24—1850. | 
matters on the ac 
but » there a 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
i} still retains the opinion that the effluvia | superfluous growth. Now, my friend, permit me to 
i f | reason with nga you should flag your Wheat, you 
ration in existence 
u 
his ing 
and I have no so Sab but it will very so ome as 
genera’ 12 months sinin, — that 
3 
wever, no 
on examining the oe — 
— precious elixir, it ee. on me to 
corn 
Seer er cauldron ; but that it was nothing but straw 
But the adepti at 
388 an 
ink that the transmutatio: 
e 
them : 
m chips a wood 
as easily as he himself will cattle Food from stra 
Hence, although my friend, in ed sare sees to his eattle 
and pig feeding has made an u n by 
as. 
vitare C 
ig an vape ~ erb, whic 
r seems to kaia ecified to the let 
t I en another crow to pick with my friend. 
ast year he was an eloquent advocate of agricu ul- 
ts particularly for the 
less cro 
than a rational quantity, and that it produced an abu 
dance of impoverishing straw, but very little corn. But 
since my ation, and discovered the pi 
on, rected 
of straw into hay — — iy 25 c 
system of corn — ng as e 2. 
¢tattle-feeding, and is become one of the Y thickest i a 
if not the 1 — in the 3 of Essex, 
or of any county, ing my friend’s corn 
fields a gb since 1 1 ‘that — . had bee 
thrown — had been shovelled ante for 
ing and — the 
— after make Is of Wheat 
seed to eac 
afuls were in a space 
com 
s elixir 
ny eS Ek for the | is 
ged 2 
than corn, an 
and 
n 
a 
m the readers of this 
t of 
my 
d perhaps that was the ease ; tree-hall 
publi 
— friend "Mechi i in this 
6 pe 
jf aya $ 
h of 
| 
add it will give m 
ed e 
my f 
two of my parishioners farms agai nst 
of 
will ta 
produce Ha be wee to 
r do 
— ay Tipt ree 
Tiptree-hall, and the 
and if t 
with me this 121 I will t 
and seed it 
less seed than he has proclaimed to 
and. with bal tho quan 
conclusion, M 
uld 
Ih have ga b feld. of imis a a feld ‘of Ae and 
any. 
on “Tiptree all — And ne at Peal: not deign 
ake 
my frien 
u said, | 
farmers 
F 
200, and te other upwards of 
20 or 30 ac 
res on 
of seed sown 
Lor or superior to muy ero 
379 
his farms so low that the tithe was actually valued 2 
thou situation 
“ Borrowb 
bank” for a part of the rent. And and did not — 
rs prosper with sueh advan 
lowness of the rent 
d, 
5 os for several years been 
and yr iving b un e 3 7 5 enter- 
most aml bes 
them 
st | been Ss urs to arom pasea 2 2 in past 
t times,’ so now, they must to make 
Ro tsk see 
e my Bean-field 
in his presence 2 kaa ‘men es 
to be the 
ea * Pang with, and still T will 
friend 
bours, but par- 
parishioners and ne 
—— my Y parishioners, following my example, | 
tity of seed 
appears to be 
a and the latter was 
r. Editor, pawit 
te, through your journal, t those numerous gen 
m enter their kan, 2 a knowledge 
| ne 
2 and ns Mia also, to to Wi tap ys 
will 
to see t 
xhibit to the: 
This reason may. appear — b it will not bear | co 
e that straw alone | 
examining, It is easy to demonstrat 
cannot be grown Ta at a very great loss, that it is 
Rearly worthless as food for cattle, and is fit only for 
— aly therefore, swa 
w is really — a gooi erop of corn, 
— a great and ruinous . 
A 
More | e 
come to see my doings ; 
undertake to show them such growing co 
i ng lis 
1 | is 
corn as they 
ine eee drill I invented and made 
vow 
* 
n Old Farme 
„ Earning pra E ater * * a oe that 
one is ever ruin 
Ste: this s aying, there is 
and i 
which at the year’s 
returning the pelt loss a surplus for ag ye e 
ut farmers are seldom a, 3 
1 0 
cessary part of their education, en ot what le More 
evident than 1 — for their knowing not only 
what peria their general 3 bears to the 
ould also be aware in 
| money so unprofitably. They 
returns, without a inowledge of the 
T often 
early beco 
3025 the stonk, ae 
er their 
Abetter an ats, 
of the cost on pales gd of os 
pice snee: 
test of every a i 
com 
facturers, traders, an 
estimates, and their debtor and 
farmers not! Ton ke the present ory tor 
balance sheets, for my early education ercantile 
e to ona, nah a 1 A — the same 
lity of proof be 
time the 
e we we must not 
