much as possible, In draining for corn lands “and for Grass 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[JANUARY 2, 1858 
increases, , gradually replace 
| ‘interest. : The whole forms a little work well deserving | he will, as his pure bred herd i 
hi 
lands there were riage objects to be kept in = In the | 9 per | by ag the stock of which nt consist, 
case of Grass lands EA kee ox nines s|. : which it emanates. The „The food la: ere given to the cattle i is 2 to25 Ie 
verdure ; ot hat wae nT Si arable lands, | i culti pe lbs of grain and 8 to 10 Ibs. 
d drained | Committee speak of ateam i cultivation in th A hay m 
than t maintained that the lattor require the roots of Wheat | oe power a, mi am, not co ontent with w ith pa and eck ino chaff, (the hay being cut inl 
would descend to a ve at d If the roots of the soil | d grinding w asserts its al and the straw very 
po ao Ages mene S4 aie th i eo A sire tng rg | threshing aaa fill the or with n acieiy and economy. for the cows; 40 hog oF Swedes, 6 lbs. of c cake, 3 Tbs. d 
sou for e sustenance 0 a | 
lant. te lidn not tally subscribe to the doctrine that depth | The soca tn tes cannot as yet be pr Barley meal, and 3 lbs. of Bean meal apiece, with 
id ni all dep n dis tance He held that it did depend it is rather still in the course of and straw chaff daily, | for the fatting c attle, 
on Feat pindo xtent; conceiving gr = th eee | S 1 4} > justi 
they went casts ich Orga agora near are syiir its “economy A eer af to be and nti profit table, not merel ner 
weight an 
f soi! which Mr. 
tane to far a bona fide clay, and he had expend Hr ae 
good deal | of money in ramie land which would | 
nd “to bring it into a fit | 
state to make a bri ck. 
When he commenced 
th of 2 
by 
et edvoented by pes party, and a ‘depth of 4 feet 
another. Being ofa prudent turn of mind, he 
would adopt the middle course, and accordingly he adopted 
8 feet. In cases in which he had taken the'water at the 
flat, he had adopted a de of not more than 2 feet or n 
18 inches. He did not find his land too well drained with the 
drains at a rod apart, that is, 16} feet. He found wet in the 
= farthest — the drain: d he also found that the soil above 
he drains anı rest to t looked th ag If his drai 
were laced = feet apart the change would, elieved, be 
mes y See him depth, if he souks go 4 feet at 
=? feet he would Lame that depth ; Ae! 
Savin ing rogard to rs ree question of expense, he should adher 
a depth 
a or rthampton) ea 
W. peed 
ion as a m 
co 
as hie decided opinion in see rd to epth. 
nson (Nottingh esi oe he had found, 
that practice 
an then ify 
e alluded to draining done 30 i ago by his abe 
e 
d was as 
TACE 
gradi 
2 feet 6 taehes. any land 
could he coger yan, je 
p 
. Wood (Cuckfield, Sussex) said he had the er] 
ery | mai achinery minen 
the hard Rari 
T} 
s have been six @ 
wall y. 
ock of 220 Soui 
n wn sheep is kept—but Mr. Proctor has resolved o 
prese i iving up his precding; y and buying in and selli 
|t at such she 
e fuel and w: 
2d. The great amount of power im 
ve) acre, it starved the cattle an 
. Mr. Pr octor | has laid o 
pee 
vint weight from one, ano of the field to ee ot 
3d. d by the large mts “of cases at a single applicatio on—and where Moe bat a 
ed at first, the result as 
as such as a 
ert! 
wnetner 
R ase, 
motion to slow in he erate 
li 
| quick m horse, or in the con with the more Aea] treatment w o inst 
struction and moving the pian and windlass re- riliension of the larger oneal The mann 
uired by the tiple. engine. The acknowledged ad- — chiefiy of phosphates—in a less soluble fon 
vantage of autumn ma Romi and the vast impetus it will n the „larger quantity was RAPEAN with 1 addi 
receive from ste ge 
eaten of f hay. 1 
The general management as regards a is 
follows ane autumn all the stubbles, w 
Vetches, Beans, or root crops, and th 
i f farm manure about 7 to 9 tons} 
In “the spring about 4 cwt. of Turnip manure 4 
the land for roots, an nd it is th 
ridged up, and o the ridge just before sowing 2a 
per acre ok su nha osphate i is sown dissolved in 
with the li iquid n manure drill. No w 
f Ma 
Howeve r al | 
e! 
