on 1 resources, exertions, and arr: 
R 
every e farmer that the discussion is not whether 
he 
om $ 0 
alluded to 
; y 0 
agricultural chemistr 
4—1850.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 6l 
derson said he should not detain the me m eel them more honra or 20 cay so that I hardly 
by entering into any extende ry details regarding the . ber Ib, = 1700 pence ever have a horse and ah. Tuik I believe this 
saa: m the laboratory. Since he h t the duty A 700 to pest and m my land, 
of reporting to o the y, they ann —.— — u- Wheat, 32 bushels at 5s. 8 0 0 d I have given up the subsoil plough ; the trenching 
pied in the laboratory with the performance o analyses ise 5 one by th tomary 7 yards square to 
of different sorts ; and during Rat tials about 70 ana- Deduct cost 1011 8 | the rod, or fall, as we call it; the price 8d. to 9d. ; at 
been ma ie for different ies; many of these — | Wh p a good man can earn 2 3d. day; 
were extremely complex and minute investigations, and Nr mi £4 8 4 | the drains are cut by the rood of 7 yards long, 3 feet 
had occupied considerable time. This did not, however, tisfy t the interest 6 the other capital not a deep for stone ghs at 7d., and 30 inches deep for 
give any idea of the whole amount of work , as he b en chiefly 7. per acre for stock, which, at 10 pipe-tiles at 5} À the sou are made, tiles laid, and 
een engaged on several extensive investiga- t., would amount stones filled, and sraa 33 up by day-work. 
One of thes a set 0 3 
Wheat N or different t distriets — tia 
ed to 
tions of a of — interest 2 agriculturist. 
very m mee 
and, w 
determine = standard constitation af 
m prog an 
her subje 
at the present ede ne * lai 
order that all the time possible as 2 devoted to the 
j i ich required t i 
ee rienced considerable difficulties in the 
t of the laboratory; 5 however, he 
ow overcome, an ope 
satisfactory both to himself aud the Society. 
Rebiews. 
The “ Present Prices.“ By the Rev. A. Huxtable, 
oi of Sutton Waldron, Dorset. Ridgway, Picca- 
y, London 
Pe A "NEw Year’ s Present to the rie e world, 
Mr. Huxtable’s pamphlet will be useful to our readers, 
5 ng food for much useful reflection to them 
sf lea 
ve 
which a hice ag iia gte but which we p ae to 
peedily co — * 
arged er we eTe 
valua 
that iier "this ork a 
addition to thing 8 et — of the a ow It has 
it be to those who, contented with = nt prices, receive 
gait any hint by which to carry out their pre-conceived 
Opinions, or, on the other hand, for he i interests of tbat 
very numerous class who loudly p their inability 
to cope with a stat things hich. hey desire 
remedy ‘by kz e direct interference of = bgt aa 
and which our reverend author thinks may be encoun- 
tered more readily and surely, “ by the sp shee of 0 our 
angements.” 
consideration, to 
ent, on a moment’s 
carry i 
eae ata loss, more ss ruinou better times, 
e how they may, whether sé niteen or otherwise, 
shall at last re hi 
ost of my farming „friends, |f 
I have long been seeking out consolation f the 
better viata gan nt of oe "m 
f the resting Aa 
this ale = ‘cal ‘not = advert, 
being inrviciGO, from the recolle f the popu- 
a former publication of rs ‘reverent author on 
that i uires no eulogium on 
ur part to obtain for the present er k similar amount 
der | fold, as 
it | 24 w mm and tailed, to the statute sini Ini 
ha 
vi. 8s., and thus = even a 
r to our ear margin 
of about Psa Md acre age * ch a 
r of persons less 
How may be 
. — e ping Mr. Huxtable, to obtain 
rom their I cies ali 2 bags n valon e, is ory se 
onsidera We must how add that he supports 
conclusion 2 by arbitrary estimates = ie t ought 
e done, or neeiv 
circums stances ; $ Ta b 
é hiss uc it fo or 45 fairness aud 
Aa wich which he arrives sat his results. 
e green . un ‘alternate 5 stem“ 
are set Bie bee for their 
more 
evil e we cann 
we see t p half- piawed bulbs of Swedes lying about the 
f they were of no other use than to keep life 
in the s sae which deposit the nourishment of the next 
n the winter’s byre 
dium of converting ‘throu ugh the 
es s straw into 
5 apple? 8 1 the prepara- 
f the suce 3 Wh system it 
is ar the remarks of Mr. Huxtable poy — 3 
but as lready e d to an undue 
u 
re length, we shall postpone unt til a ee futu * . 
of 
consideration of this important branch of his subject. 
an 1 
L Moor.—Ellel M er inelosed by a special | 
aie in 1750, laid — into farm and brought under 
"e Draining e have both be 
arried on from aoe to dns w limited extent, but 
a fixed system. The soil is from 2 to 
s natural state— S, 
an excellent house and good far 
whole produce of | seaso 
| cons 
mo er, the 
| garden jollen, 30 a in Tareis, with three ede 
ee at 30 and 36 inches 
deep, and 7 yards apart, tr enching, &e., 6 statute 
of aa hey on Ellel Moo: 2 acres 
Grubbing Tuns £2 
1 
19 
0 
9 
8 
5 
ie shes 12 
Treniching oy falls of 7 yards square, a 13 
ing 685 roods of drains at d., tiles, stone- 
— 258 cubic yards, laying tiles, filling 
up em 5 F 
Labour, ing up large stones and Alder- 
— — let by contract, &c. 
