THE $945 IOUEN bl. GAZETTE, 
26.—1845.] 447 
working = pe if} t ISLAY VULIN arly p mto the earth, fi Behe Sod 
e be a partion, of Jand on his farm on on the back, by sod. or turf, a nes Pii tion from frost f Adi winter; and i eee 
4 yori in canoe height of 3 feet, so tha t the rain that fell on the| time of oinutiog’ a should entirely d apana upon the 
z sr rhe failure of the hay, Barley, nO Ara, or vag meebo by | state of the top soil, and the weather to plant in; it 
seo the last season, has prov: ved that working horses | the c e Grasses at weeds t 1 soon covered the | being nearly as bad manage! i to persevere, when 
me fed with cut straw, mixed with Oats and steeped | ogai o or vite and as very little of “the rain-water | the ground becomes too wet, as when it is too ‘ary,— 
inseed uch sippen yet kept in as goo worki ing | san T ‘into the mound, the nate a after exhausting the ive time enough r. the rain, and the work ‘will 
3 fodder , When forme o well; and i 
tis Eito be hoped th e of fodder will ayt ables alt fa for want of moisture, and af ‘not relieved, ulti- weather, _Wheat-planting ing may be aly delayed ni 
"again occur.” In Aa ioh, Me Smith said : pias h hav e | mately died. The proper way of fi a! me ontrary, after wet 
a, saaria to show that attention to t hedge, is to make the fetich. or sheu igh, only | and cold summers, it s bet H an the work 
draught, careful a nd judicious Shoes of horses, adapta 3 feet et wide, and 18 inches deep, laying the soil, or. first | much earlier, and ‘according. to ps state of the land, 
tion of harness, proper distribution of labour, g cold, so to vary the plant- 
to diet, healthy stabling, pang cleanliness, form tts basis | sso above the thorns, to the depth of 9 or 10 inches ; 3|ing ; but it is seld uld be own before 
mals in husbandry.” The | a: ng s that i is composed of barren ear th, y idd] 
3 resolu wa ‘move d, seconded, and unani- nd where the 
pens me oe That meeting comides i in opi- | Soil. The desi ign n ofa larger trench and high Aske was Mone goo ae WI as y sta eh ra pete 
nion ik Mr, Smi, rali prt to the pra of | to Serve as a fence till the thorns grew up— y de- goo od | crops of Wheat more one upon the 7 eck eng 
eet and ju udicious choice of horses, adapta- | priving them of moisture, the thorns were s hee a ant ft an- 
proper distribution of labour, Eaton became stunted, Itis true, that a trench of 3 fee wy ner of planting, poses in the and 
to diet, healthy Stabling, and siarhoee, ned the basis 18 inches | deep, and the dyk ke formed of what wae dug tha t they ONR seldom ngen sting like a est pro- 
husl yan : but 
after t it is not alway 
Nir particulars deserve more shusiderarion than is bed get either a foot or 16 inches of land stones aide that the highest farming produces tha Bega pam 
given to them by far rmers in gene al.” ns Ae dyke, o r de ad thorns ia) ae the top of the | of Wheat. “Indeed, in the year 1843, I found that it was 
: Reb fe : railing er the fences | quite otherwise ; and where the high armer, on the 
EUS. ee ee tt ‘thas o at the top of the} best Wh land, had not had patience to wait until 
On Farm-buildings, with a few n aboni on the | dykes would allow o sink to the thorns, | his land was well settled down with rain, the 
State of Agriculture in the county of Kent. By Vis- * [formed a not exe tude the ae of the s sun, Mie! dyke | weeds had’ vegetated before he comm ajisa his seed 
2 count Torrin ton. way. n that manner, and streng to the earth, in nine cases out of 
Ei idg 
en book is descriptive of the farm-buildings , will, if kept {and his crops did not exceed Bink a four sacks to 
have lately beon erec ‘pase y Vi sat Tortecton, on, at clear of kurth , become an tinptogdible rents, Barn the acre. Looking aa pe immense loss w the 
est Peckham, in the co of Ken . The foundation in chy] land that retains moisture, To er nd n rema wks early planting ic ga farmers, and th > 
o t ha munity ar, I was induced to per- 
musi 1] by the noble author, His | fences are run right across a reclining he the keiid severe int the diffe rent modes of planting Wheat, at th 
dsh hip pha ol such bald should always be formed on the rt oes of the dyke, se to establish | 
