THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
roper place, were sadly at J perfection. W that there are some of our | which plants actually require as food, A 
pro s » were sadly at “fault when the scythe and and | perfection. We are aware on i N = 
er n ler th anea neg by them | poses wou served efficiently, ai 
rte honk o Tho. bre a 2 “gen al rpm gt pli H ps pia “pine porsa ge E t by — w- | for their accomplishment a Ñ cary drew 
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2 ther than frequent li IES at 
3 lls, f which | ing any piece of mechanism eg the Englis ig mills. Let | ra ght ones. ` There Oe 
to, who made changes o si ig Without | teen Fai h in this state by gees kaps ne jan additi ine aft pga served by lime on i ne 
due inquiry into the cause of the inefficiency of enc ased in thei r pre ejudice ; but t s r later ey | Wa ay is ine ees Ee ‘in Portion of the fe 
‘ P a an f ovements } Ł f the ir fanci d superiori ty [of its action ue has pro ed, an 
Sect cred make no ‘The English j by vap m that Scotch farmers, | being determined to | quantity of ammonia presen ordinary coil, anga 
machine makers, however, e: Nag h ae s a abs be scl a ee Heet, of i 
r work in tł t effi t anc 1 m 4 elie not at * 
gs ee mills as out be Seas tat be pagt i | t ea ini l tl ights, {so much lime be added as shall dissipate tie we 
state of agriculture. Whether they have succeeded b the Tweed to dr what they | | part “of ge ì stor pia And a smal quantity at fe 
not is for the public to sprees i both aby #) | want. The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture. | qu Ore in rae b per ape ey ev = annually, would, s fe 
f r š brought daily a as this relations ip to monia js 
threshing mills ao Hi we isda say, broug nto | ON THE APPLICATION OF LIME. te A pat; We x mat, however, after all 
We do not wish any one to consider the followin | k ] 
particulars of ex aria nt as conclusive, either for or Tue illustrations p have e given prove what I might | | the only safe Sena rof. yay himself ded s 
i o in e G indeed have safely as a simple assertion eink - the m n which lime acts is not completely unde. 
noted more with the view of giving the aana of me agricultural experience aaa oP corrobora noni Sy viz., | stood (nei her 5s agriculturists a the chemist m 
Scotch mill some n agerra ion to fos ruth, and of | the ENEN influ ueni eof liming lan d. An d n let me “el tending to this nowle! dg e), and y will therefore fing 
whether wou uld te more | e | add her ord o d y on thi Pe 
t pias other subjects, to be the safest guide. Variations pi 
w En iah one. It may be FEDR that thein the interests of the owner. ` jit should be canhionaly, permitte ell, howeve early they 
Scotch ora though not of the newest construc ction, ei Limi ing acts like prany and, some other occasional | may be sanc tioned by the i ey hig 
eckon air average one, operations, b; a mee ing o 
taker a man bein g placed at the heck, e Aea whole | | the dormant powers age the mil ~ That sonni of its | Agricultural Society so e years ago, Prof, Way con. 
