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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Octoszr 2, 1858, 
hey intend ded to drain ous “had lately Tead a a speech 
, Mr. Bro oks, gi beget na 
elivered by a Hiat able ma 
~ tw DO Se. 
= 
Notices ot of saaa 
y 
. | The Progress of Agricul 
Se cine vi rn oes of P 
Bri 
and law Roald $ 
which it was UA, but in some instances, chile he h: 
nel J 
ut down zed drains, 
way between deep, hem 
that, he believed he did not 
peer’ he struck, in a 10-acre field, in 
rings o 
had | | the conv 
v 
half | 
oin 
said 
eg or 40 
of water which he had entirely missed i in the 
ience “of 
hem 
e or 
of 
their assis istance a 
mis hichi isa js chapter 
Mar! 
Fitzherbert, i others, are ma 
| 
7 
of ground, the sams ooo 
broad Ne = 
por rtions of ground lie as con’ ontiguons each that these 
alist snath t 
the culture of Wheat in 
farts cong © 
žad in Great 
Wright, 65, "Pehernoete r Row. 
0 
rately in hon 
the same soil, as 
they be both sown with the t ha 
Baker report his Pi org resultin 
ment, to the y- We : 
y 
agricultural ri 
rather for the a Tata passages | 
icultu: e of two | 
it er es of e 
its results. 
Sir Hugh Pat, Gabriel Plattes, 
uel Hart Blit i 
“aes ain Ait contribute 
in all previous attempts t ribe 
centuries. 
hes 
mer, Thomas | 
ri 
oon 
ng 
sufficient to miede i the fi Meth ae 
be 
land, valbing the rent of the land at 18s. an aere, 
Lee cula of each 
experiment, and tht a 
te Clov: 
ricultu 
ord land, "done what : 5 
seribed o 
| dug ene drai 
land. By that clay, however, 
in dale’ s“ "History ‘of 
th rough Britain,” 
“Tour 
t f agric 
A aai tog 
| kingdom i 
Jone aos ase. “Thus it appears, 
15 years the fee-simple of all the tillage on Pr 
is lost to the community by the comme 
course of t illage” This was language which 
Bmbanking an a — De Foe’s 
= nd 
person who ld this fa 
informed the “scm t bly that the z field, which 
was drained 3 feet deep, s caf Resin wi Be. grown nt heats we recompense the cost of labour. en 
forget to mention that along period of naked fallow_was = expedient for 
ms soil, on a oe ping | will beh xe ot net rr re , | restoring fertility to P soil. Farm dung, impo- 
and in one placo as uch as 12 feet deep, till be Bot w verished by a ae syst em of manageinent, was almost 
the springs, a the only mani y pre evailed of | & 
and got the field Aat dry. The nex thing to be iow orem rt upon what was termed the “ in-field 
done uce good was deep i While | and “out-field” systems, by which the rhe d n 
following deep ploughin: ay, and breaking up a the cao eceived all the manure collected 
mass of minaret told him that he was bringing | there, and ge a nds wer se t for successive 
up d been buri ied “ig! the last 100 years, th era n consisting sionally of 
th great damage to his farm. f Oats, Rye, Barley, or 
He, however, ietrined = ce ar BH ugh the Peis; ‘nnd although an imperfect fallowing was intro- 
weeds up and destroy t many | duced at the close of each succession of six or eight 
weeds uprooted before, tary Te amig Seront ranto years, the long continuance of corn crops kept the soil 
erishin: om The out-field 
from them in a field sown with ee 
corn, = et ign argh the seeds from drought, 
pons cy e fie ld became one of the 
seeds, without 
4 
ina coania impover! 
land, nce ch Sainn oa Serre 
o grow 
t influence exerted by the — 
a 
, an d wiled by te through his 
fia at and aai of our 
merated, „And the results of. ai tha these reta: 
e p 
f Oa = ‘rps generally three. e, 
ie hed afte 
id of 
e of the 
r-run with weeds, 
it was aded A to a antil ‘th e caprice are n 
“The ben att to the nation pire! 
of all natural blessings, a plen 
of, e eof growth rot our own =k pad 
tim when hus enunciated the shameful doctrine 
ned acres of lan very pel 
s to See inhabited gee m 1851 there 
res of land 
In mienie ak field for diria urnips he got 
the Ketlocks by 
ploughing it well two or three tim 
he then ci 
‘gaia 
other 
because 
et 
very foolishly as wat seed, 
cheap, the consequen ich w: 
of! Sun ven t 
seed. Many farmers, both in that fs 
ee 
The | 40, 
= manure applied to this division of ‘the farm was 
PEET x aE NS 
obtained 
lonaily TOLaIne 
| kept neg n detached portions of. it, 
tock then 
he few live s 
after which it was ex- | 
and Wales; and the 
Great Britain is less than tl oe 
1 
el cent”? 
would recommen o purchase a, Mig of | ca 
for each eat, and so the 
fina 4 he had be aonb. that they Sisi “derivo 
a benefit from it by obtaining an extra crop. 
