910 THE AGRICULTURAL GACT ES 
= ber per acre as also thi e extent of 
cal truth three minute furrows in which the he dibbler of rails by r segs | wos um : ae ina petan of 80 feet aba 
deposits the seed. And, when the whole piece is com- | fpe iin foot tay ie wie permanent way, andatuith ‘or aden 5d. ; harrowin oe aa, n 
pleted, if the surface be dry e nough, I cover over the r 
Siale i h —— mp hi ich mt he Bie a nd sep ys i 
pressing “the Whe at plant ; after whic e hand, and | rails, and upon each he levelveith the field ale end tot feet, at re sed of 2 
he hand hoe—another of ee GMA’s capital inve ntions S— | top surface of which is on a leve with the field rails, pon depth of plough} 
e busy Between the ros as Togas i is safa and | viiei ha cur, er hnas to bese | hard nea, Hac 
ras comes ah last scene “of all—the sickle and the supposing, then, the ground between the two first rails tohave | «On ashe oughing . 
harvest hom been operated upon, the machine sptopeldon to the headland not quite 10° seedy vere a With my 
«Som wu are: the average annual outlay for these biti oo and by” it Ragen atin em | rates ext menpe Cart at ae 2400 feet Jon ng por hour en Eo 
ge: 
Wheat c aawe = raes first to last ; always kee eping Sima ind | en ohoh the cultivator proceeds, cil po du untij Itobi headland as, "T havo a 
gp J how it began passed over all the land to be cultiva; following result 
yer +, 
hall rst years, increasing by| The me phog I kavenna for laying down the ra 2400 f fect, ra 
es e lei 
2or 3 inches vary, viz., either in materials, &c., according to ar a r feet, the meei y 
ony ni valid clay ate a: and for four years not | , ances—(1) urned brick under an angle iron pre artana a 
hat, ae l, or (2) a flat surface wood rail. pera y H Ega Mare feet Ploughedine g 
; he quantity of Land — oe e LZ ghed per paces 
Digging and cleaning the moiety x each acre 1 i 0 
Horse-hoeing ditto thies Mee: e . i Plo ough- ERA day by 3 by anaes suitable 1000 acres is ‘ 
ing, 4s. oe acre: r 
Roling and hand-weeding at Teak oath O25 D Two, or at the at three, oe are all ae are required to Sareea x 
ee conduct this or ‘any other operation ; and, when time presses, Ps 
ring, 1s.’ * U A] by a change of Son double this amount, namely, 50 acres, may o 
Two om seed, $s, 6d; ; dibbiing, 5: 5s. ot o be done in the 24 hours, use the operat be carried b 
Bird- E ika A a : , ou by night as well as by day. rd Rough baring. ae up ` 
Farthing up ne the d, a “comminutor,” or ro ple: used, i 
font a” &e., to threshing and marketing. -- 1480 character somewhat like the Norw harrow, but driven at s 
Rent rates and taxes s. 8d. 24 8 a high vel I have succeed obtaining some meal F 
Pott aas. |i oai ; 
si h. The soil having thus been broug) a higher e oi 
* —s hi o . The | cultivation than it is possible to produce even with spad p 
a0 0 ree lo at aaas Mette the outta Hrs labour, there can beno difficulty in keeping it in that condition, a 
Wheat i is now threshed : what i is the yield ? P il be TA is et pe pm pore 
“From the moiety? of e a e aia the las pregas cul > » ple w x of nery, Rigs and t 
as upwards o implements, rests upon the rails, at nothing touches 
at Wheat, peaossa an estimate of ste ed i straw. I he soil except the implements operation; no horses e 
fi literal x q| Will poach the ground with their iron-shod feet; th 
call it the moiety of each acre, for so it literal Y an footprints of the ide and guideman will nowhere be y 
actuall seen pugging the ay japa Sening into a solid clod anat t 
which has been uced to the fineness mou 
_ Last havent, however, Pe napa — bs Manira db tha teed, a AOE a one vite t 
ld — arth i can ry be ee & 1th k 
earthamong growing crops, o 
average yield, we we have already s stat the earlier stages of the growth mt t, and unless the action of the ence a 
sti it i 
extraordinary en ugh. The pene mphlet Seg on hto coa by, hand eo is always with diffic he Se baa ssi eral de 8 eh 
experi : 
ve the explanation of im t rate in aul cient pees y to 
i - lant, without runnin into and destroyin: pms: po o 
eee Loi a ae as well as tothe sone “ile tne = By m ming i however, I am pal led to adjust the 
ures o 018 ee = aay or w | implements and cause them to travel in the ite proximity 
hear, we'must advert next week. to the t all times during the periods of the growth of 
the plant. In fact, ao rem und asn the ho ugk 
t ch a nicety, that the operation ma 
Iy the following pages will be found weer West snering AIT other ina tg such as harrowi 
ports as vad as ie have Buwis of the —_ crushing, &c., are effected a the different implements bein; 
of the those of th Tei adapted to th or to som Ame! cultivator, aa ean lifte 
mely, - and lowered, and worked by t the machinery, as 
Farmers ‘Cb, “ae Society of Arts. the Suithaad in the case of the ploughs, and may, Lage a cantly nder. 
