s J U K 2 i 
[Jax. 
rt of earth on every side, it is less liable to be 
eeds ont by frost or laid by wind. The > greatest ad- | 
producing a crop of Turnips (after Wheat); it was| tural Gazelte, January 4, 1845), 
manured with farm- yard dung, with the addition of a | fair assure agin that there i is no such thin 
But eal and P 
mic 
vantage of all is, perhaps , and drilled. The effects of the in our soils. re oat neve ' K 
f i e solid bearin bone-dust a lied seven ears ago were pages » 115. ee, also, Dr, 
oF a “Sa ge popari = land ie pp ca “ee the least. Saa pe- fair’s igen ina a foot note, at page 75. W 
immediately after the plough, ba asl tion, its benefit on the petri of T: l hen ? Mu say that the Professor of € 
ey or rolling, age sag it is clea Ther 20 per cent, Ano ther University of iessen, &c., £ &e., &e., & 
be ni wh he as this machine mer ing an r 1838, just i in the same ahd | not cra Agticultaral Chemistry? Must y 
t nd tear, in the dimiantion’s f h pr y say Dr, Pla ayfair does not understand it > 
d lied The superiority of the | must we come preng 
si J. sr Ppt Sor street, 
CULTIVATION O 
ON THE CULTIVATION OF Hl 
Having laid before > you suficient proof o 
growing of this piant, i: 
uld suggest a plan by which it can be cultivated i 
to the conclusion that Dr. S 
= 
ls 
lh 
jb 
ee 
In the spring of 1843 this 
A 
| givenchim credit for. For my own part, I k 
y; but this we may be asoured—thal y 
xo 
the good fers asa preparation for Wheat; ; and the effects of 
the hones dust ge five years previously were traly 
| not all be right.— DEN i 
Convers sion of Chalk a Gy paum, —In 
ange! 
. Laing Hog only for the benefit of the 
surpri 
l; 
| ep 
le range of the sme 
rs (wh e quite in ignorance of the mode of | 
| one halt me C psi Mang Eros Quethiok, od 
every aie in these kingdoms, when it will be foun 
d 
t Flax can be produced. and when establishments for | 
rd. 
rainage.—Being a constant reader of your Paper, 
[ 
ropore that a 
I have tee e paricuary seek with the Resp you 
ga of the orthles essness of a fie Id, until it 
yd’. te 
ah 
iln. when nm a 
SALA co mutation rea ine eo lime, we Ke nit 
st one A e below in the furna —W. 
rosy k 
public 
enced, and that b “sei E be hisin: 
eye 
it is found the 
adapted for 
n of Flax, such a 
poi an; will, ag bt, meet with 
the 
rag not only. his 
estate but the conan eH 
to the agri 
ry S district pate eat Engla hg aa Seohand: When | 
soil wth and cultiva- | 
y ou 
support of every landed an tap who wishes aia 
of the instances you relate, a par rallel to one of my ow 
which was drained in t fee summer of 1843. This ‘fell, 
hi f Parlia- 
ment was allotted. and inclosed i in the aan 1768. There 
pee ry, 
g ever been pone 
ral labourers ; and there is no 
$ con 
a of a small corner of it, whic 
halk l sulphite ri lime. This 
by ae exposure to the ei sep oxygen from the 
and become sulp. nee: of lim gypsum, It is 
certain that th 3 of would not dispo 
the carbonic acid of ‘hp lime with Si it is un 
in chalk, unless assisted by the presence of water to bri 
3 
oP 
1 
it more close! ely in into contact. with the chalk 1 than it aal 
z9 
faf thi 
TS 5 ach 
poi will have the pesca, of uly gri te "laine 
n Yorkshire and Lancashire—several of whom hav: 
heir great credit, preaned rin 
improvements in spinning 
on 
ose gentlemen are not only 
kely to become shareholders, but will be glad 
jourage the grow wth of Flax in the se kin ngdoms 5 ; and as 
to en- 
y 
Possi 
have been once under crop ; 
the very emblems of misery ne deamtloges perfect 
geod The result ee your parii e null Ls 
me. 
bat little else to- support life ia any livin 1g creature, 
save a snipe. Tt, with nearly 50 acres mange had been 
rch: e lan 
who, 
eculation, I am prepared to prove that money so 
t. 
pa 
, did not deem it worthy of 
oe expense, 
It was altogether 80 unseemly ng 
in penin that np 
me oul not be more EUR aie! nor Ek safely 
employ: d than ‘it would be r the management and 
d, two que 
with 
successful, will be a sulphite of lime, which in 
peirer e, possessing, 
cope all ‘the fertilising | properties of gypsum. | 
à; hous i it necessary to inform all s trangers 
s it that nearly three- fourths of the population 
use, I 
as nd; therefore, in pean ing its tae k 
à felt myself Strongly bound to improve it; and I thit ik, 
his an city wear colton 
ause of the e extravagant prices of foreign Flax and 
the d Hagel n given, which 
butit 
x Cu Lear e—Mr: Dic kso + Paper containgi 
affords, I 
unque estionable evi 'ence of his not being pr actically 
quainted with the subject. You will pe 
prices he we es, nat Plax 
ch 
will allow it was not even so good 
sS; they cannot get Flax to make what w 
hs f Mining” eee below 60/. to 702, per 
16°°, | 
ton K if | 
n the summer of 1843, „as 
|siready mentioned, it was babe th 
a ruinous 
of ota a sò 
some 
crop. 
