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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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a porting a double oblong ro the same materi, 
aa thn er, with a zine 1 in vas Ma and all roun 
rain water. the buildi 
re 
the nozzle o ich is at a sufficient elevation to: 
the liquid on ‘te surface of th Balkin 
i in 
which is done eve 1 or oftener, by means of | an 
rough at the 5 
e stables milch 
vermin. My manure tanks are nd w 
sunk 15 —— — when — if 8 was said of 
the efficacy of . only wish they were ae lower 
elevation, in water to admit of the midden ste 
cattle sheds being also sunk lower. Although J con- 
th I have endeavoured to detail are in 
advance of anything I have either seen or heard of, 
I am still very far from thinking they are not capable 
ameli — are agricultural i 
als as determine not only the efficacy of we Lge v3 gine! soft soap and machinery, the fibre 
compared w but 
ump, led to the Fall f i We may be 
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s and | sumed. The mixed farmyard Doe. fit state for any plant 
is more ae ae 
separated than by steeping, and uninjured by that p 
a cess, hen Flax is be ated b 
he Uredo segetum. F. Edward Steele, M. D., process, the cultivato 
8 Dublin. dry i 
oe arm. ard 8 to be decomposed ie stacks like corn till wanted 
allowed to express i 
have 
ith the dressings in comm 
u of | neare 
ingault.) The great diver- | H ill an 
is i ject 
want of | most ap Flax, and are 
e (School's method of s ioio. 
at a time w. i ne effects are impeded by N ey the process 
r effected in 50 to 60 hours is, the like st improvement 
he old plan. All requisite W tion 
on a i to the at Delft. . directing to J. 
as 
in your form jun 
| correspondent that my remarks are fully corroborated | would 2 on likeliest r 
ion and experience on thorough- — 
proper preserva- extensively followe 
entation | and recruit the land by 
ture evaporates, jare not wanting many 
escape ved n Bad emi i 
this loss nts to 
one- 
oss increases, till at length it may approach to one- 
of the whole, leaviag a Raha ans of m i: ae . necessity o 
than that of the food. an w which h 
T 
3 obtained ro jo « ewt. F dry food 
| at different periods, may be thus stated approxi 
10 ewt. ge 7 food ag s yi 
to 25 cwt. ; at 
of ioration—so 
ments yet in the rear 
oper: 
80 vitally concern the publie weal. n Robertson 
wit! 
= 
Walker, G i aa Whitehaven, Oc 
Chlorid. Li 
open yards. We may easily N the volatility of we alteration =} effe ai 
ofja 
or green crops; bu 
rawback | may destroy K a viscous tenacity necessary for crops, 
to the present met of our dung in the be oem: to Wheat ac ep car nd any case of 
y have arisen from a new 
82 at waste of the soluble of the e or r from the elay 
dung cannot A — difieulty be prevented. The food approximating to . 
periment lately 
the Royal Dubin Society, for the purpose 
ing the value hloride of lime, first proposed 1 Wi me 
5 sm 
” the e plans must become soluble before it ean enter the | lands, properly so called, into 22 crop 3 even 
ts of the roots. To attain this fermenta. the most difficult kind, is is yet a pae in which are 
odes an 
From some micro- spongeo 
— examination two kinds wy aaa ith | tion is necessary, the be sufficiently 3 d means known to us to produce 
hich our grain crops are liable to be attacked, and | accelerated to ly the requirements of the crop. erop, or any other ae pre Su ad general 
m in i loride of lime, | The tenacious supersaturated clay, on which your e to the land and to Mu 
coupled with linity and deodorising power, I ponien delights to dwell, would, in all probability, | or most of the aversion ente e acts summer 
was induced to believe that this eubstance would be | impede the d position of the dung, and so e lowing of j observers, 
ly e us as a at, and other bie its beneficial. eff, i fully arises from the unskilful aud slovenly manner in which 
seed, ious to its be — expectation decomposition ef good unfermented farm-yard | it is often ae Wiel here is a most painful differ- 
which, I am happy to say, experimen y justi ill pr enough speedily, in well- elay | ence, „ between a well œ and tbrivin; 
In last g I ery fine wh to support the demand he plants; and by the green crop, pi a ee allow of clods and weeds, 
i aid of its mechanical action will supersede dung in any | But the ree ill duced the 
same deg 
former is able, with the same attention, to remove 
course o 
pleasing sight a well- 
ib to suppo ro d fo mmer fallow in the end of the season, the 
the plants, that nothing may be lost. With fresh as n of producing a 2 upon it er -ni 
it wi most pins to the crop | understood. But who knows his business 
a proper season. 
laws, the 
we dare not doubt. It is so ordered the latter; and there is not, in the whole 
each. — pound of the for w i hen led on wii idet the 0 or — of bad fallowing of — 
for two hours in a saturated solution of chloride of lime laid in as an unerring | us throw the on the system instead o 
and, after pouring off the r rye some fine sand | guide i ya this difficult part of farming this | ar A very — part of the clay land 
over it to — it, and thus render it easily sown. The I 5 0 plants that have a n England is F ne in ridges of a 
mixed on of th 1 in the [growth a d early maturity, it is necessary that the form, of unequal breadths at the en often termi- 
- ia. middle of the fed. The 
Steeped in solution of lime; No. 3, 1 lb. of | 
infected seed steeped — solution of . soda, 
cases s ned, and the Sailor es had the usual effect of 
effects, of which deterting o other attempts where the same obstacles did 
f the i i ti as been recommende make 
and iel with * — ; and 
seed, undressed. One pound 
e same 
portions nar 2 the aa which i it — contained, and ~~ * at once, by a levelling with the spade, 
which decom manure very im- removing the too high subsoil —— lower places, and 
benefit and then replacing the top soil. Butt 
exceed 
er the number of straws in 1 Tbs, deprived of th 
The following are the numbers 
Ears in 1 lb. Lib 1 lb. 
No. of Be of i of Straws 
s: publications 
ce | count of the culture and after 
e np ; 
| they not? Do their — i a full account of | New Wheat Drill: gluten a specific mark of Wheat, 
ivi ity to account 
I purpose | Agriculture, he says, “€ 
eases, a very m 
economical, ex a and profitable way of making with the plough a narrow — titen of 4 or 5 
applying — to thorough drained viscous clay land, is in breadth in the old deep furrows, and increasing 
in an unfermented state. George Summers, Stoke Wake, width h aveey y follo owing Ee of allowing, er ie ong us 
Teer els > hig 
Flazx.—In what can I get the best ae- new ridges may be dra wn . earna 
re- | direction of the old ones, and ae the water 
a gradual flow. This method ma 
who is the 
the best process ; where are the: 
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made by Lee, of Middlesex, by which, with the aid of | write sufficiently explicit to satisfy the whole, The 
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