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they ma 1 as, judging f from the best of sheep to be obtained? Mr. Caird on his farm of 260 been to ascertain the minimum quant cy of ae 
experience, I 3 tha their adoption vil res feeds off every year 130 cattle, the same number for Wheat, and not the maximum quanti 
not fail to 3 the ex deer bee entertained, by in- e annually pu wee to supply their place. About| have a careful to 
suring in returns. * yielding ample fruits at | 150 sheep are also fed fat on Turnips during the winter. | advocated a definite quantity of seed for every kind of 
the period of harvest. M. T. K. n most of the farms sa ie old system not a single | Wheat and for every kind of cultivation, nor for every 
Practice with Science. —Such, as has been shown, | head of cattle is ever fed; and every means are taken | other kind of grain; but just the reverse. On one field 
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pre lie have been so tardy, and that . large part of the task to attempt to raise to the dignity of the higher quantity of one kind of =~ Wheat that I should of 
country ould remain under old system, with order of farming those so long sunk in ignorance and | another, and perhaps m n my parish there are 
bare and neglected, preg rae portion of | sloth, or even to expect to compensate e by greater gains | now fine fields of Wheat ‘seeded with 3 pecks and 
a ae land di The cause of this is not for the losses sustained be the reduction of prices in the 4 pecks of seed; and last year I think the best erop 
~~. xplained, but it — toh have been derived — market. Law. Rawsto was from the smallest e ee of seed. But ee: 
0 verse circ s, and until thes Siz Years’ Rotation, n, on a farm of 220 acres of where less seed is being used ; all farmers, and e 
ieee change, no — war for the future can be arable land, adopted as the result of many years’ Mr. Baker himself, ma the y use les s seed than formeny 
we at those more fortunate | practice, is submitted to the notice of your readers. | and there is no doubt but the quantity will diminish ag 
countries where a change has already take en place, we Soil, , strong fai on chalk, ah nara to clay before | knowledge becomes more general: on no land can more 
shall find that this Ist t year, Swedish Turnip and Mangold; than half a bushel of n Wheat come to perfe ction; 
fortuitous than natural causes, and that they owe their 2d, Barley; 3d, winter Beans; ih, Wheat ; Sth, a all the remainder deca r does mischief 5 acy — 
y Clover pier d Italia n Rye-grass ; 6th, Oats. In fallowing | from a lack of scientific pirin G. Wilk 
yee toa bag Ae chance. It is now nearly half a century after Oats for the root-crop, the rule is = plough deep, —ũ a 
20 (0 New H bandry,” page 26) since Messrs. Bailey | at least 9 inches, and a portion of the land is always Sorieties 
— Culley, eee, by the ere of Agriculture, subsoiled with the Deanston plough, and all or the i + 
reported ree best cultivated counties in the| greater part is always manured from the cattle ae HIGHLAND AND AGRICULT — (General ros 
kingdom were Norfolk, 833 and Northumber. before es si also bone manure is drilled with the | Jan. 9.— 1. Duke of Roxburgh in the chair. 
land ; and that if the other counties were cultivated | seed. a erop being carried off the land, pen mission of Tenant Fimen shad various Mee, 
in like manner, one-third more produce would be raised preparation can * made for 8 the Barley, which received, was one on this subject by the Directors, 
in England, and on f more in Wales. as this is Tiba at the rate of 6 to 8 pecks per acre. ter recommending that tenant farmers, who are members 
stigma been wiped away from these backward counties! harvest, the preparation for winter Beans begins by | of any local agricultural association, should be admitted 
Far from it. Tow cause may the advance in the manuring for the whole crop. The Beans are drilled | to the Society on a reduced subscription 
others be chiefly ascribed? Mr. Grey, in his Report of in every third furrow, after the plongh, with a barrow- | The Sia — that the subject has been for 
Northumberland Farming, tells us that it was owing to drill, sowing about 2 bushels per acre. In the following | some time the — of the Directors, 
migration he some intelligent men from their season, and after the last horse-hoeing, some imperial | an ne that ie Secretary ha in communication 
property on the banks of the Tees into a district border yellow or other good Turnip seed issown between | with the farmers generally in regard to it, and 
in „ eee called Glendale, t that all the good the drills of Beans. By means of a long seed machine . a8 ay “The list of the Society’ 
farmi in cultivated ern had | (called Bennett's), the holes of which are l e present comprises 2707 names, of 
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own hands, and then commenced a series of improve- the Turnips are carried to the fatting cattle and sheep, command their confidence, or that, uninterested in its 
