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panaces for all the ills that free frade is heir to; but I | for threshing the day after t 
can illustrate a ease that will show the fallibility of — floor. The fou oundry ashes dives? N — A of such h 4 pa ayr K. * 
an oracle. I have a pet close near to my house, w. if a larger sp n executed, tió expense per ent of income 8 the farmer with the pay- 
been pretty well farmed a some years; but * yard tt in been less, I imagine. F. P. B. M., parin ke das book teadid rig dope is rhea Ea: en red 
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high MARE is rather — ee y one ven — to Nov. his — 11 want — 855 loss, . Hs 
say it has been as well cultivated as the at Tip- Hybrids.—Some tim time ago one of th 1 . a good example 
tree, the downs at Sutton Waldron, the garden at between fer common fowl and ho? — mge cereal 1 T pig sosa begin to employ properly 
Wix, or evea thè ultra high farming at Auchness | lent to me, but its i ac at once satisfied me that patriotic act to publish Pass farm accounts, and a 
1905-46 — i ＋ weed red for Mang e spring 4 it was no hybrid. Syiva ticulars and Foia of various experim e it is 
, the field was prepared for go an Rape for Seed. 8 ou give me any inf ithi i ; 
had a liberal dressing nd ro mpost; i e., —— rd on the or be of eon 2 — r Colza for sory 1 3 rane See a — the landlord than the 
1 maiden soil, a road serapings well m mixed. see that it is atthe in sev ven of. ‘the eas counties, | sisted in from want of eae Pints Sey ie 2 
5 ENE ve sively in Belgi and — 4 3 . T: many 
30 — per ay ae — the fos it — ge — — co country — is 8 the snbee Nen 8 . might farmers often have made in 
vested, and the all p in a e all to the farmer; more so than t. Th i 
ra of e ee 3 1 dif- a — Rape so seed in England is stated to be e feat — * e on i — thei ote — 8 
erence in 3 re the tops were and 7s. per bushel, and the produce to vary from ived them, i 
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end of July, and was estimated by somè neighbours at frequently put by the farmer—“ What I i — _ 
40 bushels per acre ; indeed it did look good for that; | stead of grain?” It is hard Werte en te e en purcha sa om =o ara beds ei 
the sequel is, I shall be glad to sell it for 20 at 4s. 6d. these days of free-trade, that the law should prevent | account of the Potatoes 9 iin and g — an 
per bushel. can show another case of a close in him from growing another erop, which is universal in were added up, and upon valuing the — S: 
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of whi at lea or man ee surprised 
ent. more, and 20 per cent. better quality.— Thus far he is thrown into competition with the crops of had don 
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was written a fortnight ago; but from a feeling of | whol Id i injusti 2 * pig, w ht z 
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ight, r not“ E. X.“ challenged any one, last week, to [the ae describe s the practice of Rape culture | that of his nei i i — i 
say he ever grew “ unkind Wheat” after roots, parti- in Flanders; it tw een a forthcoming number of | apart, — . —.— — | 
cdlarty MangplaW aril: Jas. Biggs, Desborough, Nov. 5. Blackie's Gele opedia of Agriculture.” “ Rapeseed | this an average plot in cael old — meas hear 
Farm Ac ccounts.— A correspondent t desir es an opinion is only cultivated in the ate fertile quarters of the weighed, and to the surprise and nortif i — 
on the system of keeping accounts relative to a farm, as middle of Finieris and the polders. Com- | owner of the broadcast Turni s his —— 
published by the Royal Agricultural Society and in the | monly, it is planted either after Potatoes or Flax, or | the lightest: These facts evid — p proved to be 
ere of Agriculture. I have seen neither of the after Wheat or Oats, in the followi wing manner: — As keeping accurate accounts — — by 
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ve—b v ts as the Whea re | weight measure, 
generally, as employed in many tos I venture to | ploughed four inches deep ; then the ground is har- | naturally leads to another, namely, that of agricultural 
m uld s w the stubbles an thered and | education, on 3 I propose making few remarks 
I a farmer; and which mode, were it aidopte d by all, | carried away, or burn p e the kape ta a they are wit in another le nd pihs 
would prevent that fallacious mode of giving aie Thereafter, 10 to 12 eart-loads of e per acre a Hoeing of P Wheat—_In the operations ni 
that are with ease upset by any one conversant with laid on the la land, which is — . at a depth of must imitate the processes of Nature, observ ane. wes 
figures. I have never seen any system that sufficiently 14 to 16 inches; $ ; and at the — time the land is laid | and estimate the results. Labour is useful Hal —— 
eee, str ¥ lee 5 are too much “lumped” in ridges s of 8 and then left for some days. associated and acting with the laws of Nature, aS 
"render 9 as DEN satisfactory to the It is then ohh over rrin with the heavy harrow ; | ertions of the mind and the actions of the hand — 
erfect s chips re te n again ploughed at a depth of 12 inches. Upon the | applied to place substances in the position of ‘beneficial 
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whether of pasture, corn, green crops, roots, &e:, or rows kee eep a dis of more than half a yard. About | plants, as Turnips, Potatoes “ — 
woods. 34. 4 A ledger,” to be opened with e n the middle of . — — dig batire thè rows, land d during 5 — 5 “se an — 
eadings, viz., every field on the farm, of whatever and set up the clods, in order to secure the plants, as un T ‘of killing all the weeds, and pilvecialng: ö 
nature it may be; also of every character of stock that much as possible, from wind and frost. Others, who | the soil. When Bow => pma be been effected — j 
road foliage, 
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or field must be debited with an estimated proportion | set the plants with the plough. They do all the work | which overspre | 
— the rental, whether arable, pasture, or Bh land; as described till the e spread ove ver the pround. | sun, reine cads ale, the si ex 8 i 
erwards, vith each succeeding expense ‘incurred, as Then they make with a lough a furrow of about 8 | decomposition beneath the shade of "che leaves. Much i 
shown by the 4 day book,” from Michaelmas to Michael. — — eep. A man, following the plough, puts some | of the t — which the land receives from the green 
8, Also with the tithe, &e., and when the amount of | Manure in it with the e dung fork, and is followed by five | crop ‘culture, is derived from this source. The low 
oyed ad Gin ae of each field for the women, who bear the plants in their arms, which they | growth of the plants allows the working and cleaning 
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at by the realised produce of 7 ‘crop, whether in grain, covers the roots. In many of the or d oarses, or | cleansing and v 
„Ke. Stock must be debited for the’ cas t t | polders, where me desire stil more fave labour, Wheat * * n e 
price, interest of money, ji d per week or month, de. many farmers do transplant at all fe a Mac -bed, | Nature direets the maturation of seeds during that year. 