k ngs simply asa manufac- 
that 
t when rain falls it may run the dyke and TS, pa: assed over the Jand, 
to be prepared a nd converted into human sant He say 
; “In Epee yina fhi subject, I can hardly do tl f d, there should b t tch | good in ge seasons, bot on aee land Th 
an point the reader’s attention to the bu Idin gs byi idyl level, coro the the | seen that aniiy of ka be a go pas substitute for t and 
t her re: 
and wea 
59 
Tah] 
ren side bent there i is ‘a de eh p 
ide of the i lang no ditch b 
ve well, ov 
ling a mannfacturer (be his occupation hat it 
y). the arran geme ent of his t T 
ing to th tl t much from 
vite, and the March winds i in the 
such cases the c; 
omy and | a 
inery, s d eontra and placed as 
econo: Ln 
res sible for all „the purposes for "which 4 may | But, ‘besides the aa 2 ath of ane at first, 
n stay of its fertility ; 3 let it be made ral twigs next the roots of: the thorns on the front” of 
mr tey Tost for alt a o eae although the ground to all ap- 
red ; and by be frequently dressed, the groun nd over the ce had been well stocked before. This year, 
Fin a short rt period, and at the lowest pa roots of the thorns dug up, so as 1 por and expect, great losses will oceur to ray farmers, = 
thus enabling him to sell at remune rating aera allow moisture to reach the roots of the plants. The! their impatience in not waiting for the proper quantity 
ay not tl prope of dressing thorn fences is a matter of of rain, and consequent settlement of the a aoa 
d arrangements of farm buildi ve? some importance, that was long mi or neg- wards, before e planting their crops ; and in 
the true point of gee in which to regard this | lected hen the thorns grew up the 
y in the application of labour is the | lected and allowed to take their own tages ~ if the fallows,, is.a much better plan of preparing i the ihig t a 
arming. The manure sisal on | hedge bil he late- | the seed, tl before 
the crops are planted ; and where the paring has been 
don 
e farm may be 
of the 
f t effected at the 
bour thi gt ale be A eg on 
whe ther 
e, and the.s eed drilled in, the e plants are at much 
where the 
d the seed sown broadcast.—John 
Arkell, in ee Farmers’ Journal.’’ 
_ Can Bones. be considered an an ‘fectual Manure r ay 
| as possi ible ; b 
| highest and bhy eia, This was nes 
The chief erowth of orns is, like | 
other $ hrubs, at their tops, and the growth of 04 laters} | 
Uranelies $ is puny and feeble, sc no with t 
d 
J3 
et bou 
latter 
whieh canile 
t yi, n the Board of Agriculture, i in 1810, I n, fro m25 ushels 5 
E 
3 
regard being ta akiita And whe: en these smalle er branches fom pei | a that, from x my own practice, which is to feed on the 
Tainage, and a supply of water ; and le d tl d, 1 have but re Birom to lead me toa 
tero the 2 Whole > have é su uch a re lative tee fom re on ae remains of the lower ' twigs, a ea ; but, from obser n, I think I. have 
ni libo unds for formin Bales oh eck and I have con- 
= within i F: a proper | sidered it right, on Ehe present occasion, to equ? inquiry 
sh nld be aati awash testak art n, ZTA- leae, n in time A ae Gi os om “through the of able a bk tag cabo! a ros ce of the neighbonr- 
Spt Sat. seraw-b w-house ; and both the latter ‘and the | fence. But of late, when hedges a eee = the | ing country. The f the an were eet “a 
shou ven to the sur we or 
stalls, the byres stables, cattle and st ds, | face of th d, while the is sng and bushy tops ray I am told ee many fields are eo ee I find 
h e nea le td equal height, and thinned, s0 that the w cases w wher e other manure is nota lied - One 
3 than shou a hedge, in a weyear's, ge oe 4 qui rs 
pect, and over whieh, in pha of a wedge, or horse’s ma n cut short and stan id of Barley after Turnip ps raised with 20 } 
labour of loading, it is well that apright—thi aboy botk ‘toe he thinks 
uated. Careful drainage of the sides below, ‘When that is s doner § iie binei and | he would haye had 2 quarte re per e if he had 
pare and yards, is an essential , and, in gen ial hati it $ found ad- 
sf goo a of f: buildings na on. fight land, ra “fellow this practice. 
