NovzwszR 21, 1863.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 1115 
from eed, destruction by birds, insects, and |for what lies above ground and is picked up by pigeons| Ihave often th 
the m y M "that о eT and young plants аге exposed | and birds; but if dio farmor would drill in Ms Wheat qualities ot fruit ка rer tave binn deve M deris о 
io; but su i this is to be foun the bountiful by a plough made for that - ose, = bushel É tion, thin seeding an du КАЙ yet lbs ie tat >n dons 
provision there is in store from the Кү of what is left, and truth his 1 рз e is e 
the larger rra "whih пета ears attain wherever the 
i t 
eab 1 id y » ps ad re to pep n 
plant has room given it to grow out, and when we see this it | sown too thick, of which there was a remarkable instance fath this way, and I wish ач would follow up the E 
follows that sowing more than a bushel of Wheat an acre mustat | happened some years ago at Farrin, don, in Berkshire, where а | ment that I began wit 1 
rst rati lants than can possibly find space to grow farmer's corn had the misfortune (as he thought) to miss, on | ing thick is + m to аа ее iun o V H 676 
to harvest, and, this being so,let m ask you ect at | which he h: и» oughed it up, had not a neighbouring me n to th. ovement of fruit. To 4 А ке pii th 
must be the state of the win p tl me arrives | man dissua im from it, and though it Peru e un delicious Md productive M epe we have i vij 
that the young swelling plants press upon each other, and find | if half his corn was lost, tat harvest he foun nef in the last 50 years but to the care that a yatt БАЗ Ке to 
no room to grow larger—a period in the age of the young crop | crop than had ever had on that spot before. y pa thin| the selection, and to the development he has et his 
usually reached in April, when о ation will sh u | sowing would be especially useful when seed Wheat is dear. | plants? without very thin planting the wild Btrawbei 
а sickly stage in thickly sown es from the over- eel E pm is, irm el anda half of Wheatin dear times | would never befo grown into the British Queen. Howik 
> crowding that thinner seeding is fre It was the change ing to 108, Davis, Nov. 12. 
Баху C over very thick sown ring, and the FER ENUALS CIS MEET MA 
unhealthy hue plants always take where seed had been spilt, Є Ji d long ste credit for having originated the алых 
thik, Янк atti d 4 attention to To ERN. fro " A practice of such very thin seeding as I had adopted iE = на уча 
eding, a same mischief in the corn tha 
d seen in plani 8, where over-crowding in planting, when the work of Jet ү Tull came into my hands, Рувао Pank FAR ROMF —Mr. Howard'a 
ad вов in patatina ћете отет оазе, 1 sure to and I found thin sowing had been recommended | steam estiva, w worked by Clayton & Shuttleworth's 
— n Тыч йына e л тапу io пе young | and was successfully н: еч by an ag 
and injurious to ай; and a comes when from want | di 
of room part die and part dwindle on, so that at last no more died еге my grandfather was born. ^ at wo you. Employed on 77 days, 
bc Е а afforded = e Kont ЧҮ; , — Ms Бане — = e >=» һаз edere E incid "te ie dí e lost in removals in 1862, and on 
an eft Seen ave suffere the fight for die d ni наре atmy seeding, wide drilling, H 
existence they have gone бохь, and never to have аі d | hoeii end min estimation of manure a а- а ik "M RUE ч vin pipi emeret n has EST 
| the mW ey would — m had they had room given | ti D d the strongest mann k | the p ch includes 20 
| them to grow out from the firs arable land ad 229 acres of pasture. This i i a fall 
Among the many lessons І аи had of the 
advantage from reducin rj amount of seed, and 
apportioning it to the space left ^ed it in zs after- 
gro wth, I may. mention the following, which was well- 
land isa heavy loam, and there has been а great c d 
= extra f estate E 
ent, and the condition in which the land came into 
the een pn and possession of the present ow "^ 
Some four or five years "i hase by 
r. Bray, one "of the farms of which it consisted, 
візі А all is o ho present | blé nd, was 
твоз. 