rived ‘from the growing crops, and consequently the | but sow the Rape “ote in the land where it is to grow, Any working or — a the land is thereby ex- 
fields growing them credited: in order to arrive at the | taking care to thin the plants when they stand too thick. cluded, and as the produce lies in the ear, and not in 
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“E. frit A our der A Nor. a asia any dry loft. In some distriets of Flanders, it is customary | observed, and stadiously adop very great 
one to'say that he ever knew unkind Wheat dei! roots, ae put the Rapeseed in cocks, leave it so for four weeks, | success of dri crops extended the idea to 
particularly Ao ‘urzel, Unkind i nd then to thresh it. They do this in order thoroughly | cereal plants, iid machines have been devised for —. 
term, but here it must have reference to blight. I had 25 ripen all the seed.“ urpose of inserting the seeds in narrow rows. 
of Wheat some with and some without “No Business so Til-conducted as Firini? Such | intervals have been tried to be cleaned and og Mirae 
anure, part after Clover, part after Potatoes, was, some years back, the remark of an old tradesman, | by means of horse and hand hoes, oor much benefit has 
urzel—all havin} i i i yah aiar 
eye idowner, had nition to ing. | as before ise ý 
adm or its cultivation by all who saw It| Though at the time I might feel somewhat indignant nasisi hye — - — and pulverising, and 
mre perhaps, . 23 qrs — . per acre, just half the esti- at the imputation on my class, especi i | by t 
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tle learned one truth, that one who knew better how to handle the scales than the very partial hosing 3 can be date in the early 
train summer, 
sufi offered | tion has, since then, convinced me of its general truth- | — eee plan adopted in many hos 
100 acres of Wheat in open market, to any one who | fulness. The absence of regularly kept account-books pitals and workhouses to — the 1 and 
ould harvest it and leave the straw. J. C. C., Nov. 5. is alone enough to substantiate the charge. In no sick „wards which is simple and most effectual ; pre- 
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a level and dry under- surface, and — ie a being on each branch of his business, as the farmer does. If across, at stated ne tubes are fixed, con-. 
their cost, I have the pleasure of ding you th r i | nected with each other, se perforated with ver ry small 
account which my clerk has kept of n Toor 20 "n ruy 21. to ty re ae —.— 1 employ {a - holes, sve ae two or more open ends passing t 
eeper. If, by his aid, the profit or loss on each the outer walls, protected by a shad 
HE foundry ashes . ... tente. 1 5 è department could be correctly . the expense rain — i in. yo ied by a of —— N 
trina, ae 2 6 2. 0 10 th of such an individual might soon id. Of course | be furni with a cap, to 
sony te somewhat a from de- which however is, I understand, never neces- 
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Pr s, Pare at 1s, 6 oa 4 the 3 cler! tradesman must e tubes are properly eo 
moe D feet ( = to 47 yards, at ——— 210, 6 not be a S ; he must go into the fields seale, with reference tothe nine — aud nu ad 
„includes A the expence of preparing the under- and measure land, calculate “the cost, and ascertain t the | of inhabitants. The . 11 may be be applied 
Surface. On November 2d the floor was finished, produce. He must gauge, weigh, count, and record the stables, cowhouses, &c. cheap method of 3 
ch, bes weed days i in —.— 3h 1 November particulars of each kind of produce, so that the farmer | lation, and answers 3 Fase 
— — y-o to le ties of may ‘see which erops or practices it is desirable to Mr. Pipers Wheat.—With reference to an extract 
— This day, h — 9th, the id, an ch to retract or abandon. He must made from the Ipswich oS 
floor iis fit for the sheaves to be — . Guove Tiy hia books what ls —— by Mr, Piper, of Colne Engaine, in Essex, of 
