}ахтавт 31, 1863.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND Mu GAZETTE. 109 
black, dry, gravelly soil which had been long u used as a garden, | each other, and give the comparative 1 merits of the mam 
\ ures 
Produce of Two Cows in Four Months— Continued. andhad been all trenched through the winter to the depth of | and specifies with distinctness; ; but not having ground enough 
eer a e a N Sn E inches. ch trial consisted of three drills of 12 yards long | at one place, and tl ud part of them being оп a роо of 
1862. | Butter. рош; and 2 feet apart, and the sets planted 14 inches separate, so petia near à mu f trees by which they have been very 
ЕЕ that each БЕ grapin 24 superficial yards, or 1-200th of an кты affected, Да выры good deal, I believe, to ed coid 
July lbs. E its. quarts. | quarts. E imperial ac The used was pretio 10 lbs. to each plot. | wet season, and, therefore, in making comparisons, 
E 1 I intended i the different trials to have all the sime advantages кҮн must be taken by themselves, and the last ңәш hos 
id i as to soil and exposure, so that ће, xd gren all д with selves. 
ү EXPERIMENTS IN GARD T GRA NG „ды «йс ент; made with various Manures, partly to test —— 
4 i specifies for the сома, ad parüy th: СЕ ot. the producing quantity. а оп a dry, gravelly soil, which 
DA had been trenched; each plot being 3 drills of 12 2 yards cialis and 2 feet apariy the sets 14 inches separate, each plot 
ii ards, or l-200th part of an imperial acre. Planted between 15th and 25th March, 1862; lifted 
1 1 rx T Mn rfic id ya , р р 
s 15th to 17th Septem. 
Nd i CAME PRODUCE. А $ 5 
1 à Ur. 8 E 2 35 
>. ы P А И 4 
: : c 53 KIND оғ MANURE USED. & |2 Зз d 2 EE $54 
51 ; 5 |a| Als a = КАЕ 
n "| $3 ЧИЗЕ РЕТИ ТЕЕ ТЕГЕ: 
A H А Pa C3d| $^ |аро| | 5% Е 
2 i 1 Г D 4th| A a s 28 
4 71 аре 
à ИР Кон 357505 lb. | b. |£ s. d| T. Ct. 
1862. . lb. . 
E Mar. 15|By 1 OL d tons manure per к) | B |8ері. 15/101 | 87 | 14 | 5 0| 9 * 
} Чо; БВ 613 4| 18 
i 7 з» ро, { with salt; ? à } x 
ae o. a 
: ; И E Do. {жа ав a} s| в | „ ao] sza sj 160 
à 7 7 and lime 
is $ 3 71 Do { -. ed treh do. ESE } 8| B , 120521205 | 2613 4| 18 7 
$ 8 7 7 „ with lime | 
$ i 7 8 7 6 Do. iwi ES do. | s| B „ (206 |205 | 117 1 8| 18 8 
1 ө à * "d 8 7 6 2 ood ashes 
РАЯ до 2: | СА 265 |268 | 2 [613 4 | 2318 
URGE Гаа н ВТУ UL SES 29 MAL е, | a B "во 1161 {19/7 1 5| 161 
У ЖУ VR 2s i "a 
Уф = 3 cwt. per acre) 3 |251 В 1 188 |17 8|2 1 8| 16 T 
[We gather from your account that your two Mar. 17|Guano, Peruvian .. зб 4 B * 1206 195|11|2 510| 18 8 
Pug not yielded much pM than 100 gallons а шї ailk | т нк үс ду: сы wore : ev " 184 179| 521 8| 16 8 
month during the four best months in the year. » Do. dissolved..  .. - do. 40. | ài || А 5 о [195 | 5 | 1 8| 1717 
i is a small yield. 
