198 
THE AGRICULTURAL pte a Slt 
(Mar, 22, . 
led Tussocks or Hassocks, referred to by a Leicester- 
farmer, prir nyaan d by the Aira cæspitosa ; but, a 
rto 
the description. 
} Deit 
; T oF n Mai at Dalmaho s read by Mr. J.H awn 
pted to raise pheasants, &c., by ie you nger, of Dani arg: e Potatoes bey for seed k 
t The e inventor, this s.paper | are taken out of the | ren al ry Mr. Smeal in the begin- q 
eptember, or eer! the 
shire 
the roots are fibrous, not creeping, te may easily 
t! th a mattock.— Lusor. 
coe nefit of 
the “apparatus, baring seioest to life, by its means, 
partrid: ge 
e now being exhibited 
ode 
2—{ Ib. of bey - LA b. of saltpetre, 
ommon salt. 
wa ¢ 
in the arret ns the Zoo Society " ‘ea don, aN 
du cks, of t apparatu 
k 1) 
| 15 hours at i one time, and con sumes about one gallon of 
ly as can be estimated. ‘The 
as nearly 
rubbing it all ever 
correspondent tha it the 
ite as 
heat is perfectly contr olled by a self- manga regulator of 
th 
A 
pt after it is made as it 
t simple construction n. The nagement of 
1 
d in suffi 
e | process to be completed before the frost sets in; though | 
eal 
tur: at least once, and which can easily be done 
with a wooden rak greening prosess is much for- 
warded by sunshine, b 5 is desirable i 
cient time to all 
Sm 
“A.B.C? 8” inquiry, in a late 
and it occasions but little trouble. 
has observed, that Po ta toes so treate d 
any o 
aparatas exhibited wiil contain at one time, with ease, 
eggs, but a l 
s.— wer to 
Number of your Paper, I beg a say 
great number of Pi ollowing manner :—I 
kept them up in the cote, feeding them on corn, &c., and 
arger quantity of pheasants’, or 
cae è 
_ „Rook s.—Àt page 107, your correspondent “ t Quercus 
pared Potatoe: 
usual way. 
eed 
milk, 
ia consists 
ade 
letting rhe go oat till io had ar eu or at ait got 
eggs; and I have great A mig = aapna “A, B. C. ” that 
their 
of worms, insects, and their larvæ ; and n t, if bis 
conclusions were drawn Sy r observations of on 
n to at 80 $ for 
all "through the spri 44, | 
c 
be E Dair by cuttinga piece off one ae j n the autumn, 
ord ti 
5 
certain early crop. The ni 
= small ones seledted to sar 
they had be 
expense; but, if t 
indian Corn.—I was about to inquire the best mode on om Uge rooks could find no hich t d 
of cultivating Indian ‘corn when I read the remarks of | feed thei agon g, and hundreds of the latter r, perished be made | green in lia or A Benenden Race 
your correspondent, “J.C.C.” I tried some hry year; von a ment remar rke d tha t, however we it Mr. Sm 
the seeds were rent in a hot-bed in April, and planted ns is ougł deny ] 
out in May, ina border ewes - ber rn wall, A d ag han the fact th ber of famist appr erent ay 5 lnayplical le to the field c culture | 
and as high as 10 f À | ing having d a baker’s shop ought to be alleged n the field, the crop was seldom fit to 
was imperfectly formed, and iid ‘hot ri ripen. Thi proof of the thieving propensities of raised till the hatter os of October, when the risk | 
fd d ankind. ‘The poor rooks were so “ hard up’ "ast bres | — senor the exposure of Potatoes fi or a pr 
ing the winter. AS T wisk tot try 
this ph and have not Co u book, a anal be | where I never befo In dépetidentiy ék Mi 
obliged to your orres o aa to ome short | and doubtless in alt kaoi ya iana a deal | of seed the ay quantity of seed Potato e i plant fri 
