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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
| Nov. 
tells us that nitric acid or aquafortis is composed of the 
1 to print is new The insinuation 
t a poo may wish 
when growing, or even after it is cut, you are apt 
little of it, and it is rarely that you feel satisfied 
same elements , but with two equivalents of oxy- | tha r man cannot be 3 1 because he m — nn „or that its 
instead of one; — public lecturers tell us that to r his condition — a i ig, a cow, or by | weight of straw per aere is frequently as great as that of 
oxygen is sour, an ci: will mady aa life. | the are of a rood of ground, is a libel upon the | afoot taller. I have found fr m several experiments that 
2 do you refer to h re 1 sug be 3 character of the English en urer. The objection to a | Weight of the straw averages about one-fourth more th 
y ight of the grain, which isjust about the ordinary 
such teachers. It 8 1 think, taught at the pa man n a pig gg an om — well against | tion of other kinds of Wheat. What I esteem its chief . 
2 where a museum might be Sabi to illus- keeping his own offsprin uld purloin | fications, is its strength of straw; if it is lodged, most po 
trate the principles of the sciences, as well as a collec- food for his pig, he would Fielded for his N and — = ge tae gy PE — is, therefore, well Nr for high 
tion of the vegetables cultivated in, and of pl i- | if he be given to sence A he will do so, pig or pig. farmers — 9 i that if manure Maes ar and is al 
genous to the di of land to cultivate the I = ve always fou ma accumulation of property | dearer, with accomp anying ex es, 
different kinds of Gr might be added. Of amongst the poor ine Apay regard for the pro- I 2 s — -acre field, one half * raais Wheat, b and he 
e importance of this last, I received a good illustra- perty of others ; but I fes f farmers generally had gt gallx —— free Sa os cig Dh Bai — 
tion the other day: a farmer told me he would sow no | the covetous dis ispos 20 ig ype is: A Pract — J since then, I have 2 4 confined myself to. the ete etely 
more Timothy Grass (Phleum 3 for it was ” our ntry would be but little better than | of Fenton, except an occasional acre or two of any y 
nothing but Couch (Triticum repens) ; and this from a 83 serfs. +. an not doubt but that many a dis Orie Wes ois what aoe e — tyne — have 
gentle iv tter education than | honest man is of a pig; but = — deny that would have given you the results of some expe i 
the majority of farmers in this district. Such a state | the possession of “a pig ever made a onest. gro enton Wheat, in compar ith Hunter’s ang 
> “etme & The de R. G some other 3 kinds. L I have, in the judg. 
have here —— requires no great outlay, the mem- — passed: Sy ius ee tee . „ 
bers of th , f the school, might do S { tf 8. pi i = that nobody would rejoice more than myself, were 
nearly all Se themselves. The support of the farme orteric | variety to be found that would supersede for g 
is gira. $ V es hould give it HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL, October 23 :— The zar eae Tere fo na m ie I cannot conclude my 
their coun pan f will never su est varieties of Wheat to sow; quantities H eee to Aa erai Rede We en e Ried out again 
J, Siollard, 255 127 0 —1 ‘Slofordsh a of drilling, dibbling, or sow- land some 7. — age none N folks 1 yon to mention that it 
Farm It i is rather a that we have ing bro 7 FE, Fe 5 e | is the only variety of Wheat that in my experience h t 
never r — e — tent persons, | cultivation of Wheat is not the least important branch | in favour My the latter, On the who y vo ei eons: was rat her 
to the comparative merits of the systems of keeping | even of culture. n segt sc for general cultivation, on ordin 2 
arm accounts, ed by the Royal Agricultural | tricts rms the staple crop, being the Hunter's, Hopetoun, Fenton, for white Wheats; and Spalding’s 
