THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
I EEEIIEIEDEIEIETEIOEE OI ee 
= ur of the plants, and the fullness of rer dently from having ‘been eaten by birds, and the only | Belfast Society, which sn By Hinds wet yee ion urged 
the general vig did the fax nd appear to be overdon field which could be said not to be in the cleanest pos- | *gainst the extended growth of Flax is, that it exhausts the 
rain, in‘no case di soil without returning anything to it But by saving the seed 
The strength of the stra w deserves par sry ar notice » was a piece of Peas, of which, | and seeđ-bolls, and feeding upon them, the manure thus pro- 
i more like reeds ros stra Indeed, Mr. Davis | however, the pods wer rk d. A field of | duced, can be returned to will supply most of 
sated tat h he had last year sold “his ¢ own straw a t 50s. | Buckwheat atinse brich spore The ad | pcg pi p T osc. aa ai Saute The piran 
st ljal: snd pu é for his | missed for Clover, had been once ignea; and a bushel | cent Pirm t har en tk he ae hie er 
= mrponet. ig The ns wer a ax re a | of Buckwhe eat drill ed per acre. Mr. - Da avis ops ci ts eturned to the soil. The land would thus have réplaéed 
oe ow nanei SUDE than 4s iene vhe: } a every pi rticle of matter formerly abstracted by the erop, 
on The most ‘striking feature of S r five quarters per aere from po |as ghee: been ascertained, beyo alee by. chemical analy- 
thickly sown 3 8 F E } on h as Todkted The sis, that the fi ne which the Flax plan nt is cultivated, is 
Park farm were most € inky the cultivation o the piece, whic eertain noone Fery promising. re entirely from the atmosphere.” 
Tarnip and the Cabbage. Mr. conser # the ap of rae consum 
onthe ridge, and the workmanship was nes The on this farm, w hich were ver y greatly superior to those | on the Tand give Ages may well call it 
plants h d ail “ taken,” and to th of a c ight | er 1 Net an exhauster of 
more beautiful sight than one of hiv. Turnip d fa and although not prepared to recommend ae the soil. At the pe dt J Meeting of the Belfast vies 
fields could scarcely te n _ „the, | Society, iwa on the 16th 
re a nine hollow: sige were yet much impressed with the general superiority | read by the Seeretary, wher had been sent by one eet 
lad } fM kioin gaik — 
ween pie Ea j: ! : a ager piae uaiiie bent Jot, atenian irma 
: aa judiciously grown, and we here isno other 
| Mr. Davis us both before and ian sowing “his seed, wx Bi zt a det eier. that will pay like it, I had, last season, not quite 8 ot tao 
i the effect of subir is to ehequer the land into litle mination" with ‘eh in ie he of mey iffieu ties, he | of Flax, from which 1 a4 hoa stones, which a = per 
s and almost wholly to de feat ~ wire -worm, ed it out, stone, ia Co cored town mar! = Ao “stones S, ate, es4} 
pea square int di with which | ewt. go op nt ing od ate, ber Me ks 
95 stones, at 83. 
Mr. Dyis è courted and met every inquiry 5 ; and t OT tots at Ge. g$ 
members next walled over Shirley far g which they cit: tow, st'9s, 9 
Grorce Wurrtine, Hor on er 
P.S.—The secretary avit Gay wtiten:t Mr: Davis for 
bei ds of 161. besides this, T had eed- 
the statistical “matter relating to Selsden peti ire E aeae bral ME Pacey nah ay AAA D 
seven year F most remarkable i ne ou ts oF, ingly large quantity of bolls, which fed my cattle, to the great- 
farm-were a splendi di We zel, whic q him in addition, witht ‘advantage, durin; ing ‘ah season, d much seed 
for io ardness and uniform vigoniy oxetied th all his Wheat at a 850. per piad E e EEE A A ONN sa i 
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member of t a very ani that This can be proved by caleulating |" Mhe seed in the en i -i 2 amounted to am average 
Iniration of every m e party ; ies 
piece of Peas, which were apse fol wi vell-podded, and | j 
some Beans, with Turnips n bet OWS, at- 
bie 
pp "iabour and the rent on one side, and the return of Norfo Tk gee na hes 
at least to 319 ber 
the and straw on the other.’ at I may aaa 
much notice. Bo th f fe were in eea] pe AX A ere Tu AN EXHAUST- The. vale i 319 baskets of see at 6s. 3d. 
cultivation ; aR ad annuals, een was scarcely a NG pRO per 99 13 9 
to be see: son KANE. 
