6.—1845.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 89 
Ti. —TO BE KERES, clay Arete With a go ai pir Bpa = poi Bdge we only with the a The market-garden farms round London and other 
FARM of ett eines, T will be’ Let fro hi and the m be employed, that | highly farmed districts, have, on the other hand, as 
— oe se and spacious € ere ee a Ah Niles, POr | Ped such incongruous diversities of Grinion nd practice | we lately stated, been surfeited with such luxuries 
ik . Ecsite Dz uce, Ensham, near Oxford ; or to Mr. Soar, | (and in some cases such inveterate perseverance in| as ammonia and carbonic acid ; ; and in order to 
i a Nett TETE bri Pp p of hi d ne one rams a clay down adjust more Seren the proportions betwee n the 
= f s drain, while another t fth 
k The Agr tcultural GHasette, every particle, and covers the tile o over with brush- crop, in the food which is administered f the, Wheat 
| nl ele eee etal wood, stubble, or the most porous substance he can | ai nal dressings of ould be required; and as 
eu SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1845. lay hands on, covering that again with the friable regards Middlesex, composts of chalk, London cla’ 
ay, wrerixes ia aaa pwc O OWIE WAAKS: surface soil, so that not a spadeful of impervious | and dung, instead of dung alone shoul 
mesg rommnar, Peb, 12—Agricultural Society oi o England. matter may retard the descent of the water. Both The chalk, the farmers of "this dis district well know to 
= rear TERREI can hardly be right, let the varieties of soil be what | be easily obtained by water carriage, and they know 
; ee ee a ta doe Bhan. they may. Another cuts his drains diagonally across | that it i is good for pe heath land. Exin ai 
arn | shea eroin ee E i the ridges and slope of the sy pie ting t that by |r upon similar to theirs, 
pain wales Grove Ferry e means he catches the water down | mixtur e of chalk weal London hey is prefesabie 4 
fing Gren Feb, 21—Stoke Ferry e + alo ondon clay lies everywhere, we 
me WPi Daima elicate and important scat sty it is is ridad up | repeat, within 2 feet of the surface of their fields. 
Aa te Feb, 29—Cardift Ps r Turnips,and has to bear the cart in winter, | Show a No rfolk. farmer a bed of such clay, at no 
big E | aving observed that the Turnip-ri ges which lie in | greater depth on his own land, and he would make 
a im > ea aey re between the irar: i ae. the | an a aga plunge after it; particularly if you 
e the furrow) are apt pa retain the wet between them, more | gave him at the same time the same command of 
in, is to be o cine bys sdy of the radi and the than those which lie near to the drains. This is a dung to “m: ake it work” which the Londoner pose 
è truly es i ok ea db ira BT and tome! point 2 and we have this year made an | sesses, d, he would 
at bog an juo le sa oF sot Ae This is the ey ke i sic with a view to its solution, in two fields per, t dais ppt his carts five or six miles to the 
Sini 0 Ge which all the arts of life h which are in proces s, of drainage, each of which staith (wharf), where he would get it from ho keel 
ce aalytical method by which a e arts of life have| ha aneto have 
4 been improved and brought (if any art ever can be | „PP F ied mima ik ig pec mi 
ny be brought) to perfection from which al] | {24 the a pa degree of “fall” is diagonal to the | or an ch 
i E have been gradually deduced and shape polis he prs ach field this obliquity in th , (sand ar ani 50 feet d eep had er 
Ei tio a ynthetical form, iti Pais tara a ends to 7 ut one quarter of The whole area, and removed to come at it. Our advice would probably 
BNE Giiisace, x oven in 2 word, the con. | ‘2°2eader will understand that in an the drains | be met with the declaration that chalk, clay, lime, 
ol ets of the work of a Ge obliquely across the old ridge e have, in fact, t, |an nd bones were all very well for the cultivators of 
l a ears. It was this analytical (and it is th followed the fall ay than istricts who could get nothing better, but 
y ariel e oker A MELNIE Aik s were able > üo. The Sia es are a split not og ieee to use che who had plenty of good 
Be ol to ourec vesan d our readers: An she dink down, and the fiel aiioa s to the Turnip-ridging | rotten dung would be the height of absurdity, 
: N vet DE this saka ities AEAN: will I be _cross-ploughed and laid perfectly f flat. Ch alk, we should be told, did g on the heath- 
i i ences of 0 inion an E ractice to whi hwe th A bus yes quired on the old inclosures ; 
oig CUTE p P : oe which we attach to the casting down of the old high- | there was nothing of a “feeding nature” in any o 
tn ig fa ag if a with; bac acked ingak pr bs ai» eden of all hea methods phe substances recommended. The objectors have, 
7 p r that cou e devised for the purpose of putting | however, proof positive’before their eyes, that su 
veri alaaa wos ż f all : a eaeh nal Nature out of her course, and turning what should be | stances nate of i ing nature ” monde something 
at En n E h ae x e T miid ble by the perpetual sources of fertility into causes of in-| that nefits crops, even on land that has been long 
~ parentage pk Sin g equality and barrenness, this agricultural corduroy of | under cultivation. Let us ins nce the “oyster- 
e stagnati enio of a ohangi of jer e e and fi ancient, and certainly | shell acre” in one of their commo s, on ch 
eul Which EEN As vias fe iy the most effectu arded as a substitute for the tenant had spread the refuse of a brickmaker’s 
down ipak the if ms bi drainage, it hitherto ha » the remedy | breeze heaps, containing a great quantity of oys 
in all titer coher ay Heel | that it affords against surface stagn is almost as | shells, and the piece, for mor after- 
Koves theless he eh z f t a e rain which ought to f: ards became remarkable for the excellence of its 
chk he > am od wach n surface, and percolate Sally down | corn crops. Judging from the effects of this, per- 
s ever yetappeared whic ] 
a , and the 
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re Piattice ao their right, with 
comparing the e me 
d tees rented on 
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Suggestive c 
Who, with ature two languages, render 
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Muir left, and deducing the most 
upon an eve 
through the whole of the soil, runs off a r. ne ridge haps accidental array Be we wou Fag crap o 
i i it the roof 
n ria 
saturating again and a sts the long line A miee failure a on have tried them more than x 
that there owe its channel, and outs Ue at last m varying wa pie of application in such a ina as 
bottom of the fie i beds 
recious of 
€ | field that it has traversed. p Aei artain y one | Turnips are one of the crops which are 
of Bie = choicest gifts—the dew of heaven ! and | Norfolk to benefit most fromt these composts of clay 
yet even to A ay there are many who Aires and chalk with dung. 
