71845. ] ee THE ee Oe GAZETTE. ‘107 
i ai te chalk does tot n —— re 
? Told that tbe chalk does not make as p ab | d has ample means of increas- | what manure goes the reader suppose was u 
; (Biber agricoltura or building purposes, ing. itself $x atri means, s and Natur e does not seem to this “result oe de ply sawdust ! ‘laa “ths t noh kat an 
‘stone does; bat is it ever tried (se the ormer? oeno d, such as take Spruce, and Scotch Fir, which 
ote practice of chalking resorted to instead? I nthe case of plants which have to depend on their Me Bishop reckons “fniehteal to to vegetation. When 
ths, let me strongly ere mend some of the ‘Middlesex seeds alone for their further natural i pani A „Ao not | say simply sawdust, I mean that in this particular ca 
to their Wheat n x I have | there was nothing else, save that it had lain in the yard 
varying from 1 to 3 tons per acre, and see if the abun- never hates the vitality of the seeds: reat jon w that | four months, over which cows and sheep sometimes 
dance an of t s (Tr ii icum tipek) which is, Sey, like the pissaa, and in their passage dunged ; and the only pre- 
re 7 on the supposition that the chalk c mature its seeds. J | paration it had undergone was being turned “over once 
no pp aee- sia; and I would also Figoni pwe esay the foots chopped in wh yin would: succeed | or twice. In 1848 th t Id ced 20 Carlisle, or 
am be used i unction with the sults above | very well and this used to be a’common and successful | 60 imperial bushels of Black iy per acre; and, in 
‘mentioned ; or rather, I ‘would a apply the lime now, and | mode of sowing the aipeincgcase (Agrostis stolonifere). | order to bring it Ea the same management as two 
} 
: 
= “the salts e between the middle | The maritime Pine allu to by Decandolle is better | other fields of similar soil, which are now joined to it, 
“aad the ead of March. Man eople laugh at these | known in this country as : Pine ster. Seeds may be pur- [and which have beén also drained and subsoil-ploughed,. 
doses of salts applied to land j and ask | chased in PE Aean ties at a yery em tern price.— | it and they were sown ied Pay dl in 1844 Ks “ad 
= ; d of sprinkling half a cw at. ‘of any: | T. L., Kilm di fiel 
thing oa än ache of ground. The. example of nat Boks. in e 839 of your last year’s Gaze elte, e of upwards of 10 a PE. boen Tiny poked, 
‘ i in our domestic economy, e ay to me to offer marks by “J.G., Clitheroe” on the preju- and is in excellent deter: fer spring W at 
illustration.” On the average, mankind ‘pro bably dice. falt ty many against ei, _and such is the Ce ct of’ drainage.—J. Ww “Gu 
each eat more than the twentieth part of an ounce} the mischief th ey do early counter- | fe ream benda 
salt per day; but that little is indispensable to their | balanced by their’ ‘utility fh thier Feapecte, there should h Turipa —I send you the result of an erpe- 
bey say, where a little does good, much will | not be Nia wanting (who have benefited by them) to alee toe hing the comparative value of wood-asher, 
» more good, the absurdity is at once apparent with ied word in their behalf.” Altho cach Pr but | guano, and Boast’s inorganic manure, when applied p 
to salt in cookery ; but it does not seem to be |’ rey ‘that “J. G,” has, som ewhat over-rate d their f the growth of Swede Turnips. I divided T were of a 
anifest in agriculture, where’ I hke seen 5, 6, and ut tility f their food con old Clover-ley into” vert Beto divisions, upon ree I 
m 16 cwt. of salt’ recommended to ‘be applied ‘to an) sists Otthone insects and larvee so G terribly ds structive ( dges) seed thut I had proc 
ere. Imust admit that the last-mentioned quantity | vegetatiin, ye i ae good they do is quite sufficient to direct from Mr. Sirvin » st Liverpool. By at of 
proposed by a dealer in salt, who might, perhaps, |'en title them a fveurkbia verdict from all right-| hard work we got the ground her capital order, with a 
tify the recommendation with the old proverb, “Th thi , and shield ‘them from the edicts gone | fine crumb, and sowéd rather early in the aua but I 
noth é leather. | f oo, | did not tuke any note of’ the “foid; The drought wis 
nee the above was written, I hav: n ‘your Paper | live quite as powerful i in’ numbers | much against them, a nevertheless they grew away, 
the let Feb., in which the writer ot on ithe fab ae as that py ston, a cue ve iy td have suffered mo re from and promised, as T and most of my nei 
ort recom echo ger f lime and chalk't ie ai depebditions than I hav g yield a large bt mob but after what T have 'séen 
farmers who usé much o ws ndon manure. Te ifi stated in your Paper as to the produce in some places, I 
glad to find my biden strengthened by the opinion of thee d in a very short space of time, transplanted | must hide my diminished head, and confess, whatever 
ter who evide aa under: what he writes about, | S a eaa for ‘Acres, ‘pated TU to wt nothing of théir fre- | Our skill may be in the production of Hops, that in this 
r reai sons previ u usly given y Tot mii use it| quent foraging visits to the Wheat, Barle y and Potato | part of Sussex we know litile about the cultivation of 
Po 
magnesia, Which I fields ; yet their by ot tendance at the plough-tajl, Turnips. One thing, however, which is sbosewilt in 
ost important gifts which science lias | also in the Hop-ground wire-worm, that | my favour, must not be omitted, to wit, that the state- 
li 
owed ow iiiaae T. G., Clitheroe will commit fenil rava eT unseen, as well as their sub. | ment of quantity and weight is not a guess, nor an 
nn) sequent attendance upon the Hops, convinced me I approximation, but ‘the résult of tet measurement 
Home Corresponden should hav e been, de eci idedly wrong in thea fe the De sisial Jye ghing of the whole crop, cleared of leaves and 
Being Sands.— Having observed in the Gardeners’ | Many pl p te anid dirt. The grotind was stirred and weeded 
icle of 25th tara N that ‘‘ Q.Z.,’’ whose” pro- destructive visits M pe cro ery ide several times by hand- hoe, and was quite clear of weeds. 