ments which has had such a beneficial effect upon that and the remainder folded off on the land. The Wheat prosperity, 3 purposely pegs loof from it. That 
district, and on the agriculture of the country at large. crop is then put in as fast as every fold course is this t the he Dir ectors are well aware. They 
we see im — proceeding from such | cleared, at ists ate of 1 bushel per acre.* At the last rey apio Sadda nce o of the interest sar e 3 
slight causes, we sigta uch wonder that where | spring hoeing Clover and Italian Rye-grass are sown | the Soci y by ag ists of all classes hrough 
these causes have not operated, 5 as an art, amongst the Wheat, by means of the above named | the medium of Re associations and ae 8 f 
i i ith all its now „is constantly maintained, between it and the farmers 
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awed” methods. The days of prejudice are fast de- also well hoed. All the white straw crops are drilled aT The Socie 
parting, and the eyes of men begin to be opened to the | 12 inches row from row, and the roots and Bean 0 i 
value of modern discoveries ; but, notwithstanding this, | 2 moa à 85 ploughing serves for every crop, except many that i issi 
are ed proprietors, and their subordi- | the roots, and they have occasionally been drilled with direction, and that though not debarred from becoming 
nate agents, who still have a hankerin “after the old | only one plongbis g, and the use of Ki rkwood’s grubber. 0 i 
system, and who either cannot see, or ill not take any | The old rotation here was—Ist, ht naked fallow; Wheat; | unnecessary now to ain that this feeli 
to promote cc ane advantages of of an improved 11 3d, Eg le ey o r Oa ts; and 4th, seeds, 2 years ley. The unfounded ; : iti * boast of the Society, as a oso 
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country, are still sadly illiterate, ill-informed, and im- produce, complete pulverisation of the soil, at a cannot comma 
shed. This is a serious obstacle to any plan “of reasonable cost for horse labour, and a erop every year. | the furtheranc 
i farming. Education is the source of all good,| W. Fowke, Red House, Hunley, Winchester, last few 2 — L tenant far : aa fh 
moral, and intellectual—as the child is trai so will Thin Seeding. What are the facts at issue between Directors of th ciety, a 3 10 7 te 
It is in to expect any ce | myself and Mr. Baker? Last year I grew, as I have | adva 1 afforded by their knowledge a and experience, 
when the intellects are obtuse from want of cultivation. | asserted, a very prolific Wheat; I am likewise growing | thei e Boar tended to dispel the 
hn Sinclair, in his “Scotch Husbandry,’ attri- | it again, and it will be wn in ral parts of |i —— which has iate aed. to, and to inde 
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butes much of the good farming in Scotland to the England also, and in two other quarters of the globe. | their brother farmers more generally t ai round the 
establishment of parochial schools. Numbers of Scotch | I was applied to for it by very many gentlemen whom | Societ The Direct tote thin E thi X ould d still 
farmers, also, were accustomed to travel, with a view | I could not e rid and in order that no misrepres 
of acq useful information, and of com paring their | tion, yi sane er insinua i 
own practices with those of other districts. b mad ly ; 
degrees farming came into repute in that country, and | what I “tid — 8 the price in every ease left | the 
instead of its being considered a servile employment, to myself, I ch only the market price of other | more 3 than those accorded to other parties. 
as it is with us, it was followed, as an honourable pro- Wheat. I had a letter from a merch ant, begging of Such an advantage, besides, would be but reasonable, 
fession, by the younger sons of men of family and me to let him have the whole, and saying that he did an s te i 
fortune. But there is another Sa insuperable ob- not regard the price. But gain h 
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how small will be the return or rather clear profit in e also again repeat, that I could last harvest a find age 
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ses are great, and these can only be re- harvest I shall be enabled to do the same. With strengthen their hands they w 
deemed at the latter prie the ter, provided that be reference Es my esteemed friend, Mr. Mechi, we under- retis the civi aan 5 nant 
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manure. Unless a very large quantity of this indis- | friend, Mr. Th edam. og Guntineion, I er ati lou bi tenet a to recommend that the annual su 
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ee. Ts | am not gen enerally understood. My attempts have| Chemical Department.—Professor Gregory repi ia 
by feeding, upon green crops, large stock. But without * The Wheat crop put in this season has cost within a frac- that the Chemical Department of the 8 e of 
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