eing hoarded in tanks an vee stance | ‘cannot storm. When I pha ris the | Ano ther ge iea tbat he ? be $ a capital crop of 
bee 50 ag th he si ips, and a succeeding one b 
ce 
ay rri 
being remi 
he plan be seru 
mall a 
Ved: 
erupolousy attended to and ae, 
of. bones. 
0 or 11 tidak The 
, is prineipally fro 
ut 
now there are ¢ many hundreds of miles of thet cut in 
e jus agrees 
| that form. Another peter notion long prevailed i in 
the wool shee 
s 
e several parts be duly | Ayrshire, viz., that of made thorns | Morayshire, In almost all land suitable is is 
and capabilities of the | canker and die. Beitas every farmer had, for oilitlittds appropriated to Turnips je sheep, a ë B hik of 
eral parts be accord- |.past, a good man y bry bia i i nok yet. the: thorn | the sys stem is much appreciated ; butt tance: 
gs, to regard being had, = hres referred to : heen rried 
We cannot Ao tion 5 but i nto “thes ese de an fhi the e are thousands of into effect. I have in view one egies extensive 
all the hy sheep walks i anure is used to raise 
tn eg 
8 where bone-m 
pi 4l Te OA gQ or 25 y lish a 
of Turnips for 
aee niti, a gentle- 
2 5, 
itica 
one does no harm to thorns.— W. Aiton, in 
3 1t contains man 
t, and will dessty rely be ext ae 
aa 
and Man 
sted at West Peckham 
nfined to a es tei = 
Sec 
eep 
| Ars i rar and Ren, Tima Agriculturist. an wall mie for vi activity, snicligence, and atten- 
Wheat Growing.— plant ed W 
ives 20 bushels per Scotch acre to his Tu urnips, and 
z he raises faik Bi of Bess, Aoii by "good 
crops of Oats; ee e also says that he attributes the 
latte tter crop more to the sg of the land E 
e bone manure ; Ta agree with I do 
agri- | which = now EN, yea n aa 
padi the «middle of oe ta ig to the first ee? in *May, 
and once as late as the 7th day of this month. The] 
iia or Working soils in this part of the | e vale í of Wilts, | 
s have ve tee 
3 i To have ant 
mostly form a ot 
all e Whi 
fF 
see: hortes. Kad 
lly planted, and duly atte nded 
clay, mind with a fossil Bena, and rubble of the 
same rock ; while i in other 
f a loam im, 
4 think tha t 20 bush els can have much effect on sich 
So winter, nor even à great 
eed, Lot sete told me, that 
raees Ec A Tavis been im 
ee hava f 
nproperly planted, 
was once a moving body o of mud, and marine, måtter | 
ot aquatie € plants, but they 
hem to 
not ranked 
biti 
luxuriant growih than | 
ong t 
ight ł 
he 
pect from so ya an expense, a 
r parts of the world. The best seasons of the ye 
ee planting Wheat-in ne Maa White Horse, and l 
believe upo n nearly a Prose level lands in tt 
ber. = the Ist 
Tequire | o d that i s, if he. had 
the | 
4} 
i land be 
sasha hp 
ays EG 
a9 high-and narrow 
tr 
thorns, 
gen © be srala 
à ayes R siel 
Sri thabit oe 
h 
On ‘a fieldvof ur nifon 
expe aplinent that I snc 
anc 
l 
season. 
RE gee’ i ad 
gi nites and #5, aD TE Scotch acre, 
nee Py ft oat ae ib fh ue hele of the (cist 
ç | guimmer frou the tim 
rea 
fo 
“aul i ee wat 
nd 
fee 
