57—845] THE AGRICULTURAL en 631 
M „| the overs) and quality of the grain. i Oats promise a eh of 
P r Wi Wheat 2 call sal deficient i in that cou nty. o the ground under, stone te well as of straw. Of t ao bend Faget a I Pa a 
| erop never was grea r, but it has been sitar me | most favourable circumstances ever remembered, ; the very chilly wet weather of which we had a 
Gna bad state. Clo ss are mostly spoiled. Turnips | athably 2 thick on se ground, but is considerably considerable degree from the time of the Wheat coming 
re exceedingly good. Potatoes are nearly a fa ilure ; ; | beaten down byt the ather, even more so than Wheat; | into blossom to the present day, accompanied 
T the tops are all either dead or dying, and the € t will still be large, we quently with heavy gales of wind, has proved, T fear, 
are rotten, hundreds of acres will not pay for “digging | c opine that inferior sec Ae will predominate. Oats are | somewhat injurious to that = ps the top part of the 
up: this is a new disease. y Barley is good, but it ly to hea good crop, and Peas and Beans abundant ear, gen nerally spe: aking, has bee uch beaten about, 
"not generally abou — 3 the wri tilths are bad. | ero’ ps, except i in Mose instances where the latter quently deficient little 
is is not an Oat try. are a grea crop, planted i in ets co a eather of January, and previous | doubt that the ied be ha compared. aiy last 
 withth e exception pt ae some of the flatts sown ones, ts Febru ry and March. ss ni year wk My et i the rtd burden ö may ‘in 
Í have suffered by the louse, Beans = likely to be ll e abundant. Tares hav eme mpensate for that rien - tee 
he vy crop, tl bu there an Serter crop, prat suffered greatly CAA ‘ais L consider, general as heavy a ero op as = we ‘have 
is a remedy for this by — off those f the TEE oe the consequently unusual had for any y 1, yet the 
I do not think there i 
found a attac: cke d by them y 
but Wheat. 
ravages 
1 luxuriance 
orn crop 
Ta cond Clover crop appears to 
ats 
m—The kay crop is a pretty abun- | 
in ther 
| the Stock of Oats it in "a, 0 owin 
st y 
i g to the Sele $ 
| of weeds of all “nso ions. The res crop, on the all, a 
whole, promises well ; the season has oia 
‘to the bie = Joe allege and artificial m On 
+ 
eI a 
price. of that 
do, ev if the present 
5 
gE z 
pni 
ay en 
through a part of the halky dis ere isa "o fine erik a (Cover 
seeds 
The 
in hone straw — (Barley and 
Pi 
wt and étiath ree: 
ediall late sown corn, look wall and lif w 
urable harvest, I'hope the 
se i J. 1 
e Dors ri Lets Wes 
The Clover ‘erop! has been d deficient ; : 
ondition. ‘The young Clover “and tricts of this. “count, a few days since, I was somewhat 0: ats s) w 
aro ooking very see 2D yr late ibe. a a < s 200 which the rainy 
Hen gro ing. Tur a good e crop ; the had ‘failed, and in others proved scanty and pat of I ery pinako ins o nearly 
vorm'has ‘be very destructive, unquestionably, be very late, and in many half ag height of the straw or mo: ap reste will, there- 
he land has been | ret r three times without | instances poe will take the precedence of Wheat. | for some difficulty, and a ‘length ‘of time ired, 
The a soils have ee: en much | — W. o 4 nai in sr such crops, so late in the season, in a 
proper 
ucknowle, Corfe Castle. oe state tom mow. “The Oat harvest in the great Oat district 
meadow ‘hay very 
J 
from the nature of the soil” on 
orton. 
a 0! 
i ips. a a 
zn ra crop, ‘the wireworm being very 
e land sown to 
dł 
Ba ats, | abundan he herbage good; some has been Septentber, Basle ey, 
we have a | dam borer y the sa and damp wea ath 1er, but m uch is whic h it Pe s generally at will be cut Prag ‘The 
eat will yield better Seeds into stalk i in Rona condition. W y harvest has bee en a very catehin ng'o 31 thin k E 
by t e hi igh whats 2 and may g 
ut the iiy. must be iad, as damp an for some time past t 
wys ne tape r a the hay ear ii wel filled, aad a pie yield is not expected, | a great dea’ “ie ‘been = ae in wading ‘oot. 
he long drought particadinty on E = git lands ; we have none yet cut, tion, ‘The crops of sega nd Grass were good, 
Pl ee n a weakly state, so ren rand the harv not be e general for two or three | though some Mor Seo were made that the ‘bottom 
Barley and Oats are very good; | Grass in = seg was not ick as in some 
1. P: I f a deficient produce. Po-|years. ‘Gra w very abundant everywhere}; 
sala: “ptt and Ma gold pease ibe i ‘ood ; tent | ee ane ev the farmers on dry soils felt a want 
of hy owing to their having era obliged ‘from ‘th 
„and t 
many places, is re affecte 
will io tt the c xop 
; Lue ne, 
bight , whieh I font 
ext mit. 
spring to ea 
rnips and ‘Mangold pear om 
pet rianan ia nton, near 
chin 
to my own observations, ee the te 
I “have made in ‘this 
with regard 'to the i 
o ather continue, they are so ad- 
; vanced that iige may ay proba ably pao esas Date 
of ‘thes 
iat 
is, perhaps, n 
[The greater po observations were 
ome rop is mu uch laid and tl fect 
mildew on light land, such as Clover leas, & 5 3 the 
rm has committed ip ravages, 
t s are v deficient in hie ear, the 
ber of corns or grains are by no means large, 
ving 
is 
jAi ot re. 
