652 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETAN kias 12, 
3 "34 inches wide from wheel to wheel, and it requires — not what advice to give me, besides claying and = — 5 n are Se hy outs 
stiff land two horses, but on light land one horse eropping. A writer, whose work I arg n possess, me Ee ARTI . a were Sah 
d sold at th k 
will do very well, Dai in other words it is — be like the — me that the most effectual means discovered of oft Sout it team et a e . 2 
common drills in use. y invention is machine or estroying my e er. some 20 years . were 3 mutton were produced was maintained ; so that a large pri 
which drops the G of seed one by one in the rows | ing them in muck h * &e., atching them on the carried R substance, which Produced N was neve 
as the drill moves on, or it will drop more than ‘ai wing. I am, as you may suppose anxious to rs i e Onviously, A practical, l'agriculture, the — we 
as required; but unlike my thin-seeding friend, Mr. | some more prac acticable preventive of their depr redations ra 8 all that to = which not been used in th 
Mechi, who drops, 10, 15, and even 20 grains in one may u not have been devised by later 3 suitable pro eres. on of beef a mation. They ‘ought to divide the 
ut o 
A W W . 4 7 4882 
nstance, a Turnip crop—into tw 
* 
a 
S 
3 
© 
m 
E. 
5 
* 
— 
mely, 5 7 which pr 4 the Pse, — 70 atk bee 4 
a 
p Railw 
more, and by which means on an average I drill almost re 8 * al, an extraet from the PA jt to the soil which had not ap eal perre in Y 
a rf yor 88 =. he pent and Barley, or if I aimed at Gazette on Farm Bui 3 wherein an allusion is made | P’ . ‘ . substance: 
great a obtain an extraordinary crop to the application of railways and machinery. That you | which were not for the production of rains they were aaa 
ok Wheat, 1 shoma p pat in oori six quarts of seed. I | may know agri iculturists are looking in the right direc- always A return the manure immediately to the o soil ; and th 
; ; : 
: 
E 
[æ] 
Rg 
t 
> 
© 
s 
o Lz 
d 
za 
® 
4 
© 
5 
© 
22 
and 
ERT 
8 AA & E 
wy 8 a 
ah a speaker 5 Mechi’s we hwo tr said he required at | new steading at Lymm, way, stions of dispute, There was the ol a — 
least 96 quarts. I hope free trade will annihilate this Esq., where all you have stated respecting railways for ques n g, whe e th ‘ ‘(ae tale anid — 
aste, an hink education joined to a trade will | agricultural purposes 1s carried out. In this instance, | ev — Shower which e ssn down from the heavens washed 
i a rai a range 
Aroun ra 
ni poles > bourin ond, Then i were the covered d 
me the delusion is vanishing away fast: I Nan reduced | of buildings, the stacks standing on frames, as 1 the ne cate were pen nned, b but not tied up; and there was the 
ith many b i Th e ere th 
mu u 
vers he fra practice, and turned out to good advantage in some counties 
rities, I have made as many experiments as my humb ble other frames, which are wedged up—the wedges are 3 * 8 mh . Ae Should like, d. re the pre, 
means and abilities would ena om me, ;| knocked away and the fixed frame with its load rests | ceedings terminated, to hear some g endes oprao aft wn 
ic] 
8 
B 
© 
— 
3 
8 
S 
5 
ta 
5 
3 
i=] 
* 
— 
3. 
p 
< 
. 
5 
p 
=] 
| 
» 
4 
Aa 
o? 
