a a ee ETATY 
it 
1858. | 
mee? of this 
s in himself a 
SEPTEMBER 15, 
useful t 
t eee a. 
motionless ; 
righ 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
or flower, and toall a 
rapid idly 
over a 
then darting 
sio 
minutes plant appearance 
ar s horizontally 
fi 
ful s 
merk pager orer of nature, t and left, and occasionally pad a for a few | well dried mom 
wade armer witha. a scientifio ox expl onds upon some plant or no doubt for the | side of all ston = mil TEN ne bavo Shs iù- 
urpose of selecting a proper e tablish its | Battens covered: with stout prsna.. pnd papered 
THE TURNIP CRO progeny amongst some species of aphis, where, on| have been found serviceable in some 
vrxe in some of the public ipanle: that in quitting the egg, they at once commence feeding, an | where the battens were deep enough to oa Teak 
oo parte cf the country the Turn me! crop is likely where as they increase in str ngth their ravages are | | Space between the pack-sheet and the 
i and. inquiries been made ruly astonishing. I watched the movements of o ol ateen thin boarding ma parken o over; 
to information ed on the su bject, I beg respect: | the other day which dispatched five or six aphides i aa) this will give a dry interior wall—not much dearer, er: 
fais to offer a few observations on the matter through many mi hus has Providence in its infinite wis- | in every t better than ord plaster. The ex: 
the medinm of your \ valuable P. ordained apa nsects as well as larger animals’ perience.of: the anes i on for provi 
From the of en failure of the crop E have | should prey upon and so keep each other in subjection. wellingsof A. bor is greatly ‘aden 
doubt that the cause ges paua to the n conclusion it it may e useful, to re ark mer aea o the. five-si yt ma tiles of Mr. Stuart. Mr 
= paier shears- off | rook, starlin ds:them to rout 9 inches 
plants. of many kinds va egeables ae — blue cap y- cat cher an "and man ay othe the thick f “ When 
mn. Its mischievous tions are perfo: on the ah the various grubs, ae mn Saetta they 
doe under the surface of the aii, and hence its | mo oths, &e., while the. larva of the e erite re ' family, a Fen ar N rit omine sets Me break > se 
M —_ rva.of a “A s A hare? any "The She! 
z 
S 
“seta h abit ye A al = 
is quite samara to its habi ot ml as i be a ake 
= ai dry summers. Wet the 
cunfay ourable for establishin; 
h 
ste 
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F 
ect 
the numerous species of aphis or plant louse. Joshua 
Major, Knosthorpe, near Leeds. 
DETAILS OF ida nee BUILDING, 
but a good for 
itchens, sculleries <n thie. og mar cost. 26s. per 
10, 12 inches long and 4 broad, of which 27 go to 
uare yard. 
n essential gaat to be remembered where a- good 
„isto have the floor 
effici 
Sale 08 red somewhat fully into the 
of the pa chiefly— arising from defective 
repre many dist: 
perforated tha 
y bef found doy ha middle of autumn 
wholesale gorm g grub does not however 
ages to o Turnip crop alone, but 
Gardeners, as 
ELE 
H 
nt 
phe 
ii 
in surely to deteriorate the health, of their tilortänato 
ts ospitals o 
therefrom, as loss of time and the cultivation of loose | Seo 
and untidy household habits, Nor are the phere, 
= Sepa from pr sg use construction less | yo! 
arked o; rthy of es i 
en tilated h 
| 
ng abo 
which nothing tends so 
p. 
forcibly a dla 
nd icts of 
lmost as invatiabij bare verre in 
land ; sadi in the latter country the reverse rule is 
wor laa 
u go down instead of up to the saree The entrance 
pe should be approached by never less than two 
steps; this will give the necessary height of floor. The 
es 
hos 
astoni oth depos 
in June and Jo aly in in the Vicinity ‘of the vegeta- 
is to ore ts forthcoming off- 
w moment they 
fi 
re 
ng surm consequen 
falls most undese awodi y upon the saii 
b when young is y a u 
rd 
i inc ae in ie length am 
“agi Sra 
e architectura 
thus puts 
e| disease be 
tly the H to ee o our dw 
ess of a moderate-sized goose quill. 
