w Peas, Mr. Davis said that 
feat but the was convinced that 
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is doubled. T were subjected. 
xin inh ar ong meteen eon 
22 lbs. hay and 5.5 lbs. of Oats=5 litres 
Oats the same measure of i 
and on seein ng him seine a rely trench meg: 
place, ] he (Mr. D.) asked him what he „was about. 
ugh, i 
earliest blossoms cam and the best t Weighing— 
the piste ote t hedg: rar Weight of asap gy - 2016 | Mean ai ria aeeeey 1008 
ag at gs of the next, the bott tom, and consequently he was not going to do as Mr. Miberly (the f former 2d Weighing ........... fri Ditto .......4.-4. = 
e best pods, were altogether smothered and lost. Maberly ted o ene had done. s When,” | he said, “Mr. In 11 days—Loss Ta 
When thickly-sown Peas Totted, they always rott 3 t In this experiment ee was evidently EE for 
i) the botto In the neighbourhood of London gar. the top of a bank, | Oats, and, if continued, it m must baro, pa injurious. 
E deners paid as much as 10/. per acre, and rybody Me 34 bat never grow: hed, never | Rye slightly boiled may tituted : 
might be sured that they would lose no land if they moa on that plan ; ‘but” (added the ponang, &I do | Oats, but if so the nutritive aan dace given in the 
S aid so highly for.it. The aai , however, sowed | mean to grow a quick hedge, as you will s Not | Table pyr isg arora M. Dailly adopted this ratio, 
> Peir Goes t apart, and say that th ff e cot. and, when th man = of Oats and Rye 
ii to. sow at any less err rae ; for if the Pas do not hav: oa on this poor land had, by trenc ching, ee 1l decided advantage 
Š sun and air, they will not pod. The gardeners stick cellent crops of vegetables, with very slight tren, for post poten at Paris, Te appears, then, , from the 
= their Peas, and yet sow ten at 3 feet off th nd 
necessary for farmers, who did not tick their Peas, to | This was the result of trenchin ng, constan: eet-root, Jerusalem perk ae okes, rrots, as ‘geome 
a give them plenty of room, so that they might get ‘air | a fresh ania to the air, and keeping the land Kieg of | tained from the proportion of azote which they contain, 
= and light. The same system should be Kaeser with weeds, 0 some the very worst land in gen He | may be admitted without inconvenience as the 
= smalle x plants as with larger plants. If o processes in agriculture produced | health of horses. „Theory in ih genera gives too low a 
: w Apples, they would never tain | as tre oo g dee ply, and pees; nutritive e value, or, in other too high an equiva- 
Gar trees to gro a space which they k ly that namb y the si betitution for a part of the hay of 
BP caly sustain one. Se with pies hah eons pre- | could bring t It be considered absurd any ‘of rl substances, the regimen will pro ly be 
gi cisely similar treatment in this respect with trees. | to put eats acorns into a as to produce four Oak pms 2 = 100 parts of hay are equal to— 
, where the space of earth co oii only bring one to 0 o! Potatoes, or according ysis 315 
E observation and jexperience. When begun the | perfecti on. The man who did t ould only get = pong geo Artichokes, or ++ Sil 
world he was a very poor man, and his ie was to save | slight poles, whilst his neighbour, are might have onl wedish Ternive faniggy 7: 8 
j 3 y be dpe 00 of pena Tarnips (too m» < = 
ey 4 5 
ra ldg lq fseed as witha | Oal tree, and get a good crop o , if he | —M. J. B. 
3 tity, he should have considered it pure waste to | wanted them There o good re a tig this sys- Tabular Statement of lies ations, taken at Four — 
i sown the ne er denne te had with some | tem should not apply 3a Corn rpg as ell aco Farms in Cheshire :—viz., Nos. 1 and 2 in per i, 
ed to get Spring Park farm, of 500 I£ nly 20 bushels were har- | Hundred ; No. 3 in Nantwich Hundred ; and N 
s had gone wrong wi ase of 20 fold. It was ften Eddesbury a dred. 