Mhe. party then visited Selsden Mr. Davis Ix my, letter of t of the bth duly © brought ‘forward some cd 
ex this farm, in 1833, came iio his hands fi subject, y d 11 English acres, if it cost 1007. to” bring 
, 28 agen nt to the late ge Smith, Esq. ar space in your Paper > bat cannot expect ‘farmers to | earn Mite have ae Pe on st ie oe pti 
soil, wie lies on the chalk, was considered very give the _ Subject of which Iam the humble advocate, | middling or very light erop of Flax es per 
and s cely worth cultivation ; indeed, it that they would do if the same was | acre. 
ff cellent farm-buildings, to a farmer of | placed before them by a man of more iùfiuen and I| Now with all deference to Professor Low, T must 
Aaa =i 10s. per acre, free of tithe, and | must, therefore, endeavour to bgt a y nt by believe experiments before his assertions ; and I be- 
kony offer that c be obtained for even à tes the observations of men whose effor iltural Flax has never got .a fair trial in Seotla 
as 8s. per acre. it was deemed too r to improvement have earned far them the, thanks nl the | enable him to tell us as much more it exhausts the 
E S Beans Clover, th 1 f Gre at Bri ritain ready soil aka a crop of Wheat, or to answer this question— 
e stack frames, and the hay, Oats, and straw d tl inorder to rae öw much manure will it take to bring the groun 
Keeping the 14 horses which we n b oa now “add thet of another, ree the same condition ig? growing a har Tt 
0 do the work os the farm and the estate, ar to be | Mr. Croatesiee. of Dublin ni Ring stands in oo as uld be in if it had been a wit th Whea t Itis 
number of sheep kept was only 67. Mes essrs. Marshall and Co. a England—at nly in thi ct 
ey 
thi n 
must a ous 
J 
; and, a5 T have said Défore, I have 
f Oats 
inches ni and some thousand loads of deat car- | Saili the nam rk 1 F nd also Clover, after 
off: from t E The result has been that nine new | Systeme k to be of sae oe importane, 1 The ‘following Fas. as ever I had after Wheat or Barley. 1 allenge 
‘frames have been added to the stack yard, and | tati ter a er the opponents of Flax to answer this question, and then 
has been sold off the farm annually about 6007.) “ ie. Cro: thie rate me “scat intan a bis ue we can calculate the expences of restoration, ‘atid the 
of Eek hay, Beans, and me besides the fat- branches ofthis industy renders Ngo menage des Flas in Ire. | lea ahs we have of doing it, by ge g me Med ac- 
out 260 wethers, ate ape es, ata and | Jand, and that the produce is abont 30, ons, of an average o every calculation ne bok seen, sh the 
mi hi 2 bullocks, > and about rei value of 50l. per ton. This is 6s. 3d. per stone, and should give | expense ahd profit on Wh Hep, T 
jand about 121. 10s. for the usual produce of the statute acre.”—“ is h be compared on a middling op 
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ne meekly ae re little mote than a thes ne amount ee eo to. # aTi Ser E is pulled, and Flax, as the most resinerting Het for es farmer.— 
the design is to allow it to ripen , 18 pi 9 di 
3 they outed ins the old s Man ither immediately, or in the next spare season, according to| J. H. Dickson, 6, De Beauvoir Square, London. 
ras formerly purchased, but ght ‘te eee tances of the locality, it is subjected to a 
TTR snd Mr. Davis comiders what 10 mots lie eenei aor ereas the attr soho eso | ong WHAT 1S WE HOOD OR PLANTS! 
m fature be uired than is furnished by the covering a close network of fibres which incloses the plant as Tuts has’ e study: of p Seale és 
k, so long as the present system of high feeding in a sheath, and in the ceñ m of dense pithy material pong ho mo punitive and final con ion On the s subject 
oil-cake, a tati for ti d. | The fibrous network is connected together by a glutinous n arrived at. Itis, however, understood that 
cattle ar on. oF Cropping, are continued. | atter which must be decomposed before the fibres be se- a Oe nd earthy ‘Salts, eoni tes 
set d on oil-cake and straw ; all the parnai È fromthe stem, and it is to soften and rotthis substance | WAtTeT, ta an h on di ae 
are reserved for the green an crops, the | that the plant is pcan If the steeping be continued too long, | part. In the experiments, ge _subje 
observed use widely the same- crops, and the fib oe y eae ig E Aragon w et ian 6 on ra a which have been instituted, it has bee i a be- 
en not'to ality ; if t eepin; tinue these 
f land | fy d fn h other, and the |7 
"has only tHe mnt ace oi fibres are not thoroughly s separate om eac e substances Drey faren r knows ‘if crops © of torn 
apacit: ia mature Doe ant. The | quality of the Flax er than it might be.”—‘* When . 
