22—1845.] 
THE 
EEE ee 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
369 
iy 
The BERAT Gazette, 
1845. 
SATURDAY, MAY 31, 
Tereg: in Figs. 1 and 3, was taken when at work | 
the ordinary manner ; the horses in este: case 
be n mad double their A eae in fact to 
raw the plough through Bron a trot, and 
the results are indicated i 
, that w 
be attributed to 
- | from whic h, as we sks said, eno <s ee 
MEETIN HE TWH ee iti ERa i ia 3 crease there is usti derived m nefit. The following passage e from 
Wapezspay, June “tah Highland an fal Rarienlneed Society. es inability of ee pinecone zi einda a depth | this paper, pE iis the authors opinion on this 
Tauaspmav, June RAR carat Fays F En of Irelan: Mi Kiih igióhi je: “O og a 
ae Waona Y, June 11—Agricu’tural Society FE ngandi e was ploughing. sul À n zing the best works with 
i E EE eirig e point, however, which in deed might hav which. our agricultural literature has be lately 
oie Peg (expected, i is veil indicated by. these fires | enriched, it s as if agriculture were not 
iz ,| considered to be art of drawing from t 
Hi ranri ent on an increase of velocity; a stone in | soil the greatest value of produce, but as the art 
the soil, on which the point of the plough. nate re|of explaining the mode of this:production. The 
I i with double the s Sead velocity, explanations, too, which are given, certainly ex- 
uld d obviously train upon the hibit great gap d 1s very plausible 
Gmemoneier of double the crdinary, PAORA $ ae | when examined by tself, but they have the mis- 
- readers, is one on which the li e find from See figures, that while | fortune of being contradictory, and this hinders 
' to say, that in tthe absenc He ‘of su ficient s space, we | the ia aught, represe apd them, is|us from belie them, excepting the 
are obliged postpo therefore, at scarcely ms ‘all affected by oe ate at which the | latest. For exa olen kind. of plant has 
present, we sal publish ‘what pridete our dyna- | plo ughs were. ar rawn, the sscitlations i in draught|grown 12 or 15 years, and dies ; another, of the 
mometer has g ve same specie ts place, will not grow, “rr 
-QF VELOCITY aa RAUGHT IN ? The independ f the d agricul- | one of another tn sisted pore ctly. Why 
usry found that the rate at which the | tural impl t on the rate at hich it” is ger this science will oy ve 
horses walked exerted no influence upon th h tł is a th hic ofco ie, 
the gh ; and this is in accordance | it merenah the importance of employing draught | nine are not true. ‘A pract Heal man Adanast tl. Lye 
esult, a s given in books, of experiments | animals which naturally walk a rapid pace. | wiy—but he knows the fact, and when oppo unity 
friction, which indicate the entire indepen- | Such animals with the same ifort, get through offers will not fail x take advantage of it. jiz: in, 
friction on velocity. e extract the fol- | double the work of those of more sluggish move- |land which the first year will yiel an admirable 
table from Mr. Pusry’s report on this | ment :—with the oh sea and, therefore, at no | er op of Peas, will yield but a poor one on the s 
= greater expense to the farmer. The ent | cond, and a n a one, if you force it to pc 
Rate of going Time required to Draught of of active — hon obv siy A cne e most |the same crop, on the third year. -Why is this? 
Miles plough Maa gh enna influential methods of diminishing the expense of | We may have felt sure of the ás n one year, but 
l} 23 e-labour. h rope ahs fthe next provesituntenable. Again, 
14 6 30 23 SO crops do not cae land which has previously 
4 ` a called she Meon. bie EN ee saat rT yield dled grain. bebe here is a theory explain the 
to ien e 
the sam 
mavens WHEEL PLOUGH. 
Furrow 4 x 9. 
