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j Sao coil, 1 would have landlords well consider what | ton, Drayton, and Harmondsworth, chiefly employed in | ing to the circumstances of the famili 
tne sonrai effect eria they encourage the use of this market- -garden farming. From the fi ane mith wh hich | io tia and two acres each. ie le rom a aha 
om manure, and I wish to caution farmers not to oe ea is procured from London, the landlords allow | been for a long tie, a redundancy of labourers (unless, 
heya 400 Ibs. of guano will raise 11,050 of produce. iken | the straw to be sold as well as the clov es ‘of which | indeed, a more pe rel f cultivation were gene- 
a: the pursuit f the present day after artificial manures, to Crops are mown in the year. crops | rally adop t circumstance, ema with 
the search after th Philosopher’sS , or for Covent Garden ith Green Pe ans, Ne | the knowledge hal the ‘welfare of the la er is most 
esol of food, of which a pill a-day was to suffice for a strong tatoes, and Turnips. Little live stock is kept, and the | materially peo by the permission to hold as much 
„i man; an nd 7 et, even in this error; the ancients were too | Turnips are rarely sown on a fallo 5 eiccoed Peas | and as he can properly manage, has induced me to 
| waste | Tares, and early Potatoes, or are sown on the t 
E by: an equal daily supply ; it was for moder make | bles. ‘‘ Bunching” being the primary obiect € of the'| system. tones that the largest amount of benefit 
SE the di ry that matter can be created oa of ces $i growers, few sorts are cultivated except the Nimbles or will be effected in those cases pos the farmer, or still 
an Te give the Faarth w ton to get back a ton sounds reason-| Early Stone Turnip, and they are only consumed better, the occupying landlord, lets these allotment por- 
> able, but to imagine that one can create pr vate 1s —— | sheep when there is little demand for them for Covent | tions to his l ers. is eye then can steye 
s for J leave the reader to a ply the hiatus.— Hewitt Davis, | Garden, or for the London cow- eepers. angold | upon thém, to gps as encourage, to a when 
pang Spring Park, near Cro Wurzel, for the use of the latter, is a`crop of compara- necessary. By carrying out this sete had thd sustaining 
D Cte Nole.—The Se ceria él maintaining the growt h | tively recent introduction, the growth of which is ex- any pecuniary loss to mys self, I 
‘ of corn or garden produce without the application i tending. A large part of this rich loamy district re- | of contrib ing 
i dressings—and which are given in proport ion tot th mained in the state of common field up to 1814; and | families ; pinta of them casi becoming 
obliki © quantit some of the finest portions were inclosed even more | possessed of some “Tittle property, and wringing up their 
cailetaed by both farmers and ga arde ye „Tat all recently. Heston and Drayton were famed of old for | children in an i industriais and respectable manner. The 
vt vegetation springs from, ma atter collected i e soil is| the quality of their Wheat ; and the excellence of that land, moreover, is all well altivated ; thei peN, of 
being fatally proved by the practice in eae of break- | grown in the former parish caused the supplies for the | agreement with me being simpl anagement o 
to ing up fresh soil an andonment of the old clearings | table of Queen Sapam to be drawn from it. It is | their A Shs and good conduct in themselves. It 
er now going on. The ere the earth, when first br rought into well t that Que 2 p oria has other Wheat-gro wing indee affords one sincere ators to view the excellent 
2 01 quiioaiion, bas ist s kabl grown bushels of Wheat and 
r after yours for 20 or 30 years, — the bulk of its 
traw, “eed sometimes of its grain, than 400 bashels of Potatoes per acre are very commonly 
It is particularly subject obtained by them. In the gnised 
er; and ildew ; and the straw rarely dyes of so bright a principles of good férelthg’ere obser rved, viz., the appli- 
farmer finds it cheaper to remove to fresh uncropped colour, OF yie elds so Plump a kernel as it did last season, | cation of plen ty of manure, frequent trenching, and 
he a ing the th p g where requisite, thorough oi ates I can also bear my 
land he has so thoroughly exhausted. Does not this show Barley a and Oats after Wheat ; and where the land is so willing testimo ony that av class of labourers above 
how dependent vegetable growth is on matter that soils | full 
contain! The e i 
big best servants ; they are 