much as 
ner quality, the price then star eater 
and on up to 160/. per ton rim Borir 
uy rev ious „to the Trish farmers turning their 
m 
ur ploughing it in the fall 
t to, pte lis ef he d many 
; s, it was 
ear, but n 
a m system, which has enable ad n sot ly thei 
pre's 
Lyon 
Ses a pri 
on-| ex 
are in| 
thet em i is trast i nd ding o 
does not oi in gaa case o 
ld ; at the st 
t think it ee E a path appro 
the uce. any, dis 
h 
Bs 
is 
| larger return than 2 
time, I do no 
erage prod of an; 
a. 
fection | 
abi a better fall, ther 
n | of pith 
feh 
pain 
‘ fos et. d filled 
3 
management of the erop- 
J 
1 
M 
hae 1 1A} 
ae 
expense, trough artes pasív 8 Eeg; i in order 
p = ` tiles for the 
avgumedas rent ; ag he apb 
Ti: a 
n open cut, or intended 
, but perfectly ee up, running. Te ula rly 
> om 
The 
the various othe 
hd 
far rmer is subject, are added. necessary cutie 
d. | 
ore i grown, the prices 
ome down; that [a altogether deny, and I refer 
L h 
these are often being cleaned out—a dou 
per 
| 6-ineh tile s—and now 
o 
th 
ble of 
closed up like ‘the ed drains. 
Openings 
pirat at the surface by a flag, whic 
life t to se e 
5 
how the drains act; 
f the 
s has 
out. 
a ofa ipat the object I have in 
y the pla ns I now pro- 
sed t 
ine worth t aking ab 
_ The el am of 
34 80 ai the are 
e|a fa!l; but where the inclinat 
a | covered wi 
m o 
ly be 
tin some parts, there w 
mri alone wer 
ith 
; little weeding will „be requi 
per acre 
nt for this purpose, 
| and i in Ae A 
sufficie The open charged ó 
ling & ing the 
not noti aed. 
ith 
a all, st ae the 
the ground, all the tiles 
ould add a 
alee &e. 
few e ip per acre to the out! fh 
Now as to the produce, 60 ae 
tion de 
Meigs a i Freeh: pie econ all Ear prejos tte ie i say that to be a most unreasonable estima 7 
-and Suffolk, who have late wi turned their attention to the to 8/. ~. 2d, per acre, ee of ploughing, bu the ex 
yina he hf lax, ig ha RsS » you will fi clusive f pulling down stunted interior hed, ees š (ihe | Ah bh saem enla ‘of men! iati of West which yous r 
upport, that-must-da mnc! to carry on out all I repre- | field g istance in three), and repairing, | haye witnessed, as data on which to found a any 
por Sanne Mar par the exterior one The whole | eae ion [The average mig pris 
“eo i 2 sia m 15, Aze, London ash i wessows partly with Heoetan! and portly PoR, the aximum:] i should say 40 stone would be al 
a ugh I on Agua ove statement land = Oats, peed spring, which in due time came up | pro saact ë; erhaps not generally realised: ” 
al s nenpt ca ax anc have a profit of 21/. per | so rankly, that the only fear entertained was, “th t they | value of the vine is s however to be added, which is: 
cre, I have is own by my letters to the Agricultural were aes goo 3 and this was unfortu ately realised, for | from —_ an The ve assumed, i 
rapti on oi 24th February last, from the reports o they were very early laid, and’ for some weeks previous | stone, As not too bigh ‘for en od Flax. Th 
the Dai ast i ax naaie that Demann grew Flax | t being shorn, were laid perfectly flat; and the second | should pobre te stan ag thus: 
near Armagh, which o + per ton; now as| growth ensuing, they were becomin quite green again, | Rent and charges . LJ 4 
e acre of good Flax wjll produce half a ton, and 9/. to | There were, however, 758 stooks of 12 sheaves each in | 24 bushels seed a RA EES AG Pax s at Toe = t 
10/. will pay the exp of cultivation, as onse- | the field; we have already threshed out 375 bushels aes see: | Seed for feeding cattle ; 
anp ce it leaves 60/, per acre prois I was favoured andexpecting in the rest, 150 more at least ; certainly, Pulling: watering, and 
ast spring with letters from Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk, considering all things, it has not been a bad return. ing - 116 0 Hednyt: Senne 
and pamend, reqpsting inrtraotions = to the best modes | The field was ploughed again last Martinmas, and is expenses sowing seed 0-10 0 
ps tion of Flax, and having n them the instrne- perfectly dry, reqnirin ly to be subsoil ploughed, PEASE Sir Ae 8 ry 
s required Te ome say, these gentle h as on the farm will permit. It is £9 49| £ 
sys ea > “perlection, that the | n now the admiration of all who knew t it had been. | The above calculation is nearer the mark, but isce 
a prer e wo “ech in order that, should you deem | over the usual return. There can be no quesi 4 
my long yarn worthy. o of publication, it may, with the | the more extended ns, silt af Flax is entitl 
aid of your widely circulated valuable Paper, induce t as affording an a 
Cumberl to go d Jan 8 do likewise.—J. R. W., ste ge return to the farmer, and oe employment o 
rap l abonrer ; but the r: Mate of our sangui ne hopes 3 
ed | contain ante Bat or free a cid, a green vitriol, or | The st t pa ge, as to the- price 
s will be a hurtful, as it mil M. De ema 
n Aie Bi | t Flax 
| be decomposed by the humic acid, And. det th the humat K s quite oui dee fe ‘the 
o! f: the sul burie | di : 
acid thus set free, will injure the’ plants the Bime ordinary Pria a Aral No Pe; pics| 
te Matt applying — with par sn sd iran, whilst the|  AZotments.— If Rob ert Warner {ed bt bees i 
E aai ules good for the letting of lands 
Snperatty eez is art, which remo th any doubt that | 7th applicable to his own case, he is erect ; 
i y8 Sprengel (vide Agricul: | them, The allotment system is moj prear 
