12 TH 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
1815, and is said also to occur in a few other 
bushels of ashes and bon 
lace Its habit of growth | 
th of that pete 
than 6 bushels 
that other species, not hav- 
nes. Ih 
of bones with he. f eee drill 
e land ae 
drill has been Title used 
d 
to to 
swers wall: and is seldom weckl 
L 
gro For pla ants of large g 
B. B. Billington, Elmham 
1 
been pon. drop-d ing their ATS habit, but La branches all gr owing in _ 
on the Cotswolds till the last few years, and now i ofte l 
coming more general in its se e who do not form a table-like surface at the t top. Lo udon informs | (Ruscus 
use it drill about 2 qrs. of bones with he 1 hay “ Encyc . of Trees an Shrubs, ic: “ie 
which is not dunged for wut a and many peopl fond of it, and eat its branches without P 
prefer drilling their Turaips on the ma land, in akin thair io uths. Je prefers ch assu ae 
order to facilitate the hoeing, which operation is usually | mate, a ould probably succeed in most parts of | into, the grea! 
badly per ed, by men with long handles to their hoes, | the kin, pay I have never seen it cultivated for fodder, | agricultu 
and with erect bodies, so unlike the perfect hoers in| but have known very excellent hedges formed of it, and | many suppose, 
Wiltshire, with t short handles and bent bodies. | believe that in Jersey, where it is used for that purpose, 
With an erect body a man can only chop the ground, | it has its shoots cut off for the use of the cows, without > 
and much is not cut at e Triper aes mostly | injuring, but rather improving the P It is ric ulham, 
sed as a fence 
consumed upon the land by s eep, aud the e few 
Ga 
necessary to add, that it can only be use 
no the Dung of Birds, or Fossil Earth? 
ured the more fully this question | is ent 
will be 
iy 
e P 
As | 
not beat a greater 
The land 
with Clover 
farms without rdener’s turnip-cutter. 
the ey do 
hth of + 
laid oy 
in either sie o H 
the plant very seldom flowers, it is difficult t 
seed, and it must be increased by cuttings which strike | 
easily. f the 
U. strictus to be considered a 
tinct from both 
o obtain 
ZA o 
as a distinct species, but | 
not agreed amongst raka to which of 
o e referred ; and I concur most 
will i 
made to ascertain i we have not in this comnea 
cientl 
arp oles 
a 
rist; for sh 
t not cause ater an inquiry to b 
y well det 
Sao sceunviated ies of sea-fowl aiae an exp 
—perhaps hundreds of years—to a 
2 
a 
“8 
—Li any of your readers, I was puzzi e 
o bruising ind grinding Linseed, as the me 
ife 3 
= 
a 
a 
a 
labow “a cious Andras of allotments, aye 
keepi rd in site, tht land ou appropriated should be 
FasL 
therefore refer t 
part of the subject, to a PB 
Britis h hega ” 2d ed. p. to my 
sa I must 
hose who may yey any iitseeet in that 
canes ah tes of es 
‘int he “Ann 
volv or to my" 
let at the farm ing pric ing in nti mately acquain uted 
with parish affairs, 
we ties to overcome in AAE upon the e quest ion. If 
made in ee upon wardens to hire land, in the 
i ak 9 e land seating, and to pay for i ito 
the ‘rates, "bow i ed they to dec ide who i is to ben 
a 
Bo ti. p. Pi l be . Num s se 
lings were raised from this dkat te Mr. Ciena. the may 
excellent Curator of the Bi rm 
ail o 
+ Ps 
where they wil 
ingham Botanical Garden, 
a 
t? for 
AAA, those who pay rates as poor men will have a 
their parent. Itis not for 
 eouslderation of the panne 
value of Parze, ai since eTa a pra ractical agricultur 
gric! ik 
but as ae 
claim. Pili all , circumstances, and wit ji the k 
irn Ni every s pan 
a 
tural Gazette seem to consider even common A 
be postin of cultivation as fodder, notmitbstending | 
would e eats endless caning and sence 
Tih R 
well deservi ving 
t be 
m its much more succulent charactar, ane 
the hisas of its thorns, which are so Epa 
him clea 
of succes s re att y made, and succee 
On account of the gin eek of the seed, stones that 
“lag 
Um! 
