sa THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. — (тышын 
so, and this therefore is one of those cases of an 
general law which need a Look of | ho 
examples before our faith in it can be fairly 
claimed. Certainly we are not in the p^ st dis- 
posed t^ believe it yet; when the — of 
half a dozen ave proved | grou 
that the alieged siu da does generally obtain, 
then some degree of faith may Бе forthcoming. 
in t e mu 
** gl: rious stupidity ? we said last April—that **n 
induetion of M though peg from the 
life time of the old man, will furnish any 
‘law?’ to which the deri of so $e and at all 
times so capricious a thing as English climate will 
be fo: к obedient.” 
s Mr. Dv Bovrax claim the weather of | 
the а season as an instance of obedience 
his so-ealled 
"law?" On the whole the | 
q abl. 
with sli E eve at the begin-|P 
ning, beautiful warm towards the Ag рм 
1 denud 
Express нөн the season which has fol- | 
lowed this beautiful week? Не says that Һеаё а 
and cold, and dryness and wet, have all E 
Be s speaks of the cold of May and June—the| 
summer," 
еа gl ious ü jis 
foretold, "but. the prins of the erops on T ch Í 
its claim to this i is alone founded has been formed by poking away the soi with eai а methods by whieh they may be established 
owing to er prev vio vus to he ad shaped bit of wood, and picking the grubs from | ind improved have Siri A great quantity of 
equin Hl h has sueceeded it, | SusPected plants, Cunris says that Lord SUFFOLK | detailed description, and many memoranda have been 
eleared a field of eight acres of Swedes by hand- | given y A skeleton of central and general trath 
And that 2 the riv hazd has not ur what the | 
euis vcn SN : a: "uA upwards of 1000 daily. About 16,000 were picked | i M a V ami well furnished. body 'оЁ useful — 
as been superlatively | up at an expense of less than 25. per aere lito ry and fac > 
fine ў” Mr. Dv Босат ide “а lueky shot 
that. He did not however “вее why the dedi 
of h not be good"—— though it was 
Ба ас и зч by the rain; and though ЇЕ was 
d o sit t: m 
рың, e (No клы segetum), and so is one of а | were told that the surface grub had then oom. 
they 
——— 
the root had been nearly eaten away ; in others, | ing that several species of „Noctua haye veen 
wever, they seemed {о һа Mv Ta ken off, and | байда t this vear, such as XN. is, di 
Я 
ау 
. mL. ой 
is about an inch and three NN in length, with perhaps. allied forms. Their caterpillars are 
nded with a kind of drab or cuir colour, mueh alike in size, and approaeh each other į 
indistinctly marked with greyish bands, both f colour, so that it is not - Be improbable that 
n 
and leathery, and thinly scattered over with short | while in some the 278 maj perhaps be found 
stiff hairs iM мн - li riet, 
o|gen the several species of which are most meneed its attack b n the Turnips, but t) 
estrnetive » both field and dem Vel. ж N been foun d о Ам е Lapwing, who was 
1858 о the e 
exterpillar ps such an extent as to threaten their time, Our in Xe Si ve us that h vis 
destruetion, until we diseovered the grubs and sidered the Lapwing or Peewit so valuable that he 
| destroyed them d all he could to secure ч from molestation, 
In the same year i. Turnip crops were Si very garden nows how gi these birds 
attacked as extensively as in this season, early are in ke eeping slugs, iuseots, &0, from his crops, 
springs d long summers S uel to the pro- “А it may soon be shown that del live 
duction of more A hence | апїшь1 food. Such large bird j 
аду we may aecount for the di A sized | invaluable cs farm servants. It j Мк, g.tting 
grubs we — with, апі their great [eran se when | very scarce over a great part of England, as tke 
wit а shor t, wet, or cold summer|grecd for their eggs is so great they have but 
se үтү а poor chance of continuance amongst Us, a 
We have said that E оны aro very aetive, | circumstance much to D Зе when we look 
and some notion may be gained of their powers|at the value of its 8 the beauty of the 
when we observe whole Wa x Turnips being | bird, and its еш nter habits] > 
er en —ÓMMÀÀ. $ 
" ight, favoured by the dews t. TO AGRICULTURAL MOM 
В: носе they travel from опе plant to Ix Cowenvsiow—oN LAND DRAINAGE, 
d so that even a few et T o| I nave now gone over the аы f i 
an immense amount of mischief; how much mo n branch of t rely mechanical part 
‚| —опе great bra pu 
then, when they are so thick on the ground that agrienlture—where (the laws of matter only acting) 
e hav antici 
e k tained by picking | uniformity of practice and experience may be 
апа на н alls di the T i ts ated. Тһе relations of water to the feeding ground of 
се per pint ів operation ГА readily per- [xt ой food ss well as feeder—and cook as well 
—tlese relations have been discussed, and the 
y ive entra i 
icking; a boy followed each hoer, and collected = been clothed with the material needed to make - 
We may оу offer а few remarks d {ее ve now 
f this E Айнаш. of m land draii с 
ts МЕ | аде "re only of your own 44 РА 
lime, salt, е, to draw aj tbe right plan, E 
Are yos tio: now v тергей, do you аы - w 
yer 
infusion pared at once Wi» 
«s just possible," according to his theory, “ that pr of like remedies will be found е [Sr Ec | out economically to completion? I address шу М | 
the later pastu be rather bare from dryness rubs more or less, especially w hey come | course, only to those who have now for the first time — 
and heat, and Turnips in England in the forth at 5 as they will do, Бег t to aitek the | heard the subject disc efore them, or who have | 
months of A and September be inclined | leves of the plants, or to proeee indi- | not had amy practical experience in the field, — — а. 
