Bersm 18, 188] THE GARDENERS! CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 875 
under the influence of the forces which the chemist | through its various stages —from the egg. through the | e that red—that is 
7704 and (ав seen in the forms and habit perfect state.) The | ау, when th * шне kA. йшй” fh the soil, and 
p p pun] under the influence of the vital force, and | fly makes its appe arance in күздү strength in July TN has served to send up the fir st blade, їз becom ing 
and August,' I аи after lays its eg eggs: xhausted d 
cw ey d 1 livelihood by farming. number of eggs d by one insect is very n source: this critical time, before it has go 
They a terested in мее: те only аза field ted as man у ав 600, "but the pou its roots vell ph ished in ME. ground, that the grub 
ien material forces operate, as piobib about 300. They were depos ite ed is sioe e to йы ecu еу tter Iam of opinion p 
y be studied. Well боени. жегде can tell t in Gra and in a great variety of situations "іаво of being able to kill th 
wor alit the ey my protest RE pan ібн, in lea-lands, by roadsides, the skirts of plan- g om an ieation that 
ply to them; but I hope РУ "il Ъе listened to to by | tations, in garden lawns, s in the turf on th t th e time; and I think that the best plan of 
roofs of cottages. How жч Se e before the | combating the enemy із to fortify the young plant by 
к on а man wants to do a thing, especially if|larva come out he odd "t tell, but "Агы the | all the means in your power. 16 is generally when thé 
in order s a profit, E must SEE it don не: Words аге | majority were hatched in autumn or before winter; | braird i is, from som e qo or other, not very vigorous 
imperfect; he can detect with the eye many а point | and they would be found in the grub or larva stat the better of it; for, when the 
whieh can never reach him through the eti: And the en from January to August. The eggs being deposited in | n comes A stron ng and healthy, and develops ite 
he must teach his hand as well as his mind. it was accordingly in the corn crop whieh | ots and lea with sufficient rapidity, it bids defianes 
go » t himself, or try to do it, until—having Aeard | had been sown in land ploughed up out of G tt grows away in spite of it. "This i: 
MUR ense—but SERING how the thing is done by the Weis made their appearance—that was to say, in hae well czomplifed in some cases where differen 
what farmers call their lea corn. It was rarely that |k f seed have been used in the same pe I 
оен та, y be soi who propose to acquire skill | they were found in the corn following : crop of €: а Mali. Yit has been occasionally 
in еш тіс а emen with a: з Turnips; neither were the em s that the iujary is confined to one kiad of d 
Коне T ners ^s bs ТЫР e of Chemist. corn taken upon land that was u Medien of the field sown with the other 
Know f the c theory uich t нр may th p Although поб complained. of, there paratively M NU And, accordingly, к һеаг xir 
а ld t loubt tl iunt by al аз а preventive of pem 
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such as may be pret yw 1 pasture as among le lea corn ; for a case is men- | This, "T wda e n by of the kinds of si 
1 bebaviour of. m p whieh dis чы їп фе урш, - 1815, ан in Holderness, in | e (utar being trong fme the other, and sending 
theory recognises is essential to them, But will Yorkshire, ral hundred acres o asture were |р a more vigor 8 braird. , Again, it is found tha t in 
this which they can Jen arn by метрт.) n "y ua destroyed ё the е. Grass plots in London 
"No; they must follow him | said to be altacked them, as well as шапу garden | clay ground, ЫМ in another season to the dry, light 
into the laboratory, T watch ihe process it NM, Sulis uch as Lettuce, Dahlias, Carnations, &с. It|soil. Here, in like -— €— be inclined to sa 
ad not only but do it step by | was relat "rm too, that in vem of the midland counties | that the explanatiou = e fact that the rev. { 
step many times themselve of E England, where they are in the habit а шоге "тош ime bn — 
Gentlemen, there is a grait laboratory out oil, and in ext yea 
This is a college not of chemistry but of хао n breast-plough the turf and burn it before re ратан анана. i de терн In the der: spring; the tid 
If that great laboratory is neglected—I say i i nd would resist the drouth better t the bare 
fidently—the purpose this institution romains pa ү Franee, also, the Grass Jand suffers from it. | thin пов, and much would also doped upon tbe 
unfulfilled, You cannot learn to farm unless -| Тһе grub remains under the turf and flat stones| kind of weather each got when it was ploughed and 
i АП the le and|harrowed. Т е рй and land tbat 
tur dden 
farmers. Like the ma ао, Si wishing to be a practical | tender blades of the nme A: Iti bable t чер. be also explained зоо to t d a above gi 
analyst, carefully MÀ — € «t practises s | attack the roots, but i to be the green bla In а dry season, the drought won't penetrate such 
in the laboratory, you must careful к superin-| they prefer. About tl e а stp of x em о grou und so readily as ve loose, o open soil, and the 
teud, and practise on the fü rm. "gren t eit is not | assumes the state of а pupa or тэй, casting its | сїгепшз{апсе of the cattle standing more bout the 
the ear, 16 is the Tou E skin, and | being е covered by a a brow nish membraneous p ‚апа sides of the fields, and conseque айу, 
observation сап ure à by EVE ; case ; more manure there, i 
must observe for PRESS es; not so much for Yhe covering the head or thorax splits, and the ereature accou: Some have recommended the land t 
sake a боры үч» Г ог Te der fact to] 2 wriggled up to the surface, — 2 extriontes thoroughly larrowel and rem eins sowing the 
your of nowledge, а sake of|its limbs from their covering, and out eed. 'T of cours се 
ае bg - ha T cc erm € tha i. length йыда y longlegs—certainly a most пач зма е^» -— machine r4 used ; bat it answers well pei even 
a glance will suffice to tell you whe m dope formation, | when the corn is sown broadcast. Тһе grouu ud 
LA Fini ШЕКЕН" or wrong. If I wanted to take. Mr. - Jamieson then proceeded to consider various | receives some four or five turns of the har 
n leaving | Cirencester College, I would 3s I the grub. |rows — enough, in short, to make the mould 
work how Sut has been recommended а eure ; and AE се = then the seed із sown and 
ә are given, taken, and obeyed—see how stock those на" tried it with. i. red by one double siroke (of the harro 
ислей for hour by hour and ай day le the| TU into a. with 
plous watch the behaviour of the sot á 
drehi дае nor Lupa: of tillage.  Espeeially | m were all dead. In the "Lowewes |. 
