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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
ore This statement is illustrated by reference 
power 
traction ; and the: colour ‘was partially, bat equally | e 
of at-|w 
[May 31, 
ood ; one drill of Reds, from Ratho 
country) which farmed oat a bad e eae 3 ; 
m Biggar-shiel 
to man eee - ere can be no doubt of it 
s, speaking of these inataneik, 
all these “facts are truths so alpable, so 
pae se there is no one w 
ost conclusive of all, and many persons saw it beside 
self. 
w poles being adjusted. This fact was T me the F 
wit I add the evident honett effected b 
-thir 
Ə 
acre ` each, i in the fro mt and back lawns of he hel ouse, 
and an Anepreas ae Spe the 
es generally recognised an 
re would everywhere be excellent. 
nd firmness 
sae an 
then, everywhere so good ? 
, | power of mee Hh Find "if a patie also t ssary | wooden ven 
so 
contrary, are there 
lames is miserable # And yet, mere is api 
to remodel and perfect th hat of the worst? Just one 
hing —so fon of f it seems; let the farmer devote to 
re ian 
of ‘he | cae suspen nded wire, romam more than 
ogy org The rule as to have the lowest wire fly. 6 
, is = true basis of any general 
agricultural i reas de . DEZEIMERIS se 
in a future article, to ilastate his aoe nt by a 
rench and British poh 
_ ELECTRO- ne ers 
ing inserted, and to you 
i> fo or apit ing | eion the arad 
Aad 
o 8 feet above the. highe: 
aki etable u i Dag ame ent, when at wth ; 
if more wire is required Py tae or 
and 
ager r plots, ers ‘ought to a a x eo of 3 feet in 
est propane aunts of the| t! 
its 
e TAERA inet pe the 
last of the "Potatoes i in the barn to- ety to cut a r seed, 
do 
The por 
E ga fe them. 
depe: nds on the 
e fluid that t many electricians have panit to 
of t 
which 
half ithe crop: cb wn seems to be more blind 
exist between the points of plants, 
of whose ; the former being three to four times mo 
popan than the latter. And the preference given for that a 
e line of wires arises convenience of being | afi 
My going or TES ing land has 
ture dosing the po 5 years, 
of the 
ter eutting ; aba no opportunity of 
3} 
rom the 
n enabled to ieme and plough withou 
pe rok the arrangement and of paves far tm areas 
in Rage o ote hed removes the doubt _ expresse ed by 
“Beta” as to it b 
whether ecel 
pan Ey course they have not been heated this s 
t to mention that the bo og-land, before, d 
rrespon 
that jones Siting will ny be found possible in 
before pas ge of the ‘ta cts and experiments, | narrow plots on to yssen g the fluid obtaine d from 
both or and copper, nag oriculture. 
that plants are influe. | suggest í their inappropriatene ss. 
ced by Blostensy, oon Ny oR 
plied. 2dly. It caabiee me to give rules to 
observed in the height of poles and size o! f plots, & 
to aunet errors that have crept into the | 
papers and journals, when speaking on this 
“A. Hyr p 
&e., praa a TaS —My broth 
at Kenleith got some seed Potatoes from the 
e from go 
in coating icals 
been eriodical: 
| Many erro rs havin ng rved i 
this panh, it meg ae advil to pAs them to you 
Fora ploto fpa a A 5 grip (thisis deficient 5 eu 
ie tao (wants 3 yar rds) 
paa 
a| And similar “proportions for larger Aei in n which, m 
ted a 
course, as sugges 
» a 
“ Encyclopædia Britann , pages 800 and 801, 
they will find that one of t ty sities experimenters on 
electricity was Mr. Maimbray, of Edinbur: 
1746; y were decidedly in 
favour of its utility in rte an ‘growth and “mi 
development ; also, see “t Pries eee tr ape 
section 4. Th who stu: died | 
A 
suspende ed wires, 
9 of Mechi’s 
es 
except as above corri 
pejane this year with accuracy, an 
E 
seed, e fewer pikes 
The gd pre gee enim what a already 
advanced, v at a heavy or o hm rop of Po- 
tatoes, in any S or situation, wil always yield bad se 
Pot: 
otatoes ; and that over- cultivation i is the sole or chi 
cause of the Senai cy of the plant. 
It see self-e 
vident, hem that the crop first degene- 
rich and cultivated districts of the lo 
country, producing curl in wees plant ; that as the eu 
vation of it inereased the om increased, anda chani ge of 
seed was ag ten mary necess m the ha 
within the: on 
af 
“ss 
nty of success, Even “A may be induced to 
mi in spite of Ingen EE s startling discoveries. That 
hr be ne 
our fie Ids, a 
this subject was the Abbé bé Nollet, a pas detailed jin hi 
made some eo ane “ Priestley’s Hitoy He 
arative kamea t he germina 
tion of with the electric fluid ‘and without vit, 
and the res = © similar 
the 
every Oni 
sts rier: were attended 
which al “A, se 
ieder n. Dewey Forster, Findrassie, 
in 
ne fields re KI 
h 
h 
| THE DISEASE AND FAILURE_OF THE POTATO 
OP EXPLAINED. 