А a 9, в Sept. 16[138 |119 | 19 |2 1 8|16 6 
ages in Roxburghshire and the West of cimi 2| Mar. 17|Blood manure Soot, (26 ор рио) рга > d: У 194 | 99| 51 9 2|1 1 
shire.—In your * Home Correspondence of eet in »  |Boot and lime [tim ч : (= 5iewt. md dore) 0. 8 E IDA МЕ рсы d: bos Б 
der the above heading, io Correspondent “ W^ »  |Btable dung (210 tons per acre) 1-0. 15 с » 
ys: bushel of Oats, of 46 тен make Маг. 18 Peat fro from sea. shore, with img (230 tons per aoro) Mn TI A 45 7 | 87 |38013 6 8110 9 
i 69|19|5 0 0| 718 
vds x d A i d I ED the ] " ra- of ie хата, near hedge 2 ^ do tons par aano) i 0 f D 2 E 73 | 35 |113 4| 91 
а! .^ A bushel of such Oats, crop 1861, he values » е dung апа rotten whin .. (=20 tons per acre) 20 ë С Sept. 17/116 ОП o 10 I 
1 1 D “ .. (210 tons acre » 
at 3s. year, 46 Ibs. of Oats will yield нече t e TI es Bpew priae) Са et 0 » |07 |8225 210 0| 911 
954 lbs. of meal free of “ multure" or millers charge | »1| wa; 25 |Townsend's ad oe {= BE di. per acre) 08 3 C Ум 6 | 47 | 29 |2 10 , dei 
grinding; and stones of meal will require 55 Ў уте manure alone .. 0 .. (230 tons peracre) 2 0 2 5 » » e с ^ : 2131 
bushels of b ight and quality are , ән ll ne ies. seed bain Pe acr ro 4 ч ү с » 160 135 125 16 5 01 5 T 
deficient, the number of bushels must be greater. 2 n 2 + m 
he 8 а e 
“W.” errsin taking the “ fiars” or average price of good 
and bad thro ughout the c county, Yov ar 46 Ib. Oats are 
ani last Jem at this dull period, t 
submit therefore, i the estimate si 
а S to be анана ed by 2/, 3s. 4d. in the 
of Oats alone, as follow: 
50 Bushels at 6d. се - .. £l 58. 0d. 
5 BushelsatS58d. ^... . 4.018 4 
Jes £2 3 4 
Sotíttícs. 
T-LOTHIAN : Potato Culture.—At a late meeting of fo 
of t tis "Club m Cadell, of Grange, read a paper on | manure plo! 
ius mies from which we make the following р, 
It may be observed that in the plot of ground done wi ith byr Th ery fi 
Кш. on ne, an ordinary рде of ise ing o D. tbe pro: The loughs athe never AE in тиб bat ЁЎ 
duce was 101 lbs.,or 9 tons per imperial acre, being b n t daily at work. Much of our land де 
l RA the plot(No. 6) with | been кер y . sign 
А? fees pepe rd ite, pia duced t 4 ora by | for spring corn is ploughed, but a small portion 
265 lbs., being the ктеу КАШ peces of 23 tons 13 суб. | requires a few days frost to prepare it for ploughing. 
yn ; DR d iuch occupied Sehi 
is tha n e sea-W ploughing. 
fee this wonderful crop, when used alone it er qr only | began to plough by steam рой = Gur first effort was 
М an t Я ext ect m 12 
es Bo 
2 
ngine was 
o 1 od. | thi loughod with 
d 5)the b "re with lime and with wood- | this. We then removed one body, and ploug 1 
shos, ар ай afier these dissolved bones (No. 11) producing | the other а 15 c 18 inches deep, M gems 
200 Ibs,, only 5 lbs. | being hard ап velly. This we accomplished ve: 
hich ffected by the ng а gra 
vicinity. oft e ee. x row of tuit > тев ов. спе в side, sud а satisfactorily. Our plough, made by Messrs. Howard, 
or 845 the cultivation of the Potato стор was 
Ne If A or und d" well drained and free, pu^ 
|t à * 
101 Ibs., while гт нй was in Мес 4 per с cent, up to дашы ре made, butasa Seg: effort €: ‹ 
апа cent. mirably. oug! 
