THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
- | this er (and only the best portio: a 
an im — _ on that very gy sea t P y p f the 
Flas wit ari eam P a ee d. | tion —Ta PORTION OF SEED-CoRN i sear eps enough for Ge a. prego _— 
These plo 
sandy loam, the furrows aol 6 inches deep an 
Rie 
It clearly ge sable points out the fi Pet whack 
and | far 
think of— 
mers rarely 
latt 
that too much seed mu 
th wth of which, 
10 wide. 
Itis needless to quote —_— I sr of 
gro 
like that of an over-crow ded plantation, will be 
eded, 
is point, se we might poi 
ence of ARTH and to te the 
praja any other observers, “espec cia Sally in 
Scotland `of late a. all enorme the truth of 
the assertion that amo g plou ughs e when nomi- 
W ill neces 
th 
ae ny was first- awakened hy mot 
subjec the = san pe tsali that uniformly in th 
spring o the y e ver the thickest parts of he 
g Wheat, observed that however : 
$ in the oe 
saril consequence. 
grain ; and he also shows that 
to the improvement o 
the loss of seed, 
the additional expense, from 
t Aa thos © the rent of the 
the same 
y be pe Mr. to 
present practice on this point to ba an effectual bar 
tu 
lan d—that, in 
whil 
rey g es ae greener hue 
to pene m 
duced me hin er to lesse: 
then actice has 0- on 
as regards’ the draught- ct, it invol 
= a come aae uae ds TI hi heat than the average importations of that grain oe - 
ll sent themselves om co onsidering this | into is owes during the last 14 yee 
subject are, iM: How entirely unguided by any- that, this in sia a om bie! 
i mec } principle the manufacture of | large phe ‘a extensive experien that it is the 
this particolar farm implement must hitherto have }result of 12 years’ practical testing, into which | į 
been; and 2d, How imp ortant it is mers | every m get inq y the | sine 
use, in comparison gs ge i used by o others; there he has ym own Ea poh a Lyer all he says we 
yee ber as pone difference between them as will 
Repay a the horse-labour that 
p 4 
throwing h s open to nspection, and further 
my q 
s that I might not hazard los: 
sequen 3 for the stake 
circ = isk i is too 
venture far 
d 
to g § E 
quantities, carefully ee the con. 
I 
> 
d 
to 
hout first feeling my way. In this manner, an 
jamiem that Spanteds h 
g; nay, more, that the Royal A 
Agr icultural 
‘ Journal given n the e cor- 
the first five 
i jeter satay wal ‘teem to to the | 
epu- 
tation, bec visited’ be ‘ions oe year, expressly 
from ha 
casion ‘sown’ with advantage ‘so little as. on nly oe e 
the A haw a gon on redu apn my sowings ua 
at his. 
I fanc, oy Ts e I have written on 
“ill 
Scotel ri loughs of way occa for the purpose of testing theinubieete Í he ie = a (lar ana th 
deena COo). Pat TE eee bine t that the rh e which we pre sent to vin the co Set G abe : ab wna $ 
` shire), and to the English one-mhee! ploughs, Tiaj was passe ed over by, the Council of the quantity of seed ged for a turn in two or 
stairs and BAR RRET Oys. g. Society I s, soas o put o a double allowance (6 pori 
ide. t award i a mium to Mr. Davis, for = lent had field at Selsdon, near oe it Went citar y a 
<4 5 9inches wi RS pret : 
e need not explain these ea ae T ha Eo A 
was done at page 73: the he uae of oe sods attention of farm L le turn thus sown ;, the: but 
istic te Tine, traversing each, above the b o whi me allude will ha pee at ree pr actical the best AE DA athe on rot i 
e A B, as ind y the numerals up the | farmers as affording o ya hig most serviceable | apparent-a mile © oa thus it’continued® till to i 
side of each diagram, expresses in stones the | helps, in a gri gea rendered to Agri- April, when this. part fanan drooped, and be : 
dogi of the plough named piss pe = will { culture yellower hue, a and up to the — 
pr pe o l gainin o ho day ger Du tee ON THE INJURY AND WASTE OF CORN, vest never reco b bear comparison with the 
page, ST ug ugh—was not taken on this ARISING FEO THE USE OF 10 Muon SEED. 
