January 2, 1858.| THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE ll 
i ik iraina e rants and side; let it alone or cultivate, it as farmers do by | om from m Bt 3 women from 21. 10s. to 3 
This would not be. e ge g 32; bu = 
‘Land Improvement Co a(t 1 s wg p the | since the sulleaye have been in making i in those d 
: > th lt will soon be that i l 
y, involving fresh liab bilities; ; since “by $ | 
z ; San uld discou- rfect possession. Leave y meadow | scal 
wholesome pros ve operation 1t wo ee pts Of rachypodium pennatum without ameli- vary m G. paea Fulham. 
age, and in fact prevent the ruj ous transmission orating the so i and it it will soon occupy its grea’ ater | ——— 
of stereotyped enc ance whic parental pride part. Manure it, and in rr ears this weed ion +e ea | armers? Clubs. 
and hope ever miscaleulate, and of which inheritors | Searcely be seen gain, let drainage be Lo the last wieutliby meitat ake lai 
> 7 e 
catering A upon ger ea kumag. erty, 4 fie! ciao agai taa ane were the F wieresbonts veil a rina ure on ot ed Drainage, the substance of which was 
arry indi ar, un DP! oss 
But * etl he ‘fata the eja 4g of | iat the cause, and in less than two a rs most of this | | ive fallow our ber Number, was delivered by Mr. Na esbit 
gand? Precisely in whic e it can | weed will die e out and be seen on its heels on the sward. | > nsue epee 
done : as an elephant fom get vr te s of | In Wiltshire, to recur t he Sinapis arvensis | Mp, Mee! hi said—It was now 16 years since he first 
it-a-bits ;’ as a frolicking heifer tears up a |has been driven =a in some districts by the apa | began to drain— 7 
bbit-net and runs off with it on her horn; asa alba, tivat ter pavi got possession of the soil from | _ He had at first made his drains 2 feet 
ant hew aeae n from a winter’s sleep, tances | aay mia deep That was on a very fens scious Plast ; yellow 
Subsequently he ‘hi ibing ined other lands 
et de t intervals 
and spee re Tar ee “that can’t stop long 
< argue the question.’ 
4 and 5 feet a vE 
feet, still on the same k ind af sjek 0 years 
nce on that land, his labourers a} ie that 
wo 
FOREIGN AND NATIVE weniger 
are following remarks 
Mr. on 
lishe! 
mission.) In reference to arii observation at page 762, 
1857, “ There is too much t 
seed of an ee species 
s y ——— n e,” a would 
particularly to it “et 
naids accompanying Arakea i 54 agrarian 
d 
xperie 
to best w ay to ge ore objec tio: ionable v we E] they oo onl always plough easier g> work with one or t 
E thoe less so. J. B. less on land drained 2 feet apart and 2 
Pyare se i eep, than on land drain S d 5 feet deep, at:wider 
distances. e i to the Tonn ye koe that ae or to some 
E dia ìrcumsta: which he could n rfectly « explain d Sapra was 
eleki on an oquality-is the crops, and =~ venness in the yield, both on 
ave warded to Ther epee ai Pee the ws and the other parts of te en that afforded un- 
the subject to which ies refers at| Masters a Men— ne appearedan: e à | mistakeable evidens ce kot thorough drai: He drained dee 
d with his per- | short time ago an article ae some details rede | on other soils, 4 or £ bahi — in the strong clays, at intervals 
he agriculti population in the south of Scotland; lof pe ro wa that mes ape y ane 
inly if the í very good, thoug 
n to believe that ‘fore eign and certainly if the cigs gr nt what g iiss nything | os cos eeg tet the lend onan ‘ot i in so satisfactory a con- 
enerally prevails i in | dition a as the land which bas had a e on the other method of 
here observe that these | all those counties enumerated nthe article to which I | 12 fe 8 inche: 
et apart, and 2 feet 
- R. Baker, said there pn always to be a great 
wie there is to those BrP with such a syste zl 
very desirable q of 
o feature to recommend i it. 
t 
These long observation and experien 
same tiens as varieties of “ronltivated ei 
ter the 
vigorous w h by those that 
e pers ons lived in districts where there was a 
ose | | soil” an the earfco and a porous coll pem whilst alate 
| resided i ae Pop ac grees sod fe pasar ark ae ren > 
retentir 
as to old. feudal customs, especia ally Di 
sienn purely agricultural. ee. yor a Sa ji 
still generally linger in the so 
it only by keeping it before Omg public 
labourers in other districts | have the pana of | 
chie aay t 1p0 
soto face, an 
e the 
oo ear 
and ect inches 
those that he lets rp upon te a Gy i Peda be as 
rian | 
a pa 
without any openin except 
lation. It was fi zi nn iin 
only sunk I foe foot, a as percolating fro: 
in a manner whioh conincod: him that it had eat sire] 
he of wars I oprema a the re- 
rer haan 
crane 
minds, and thus be ecome, . it may be, a little better 
acquainted with Rag ao e- 
ment of persons 
that pa If this be so, it ki as necessary for the | 
llbeing of the weed that its seed should be changed | 
as the 
s it with the 
Which the api is ace ompanie sen reference t 
this T ce 
ae I Saiu procure a cultivated t types $ 
thus be view: s the ini e of A. 