a of this wees : Mr. > wan A | Apei steeped, KSA sepa a darker colour, a disagree- | vegetables srd raised on the ar gound, 
to giy e to the party in sie deduct able odour, and, it s well wn, becomes. isonons to fish. "n at ait ob: ust nace A ender ae npro ductive 
raed al L e rit cthas | This arises from the solution of the glutinous — ere this, agriculturists ‘aie under the necessity a 
i ity and bali wages, and all other | had cemen ted to together the pure fibres.” —“‘ The a he iach cain with viernes d 
Mba which a farmer giving | ‘Survey of Somersetshire’ (tr, lings) says “Hlavng nyse applying y 
aguer rate of- w. a : by the eeltivats a Flex =n a large scale; and o almost in-| without which, or some equivalent, no pro ductive mines 
istrict, and all generally paid 3 stantaneaus effect produced by the water hehe Plas was can be obtained ; for neither water, ‘ir, earth, or salts 
Te been handed over oA — ai por yg Tomoa eter Ot ws ago, make shove used thus massisted will bring them to perfection. Among 
“a the last five the proprietor Av ear é eating near pe ad ‘men of roads. ‘The effect was astonis various combinations employed for that purpose, the 
Mas :— as and advanced the land iù value 10s. per acre.’” drainings from stables and cattle sheds, and water from 
Bae hs r Bg ex e —_ that Professor Kane has conversed dihotilis have the tost decided: elect. beft and 
l s. . oe 6228-17 6 5 £ mf sy 
“ag : Sieg 5 a m > the i : a of as xe Ware, Eon aae on  Pampadius, = great spinn extn of their day, 
ie ay . . 259 ‘ 1 e e ais = a re a ad F rat | asee eat, re mr iania T 
ng off in the years as the writer of the article is atready aly convince etfeotive ve ar pirea ee than” A 
dden bon be eee fer against his will, I hope fully to to convince him that Flax | "the e vee earths, sepata or combined. 
on account f the xed together the four bi 
8. The a a ace ane “The landlords of $ cotland Javel re hitherto been opposed t ol in i et te tte form 
ee et ald poe as Mr wth of Plax ts béinig a ‘scodrging geran aged 
is the , d to them. a 
it no ie hed pen 3007. and 4007, | crop, and in the majority OF cong a clans is introduc “having adde er to the oP gene 
E t been for the serious injury done to the | hibiting or restricting its growth. geta ables there t none 
Sog of Selsden adjoi -x ha ent a, and more s moistened the soil diffe 
5 f, nexnal i o, 
W that. odland, of which the game, as | permitted ive at maturity. =| planted, in m i 
2. on two adjoining estates is strictly pre- | are less injurious, in which respect it zenera vegetables, cach comparta 
Ge, and Mr: Smith, the owner of the farm, hav: of other cul But : ped, | the pure € _ and 
taken to presery 6 = Š Sears ing <<< n see algunas yd of the farm, that its ste weaned dunghill ; 
that 1842, the rabbi , and that its seeds only do so when con- | SUASA 4 oper a i on 
vi of one 12-acre piece of Wheat, Sore. Army samed upon the Secs i apapër read by ane’ e the | ing the variety of soil, and exe 
— ent at harvest, e rest having Trish Academy, that gentlema to prove, that | correct a1 were 
Leave has since 96 in the = ion of the fibre no exh: ‘the soil takes} yonal earthy constituents of plants, 
a ie mitit, ea ot miatano beny nerbo E a of these constituents 
‘Were highly interested by the a see ons Aaii es Difer Ri oid whie proof cannot be given that it is not 
which į by rpa _laties, by gombusto is a considerable | combi ed a 
ot Wheat on in meres condition. Aerar pr O a mabe | eombin i p 
yield 
Were rather patchy, evi- | 07e- 
mated, at least, at from | other portion 
Many a tho are 
oss they sAn. in 
showed exceedingly | tained i th el ig vera pah reek allowing 
f Swedes Relig mnie = ad sft ae i en aat n eer valuable liquid to nt to waste, and landlords sre 
7 ea _ | likewise becoming aware of the value of this heretofore 
Kane is supported in his theories by the Report of the 
