aa 
in many districts they have been so gypsum m, of oil cakes, horn, bones, and soot ? No Chinese = i i 
i rpa 2 - x ther, Oat: t ý 
than a century a her sa lain asm for oa farmer sows grain without first so king it in dung pw fie apaa tanii a a finer season oni bea 
water; and tho his Wheat sometimes yields 120| membered. The prospect of a root crop with continued dry 
any kind of oa ” The probability is is oe ooa fold or ev more, the average prođnee is but 15 fold.| Weather ery indifferent. Peas also jaa injured by the: 
fan în ather localities tracts of virgin soil which If the Chinese husbandman, with what may be called | ‘wilfbe much below an aannam Beane ‘begin to sufler 
yielded aoe i imm medi iate and abundant erops than | the hereataral system of field tillage, attains but 15 duh kD aan orhi, Sande samples of new y seed 
fold he ‘has indeed a miserable return. | have al hown in our markets, and we 
same land. The d d pl ah piet _— Th oy nf i eer winter Oats being ittocut ina fortns ht’stime. Hugh Raynbird. 
ro rary tation, “which we m becam 3 Ay aif: a erman farmers w and under an Southanp on The rospect of the Wheat jee 
ly | tate > p intensive system produces on an oris de this red boheehoe ecidedly favourable. | Beans, Oats, and 
DE ive ordinar refor mising, ry dry weather bas rather- 
matter h how much exhausted -shouid inv the Professor must mako s some mistake ahi for “of ies sa the e atter gn a NAA a i The pay op o been: 
oe ee things pod must be c : the is A vate their full AEI; rr? veg 
me A 80, of producing abundant harvests of | Wheat e do in mes sche. = Dy: “hin n a much | early Ae onai, the nan, crop. W. Mick nc vas 
or other cultiva: nts. Experience contradicts greater pibdacs than he s rmer | KENT: Dover. The Wheat just round us looks very well. 
the hypothesis that land of original fertility should be Barley and Oats require rain ; there are complaints of re@ 
utterly eva ching f tn, yo aiga a obtains pe by the "dibble aie in very] -rusto at oaae places, bat have ict sren-eny SEA 
pie Ys | fertile soil. ih Pig of his Agricultural} own, at some places are almost a failure ; indeed some 
a wont, t ce such co too, that in the serena Peat Chemie (in 10), "Baron, Liebig says that the talk “ell at ie a saa tae a look remark- 
7 ably well, an ia eel no effect of A 
rieni adioa of as aen again aae ps t ikiya good and . 
t cultivated iy them a manure specially prepared — nae i 
in sufficient measure to refertilise such soil. Soils, par persit Sariai Hany EI dicen ary 
however impove “ » | for it. How instructive it would be to the manufac- | SOMERSETSHIRE : snin ae for the ensuing- 
rished by a scourging course » | turers of manures if Baron Liebig had taken advan-| harvestin West Som the Wheats me 
weif naturally of good quality notoriously capable of re-| tage ae the o cave offered to him of precisely | Promised a abundant yield i both the Barley ima ee 
Tntucing rich crops with proper treatm Can it be | e p Meje pati y ps good. The Potatoes as yet free from a ey nye + 
that : ai % ascerta’ y it. ex 01 
according to — of country in America, which pared ti by. “Che: Chinese, what experience has pE ii ne myer the quality poner meraga ape t 
aa i we assertion, became wildernesses by mired in China respecting their effect! Wej Bea good, ihe lake e eae Lapi a he a a crop. 
luxuriant ? The existen ee ee genet wat only informed t » lik many ero] tm when the harvest may Fe sediaan Sut no doubt it 
surface of the globe would organic life on the] Europeans, carefully accumulate all sorts of vegetable | will bea earl one. Although the thunderstorms have been.. 
| hansted by the g. „endangered if fields ex- | snd animal manures, and that they pay especial atten- | very sev damage has taken to the 
doomed to Aasa „Of its cultivators should ‘be | tion to the collecting of human excrement, which latter | ṣ ore Poking Fine 98,—In this part of Sussex Wheat 
i y S» i cae oe Banca in Epox: short in 
See joni ceo 
doubt dimini ri aia as no eo ratty. eas wi be a A podr or, th eh lat = ie many q 
> original conditions of Ga a ary burnt up. ington. 
fertility the soil, but not perpet —an j s 
Period, if equivalents be given to it for Wint as boen 
extracted, productiveness will be the t all PROSPECTS OF THE HARVEST. 
times we possess mie — s of restoring ring etl rt thie | Miaa: Setieiry, June 30—On th aah nes 
a v 3 4 i, an 
cmp ving eels Oe alimentary Pair R, and on good lant, is -vei 
mtais in man No, 
fede Astwithous man's instrumentality x pete: | fed ee Gee Sey ee ek eon 
jen ivi ect; ut not muc i $ 
back to meae what may have been ai alent mit — blighted noe the roep $ ir but 
crops of corn, + wi drying up Mangal, Wurzel excel where a proper 
ty; bat even ` — er sera a re its fer- ae Z has pear much cultivated ; Swedes, in many 
grad s t upport it placos frst- sowing gone by the fly. Meadows very 
omi a eri Nad haa made. ee gg a aa talked of beginning on 
keep ploughing : out ean by | July te. an, Chatteris’ June 28-—Wheat „a h 
àge, rotations, ye od ‘suitable manures, in- yasi peagi per whe re thick upon the d laid a 
treatment ithe fora quickly refertilised. By a: —— —- the q pan reduce the 
i -is esented ill ‘ion ty Baron ii good o na E he id a belo = zeal 
1 rendered, proba 2 Fi age ave! 
