THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
505 
99.—1845.] 
bs d, DES og 
horses, it should be o beerved. 
as any pasture Ih 
geht, the h 
ably 
ft ay into the field without maki zing any | 
Natural or artificial, | befi 
eala f 
+ 
ly 
; and the old water-furrows, which were 
J 
Eth 
Neesi o yo. Drainage, 
Subsoil Ph 
, nor his Devonshire friend, should conclude any-: 
ok Paget S visit ; except, in-- 
“the expe ie Seog 
t of Windsor saa broug 
p Ihe forest o inclosure ue the forest in ary Its soil 
Ested of a very moderate loam, inclined to yellow 
chy, only ; a few 
ela: 
3. 
ine ches in pei ; the subsoil chiefly a 
-A cotly impe ervious to ` The surface is 
i unåulated, and sufficiently maner to let off 
ome r by me of open dra! . It was 
English A grieitura Society y. 
rench Agriculture in 1840.—A spirit R sgrion: 
s sh 
mnp | de ed, this, w i much in in its favour, that in a very 
dug out ra pym en, from habit, are quite dry, with unkin ndly sp salah gc wn \ 
e bottom of them The con nelusion to quality, while some also thin sown suffers nothing in. 
with the thick sown of that vay In 
re vitan the subsoil is retentive of moisture, | conclusion gei I must add, that my own pra ce has 
complete a g i is essential; and that tl thi i but, “ Devonshire- 
subsoil- plough s hould n ae ed until the wate = aioa all that I have seen on Mr. H. Davis's -a 
can run off below, ~The | am, 1st vol. yi fandad to mae my con onfidence i in my for: £ paer 
Journal of the E I do not say I 
tural i improvement is showing itself in Fra 
if T liv ve I propose to try i it. - pedir I know meting 
if it be as bad as a great deal 
beth ik 
was fol- 
of public attention in ae ee it Seg) be a matter 
will admit of great improve- 
ment ; beep as Me H. Davis’ s farms hi ave been the poir 
of interest to some per 
ricu 
an > of the ashes. Afte had | condition of ure ibe ou ighbours in| must take the liberty of pours witness to his 
y sheep, came Oats ; a good cro t was nee, and skit are Ae: means in oparstion towards oe agemen genera The prejudice of, old. 
chalked, at the rate of about 15 tumbrel-loads to | its advancement. t the two countries sae most | farmers i: st pr over rbi al; od he has had sufficien t 
anured with good dung, 6 tumbrels per ME in es that relates to agriculture—that, prog raat f thi 
After this, part of the fie d was planted with end of improved ‘cultivation, they t | dice, to rise superior’ to it—to — altogether a new 
with Beans, and part with Peas, as exp it Fioni and employ very Y iifferent | and improved ayen, I do not now allude to thim 
crops were oo, The next crops means, sab 2 increase rather than diminish the inte- | sowing, g, but g nerally ; and I sont lentis Tope n and: 
f at beli 
zA Wheat and 
half Oats ; me crops, about 
At nd 6 
6 quarters 
rest of this i inquiry. In England t 
j} quarters t q 
per ar cou pursued, with 
pariations, “ill ‘within : a ee years, een Rye-grass and 
er were sown with the last c Gr 
. 
tenànts possessed of capital ‘and s 
elieve he 
more, I never was acqua inted w 
rops; One word ith 
Mr D till this month ; I have not the pleasure of 
mown twice for sae the next Pres ar. 
with 
fly 
J 
eep. 
order to clear i it “of | the arse natural 
es which, ix in spite of all this cultivation, had not 
m entirely eradicated, and also of a considerable | a tion fen > of any sort. This vast 
of Couch-g¢ (Triticum tapers), which had pe field ts of England, where 
e soi acres of the field were sub- | the operations of ia are gen na conducted on 
ploughed, early in 1838, to the dei 14 or J the le argest scale) is cut “up into the smalle: a conceiv- 
n > ots of every variety of produce as the 
Ipsw A common 
plough (the only plough I ever ‘use), with two 
first made a furrow of about 6 inches 
t having a large 
ta S 0 
0 i e the other 
a ee, were yoked to e pe ra 
nehes ee 
n plough after that piy isl the ~~ 
evan hac less than half an day w: Ee 
ploughed with four horses, the weather being Sa 
The lan mehe wit h 10 
0 ihe. acr si was 
es; in another acre To ‘Wir. 