al 
till 
to remain ti 
the field before he h 
not allow: Lg stubble 
rn left 
took i 
necessary to kill o 
lose se the flesh form 
u 
own, hat the suppl 
was exceedingly precariou 
approach of winter, 
necessary for dairy purposes, or 
feeding stock during a Arete hay sans ‘they spe | | 
Oates and a were the pre- 
cial pin ree and root crops.were 
ly of pr 
s, and re 
ff a great poreeston of stock on the | P 
keeping only those a were 
“for labou 
ed i ins 
, by | great 
or the- fash, that 
Xpansı 
osed to possess. T 
Bei ignorance and sloth, when 
t weakness and decay seg 
a the earth, whieh 5 go 
eares, and so 
*ennobling” of 
des 
them from pera an pein 
scribed. The establishment | of record societies 
_ The 
3 or 4 inches deep, with four nAg beh the whole of | ‘ 
the n field. He afterwards harrowed the feld, 
brought all the weeds to the surface, i them 
ther, and burnt them. He let the field nin t “Bat 
then ploughed the field ee the winter. rae cs following 
hardest most weedy 
n. 
garde 
have 
in terms of less 
The less known experim: 
“ These experi 
F 
pit 6 and experiments “of Jethro Tul 
sg 
CR adnet s hand? os tim 
nee has so be sara ee ma: it is 
nstan ts richness 
mmendation ‘han tey deserve. 
riments of Mr. nn Baker, 
of County cine are thus enum Sante 
ents 
spt 
were published by al pe 
‘seek 
ahoa. heker pt 
supply of m to carry 
Agricultural 1 chemistty 
icultural Bocie! 
been a disgrace to any experimental a. Me upon which to build a i 
the plan which he had mentioned, in a ct | system, for as yet agricultu: ure was, as had been | adapted. The discov 
state of Rong ome and producing Panes oe remarked by cach utterly Fhe Aik was a matter 
tant thing w esired to bring | experiments embraced every kind “of agricultural | dog-kennel i 
aide their notice was th rakie oF Ti inquiry : Ass Perwa fe rops; the aa tibial late Lord Yarborough’ 
the of Chester, e years ago, this neglect was | Grasses the effect of these crops upon he had reali 
carried to such an extent that the pastures were liter- | manures, ‘ead of the phen upon the Ja Bai “the ameli- | bones as 
ally worn out, and the rental of the diff farms was | oration of land by root crops instead of naked fallows;| use them. Wit 
consequently greatly falling off. The practice of sowing the relative values of sowing b broadcas' and drilling application of er manure 
bone dust upon the pastures in the locality was xen ; | ver and the fray. B® 
introduced, the consequence of which was that in a | the comparative efficiency of new and old Be oa of such 1 
very short time a most astonishing improvement tak and numerous =~ problems which then seqnites from for 
place in the — and in the condition of the cattle. | soluti e also established a i factory fo for the manu- | cleared of 
He had tried it with and not only | facture of mg and issued a catalogue of no oss sustenance to thi 
had he used Sot ust, but, if he had any parti than 70 various machin ma ls, including drill- arrived when 
paita land which the sheep appeared to avoid as ploughs and harrows, a four-coultered plough, searifi- | share, 
on account a. rseness, he spread across i cator with Iters, ough, drain-spades yield suppor 
sopping of t e roads in the vicinity, old | mill-dam and scoops, Sms m pekis and numerous pena el ele that roam in a 
oe lat th Here was an approach | herds of cattle 
proven which ‘tad been shunned one year were next | towards vi Cabinet of principles—the prin ipes plains of South A 
year eagerly ed to, and the pasture was eaten | of rural e the Shae of agriculture | f i 
completely down to the A ound. The improvement of | was still nE ER That e iments were set before | were brought b 
the breed of stock w other matter to which he | country gentlemen and e in language that could | whiten on the plains, 
would ta Present farmers to turn their atten- | not be misunderstood. Although principles were | lected tog 
tion. In that district they were greatly inde sought, these ae toe mak ie ee upon the | loaded with them 
many gentlemen for having spent large sums of money | farmer : —Jand at a stated rent, labour | treasure was Bis. 
ie ont ar snd ist g and one pne gentleman, Mr. | at such a cost, “oot of 4 en kind, manures in specified yarn a 
en i mig in ie uar- > 
g “They were ouli great kacs h quantity and description, amount a ind co Ap R Ty 
; r the ext i improvements to og from ed experiment—-were the things to|. 
a ‘had introduced into the breed of Short- king, impre: Whe, en Tull’s system of soil-pul- 
Ke roms a paha ows he had given in the produc- verising fs oa: iin which had been advocated b 
su e age cattle. za i they forget | him with, his pava apam suffered 
, a oa ee Mr. Fawkes, of Farnley, to Sir C.| by t the Baone. Baker’s experim ee the 
‘spent Greenwood, and 73 other gentlemen | claims of the bo The ocr Society rare m 
large sums Bake er nat Bags portion of 
encourage- | lution authoris 
ranches | ground, 
jfa in drills, rag ek the Sora, 
he’culture of Wheat 
and that he also 
Bing dente. am 
21,121, 967 in March, 185 
