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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
Nov ~~ Qj. 
2 
uiia Y Sea agriculture, bested ell feras 12 profits a 
working of 
ee. 3 it wil readily = perceived 1 that | 
n of the American a farmer is by no means 
— as som s- believe, paa 
compared with chat of the — 2 a a competitor 
in the English mark 
In the first stage the settler, on his ural at the 
; cash—a which 
milk to his 8 rse to per 
ing, and join the ute ‘the "iowa it is the utmost 
he can do a — ive k, so that he is 
necessitated e 
utmost to ae over difficulties em- 
than ‘the Ii big aof ‘the “debts 
which hang over his allotm ede recy ape rapes in cases 
nt of ¢ capita 
in reviewing the. different steps. in the able of the two, is ap — on oe Subject as 
ing t 
spre corn, cattle, and 8 produce in e 
the-one, and empty of the other, so 2 k eg ex | 
nd labour. Ow 
ed in cheap cattle and 
e hand, and cheap lab 
but the first shes keeps the market fall of | th 
perience the 3 of what they 
cheap corn and dear labour. The on ‘of the | 
third class could grow more corn and cattle were | 
it not for the lo 
| Jo 1 
1 the — of 1846 I had — Tumi 
fed off by sheep, — the other ploughed-in, found in the 
succeeding Wheat crop a difference o — — arter per acre 
in favour of ploughing-in. I insert letters from some 
entlemen who have also found favourable re. 
sults,” 
£i 
“MY DEAR Smm—In repiy to — letter I am instructed: 
say, that the members of the aeo 2 Club, in Ay 
neighbourhood of Rochester, Kent, u hed that 
— — manures are peculiarly fractifyini iE, “and eA t taking 
ass, | the case of a fallow or beg oS field, ager — previously 4 ae 
same tilth, and sown with R nd d 
| three divisions, one of which bal b be fed off with pe me 
“rahe any extra food to the Rape, the second —— rr 
and the third division fed off with oil-c rn; that 
on the 1 8 
— next best on the second, mei he png on nd dig. 
| all speak in favour of green crops for manure.— Tours — a 
Old Broad- i 1 10, 1849.“ 
—.— 
“MY Vai Sm—I jea 2 was O to answer your 
inquiry seo been u Yorksti ast fortnight; 
however, I nelad to ene — the required i . 
than 2 stoek ait 
consume ; I, therefore, thought that it was r nable, that ii 
| the Ka was broken to pieces, poe ploughed i ty the grain e crop, 
| that followed * dertve as pe Migs 5 =. 8 * 2 125 sheep. 
amou 
a different system cannot be adopted ans ‘profit, f for these e aid 20 wien one are on tits SH Fel 
the want of consumers generally on the one hand, | as by the low price of corn, together with the expense | and with mother —— the fourth ' week in hel “pane of the 
and the competition of the other two class of Bey: and er istances from places of export rest q Se 2 1 „the 1409. 30S man 5 newly 
i «progr of improvement, o n theo At a and t Mere 1 we such facts, ie the Taraia (White Rounds) wird broken ant owe 
large expense of drudgery the Wer is compelled, as grum ling, abo about tad times at tg ver be heard in on the last week in Febrnary, the produce, Wik Aa w 
it were, to un H them in corn, t| of; but when twice the price of English p * is and plougl beton Oat pe A — 
compete with them in the other products of the paid and only mk ge of the aopn of 101 pushe ls per a ‘Wher e — loud la by sheep; 
farm, owing to the pecul t his dung-| butcher-meat received, how can an Anglo Depron ds Facts on Rki y-p Wies up land the 
hill, or practice. rna even in the —. of corn keep fro bl how can he grow corn this will be SAAI E Hot, È Will m 50 1 — 
he experien y serious or the English market cheaper than the English | faithfully, Parer Love, Nase * 5, 1849. 
ciall sasa thin s sm farmer could, seeing he has the broad Atlantic LETTER III. 