Fig. 1. Fig. 2. 
a 
3 
The Sanaz agues it will be observed, his a 
uh this tim „the e of MOWING O. 
circumstance to y t, 
is jig? a absolutely "oie. Experience throws 
ta Whea 
dou 
t, t, indeed, comes badly afte T Wheat; i 
eats grew 
than usually w 
On w atg sai our W RU presley 
e pla 
o sue 
season , on the bes hand, has been of late more 
adly if the GIOJ 2 be 
oa u will not grow well after fe} 
t 
Ap Rye 
nor will Oats succeed after Oats. 
s 
exp 
six diferent "enplan keikia choose for yourselv es.” 
upon _the bg ten -a 
the advantage of fegeing ‘the it has/ All this me 
i : bee en do one, Was s apparent, and ay ece ssity f | which the pn till 
sa 48 to k of fotos ee attention of pe: more 
2 À so obvious, that we cannot avoid again peri to entirely u upon experience, as the only safe 
= N ‘ the subject... The’ sass derived from the prac- icultural improvement. But experien 
1- 40 | tice is twofold. the first place: the removal pi it may a d, is as variable as its 
$ 7 broad overhanging leaves tuoys the ability of theorgs and were it at there —— aoe: ai 
: he plant to carry rain-water, and hence renders od be mips. © joints which aa tag 
z i I 39 on fae liable to be overloaded with it; and i on whic h, by the w. samira am i will 
ps 4" F Ha eg i= | the second place, the removal o y agreed 
; ER = fl > =| the lig ait in n upon the stem of the plant, and thus | than those whose eaaeeae is a pel: deg 
i fc Sia eee it in ci t fi rtainly be’ ae M Metot 18 pild Gb ab the 
$ ment of woody fibre, z and therefore fiona to 
other. Indeed, as i regards the 
passage s; 
, the peep tei which it commences is not 
crop at ge phat so much de 
true, so far ast un gå is co’ neerned, nor, unfor- 
epend 
No fear need be entert a pke that erform 
ance of this operation the s Hable toi injury. 
Before undertaking it F$ aot the) pa should be cut 
of e exper ience over the guide to improved 
gaat would | his illustrations „of agricu or 
= 
open, and the position a 
ate halt an inch long, andi it cannot e oa, if whe 
pnm not to follow one aisan in 
on the same land, and we are not 
PER Hour :—2} miles. 5 miles. kihk be only set so as to cut off the leaves ust at | aware that Batley and Wheat exceptions to 
FERGUSON'S SWING PLOUGH, the Place where they begin n to ben id. , Wha cut | this org hey And as regards our agricult 
ow 4x9 thin k it testifies perfectly to the im- 
Fig. 3, Fig. 4. ` pem will not compensate for the injury mos to | portan ect practice, as well as to the ad- 
at the rop in its Ment and it will, soon wither, so vantage. of obtaining the true theory ‘of it. The 
g g p object of late writers on agriculture, in ¿Ais co 
any een two-fold, Some have 
deavoured to explain farm-practice, and others 
difusion. amongst t farmers generally of what is ia describe it. The writi ngs of JouNSTON, Pray- 
ay known and practised by the of th FAIR, SoLLY, and other f the 
43 | OUT best cultivated districts i is, in all I probability, ‘the former class, and the rts of local ing, 
licited by the patronage rept national agricultural 
cuLturE, More good will probably be z don ne ies societies, witness the endeavours of the latter. 
and with greater economy too, than by increasing | Farmers, doubtless, benefit from both these 
the number or encour aging the industry of the nu- | classes, thou stated * first, probably no 
agrio usefulness as a 
of agriculture with the sciences by which it is sur- 
e report of thé details and pai a of farming it 
district. 
each, as 
— — 
mere tried, the one a pomi and bid tionar 
the draught of This i 
rounded. It is true, that the farmer has of late | E lle ated 
years become deeply indebted to the chemist and is from an examination of such reports of = 
impor rtant sugges stions and ee | atone in various untries, and in various ages, ‘ar 
of practice ; and there i is still, no doubt, „Toom for) M, per ipg R the aee deduction 
F He says, “ if any one should take e trouble to ex- 
ir ich have been, m robably wi 
ue to be, jaia ed by sc — men ; bate ntries, or in different provinces of the sa 
ae is such a vast difference Ais practice country, he will es struck, not only with the extreme 
of tho ose who farm ven and that of we many below = ety in the details of their ao, but also 
xcellence, that great n national | w h the extreme _uniformit debich may e result which 
ummed up 
in the management i the 1 latter m though eati (S ra -few ays the 
of the former should for a long time "proinn wes ce sea is Regence: Sy the quantity of 
uced upon it, and t re pe th 
