666 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Or. 19, 
farm is as follows: 350 Southdown ewes, 20 So athdown 2 the plants may receive the greatest advantage year, 25 to 30 the second, 15 to 20 the third, and from 
21 milk from it. The mouths of plants which take their nou- 10 to 15 the fourth year, and that the influence of it 
| ent 
i and | ears, 
oultry a few. The amount of capital ex- inaen (ealled spongioles by botanists) ; these suck in We never apply manure 10 1 any erop that produces 
i pe moisture containing the en pale they receive | seed; we — apply it to fodder crops—those 
I may observe, that — 1. He ‘had from the active soil, these small spongioles spread over erops which produes food for s a. — which we call 
to pay a consid sum at his entry for what are the whole cultivated space between a rows of plants, | 8 erops; whi consumption, 
e | however wide or distant they may — —— — of the | increase the elements ‘of an xaditionst. supply of rich 
net.] 2. Almost | food whieh the plants require. But xtend in Manure — "the reproduction of the same kind of crop, 
the whole farm has been subsoiled Another ex- | depth, as well as horizontally ; aud the aan to — ch But we must over t manure will remain in 
i i imi . they are restricted is just the depth to which the sys is n psi in an inaetive state unless it is min 3 divided 
pensive 
RicpEN-spared no pains or expense in forming a supe- cultivated, and to whic influence of t read over the land and 
rior i iven .as much as | ai d, and has made the soil active. This aoe] ploughed into the soil, and repeatedly rated s0 as 
70 guineas for the use of This (he said) will | the case, we have ae instrument in our power to | to i ts i — in — 
the high price which 1 obtain for my ewes. | increase the field for — roots to feed on, by perſeetiy 
The common price last y A county was from | draining, subsoil ploughing, — deep cultivation of the pee 
25s. w 30s. The — ieh 1 realised were as soil. Before the land is properly prepared for receiving | n 
he always in vi 
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5, From the nature of the implements Karben on e M. : 
i —— dec them jato their original elements; system. 
the — it —— that, under that head also, a very i oi = lng et = nature frem Half decomposed manure should be . — : 
Mr. * nag ie anil; fall whence it was originally abstracted. And this fact | into strong or clayey soil before Christm 
er proc jpa very $ = should instruct us that no animal or vegetable matter the spring, that it may be well mixed with N r. aed 
statement of the management of the s ack nimal excrements should be left on the surface of soil; the roots have thus a r field in which to 
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The object of the farmer, in applying manure to his | however deep it may be, if within the influence of the 
i and, is either to repair the injury which has been done | sun and air ; they are then able to resist the greatest 
mark is amply T 4 e have Hot spaco = a it by the preceding crops, or to increase the | drought as well as the ——— — often repeated frost 
such Š compl 8 : 1 duetiveness of the soil. — The mode which Nature adopts in the spring; there is, there no check to the 
= Sahici Sho 80 155 a a produce her erops and inerease the productiveness of wth of the plant when the seed i is formin ming (which is 
t for themselves e e n * Bk mavens Ste the the soil, is by letting the erop die and decompose on th when the active soil is only 3 or 4 — deep 
phle as thi farm. | E? round which produced it, and this goes on year after as the roots receive their nourishment fro peen! 
h manures empioyea on th year, each crop furnishing food for the erop that is to beyond the influence of the great changes in the weather. 
ti 1s obtained — the following sources follow ; in this way the soil has organic matter cs it in| Manure applied to land in i 
“1. Farm. xard , composed of straw and Pea every N of decay from the first to the last s age of gives out its nutritive or fertilising wly, is the 
haulm, whieh has been litter for cows and horses, and 8 ion. dest; but on poor land there ought to be the application 
for the sheep in the straw yards. 2. Liquid manure, shall find the produce to be in proportion to the of that manure which rapidly decomposes, and thus 
collected in a tank, into which it flows 1 m byres, os — of soluble matter in the soil fitted for — rapidly gives up its fertilising matter from the first, 
„and piggeries. This tank is 10 x 8 X 1} feet. nourishment of the plants cultivated, and for this reason | and it must supply food to the plant from its sprouting, 
liquid is pumped. into a barrel on a ear 3. there should always be a store of nutriment in the soil and continue it unremittingly till the plant has pro- 
Stable-yard dung, purchased in Brighton, and of whieh, for its erops to draw upon, being convinced that when- | duced its seed ripe for harvesting. 