was drilled in rows 18 inches apart; 2 acres 
pine, ee 2 acres with 
e | the finger is almost pointed a‘ 
pingas, Aus te „deep ? I 
n | indeed, 
lan he almost England i subdivided ameng sma all “pro-| | being pedot ed eign fi my of the o on farm the 
The asses | prietors. In herėfore it must be aes i pe 
l supplies the | of systems . not tofmen. Will you Pia it, Mr. Editor, 
This | remedy : in F; 'rance, from t ae want "of gor ma th t Mr. Davis because he. 
shall be much surprised, 
u may 
+} 
‘Gan farming within a few years, if men. 
n watch the 
reform in 
will only cease to be p rejudic iced. Let them 
rom Paris 
frontier, to the EER to the Pyre renees. Mia RS see 
e or a par y 8 
cannot afford to a t every new theory, y neler « can. 
e when the 
ht s 
the A eg be always open to improvement, 
is much th new in farming very valuable ; and L 
for one, ig me "adv vise any one to dopt a theo 
eye can reach, over "vast plains boun ji 
5 
p 
Dublin Farmers’ yet July 
hills, 
varied D 
F. S., 
pRa of the Labourers at _— > Lincolnshire, 
on rha the] C 
larger portion ie rkeagia han ¢ the ‘Tourt a or E the “eighth —In the first place, the cott pa e good, b g boek 
of an Here a vineyard 100 yars by 4 E there S and tile, and contain eac ch. r rooms, viz., 
strip a Wheat, I ucerne, Barley. Oats, Pi pa Yy 
etches. Few roads pies rsect this e iy mee &e., &e. 30. 
which from the nature of the culti ee miat be t tra- | to each of which is se Ae about an acre areal 
versed every day in all dre ons ie the proprietors | some less) o: en ground, for which they a arg 
and cultivators of the s lots. The owner of a| per acre, An average e of their Pennes and pasture 
plot of Lucerne, half a ‘ile fen ‘és high on must | land. Those ke ailh cow hay bout 4 acres of 
another’s Whe 
wapo where he ‘must 
cut his Lucerne, make wi po and carry it home, 
either on his own back, os piled on an ass or horse, 
which intersect the plots. The 
The labourers’ 
been the stat mae 
è? sown with Swedish Turn red 
nkard Turnips. The Man angol zel was either | reside’ of these proprietors are almost invariably | to fee th pigs, which on an average, 
n off early 1 by the fly, or fed ad Turn —— congregated into villages or towns, and lie the: weigh about 25. stone (14 Ibs, to the stone) : one pig, 
ite The Swe n a/| for the most part g wide of their nig fet all i h mere fo, a oe 
efore Ch Lele there very | ments. Upon n En ngli ish pa iples of penea rural | t e other for their own consumptio’ 
of Swedes and, Tarps n which I tf i magine how such a system of | spri have generally a good fat calf, paa will 
appearance 
iah hoed two o or t 
were > cl ean 
C 
> 
they 
agg AEAT i to 3/7. 10s, 
pa 
y Howi is manure to es made A how | 
reprod uct 10) 
Haves vi iven rete T wil the: 
principle a which our cot 
give you (as under) a few of the lin & tho pae 
a for she cons a ome. Pine i nter was wet, and | and restoration to be made to the land R is cnt ticulars, as they stand in the rent roll :— 
yaa the sheep. The ground | that over this vast open field, thus out, no cattl ‘Annas Vad 
ne too hollow Sorru cart-wheels and t' Trend [ata depasture, and Morgi a certain amount of sioak | Quantity. | zm = 
e harses; and I zret having loosened | may be kept in stables, the amount must be mas eS BE F? 