F 
B 
© 
i 
2 
U 
<4 
© 
4 
4 f 
EI 
2 
5 
Qu 
co 
-g 
© 
. 8 
E 
4 
oO 
rs’ clubs Litera ary and Me — - | upon the one on wheels; to this is attached a rope from | opinions as to whether 2 — should be fermented or not 
nics’ institutions ee, ere , and all hav nicht the steam engine, and the stack is bodily moved to the | fermented, as that rig ecg 
my mind that the yerni y of gluten n in Wheat is a feeding board. The stacks are placed under skeleton exposed to the rain or not, and wiit the liquid manure 
specifie mark of Wheat; and that it is so I i my | sheds, thus securing the grain from wet, when being | should be applied as such, or incorporated with solid manure 
h Si vested—saving t i easi 
th k a 
made observations and ex riments on the food for | the barn ; also xpense moval from the bay to | further on this point, than by saying that every exposure of 
infants, and the facts I have obtained are so convincing | the machine. 117 is ee that on the outlay ve the | the manure to the 8 fermentation of manure, ca 
to me that I have had serious thoughts of drawing the | sheds and rails a per centage o of 10 per era is obtained, perniek: is fast as much an die 
attention of the poor-law board and the Gov rnment to | after making the proper allowances for wear and biit to the farmer, ae it was of loes of health to the residents of the 
them. They are completely against your authorities. | The security eh is weather during harvest is moreover | town or ard. There could be no such thing as smell 
i ost impor 
E - | without a loss of matter, and that matter was the — — valu- 
wi E able aadi that could be — = the farmers. - Our s were 
within the last year ; two women infants, and one heshire. l are la d | proper criterions for the los manure, as, in proportion as we 
of them had no milk, and one was ordered by the parish throng pet seers shed and the food supplied direct | had strong — 80 r proportion w 2 * armer losing his 
m 3 . in u 1 manure. ey would see, then, t m e 3 of 
surgeon not to rne her infant = Lope: Seeger bad bor uck ihe pein 3 a: i a ice llocks ine is manures was always attended with a loss of valuable fer- 
state of health, t ough poverty. saw the infants, an hour. e prin et e of the threshing "The ine 18 | tilising matter, es the only question therefore was, whether 
rs | or ve hig i id 
ery weak and cons ut 
rath, saying that she gave it beautifully w 
and if it were the will of the Lord t the child shoal 
ast fun 
. laying down of 10 oads of fermented manure, with a $ 
ply the whole of the premises, house, &c. In the dairy | crop, against 10 loads of unfermented manure and a later crop ; 
i E mer—in win and not 10 — of fermented manure against 10 loads of un- 
1 * ure. the mechanical means of applying 
liqui * the soil was better understood and brought 
—— e r perfection, they could not expect that the use of 
th uid would be much extended. It was very well known 
0 
round a 
i — p. — sprouting Potatoes, by which means the . ppt: 
aken nS anes thes weeks earlier than | caris and the horses’ feet trampling down the soil. He would 
they N be by the mon process. This is a long | now beg to be allowed to call attention to an experiment w 
tablished fact in Ch seals) even by the process of * 
ou 
k e 
$ ry exceedingly fine — becau se it took some time pr the liquid 
for the cattle it is mixed in — oom en — fall which —— The object of this 
a trap into a truck a — dire e experiment wa 3 to show that when strong liquid manure from 
eal — D — 5 the stable or the rte d passed through sou, and was allowed 
able or cow-yar ’ 
| inte p~ ES Agricultural Architect and to filter from it, tha tH ad would no longer be manure, but 
: 3 * A 
Sorieties, po 
ii Pars s LANCASHIRE, Sept. 11: The Eco of 
á b re eparing ot Applying Pan yard 2 * 
side this last year. G. Wilkins. [We did not deny that cial y in a liquid form 
23 e x r. W. J. 3 said: The reason why the Council of the | in this was, that in the use of liqui —— there was no 
Wheat was distinguished among other n by contain- Boats selected this subject ses that they 9 ne a very | reason ay d — ms — d be limited cular seasons of 
ing a large proportion of gluten—but we did deny that | important one—very important to pra actical men, and very im- year. It had bee — considered that to apply liq 
gyptian Wheat or any other “species ’’of Wheat could peoa — — — poser 5 take into consideration, — N tye-grass Cuvee, "or 1 of that 
l ree Mi A o to enable them by t ri oe | i 3 