1 would observe, fro y morn ing on till night, the they -— crawl away і from the salt, so that it was 
operations of the wor rii uni 
too. 
li injuring crops would not hav 
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mueh effect i A dro 
these men have changed dia Acid summer. wa eed | Apae ims It was а cheap г Pets however, айа | and bra 
useful lesson of the session, as Í -— say it will be | worth trying. 1t was said to aie some effect if sown } ! thic 
found by ilione who know how to profit by it, will be| and harrowed in along with the seed. Mr. Jamieson|reason of this method proving of service to prevent 
given id the behaviour of. the men towards their new continued— add I have no doubt lies in the fact that seed (as E 
t d in a former 1 re), brairds most stro: 
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ing of earth; 
come out "P the "reed of cbe prre € Talon ot the field may ny gated d so fi I is too d M buried it either doesn't braird at all, or 
piede, temper, tnn tact, which have се ; this appears to be a of very b lowly, and the shoot, when ít is uj 
of tuis kind, are the Jud —the ground uar te gn ntes and corners of|is err than that whieh A d з from a grain with а 
e апа most useful laboratory experiment that you fields e me е "This would seem to pe v that | more shallow covering. The ground, you will observe, 
Watch. the trea 2 f the ani a Toni is рее са the | recei ae M the ке amount — and сеа 
remarks hav ua аы — and it has wise been | ing in both cases, so one са 
E T fene b y bo бошан noi tec enr na Какей Us he Wheat over which the horses have | gru itself is more affected in the one vay than the 
operation to which perhaps they less apply than any gall нй - rns оць the best part of tho "отор са the difference consisting almost solely їп this, 
other. For the behaviour of the soil in. relation to ner This ^ aed dio propriety of авт =. ан hat under the one sided you give tlie greater part 
to t capable of description—while th of coi sing t the ground. Fo or this pa мрой: "the ot the harrowing before the seed is sown, whereas 
e vari f Si т ill prob | under the usual system you give i it, after. MA can 
rTessing е 
wh affect them not be described — and the | be ound the тзт Тһе picem rollers аге too ван | scarcely be supposed, then, 
knowledge of the student and of the farmer here (on | to have mue ect. ' Some who have used ihis|grub; it is, as І conceive, that you promot e a more 
which after all his profits directly depend) mus | crusher inform ке that they have found it of advan- | vigoro af braird of x young plant. Ву using а 
y careful and habitual observation. | tage. There i5 M3 утын which ha been tried ho: 
ut it is true even of land drainage. The principles | against the enemy with s посеве, ане ма 
І һауе Ы... capital guides—the details with which | 
ыен have filled your note book this morning will no | making ho holes a few inches dee ep, by гуш it too deeply 
be useful to you. But it will Ба, be until you — or pieee е за etal, во as to 
u have seen 
have had udis ooth. When the grubs n be at к "b birds, ME. A ече for the preven ion of 
the actu аө fanl perlormanee te А th у have no | grub is shortly this. Promote tle vigour of the от 
е с it out Meme áud f: "ey саше get out again if the | aos €. properl much as -Endeavour to 
роп blunders, that уоп will acquire снб ‚ farmer near Ellon, who rx this | ө best 
e direction of lab | дини. the рете i 
: fio al les a зүнүн icultui | Š that were thus ent Mig found that - tio "Sc 
" à EE the eren of f - nights one hole alone nitrate of soda ‹ sente 
"EXC Eo WP DRE ENEUR 39 pri H also been informed that воте of Should follow follow immediately 2 
THE GRUB. | the fisher folk along the coast of Kincardineshire keep | the season be dry, оғ the soil por 
| their crofts free ot grub in — Jf the holes аге | the enemy mak gem got E 
[Ма. }Амткзо Ag ire at carefully o ast ell smoothed off on | heaviest roller уаш get— 
Aberdeen, hug а "аала оп bis а бо p of | tlie sides, rem заа боч have one. 1 should think it a 
voci dani cese d ai ve seen it recomme; фо sow Itali: Өнгө | ийа лиге вд › with 
of Tipu vla oler d along with the corn, to сы injury by кт grab, venting the seed that if after all the A Earn 
the Crane Fly or а Y ЖҮ оз ela: | тте the idea that tha ereatóre before , Deinde БОКЕЙ: Ul 
| grub ab the eu and leaves the evil saei “Whether | much way, holes rte y 
" овоч. vpn moe] _ t the ease, I can't say, but as the Grass spring 1 
ab " is a name org to the larva or m i 2 | oner, the corn, I should think, would. be icjure “Tn somé — z 
vaidus insects; but * grub ". of the farmer е | be! the 1086 apt to | айг de dur T 
lara of. a kind of йу known to ento з as the suffr from tho attacks of insects поба riad | оба а ава 
more familiarly eal the periods growth, when they are in a w 
piper, or spinning maggie. ( milisiya о dady Tonger ра dei rr: aa EE iaa and on е E at after 
minuteness the history of the grub | It is jast before the corn begins to take the second much m 