ve been paned | obser ale papers that one grain of Wheat would pro- a Z 2 2 
po the world | duce 2000 fold, from 25 sina with 80 grains in re pagal ae 
lose money in | ear. One bushel of seed must, ate be con- “ 7 j aN T a 
All tha a td advanced on | sidered thick sowing, not thin sowing. The follo lowing i ws E ea i rs 
e had pr rua gone through, and h ntually carr ied unanimously :— d E RSR g Day of 
plans, wif previous knowledge of | s d, That e riend of agricultural sacha ae ae fu to Observation, 
B them, but beta they had ly arisen out of the | ee aaan ied Bec ought try the system = eine et hie r 
desire to farm Popian gael and prota, All he had | recommended by Mr. Hewitt Davis, if only on a small | ——W——_______| 
| preached, he hi d firs t pra e ha d commenced | scale ; and that t the thanks of the Club be presented to g ys ~ w No. of Ci 
_ Many years since. the urbanity w with which he h: soli re ei: i 
from time h e at experience ha ıd confirmed h putati nd the Jaig he has e wie EU p 
his prefere tl t pots in every part of his s E .Bee 3 al EES 
abl Ser to ask -i Da E E = Sex ee O a Seek 
_ whether he did not think that he would get more spring | Miso neous. ae Ri ans E ERA. tig 
as Barley and Tares, i he „sowed m ire eding of A ale lant singault, vol. ii., p. 432). r sg i a i 
thickly. He had availed himself of Mr. Davis’s invita- —Osereation PHT. - na the Hay DES by Heat of Milk 
walk over Haling farm, and had seen some | Swedish T rnips.— Bee h Turnips, combined with 3 ss g when the Rennet 
re. He fancied that`in some of his own |4 eg for horses. ve gp = sirma A 
Tares, where he had sow i Ae bushels, he had got give their equ uivalent, o hors er ae rer ecg ser 
times as mi eed as Mr. Davis had got Fined z reper 11 Ibs. of bay being Seeds ie BSS Ez SEs BSS 2 
from a bushel and a half. Me Davis said that he felt Swe diehe Pach Se he daily allow e then consisted| 225 Ss Bos aE Bey 
t in his land 12 inches ie gee: RE Bae EFS FE 
distance. observed hets iis aree f some i 5" a 25 Bae oe pa. 
farmers of his district, who giu edish Turnips 30 foe 125 A 55 as. E BE A 
himself, had always shad a considerable « peers of their | Tt was soon found that this allowance was not sufficient, pis ae Pures De 
p rot at the bottom, ieh the sheep would never | fọop— os moo mm a 
; whilst he had versally found that the} The = t weighing hid | EIRE for the weight of the two & ae os > 
is o of bare to the NOES <i vi su cae ss aE ag - 2289.8 Ibs. <a, 
when Tares were 10s. a RE ~ Sree. 
considerable consequence. He The second weighing a ate she epee days 2183.9 Ibs, 3 ae oe 382 e: 
e members something esses. 58... Loss 105.9 neat ee ae 
ich would be surely contradicted | The Spo then, was rroneous ; accordingly I| ze E = 
ntrue. If it we by thi t t Sa sa s Ere 
p cultivation that he had ts. The equivalent PE was eo on nstead | eae oes 
grown there, by what other means had he done in 20. Another experiment, how: as made, in 38 F E 
Pps , and the same Nar 
h nt them ere submi xe to the new regimen for ac a. ERR 
Ag everybody to see his crops, and Te aE. Se Sen 9 Ibs. beset pal probes kat .9 Ibs, : a : 
em with those = ny neighbours, and ask | 74 Pane pester eiii pagar 
which was the best system? Then with re- see 55 
Spring Park farm. When he had taken |The h ites Said ‘aot Fecover their or indeed| F 
1833, it consisted d their primitive w the true equivalent, then, is = 
, When at from 4/. to | probably somewhat Da 400, and, from analysis, it m G S 
e last tenant, in 1808, had failed, | may be concluded that common Turnips also have oe we ye 
= rent. pa person | low a nutritive value. z3 
t it took it into his own hands, an rom his servation IX. a portion of the Hay replaced| © i 
(Mr. D.) in a alene — by Carrots. maen are extremely fond “of Carrots. £32 
this m considered a Their nutritive powers, — have Prec much} 3 $i ae 
e system would do. The git a tase — mane gives as their) £53 3: & 
en farm w: pein in Englan crater In which tay. gilani = 283 < 
p the te chalky or rom the air that w: eae “eight Tè Potatoes is result r = 
the district, he probably soa ot | Tar from m goo e theoretic pet iara was| -z aie 
Eve y said it was ee nate without complete opm Soot Rn Seon a z FEE a 
ging up the bad soil, and | tion. We w of opinion t ryalit isnot] ee 
d. He knew, however, ekr 400. Tie et p avis in et. = n 
immediately become 1841, I experimented on a single horse only, 28.6 Ibs. | aioe 
the , and the rain. | of C: i i for 11 lbs. of hay. The horse e e k O 
t downwards, and | having bee: previously to the aS 
bad soil which was turned up soon i — $ fey Pee E 
good soil which was turned 1027.9 Ibs. at P z A > x 
the plant in th singe of a i 
from the bottom of a well, or 1l. lossin 15 days. ; oo o o oe E 
had to be | The in good condition, therefore the equiva- as : gn t 
influence of the atmosphere, for | lent ad to ly exact, but our;  : = w o ceting 
an instance of the effect of consider Fg at pae r too high a nutritive | “== = ae, 
mention. the case of some of his ies, whieh is epa er <a FF F a 
otatoes, after > oss. j 3 $ m > : > 
same pars This gro anria et not due to ge hot cpio gi ko $ g 
little dressing, and was en- | ~ Belted Rye sanetienies for Onis— | Tog gett 2 
by deep cultivation. Whe-j It has been stated that Rye, boiled till the skin just >z n 3 
dry, these men always had a | bursts, may be given weight for weight, instead of Oats. Fe E $ 
and these P, were so not . By Cee a 