SQME'S On ng Ald Buost st see in my prac ach year | >f the fie 
oeeasion ; the reas d more geait with N fos oan injury of 
suited for workings so cree as 6inches. BARRETT and 
Exatt's D. P, also madé very poor work at that 
| mor 
| corm hat arises from too o thickly: sowing, and therefore 
for which we presume i ‘it was intended, a 
bj s one requiring the v very serious attention of | 
I] as to | fi ote for = Tu os ag than the injur y done, 
corn. Ath this 
its b 
Eats hed off, we must attribute the yor 
Ta whieh the dynamometer has recorded 
be ching of ‘he 
, the fur row-slice as oe Lapse 9 whee de. 
n ry tly at this sdas 
g will be observe 
that the latter assumes tha gyi die 
n 
view I wrote the idlowig Tsay for ee 4 Royal Agricu 
tural Journal,” but the or which I contended ue as 
| been awarded to 
Inquiry into the Theory of te Action, s 
cal Application ` Bones as a Manure for 
cro 
service 
the one the Council ta poani although the mer 
of greater ability may belong to Mr. . Haon: nam, and I 
s easy draught, = previous 
Wirxı <1z’s plou jaki was 
aving on nly 
to ad “gts farmers are welcome at all times to test 
| par 5 Dake said by personal observation of my farm 
tt Davis, Sp k. 3 di 
pring Park, erd on. 
w 
P. 
nopem copia 
to an ey pA ‘An Experimenpal ki 
ut for 
elutants that the third. ranting 
ss n N ae 
asi 
nd week i aape. ye r, Beans, the pro- 
duce was beyon ua: e, with a good 
crop o; nips sown ia ‘te hones 5th year, Wheat, f 
which yielded above 4} q s per acre; big 
hich 
the Bea i this time 
DATE 1845) i is sie with aes, ge Ta 
“It is with no ordinary satisf: the appa 
We may just remark by the way, that the ower before the Society the "zesu alt a aed of a fine er i have selected this field above eve 
irregular KEF z ate of these ave re ahd f the right pro. other for an example to agen Wadia publi ; for, ‘own di 
the draught. 0 ough when dra ea of seed c anau be sown to pik ds ponn 2 soy in the sight o of many of the farm 
empty fi f t returns ; for the importance of these experi- wh ded Croydon et, an pae it weekly 
of this aon which we shall refer next week. ments is very consi erable and the result has shown | the Auen cannot have fi ailed to have been a ve 
a saving, Mey equal to the rent by t them wes wir eh a of others ; = the facts 
diagra ble land, b g ll known to admit of any doubt of their 
draught of the va mosea y it is represented b Aan in el, but, what far more importance, the correctness. 
Dope tthe pl ce orcs. a presor think, diy pretty ee - the crop sal os minh per FER will cer “Ha aving thus shown, in practice, what eile 
ately their tes ony :— e thereby in nereased. That such has been tha b 
— areca ns eS ds | POSU nit i in my practice I have not the least hesitation in | ¢XPlain why it is that 3 pecks of Wheat per 
Name op Proven. | Draught in Stones. asserting, from experience of 12 ait Sh over | Yield more than a larger quantity. The aie 
[Burrow 6.by 9\Purrow 4 by 9 | fiv zand it we now for pont of 3 of two years | average ear of Wheat, taken where the 
: 4 that I have by my writings invited general iiapaction of | quantity of seed (say 2} bushels) has been § 
Tops ; and some ee dreds of farmers, during the | * ut 3 s; therefo lear, if a grain 
last dry | summer (which for my t thin Turnip soils w as | Produces only one ear, 3 seed $ 
rk, so that this «point 
may be considered perfectly scabiniee and i 
one which points out how lo cal usa e has r reg zul ated 
canm in ie cere, of any kc nee by pie oe 
pat We e by no means assert tha at true 
omal 
thus been n grown from little more than a a fourth of 
the ordinary proportions of seed, and a of 
10s. or 12s. re; 
consi ate in having hit on a peculiar 
system for . pein situation and soil, 
still t y one has denied 
S | than e cro 
ary average posda of th 
sin 
ordin: 
now B NE ars of 12 years since I began to dimi ‘nel 
shal 
an acre be 30 
inish 
x tgs of seed, — ani s er idena what F | at 
ave been oing y bringing on! deseription n of 
grain reat thet , I will take Wh b; 
l that the reducti 
t 
the quality of the | at 
werk era be thew, must aoe = = 
Sea increased draught is very often 
r circumstances, to greater excellence c or“ 
one. 
ro 
the Bu ut to these circumstan 
—. proportion ? | mies ae 
wings, and and with the like | 
*In eee of 184 
tad a field Se 
with Wheat, a which 7 ‘palate pica 
of my driliman, men fe Mi 
overplus on the barh ain 
pecks per acre, an nd the 
made aware of the error, A n the 
: rev a been mana ement for th 
‘the i tenes of the weight of the plough upon so that al mae only at rage period had T — th rgt 
draught. tenant, I rhea pier evii pms had it in eulti 
t bot oe OR: rtions of ore Wheat that had 
cannot allow the communicati 
from Mr. Davis, to pen ithe callie the 
of agriculturists to valuable practical 
4 ype rom 
acre, broadcast a drilled in "7 inches apart, peik 
manure 
notwithstanding that 
usually applied for 
e kno 
