34.—1845.] 
GRICULTURAL 
H Gis SEIO ETT ee: ad AND. 
NATIONAL CATT 
EA 
eet, c., to be held a 
d September, and the days follo wing :— 
the 10th of Beccles: will be th 
ru the Show. 
‘anal to p 
P All Sativicors will be required 
mission from the eimir in Dublin; 
ements are reque: 
articles, in 
<e out a 
order t they 
nail o be made to the City of Dublin 
Lower East Smithfield, Tondon, and to No, 24, 
and the Clarence Doc ks, Liverpool, from whence 
are dispatched to > Dublin. 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
IMPROVEMENT fers sow thas 
es being a i 
SHOW, ‘and Exhibition of ed in which the na pas turt 
t Banutnasion, on Tuesday the 
e last day for 
All Stock and Imple- b 
xhibition, ‘will be cony eyed free of | 
Sa em ea Compa: 
Du 
ny’s Ves- 
and thence b, 
Ticket of Ad- 
and Exhibitors of Im- 
ested to send in a list and full descr: iption of 
tha may be pub 
lished in the 
Steam-wharf, 
Water-street, 
the steamers 
All Implements must be in Dublin on, or Sat ious to, Tuesday 
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pr oper season, 
was oa turf will soon unit 
found materially improved, 
e it had previously ‘been Aide- 
eficien 
and which it is intended to lay down to 
rass in a manner should first pa peony ji 
ba cultivated and manured 
Para 
top- dressing ; ; the manure slowly undergoes decom- 
position ; its sol uble > part is slowly — baa the soil 
o meet the k 
us every 
t 
p of the manure is in its turn paris ly specin to 
he plant in the best possible condition , be absorbed, 
ause in the utmost state of divisi A question, 
yas ver, ong rally arises, whether ‘baie is no waste in 
top- -dre ressin; ; that is, whether air and w vet do not 
The 
rought on the field, and after Porat cut tae 
ree Sins. uate: ae Bago be spread re egularly 
over the land, at the of 50 cart-loads i 
The n sie is then Forka AA up - 
war ss by a scarifier, the 
., in ‘orde er to be dispatched in 
3d inst. 
cee Show 
when applie 
aa 
e Secret ary in Dublin, by whom 
and blank teenie of Notices of Entry for Stock, 
ed for. 
Er 
DWARD BULLEN, Secretary. 
» Dublin 
Society's Rooms, 41, U, 
SE 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 
MEETINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING WE 
Tavrspay, 
FARM 
. 
tur f. 
ins. 4 ne nil b 
y extent by Mr. Bromriecp, of Warham, Nor- 
who converted 32 acres of tillage land 3 in this 
812. 
Mr. Coxe offered a premium to 
is practice, and the following account of 
sal connected with it was given in by 
H, ùrnham, one of the can tés — 
Grass land pared to pro- P 
plants for transplanting 18 
Extent tof a = d transplanted 
with the a a seas 3 Bee | ese 5 
_ Paring 1 acre, La 18 oe ab: 5 6 oi 8. 
10s. per acre 05516534 
Carrying 600 donde of turf 50 days, of 
one horse s. o AP E OA 
Boys n carts, one at ls. 2d 
another at 10d., 4 days 0 19 8 
Searing | ll acres and 15 perches, 
peo ge 
mo pnt S tere plan 
pa the turf on m this o of 1 ak 
at 30s. per ac 16 12 92 
6 4 
h amounts to 27. 9s. 22d per 
E Bec this,as Mr. Braxre seer e shou 
er fallow- 
taxes must also be 
nt 
Stxctaim says :—* In ne down land to | 
anent pasture by this mode 
a 
on der Ra the turf was taken, 
1845. 
Aug. PEER on Soc. of Trolak 
U Aug. — Bro: 
in nae 9i ins. apart ; the nier dagi is fe 
, and in the intersections of these 
lines the turf which | is lying about must be i 
see pla ced ny 
bei 
| will furnish a Tanie nt number of plants for 9 acres 
of hy able lan 
Ta a 
piss? should be made to urrows, Sins. only 
m a: 
may be con: 
this I will parte in my ak ee 
SMALL FARMS. 
WELL rotted ee 
nsidered 2s 
d which 
rar “within ‘itself every 
rease 
than any of the 
rare ‘certainly cheaper for one rite 3 but they 
tha it must be 
again manured on the ftlloning year t rea 
| harvest; not so with composts so en from ‘the a 
muck: heap 3?’ this will f Bed r three so 
| justice is done to the aa, in a pionghing ‘td $ 
Farmers m 
rse to a rtificial mai e the 
cultivate Jina which eg remained idle i in fallow,’ 
To this it may be answered, why a larger farm than 
Red 
uce 
se ould be 6 or even 12 inches square, instead 
ess injury is thus s do me 
and b 
this 
width, inste ad of 6 ins., and that the Gauto ta Ac TE eager gm and et ma: a age ł 
ng t 
ock of ts, a 
ne aes of your 
| capital, i increase your and b Se a 
to the pred supply ing aE will become adapts of guano, &e. By ih 
os plants, li 
the Gestion. 
r. SINCLAIR 
will find your 
means 
[wi will leave your neighbour enough land, which hei in ain 
remarks, 
on this subject, are rather un hs mete to ‘hi mode 
of obtaining a sward of Grass-la nd. He ays that, 
in the trials which have been m o com- 
pis it Ae the ordinary method i mi piwi 
just ice has never been an ear —a erm 
ture of seed 
es Be received a dressing fodidi in value to that of 
rich mould which is “convey yed upon it in the 
pipita of turf, e says ae “had t 
| ing poor. 