bat — — the a. panes the ne? ea 
an agrarian, which I hold. _as vn 
ing all 
E 
evidence that i it, "£00, i is a derivative. In cultivati 
they 
by | Scotland and in some other districte, but this Koes pa an 
| moral and infi bearing on the wellbeing of 
wed 
general applicable to a large portion 
cially to the lar; ee north of the 
| generally so large as what in the so 
uentia 
—— i them than 
and w on 
if he said that s mee 
lecture to wi via out his asseni 
bear- | that that gentleman had woe the old pe S E that there 
ing i 7 Ke position and Was no wate: tyes el in to the case 
is | sturdy ond hard- 
gains of the farmer, I q 
not t give their verdict = er 
are still too common 
BE 
of the change—seed transported from one district to 
another continues this change in an nted form in 
——- to the pee nr and so va pe dog itd that are 
gaining 
the country. I = seen a BPR 
experienc fs eee of the syste Ts me of the principal ahea 
something about many of them which forcibly reminds = corona once of the ilusion that a well was any 
i se a 
> ee 
them, even in a material point of view, leaving out 
is sight bigest considerations. As I have ze the 
in Kincardine, Aberdeen, Banff, and M are | 
two Saba conclusions, fo ae no eh od 
compensate in the case of homogeneous clays for too great 
ps ra from those at home, for not only were | arg & 
aE 
pA ZEE MED ce wick Shee are are | a distance between the drains. other, that in the 
In, eama of these oi hardly go 
case pas and springy soils they st is 
ter which they possess at home, hence 8 
on the alluvial bank o of the Ohio is 
in height. I fi 
as much as 
an Ohio steamer, Stuck fast on a sand-bar for 
the whole day. het oy an jalanin in the evening ; 
erop of Wh 
ropean, twice the dio of British- 
Euro 
secalinus abundant in the corn” team "the 
inapis y 
my notes, written on board | thus j 
eng: 
dian Corn. Plants aoa oe 
I th 
and height of this Grass). The Chysan- |e 
y called 
ptus 
ee occupied a good deal of land on wet and precipi 
inoue geo he was satisfied by asip et ia system 
and ond, not answer there. With regard to the 
cieutl for the cattle, and a th same time sufficiently moist 
x: Sigi: eee: Grasses, and that object. was not always 
ebster sid ae 
ts | He had always taken draining 
below 36 or “1 inches deep - jpo alet- pomt subsoils. He 
hong yt rt any oe work on the | Delieved that of. gotng Geopiin strong lay-adbectle 
in the Stal tes, and 
a 
va waste 
e barn, &e., all the =e „and w Mr. Hat ina of Y Buston, Forse, Stamford, said he 
ey in draining upon retentive 
f a winter’s evening ; a. man: agar pa “eamploy okay soils 
their time by edu, and otherwise imp sade ope y ie Aaea RR 
yet with this 
more pro rolifie. ‘I res no means of aaa from ob 
ser- 
zaon whethe er 
ee seed of an aboriginal species 
rs re? sng sonra 
same fos with be pez few Prag seg as our own, and 
certainl; 
these y appeared t 
nnc., 
the aig ga moe the 
pavers 3 
he native, but I noticed that } 
affected by the 
o me to lose nothing from | ad 
nett in a new country, but, on the <n were 
shou 
g the drains 
een ho covered them carefull, and watched 
and stock of pli panna eer riage; w ne pe 
arm men are ve 
noha oy 
d. Now he Sarah that gp one r there 
rya Pd == it would enter the pits at 1 foot, but ina 
“oer it would enter the pits at a pamo feet. 
vea n leei | 
e a near to the PESE i pips ape aih as isgen 
case ; a a gee 
ar. 
y very great |N 
As regards 
on the farm deseri 
iat fom i is it ane) P), 
ee ee the chief | 
| | to hear i andı eh par aipat if requir 
aion ehsa see 
all about the penan ap cage all the evening, 
to the farmer and his |; 
joyed by those 
e distance; 
+i 
from 
driving out, the natives. 
bli pi 
aap are all I right at any time song the evening. “This | of his e 
article is becoming much longer than I anticipated. I 
perhaps from seeds from a aarp aye dirty road- 
f| 
| they were 
instances 
hands trom 5l. to ai NE ee =e ieee 
ic hledsk Grabiddaperctouly toget Hd atta iti tet te 
