on — rr middling | 
Fear his Batley averaged 4 4 quarters s per aere, 
‘his Oats 6 quarters per ‘acre. Mr Saunders here 
> aday . 
Hire of dri 
s But it must be very 
Leer that wil surpass this of = 
poe ferner twice, three days 
ng two days 
andriek-making—men, ‘boy, and team, one- . 
third of a day 
Thatehing 
Taking in rick, W less than carrying and rick- 
Ho e = S 
"N h Poe 
d Poor Mr. 
defunct. Fired at from al 
ing kn 
12 
— “ wholemeal,” which has made the | — and 
weetest brown bread I have ev ted. t, say my 
masters, who declare this to be — maddest of — 
—— in flour. 
the average; all w. 
ee eve T have the — — ol the 
samt 
| benra 
country. 
drawn up w o prospect of having land thrown 
— = and ih the intention, in that case, of eulti- 
ing tire farm upon this Tallian method. 
— Tull. 
AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS 
Mecni ! . 
by lan 
of very sensible and truthful 
r N 
to hang a stri 
he I will follow his — * and ee before ore readersa 
olla 
sort of “ of agricultural refi 
lieve in the majority of cases (for there are — 
ful os landlords were sati 
farms on the old ‘feudal ee of hereditary tenure, 
rand — — rvienoe d politieal. The 
—— applies — m res to Wiigor To — or Liberal. It 
e! t 
— — re alike sacred 
—— Leases (when granted, w which was not 
was no 
ifor — errant on to eseape from their — 
one case in my knowledge, it was 
— that 1 — —.— ‘fences shou 
31 feet wide 
day 
‘was no difficulty in feeding and emplo ying. me popa- 
The 
lation farmers readily acquiesced in 
they held their lands on easy terms, and — eek. 
— = — always pretended to be very pour. 
med ‘criminal amongst them to let 
— know anything of practical agriculture, and I 
ow, even now, some hones —— the old 
scho ol, with “primitive habits, w 
publio- py er mee tap 2 7 ng ruin of agri- 
lan 
multiplication of hors 
increase of populati 
reversed the whole system. 
hunger — yas gigantic foreign imports, p 
— tatesmen, our landlords, 
— our — The letting and ‘tenure of land will 
w assume the stern character of business. y 
capital and intelligence, who treat for unim- 
with poor embarrassed landlords, 
‘and manufactures 
‘a ulate pro 
‘too’ — a business (especially as hithe 
great aggregation of wealth; — pe wor 
diso, Teal, ‘energ , diserimination, wisdon 
— merchant ‘princes, nenn beta g lords, and 
‘traders, have ‘enabled them world, 
4 as 
tile treatment of 
pa ortant ‘that 
‘the atira of the — Yi is 
Should uire ledge. 
— 
bo 09 
iltural Let 
us hope there will be more pe — Agri- 
“culture i is -a slow busi keen one, too, fall of 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
i * 0 
“Threshing and winnowing 3 3 quarters, seven days a Y 
Seed, from 24 to 1 
Charge — — — ds en 
Marketing * ers—man, box, “and am igi 
camer & ay Soe 
$ 
mere | the ‘produce to be Fani ‘at 21. per qr., 
a ‘balance of 475. to be div ided ‘betwe 
en rent, 
ment of our 
riterest. This 
's for ane in | 
éft for 
free country always detects “erro 
e amendment. 
Jam not one of those who love and praise the at got d 
old times.” It is a — 3 
lus 
— — 
a quarter ‘wo: 
common way. I ean ‘only say Ihave had it m 
with an al quantity of old red Wheat and ground 
