31.—1845.] 
lia 
BE EE EE ee ee eee aaa eee 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
oot 
. 
i te ht Irish acres 
pe Sinon whieh brought 8s. 
, and 31 stones, at apes besides 43 cwt. of scutch 
at 9s. per ewt. 
of 1 
3 Scie brge quantity o of bolls, which fed my cattle, 
162. per acre ; besides this, I had an 
f Flax, from which I had | example « ofa good foreman, have its full effect. aren 
per stone, in Cooks-town | of the was, 
e subject 
of r abour 
Ponte eae of doi oing ev eerie. 
manure on the fields mn a the pee 
een) amouat of labou es the 
a dry, an 
g t 
pon Sree 
I 
siderable men of carbonic acid, ranie 
| it a for bere 
fore bu 
grow ing crops. Now, 
rms, I believe, a very considerable 
e constituent parts of all 
, the ehi ore, of gaia that lime, and more partiu- 
p the greatest advantage, 
s much seed saved 0 
whi beget oer a 
n the Courtrai s system, as sowed 
ee 
7 Boing on he im ' 
empiy a yards ~ to fetch dang tom tows is when 
m s thus 
and carts 
most oa time to 
time afte: 
tio 
| = 
of “eg are in a a ee ah pa 
| ploughed ; ; 2 aan time it Simi m copa rok th 
A 
te Pi a! 
© applications an 
from Riga seed 
d testimonials « 10 candidates for 
[andere a s agriculturists, w 
fand so a the 
ensiy amin 
F shaw, | William Smith, of Crossnacree ev 
ned. Messrs. Hugh Orr 
than 
We used but ae two.” 
ut in training 
considéred, 
candidates whow were in attendance, 
a Gran- 
y, oth in 
Feounty Down, were chosen, and the claims of uhl 
r times, a and the 
land be n better 
, car on 
mentation, , to m m uch 
lefi 
able time ni harrow, the a ‘of Shieh may su 
the farmer inconvenience and = erg 
suitable opportunity t plant an t be m 
ava aila ay a go ood season being cnc hoor attention | 
thar 
al 
i ay or the other. 
Eco enomy respecting manure was said to consist, lst, in 
I fap aie all kinds of refuse capable oi of f being converted 
and litter 
dun 
T others reserved for future considers ation 5 
sphere. In sp 
bole t that it is o g 
cena lime, than in tha’ he m 
se ; composting has the t (to some extent at 
ast). of ihitig the caustic aedi and neutralising 
o poisonous effects that are known to result from an 
overdose of magnes ian lime 3 for it is a fact that has 
ogee times. 4 mould can | tity rof magnesia, it has, in many instances, when applied 
ise ? 9 
Riess price. nie sg ty inst., to which ‘ay the | be obtained it boul be put at the bottom of the yards | to the land in very considerable quan tity, a poi app nous 
Committee adjourned.— Dublin pior Gazette. and mixings, and also on the top of the latter. Litter | effect upon vegetation. Then, with re the in- 
Le el spread ov: e yards according to the quan- | terval of time’which ought to elapse bet one appli- 
GEES Re tity of stock kept therein, and the state of the weather, | cation and another of lime to same land, a good 
Farmers’ Clubs so that the yard is al na arij that no | deal must depend upon, the description of cro ba Lr 
True Econo in Farming.— At | mois pe, nor on the ot! as one 
al meetings of this club, as stated in the Annual | þe } . Short stubble, pua Po- tion of crop is known to extract a much ae aati 
y its talented secretary, this sub- | tato hau kindof According to 
the attention of members. | ma ne be nean applied in this way. nomy is ted f 
ur was said consist in red to guard against any jn diminution 
re 
“17 eh 
the “following pipka cia to the crop pro- 
= wcll. at oud fa 
rm. Although few of us have often to 
4 — of Wheat, ge 4 Ibs. = Lime. 