during th 
to the erop Tving "been pe ce fari) > e 
N 
goer 
= 
IANG 
lippo orts my asserti on, 
ie ee seat the return, to the extent, in ait ci 
and i n some | instances 
— 
with vi e results 
is Rana. Ap rly, although they meng ms the ti 
posed, and erely animadverted upo 
aar hae! 
n degree, degenerate and tainted seed. The 
e as has been doubled. Butas the „erop is 
cert. erat 
following $ is a letter I “eh? received from Mr. Cunning, 
Papert. lage Dr. Ingenhouss found 
farm i 
nt, Harlaw, the parish of Curri 
is sit situated near the foot £ of th the. P entland Hine, at 
The Potato i 
Pno 2. q 
a warm climate; and I 
that it eae thrive b bes 
a i eg 
conducted Fide iron — Aroana: eee 
A. H. 
re 
that is, as lig tang 
sensil 
Naten; 
ae other Saia of the Soyal Drags ex- 
sensible 
red 
com- or). ‘7 
ian iatan by his s imppovemeni of the a ea: Ke. S pe 
unningham a the | i 
at his ‘eke father Pine ‘the pads 
he 
and careful in all his farming opera- 
BAe Bi. 
tions, As sy a great interest in them, pe x eii super- 
intending all the operations ; and I may also add, ni at 
— t they pas very sens 
and death—which analogy would have predicted by 
weprestes. $o-the evil. nl -thosa uperabundance of stimuli 
pended on. The 
t (if I may call it one) n might ad beo more 
minutely described: bat as the broad feature o 
a 
well 
an early s soil, and in warm and satiate situation 
allowing pa at the pen amet eon and ai and wi 
as - ge aie in the low 
country, the secon E quae af the produ = and - 
vigorous growth. of the plant in almost all e early 80 
must come to this conclusion ; although, at the sam 
ae I will allow that a we pees of seed from the Wigs 
e | grounds, and from every val y of soil and ‘he high gi 
the 
That the p has com 
ak syne 
Dr. Carmoy, the AnD D'Ormoy, after 
Hiekan i s ides: and ‘eubsequen ntly, and wi 4 
D importance. Ie may be pier How i is the fail 
l districts of the may: s a 
force, the Abbé Bertholon, give further coincident tes- 
on answer, th 
t my theory, as it is the, porary 
+ have saved it. 
Y 
extending to the japesh t 
of this agent. How that these seven, and seve: 
like in all pra polls and 
situ hii ons, 
not ont has receive ed 1e le nal Roan a 
others, are to'be calmer and Ingenhouss, 
echo, ee — The ooh is 
of the root ‘fads that excessive manurin g produces 
on, trade a 
d the same open 
but it 
no 
of that heating AST AAE p article 
an cious system is d 
PER a the hill-farm find the see 
table On 5 itt he pron’ & cannot bs in- 
In eae we 
i- jand Inte „discovered manures h 
which I attribute 
tion 
the requisite svn site dunghill ; 
led t 
ae 
ices of the egy ate struggle, 
z cited man many of the older r experimenters, T will 
, fro 
je deen 
y opinions :—Messrs, meas, Ai 
following is a copy of Mr. Cun: es le 
“ Harlaw, May $ Lange ag ama Sir 
land in the "Bog-par never in. crop -in 
brance, either A an eae 
the land 
pat furrow : z they were 0 d 
en. ined th 
round-about Efe I 
e now to the cure or sa E te die - 
dint means a procurin g and Pe fs good sea 
tae =e. yet pies of seeing good seed, 
n be to be PARZ i 
c 
ughed the 
FUT 
if possible, 
; but as 
favor 
near Thala Pine, of se Seip Of Sa 
reget e 
it would n 
wich 3 Wal Iker, I e“ Electrical Mies. 
M. Wy. xe tose on Onions 
sects at in your Paper of the 10th inst. 
ue 
a bi OK a, spring of last Pats ad the end of 
A nt the 20th or 24th of the month—I te = yed tat 
ited quan 
can be done to improve those 
ould recomme’ end 7 select the 4 
in the m 
many th. 
“ Beta ; 
amongst | 
ot anid obtained by the ga e galv. 
whom ‘pb poe ae growers, rere richness of 
wer, &c., a: “ a omitted. 
will forgive I again recite ae 
line ; parene pos Fay aau men 
and soundest oe "tor pane: 
cag St ra 3 nee 
side ari the ch |a 
about ae tons apo — and i then returned the sod, te 
after them 
ed a bo; 
She aa a sith , to blind any, at 
E 
Toi 
e plat. It was electro-cultured with poles 
eh sage 
be be ploughed ae in the atin 
he drills to be 
‘the Barley was 6 inches high it 
darker 
— colour than 
: in he ee it lost this 
5 points iist ed all the electricity 
Al 
Spaen |as 
the surrounding 
rapings to shipi wit cM a "te T 
drills at lifting tine, and the produce was 
b= sible 100 bolls = acre. 1 So d one 
measured several 
was nearly as pos- 
drill l with Trish 
manure, a little may be dra 
manure, and before bles 
rpe n, near pie air 
f Potatoes, is 