instructions on the ect. — the husks o; Beene they cast, as a acres of land, could not be exposed on a fie 
wn A eye i ir Paper rr the 8th inst., you notice s and fur and feathers Ot rh mice vo birds it that late seasonof the year, without prong S the inability ti 
d Exhibition of domestic poultry by the devout Larger quantities of Oat s carry i ould it set it 
sieg be bee which jei no doubt, be of Latte er a care- And, besides, the occupation of the la rs byi “a 
Soe almost of more i consi e 
improving t the a 
zidao 
a roy others (» who have nit 
cep p 
vices: _even in “gen! ‘tn a alg portion of their food z being seed-furrowed for Wheat. The reenit 
—T. G. pia “inp may be an effectual paa e against failur 
pup m | did not perceive how a ei a aibi 
EN j self of the proposal. Dr. r then 
HIGHLAND SOCIETY. nce to the proposed peng: tonei, that ave 
A MONTHLY itunes of pe ROE ki held on the | merly perused Mr. Smeal’s paper, and considering 
x inst. Sir Geoncr G. S E, Bart., of Preston- | statements of the author as interesting, he had subm 
grange, in the chai i “The first pa kin pes was one which | tato tubers, under circumstances simil 
al i n de eser ribe d to a microscopic exami 
E barndoor or fe r the fo als to resor t to) to poultry, 
‘is to show 80 at su an charge as 
will Eey Sep to make a profit by selling their pro- 
duce gerd a m to com- 
“With this view it may b 
use, if any of por correspondents can give infor- 
mation as to th and cheapest mode of feeding 
poultry, where there is no farm or stableyard for 
to . For the last six months I have fed my 
ultry on Barley and d rice, giving them the| 
the 
Mr. Slight, Curator of Models, =l 
nornial structure had been induced. He 
gro Lrs by pienie 
arley in the morning and tħe Rice in fr evening. | Society’s Museum. tubers which were com 
They eat the Rice v very readily Lai but Ta am not sure that | scribed the construction of the p ough. Its work mbined influe: of t and air, „the colom 
though it goes further in filling their crops. Two Ibs. of | semi-ellipsoid form—a construction, as Mr. “rg of the tubers, and it was Palins been Toward 
Rice at 15s. the cwt. is nearly equal in value to a quarter | rant only adapted to one Ld bes a of pos atv, and around the different germs fro! 
of a peck of Barley, but when swelled by boiling is more | e uniform allavial clays and d get able Soils to the centre. The fecula vescicies are fi et in nu 
than double its bulk. h iv cde fow “8 $ Siea | wi h ERN in ios kare pami be hy in ch increased. in si: 
in mber) nea ly a pe ck of Barle and 7 Ib f Ric fen and i in e lim bed. carses, in most of presenting a asia ana entire transpar 
per week ; they y the | towards their gh ATE ver 
the Rice. Upon this food they sist la out ae last bs yr of such a ror of share; but it is T un- partic cles of a ish colour, — 
er on an average 2 dozen of e eek ; i i 
ret ggs 
they will pe pay for their keep, Without of 
ted to the subsoils of our dry-field lands, o 
orland 
lands og the moo pan exists, inasmuch as it 
>the g cell. Many of 
iting darnig fo for the two or three preceding months, | could not by any means be kept in the Core, in aie tared and empty, and with ong cousins esp 
when they pono produce any eggs. It e ex- circumstances. Mr. Slight then read a arks on r pigmentary granules, are scattered t 
periment of fatting some l ff spaces. 