Club, an iglish Agricultural Society. We | stood without farther explanation. Independently of the | e 
ea which carries the engines and im plements, smaller 
rp A her ii manure, thi 
shall sll geen he deficiencies of some of these | on 
aod d diodi aa a aG aaa a D a 
Saeta water, &c. They ave of the same width as large 
pgm. = j one, from rail to rail, but much et shi > and 
a% ai eels, of whieh Eh Pag hy 
on pi eg of whic! ere are on 
ON GUIDEWAY AGRICULTURE, ys = Carriages or ruckiare ARDOU tt 
sane A SYSTEM ENABLING ALL THE ga e OF | cultivator, a uired, ate furnish: with tan! 
THE FARM TO BE wo mite. e BY STEAM P or we “Hy yan 7 f oneal) liquid manure A 
ributed among e crops, either inde 
[The followin ages from a paper by Mr. P. A. Halkett, pendently of, or duriug the time any of the other operations 
may 
ig are 
the inventor of the tae described read ce jhe raf 
before the Society of Arts, tracted by per 
eir Jo unal] 
Å- T 
aia 
u 
which are fixed Pe ap ground, yen me aS . | depth, whilst the water, &c., passes out at the extremity of | P& however, desirous introduced Ci for 8 
a 
m I have Le eign 
* the bar. By this means the fluid is economised, on account of 
les competition af at the he annual shows of the om the rabori from the sartide being p è soil is | 2150 one for a 
and the amount of | not caked, nor are the roots drawn to my face in search of ent 
pct which pe aa ce obtain is lost; | the Ce hed a important in, nh ply to te a paren of the tal dene 
truly say Ba notwithstan this, there Sporen notio I9ap7 for rails, 
: Py hich i rf itructed on - Jat 
is a fast growing opin the system which I bring Sct =e Dray’s, oF may be of any othe good reser. | (a) Intoret at 1 of 
before you this ev is the one which, in all respects, | 1t is attached by’suitable stays to maintain it at the proper} percent., thus— 
falis the ‘and expectati of the agricul- pare Laat age ‘Becca som son of any support from the ground, 
tural community upon the subject of steam aape E iaae meara mpieg ry aay 
to y 
the pasted “oneven ‘and other of the ohona by the | Farming capital, &e. 5 
toc! 95000, 
om ayaba snd sess depositing of the crop after cutting is 3 ee eat for si ie iS 
—Having described generally the system mang b per cen por 
before proceeding to ow same cts and results derived from Coni, a Ten trucks 3002., ma 
~ cultivators, we may nidie 20s. per day, and 250 days 
cost of the whole ‘ayia Ist. The cost of ma- ae day, man 
chinery and implemen ts and trucks is the same as that pen f 
of horses and horse implements required for the same} *Labourers for hand o operation u 
Eyga the Farmors avnual acai 
Add interest for rails _ 
The great advances which have been made by Messrs. Smitb. 
Fowler, Romaine, Boydell, and others in plo ae and 
breaking up the land within the last year or two, has se ooled 
the mind to the possibility of steam g eligibl bly used in the 
eld, and prepared the agriculturist to e 
Ww. 
steam cultivation; this arises from the belief that the 
gameri mga £ gat py. Mr. _— and Mr. 
‘owler are not so mu ess cost e operations he interest peran ay 
tines ae E a increase emai eo ta em Bhd same; but in general I think a less interest w 
Zetas for one moment look at the qu <n vat p pow by means oe ili n m aia th 
g Sie ed e trayellin, i ere 
in which-direction the rea is to be e xpected ; in t 5 ‘caus uld va as bene Yea vben i seesetich 
ft 
labour to be 3., to be decreased in th stem is 107. per acre, and the bricks and 
me proportion, ane to 2. Be the one es a profit will ange iron Skets 201. r acre. 
> te sti in 
tonishment that I want to expen 
expres be d almost as 
first by a saving upon leou: Ih isin this direction that the t veh as fon refnplo’ ofthe ao ot what Paap beg Bes 
endeavours of most inventors have been turned, and it is Dies this matter, By the ing no connection: between the feo aye ae 
Only in which the Royal Peepers Society has held out its = ant aa eena = iat a that yo modes elation, ie 
nve . In the i ing ran t 
SaN § bean oat o_o untry, In the following table, oum 
ae a be ah corame satetinnts forte meee eid paa _We see the m ot s erinorm y varieties, 1 In one Ea wo Bi no cro 
The second way is by an increase in the produce ; and eo sary Oe wean: phere d a ee EA si 
third both advantages combined. -M ily system is ec 
inthe last, but its forte lies especially ina much h better culti- TABLE B. 
yation with a view to a larger amount t of produce 
cen 
“opm 
Fee 
i oO DR 
simple. | “Y Fee simple. 
e . 
for cultivati i i 0 1° 
z Cultivation requi i e various operations | In England ee Soa 80 10 
ploughing, scarifying, sowing, hoeing, rea: e ra ie yy 2. Lebo Ig 8 83 
Sr operations of ein — a travelling = — ee ma 7 
hich mov: moves on rai ee labourers 
On a sugar estate with slave 6 90 1500 Three la 
fields to pire cultivated, by which the implements are NEPER = thi ehes, Aas The reduction in the 
Jine of ee ei erving to the right or left of the friction of the ein Aem ia o conspiuence of traveling ona Carry fi a 
nward. and the friction of the hard road, the lango breadth óf f land possible to operate upon i tom refers to operations 
hag Tamirini reduced. Konoe, andi and the few men required to attend the machinery in | o This ined with te t H 
Senge or width ae the lines should pee Ay t ija the egy ot nf nae proportion of operations are h 1 Tne above in 
; ication of the ff par oe Nad pt Fo 
Reena Sis," Psu cn | wean iire rg weet anh | ay aero ta 
| 300 One horse-keeper 
