a te 
THE AGRI CULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Jury 19, 
- jaa a a buildings | speaking, by the use of those of diffusing | it. This is a favourite doctrine at resent 
farms 1_No doubt ; in proof of ‘att ape laid agricultural kn ome whieh iti ione e of rais apr; ob- | ign theorists. But th p pranie N 
A a —. oney upon my estate, jects of the —— emistry Association to pro-|ing has taught me that this kind of closet cultivati ? 
believe I may venture to say, without p: resumption, EEA mote. He w. riram dinburgh one aah 1 w would vit produce good returns on all our soils. The 
var ae in the cow awe = Pea. is in better order than | home, when a friend put into his hand Mr. Sm s f | mechanics of agriculture are almost as essential to i 
ith regard to buildi cripti 3] p the ch try of sricultaae al 
beet an pride as well pa m to do it I by the wa; He read it, and said, What ee be done and it is because the former is not understood in our 
E eee his own land? On reaching home, that the sonak announcements of the 
e of his pat fas farina, who | mere chemist have hitherto n frequently at 
and. as comfortable as they ought to be, ina reasonable 
upon by. the tenant of o 
o give it u wa r to have z — ction of | variance = the practical experience of the money- 
of. cottages, which I find ye beneficial indeed. When- | rent. He wey the tenant at "his. word, allowed hi ‘to | mal makin le he natural habits of the plant we 
ever I shave to build anew cottage, or to take up the | qui it, vee amusing, also much to with the mode of 
use kon na. and br oken told | me, to see the shrugg ing of Shoulders among some | culture. A minute knowledge of varieties, even of the 
a drain from sulted, when he told bee i has) same plant, i is often a very important element in ; 
ak oscar and sE across sany p a djo ining, intention ‘to a wnt they were in the habit sful farming fir. Cobb takes for his first 
to an rater vee runs into it, and we find soree dry land. ut the perennial "ater i sis jadhe Dotai which he sells off the land at 
ges na iay by it, and very much | from the first drains he cut, and, above all, the striking | to 12/. per imperial e, being d, however, 
more healthy. iei, a “thing - a: trifling e x anager I pen at what oe worst fields of the thresh and cart t the uce to Dundee ; but for his 
mentioned it to architec’ r three , gave, after best crops; tł comzon Angus-oat, which 
quickly satisfied ph “bab ©, lees and the most | | keeps for his co n for this is, that } 
Eo all = ~~ ita ey! pig thing, ane that 
as bere t befo: ore, but should re ecom- 
f+ 
y-making of | his nei ighbours, so that s some OF thes se 
is ason for t 
HEK es be i ae value of ‘the latter variety for his 
two, varieties grow: better, and ai e bett 
es, 
mend it in Alludi 
mito relativo As good farm buildings and rm per- 
improvements,’ I beg | leave to offer to the 
s him 
done Stace 
re 7 astonishing how mu ich good m 
an t exertion and without end ex- 
Sant tot gp propert would be attained than by 
passing 
Paal ily make for himself, bat 
of A y 
| of either variety alo yet 
“aay that i is to say, we rset ee as yet made the 
me. Our chemistry is n not 
a e usto do more 
y great 
nditure, which a skilful oo biome ot afterwards | 
mple and presence 
the an Act of ] Parliament for the purpose o 
wees? 
