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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
Nine times out of ten you can “buy your lean hogs 
6d. per 1b., net dead weight. 
cost you 8d. to 9d. per Tb.; of course the pork m 
is more limited than fe mutton iaket and may eh 
more ome overdon 
Bur —I am ik ighly secre with the value 
and pro ond of b ned clay. ery farmer know 
the yellow- sete subsoil be stiff ‘undrained clays, 
t fu a of iron rust, hog hen 
ps ick- 
first exhumed, poisonous ia pe urn it into 
Tur 
Your lean sheep generally | say with precision, for we see 
mark 
nips are influenced by this it is perhaps difficult to, 
id has produced | 
but there is litt pa 
p 2ccount of it 
fitable nos ore and storing can 
Thi 
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dust, and.it at once becomes food Akad of poi 
entirely chang ge its chemic on nd physical per 
th thi rdlime -like cl od into 
a Da n gl won becie Roots, therefore, can attain a larger 
beg des aM or gine aif vaca os ed; but | growth in light land than on heavy soils s Grass 
will grow u stone, so the root will g i 
wi-bal 
etry ates by keat to Lehre ty its tenacity and in- 
duration are for ever departed. bt ni portion of it 
becomes readily accessible vb air, and manure. 
It is attractive, absorbent, and filtr ee on instead of | © 
bein imp oo as former ly, riny unalterable and repulsive. 
The seeds or germs of evil weeds which it contained are 
rendered, by elation, food for other plan ts. I ha’ ve 
| the finest and best roots we hav ve; is tort is sown 
a ubt that, if the perplexing diseases which sometimes | Wate by - Thomas 
y bare whole fields of Tur nips an acconntable: yirètotnie Pannen through aa 
py ay oe oa traced back to their eli (bad ra the land is a given to the middle oe 
s thi at weakly y grow th and vag grant dispositions would be fou d home-made ouperyaatea About 
à a 
mes, wi 
To a healthy dev tinny of this root a free soil i is road ‘ hans tere dung.pu 1 
necessary, for c n double 8 iblis = 
You p 1 d tity e } and unle ss it i be artificial manire h i 
ina th afii 2S. 
a its fee rootlets are impeded i in ras oon for | from bake papers 
n 
nourishment. 
would vfi 
l impedi im pasts have helped to produce the 
different shapes = Turnips that exist, ren ats Tankard 
a Snowball. The form of the root is wi a 
efect on ~ keeping qualities, for atid that 
#1 
and size shattered and reduce Í to siliceous, alkaline, and | ® 
phosphate dust, digas Andien to the growing 
cereals, whi ch, y the ch emistry of nature, make | the 
ch out o ound or have long necks are not so well 
aia apted to thst and inclement weather as those which 
obtain more a arotaetion for their roots. 
all 
es in the world. T infant a conta 
æo0å 
these now available materials. I have reflected how 
many centuri e z kia uld take, of aëration and weather- 
ing, to separ: hose obstinate aggrega ations, which 
fire renders cable ina a hours 
s how more 
key- slant 
within it the germ of all future grow 
rrr which has been maime 
oo must have a mor 
ards maturity than an uni 
highly stimulating ose forcing manure, 
the fly, is therefore a cmni | wie 
soil, you 
low clay, s 
d when 
that drawer it will remind you nasally of Apothecaries 
nam! the various smells of its chemical compou 
are too apt to that, for thousands of years 
millions of reptiles, worms, and insects have lived and | ™ 
died and decom in our soils. For thousands of 
torn the feath carnivorous or omnivorous, 
ve h as their feeding-ground, their 
dung-heap, and their grave. Time has dissolved their 
elements and the ts of their food, and the in- 
organics have been washed deep into the subsoil. The 
same may be said of our primeval vegetation. There 5 
enS ean encouraging in cobs of burn 
clay brick It sinks aE ly do own into the 
inate sabe Tapas mixes wi 
` precedent to its keeping qua alities ; none 
dant | 8° 
ds. | insectiv 
are vent 
c affectio 
which growing Turnips are 
cultivated crops the Turnip requires mos r ajea 
th 
m 
Sieugh 
nature does a ti deal Goad healing vrei and | Sk 
of growth, it cannot but happen | th 
ir Keits! 
ver rocess 
piant, ht Pe en R 
forth its energies ap miik 
to grow. “They groma 
ristmas for $ 
e 
e; but the former w 
e latter 
subject. 