that if a field has got a “ good at so as to throw ~ the attacks of mildew are often traceable to, 
off the rain superficially down its furrows like an | or a any rate coincident with, and therefore proba- 
umbrella, it is of little pay clayey od pees ae an irregularity in the crop. 
own Se arties who each understand and impenetrable, whether it or not.| Certain portion ing thinner, . henge later than 
writ di orant of the other. And the error arises fro e aye before | others, int are peculiarly liable to the disease. To 
by r. Smith, of Deanston, noticed, that the object. of € Sound e is , oo of earr this, less seed, equally raae vraa = the land, 
of the same sort, that the water, not through but off th ke had. or ve be used ; 6 pecks per acre are amply suffi- 
tural periodicals, — cient, and this drilled at invervals of 9 sched will be 
arded. as so many different reports| Ir our remarks, in a tle paper, on the eof sed likely to yield a uniform crop, and, by admit- 
Ividuals have done, and how THE Mitpew 1n WHE T bee correct, it bdd a ‘omar ing the free access of air regulacty tHfoughout it, 
gy and the various degr success | that ITS PREVEN is a measure within the Bath one also. Stiffer, bight, d more 
ave attended their operations, than ses of e oe In ) far as vegetable disease marketab e Hise ue liable to , less sub- 
re es, which would result from slat: affected, it is manifestly under our control ; chai, Hemet iina Aah ry Ik, and bearing a larger 
oy i on of such reports, under the | the over-luxur ope of a Wheat crop, caused by an. proportion of tp developed ears well "alea with 
those sciences which really unequal supply of the necessary elements ii K e mr and heavy grain, would thus be produced, 
T nab aul certain of = others | LE. W. 
the m sa pet pa otto of Teh are equally es ential—we ow to be a 
ever 3 to Near n over | condition in eth aie pes A particularly liable z ARTIFICIAL MANURES. 
es ces one who | the attack of mildew, and ition whic Your remarks on m munication in your Paper 
TE Ms neat Piy wane age finds its obvious remedy “ = "the f Aihm een of om | last week call for a ia Apes and I beg the Tollontag Sb. 
hich the root ; "iol than the | balance amo g those EE duced the aise ~ | servations may appear in continuation of what has there 
uld ; the ees de- | ment the want of which had induced the disease. | been said by me on the impossibility of the usual — 
O d never do bi ee : S a restoratio ected either by | in ng of guano affording the elements for a crop of c 
TARN ubt for an one that where | tta ppiying to the soil that in ‘vhich it is deficient, or quality rhe 
‘r would follow, and the consequent | by removing a portion of what it already t f th 
know thn, the ka dabbler in Che- | in ex cee. be correct, much mi hie i is ng on done Y peime being 
rain-wat | uano instead of yard manure, and a servi 
ammonia ritalin shite p his vod fait nash as lal Spina: et i to. Agriculture will be rendered by attracting more atten- 
; bject of drainage is not merely the | land is Ih med once in every rotation nay peri in 
m 
Ne 
ted by 
o 
= in the course of its escape into | by the application of some ammonial manure, such | to derive all its elementary matte 
a mas as 3 byt 
T of engineering, and the use dulged with a little oil-cake; and by the land being | en c portion of its matter. all 
Behe be of importance ; | treated with the salts of ammonia and the alk line | tion as to whether the atmosphere 
cpscieces might be mentioned and ea is o phopa produc em, y part of vegetation, 
to 
Contribute its quota 
qu 
W7 compound result of 
truly well drained field. 
have seen no atte mpt to disprove what I 
Water: as speedily as possible, and | the way of ar hardl thing b t t As yet, I 
; g, har y: rR ing but rotten straw, it 
but rather the free dispersion and | with iA volatile ar vaporated, and its soluble have asserted, that does not srm guano forward as if i 
, laterally | salts washed o f it—we say the supply of the | other excrement, and were constituted aa of inor- 
from e vegetation 
were more than dung, and wi dely differed from every 
P agram of fertility wanting here might be effected | anic matter and also, that does not assu 
r fro m a 
ter ie ° the beasts ‘in the straw-yard being in- | ra that the virtue of manure lies w hd 
I shall not 
ains being taken to drive off the o a been ere be m 
the pro- | of so muc es ae 
rnd pe 
by cro 
applied | into the atmosphere, ae to conduct the other i into | 
And ' the horse-ponds and ri the e princi 
