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THE AG AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
E EPT. 1 = 
then mee 2 n will sink in and the water 
is stagnant in the land—there is no current. through it 
—the dishes in aA 1 9 — are eying still on their rag he 3 
and as soon p lant aten up all the 
t se food and not 
an animal ; it is like an an at th chaine 
—— part from the air, and its mineral part 
from the soil that the ihai, ie is not the common 
earth of the soil, but consists of 10 or 11 things in the 
land, which emit them in comparatively small quan- 
sean tities, and which the farmer must restore as the plants 
about after its food like | remove them, or the soil — es ram an get 
y the leg; it We 
poorer. 
ave seen tha ce by which 
is stationary, and must die if food is not brought to it. the — continually soli through ‘the soil a nsa 
The use of d 
he of draining is not to get rid of A 
make use of water; itis to kee 
sink thro and feed the plants, not 
them to starve. Abundance 
of water is a pies ood thing. 
What is more fertile than 
a wa ater meadow ? 
Now, what is this mineral ee de the soil con- | who see the 
t 1 
and without which t 
One 
but wee aye 
undergrou S instead of o to 
e manure 
w 2 a des Strange as it may seem to t 
dune added to the land, and 
the Wheat continually taken from it, a pla as no 
* — 5 another. It ean but 
ee to convert o 
eit. It will flourish 
the atoms 
tak icle 
ing I ey ‘in thia “bottle 1 ee ae if they are food, it will starve if — are withheld, and 
— ; it was got out 
loo Pag tg gr 8 rable 
very remar propention 
mpl. Mp ty ay burns most brilliant] 
us, all You 
is pos 
have to do, is to apply alot of —— which contains | e 
the phosphorus it wants. You know that. tha 
food. the phosphorus 
cheese is taken out of f the Grass, ay ‘the soil ‘of heli 
farm; 
ing 28 on 155 8 dust, which restores 
8 to the almost exhausted soil. And se he 
e soil is of any use to r but what will 
diol i in the water which they ta eir roots; 
inka : : 
Ne very . things as those 
will great crease its The drain 
a small quantity of it, u et, do fer = ever improv 
| atoms you might have a added to the land in that manure 
E avi been built up in 
or nee 
hole Won ae system of 
vegetable growth, and confers the life which puts it-in 
exercise, M. S. | 
BOG CULTIVATION. 
One part — White Moss, near 1 to the 
— of ne been improved, u 
bert Gregge Hopwood, Es 
oss has been e or leased, ies 
r ld iJo ones, at whose 2 it has been 
brought into cultivation. N w carries e nt crops 
of 8 * er, an s, although the ‘ian te is far 
is terme This Moss lies at an 
altitude r, about 400 feet above the level of the s sea, 
age is perfect, — is not always the case i 
year what a large —— vanes | otherwise be require 
for, And that is the seeret of the effect: of the oil S 
following detail of im prove- 
* ia from information 
— by Mr. D 
the roots of plasi — ‘the wa 
lan W ve 0 
f | produce, whi 
under is 
pieces. A large harrow was then em ployed. ta 
further reduction. Marling being th 
wan done by a portable railway, — which, peat 
y any 
about 200 cubic yards were applied to the acre, Night 
soil and coal pert have been a manure, and 
found to answer much better than others, not only as 
15 per cent. in favour of t = 
is 82 a of abou 
ee ke, viz i=- 
Draining, including mains ro ow 
Marling — sanding 200 im o yards 
Manure, night ve ac = 
Trenchin ng we 
4.10 
Some parts of the improved peat were trek planted 
with Potatoes, others sown with Swedish ips, 
common Turnip, m aee Wurzel: all in Be 
ats hay n produced on the Moss By estion, 
averaging a 60 bushels ee acre. Also mi from 
* es in diameter, and at the ee of about 
0 tons per a 
A railway — been made from the Man and 
ae. line „right on to this Moni. by litot manure iş 
df 
veje r, 
from the M any mar. 4 situated in a 
manufacturing istrict pea ernie! t pars of the produce 
is sold from and, e nsisting of 
eat, w 
spring varieties according to the ps 4 ore 
sometimes in the early pring m ; 4th, bce 
mh ps detail =. ae hat ws :—the 
Clover * is ploughed o 
the Oat 
new atop is in the 
After n re land is ploughed urro 
and left all w The spring following it is cross 
be 8 
F 
with the 
vino upon boned a meai anid a ibe ih eniad, ban whole: e — y vaar is divided into fields | Pushed, then well harrove and „ 
à erph i called, is 8 acres in extent each. The fields are in o;i] i : d i 0 
powerful’ pon bo A just because it is more the form of p ms, not more 70 yards ry erz * * 175 then drawn = ar inch 
easily water. ess quantity. of the super- e, all joining up to Ser roads formed for the ridges with a double mould board p Dung 
NR an = —_— as err i | purpose. The fi are divided by the means of 4 chen cast upon the and put in — si from 1 ext. 