n the autumn of 1840 I had ап ye field to sow with 
Wien and 7 bushels of seed were prepared pe given 
to the drillman to sow it, but oM to his рок on yis 
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| the wrong wheel, he found that when he had gone half |n. zm sufficiently 
over the field he had Boh sow bs ле ground, an о states ihe н of p soil, which isa stiff 
eor get rid o remainder e 
Ё seed, he then altered the drill and sowed the rest of seed € tne Sinis "The der r tionen € sli. vator 
pon the remaining portion of the land,and in this way one half ray to secure К e t M fallowing 
| of the fiel sown with 2 the а other of the yeh n ‚ which eame to him very foul and 
ү eet » 2s was d in ae ari nm d Ae out of condition, меа к the same eee to do the other 
repairing to show the el of the niele and thin Fo oen uding now u ls of 200 acres 
I in the spring it rapidly mended, and whe the erop ‚ 
at harvest, I found the crop of the thin sown side was arison between horses pow: be 
the better half of the field; and then was first told of the — ted, but the mde oxponso af Mu ины cultis 
mistake made in drilling it. — eim the following table 
A frequent visitor to my farm,and a convert to thin seeding, 
for he had watched my o iol for many years, sent me |р AR D's Cui quem 
Arthur Young" e Tour, drawin; attention to the fact that 1862. s. | m1 EXC 
fe: : grent agricultura o error inspected Шо farming of LN n 
n r the ар ам n repor years ago, 
he inus to his that the largest crops he met vd vere i b m ары DM 
with were the produce of the smallest ре Ым - X and H rom d. 1 508 286 
T Pies К E m е Numbers of "days, айай ro- T 
from different proportions of s eue m » т А 
(Extract from '* Tho лат Tour through the East of MNT of remo 
England." By Arthur Young, 1771, vol. pi pa 247.) y L $ " 1818 6| 23417 0 
J : a Ful 1 i a Ane ed 95 9 0| 15 9 0 
et From 4 меф, e E is deli: without hoeing 3 equal pee дов dung" At Oil М p 4 T 0 114 0 
2 Mir 2 vn NUR ан аа ^ is 186, Бә есен pid i of Wheat „Ве airs. 1218 0, 10 0.0 
» LE ФО АЕ. з. ы даз а OMS lt a e Jand, for tho sced of a = = 
d34ditto .. m 2t y а 1 an d $ T trio A pa TEN G ES ad. т 5 
"Am ns oken degradation c cond not hei нере ned ; and | the те бича па ерй in the spring, it will bə t 
though эбен is mot a proof that the cause == in I of found that Jod rig edge Again, at | um of 927, 188 T : 
seed, eret there is much reason to dem pose small portions а pirt rat 201, “ Тһе REA. equal erop, e Th 1 epa; 
оа husbandry, and attendant on rich soils, When the mall зате га Ату: po die t — y wi is still in use, but 
fand is rich and thé husbandry rd iis evidently proved that ann weak oues is, that the вої vastly des exhausted by the | will another season's 
2 еса of d = — е any larger qu EN work, Charging 10 pe for ze жеме on: 
and of cou! at there із а grea when more г) 
This being во, їз it not a pity that Arthur Young met with no eac! engine and pehari он and 5 per cen interest ^ 
instances where less than 2 bushels of seed were used ; he ifferent inerease that a strong | capital, with portion of the uo tofu new rope а: 
{е this in the days of broadeast sowing, when 2 bushels d^ cost o recte and. repairs, am to 2887. 2s. ба. 