ech lies. 0 n the west coast’ of Ireland, is*desi Boy as gr eats ose ue sa she Mi h were pie as iñjuréd 
B eiiatisr relativo to the best mode of preveùt- | the rook. ‘What ith “their  Aleepy habits in the morning, | tO the extent of one-fourth, ey y the" foots and 
Ung loose sand-hills from blowing over his’ land, and | whilst the rook is busily engaged in the field, and their | boughs of a neighbour’s Elm-tree. The best of the 
destroying it, by covering it with loose ary,’ ün- | great prédilection for Le hoii fences, together | Larnips singly only i m 7\bs. The distance be- 
able sand, I beg’ to call his attention with their non-efficiency in amy respect, I think we | tween the rows 18 iaches. ‘The following were the 
as been adopted on the sities of mey infer that the boy would be much more profitably | Fesults:— hieis: 
cay, as related by Decandolle, in his Hl A bd his school. The oh I pursoe, and which Porous of (Quantity and d Wisi o! Dr of (Produce |Produce 
. 1253. I annex a translation | I w fail, is to.give a boy 6d. for the first rook en: niemei MUTS EEE i ot 
ge referred tó, and should like much to know | he may pond in a gin to be planted on Kea scene,of igir |. Acre, 
method has ever yet been attempted in | labours, mà Non the captive bird ain in the trap | one-third of |22 bsh!s. wood-ashés.| 7s. 4d.) 161 ThA 
Suntry, and what success has attended the | for half-a-d a ter o all oul. doe The result one third of ato perce d om 14a. 081° 835 YT stt" a 
ago or those hills of moveable sand | will be ob more i trouble the | Oe third of a 
TTE 
' 
ated by the winds’ on many shores + that goes ~ Quercus II., Rom 
ee sin Hollands and the Bay of Biscay Golfe d Sadis se Y Manure,—I obse e that at the last One. l- '308. 107 $97 J14 18 ve 
e), are amongst the most difficult dolls to ale meek: of the Highland Eal Society a paper | —JTurst gre 
ot ne ‘sand „having been toss ed. abou t for ong had been read, detailing the process, by a Mr. Bishop, o of| Flax-se W may not be uninteresting to some of 
sawdust into maU Sa and dilating, on its | your Saki to know that Flax-seed and Oats may be 
ante AAi Qs. ôd| all 5 us 2 
s By m ns of cepiary attraction it caer benefic ogre on different.crops. . This process con- | ground together by the miller in a very efficient mauner- 
in its Sdtebadiocs water from below, or | sists, it seh, of oP it is said) cirhousing the sawdust | The proportion—1 bushel of Flax-seed to 4 bushels of 
portion atA ti è ed wate and it is, | by burning with lime-shells ; a norhen method of | Oats, leaving the miller to mix tle one with the other 
always damp to a certain extent in the in- pets i ni e same end, Sota it wit ll | himself. Cost of gtinding, 4d, a bushel.— T. Randell, 
surface, always dried up by the sun, can- | each mode appearing to My oth tedious gu requiring Bradley, Feckenham. “ 
otha vegeta‘ion, and as it is constantly blown | much attention, if any quantity be required, and Ds The Aldsrney.—I was a- little surprised at seeing a 
ritë A hon it is deposited g td hon miy: 1 [nida as the writer confesses, to be interrupted and marred b igned “Yeéman,” 
< is incon nvyenience, the have, fora long | wet weather. It ma a Sv be Be asked, whether the efect setting ‘forth that an Alderney cow conidia nearly as 
Planted 0 raa dunes ‘the Aaite oare tiari, which | on the crop, by the aa slication of the result of the much as two of the large breed. whee kept Mier- 
Ny der that its long tendig roots may process, be not almost folely, avisinnahle to the ie, neys fo some years, as well as Ayrshires, Galloways, 
it thee j in this way some localities the ashes certainly a of the and different mixed phony and never p pAn Tet 
ka. tee noi see that though ‘ke soil i is thereby and whether the combustion a ae ba wdust in the an ier ons ttle of sisailar . 
