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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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a small quantity of qe eg ‘or seed, Arie I had re- | too late in the season to ec it; ; 60 ih of. it biden E ‘land, the ne 
ceived from the high grounds (the far lly, in | acre. wil sbi on a rs oT di Pak ae Sn aie 
the high part of the parish of Colinto te I thought | nesia, and t the weight of common salt , they w san aie = ject to some of them 
them fine; and havi lected the best for seed, | find to fanero both grain. wa straw y onderfully; in | for top- oni or such like ; but, if an wants to 
I manured the groun the drill with the oi bina 4% straw, it is impossible to grow good | put real substance in his ground, he will find his 
richest and best dung on the farm, in order to have as Wh » Olitheros. (Our e correspondent is pisni is proper attention to tis farm-yard manure re,—Jog, 
ible for akai a succeeding ye ear. Ti d | Rogers A Si tept Caru hfodda House, Cork. 
extent of ground was about and I certainly asa most Pa ble top- -dressing on soils already o Stall-Feedin in 
btained an excellent crop ; hi a pa { never planted a | loaded with nitrogenous manures, But the fact is, we o | your valuable P ier , on \ the sub ject of alip “ae ‘stall. 
whole field in the same way without some variation, by | referred all alo ty, Se 1 pi ~ articles to poor land, or | feeding horses and cattle, I have been disappointed af 
way of experiment, I planted a few drills of similar | land that has of cor omni S on all} not observing an article on the advantages (if an ) on 
seed next to them, ie moderately manured, an nd at such we may sa fely F t guano is ise atria of sheep. I am inclined 2 ink that if 
the time of taking up the erop, ” 3 ce brought in nto practice it va be generall adopted, 
in the tops, and we mmenced to take up the crop a g when it is the n to draft off any of 
the opposite side of. ae field, making them the last o your r advice er oie aie seco —My the old ewes and lambs eal rly i in 1 the spring ; as they 
of 1} he 
acres having failed, owing. to tl 
would surely 
of our variable cl 
of Red) being di i p: 
Is | hole to bales and about three or four se 
Paar fae wet and c 
setting the land with Wheat. This was done in the 
arly part of November ; the seed-Wheat (Spa alding’s 
EE ayi 
would you, or 
any of your numerous e Gaede kindly infor orm me, 
beginaet, A anxious to try i ee 
ibbled in 6 inches apart every 
eds dro 
ay 
t plan 
ae E tt this you yee not | ot onh 
crop. I also planted the produce of the few drill ropped i 
in the ordinary way, and a li ttle curl, but not a each hole ; but as I had no means of maniing Hy land | cal sort of tg &e. 
single blank. I was ve t pplied | oblige me, but a a ew of my neighbours ; 
of pitting g and ex tting. and | d | fe M he best t P- 
hat gi i sowed upon 
I am 
are, with a few exeondaaas’ in ahi 
part of the Sori (Glamor ganshire), so mi d to be 
ert 
vt found that Ki my neighbours had perm in propor- | it, on aie oth r ae month, 4 cwt. ers) gran 
to the condition of their farms: only what pected | the rate of nearly 3e cwt. p res whieh i immediately fathers, that should they not soon L find 
aarti were many contradictory opinio: nd a fin t they will very 
statements. The truth is, that blanks in = fi a or | guano was soon well may add 
failures of the crops, w ere main 
be quite unaccountable, and some of Nature's Yak 
Sai 
wn with an equa gh 
soon most effectually drain (not thee land) but the 
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dug earth, From the severity of the winter, and m 
li f the 
ht. the crop. 
of nx crop so prear a planted at different ti imes | 
= s s volume men pages 25 aid 29). 
a looked very | thin and aa ; and, I am sorry t 
ur last 
We elie this 
eco- 
that h ` 1 3 
the day—one hour’ s planting | had failed and become 
k. 
hile th p- Ican easily continues, so much so that „ĮI am strongly inclined to | every 200 sheep a er ore s in ee 
conceive, however, that degenerate or delicate seed plough it Up; and T As an p The sheep are certainly 
could be easily injured when planted ina very dry however, I d t i li l 
wet ground, king you if you would advise my reserving the anok fe m this cause; and FY their litter were removed 
ture. A few drills not covered by the plough, when the | winnie (I mean shale the pnt is tolerably reang at ri intervals, risk from this cause might be di. 
weather was too dry and the plants exposed to the sun | for in some parts it has failed almost altogether), and | minished. The food they receive is Swedes ad. lib, and 
eair during the time of the servant’s breakfast t or applying to them | a evga Phe ie a essing of nitrate of 
ats 1 one per 
Pou 
in the a (To be concluded ‘ane week.) 
rrespon 
Paper of yesterday, page 335, K hae as a pee 
een m 
By 
uliry.— Theory and Practice.—Your correspond: 
ent “ ‘N. N.” ‘trusting | too | much n ocular observation, 
differ between theo: 
most suce cessfully use ed. My Wi 
d th y insta it 
ikely to mi 
e Corr nden 
BueroCutre —It appears to me, She recent 
electro r of the 
yellow ; but notwithstandin, ng this “iosoutegen ement, I 
eae like s pa ere with the best portions of it, if 
n your opin ao so with any prospect of suc- 
ae from n the 
1 f Tia 
land is drained l—but 
you 
inex peri mek person: Te at for pip or gapes, 
“ a friend of oe pulled off the sia o; ye tongue, whieh - 
was white and He should have described the 
operation Ti $ “Wi e a of a needle, 
d slowly pick or strip away the rl wifes 
o 
wa though i it should look td thin at 
J 
as tt 
to leave 
| this an 
best Portik of your field, and 
from. “off the under part of the etip o of the to The 
d in that case you may as wi yon 
y 
sow the 
propose 5 ; but if it, be not drained, Net K 5 probably S is [e 
the 
your y isappoint 
cut or mulled off ; but soon es it gets 
well as before. The servant of my neighbour ig 
e 
of winter that you must 
BANN ° as that i ait A y 
we Sania: go it all up, i. e. 