> which now held wet like a sponge. I had | from the want of winter food, as few or no Turni | George Atkinson, two cows ..../8 8} 1319 6, 
ight that the fiel underdraining. seen, and the transport of manure to the distant le Jonathan “Aston, one do. ea 4 8 715 0 
subsoil. RKA ies wee ve open drains before it | from the m n 3 26 x : 
k ; I might, therefore, 7 Such is th ge p re 8 S07 
= — conluded that the cdkey sic gh Hind jc inne fF: E. Bln ee in Panis il ae Bi, ane do aime tobi l4 l 2 ¢ 
i daw d. urnips were not ra TR Be Society's Secrest 1 - Jackson, one do. ....../4 27 oo 
rn E lato in spring ; and peehapa I doad Vis o Mr. H. Davis's F last aog one do. -j4 5 4 0 
Btn i use of them al land | Gazette 1’ find an article copied Eeit J oa Wecky cha Oglesby, two do. .........-/8 19| 33 5 O: 
gga Up, if I had not determined on an effectual | Neen As I ha ad also = _advantage (for ohu Pocklington, aged do 7 nes 
bic | ae mediately ordered 18,000 draining-tiles it) of i o do....|7 39} 1410 © 
tighbom hood ne : th, I conceive it may, in some come, jeorge Turner, one on PEU TEN + eo 3 0 0 
mmo; d pet ac fha ere Pa footed tiles, nd which rA aai ubt, t ne do. ak OA 4 = 
ineas a thousand, bes; e a lo pis gone Messenger —name ly, e| oseph Thistleton, two do. DO): Asie 
: ‘Bas ng gae = the main zingo: i of useful knowledge—if if to ‘ald a word to his | John 1 Wal Iker, one do 3 oh sre 
iy 12 = eee nd, 6 inches in diameter, but | fair d plain statement. great theory whic e l Woacl ¥ kav elated 1 siete a Bate specime ee "We tae 
ig. I laid out the drains 30 feet apart; | H. Dar rts, and that very ably by his own prac- hippy tò ma: 
Dinchor, drains 26 inches deep, the main desing tice, is “ thin pee 7r ve see ` su on | in this parish abont 40 oman S bie iea ers. generally 
immense volume of — ‘ran out of the | 
Mr. Davis's farms, and also others under his 
é the m all comfortably fixed, The 
the a pay put in 
y shee Tess rned to the fold, 
h hes supp 
"al Sapa fda was un 
ry rapidly, ory she 
“he crop, notwith- 
mal ts arters to the 
th 
ere been n Clov hace Ga pan 
-| Wheats, would be that arising arnt a comparison of his 
ther 
wing is “practised. I agree w with Bell's corres- 
lent, that “ a was thin and some as good as 
Cees: 3” but I have not come to the conclusion, that 
“thin sowing is a dangerou: experime ra % The only 
es so 
I ha ve t pleasure in giving t aprh of our 
— I choi be glad to ear o sve i land- 
lords fo llowin wing the Pnp meee jaxby, 
on-Hum April ? 2, 1842. mem a Agri- 
11 £24) 
r. H. Davis’s 
eariad you 
ee sor 
rs in the pepon If 
Wheats ha o justify the 
1 their 
? 
was very e inferen 
oa be ex 
i great pres of iir. 
would be strong against his thin sowing ; but A assert 
such i is not the fact, To this. I can speak wi th some 
a e eai head, and the 
threshed 
think 
Dy after all | 
ton 3S 
hood of Croydon, as well as that of Mr. ae et 
do not hpanllnte by say, that the 
the -but 
comparison, no! 
Whea 
e 
done, 1 my ne ext step wa as’ to 
a proper supply of sate 
on trial, proved satisfactor _ 
ia? 
und | 
was thin sown ; there: 