Barley 
H on s yS b 
25 tons oa Turnips, . 140 A 
9 do. Potatoes, ,, 270 a 
; ~ Red Clover, ,, 126 bi 
do, Rye- Beans, 33s 
il it is “gat evident ti Į hat, in 
fi hå å + 
day’ s ann, Saec] here had ae re “ee 
4 4) 
omplain that either our yards or mixings are too wet, 
t the plans of each, and he cannot | yet it is worthy our remembrance that the escape of 
ost economical who pays the liquid from a yards or mixings should er all 
t he whose plans rarely fail to remu- circum mstances be carefully avoided. With our usual 
on the whole productive of profit. ty ps it is not often practicable, nor is it at 
S not neces we | any time d I manure mog be collected in 
e quantity of labour, but „and special 
le to exert ourselves to find employ- care should be on that itis is not turned ‘above t three 
: ` as by that 
da ce of such employment as turns to his own ad- time it will be in a proper state of fermentation to 
ge in the end ; such a system will gaeraat 2% : whe: ereas, if it 
es, 
quantity, that i it has, 
to judge either of its merits or its appia than ot 
lime ; but As et I have observed suficie 
rng 
much business with 100 acres of |a " ae ‘some of its best perh A “should not be} seaman easy important usen, — $ 
acres, but g except when Ii i bstances, 
economically, that which inereases | used fo: r top-dressings, which should always be applied | & than when n prled o ini co it be 
ultimately most produc- | in in the early part of the winter. 3dly, the ere is economy P 
figuratively, the 100 8 is, I believe, 
in the parish. 2dly, | it is applied. As a general principle we prefer a mode- an enemy to paims pars insects. In peui salt è 
y of labour consisted in| rate coating of manure every other year, to a less fre- the land I have parja found ppr it rered the land 
ualize it as much as ible | quent eash more pepa i go but we have more consistency and firmness, and therefore, I have no 
of the t important oubt but most of the land in our neighbourhood doubt thet, in combination with pci on oat 
plishing this end is a judicious veal prove itself pia ray if the caer tion was more bstances, t will be an excellent top dressing for 
r of chemistry were | liberal as well as fre ar general we may con- | Wheat 
ing og all over | sid er that a variety of m nures improve a a ee at larly on = where there is dange: rof the p losing 
could oar y prepared bł I yo think tbat | k might 
at a mod charge, it sand, &e. rove a useful addition for some fe cide In the 
to adlintaiater i nd as all our 
| be useful to add a little salt to the cage, 
yP 
and ots for others; here good ju 
J- 
t physic w oe not su and prove page ive of econom 4thly, it consists in hea ws of opinion that, n the poorer “— 
y r Wheat, gth of o sagen a manures with pions ry teg land, grey had Ay long e poorer the 
ng q and the relative | plough, the age apen on a dressing of lime was 
of Wheat ; genin these | costs a yor ere os applying <a gr n general we scarcely, if bpa and therefore they con- 
uld require double the horses r iag that are real to those which are artificial, sidered ito ge mp rn-out land would not 
© now employ, while at the other seasons of | a t present we had rather apply 18 tons of town pay dl the expense ; hats fan ge of a) hetter deseription 
d want physic, and ok than a of guano, or a dose of oil ; casional liming was evident The chair- 
be left without | still it is worth a ia Bo ase cain Aeldiiod the spose of some ve hi = is appiatons of 
ider how many | whether eb ee = not possess eq er Some years m a poorish field that had been 
roots it may on the whole be | tilizing power to peed leata lesenpeee long under the “Plough, he pa ied four double-horse 
afi it is essential to z Seg shouid s = onered, k ‘il doub ess ope- loads per a n order to see the benefit more 
r, that there shall be such an arrange- well fi very wa soe guanine, clearly, he left every ‘ourth ridge without applying any 
ble of teralis | te anes our ie iaa well up to the ak, and shall in a |} ne 
, Servants, la- | little have = manure of the towns sent to us pe not see < that the Emed wi proda uced any better crop 
PrE of doing what | beca = ey want to ple ig of it. g we thi 3 n the ridges which were left unlimed. He, there- 
and daily have i a sma 
be cropped with WL wat, Paia ss much sa make th SON Per agpi den, Be | fore, thought that it did very little, if pee On 
, and 
te pi or reapin 
of the year ear to the en r 
will be quite nmam cad the Club this year. 
continued.) 
RLINGTON, —Lin ime 
an 
hela their J uly meeting on Monday last. Mr. ipee E 
phe 
d Common Sait.—This club 
he applied five double-horse cart-loads per acre, 
a ih this eld also he omitted every fourth ridge, and 
Wheat eat crop 
i a the following 
“oe 
wia mii W 
points. to be considered are :—The proper quantity of 
tradesman 
the year for applying them ; 3 the description’of crop 
another 
rer sbje nk be go 
ng plese es but, at 
ing able to see he is 
ougat of importance, so 
of the m en and horses 
at the 
whole of them 
d to field, and ae oe 
r | of time between the a sage 
more judicious to apply 
em- 
pinion $ and eaer it is 
substances 
other, 
singly, or in co mbina 
substances ; 
been known that field 
het well pon the Lad no part af e golog ofa had 
some- 
own to grow upo 
m those results he felt 
oo > klime by long exposure 
re ad i oe and is 
term hydrate a 
rtain that it was of no use ppg line 
par lands, unless they 
= two or three years. The se 
seeretary 
embers recommended mep ee 
rst —— of ~~ i 
could teray È be more varied, Tign aving — 
the advantages of of this mode of applying ye 
land. With aolen 
some other 
lime for the 
means Clover 
air for a conside erable time longer, it it will absorb a con- | 
regard t tion, 
the interval between each a application, walk ‘the Particular 
~ | species of crop to which it was best to apply lime, 