last year, Mr. R. got 932 long waggon loads. 4. Night- ever this aceount is overdrawn the land becomes in a a r sandy soils contain little — the appli- 
i oh poy : — e — . year state of bankruptcy, and so does its * n of a rer quantity of vegetable and animal 
sary a oo — 33 2 quantity of guano; We ought, therefore, always to apply more manure onda is the a this being more —— than arti- 
“ The liquid SOM ao the tank is used in tw ote e en A er a N eee fae 20 ; 
materials of the crop to the soil than the erop draws Tho principal o object of the farmer, in the application 
ways. After the Clover or Lucerne is cut, me from it ; in this way we inerease res productiv 1 his crops, is to put them into vi 
. over the tend by means of a barrel. | the soil—there iei aek a langei active ‘capital in in the growth, binte through the first stages their 
V her parag in this way, it is applied by being | soil ready to be drawn upon un their roots searc 
ok 
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i Jungi land receives a To be abie to apply the — properly we should food, — they will find in ae ee 
ec e al he sheep folded on not only know ae kind and quantity of the materia i 
it. he nigh woald of itself ios 5 ee sian Sy be ee ana d lg ‘aso ie THE MASTER AND THE SERVANT. 
> erefore „ made with which the land permits the decay of manure, to VILLAGE LECTURE., ; > 
with earth, ; 3 r weeds, Ke &e. M. Soe enable us at all times ni 3 Durme last e there were, as you pion: Jel 
qopa 
8 1 its productiveness ; we 3 — vening lectures delivered in this room on 
is decomposed much sooner a loose j of eee 3 which r at providing 
ilicious sandy soil as 
uantity applied to a sandy soil will prebet its effeets I eidlave they — in yielding — the 
sh usement they afford 
ipini. gae soot also, in a much shorter period than in a clay soil or ela, ded w 
y or clayey | amuse! was their objeet at least as 
which he —— to his young eat at the rate of loam, and that the more rapidly the manure is decom- much as the instruetion they communicated. Now I 
x er acre. There are about 3 tons in Pte | he greater is the result produced. wish at the very outset of „this lecture to forewarn'any 
me peer lng wagon 3 25 — — m to ritmo he cereal plants, when producing seed, are much i in- | who ma that they have come to be 1 — just i ne chat — 
ons of stable du jured by PP that are sure poin or 
a eare E at ‘a cost, according to ‘the previous their stems and leaves grow close together, are too p aim at fu 
Sesame Ten nearly 1/. per acre, over his ey and become feeble and unable to — an | amusement at all. It admits of no illustrations able 
ough it a from ‘he shove Wistaeneat int make Ge —— ee of | « i  Jangh—of ‘very few that if?! 
that cacy 200% a year, on the average of the last | crops we n 3 Nee root induce. your surprise—but though t ity 
3 aor nina Re yt ee the e or | organic matter in a deeomposing state in the soil for the I assure you that it well deserves the earnest considera- 
— in —4 785 emp * e A 3 not going plant to assimilate the n utriment which ee ; | tion of every one of us, and I venture to say that it will ' 
g ein —— of the system adopted, on account of and we have found the erops of Wheat which follow the | receive the earnest consideration of every one here 
— —.— gures or words, which it appears t to fur- —— are in proportion to the state of culture in which | whether man or bore ene has a manly — 
land is ‘left after ‘the moot ‘crops are: withärawn | For nothing ca e properly elaim the 
ards of a man, mt this, which affeets the 
his fellows, 
any particular rotation, or practised any particular from it. 
3 farm management, that his example will be , The time 5 — the manure takes to be completely | so large a num 
but because he has ahr aninstance of the | soluble and g gaseous products is a Sub- Of course i impartially and 
d resolution seconded | lens al the greatest importamee to the farmer. This in order to be usefully, set before you. 
y which ample capital confers, are able jega aot on gp — on che nature of Aron geo materials | who is neitl ter no vant (on 
to develop the resources of the land so as to balance n 0 on the | exists), or one 
m : : e of the alte to which it is applied, and to the rem their * ive shares, 
the evil of adverse cireumstances. Of course the na P pem thote 
word “ ample,” as regards capital, mere describes and moistar isture of our climate, The manure which, dur ing | relationship : 
relation which obtains between its amount and aue ov gaseous products, w will, of course, exert 3 greater than any one man 
a's : there are few occupying | whole of its nutritious influence on the first erop, leav- 7 — complete 
but might, if they wished, furnish them- | ing no gy I am well aware that the present will will beia — 5 
l capital as “ ample * as that which Mr. ene is never vith f. d feet attempt, both because _prejudiee ‘may hinder me 
s, by reducing the amount of their fro ignorance’ li 
may depend upon it that . the every seeond —.— the — comes — of sig 
means of the i 
d lk. 15 ov * 
er i tion of the manure, then we | master 
ing Som “high |? e “sd abe — e, in as many 
stages of decomposition, furnishi necessary supply 
ie wld = at Bur „ and | of nutritive fons fee the — ore 
is the yw and the basins m, 
to meet low prica 
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PHILOSOPHY 
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: ce OF pine f 
be . 
Ware Ward our manure to the lan- 