3 
acre. 
n 
come general, it 
by means of additional inventive talent, to simplify tl 
process 
PT 
t more dir rectly aiek ` 
to the objec i in view. Whether this will be realised by 
a 
g, with mprovement of each and all, or by grown. 
the eatin of #8 some novel and more perfect appa- 
atus altog gether, remains one of the agricultural pro- | 
The val of the discussion chiefly from the fact that 
those wl o, tale aie in it os different a of 
n and 
— form 
resent ae in 
France 
iias He was 
he land, 
uld not 
re and — 
mentioned, the result was highly sai 
hoped that ina fe they would all adopt 
Ama kea ee 
es (Kingston, 
deal inning Nong , Leicester, ees erby. 
deal oi 
in the pr eaaa 
mid by Mr. Thomàs bout 
8 
remarked to him that it 
So. asked him if a 
the reply ; MY dor 
iol at ie fa 
the drains can compen: 
= oo grent wit width aoa intervals ; that porous Sae should 
Pe — and intervals suitable to ve ‘respective 
* characters ; bet that retentive clays require d 
moderate depths and distances. 
still considered it spo’ Hct 
saw finer Gi dane land tt 
Redbiewos, 
a Annual Report a the Pasir sre Club. 
Southampton 
having | lie 
ce that the other | 20 tons of farmyard 
land firs 
Keyworth) had seen a good an a Poll 
lani pe ah rar 
was spoiled. The next year he nat 
JA +} 
letter which we have ia: 
wW, 
g 
from M: th 
in ne pamphlet 
g. 
and occasionally on 
correct an error I made at the Botley Club, | roots lying there in "that — calculat ted in 
aa astberee 6 a question fas het my roots were grown, inly was 
p Mobyga a agg ie iatna of tarm-yard manure, a “root show” as any we — a er seen. 
F 
Mido Sapo and 3 EA SSF tones per acre. This Fei. the. The. land has been all satay: Eer, 4or 5 feet dee) 
to be correct; I now sine a Psa thai S pes Mangels had nearly | 4 widi eri 
manu 3 ¢ 
He ss — 
re: 
supe! 
ve 
r a 
Tes 5 
od Pike result of drai 
instance pease ently > injure nit. by the dying ou 
inferior Grasses—but as r Grasses took their 
the agra improved. 
Memoranda. acres of arable land are Wheat, 
AR Maar ree ate the last roan Swedes and Mangel Wurzel, 1- gt Ve hes 
by Mr. The stubbles are 4 
ed 
cwt. of flees rphospha' 
provided for it ; ultimately a about 94 acres only w 
all the dressing applied.” 
1-12th Clover, and 1-12th Beans. 
urer of Bristol. era 
is 650 acres in pineg “ying Reis on the 
ation—the soil a stiff cal cla; 
pa 
every 
¢ | 600 acres being pasture and the seanda gente 
estate is the property ofi the Duke of Beanfort. Tt has 
een taken by Mr. Proctor at 
At an paan Beyond ta of a mere tenant |? 
with which 
roma cleared 
and the general 
ag pae AES and iter pa i 
vn | Court is well bent the rs of oe. one 
in agricultura a 
s| It may be aana ed that lap Proctor, who is a Jan 
establishments in Bi 
Birmingham, Chester, Sa ‘elsewhere, i isa ian e 
in the trustworthiness of Liebig’s doctrines 
F 
n the market manufactured on the prin 
popularised, me under the name of t 
q| Com 
e boxes and sheds | 
main range of “puilding serene 
iar, and grana 
n 
The spaces 
a storage for the manure made in t 
en E them. The; 
raw barn, 
Mi cellaneous E 
Death of Mi Sime serie ‘an is swith so A 
ep regret that record t p 
eds are about 220 feet long—the | Mr. Mille: cand ae 
ag 
PEPR 
Hants Adv ertiser Offi 
p 
on the best mode of Sheet sar Wheat, and 
Mr. Bland Beda contributes a paper on the best method of | cal: 
obtaining and land. 
tten | 
$ | containing 23 on di nen 
e 
side of a gangway—one of the side ranges contain 
accommodation for 46 sei st to a stall, and the oth ig | na 
er 
There were w. 
ve "rom a oceu ied com 
year and kept on till thei 
third year in the fields in Sammer, and i Tn the the stalls heir [at S dens 
is | boxes in the wi half being steers are then | those 
sna f fat—the peat half heife ers, D either sold with | th 
es by their sid oe the Ta 
teri co sold fat. 
ug 
aini oat kind to all ee 
were in his occupat at 
attained eminence as an English farmere Š 
BA edea 