the whole; 
ie os of immense 
or ad 
er; Hia ut much exp 
i 
his I g 
The 12 cloak of Aoi i six cows about t ‘ 
ays; a larger qua kag no ante wo aR be attende 
with Coated benefit, but it u 
gia menced in a small w. ake. “4 
n his sheep, and thinks it will cree the 
eke J. “ti 
ae 
mall encouraged the en “The acs of the “plan ) ! 
app is os ede two points, viz. rat Te lars o country, in their relief of ab 
rent t holde: er, and not Aga itting him to have more | gps sike St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, Dee. bodi ed m me mployment, are e 
ith nd rat +} no mganic . Eleme nts of Gra in and Straw. So lec- oe portion ae the applicant, and whi 
to be  chergod in the rent. Tam al d fi Manchester, | how w in the relative scale it may 83 is one w 
th ), which should b M y, 1841, it was there stated that the quantity of it x Tor i interest of the whole community that 
kept di net from allotments; the latter must not; d by the plant in 100 parts of | p00 should correctly appreciate. 
any Seem , be allowed ra run into the former such a Wheat, are 15 5 of ashes 5 > in the same quantity of tl thier pe shes in this county, where there is 
mistake weak destroy the benefit of both. ; in 100 Betts i Lip stalks of | ance of inferior past Freche which be 
hav; ve either just enough to employ his leisure hours, or Oats, 4 42,. 1 Sie in HB way correspond | rent, and which on the a of years ai 
table No. l in your va ae Mate of April | nerati to the occupier, vind scarcely any peae 
seeking work elsewhere... Perhaps tbe condition of the 20 of tbis year 5 the Editor would very much oblige by | to th or, Pag toric generally are pp auEDe to o 
labourer and quantity, if the abor ve is not correct to th up of pasture 0, 
aaa hnd Ci bie r to many applications, and agen 
present, yet the idea of supposing men will t 
tage of an indulgence, and neglect their master’ 8 yas 
if any in ai last two mentioned.—D. 5. H Pea 
bs. of 
rests, is too uncharitable to 
I am satis fie d the desire to raise themselves in the esti- 
uppe ermost in the 
1000 
Wheat leave 11°77 lbs. . and of f Wheat straw 35°18 he of 
ash 5 1000 Ibs. of the Lk of erat gt 234 lbs., and 
„of as 
y va of ie 
ee Joh 
enc ouragement to shine fort 
true and kindly spirit. $ ai like to hear the yanan | 
on the Allot na Bill. Ta 
nd if t 
ston’ s ae. ie 
7 ay h ob}; 
foster “this Pets habit of aispasing = Fis 
bas ations, . But the commo: 
would soon show the question to be 
r. 
TRER annuity of varying 
poe beri. tory in the Sar: -run, find its payment 
the pock the lando owner. Hei is, therefore, 
v 
g 
f the refuse from aqua-fortis 
not Tey, in any way; an 
y 
ect o 
ine it with mas from pools, 
ing it out to the best of my ‘ably but, at 
em = 
acid, ufactured 
pak sca I = it will 
Tewa. 
+h 
than ne tage a ones and the labou 
them. s better to watch the a de 
ffec 
I pu mi 
Siete. seid or nitric 
cid is 
oda, 
and the nitric acid driven 
manu 
applied either to nitrate of 
off, | ™ 
nie lenge i adopted, in 
o force it bese willing 
ng 
© 
with 
_ There are many Veneroleat individuals in b 
a valuable material, cannot ak = termed “aie 
ar ‘guments effi 
shoulders in a 7 anner; the ery act t of There will be nothing but this in the residuum. Itis to the removal of prejudice on this point. Pat th 
compulsion mal a positive benefit lly t lied | strongly, therefore, that the ha prejudice in favour! 