oy loneliteda, eran ? bly ‘has been rendered joo iw an: any have nn aan ploughed v E or 
first wag, Ifthe . much: À e than it on rem nii of the ra f 
the soil was ara ions by which the original fertility | Beans f the expected. ht ary e 
Productiveness nebih short periods, its firmi TT fhe dop Dionna flies and inj 
E may be permanently sustained. PA ki ly ; must po a lan crop. Mustard (white) in- 
fested p prin Nie which h are mang wad Por 
the. 
a "Barlay nok gros grown to “any rr’ 4 Harvest w: 
Probably pe here by about m A. S. Ruston, 
Deve , June 28.—1 t yj 2 
s ator except eo Bien an eaton| itself well 
Jort 3, 1858. ] 
bed- 
mong oe H, 25,26 an and 27 und und 
We = oot Er < necessary to give plans illus- 
— to bed-room e, f door to bed- ed by the farmer was that of manure; and 
To bed-room c, d doo! experienc y 
aE to closet À ja store clos closet for inen, e de. The | the writers on husbandry of that period endeavoured 
i ain. Ev 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
find remedies for this deficie 
5 
= 
“cai of interest arises oor lead to 
Spain í from, | accor 
ster The cause o of whi ch he 
‘ding to Liebi 
rility. 
4} 
—— 
“INTENSIVE” eee tae. 
By Mar 
it seems the erefore to re a aea petals exported from these con ntries to 
bave single or rs tached” o sage them ue e, the capital of the world. “All the precepts laid 
oe if more t han o a ae technicall pete d, down for increasing a inuing the fertility of the 
pasa, ey op y il have, as history informs us, only a transient effect; 
e shall give ey only hasten the ruin of agriculture. At length 
the small farmer became.destitute of m o keep his 
fields i state of remunerative fertilit erii as 
than four times the seed sown ; | the fields fell nto the 
D 
r ee th 
are to Sethe herp t 
vo peer pon treiment of land as strains or 
who rendered it possible 
till the land so as to obtain the highest opera with 
e powers by a gradually i Sages: had ace use of dung, this — a tn the 
> Tbig. fás ayip warning voice against ; and as the history of the e first 
this system, w which he believes to be í iaae ot of the soil Christian centuries emg the most Foca eben 
under existing n fall comm nenced, Many va 
agriculture. a tk 
The above p h bee vory ably and acl | soil was ‘one or then” Lombardy, however, and saad 
eotroverted by who t parts of Italy produce at the present period crops of 
distinguished man “of science by whom it has been) the most luxuriant description. iy we Epas 
Ten eigin eatly exaggerated the assumed | hore a proof that in }» in Am rica, the land i 
Tial agric not condem o perpetual s erility jih astbeatint 
condense considerably the matter, of his essay over-eropping ma the etnies system ; on the con- 
properly cultivated it soon regains its tempo- 
trary, if 
of time or space in preliminary explanation into the rary in ort i ty. 
esence of the coma which ought to interest the well- = ow,” continues Liebig, “another people, 
= ho takes a philoshphical view of| who w fer even the least science have found the 
philosopher s stone which the rs of agriculture 
had adduced m f ias of his argument the | seek in vain, a country whose fertility during 3000 years 
system po the S has been c dentina increasing in which more 
these words :—“ The first s (in Canada, no human beings exist on a Sos e than in either 
State of New York, &c.) fo fou nia a rae which after land or Holland. ountry is China, where 
pe og sowing yielded for many years Wheat the use of stable dung is unknown where each field 
and ees a thought = a ah 
partof the farmer of oring to the soil what a NI f j 
Patent tte dn raag ‘Wie A iay rest i in fallow. Vith the i AA of green or vege- 
extracted 
become of these fields. In less than two generations 
of human excrements.” appears erroneous; are 
they not acquainted with the ped of lime and 
? N 
Proms walin tnt A h by Poppy “a will bea 
t lands, khi tyne muc! Potatoes promiso we wel Turner 
ee. Perinat. wistock, a 29. Hg vaii 
wae this ‘hbourhood most rane is 
oy Ga the pemn but we so a frequently find this crop 
blighted that I place me gn confidence in aj 
and Barley are looking thay 
m 
n Turnips anbe H rendte still E moradia rid 
Mr qien e of the best farmers have finished, unless 
few after Vetches. John Benson. 
Essex Farge Romford, June 29. 2a 
rt of the crops in this localit, 
“ad 
it bea 
be; hand yi 
pac, fea ay, short: 1 Clover 
ly p 
me eicint many f * gowers proving abortive. 
o be bli ted few acres we ve 
my 
bus! ba ashes alee applied a Tarat Hae, the ‘second sowing 
as come — makoy y well, and as the fly is now less đe- 
ructive I hope they ia tos w find that jni brt Universal) 
Dail, T feet wide, wits horses, makes excellent work 
either on the ridge ty "i cs the ridging was very 
eous, AS iia “ial to resow. The land does not get 
hard and crusty, and tho saod bsd d as fine at the second as: 
the frst sowing. The ae mani reniir between as soon 
— cy apy. vers und. 20 acres of a later sowing 
ay with Chan: dle r’s Liquid Drill—24 cwt. 
euperphes ate and Lo gallons o = water ; these though a 
n will I tru s look remarkably well; T 
circumstanees > 
anures 
phate of ya 
salt sown 
present appearances, one-eighth 
hame 
an average, as fo! as. 
eans short, scarcely an ave eas bad. 
Roots: Mangels very good, the breadth unusually large >. 
Swedes much infested with fiy; Potatoes good, no disease, 
C. Randell, 
HAMPSHIRE: Basingstoke, June 24.—The present appearance of' 
the crops in ua district (North a is generally favour- 
able. Whea t not so hea n the stra’ ni a aaa 