„ an yclopædia of Agricult I | valuable the cereals, and the one ng which 1 iie l ny rp — best red Í know, With regard to the proper quan- 
7 * ity of seed to sow, 8 80 much o it 
wish some gentlemen would give ns their opinions upon farm r chiefly looks to obtain the "Lo y to ap g 3 dition ue ~d- nd, even on the size of the pe mA 
the abov 1 1 abou gin farming, This e case throughout the Lot ian: ife, Ber. of siting the seed, and above all, on the period at 
and should like to commence with the most approved | Wickshire, and a’great part of K whee ae in the | which it is sown, that it is in my humble opinion othing less 
| Carses of Gowrie, Falkirk, and Sirling ; while even from | than absurd to attempt to fix any general rule, I may state, 
G i d ig, hi ver, my own practice. When a land 2 * and dry I 
7 
as Inve — 
y sa 
n examination, the p 
tions, viz., ** long 9 or the true, 18 long red, 
yellow Globe, and 8 runaway. It was sown the early 
f 'on a piece of strong lan 
[Eith cannot e, or there must from the Red-str — comin g into 
have been neighbouring plants of the other varieties. notice but, Sia — — se ne * distriet to 
ong Dun and Ky t Dung.—Mr. George Summers | b assed amongst the Wh eats that Tie a perman t 
h cussing one thing and I another. —— public estimation. The other Whe. ch as 
He says, “I wish it to be unde d that the man eckling’s Prolific and Whittington’ s, were as Nr 
which I a ing is not tha wy material | sively sown immediately after their ugh 
your correspondent would have us believe, but contains speedily abandoned as worthless, but not petore. oc- 
an abu hosphates, mià a large supply of | casioning great rag to those who ae sown them 
i e shape of “ee, c acid, mucus, Sa Hunter's Wheat is fully entitled to the honour of be ae 
imposition, will yield am 
Then it follows as a matter of | 
must be “ speedily” us 
ill yi short 
shea whic 8 of 
osphates, emg mucus and 8 ni —.— 
so that it shall not underg 15 80 
e anais — * e before it is to 
a ve practi uestion, 
and deserves Mr, 8 4 
É; a Truro, 
p m out the pats 
for * pigs, secre the bone earth for the drill, & 
Now I shall be es iged by your informin 
d on a limited sca S as 
een | Chiddam, Pearl, Brodie’s, Gregorian, Trumper’s Mum- 
e | Lammas-re 
ae 
matter, n 
“speedy d ecomposition, | je w 
Spalding's Prolific. Ther e 
other kinds, both red and white, which ane fo — a ti 
j p 
ae i the white varieties ; and,Blood-red, 
and Creeping ‘ge am ongst the red 
perhaps in Scotland, thoug ver 
way in Englan ost of you must be aware that 15 was picked 
up on the Paste a Aspire Most, by the late 7 2 Hunter, 
| of Tynefield, near and that it was to that gentlem a 
| it owes its name a ar pi need yeast enter Ap any 
pami — of a Wheat so arera known 1 appreciated, 
further than to say that i white Wh h in 
me 8 ats exe 
A soy 2 aes rl possible 
12 pecks or 3 bus ashes cis Been able to say any. 
thing satisfactory regarding dibbling, 2 555 3 — 5 it but 
on a very bear scale, aud then with very indiffere 
perhaps fro want of knowledge. I drill the — 
of my grain Tai year I had about 250 Scotch acres in white 
crop, of which 40 
dO nd-h 
wane ‘of Ar ee I have often s seen in spring when. part — ofa 
field was — d, that in w days, it assumed a darker and 
e growing . pies. the piece that was stil to 
— ce when the field was rather long in being 1 
i superiority till the Jast, 
Wheat beneficiall 
this merely shows the benefit of stir surfac 
iaaa the hoe can be applie 2 arg reste precision an cna effect 
a Grilled crop, then a pair broad- 
I do not think that it Be Fone — 12 “me 22 
abundance of Pher a tam of the harrows might be eq poe. 
beneficial to both. I do not count much on — 7 of 
achin in universal 
Some 
hoe to suit. cup principle bein ; in my estimation, much 
superior — * — of the Scotch s, and the driver having 
a tar grea and over the gene, the work will be 
better 1 e 12 horse-hoe Srp with greater freedom, In 
have, in my 
this machine (but itis the only one) the Scotc 
humble opini on 1 seve eee of principle and effi. 