hak henever any kind of Barley ich I have given, viz., | tended that a hea avy; PDs of lime Would exhaust the 
is threshed. We have heard it asserted by some who | first — it bulkier mane sites tely better, is that an occasional 
have added a second pba ry to ahs mill, th its effect. Its influence as direct food | 0 r 40 bushels was ‘a that in a E heni Point of view 
was not by any means such an improvement an the | for a ants is a comparatively _very small part o of its s | was needed, while the practical men presen t amerted 
addition as they expected; and t this information, coupled | whole effect; it is because it is as a ho locked when a heavy as supplied es 
with the redite of the acter ate of the English mills, | warehouse, full of food. but useless till the door is | effect was mod _ apparent until the secon d course 
has hit hi erto pre evented the owner "of the Se vote n mill | opened, that it is especially say —_ ae cropping after 
the: ages iti is liable to abus y be u to “e: 1 shal pone, , therefore, on the supposition thata 
oie tes have done. [hau lressing of lime is at once to be put u 
ine made by R. Hornsby & Sons, | | pron under certain noes Ate y Ais d upon and, not to ‘be foll Nea by an other for many years, 
which gained the premium at the Highl like by the owner of the land. Having determined the quantity which you shall 
Show at Glasgow, was enga to thresh out some e|] JI would Jenae just say this—that in the hands of an | (200 to 300 bushels per acre) the questions arise— Before 
stacks of Wheat of last year’s pe ie th t antr ry the means by whi ch the greatest what crop in the r otation it shall be added ? At what 
the rate of pg peie per hour, includin: | it should be put EA and in what eom- 
at particular times, when it was fed emalga and | which the landlord aes encourage. can obtain ee it should be mixed with bee land? In answer te 
fast, it did ai rik rate of 7 terlan per hour, t food for man and ion y use of it | the last question, there are veral ii considerations in- 
being anexceptionble Hem heaf the fi will enable me to reproduce that „plenty ducing one to apply it hot ft ‘the kiln. (1). There is 
about of of t 1 to tł We hear often that , for lime in slaking absorbs a a large 
Scotch mill on the premises, which ‘threshed at ate | | eet ape is more exhausting than the Tarip ‘Of | quantity of water ; and (2), a = p lands, if 
the speed in ordinary cases, that is, at the rate of | course it is; it would be strange if nes of food not t slaked until in compost with the clay it doesin 
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i has none of the modern appliances, such as elevators, | than 15 ( and 30 and 15 are about the Kaien yields of | w vhich it is mixed ; and (3) most of all, t chemical 
Åc., attached to it, but the grain is well dressed by | Mangel Wurzel and of Turnip). But on the same rul ion geo both the organic and mineral 
means of anners, driven either by the hand or |a double crop of Turnips wou more exhausti ich more rece ‘rh ae 
water. The Wheat threshed yielded at the rate of | than a half one, and yet no one, whether owner of the | mix ai, pha a sinked or unslaked, in 
bushels per imperial acre. land or cultivator of it, would lament the larger Ke with the substances on which it is to fer be 
The ieiiowing are the results :— whatever effect of this kind may attend it. The, In any case it is necessary that the land on which 
— —__—_———. | made o the lime is to be applied be drained either naturally or 
SRR Weisner what has coal aken m ia ay whether the extra cially, as by water stagnant in it after | 
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G and | crop be produced by Pte other way, if the i ‘ould be only 
Bushels Bnek of Good. t. Tamet of the land Di in ‘tie. ents = intellig ent the e more effectua lly sealed ap against the infinence of 
st. Ib. |st. Ib.) st. Ib » the greater crop, whatever be the m eans. by | im pS Feat hele 9 
en E oi : whic ch it is rma is as mu ch ‘to the rin of the poten t dry s soil, or it will teem & which 
it is to 
128 9 410/133 5 one of the ity 
a bo rag The f year when lime is generally applied i 
123 8 5 4/108 12 To retnrn however to the practical Ta of liming. | de oe AEN by its being freest from other ocet- 
| bad ne question arises how i thee s to be done—whether, like | pations. Cartage is easiest done in winter time, ey 
Iferòne r. ars or once in ever |a quantity of vegetable mould, ditch parings, and th 
homens pood gran errs = equivalent toa s rene rN or like Sco Seo ttish e yeas o generally, as A | like has Dai previonsly collected (as on a headland o 
that is, 1 bushel for every 28 bushels, of about a no Justified by Mr. Watson’s and Mr. Hunter’s romper the field that is to have the lime upon it, it may during 
cent. ; or a farmer threshing this crop of 36 bushels per t sih mk Ka ued aune of the application once er lie in a ieh with this teria ad a 
acre with the English machine would obtain a yield = en of a century. if ried vier after i AU aR there), it will me a 
14 bushel more per acre than if he used the Scotch one. | 1, Star here oe BOL ye 
bot x cht Li time ere t cre is a in the soil = i i od erie een at y 4 
; > , invol ving less la ur than any other, 
oe tepid er oo ae petri stew | soil which it is i to pa reduced to a te | shells fi ed e from the oo ae in little hes k 
the superiority of the former: in ier ofthe sini in which it Ace L proide food for plant en. he soil | (one oS 
“a ae over the latter. We observed but little of | 288 been ly drained, having previously been | the Jan covering them over at once with iol 7 
the grain broken by the English machine. oe 
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i penh water, and, so, probably full of acid | leaving "hear coi the first showers have slaked the 
Sak evans vas ae h pies pained which one would desire to see neutralised lime, when they are at once spread and longhed in. 