ful to the ory oaet ng it—such is human na rate of 2 cwt. per acre. We e sus- restricting eens from breaking up any pastures 1 
ture. The me a = the law with what may be| pect, “ign A that * Civis’? means refuse po soda fail, and ‘he kerer the bett 
more satisfactorily arranged by individuals, cannot be | works, not from a aqua-fortis works, "The e from | 4 Whitaker, Bockington, Somers 
recommended, There i is nothing to prevent half a dozen | soda works ie soaper’s ashes, which are ei a sed ae Se 
persons, resident in a parish, joining together to take | on heavy land as manure. When first turned out they Foreign Correspondence. 
ist of s riot ret of calcium and carbon ate of lime. _ Pleuro- Pneumonia. —Allow me, the liberty of 
to the labourer, under certain regulations and restrictio ons, | The sulphuret of by tion i 
e po behav pep r i thorough tillage. But ifti t tent, and| be feared, will hearts of the greatest moment tot ; 
uch pow is giv ard ns for the re lie f of a parish, converted into pie i a8 te su seer pd ime. Other etei inter ests of your country. I hay om 
they t bid i , leaving the main ingredients of the | in your 
order to make it Pay, and thus be authorised to. convert | heap—sulphate, sul; phite Some tially exists among cattle in Engiand, seems, fro 
intended allotments This must scription R to have the same s ymptoms as those whi 
different things—one adding to the comforts of the 
indu stri rious but indi igent man, the other entailing in- 
1 f, 
given off from it. 
ye ‘a valuable material, partieulariy to heavy land 
ould be very suitable with mud, as * Civis’ 
which even his extra toil ‘Will not extricate him from. 
J trust some of your numerous correspondents will take 
ommon s' sl ight be 2 ae addition, ei 
tioulariy if the mud w 
per 
country, in the dlite. hi lung sickness, wit 
has anes geal at rs pie ie as occasioned, an 
continues to occ a loss eral millio 
St cia + 
This. should be fully and apay examined before th 
F 
} 
correspondents of 
the “Apietaral Gazette (page 8 78), it is asked if any 
information concer 
ia the first place, it may be stated | 
that aid no 5 thie 
lant asa Furze without thorns does not 
ning the “ Furze | 
ary with ay texture of = soil. 
oaper’ 
ashes per acre.— 
F.] 
Rabbits.—“ An Old Subscriber” _ wishes to be i in- 
fatal of Bee i 
s | that no cur 
influence in the isorgnisation 
N Pa is ute be foun d, and w 
e is no it better suited 
for under-shrubs be Rhododendron: they are never 
attacked „by hare res rabbits; they are not at all fas- 
oe such a pl 
i Id the Irish E 
slender than in our well-known | 
50 soft that the 
; I have seen them 
in jii shady situations in shrabbery among old trees, 
hg 
a yellow loam, aonne esi Danae yet 
ace 4 d 
any crushing. It is 
rat not 
paca in the 
of Down 
9 | is true they do n 
lyi e 
Ma ps of 
im -sboat 
4 feet hi erin vas s square, 
haviog broad hel ve s, and ‘of a prostrate habi 
t fle nn 
th 
forming 
t. It | 
apes 
i rest pee a8 
| surgeons ; it gives a fi di ii 
pict 3 a this only possible e method for stopping the i 
mense losses whi ich it occasions. This Bs eatise has 
already forwarded to your Go overnme’ 
Consulate ; but, eine written in Dutch 
neither understood nor translated 
a dreadful 
sein 
y 
poa seed. 
der old Beech tikes, 
s may be A booght | of your immense e and ‘als able stocks of ca 
raised by thousands | if 
rms a carpet 1 foot hig gh | Gover 
where everything eke re fuses | l Sisic ite 
no do bee effectual measures are ree ken by ye 
ar cattle-markets will soon ie 
f 
The only way of prei 
nt, ia 
over the country. 
