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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Nov. 16, 
ing Wheat t year after year on pe same ground, 
grow 
without ploughing, which a Paper of the 
9th ek I should be extremely obliged to that gentle- 
he would ee reply to the following question 
1. The nature of the soil and subsoil on which the Wheat is 
n? 
2 The height above the sea ? 
3. When the corn is dibbled in 
4, What no pram wan and pan much per acre he puts on ? 
The cost of m 
6. Does he — the . und after oe 2 
7. Is the 5 applied at seed tim 
tog 
éh 
and whether — horse or hand h 
. — plant in this nie 
haven 
Ms — acres d 
. What has been the 
of these points may assist others to 
Piper's plan is likely to to answer as we 
done o 
owner’s 
n our free e 
education, resting u 
paa for something more? useful, where younger 
= he a and free ieme — de ra 
9 in this country ; no man can 
r 
r often is the ground hoed after he Wheat i is up before ý 
w 
erage of the crops up to the last Ai 
ell 
hi 
PERY fo 
g the 
by — 1 whereas all the cramming of | 
ering schoolmaster will not furnish a | SUP 
pede the 
* ess O 
— stewards and 
rt b 
a English = Scotch) erje cultivate their lands 
the 
cases, by 
be of the ne as harrow, aided latterly by the grubber. 
mass” passing out of the — are separated 2 * 
the innutritious; so tha 
“ pulpy food“ n 
veyance through a 3 ae 
to the 2 is no fiction. 
eat Growing in Ireland Dame my EA 
through the various parts of England, enjoying the 
hospitality of English “farmers, stewar s, and farm 
5 
0 
i endeavoured to 
o culture w. 
see 
crop 80155 re wat! least attended to; and finally, papa if i 
h d art on |an 
ases what it require 
which had pee 8 
and chemical means 
t 
compa: e 
I attribute to the following causes ; 
neipally, nay I may say in mere use 
The Irishman ploughs and harrows his lands too 
haps, 928 ey wl but he makes up for 
ordinary ploughing by the additional 8 of the plo 
any interesting discussions on met w 
er u 
and = ar 3 the oe Py raising the subsoil in 
ting w oe the . — of the 
‘ord to 
be idle; there is a kind of cali “existing a ee 
which is = 
certain 
eed is harroy wed, 
e | contents 
Fenn 
top N mm the Wheat, when rei iy 
got its — spring hoein Pot harr the 
uce from wank 
oon. 
a 2 simplest et a system _ 
er is the com > 
the eae 8 of affairs 
chews of atl eee. — at 
and 
generally written 
ith 
4 Fiial men. — last week’s Gazette, however, 
2 C. H., Croft F 
und reasoning, 
Edward Carroll, Beg Erin, Castle- 
bridge Gorey, o county Weafo 
Wheat Cul 
—As 2 has a nostrum for 
than the usual length, and ears of an inch longer, 
such a variety would mint all 80 
con- . without bons beaten down, and ight then 
ure far e high y for Wheat than we 
at presen i 2 there would be far less risk of 
eur e by o 
vonid be the T qah money that ever passed thro —. 
of Wheat is about five tim 
Wheat, would produce a ton 
uld be e increased in value 
le! and if it be, is it not worth trying "tor 
ger than the original s 
attention and selection i in all “instances, both anit 
vegetab breed 
manipulator r wo =e turn 
1 
anoth vantage i 
5 spared, or till I succeeded in obtaining a variety to 
hi consid 3 25 bE ut 2 ind; but I fear the stigma is so difficult to get at, as 
advantage in thi of late, especially, w well as the stamens, before flowering, that a person who, 
giving employment the 2 & to enable fon to | like myself, is not much accus med to 
sup the . 4 8 of being caged up in the would have little chance of success. 1 
workhouses, so calle g on other men’s industry, | instructions on the subj t? My present plan (for 
whilst ee . y by which they could recei ng it for some years) is to sow two kinds 
ve i 
drills alongside each other, and then sow the produce; 
i several varieties, ve 
you have a correspondent arm, | the ac of culture, allow me to by acclimatising, or rather by sowing 
aay tm who, among 0 es, gives mine, and, if convenient, N us with your opinion of w been acclimatised in a much warmer . 
