318 TUS AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Arr 17, 1558, 
—those of fens and bo, 
for 1854 of the cr pager” —— of 11 cou lesse ning , the expense of coord good — tricts—t : bogs even tL = 
in England enabled an at the cropping sg Kpag sonar eae buildi dyin e ha et ee attained, o aik 
of all the arable ak er “the untry ; and i show how by as ~~ addition on the many distric tough: st the te =~ 6 feet thiek ie 
accordance with that estimate it appears that of the | nates EY tak. tt a fear clayey bg 
152 plots of 100,000 acres coe of which English r the purpose of bri opted 
ble land consists, 38 a Wheat, 26 are in into tilth, and there its ck Ree turf 
Barley, 13 are in Oats, 7 are in Beans or Peas, o dissipate vegetable maner aa 
are in Turnips, 2 in Potatoes, 2 are in 5 destro oy its fibrous s structure, ¢ Merely t 
Vetches, 1? are in Mangel Wurzel, 3 are in Rye, t ning being thus the oe et ae 
28 are in Clover and Grass, and 9 are in bare i Tt ly, for the purpose of a 
fallow, while there is not half a one in Flax, pos sing clays and calcareous soi to just eet 
Hemp, and Hops together, nor one in all other | j — as mye produce certain mechanical a 
ero ore er. sgn ne that though our | nok effecta that are e desired, 
ordina ns giv ut few of our: that it will or so definite 
H e l 
onan ait yatt yet pa ro de mally supply the | į ceases by- WAKE — = cet 
Scottish culture ; for a g Lae ty Rgs pat Plough fllowad 
1850, of 35 such piots of 100, 000 acres each, 24 peaty cath; which is then r on a à 
in Wheat, 1} in Barley 9 in Oats, exposed sn dry, and when gathered? 
srei and Ta 44 in Turni 8, 1} in Potatoes, Siep st wili son ‘eat : 
14; in Grass, and not one-half in all the other as a hi over the laad, 
crops put together. The inference i is that a very Pea are t 26. to 2 4a pe 
simple rotation d dal t or closet may be obtained, thus| cubic yard. A e net ety supposed, that d 
which on the whole are made upon Eng glish and | 
Seottish pe yaa An a the faet is that it has 
bed-room 
securing one point considered essential in a well- 
arran 
not pes: out 
deviatio. a ha been matm meet iee. from our 
a simple 4, or 5, or 6 eld ro ages t 
has been out of the difficulties which the soil itself 
the division of the sexes to be cent ied ou 
ae thi is ra or 
ing he windows, d the 
mea ge e the r Ss i; 7 the b 
ack ES 
ct ading to it from the sittin 
in the way of so frequent a recurrence of the same 
on the wo ronal 
this he second point to which | 
the riera ‘of th the st studon t of this subject is natu- 
irec t probably is the compara: 
tively large scope e whi ch English agriculture 
+h 
of it. The next expresses itself in the 
question :— Whence the need of such cro cae as are 
cultivated succeeding one another? To this 
tion we shall refer next week. 
s so as to be at once 
easily sepa an 
In doing this, the 
into two branches, 
The first of these will nome mops our co esto, 
pa alguns ct naturally divi cee 5 — 
lly stn ian various sb tte, a 
“ neg —* hich may afford us some Mar 
os E wat ies of cottages already 
ith few—or, to speak m 
correctly—none elie those conveniences which ‘te rd 
to make our homes healthy and comfortable. 
Take, for instance, the plan of a pein coe as in 
fig. Ia type of the eer 
| portant improvement, namely, a scullery or wash- 
,gt 
er a pa h An 
gan paddies to fig. 1 at the end, and | 
“extending sere He breadth be ths building a as | 
ted in fig. 3, we observe a second im- | 
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house im. In this Pli eeatt Se E See oea 
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enk 
3 
Tit, ih on Se id + 
lack of it too frequently given to the agricultural 
labourer; indeed, we may say, type of the 
accommodation which is the rule our eegricul- 
eultural districts. In this eottage e 
m whic any inhabitant e| 
, the wife, the son, and the daughter— 
to live, and in wh stic tions 
» be carried on, to the complete extinction of | 
4 and for the — hart to the subversion of 
- It as BP egy at bree = 
trace out some simple and easily 
tiene re toy which this (UNM bene cess hut ¢ Spe be |i 
maiilap atone k, pipi 
The 
hich 
$ rome ay which Sgr 
this 
las 
thy additions to the wA 
d < entrance ion; e the ay f F the “tet” 
zoa g the door to Di =. ~ ing from living room | 
aa, h the ee Dera caer veith slag ss} 
eeen now shown may bel 
the arrangement tillustrated in fig, 4 
obtained by 
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í 
prte- 
is the same as in fig. 3 es the po of 
Acheron Be 
aa ie 
b ethe windows, d ‘the door, o e Te FRÀ the 
at the value 
“figs 3 and 4 
by comparatively fanani S 
ustrated in fig. 
N BURNING 
ie priedi of burning the soil i 
istinct aal an It is used for the purpo 
mg an excess of vegetable matter in the soil, being 
| hewerer preset confined to N limited dis- 
dist is adopted for three 
ged house, namely, a place which erR enable | 1 
s to "is e main | #¢re 
charriug turf as a step in the process of 
on it more diffieu 
sand effects no goo 
which is served in the mH sh of day. 
then done at RR or smaller Pari 
the icipated 
cess, PAS nucleus of straw being 
every heap, and the heap 
closely as to hinder the 
on too rapidly. The obj 
ar seth hich it elects, and the 
of res Are ractice are in like manner kred 
ace tilt: 
water passing t them 
x ee matter, ticha alkalin e substances: 
useful for which contain 
root crops, 
large 
. Probably the bet 
eart 
and the heaps 
it i is hovlida on wherever the fire. 
kman 
in the 
t 
the la 
oe obtains much in 
e production of sippar 
CRE: Wop or 
ploughed thin, and after suf 
wrens to 
he capa at 
ae sery earth is then pushed 
round n bottom of eac heap Waien 
wisp of straw — placed 
the cloddy ring of earth is spread even 