£ r wits the i him. and Mak. la d be a “DEAR Str—I have Pleo Mr. Underwood, who was a 
e SO Wi fa ; for, granting that | between ane, and: it. may be seve ite *—— 2 
he has the — soil naturally, it being they least ral h miles of rough. road into the bargain? = says he has practised ploughing-in afew acres of Turnips, 
i almo: oe 
n 
nd if he prar ai how can we be undersold by the 
exhausted from 1 not derive the ‘ three 
fall benefit ofits natural ty, because the pe sgl op American corn growers of the first ier who from ploughiog-in o over feeling Of, The Olo —— — ; j 
which, the rude: of the country an wn ituated some hundred miles. further into the the Wheat sufficiently to aay 2 
* pegon — a arne does | interior Deer ciirence i, He es timate aa r 
he ount o aa re generally fond of N they bers de run te seed leer cmt). ee ee 
whioh 3 it is — of peses ti under ait mens and thaneftne if any dissent from ou inspected a field of Wheat, this week, belonging eo 
nb —— ent, so that, although the clusions, they may try an experiment of a Pci es — poser —— ——— — 
may be 48 bushels per acre, yet the 8 evn oss the Atlantic, and rep n results und of oil-cake per. day each given to them, The Wheat, 
only be 30, while the practice entails upon him the our readers may probably think that if they are to — the — sar E oh mS — e 
expense of breaking lands annually from be called upon to pay u their labourers’ wages and | steward, told me oe — — higher than the 
their original state, at an N of about 57. per | tradesmen’s sees ce—5/. per acre for a first rest of the three sachs per acre, if not more, 
acre on an average, in o get a fresh supply of | manuring, wi — expense of marketing on i a was all fea Beem thought about i Had not the Wheat 
manure from his dun 115185 e hand, e only ora on the other one- locke ed so 2 much better tirar theres thè springi crete 
Th d stage; again, is just the old out-field sys- third of the cin prices for hes stock, r Sunn a piant, 
tem of the mother ‘country—a system expensive less per acre, as the pro of corn, with only — — e ne tr 12 — 
bt Present prices, it is useless i a ose the e journey to | stock, they were ploughed in. As L told you at the club, * 
certify from experience. It is, however, doubly so in them ST it who like—if such are the conditions mg pe eee doer pear to rete crag ty 
America where the expense of — is double that of the cas e, we 9 r casting our lot, among those his. to feed of (for the sake. of co mee to me) when 
e it is in 2 and more than double in who shall continue to farm at t home 1. r er orp an giving thers . at 8 — ia 
marketing o corn for — he position of — 3 . if ig cwt. of Swedes (I think 
ce — — r The Ae eee MANURES. 2 e of te "Tora ‘al 
1 — —-— F 2 has aie bath pails. ma — 28 of the latter, ira it must —— profitable to Teoti 
by Mr cientific and 9 bd, per Ib. for eee te plough in at 208. or 425 be 
ö School, Kennington; 5 on. magn relation. ertilisers, | aere in the Ada cay have been u and c oai ot see 
between green: <nop wholly. soil, and the paris, or shuld have, answered your note Delara 
that anim in «Tt may be agp me to sayy, . in 7 a 
1 they derive | koen, crop for ure, grea in 
after s ves, and 
eee ow, the =< ier of the 
is appearance with a sti Baral | 
abundance of. — classes of produe 
Again, the primitive settler rt enjoys tho 8 
dl of the e but as often bequeaths 
it to his successor. e-has four sons 
are grown up, as 
; two ioe oS the | 
ts when: boy 
ons der do ot | 8 
xygen, and return 
5 
mereial inte 
one becomes a settler in the interior age the coun 
remain 
lands; 
upon 
bis brothers 2 
for bread in porti 
ders devolves the nt of | 
So that. life is: 
It is, therefore duite e elear that there uch less 
nastruggle 
js 1 world as in old, and 
farmers. e equal 01 e ts about 
— a — 3 are 
atter in the excrements than i in the. food, 5 ANIMAL HEAT. of 
which they are merely the unconsumed remains—the have ublished on agr. 
as, tural chemistry, farming operations, draining, irriga 
60 Fourthly: It is known that animal and vegetable tion, and Se j relative to the tillage of the 
| snbstances are 2 of the same original elements; soil; but one of great importance having 5 
—.— | that all animal particles have frst had vegetable life ; notice of those'seientifie men who have within we 
and though the ei pan ch sora binEt ions of 80 light the subject 1 
a sults of the ultimate 
anges a 
ents are almost innumerable, yet that abe Ke. 
n and 
| advanced: do not hemes to — with oil- 
cake, unless an amount of Taue equivalent t9 to ca 
li 
made ais the temperature of the climate in 
Rape, part 
choosing a s suitable tir time, and that it de. a alowed hy 
to delay its de- 
08 g — February or 
e 7 in March is ite late apa and the best effect 
is acon where they n saen by the frost, 
“It is scareely n y at the ar 
on Tarnips 
ead ten o Hydrogen with the Turnips in the e other. 
ports i us ee “In conclusion, I reiterate 45 my aber has 
0 not to prove ploughing- profitable, in com- 
and that the 8 portion ¢ parison with fi g-off, buta to elicit a principle 
the form of fat; one that of t n, which, if own and „ on many 
part is consumed by the e pei tee occasions, as when i and green crops 
| moti pia of the muscles, and part forms fresh flesh for | abundant, be brought into beneficial and profitable 
the growing animal. inor 2 — the practice. J. C. Nesbit, Scientific and iculiurae 
food, a portion is required for the for — bone. School.“ „ 
ps, 
we breathe is. oxygen, and without 
ivó, aba the 8 ston a ee. 
of animal heat, All kinds of food a tae! $ 
animal creation must contain 2 
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