and boiled Rice, giving them as much as they would | of subsoil- ploughing, such as were erated Y ithe intercellular pigment Ainge ar 
eat ; they consumed nearly the same amount of each in Mais inventor of the ey h as the plough nched 
value th ae vn ties. ppropriately named, and i w effected by the in and bei: y unquestioni aal 
ai s night they were killed, | troduction of the suo plos “i, half a century | an adventitious structure ther rdee elo mak under 
and proved equally good vet ooked, I should add | afterwards, by Mr. Smith, of Deanston, and which ‘he as circumstances, is only r illustration ot the well-know 
that mi were not ese p= in coops, but had sufficient | also been brought by him into its present high olar infine 
pace to move a this trial nothing penp as a prover of the soil. The objects obtained b and t h lways ponte with ti 
be gained by Rice, avin it em be pro mee gh these two inventors in the application of the eir p hs i aoe ot iguetry sar One peculiar ¢ 
cost ‘than los. the cwt. I bel ra eve tis u the same—namely, the bserved on the application 0 
ndia ships, or moving the sihaglt to a stall extent t l tior h thin 
them raw state, not boiled. Since ‘tri te itera, detaching | nes wee a prism of Slated in the fel ot Reig bate “sud a drop of 
above if have read the complaint of your corresponteat, 
“Fo I suspect that his poultry have 
, without bringing it to the 
avi 
ome of my neighbours have made the | 
n I ae ie it to that cause.— H.W. 
O., Aera in refer- 
manire say, “ Last | iné: 
ae n of the United Kingdom 
A 
of ințerse cting at the satire time, the prism 
in its ts Tongltasna direction. To 
tion of iodine was put over it, the coa| oagulation of 
liquid contents of the fecula vesicles ved tat 
u 
a simultaneous action, must, of necessity, requir 
soak a considera! _ force, and the pal eteae to which is 
sed by e armature of the plough required to 
reak u up, as well as move, fire rism of yi 
sg 
Y hehe Ve e, 
he air, 
Preh ratio above nage of last 
season, it would chau to 200,000 tons ; 4 but this, in 
ou ur opini ion, will be foun a. much under t he mark, for 
eae ie att 
oil, u 
mon Be prose it will pe appear tine this process can 
ed in an effec 
only be pro ghd a com Piip a 
5 
nee A 
else 
yn re 
wher 
mB engaged tor the Chathiant and we know of 
destined for the Colonies. 
4 Prion. 80 
is ei assed, expressly 
mportation pen France, in British vessels, 
As to th e supply ted fı 
t 
eee French Civets 
much, that | ob 
account of t 
y secu res alt 
le by thorough hi 
since these investigations sees instituted, 
has been unable to obtain 
are prin peer de dh it appears to 
him to be too im- 
portant an implem 
ent, to „be sacrificed to tess h e arah 
r, Men 
i ical analyses g 
rs.—The next paper y Si a 
Ramsa’ un Bart, of Pag ff, On gin saving of Lig’ 
swick, in Glow 
uty. 
quantity oe imported, (including South American ) 
there t more than 140,000 tons in the country 
. Gyde, of Pain 
which the Society ha ad awar 
, eith 
in first cost or in manual or “horse. labour, Tn conse- 
rther 
of more than 50, 000 tong being a 
all iat then remained 
he Deanston subsoil-plough, Mr. 
Silver Medal and three sovereigns. 
will no doubt 
= 
Slight 
cert it'was made at first as yo as Fint; 
provided the w part ng at its 
the weight of 
Pees ‘et 
original Size 
h ich cannot te before the season is ov 
ng.—Mr. Munn, of +i ham. į 
tuted paper desgriptive of Messrs | 
Cottam an and Hallen’s 8 portable Courvoise ; he believes the | 
upper 1 
exhausted, we can seni take a short notice 
ure does not require to be extolled 
ps thout impair ring ‘the 
woth reduction of Mer 
e the ray ot te denio the price from 27. to 31. 
The | iiit a method of preparing Pohiti, 
as every farmer lread 
T effecta of i 
crop. 
Gyde, m 
v 
= 
®© 
1000 Ibs, byt 
d, by Mr. Joseph Smeal, gsrdener to the Earl of | 
| urine voided annually by 
also 1000 Ibs, and by the Ame 
13,000 lhe ` It may 
ý 