It is not necessary to travel far throu ugh the 
country to st eonvineed of the e palpable « error of large 
— with wr capital. very side are to be 
n abun weeds bond in all their native 
luxurianeo ; hae ploughed fields and scanty ears of 
Often has = garden bee tanced e 
ample o; of what may be a Soap lished by shill il 
dustry ; and although farming-land cannot be broug 
yet agri 
oe of the proper permanent pasture Grasses, of 
which the richest and most fattening pian are 
command o 
astré nies i 
Notwithstanding, however, the opinion o on 
congener. ultimately tread close on the heels of bor 
a be kept out of the marki 
e present time ? ist, b 
pie: 
y, rai: an extensiv 
rate, the tenan indulge in Hf ae n Tesar 
order to keep a the prier of pr ; 3dly, the land- 
lord, not understanding the stenent of farming, is 
induced to take off 10 per cent. for what is termed a 
bad ae À 
Ist. As things in general go, 20s. will only purchase a 
certain quant of bread and m ce say for the sake of 
> |argument, sufficient for the dail of 
ow, if it is n 
well qualified to judge, the fact that thi 
fi ight , women, and 
convertin ag 
most parts o bir. leads us to get chia ae 
ders is eae difficulty i in obtaining a ı good ya 
cea rene 
ely 
of | procuring a a 1 mixture of i fs proper varieties, 
EFFECT OF “AIR AND RAIN ON MANURE. 
pa epeei the a of man 
ise Wheat, moa; par Grasses, hom merely thro reds yas 
seed 0 on the ground, d, and harrowing it in, without pro- 
Tae contradictory statements Fate forth | 
ous mo — ure. 
a Bg +h T, 
(= 
superfiu 
x tras cannot rt done wine money. 
Pe 
suppose a 
an has 
restor- 
and positi vely bewilder 
He finds science and theory quite at v: 
with ay practice, in rants rd to the use of m enti, 2 
heap and his liquid manure from 
ae is anxious to av al himself of the suggestions af funds 
nee | other 50 to him 
e|a hindran 
Now 
200 acres in re hands, = scarecly nee 
to keep Pg 0 a order, o fhe 
So far 
‘ance, 5 inducing him to sacrifice part ed ‘his 
means and time in the vain endeavour to farm = 
w 
Y 
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rat use of manure, or the fashionable el of | 
Ss 
in ne case 
Gy 
tion, in t 7 50, 
less a different system roduced with regard to 
vergrown holdin hen »again, a pauci city of hands at 
ica purse, which 
s been exemplified 2 syr to 
grea D natie kii A rists. Tons tons of 
r| on no very “sound principle ; “and I believe the latt 
tter to 
ny whieh aks i have been cut and arii 
vf ather i h an on the ps ae 
turf be | be the real state of ng" ease. Top-dressing is hapten Ape 
hata best geen as otherwise | e general, if what I gather from 2 aed mn “oh = > aso dod ouid not not or could not t set on a er this 
Tasses d l e obt 1an z o do the Work. 
eae mot fo a which the u tits b one | sy wendy eis das z over the I ag he a f diggin as the few who did exert themselves have 
nded for a course of till th and it Je this strong testi- saved their DAP whilst oth 
. be pare a eat a tr ony in “its favour, that "it is the plan which N climate and oppo: portunity, have suffered 
he new pasture to the r quired extent | horestt employs in Spee J to the soil what the crops | severely. is a great disadvantage 
ld required to re i per- gn — — t eae Tho ‘as the ia number of — 
i a portion only of the turf must be | id and nder the superintendence of several 
ken, a sufficien e matter are strewed over a abe surface ripe expose to serr a ded, 
that = of the sward being left standing | the rain and air during the autumn and win til | small « would eon es aads for 
they are reduced to pm ein rts and rst ments, than w = a ree x 
—By mea ans of a paring a state of me divis to be mixed with the soil soo Tented to enable him to do justice 
he mia of the ein tarsal ‘a It is s A bdivisio a the fe | It may be said that farm-buildiz 
ae from the e shar being T of ite of feet that aa es dressing often so preferable | would be too great an expense to mere out thes 
inet wide and about inches thick, ribs to the common mode of coarsely mixing the manure | circumstances. are ever ran aA ase nihe 
ut f wide bei standing between | With the soil. Crops are often inj by masses of | cash in railroad s it wou! agrees that 
urrows, This is removed and the manure clinging to a young plant, which, instead of | to look nearer home, ~ Let ope soon to 
is then dr i © | feeding it, poisons by its iehness > ANG it fot un- | which is certain to Temar an taai 
n drawn successivel BOL pooni oy 1an o Than : to the man 
i eaan. he best manured land the | hear of i g let, 
th requ pens that in t ho will show th 
Aus Cutting off all except at Ae no means the most abundant | the lar but to the tenant who Al show i e 
es Peer y oe Ree ethod of dressing la land a great largest ¢ ded on the land he rents, 
ep “As soon as all the | waste this — 
noved, plent cee bef plant | ture. whether Bay does not, in ore 
Over the fold, m pa aee prt ep poten = soil See co pede a Vitter occupy too much of the far- 
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