n reader must bear in mind that all through ine any i injurious results ; on the contrary, the Bar rley conscious that the ey tire a something valuable which 
this letter the primitive elements are rai treated of— grown is p neeeally better than that which succeeds oh ay be lost, and disketore; ‘by good conduct, are anxious 
which can neither increase or diminish—and that in TParélpe 26 med on the ground, which is apt to be a | tò preserve it. e objections against the plan which 
speaking of } > the elements forming | coarse tittiple 0 or thin, pat the crop baving been lodged. aie sometimes urged by farmers are perhaps scarcely 
them are put in contrast. ae «ae The profits of this system of market-garden farming are worthy of notice, viz., that it has a tendency, by yet 
ssi pee less than the cultivators of remote districts would sup- | ing facilities be stealing ai secreting, to make the m 
CULTURE OF MIDDLE è returns may be high, but the expenses are | disho d also to neglect their tasters’ w 
article (No. 44, 1844), the fete = of 
pose. gh, ork, To 
Ix á former high also, leaving no greater free produce—and attended | the Arak, I ‘reel almost ashamed to offer any reply; it’ is 
chalking land in Hertfordshire was described, as observed j=; Ape d : rl eee ad the a u 
during ane 
: with a great increase of ts Pa under the best | 80 thoroughly unchristian in its character, and so unt 
xcursion from the banks of the Thames to | syst ems of cultivatio on inw which the supply of manure is | in ora that I would merely remark—let a fair trial 
St, Alban’s t me now offer a few c raised by t f the green crops and straw | e give i, treat your men kindly, let them see that you. 
istrict traversed as illustrating the i 1 upon the land. T p! st loams of Heston, Drayton, lace confidence in their 
struct n and the nature o and Har 
nd. The be on, Drayton Fa 
f po opu ulat mondsworth are very similar in quality to | T ity, sal you will soon find your pe tags to be 
employment, and also as Coating the effects of those of the Fleg and Happing Hundreds in Norfolk, | groundless; and unless my experience greatly misleads 
Fy ‘Gale of the drift or diluvial period i n ge dette in| also members of the d rift. The tenants of the latter, | me, you will be repaid by gratitude rather than dis- 
modifying the agricultural character of a district, de tr dh e 
ay, and asin | honesty. It is an | acknowledged fact that the surest way 
th } th e] reel Barley, a la 
The whole of this part of the valley of t on by Sea, Sha" of With r regar ard to the other l ed ees ded the em- 
bounded on the south by the chalk hills of eons nd Tor rnips cand? Cloke, which wal Boom 120 miles to ployer let his wee to his own labourers, it will be his 
on the north by those of Hertfor ‘ordshire, is laid down in| Smithfield in the form of beef mutton, Pays with ault if he give aia sates pits than they cam 
Our geological maps as London clay. Considerable an their cheaper mode of caltiation, delle as high rents as ribbetty attend to without injury to himself. I have 
tions of it, O TeTET, & are ale covered by the and, the tenants of the former can pay who cart everything | never suffered the slightest inconvenience, and my expe- 
+ sey and loam of the drift ; and o London from a dista ite not exceeding 15 miles. At | Tie ence is tolerably extens! ve. ‘I would be careful to urge 
be the clay. a nia to EAER the surface, it will about 16 miles from Hyde Pa ark C 
hs omah on closer ex mina ation _that ow prominently forward for t 
pa Lh 
p of the farming | ¥ ‘are n brought he 
À ft, in which the nearly disappears. I haye often heard the farmers, web ret of the labouring classes, and more particularly 
portion of ae component mater i deed; | not of this 
the 
rich loamy tract only, but of the lighter soils | 88 regards the extension of the allotment system ; never- 
ceous, and derived from on: Clay, but iiie to the sout of it, boidgratitate didhosbives that theless I do feel so thoroughly convinced that individual 
"pebbles, perroner seams of sand and we and many | their lot was not cast north of the Uxb idge-road. North | exertion, in this respect, is so infinitely preferable 
same fo ümhished by the ruins of other beds of the of that road the clay district commences, to speak in| Prochial, or any other form of associ terp 
3 petion, neral terms, for in s plac extends a little to | that I would earnestly beg all landholders to try th 
northwards from the Thames, the outh; an at a ge! Brick-fields, | plan under th ow ediate superintendence.— 7. 