‘Barley is an 
m is ae 
un- 
ar 
nty, but there is little blight, a 
decide 
[ampie straw. Badley" and Oat crops edly goo ris 3] | written about them mi idle rot of Aug ugust son i 
Turnips never better. With h respect to the ‘hay, there = 
h od, but for the most part | ON a 
it is indifferent ; the erop has been — E a img (Continued from p. 61 
whole, 
This is the Tth of A Sa od R es i ies of 
rain has fallen.—C. ‘Blathwi 
In. the few estimates I have mate in this lecture, | 
= founded them upon o 
rainage was executed at 8 a apa 
er, are also an abundant IRE: Plymouth The a. rop 
places. Peas, such as were sown vai an average ; it would have been large, but the grains that the distance to be adopted i in all'cases, Itis ardly 
crop, but’ those which back J are likely to light. "The e crop lown a rule on that ‘eam sonal 
boilers, are to Rae, Arc by an ı | Barley is very fine, considerably above an average; to all soils and situations. There is uch 
called the” - “ dolphin,’ s have an abun- | Oats are also Yeported as v wom Turnips are look- |justness in an observation so thn oe by ‘Mr. 
ce of hanlm, set as x some | ing well, but Smith, of Deanston, that from ai 25 feet from drain 
x sons, but ‘the erop must be a very pout al .— | With reg: , it is a little above an av erage, to drain will be found a good practical distance. “The 
Shoosmith. ‘| but a good deal has ae been well saved, from ‘the re thai and 
there are those who affirm confdentiy that: 4 feet i is far 
Li 
HIRE: Limehouse. — The Wh 
bélieve, of the ‘stormy weather “during the 
eat, in conse- | 
cently Set mim ope fi ate m beg weather. No rain 
has lice <i Bishop. ter than 3. 
d. : nerally a a heavy Tam fully convinced that a great majority of drainers 
the 
TOp as much as 
sack 
triot tmay “be said ‘to’ be forward, er ‘the fields, 
id 
‘per acre. Our} 
om ay which was cut | are = a their drains much too air: = aia 
portion o 
this crop as 
one, pre Paad rtion (Clo 
early was saved i in P Taip condition imt 3i 1 
| the erop, ot bare of mi 
o 
he almo: 
n E 
oe ra 
trv in the 
SS, 
depts oe hare genre padi d 
ot ne 
we na fine w 
u Oai and B 
d the sam 
Epi em quality, 
» ‘The 
~~ P, 
se will prove paria so as 
bap T $ ngs will be quite an 
invariably the best. |a 
eas = 
ard Rens) 
Winter 
seride ‘but many aip 
ey a the oe a good ie 
TATO aoi m Turnip: 
= 
by thelon ng-continued show 
her th th 
same 
and to leave their 
| mains open, and to observe pr AEA Basag different 
, | drains, and their effect A ope condition of the land. 
over} Connected with this branch of hesu su oe is the im- 
unda nt, and indeed portant matter of refilling the q Whe n Mr. 
fi S of Deanston. Jed ‘hi 
ing, and | subsoiling to the public, he advised that the 
filled [2 
e Senrtboned time re uired 
d Sw edes are the 
ro ro 
Grass requ 
for feeding balck it does not appear to have 
ing as chad teat TOPS 0: | to 14 inċhes with stone, and with materjals as porous 
From the results óf an 
s0 fatt of last year, No doubt 
iat: enlarged _ experience, and with 2 nis coli tinge does 
mt I think on tip aa we may set it down | h 
, Mr Hi 
i 2 
er 
at they involved an unnecessary toe an 
rth 
admits tha 
that better cannot be -done than to "e over 
pipes, or tiles, or stones t the very cla 
T ia 
will not at all equal those of eee cae 
advan vance of the Wheat erop 
Se considerably in 
and it is 
abundant ‘yield, though the colour may be 
aired by the rains. Oats look well, and will be I 
think, a good average ; it is generally ba ckward. We 
to tai pa or tile laid in ape drain ‘filled 
Tf we cut a drain in a soil witha RET 
the 
e 4 
outhampton. 
that of 134 — though 1 not equal in 
in again 
ious that no junction takes aie 
side. of the drain and Saw soil which ‘bas 
in that drain. Toe a perfect t jonet 
inthe Swedes, and the st of T 
| looking quite:as well as we could oa “expect gSa 
eo Ps at —_ wenther s Bons are cart in the 
y has don the 
pena ÈR 
damage sin 
ar ben a ai mati w Saids were sary. The water r that falls upon the surface descends 
i Swedes 
destro yet h ‘oat quite in time for a ma irm hi 
ik oa 
wt of Sainfoin, or on i chalk 
iter part 
until it meets with the impervious clay or deres be 
neath it. t 
cessful, _ Potat atoes,- — This most Aeren 
I 
2 
Aia tty go gee 
Thear plaints 
ety Tonei aie Bs ti welling OAA 
ap t is called pp dead ; that is, they look s 
side, ‘but - ve pt inside ; the tiles, 
m alarming ext 
=a of al, 
more injurious 
þeir 
early crops o 
thy . Berry. 
a 
ie 
out She e month o of July 
upon 
considerable 
summ 
Cornwatt : Kitkham near Stratton.—My own 
personal o Gesik i about’20 miles north, | ¢iall 
and 20 miles south of the west and east. straw crap | 
me 
The ds have it drained 
is almost, without an exception, very heavy. Barley | 
rass fiel 
there ‘has often BaT a rer maga of the soil thrown 