1s ht d th direc’ opposition to 
E 4'boindan out the propriety of using | fertiliser, that but little land, com apes could 1 be the result of various eerie wa experiments, I would 
by planting trees te mend ered peanuts ed ae a aiga guanti of sawdust pim p prepared. pirenea wish to see the statement of “Yeoman” either 
attémpt which ha ad bee de so far II hav yself, fi any years, been in the f con- | med or eies by the detail of ee an from 
ngineer Br a ir t certai 
. t y nog ee as a iaanure,, eile A hejo of your èxpérienced correspondents. tally 
fel, ana n has since owed hineah expense than see it, as made, from mas saw- -mill to | think the “calculations” of your correspondent, who. is 
—* oat myself beheld them with much | the cow- i and cattle-sheds, beats of Alderneys in London for 
e process of Bremo A is remarkable | impregnated by t g the Tate which the sale of batter, fair enou igh yet I have hitherto con- 
ï he causes to ae sown in the most arid | it readily imbibes, and when’ remeov mel to the ma sidered the Alderneys, together with the Ayrshires, to 
> and seeds of common Bro room (Genista heap it is oconsionally saturated by thé liqaid pumped pay better fora butter dairy, for what they caren thao 
È grou ed with th loge of the maritime Pine 3 he from the tanks, of which ail each dunghill ; any other breed I have had it in my powe 
Pi which *natertally hastens epis W., Tyne Side. ' 
ofr inet ine-forests ; these pes are for and I should thi r [So ae ‘we renders ni both ones.—The article on Bone-manure, by Mr. Towers, 
estraining pay mobility of the sand to a in quantity and uali efficient nure s i 5, is one of much interest and importance. 
of the Broom cond’ up first, Sail than thas Zo elaborately” dese ree Mr. Bishop. I, not, however, t the occa pier of eve ry kind « of soil who 
and, and to shelter the young eis t least, find on all kiods of soil, | can 
size for 7 or 8 nder tł one will relate | Turnip c s upon our stif land, which is nb ed 
whose ty PA ere year | a remarkable instance of this Maths is a field ia my an biagi. Se ound quite inert, We apply them 
rere ith advantage (on our pastures as a ae 
and d stiff its th inquiry, if I may 
ithe 10 o 2 years old, they” beg egin to | state i t was eats opeless for r a crop. “Thi eld was Towers, would beg. to refer to the cò ompapätine sm 
Ái to purpose of making pite teh, and far- | drained and Rieti -plonghed in 1841, and in 1842 it was sinnani of bones in a s'ate of soluji ig wit 
cover the ulterior sowings. About | onë part planted with Potatoes, and the other sown with | acid, on Grass land, compared wi 
they begin R fell the wh we for the | Aberdeen Yellow Pike eae It was certainly not an | sold vnda that nam®)sowa eke goe? oA 
sea KOA € forests, placed on the! easy process to pulyerise the soil, both from its me use of this manure om-old pasture, 16 is 
es ‘ord iata from the oiis and that the weather was not very. favourable, thi ugh extent. of 4 quartersyfo the ere, at a cos 
, and th ract of country which is situated | materi oiy aided by WA ee use ot Morton, A Revol ving}. quarter, and thë” good ee 2 viele 
i rn tye the Same time that they them- | Harrow; however, b rops tation, or. seven n years; but its actio 
inin, roduc they secure the| and proved excellen vate oe re be ‘in and tittle retiie fo 
‘0 arenaria r nt I may remark that naet till Rebraary. ‘standing ihe severity vi the inter Towers’ 8 's leisure should e 
Minis Elyma plant which you recom-| without blemish; and when taken up, many of them t nd | 
thing more than a 
mmo , | the bor nai n this 
cii sea-coasts, a aunty lecwt. "Such was the crop obtained from this riba 
lied rreh O completely where they | feld, 600 feet above the Tevel of the sea, hich, but a| the 
Amongst bier it is not easily reared er) few months previous, it would have been deemed more | w 
er reasons: that it is a very ' than folly to think of cultivating for a grain crop. But! in 