much p orus out f it, h the 2 | cutting of the a ai pest a aig Feet * 85 1} op eici, the heaps peng. pat Aboot. a 
s = È e . 2 3 d 
growing, as it Nen rost of many "peye of the simple | and fr ar 2 > 3 feet deep, thus providing suitable outlets rene 3 . re poe bate 
e we ; got our for ha ter, g were then opened across the mould board 1 of management is the 
n . — ` 2 to a lot of Roder 8 | fields 8 one main to another, being eut 20 inches | me N for Potatoes, Turn ps, Or Mangold 
F. f 8 x Ry Sema pete pa — lot ob wide, and 24 3 deep. The whole extent intended Wurzel, only otato i aid on dung 
| , an rtaking, was gu over in £ d Beet seed arei 
2 . thy w he anja you ses that the the way h herein specified ; and by the — ae ss . . e ie e the sidan being rolled: 
out of their food to make their bones with, while the for Wenn Suen foot, but inno cane. sho 5 before and after sowing. orzel ai 
u 
— 2 fatting oxen contains all the Phosphorus oa their | inte 
to T amier over nips, 
none of it for for 
they min it ‘all to to make their ten af ‘hi in the 
285 8 to — their milk of. Aw us you see that 
much 
wants ; that would be of li 
0 tons of poor farm dung; and to talk of a heavy 
— . does — convey — siden of how the | im 
n treated. A h sing of poor 
dang nyo be hal 0 — ar a very. light ap- 
n | there be 
forming ù S divisi sion — 
ts ut at fi 
ere 
es when 
deeper as the 
— of the peat would allow 
ain as before observed, were left open, 
each fiel d; f 
were e i 
and d covered 
rom 5 to 
his drain armia ps pat p vertical, 
t 
which those er ie sown * test, re 
searifyings and harrowings before sowing. - 
All these root pt gone over with the dril 
cultivator or horse hoes, during the growth of the cor: 
and the plants aa and kept clean by h st 
and weeding ato sets are laid from 9 to 12 in 
asun i plants 
left. at about 12 inches. As these —— 
mr romi e ini: tho anturiin àr — tee 
land is ploughed one w if: the weather pe 
heat seed also bein in N 
ei — roadeast and 
In April following the crop is rolled, then wee 
ne pane sod is 
ashes of — contain many mineral sub- taken neatly out to ei 1 ; i 
om of 12 inches, and laid 
1 besides they contain sulphur, and carefully on one side to be age T for the N aren Aer = tlo Wheat 8 * a top 
— — — and 1 and the 8 of tin | lowermost spit, this being 15 inches deep, and cut with dy his of night. seit en ashes is given as soon as ie 
2 gases, " . an imp ca pitting tool; after which the guano ruar in 
a os waa more of them—potassium, the metal ace i uced on the 5 and formed t is 5 foll 3 = ve om re 75 seed Oats sown per 
3 e oe 2 d — * y the term wedge and drain. 3 * j naeg Be oe s, and 57 Wheat, 23 bushels, 
which No ter draining, the surface ken u 1 Agricu 
mou n of — or of meat you eat but contains | with the plough S partly with the spade — i Rothwell” udaro o} anes 
— 3 su — It is a Soft m floating on ing, to prevent sin ing, rovided with HE POTATO HA AR EST r hat has 
r, 7 4 fie a lent chemical wood pattens attached to their feet, made firm by light hei to tose out to the agriculturis W — 
u,. * i aap a soon as- it iron plates, and fastened by m eans of a — As a l ' and serious „Poe 
reaches the sur ep S t + This potash and further pentirs against. — ere . 2 — that sont : — — the 
* added w enever you apply wood ashes to allowed to walk on N in che 7 but on for 8 
r ENIN in many der ploughing, e dee | diferent coustion of scaring, pe- Potato: erofë 
tases, power as a manure is owing i [Eolien wt 8 ar 10 cireslar knives fasten vi its ; enim mE 
Potash they contain. cylinder, was drawn with four ‘rae te [at — retin perhaps 20% 
Well, then, we have seen that a plant obtains its land. ‘his instrument cuts sogin ations-I'b * 