| were thin ing, comparatively as much во Аа опе ió for which sum 880 acres have uA emus € one 
| арреа t ent day. ut the subjeet of t depths tar from Clodi ledio à 50 
| sowing 1 is not any means a new one for ion to that intrease S at depths varying trom 6 to inches, and 50 acres 
знан it has al been seen to be deserving of atten- ani ly bet 7s. and 
хо SEE epic x ied ко к — y 8s. don ча grubbing The engine "^ n 
тугі bari in the year or еа w you; 
| shows that s o Ut ago, and by еме а зо rt work, | more from this valuable old book. rust I uced Umen the land is мшдей! in threshing ап — 
| written а hundred years before, c еж waste of seed had | enough to recommend it to o general attention ind. to io" that that the whole Ё it ought not to ne^ on ће 
| been A but the mat of good dril and horse hoes кер | а scientific principles began to be арр lied to farming, thin ена 
back rogress of thin seeding. to ot 
seeding was seen to be part ofa better practice, 1, too, have 
discovered the very M тр Кё, fact w! hich Tull has во strongly The estate liesi fmi the midst A the «x ee un Ger va eto ц 
rom tho ** Practical Husbandman.") urg namely, that the exhaustion of the soil for the next es to the n 
©“ B——, Essex, July 12, 1782. p is much less from thin 'seeding, notwith-standing that 
tC Mr. Swityer,—In answer to yours concern cerning the planting the f produce of ne. A more, and the benefit from thinner seed- 
utly Астер din of 
tnr nd md pne А vigorous growth of 
getti: of eorn with r instruments, and for the|ing extendsto tl ps that follow after, for the laud is left ~ 
тей eig ó kind of vineya nue into our fields, I acquaint | less exhausted. ak and some large Elm trees indicate a considerable 
ou that I have made diligent search amon cient The luxuriance of my Whea! n poor 2 nd the fifth | natural fortility, and when drained the Grass land is 
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ear since the nr of manure c m odi be accounted for very good, and the arable land is produe ctive. 
MOT SISTER seien rops of a I 1: have „beon sufficiently 
found out which would bo regular а ad Apri wai | the pow urzel are this year 1 remarkably good. A fo ul Wheat 
e t 
s ie ^ш hi g. Tw shels of 
kinds ағә dear, provided "there x de Ioh inst (broadcas will early осору te whole of ( adhesive -— In guitieuiar, the Swedes and Mangel 
men 08 
in their delivery of the seed at equal distances, being Ку and in W 
соптіпёей ‚һе k, 
it used tò be (whati 
о е year; 
rows 12 inches ve much 
space upied and unexhausted until late in the season, and then ve - 3 feet 6 inches to 4 feet deep, and 20 
when tillering ef summer дг sodina st MA 56 interv als. мн foet apart, 9 inch pipes being u used for the minor 
Du m ion [o MET шо gi iven mo a rum | drains, and 4 i inch pipes for the londoni, In spring it 
crops, with less ооо Nd mauure, Д er ә! һай from 
sowing double е the q of se © ` 
lecture Ке, be closed, — that 
ань te the iau E" vat of corn from (oo tblokly 
RUM libb, the ingenious | Е mak cn Mm а 
since prin nad in one ^ot the parta of вота t0 тебосе that you muy ew too much. You, cannot inot 
of print ; thes eerie of which is as follows:—400 grains оё | make two plants grow where there is Space on for one: 
Wheat (says Platt) weigh t hroe-quartera of an ounce, which is on 
about 533 grains to an ounce; and so 160 perches, whieh is an Joel 
t 
this field when proveut consod to bo а farmer. 
ы TA PERLE ERUIT 
ni this ап gardeners, harvest 
two omen into а Wheat n and had sheaves of Wheat 
m 
Gabriel Plati рреат that this 
m te Mop inorease more than by tho | hole, 
common way, ӨН К est d pare» ali 
ge As Tom Cue Mn = yd та арда иш 
'$ basbels, or 6 tad рас im ade, iamdiu 
e rannes or poverty of the ground. we gay, is the 
general method of sowing, тре ое imd heat to 
ап aere of ground, if воо Mond Py broadcast, and allowapco is mado 