(with the consent in writing of the trustees or the ma- 
dg for th th “Toma im d 
sale into more pu erent tt sth as stone, brick, 
years said 
peaa RP aie jou 18 feet apa: 
Fro 
ago, “he they wou 
f: 
| that Mr. Cobb p 
tha 
o the cause of such 
rences a j 
As facts in pana Seika- it is proper 
chases his m: at 4s per bd a 
the Wheat ees on his w ell-eultivated farm ave 
bushe ls per i imperial acre, and that the > an 
rt an 
J 
tiles, iron , Jead, cem ae ey instead of their 
‘being by tl ks I had m ee in my lecture pasinla acre. I I r 
forced to apply t! é said he should in future rtificial Kip oe or i 
absurdity self-evident yi r depth Bay hy which, for stone “Geis is =~ ported. manures in a set such as this. It is ¢ 
ing, ho cari ASTON and o swa Shieutly Palo He Seog all his _ at his ow: n | importance in reference to the manures which are pr 
farm buildings, Sy | bail “s stone or api require | cost—of co he ae ecernilth du i 
‘solid repairs by appropriate materials. Con , how- 7 liere as ‘the Berwi ck nol purgh farmers ve The farmers i in the immediate neighbourhood of o 
“ever, to common sen nd contrary to tie benefit o told me, that his whol lay i l Ii tł 
‘entailed estates, and the essential interests of the heir, ai in three year e subsoil-plough is | all their manure, _ They are thus at liberty to haya } 
more ly than the owner for life, fg are the here, as it ought ever to be, the follower of the drain i 
prejudicial learn aw. So|Mr. Cobb has found the difference it produces upon his | and the of 4 
that without some of Parliament chen a wider Potatoes so ee at he proposes to subsoil his land cake or the e mijan towns ; wan use are tl 
latitude, and at ole same time a latitude of is at present alt ring his ploughs, sev alone obtainit. But the e importer and the ma 
is o fac urer now come into t the manure-ma arket and o 
aran arable to all parties interested in such entailed 
„conversion n of timber, even with the eonsent.of the next 
‘heir, for were he to die the future heir might call their 
their land. One 
follow men sien 
f two consequences will necess 
“Either the stablers, co owfeeders, n 
ei 
stage of improvement ` Wie oe “rena of te drains 
from the surfac w 
in question, In stating this I disela 
interest for myself, while I add that I have heen: subject 
my £ th 
known farmer i tis is Mr, Drummond, 
the la d in th tl t 
rket, or else they must rele t i 
to 
was consenting to the proposed conversion of timber) ; 
s| not half tiene Sith: 
E 
in an open 
annen and one or other of “these 
d fai 
ec culia com 
e said of God of the oo at ‘grate. 
p 
rebuilding or adding to farm-houses, into general | The system of farming he re is 
parai h , what I now say is for the benefit bakin és, | is stated to have already -taken place in the u 
holders similarly situated ; I arnestly hope | however, in many i leg ‘that et is ‘practised in | drawn from the ee poise dung; and if feat 
it will be deemed wor of the consideration of Edinburg! to prevent further redu 
and by their | others 6 ge towns, , where | tions from takin ing place 
i t t 
noble lords vt riven. T in committee, a 
means lead to e beneficial enactment.’ 
„ AGRICULTURE OF FORFARSHIRE, 
T A 
a are ier son 
hich manure in any 
_ Som e sanguine | persons are hastily ass 
ting that ti 
all our manures, gti for evel 
r large 
and sily r aoei, and kis 
be proc’ red. Pee ace ing is 
b 
F tha Gald 
PU S Pe; Tas 
+ rs 
will be oo, in Peg vg eas tories and kers ht} 
s he s his tea à 
and, in a couple of E more, it will be a two hours’ 
t the back of the Dundee Law, 
corn, more or ne peor P jo bh ers. The seller is 
bound to cart the produce to to Dundee, but his teams 
a 
improvement, d tl quic! oker return of his | lecte ai n g 
at as laggard a pace 2 as in ‘some more, remote districts. expenditure i is tras made to the farmer, Dr a by sellin ng But n Il happen. They yal we 
“Ther l lot t his customers, a i di lit hey 
skilful farmsets,; ; and if Past were to go with me to | for the gr nkidenea 4 se their value to = ah v 
Dundee mark ch made by using be more oe lean and ja general een. What ¢ 
tock Tt i mplish in regard to manures an 
‘to to itaprove, ingratied ol upon that 1 nn “and inet 
ey ta take 
‘safe one, you will not easily Radi in other parts of |t 
Scotland. ices wa yet, in Sa npn urhood of these men, 
bee le 
t tem. 