Fo or the destruction of the fly and other insects n 
merous ne have been suggested—soot, lime in 
—— ing, the e drawing of furze and bags over the 
kopini ; but these are the remedies of cure, not | 
you 
of preven aaia The 
s birds, and e destruction of weeds in| 
which ‘meet delight to aes are among the most | 
moder and m easible recom mendati ons. _ For the 
ood | 
ps 2 for seeding, and the boa of lime on sour pe od 
have been found remedial. te-sowin one 
rd to mildew, and he pak the ton P, a “i 
keeping the land clean and open, although they cannot | 
vent adverse atm ric tatoos give the plant 
igour for co them. | sucess 
e laid particular pee upon the healthy | 
condition of the plant because we have always fo und | 
class, 
hia ty l 
ke us ETA of a less favoured 
animals or vegeta 
to hes conclusions, Whe 
my farm, the high-shouldered Eroen 
lanes rendered fences of Tittle protection. T burm 
sides ya nsiderable depth, and carted the ashe hes on 
come toe 
è 
my fi 
J tonet the Ayrshire o 
ed the a breed, be better mthoptoducets aan the old 
and 
them. This is ‘peculiar rl in the dairy, where, | 
ly th ry, 
7 Channel I sland breed A f as 
herds 
| this country, the _Her eford, the Yo rkshire, 
of | “for t 
e: 
of the root ta 
ractice was followed some’ y 
b7 ois Weedon, who ao foro 
fever their full wth, he’ cat off 
Jew an U ki the ay and ti 
‘oof cont to 
pens all “ou 
root had not been inj 
he ip he adds, 
that the root “ae vem 
ew 
years ago 
of e 
Devon, 
p, a ton of Peruv uld 
u 480 loads, or cubic yards, E Ea ia: 
= improvement for 4 acres of soil. 
i ian gua 
peeing yi 
ashes—a 
J. Me 
J. 
THOUGHTS ON THE TU 
Tt isa wall 
that Pao and vigorous growth is 
sky of fro om unhealthy progenitors, or in a puny and 
scarcely to be | to 
cing “as much milk certainly as the ordinary | sn 
etimes as the best specimens of the 
produ 
specimens, an re som 
former bree | 
This naturally leads to the remark, that of no one 
kind of Turnip can it be mere that it possesses the 
nd to 
best | m 
One so rt is fou answer well in | 
particulars. 
mende: d for e qualiti 
WA te unless we 
r chance wit, bate) a Turnip | J 
An account this ars in 
ws no ‘nothing of of 1 
than the. discovery į that what is termed “fingers and 
toes” in Turnips is nt so inet ai diatheng in the 
ordinary acceptation of the term, asa disposition upon 
the tribe to retu: 
to ws original wild in its best 
The Ta 
form is’ bnt avid Ta ‘te wild condition it is “an 
annual, with a disposition to bulboi id growth.” i „Unde er 
1 ree pei show t 
es in ar country i is the = i 
can 
root 
per we exhibits’ iat pe qualities, but 
s are in 
atacwrar«dan LaS 
develo ope ed roots. It belongs to the ge ie Oe nd 
it requires no great stretch of -the se ietaulten wren ae 
he 
HOEG years, Ta eri still maintains the high one 
raeter which is there given to it, — practical eightfold WI 
farmers declare that it is all that is jag to be ; | the Turnip is 
whilst a thir pondent, a chemist ie vr tr proof of a 
turist of no mean renown, writes: “The Turnip deserves | measuring ¢ 2 
S oo mS See it for endurance of ‘frost, but that | weights. A, a 
sole a for the bulbs are found to weigh i : 
temptible no only inr f size, but in 1 the shape nches, 2 Ib. ; an | 
quali ty of root. is on way soil a hth the 4} lb.” L. e aded ino nel} A 
character.” In the same county, a ‘swede called the | ture. i 
Sussex s Wyatt’s is creeping into favour; and a as » 
g ealogy upward through Rape to t parent head ood p master rves of them, “The sheep are very fond SENT 
the Brassica fa ily. The Swede of th nt day is | them or prefer them to Skieringer! but the one lit PAST AND veces 
a civilised, substantial, and r pectable member of agri- | (for fattening purposes) equally as well as the wes iia Fa t uninteresting 
ral y, compared with his wild and ragzed | The gentleman to whom I have before referred pre a hS kari 
progenitors; but as there is in all families in some |t e winter wa> a yellowish-fleshed variety, which to look back on in T Upper k 
generations a wild spark, so is it in t table | he holds i meer 
world, and oceas‘onally we meet witl land | the winter of 1854-5 kllled most of the crop, an event | Diego and 
— root, which will run wild, and send half-a-| which never ha appen him before. These are possession of 
Te feeble ‘Toots in all manner of directions, All| instances taken from ~~ county, from gentlemen who a are fr 
at exhibit this mark of ap Tr ie a oes» be at once are all first- elass farm nd who reside not many | United $ er si thei 
moet r their se 1 be even o doubt, such instances co Id | arts of life warhé priculture 
ay ted to set Las they to leave a a portion of a be ‘mld indefinitely, and a long pe re of a E nom” “a possible 
seed as they . Careful selection Turnips, famed for koopti qualities, 
pollen of i a ure good s a Sometimes the | provided for one district, that would be found unsuitable | EERE ne 
Turnip ad n adjacent A flower torches the stigma of nae for others their hidi and tallow. 
Then a hybrid is athe result. How far the diseas The writer, there, does not pretend to claim pre- | antl the whol Pacific he oe 
yen $$ is confon nding wo things which are essentially ra eminence for any one particular sort, but the old green: | a he Americansin 