a sea trate: wo ee Te |an and at once—a heavy dre sr d of lime | with a shallow furrow. Either of these plans may W 
care JARI we: put th spec Hiei 1 M shal be ep put on at once, and in that case it need no proper shortly before the seed-time of any grain fe 
masw hat had th ascent time, poe be repeated for a good many years, and the question is | and lime is better a plied at such times than 5 
by the h mill, = = k auneeer oe kois whether be pe att and shes this as green crops, to which heavy dressings of oe 
Seote after To. ey ut S| interval of time has elapsed it dvi sabl to nly gi h li ld act w E 
= k obtained ve ca medr a ha Erofah plan of having dressings at lon viN ce = The que ign 4a to th oe din rotation when lime 
si sek at more common in the English counties of I think, be answered b before- 
eg wa te straw, ee ae ih pusod frequ nt dressings in smaller quantity. My own tothe e experience tice te Mr. Harnter which I qu uals A 4 
$ roug js mado to EA geen n MEE pp AR Seet is that the heavy dressing is the e best. There | He applied it in the autumn on his is Clover ae 
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passed thro ugh, tin a they allowed to empty them- | 5 wind ie com (i) the be in accordance with these con- | ever often put, on a corn stubble and Plonghed i eal the soll 
g 1s: ? mixture 
ves Tor some tine Gi y were quite clean. But |1 per cent. to a soil 10 inches deep; that thus it is e re manure is added to the land from the succe? e 
only 
Pant tee with the! tai] eee you/green crop. The object should ba Se: a 
wo that there isl om for emen i e materi on which you gen enerall , to add the li e ArT en 4 
cca! mprovem t on it. pen desire its action; (2) that wiht in | any way, whether AA tains most A oa. matte _if it be put on at a Oe 
that the English mill threshes cleaner, Adresses gen crop and a bulky ¢ yin , there is heg pe g iT er Îi 
own aae be A have s ai, if "ie does gir i the’ bari | mm Ína of a : 
he ‘it does hae! iy be separa rn grain from th, è | dressing en pe! p It is indeed nn application of lime to o poor ss 
Bee as may j urged i an favour of the Scotch | gr afer phe af hor m ps y a Rouge wei year in succession. | containing little or no vegetable matter a per 
er i ich has th i i : 
rash tt eae a |S ei cap 
Ad only ‘i ce ene woa before, | the testimony whi long con- | still exhibit—its application to wet un ; 
oo up for peti co and consequently | tinued action of a heavy liming, I think that it is to is mischievous as well as wasteful—and it araa 
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eepo ere ma Se A ent ‘afore ot ia wal 
acter. A decided objection to it is that it does | intervals. rotted fa —these are bas It. 
ra thresh Beans, while the Scotch machine threshesall] And this. not scone F which th apra i ible It. 
kinds of crop usually grown on the farm. We th | ps elapsed 
that neither of the machi nes is perfect, and that irria te chemist has to ph og of rong harder Sd Te pon the shoal mt se applied until so many years have is z 
il. Lime the x acts (1 
me therefore gro: ie encon et in oe 
: raging our Scotch | n nuisances in the . 3 in ví 
threshing maker exert their skill and genius in | wei of f vegetable OT facing the e deco eom- exhausted, nor then unless the soil Gearin: 
iatroducing suc! » Oy Cecomposing | well as mineral matters needing disi 
e soil; (4) by furnishing matters | er If these ia Sees exist 