Q 
9 97＋§⁊: 
i I removed 920 one-horse ‘edition of stones 
and 
I sowed the 
of 
es, I find 
240 oi + ‘the ary per . acre. I am 
ing it ſor a secon Oats with a hand-dressing, 
prany superphosphate ‘of lime; and the condition of 
the land is Fer * 0 tory. 
Fraa th 
a t-stubble which —- 
I removed nea: str 270 au e den cart - loads of stones 
n ‘sold most of them to the 
Swedes, 
idering the wet summer, I had a 
Sw e about 18 tons to th 
the seed imm 
e Fe year consisted of bones, horse- 
Aver parings from the blacksmiths’ shops, hen-manure, 
which I carefully mr and ashes, or, still better, refuse 
* reoal: these were put into a heap under cover, and. 
a wetted 2 tauk i uid, — oe to wami for _ 
e a light wo 
bout an ine n at every 
The tenant had been on it for 22 years, at a go of 441 10 inches banda ; it covers two 9 at once, 
per annum; but for want of energy, and from bad 30 ine h, and is drawn by men, and con- 
management, he had ht himself to a stand still. | sequently levels to te, top of the stitch, and a 
I commenced draining, trenching, and subsoiling. rk every 10 inches. The compost is pu ets, 
did not cut any drai t the thorougb- and with a garden-trowel the labour kes out a 
raining a not 3 1 8 bes owelful of earth and replaces it with a trowelful of 
or confident in, the s ; sin n I cut e cost of doing this per acre is from 
30 inches, ana’ latterly 3 feet died. = 7 yards secede to 
Smi em 
th of Deanston’s plan, a 
well. 
5 used 13-inch 
tiles, and at other timet, m the quantity of stones 
there are, sough-drains, with 5 3 n the top. 
I have been successful in most of my crops: in 1845 I 
gained the premium for the best éo of Swedish 
Turnips at the Itural icty’s Sho 
competing with the best lands in the ret eee of 
| Lancaster— orpe ; the crop rye 
846 
3R. statute of 
s; the er 
8 6s. pe 
2a. 3 
i 471. net 5 the outlay of 
above 5 aeres 2 own; last 
= crop o Rye-grass 
nearly redeemed itself, and is W very me ge condi- 
tion to what it was. In the winter of 1847 a 
of 1848 I trenched and 
5 he public attention; but we recommend it more trenched 44. IR. 357. of Oat-stubble for green e ps, t. 
especially as bearing “on the important subject of | account of which I give below. The plan I pr 
green crops, and the two distinct questions therein in- is to set my trenching in beds of 7 yards wide, the fall 
volved ly, t is the cost of their p ction? of the land, a drain eut on each side 
‘Secondly, what is their value, when consumed on the I provide, in t instance, stones for the first two 
3 farm, estimated ive weight in or three drains, and then commence trenc 
animals of known value, and by the worth of their depth of the soil only, breaking up the subsoil to the 
residue ure?” 21.) r se two | depth of 1 12 inches with a pick, and tbrow all the 
questions Mr, Hux akes v. emarks, | stones on the top of the ed land. This I 
too long for quoting, and which, therefore, we will not have used strong forks about 7 lbs. weight, with a 
| injure by curt aig but which he sums in the projection at the back in this form (T), in order to give 
plowing statemen more leverage. I prefer them 1 tke pick, = 5 
ee £ s. a, | think, more effectual, and easier for the men. Whilst | 
E wheat crop 419 4 it ing is going on, . — e 
_ Swede crop on 2 rains in the entrenched land, and stones on so 
£1011 g | trenched land are wheeled in barrows to the drain 
the land abounding so in them that they have seldom me 
1 my success in growing gree 
Re ay to make the manure on 
other in the compost at every 1 
— and cover lightly 2 the — I have Aa 
it in a week e of sowing. 
psum per aer 
on them early in the W I did so last veut oon 
my crop, which 1 thought worthless, and the effect was 
— — 
tion. — My gen eneral rotation is—of old tough ley, 
Ta 
; two 
tanks, 
rops mainly to 
e upon the first appearance of tho plant. ‘My 
the i season be 2 like 
34, my y firat two two omg have 
„ HE e 
fnd it 
the 
bought no ge 2 
ton to 25 cwt. per 
the most 5 ne 
premises, by 