a sure and : 
to “es system hat at this season of the year, when the 
paring for the seed, st eee are some- 
armer would 
one busy ar other 
like to send his ploughs 
definite 
“tk will cheapen, improve the quality, and in 
ds quantity of he Rew E collected me rye in 
In some places 1 drive it ou 
0 
3 
w, that even the example | wor! rk, his horses, are often called from the field to take altogether. 
a us of pape enterprise of D Dundee. This, however, is pees coun-| 2°, In rural y it will comes the deficiency y 
‘has been unable to drain and subsoil the land from terbalanced by the less — of e xha austion pees lh ome-made mai ae 
which its inhabitants draw the Potat = ~ =e by thos oe | a d paying addit 
for their three oe msumption, I fancy tis in Thos arly i d | to tl to the land 
kn A tl rg ial p int ito ‘i in fall su gh ae oe nan ween on hou "which Both of these consequences are phein inana 
o d ital the whole winter through. During the cold | point of view—since, 
of their reed and qk n them i in the pre- months, fon ‘shed their “kare and'the early second | a. They will lessen the expense of farmi ing 
ial speculation, g at the expense of the Turnip neighbourhood of large towns, Ti they will i 
yet the roduce, al and, consequently, the pro: rofit of the 
nad an n opinio on. How ‘otherwise ean we explain ra The rotation followed on the Baldovan home-farm, hey will increase the producein the rural ¢ 
; those neglected tracts of land w Mr. Cobb, is in tte ‘thus 1°, also, O, pay by ssi ai rs the art n 
try farme: 
ts, half or t twouthird dunged ; 
under their E potion load of Tadi maq ‘while the 
lavishing their tens of thon 
-| mA wean man °, Barley, half Gini at $ 
e year. es th 
Saha ar} their native ae should be per- 
‘the 
mitted to shiver i > ee vt oldne: 
But the drain w be 
Si italia 
rera the rea ach of the plani n the of o 
the'slopes 
behind Dundee, ail Seah ploughing to tore. By new noes 
e — erop of 
in 
ow i b EA in whieh case 
0 mre manures for the 
aes to me who lives ber 
and I have every year si = 
if Ses i 
a similar man 
pe dive 
from’ jane 
more pro oduce in the marke ag 
their produe 
sixes. Many good farmers agree as 
of taking two crops of Oats after the "Olaver eee, 
= no doubt, where are very tough, or 
e straw of the first Oats Sree the ens inny 
een’ 5 the tenant, a most strious man, “was himsel 
_ ation, ‘at ge Plough wire it over to a depth 
indu 
holding the plough. We found the land in fine con- 
of 10 | 
A Itis.d 
tice can be Hi mended or defended. The 
singularity in | the above “rotation, you will observe, is, 
J 
mde 
F 
this 
k hood, has been in a gre easure 
tual work = consequence of the example of 
immedi- | 
either 
Sir 
fal, however, ince after one s year’s archiver, the joven 
, every accom 
which Eao 3 ji —— Pipe ng” 
s demanded gei Rhe Sot for a purpose of —— sown 0 
w nogas 
'oreign 
you think we should eat ca nore fo: 
must defer my further rema: arks a future 
By tee Johnston, in the Qua rterly J0 
Agricultu 
e 
Tome Co rpa pona naaa ; 
s Guano.—Tw girisi: sent y 
of an paresis Iw eee i 
Pot oat 
grim had in 
with.2 
hen is sold off, may also, in a certai 
r| an second crop of Oats 
ere I writing on this subject as a mere theorist, I 
and the oon Bs a which his attentio 
how much good may be done 
as it er 
n | and any eros taken oe ing farmer chose, and 
, | order of cession, o 
lly restored to 
in any 
ed the substances which the 
canine e faithfu 
d my erop i vin that part € 
cidedly improved it, the Piai t on much 
and th ding it a ie le Fotr: twas! 
e sent you the 
in o agra eet eas acre 
joining it, but itso happened that 1 
the time the corn 