Caht 
of which is softer than vd ‘ae ub i 
‘of our dwe 
grub (which | our latest a 
paca and feeds upon the heart “4 pe plat), A skin | wake them es 
of a „Takin ing 
the workhouse. Ethe essentials for good house arrange: 
ment demand. a pe rn no less so do those of h 
the footways, so that the us should be entirely sur- 
seri: Ataman airfor the ae mof dry rot. Still 
furt nsure immunity from thie insidious raat to 
m this powh an able authority, as well 
design as on building construction, 
a case:— “If un ry th 
w. alls je giving a free current of air below the a 
Of the -vario materials employed for walls ni 
unnecessar. 
things for which any one is to account— 
elli 
e essentials necessary 
good construction as brick, It is ein set up, admits 
i is less liable to 
are answerable. fi 
wa prove necessary’ in order 
sty colour. The “ surfac 
The ee cause of this is an ill. -drained site. 2 
‘in 
come “points i in regular order, the first | 
atm mospheric influences than vant ap m 
vast number of houses in Enplan nda 
oe e far to convince us that t è employment art a 
would lessen oo mmber è f damp h 
there so often met si s for 
n England, 
e difference. of the 
of Laibinahite not a hundred 
miles from Ma Manc) 
till about: the iiig: o of Cetabon, i if the weather is 
pellet d descends a few 
it remains dormant until the begin 
A. Ly te +1 
of 
Scotland; and ar- there is is a “marvelously small pro- 
of April, when its t 
mramani serens Sr in the shape ea z 
generally about the beginning 
une, Eee e aae ee: eserved in a 
rehi 
| this site-drainage, an- elevated position for t 
l aboeerhere. none will | be 
tae de suce 
portion of aropa 
oa 
of | site i is carried out, Nor must the drainage be 
ibr pci a, ioe iani cone 
drains ened t be deep A anen Amikon 
land. Itis just-possible, however, that soca he 
Sinope pee A 
ches -above 
near enough to superfluou 
Shallow “Fc ‘no deoper. than the. Srondniioon wil be | be 
er, be | in 
the house, not marai, 
oy ae in pe rs amA of brick 
in. England. Nor» need the want of solidity b 
brought against. brick: walls ; 
o insure the fullest effi 
the house 
on ak. poke would 
iie easain; but I well remember 
o had a large serant ra 
Nor is the effectual drainage site to be con 
<n 
sys! too as work in 
o emae Neither in view of the economical. features € 
of t 
sidered merely with reference to its tect on. the con 
dition of the walls of the houses The _ exhalations 
as low as it is in Scotland: Estimates for cottages'c 
ld contrast favourably with those for stone, 
It is now, of course gen y 
— ing are most valuable | 
when er are seen, as they 
SS er of eden ive sewage page 
peleecmree by which they. are conveyed. to "the 
| interior, inducing dangerous 
for -the. exhalations of 
See 
oe diseases, as typhus fever, 
atism, 
rhuem 
“Site drainage” costs more than: the a rannast saa 
le accommodation and 
We enter- 
e contrary 
result in 
at which good cottages, with am 
convenient fittings, can be built i fn England. 
tain no Esk a ner of ithe matter; on the 
that it is not to i injure 
t to carry off this irait enemy to? 
I ra assured TE san this 
: birds, an 
a yea e the; pein and 
bu 
Placo, and their nearness to one another. F 
In- digging out the foundations, the whole spaee} ane 
th of | 
eif I 
advise. 
sm i in former y ather to protect: 
the footways, and at least 2 feet beyond. the iper line 
of walls; the whole space inside and outside of: thè] 
of ideas would 
Scotland 
a that while Scot 
Sr ga ae a Er hich England is almost 
ohy. deficient i ma ren wet oo ve in the science— 
if science it may be 
domestic conveniences, Scotland p is s far, very far behind. 
DES the rook, and to remember tet 
fields of ‘Turnips, Bilge, Man 
land, &e., blackened over with 
ei cleatiaetios 
* rf many 
ae 
i 
1, | “ clinkers” or “ danders” fro 
| stones or cond If the ree etn can be laid. ona bed} 
das iste is not used, ho 
{it 
to the Turnip and Cabbage tei tribe 
doing serious | t 
E- 
mith’s fire, or of et 
| of concretes - mag vs the better; 
that 
reece f 
ental, 
and 
ngla 
ion in both countries has led x us s to this canelaion- “ 
ague obj 
* anc bo in 
solidity ; but it- 
window adean eap parent + 
gE 
a 
s 
under side, so 
I 
lk 
ore, 
t will 
the vý "a? p ee ouizie "edge 1 Dee whence it-w 
drop or he ground cl aval ot the| co 
4 4h 
conceive 
be so — point, Teame wal foe the construction of 
+ Powe ost eligible use in the sister 
41 
d parts are acute, 
ease in ean ay 
Fs, 
„head and. hind 
taamlike that 
roe 
H 
p 
i 
ih 
HY 
Sra ey T is s ight 
Soa hg lt 
p 
I 
: | forms: a“cem 
a making rust mt jointa i in 
md door. frames rah the joi e ora in 
‘Sind ad iat be mixed with the lime; this 
similar to that used for 
merser ed, this cement. 
may be used to “ —— m the sre seo 
en walls, an ates economise in con- 
it | structi ollow or cav: ve come latterly 
AA AEAN eT ale Petree A good dry 
‘ew | wall may be built with hard-burnt t- bricks outside and | i 
— for a 
5 extended 
; and pao ce to estate the eree- 
n 
ordinary farm labourer, a h is cleanly 
enna aninnieik i in Podania; long 