be distinguished from among the others by comparing its | the matter, to lay it Len Sxperiments and examina to abe | his belief was, that 7 the “y thew the liquid manare on the — 
3 of gluten with that of the others. The pro- the most of it, to perfect it, and to carry it out on their own | the rains or drains would carry away the matter (W 
po a s n j 
thou — x 0 
2 . only mete in its results to agriculturists hút there was a | plant in the soil at any time 0 he year, an 
so much as according to circumstances of growth. ] great ard of opinion prevailing, am among m classes of — of loss. (Applause.) Thus they might throw & liquid 
2 Productiveness of the Peruvian Barley.—I dibbled | farmers, as eserving and k g farm- | m — 12 time that mins me a ian 
this year one peck in an acre of ground ; the produce | yard manure, „ and the best modes of using it and aging it on the | ve ence. ought that this fact would make 
: e th f lio uid re, and would lead to its more extensive 
has been 22 bushels, the weight per bushel is 64lbs.— ground. Som r nat “the solid part was better laid — ee 0 Maltat : an 0 e: ee chis kind 
14 2 i i e uan 
the bread made from it is superior to that of common | open air. Some maintained w ith regard to the liquid that it of manure 5 — was very great, and unless the tank 
Barley bread, and arker than some of the red should be used 3 — nan maintained that it should -i very large it would be impossible for them to deal a 70 
Wheats would yield, after the bran has been removed. ere r used. There was also a | however, his axiom were correct, tant the soil had cure, 0 
nd appearance i 
efore the 
enerally any better subject for discussion thant this—relating | injure the land in its mechanical texture—if axic 
have produced a larger crop? Twenty-two bushels an to hè manures of the 2 both in a liquid and in à solid state | correct, they might put it on at any time, and ths — ne 
is a small produce, although it may ap a He was in hopes, for one, bom — — which would take receive the benefit, He had published a paper 250 
ned entire of the Royal Agricultur d — 2 
nu 5 
bbe m2 of li e 
sina para The lan ro in whieh it w sown and the manure o s. He had a notion himself that there | to the production of the crop—the salts of 
n i es in and m i 
taine 
B allow wa wns, e. in this manure 2 quid 
3 they —4 the pi eelo men in the land were at their wit’s end | was filtered away. they put s li 
bushel of black Barley; ; it produce t the rate of 60 | te Know what to do with. He could not help thinking that | thesalts of ammonia or gusas they would find that the Ti, 
ushels per acre, e bread otek from it is very e was some mode of converting these manures, which are would run away entirely free from e or = 
— a now nothing but a nuisance through the length and breadth of ould like any of the gentlemen present to gi 
r x said quid m 
the to the so us re ad 
Eo 1 + asture near my house is completely overrun | would first of all come to the question, What is farm-yard | their attention to any cases where liquid meg i 
wi ave no o doubt, the cockchafer—or Melolontha | manure ? —_ supposing they had a native forest of trees—in | applied to the soil instead of being apps following 
vulgaris. ese insects appear to be in their second or | the west of America, for 1 ad them growing year | —Mr. E. G. MELLING, of Preston, read py to the genere 
1 * ä after sear, a shedding their leaves annually, and the soilgrowing | The following remarks are intended to spe rehended this 
over id ao t require ea: logic to find ou t that | character of the farms in the district — comp with 
begun 
here spots in the fie r 
with the grubs and the birds who banquet upon them, timber 3 n s to be fona 1 in shega ——— “Ihat a —.— scarcely be 3 in 
i i 2 : ; amount of the subsistence of th es came er 
— e Grass is entirely killed ; and on moving the withered quite manifest, for without its aid a the soil could not furnish the | introduced. The arrangement of most ont — liquid manu 
b ades, considerable numbers of these animalculze pre- immense amount of timber found in these forests. In ordinary | ings is very inconvenient for the gx 8 puting 
th ture the j balls 
s seel i and 
apparently th in e healthiest parts, they appear to be almos | PF and by they * a crop, za crop they took off the land to down tanks soe AS . eom o avoid 
Three of my most intelligent aa | eee DOEN i the Amjad, and st the same Sending is on undulating ground, 