to mildew | fion the same cause. » Yet bot th ра Gros | viduals. These may be done to some effet i inthe| І have not the smallest hesitation in saying yot 
some, | garden, but in the field we must either pick them | are поё, And yet, if anywhere, it is here аба mere _ 
y urselves, or allow the s description of the operations to be done should be 
The erops in England, eotland, and 
how the sprouted a fe of я RR Meet 
їп Sep , 
have been fed with rain sufficiently, and promise |? oae 
w urn че Шур 
Ireland, are unfortunately -not ''likely to be|field when for Turnips will tend ^ - Чаш 
j bef 0 hed chrysali he young 
oughed sufficient. The subject is in —- г ts extremely | 
and — counties, д еп est of | 
then whieh w = re dine the |t 
date ofi Ms Tetter, alisin in үс his predietion we do | P 
not know. e that a passage of one of | they go. e тоо] ue , that 1 would | tion. armth and rainfall can be measu: var d 
the '* larger. po tid Мк any apparent|fain release him m. hie acousation ; when he | instruments, and described precisely by Pp rial 
failures of his theo ory may at any time ime be sheltered, ud pulls the PRA — I Itisa question of mere matter, and of i veying 
в occu as the p wireworms, and grubs, are at the "тооз; һе * did "Mere only. lf ётер words were Per i І have no 
explanation tà change of weather which must | not kill them the plants must die, and without his Laura наго € а. ner се. by 
otherwise have tried his equanimity aid-the insects would remain ; it is (o ее baving listened to my story here to a in prac- 
А i E Å 37i ny 
| as he gets rid of фе termis which infest the il | e Seb o ы Tath which же have we have 
so that at all even е his sueeeeding erops will be be | discussing M n ne dinw the past fotu d 
фей attacks; is Өй in, БЫ particular instance, because 
Ro тш ated obey +, which more than any 
тумара at ud. be named wig port be рро 
size; here and e were considerable gaps in the 
occasional plant of a sickly reddish- brown colour, | 8tid are seldom i « it ever а ai their prey. , Gentlemen, 1 there is gren 
rk, unquesti 
yet saw а hsc looking TUA oae you cannot шы art zim: word of 
up by them in their search for these grubs, The | cannot teach А — here— not 
truth is, these he subject—not msi 
farmers d plants, perfect comm А фано f for the pu 
ose who profess to teacu amd give а 
Some of these were taken up by the roots, and in| We well recollect in 1858 being trium ek wary— 
j 20 y ad 
Eres e we nd one or more | introduced to a field of Swed боеру» екы t im d тешу ui you— гое а who 
brownish eaterpillars, the nature of whose opera- | placable enemy of the rooks, with КК тем like | go from this theatre end these 
bulb was soon seen in the more A less eroded | the following remark—'* The ! = ов farm and start business for Eus In equipped i { 
by which this peculiar colour of leaf is|raseals any longer if Cim Ef _ I saw dozens Los wig Ун. а what ү 
pe cepe 4 E b |тоо. over p here, i$ [s dy 
de Toots seem e eaten Аё їп ве rad | 
holes, much like those that we sometimes m | 
so that the 
until it 
c anà we have a E doni in diah = pt патен 
gru es appear a — I "pem 
peculiar instinet, Td 
"MIS баг 