hich I used as ifics against the disease E 4 
sd шы ыо d pens all simple deni innocu- |46 а depth varying from 15 to 18 inches. In thi 
owing Pistes a 6 reatment; suffice it to say, 
that th трей has generally been eat д wet and. Pans 
seasons, own the е онсе n ground 
nelle ad cape ere heavily m. бн also 
to have infested most i o kind of Poustose Ses that тегей and | as the і 
во that we now seldom see a field of them either in 
flower or bea: Potato-apples. 
7 е! tinu an 
what kind of Potatoes have — st, or vow far m 990 
state may be owing to 
e 
on асо узае — ual labour pe 
cult: d has do t deal in showing 
м, rds TCU for um in Pointing to substances with steam power was about 4s. 3d., and with horses 
асе 5s. 8d. Besides this we Бо ploughed 7 acres 12 
in i doi p 
ots. with six oing 
These trials point to what may be done in increasing the | Our total amount deep loughed is 140 acres. We 
produce of a crop by the proper piepe н Application. ^ have 240 shearling sheep in the yards, eating Clover 
manures, and hab may be — arres haff Mangels, with 5k 
prie daten 
finding a cure, I am inclined A dini Бате by edo 
реча and accurate observation, we may not bb long of 
finding out both the cause and the cure of the Potato disease, eren сїйсв 
vary under different садов and in different soils. | We never saw sheep thrive 
ted. e bette 
n regard to the diseases of the human kind, Professo i 
Physic," | Whether in any one case I have hit the best rcnt od of | of excellent ану, and not a sheep BCOUTS, although 
т 
у 
126):—'*We have banished th hich in f ti ев or cs remains to be seen by farther and mi lambs in 
(ion destroyed in London mors те: than апу atter maladies | extended rin. they have all they can eat, „We havo also ТҮ 
together ; we гоо and modified the ague, the ea e same food wi! E 
во that itis rarely a fatal affection now, while every year it and 130 more eating Coleseed during the day, E 
destroyed thousands formerly ; scurvy has sinipet in ppnerta Р . |сһа and а few — and Mange 
from our mortality bills;" and others are ; o Јат. 92.— night ; our losses are very slight, and sheep 
С Now, Buc us Homo have, I believe, been. quickly passing away, and we without its Es 
с Жерш ы Ed is better, not by finding out the | usual accompanimen: and snow. To-day the 
— cause or а appying th karenti S remedy, temperature is high pian b aun туг: — — and pet аган — eut педага? 1 T peck FI angela 
saturi causa te uS aey уын з one can всагсе1 e emi on spring is da 
es what ШМ эчле 1 а vo ey and pte here may, however, yet have some severe on 99 pude qeu e pig toa Тоза h he finds 
experiment, coupled with what | weather, and perhaps ша "зиз , in consequence, ce bullock 
chemical Чы physical al knowledge we may have, we may, І | heavy losses. Cold springs are much to be dreaded in 
ООО ену for iare ve Fens. К little seasonable frost just now would be | 21288004 & 60 or 7O pigs. eating cut Mangels 
experiments I have made, I have used as much as as it would enable us to move manure, | We have es This is cheap fce ding, 
possible simple and well-known Жары mostly single, | and A жоша pulveriso the high lands and prepare them | and 1 pint each а. Wa weight 
Ecc vae ipp ede coo o Lay iter vem e to receive the seed. It is very difficult to secure a|and еу grow 
of about 20 е imperii ame ae a standard, end in s ni spring corn on high lands, unless pee 
We have Һай stro: efe f ind from the pa open winters | 
e e some ng of win 
lime, | W. and N.W., and two days ago had a'severe dr MEE су беча: TA ET 
which the experiments were made was a fine | rain, accom; ied by vivid lightning. 