baal $ 
se allaf 
ts 
rs, accessible to all ; and the statements in them 
nade are ; equally certain, and susceptible of eat | 
2&8 be Hh 
d. It t is 3 t alone | in the Hor ticultural Ga rde len at 
Mery, 3 
m Ma anag hey —I a ery young farmer, 
only thrio years at it, and am A Wosting 150 acres of a 
, within about 5 miles of Cork. Is 
por E 
on as 
competent to the raadi 
n several, 
aay fancied ‘himself 
out further ineirhetion; and tried it o 
vii all died, blaming having, 
o doubt, stupidly “eat or pulled off ‘the tips of the 
| tonga ues instead of the scale. Experience and taok are 
any-go00 
to be tri ied, ; but on = 700 acres | 
in a polite or the United Kingdom. I am, however, 
glad to find that in anothir Bae pe London, tere 
an attem he e dire 4th. 
vorin 
will 
y m re 
Dat to a person me who is no chemist, | 
t patience Ploe 
is rather. neat operation 
follows tha at the pi pa 
tions ; and pra ce, with grea 
enable os oa io ne thi: 
J 
pe ng been i aiant, up for the army, there 8 
ilfully it by no means 
deal written whe I cannot make applicable to 
ng farm 
impossible to “lay down any general rules for working 
H rticw Tes 
The fact is, Te gaping is a sapere aes in igi 
TERN, by me: 
wey Forster, of Fine 
ii Elgin 
Silicate of fone as a Top-dressing for Wheat.— 
= ope =o ae oa e y a Leading Arties on 
ressing which is resu ad ay 
the 10th ; but in neither do you e e A sii. 
e sili- 
A 
m using a new manures. È 
the me Raper see often belona to many. 
s with D T, 
3 taking cold, t 
yof 
um, &c., what field 
id is, that 
are very able, if not wall ee 
unwholesome foo d, of green 
ti ing kept ere forse 
pai t J 
on 
ume them all on the land. 
The ma e on their “inate pion will thus, every 
year, sreprodues ieh „and keep the land in | he eart. ] 
which is very difficult, and n 
pated too ermana I fens 5 happy 
Analia of m; expe rie 
(Tha nk yo e, From l 
pa 
= mive ve you the 
communications 
e truth | 
cate of soda, banal e A rised and disa; ointed 
= pts N 
of v wee rops d Rye- | w 
grass, for soiling for m say Tass Bion hv oom) and ei 
horses (four farm- horses and two hunte ers). 
t l ‘ther 1 fanciers an doth 
from time to time, enable nR pio their 
ald, metimes 
discoveries ‘ad observations, even when som 
nguiry will e 
sr ore, 
24H 2» 
ey 
S 
poston da ve: reve 
ve pare saan Ka — opinion of a — s “28 
will co manured w solu 
2 
time ago, hat C. 
reduced the lime, magnesia, and su A and atid, w hish 
might eit? Peels in the ground ; the = | alluded toi is 
erroneous, in entually lead to the truth— 
Se ambeth. 
Geo- -Agriculture of Middi 
'esex.—Having sent ee i 
and 5 of the Cig to a farmer residing 
whic 
with toes, and, in addition 
rere 7 have 
Sots aer Karst of that part 
of Pei Tae, of potash), with the Oi “of ttn 
straw, and with salts of win pe “acid, prepared in 
nt I did it for the aoe 
but I may have ‘been wro 
doin; wi I have n eat ye ama rong in so 
er pate 7 
arish 
of Middlesex, he writes me: :—“ ‘The 
are given for fever and goitre.” (Liebig’s ¢ ‘ Chemis 
of Agriculture,” lsi AJ Has p. 187.) 
any — that gu: is “a universal m. 
effects o; to 
some sols b beug 
n, and a very poor and discoloured straw, 
seribed b 
rs 
It is ben irus by hes 
ew 
been chalked—it is considered good to check ool 
of weeds. I Saget not tried it on 
aie ee aa nure most 
advantage | rop wit 
DA 
put : = 
in the 
salina i similar to that 
your Journal, who gave 
articles o) on hom “ Ge 
now very difficult to grow good Wheat. 
and that the ote was discoloured and Frc with 
mildew. I attributed this to cess of nitrogenous 
manures, and a deficiency of parek silica, Ná reay 
the sam e effects were exhibited in va experiments 
Ip A] 
cover “a 
dung from the soe hong t then 
eve ry morning this pit is emptied, 
and 
som a Pieces field it w nw 
ill be wanted i in, 
en 
as ever was seen, I sug- 
ie trial of this i ithe Middlesex readers some 
and if any of them have made the ex seise 
ino doubt find the bene 
B- 
ciple. Perhaps you would 
bors yo Lisdihens to ion i 
Englis! sh farme: 
Your rs may object to my plan ; but 
q 
the | an 
put on the t tp pre 
A 
n 
.| ment system 
n ground c ata sri ularly wh 
nd not so on ground which has 
ao is the 
ee is favour 
Paa s yes en 
i communicatio. on.—C- 
uch intere! 
rea ee S 
at 
me — of yo nem aper, 
uch particulars of his 
tof so doing; b 
So already, I al it is now aiii 
f | day im adamda on my plan, and carried out its iple 
namely, to make your own farm-yard provid piaeiph, 
e manure 
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guide eee who, like u pas 7 of country 
cently come to reside amongst a se 
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