serable econ 
a, from Wheat the 
Abe * able ns our "oat ivated ‘grains, omg =e it was 
ma age ae : exhausting to the land. So far experience 
Ia 
sheer 
e stan dard res which. T tried all 
varieties, and ak I have ceased to sow it’ for the last 
years, for be on I wills explain to you, 
2 Lasto 
We in the 9 = 
ch 
nag? so much — and always rapidly de- 
Chiddam an Phar 8 a eee fine in 
gual. ae pee yielded within a 3 
et it still th 
ably the fav a Wheat with the T — — 
a 
Tall | t 
aue an ae us, and wants a great deal to eat | a smooth-chaffed white Wheat, with a large head, and tall sti 
and drink, to say 2 of th ger fro e, an aw. It Ar magnifice t Se aaa whe owing» and 
b P iia’ ie as iho niati metimes disappoints sanguine g It has 
Š p — been extensively sown both in Beotland s — — — the 
of the pendulum for pes endicular, and the bal last 10 years, and ce Katay — the whole, does not appear to 
wheel for horizontal w Take th pendulum hie be losing fa: favour. D — ot grow i * myself, though I 
example. On ohir 1 an of the pendulum, place an in ord 8 sown a field aot iy anda at W . * 
icial worked by a battery in th d Hunter's in quantity or ra though it always came very 
as the one 1 — seeing in the Padi ders e cloe = in both, which is more than I can say of many other 
e years ago, By one | Fenton Wheat was pro 
pagated by my father, from mage mr 
— at a time ae with the battery, I think a grown from one sted which ware, oad foun 
werful machine y be co et I | flourishing in an old quarry, situated 200 or 300 3 eae 
pt was capable of supporting a great weight, and sug- from the village of West Fenton. It w 8 on the be! of 
gested my t plan. I shall look in the next t on * r of the poe ty At the time 
number of the Gazette, to the “ Notices,” &c., for your | I set this down to the poverty of the soil from whence it —— 
“ne i CR 3 The atomi theory 8 — th 2 it neither ~~ nor less than Hunter’s | 
indicates : 7 ea Xperience, however, soon showed me that it was a 
quantity magnetic energy capable of perfectly distinet variety. I think the heads of the Fenton 
8 b eck lectro-magnetic | Wheat are larger than the Hunter’s, and that it comes into ear 
apparatus, by the of a DE gee ~~. of | 2 few days — the pon also, are rather more closely 
; an HEE i in very rare cases eed | set; the . much firmer and shorter, and with the pecu- 
that the cost of metal will eit wicesd that of a. rien liarity of ing different lengths from the same stem, which 
clined to think this supposition n 
A “th 
u. ae TTERSON, Cowie Siin said: The part as 
ed to me in . — tin ~ read a brief — 
district of 
is, a 
and o 
over — wile can t of their f fallow “brake, yet the 
proportion is so small, 2 it or the exception, and 
bare fallow the rule, which soil, under such 
8 my ecke wil aply. 
= An the 
Sco teh Joni — “the foll — four paren 
notice, as having stood the test longest and Nees most Red. 
sively sown in the district, vizą, Hunters Hopetoun, aun 
affed White “and Oxford Prize, each possessing its ome 
peculiar charact agra receiving attention in proportion 8$ 
the soils on whi h they a re to sown are fitted soils 
Seal | the clear and fiinty look char 
sh nie nat T 
h 
ance er, * ee is impaired but whe 
„ as, W s 
and pe It is, p by far the most prolific white 
system ; bat the N 
such | It is far from being 
district, and if there 
it | Red-chaffed, 
my. I would conclude - 
somewhat apt to lodge; the sam of a i 
and much valued AN the 8 "Ho toun is also a d 
strawed Wheat, yields fully better n Hunter’s, while 
gr fa softer staple, and more subject to disease grows 
growing. Red-chaffed White is a short strawed P roth, 
gene: a full crop, yields we uires to be in much 
as it sheds readily ; the sample is very $ and is — strawed 
ee s 2 bakers. xford Prize a shi seasons is 
oolly- heat, yields largely, but ‘a damp seasons i 
Particularly he to be ges s by ena weather. the greatest 
rinci es unters 
— ra the he Stirling market of late bas jas been eee 
| and Red-chaff, both byt bakers and grow which wa to in ths 
inference that they are gg avour of the 