one? that is perfectly startling. He says, its P. bili llowing remar. i Some ago I sowed a fine white Wheat, which was 
“s The 9 . isitely 5 zor cold wet e of North Lancashire, but they the produce of some Wheat fro Australia; that 
when the food is introdu ne it is, by | may be found partially applicable elsewhere. Can we Wheat was in flower in May at Clitheroe, which I 
the action of the gastric juice 8 secreted psa adopt any plan which is likely to increase | attributed to the W ving b ltivated some 
the lining of the stomac D, — to a pulp and the growth of Wheat! if so, can it be done prot years in a climate where it had grown and ripened in a 
moved to the liver, where it is 8 and then oii ably? The 3 of 1 is subject to uch shorter time than Wheats do in this country, and 
oe through the lungs, &c., &c.” What does ss 3 influences, and in our uncertain 8 we that its time of ripen d is been much acce- 
mean? God bless us, we are wonderfully made! Doe Aiu ttle calculate ‘upon “having. favourable weather lerated. T. G. [The process of hybridising prc 80 
to insinuate t from the times, that difficult: care must be taken to remove the stamens 
iik ine the Jone for wer, does more harm or good. | before the 
it go to then ? 
the liver, into the lungs ? Where 
aney a pound of beefsteaks with 155 
we 
with 
t and mildew, and the sa 
indifferent + and, therefore 
are more Taea than good ones fea Lancashire), = | 
from the flower selected for the experiment 
n | anthers have burst. 
ea plan o have the land poor rather than his obse i 
: : rvations on enerally, but mo: 
mant especially with Parcel that w Ti — a aa the H fungus or 
111 is my firm opinion that in the old season of 1845 m ould. For the last year and a half he he had paid great 
nded in manuri heat in this | attention to > this subject, and he found that in order to 
l the crop a shilling worse than if understand the nature of the Hop fungus, it was nec 
ray dvise corre- re ha been none applied, a roe 1 only oe sary to investigate the whole class of moulds, before any 
what a digestive ee he is | Sample of Wheat I saw growing t in a definite and ctory conclusion could be arrived at 
{ hep the feelings * 388 ge ugi in it a — crop within any pitty as to its e As far as the farmer was 
he eats with a g n the o e case, I saw a fun ht be divided into two classes, Vi; 
— anin. Your Gazette is read field of 20 acres, whielf had been thoroughly drained — which ms er tn. — of the plant, and 
by all should be equally benefited. “A and manured, and the Wheat, up to the beginning of ich lived on the surface : bunt, smut, mildews 
little — ca thing.” An Ordinary Ma promising as any field I ev w, inte ulds ; the Hop mould, and also 
Diges [Y N is too unwilling t steward of the estate then remarking to me that the those whieh attacked Peas, Beans, Turni ps, &e., were 
admit the possibility of sa 2 Hs” presets beari — erop wo pay the whole cost of ing and man # ernal Å did not enter into 
n accordant ' He probabl: yet when i bag t out it only yielded upon which they gen 
meant to say, that after the food ha reduced to 4 1 quarter per But if w iscover a i | he substance of the p — all be destroyed by 
pulp it was ap un er the action of the liver before sort of Wheat which produced pret a foot shorter | the “application of sulphur. In some experiments 
removed to the l being that * The term steward in England means land-agent in Ireland, | which he made last with sulphur, on the Hop 
road agg the chyle e ee = Gea ie fo Ses pope ge ä mould, he found in but one ease out of 20 was the 
where bailiff is one no reproach | j a 
the bile, by which the nutritious parts of the “pulpy oration, no matter how necessary snoki an at of eze | Arat application effectual, but that it required generaly 