gradually in es its right | market-gardens, and market garden farms, with their | Mainwaring Paine. [Thanks for your Pamphlet.] bi 
gravelly and sandy tract occupied by | den lation, suddenly disappear. Strawberries a Swedish Tu Ef Ifi portion: 
8, villas, and parks, in the parishes Asparagus, Moss nd Peaches, fields of Windsor | Of your paper of the llth inst. a communication from 
o i 
i , i he produce of Turnips 
rnes, and Richmond ; and under | Beans and Prussian Blues, of Potatoes and Tur. rnips for | ‘‘ An Irish Farmer,” comparing the pr 
i n he bunching, all v vani isb. The lan iite becomes diversi- iù Ireland = Se: The core farmer states he 
at Fulham, and thence by Chiswick, | fied with h sent 12 bulbs 
wick is a loa rural aspect, but it Ea ci ag) Turnip and yet did noe ES the prize. Am 
deep, haying a deposit of a doi. th fetes 8 cease to Dé se note follows the Irish farmer’s pape 
toi x lene Get Wiad Hass ro and 3 on ‘the ee mate you ch it is remarked that, ‘In 1840 we pulled 12 
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ndon clay, u - ‘travel fdt Wife within seven miles of the metropo- owe des averaging rather more than 15 Ibs. each,” and 
h gravel consists of drift; the wn thoit meen a amid henr Piah cha’ cld, er t e ris ye mM hehe? K Atli ate 7 
water formati ini stating his average weig os 
» identica in sea Re Rp aa pret ress ted le Si res i A i pat a ot ula i pe Borg r average would be more tban 60- 
the river, but elevated 30 or 0 feet s per “* A crop never yet, we venture to assert, 
S A to supply the hay-market the transient demand for . 
mes of ighest tides,’and associated agricultural E hay bret ihe fer weeks of hay- making realised in practice. ” So much for Ireland rea Noreg 
of the elephant, rhinoceros, ippopotamus, | js far greate er than can be d byi its scanty popula- In sá e follor Nowin an book of mine now before me, 
i - i f n e fo 
it row yon a jee ne nse ao eto rts 
ack is a calcareous loam—the | whom the me anet pours one = “thle season sirp rura 7 ithout t leaves zs sone oes peg 
mig imparts to the clamp- | jab d who migrate later in the year to the hop- | , With leaves s per acre, 
hich have been extensively made in the pi king ‘of Kent, "the small proportion of a rable landis |“ THE ee eet Mair, of f Beith Ca TE I, « 
x and yellow tint which are he rotation osais EE ca ae i 
itrificatio his. marlm would nsists of Wheat cites Wheat, Dedh, What fallow, 
and i i i Total weight . 66 tons, 16 cwt.  68lb. pe 
iran ae ae the a very foul, and yielding in general but scanty PEE TE AAS fasion, vous of 
f , [c . y 
> adra rer Portions of the upper brick- Now. what is the reason of this change on crossing the 7 ewt» and ein. esr z PPE ea mer eee lLewt, and 
ay y technically called ‘‘ washing,” which Uxbridge-road t Simpl et So in the odasi por- | _ 48 Ib. pe 
The of that by which the natural marlm was | | tion of the district, the London clay is cov red w ith a td shove were yatcaciel from the May Number of 
‘face of this loamy tract is chiefly —_ thicker ift orthern Scotch Farmers’ Magazine,” in 1815, lent to me 
: lango portion of whi ch are | int ternal resources which this ipa of | the Vale of Londo n d wh 
f its light PE heavy | the 
gravel, Tricerbamy t the e loam pa ss soils will be adverted to in future articles.—J. Trimmer, 
e prevailing charact n 
plain, south of the -road, Hom ee ed 
"Fat parishes of Feltham, Hatton,| Allotment Sys vn rnham.— For some time 
wi 
past Af 
» Laleham, and Sunbury; I have noticed in yor Paper he spend a A 
u Mica 
t 60 years, | your subscribers to give their expe erience or 8 the 
cted with Hounslow Heath. | relative to the best mode of carrying it into iua other 141lbs. I could not asse 
the parishes of Isleworth, | ana Sy induced to offer a few remarks, having 8 Ibe as L took little re 
wt mtly as ial | 
ct o ©ep rich and dry loam, | average, some 20 to 25 of our own labourers to rent 
dge-road, in. the paris atikan of small portions: of land at a moderate rate, as near as 
all, Cranford, Ha ayes, Harling 
