632 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Srpr. 13 
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o the drain, and a somewhat unsightly shallow | Knaresborough, in Yorkshire, on the estate of the Earl} Bread.—Good bread being most esse ntial D oni 
gate poek produced. That aa p oe from the | of Harewood, perhaps one of the best exemplifications | oan of life, information as to the ce wi 
epa er Pays in to a Fagen has spr read t the | soil of this pega to. be met with in England. The Moor, | respect to the fermentation of Wheat, Barley, and R s 
drains, p gv atly oblige ; likewise the beneficial effects al 
th E t f iL whieh in ea-me: eal, said to used in the 
bserveđd 
oil in the 
the g area Tas it should 
that Fal all the soil shame out of a drain i is rue to 
E 
French bread—so called Me Popin bakers. The re 
] 
impervious asa clay ; 3 but 
when ayi is pmke Ls aan permea! able. There 
are aoe 
refill th 
n 1844) answers s vall 
—H.B 
Common Salt to Kill Weeds. 
in 
rham a ially a ge P to time been madé to Tay th —Your correspondent: F 
part beg the pe berg: be spread. I} “dry hok ‘sucess, until about two years ma ee = weeds on a pavement with a = find f 
in saying g thai t this momak = * to refiing with the | ago, oon a ne ee boreholes end that he red the grou a that 
the drains will save | tom of long and deep cutti ds will grow more 
Bl. € or 6/. Bond acre to many a Saale of the old d school. with a stonishing force from a | porous stratum goes Sulphate of ean in solution is very injurious to woot 
I have repeatedly seen men wasting more tl valks, and especially in dry weather.—C. 
and carting | alón ich have been cut a TE of Lloyd. 
and plunging over their wet lands with them to pan water teal ra ‘that of a not inconsiderable riv ver The To Defend the Bark of Trees.—I find that a partial 
opt vant longo Dr then filling them in. The pressure a and force £ o t with coal-tar fo, 9 
ion 
five or The e springs 
and bogs have been laid a telly fom When I saw hex 
{oe ar about 12 months ago, I doubte d whether 
|am however told by parties who have seen it more 
am that from surface 
feet from the groun: 
hares and ne tay ‘eating me bark. I have noti 
instance hurt the use of coal-tar in 
i fre n habe hater Ma A. A. Lloyd. 
Fea ‘A «Con stant ” begs to inform corre. 
t Reader 
wpondents s that for many years the erie se "foal 
wa ters will percolate downw 
vege’ 
tation, nad that probability 
<1 
a few oe ago, the suet of sie was disc 
= many o of the farmers of that egenin, ah elsewhere) 
imposin; g shea here cpi the 
pense o sipi . refuse o and s ekle mt i ma 
rosity of beg gg binky a a that e 
opnir Ri agi Ef out of the drains,” to be spre; 
OVET, an and tobe zor Adee ma to Saase, the 
fat draining 28 inches 
wiii 
not be required. It may cer- 
lent bread, with little trouble :—4 f Ma lt, bs of 
Pors, 2 pints (English) of boiling vaier; boil i aitoe f 
20 m minut eS, 080 
then strain the li iquo 
i any be pmi while to delay surface Bag oi bon for a 
isithere from 6/. es 
5 (To be continued.) 
ie Corresp 
1 of g 
weather, and 
an 
tel 
parece 
‘gee of Capitali in Farming. “oem rhi 
so abundant, the ap athy. an ji aane of agriel 
undan rops be ears 
ev 
half empty, o will t 
occurs, 2 Tittle ewer’s Kad 
As regards the ying gfe vot drains, 
contend for the propriety of running the rece across 
the slopes of the land ; others of ru them down 
the ‘slo I believe that either Simi il E in ea 
land, t the oe T will e 
soonest. Where, however, it is intended 
where possibly a disposition to subsoil pe "thavbatlee 
arise, itis most undoubtedly th bons plan to run the 
drains down the slopes, if the drains be, say, ante I 
apart, water has then only te to 
In the other ‘case it has often to 
h the dra 
travel nearly the whole distance of 8 yards from drain 
On the subject of subsoiling I wish to speak w ith dif- 
fidence. I have not seen any instance of an experiment 
in any field fairly tried, which was calculated to show 
how much the field had been bene efited b y the draining, 
| cia 
Ot is og saan to attribute the H 
egligence of tenants to any other cause. Providence 
as been most boone s in mong our fields eo h the 
ichest treasu earth positively groans h the 
e 
br added, sa: 
e months ; when the fresh mixture is s addedt 
th: at it in ‘the bottle, the ee care must be 
it be se yin iin. de Be 
Wood ice 
plantations of Firs, ‘and other mous on poor and, ‘whid 
| weight of a yain s season, 
full | head ready for the sickle, e lyet. Ha husbandt 
and se 
have at length | been cut down and sold ; but in cons 
of weather, which ste fe able him oe nee of ab 
Having latel Pa occasion to travel through 
at being of little intrinsic value, it afforded 
ina the wood its 
in the shape of rent. 
moved off the land, the 
account, by 
Instead of being ‘ai and re 
ey m ight be t turned t 
fitabl 
e been grieve yed to obser rve 
of rmers 
I I have r not done much in the way of eis myself. 
I have lain by to see bit ee se cota in the hands of 
pet ih I have noticed attentivel, e fields a 
bottomed soils on haein s est on, R. H 
Py what is the 
the indolence evinced by 
in which at least a dozen men rt hes n em- 
ployed in saving the harvest, only tw a Susie were 
mical combination) converted into a fextilicing manure 
It has been satisfactorily demonstrated that 
th af ti 
f| plied to to land. I have e myself witnessed their b enefici ul 
and permanent effects ; and should this meet the eyo 0 
and subsoiled a few vee ago w th’ great ea a the 
beneficial ee have been in the ra Kiha pei ques- 
i t henk may my that the opinions 
a ripe state, causes a great proportion to ala out a 
the kp sip would have been prevented, had the 
S | com n taken of ci cutting the erop be- 
profita) table timber on a plantation of Firs, destined fo 
the axe, I shall be happy 
to the most eligible method of converting — 
soil 
tionable. 
of some of oe re that not A as no 
parar Ar but pay an injury. That is certainly the 
n the 
pe os ae a patie, f of Yorkshire), and at the 
vi pe wages ae 7i acres field held 
k Me Wharford, 0 Ivechurch. Some 
en 
hands as ae artes eg 
ful blin 
tile, b lai 
anes 
: pit him ‘Statistics. —At this juncture, the g 
d a surface of vegetable mould 
of the ‘ong on the C Coñion fa, he 
loss sustained Tae ignorance, and wil 
ol 
Al 
F 
k na 
No perceptib 
ania resulted from the subeothig: Both those gen 
tlemen are ney. o farmers, and free from all 
y manag 
an wrni aaoi can but soca 
ppi 
e and, indeed, of agricultural info p 
pec ially in 
the Editor of. he iAprioditussh Gazette to ancl, peri 
We 
mme 
from 7 yard 
e of 
8 jemale hoe dan "3 ier being filled in 
over the tiles hid on soles, with os 
as th 
The subsoiling | t 
d 
t | the season is most ay “the price of the staff 
wh 
hea: all fid gea hea 1”... At the 
Jars time ¢ is ery on ze reading cna the land, and 
of | 
wer is, b 
life is raised ; and peene it is 
the usual 
e usual custom at ee. pine must 
The 20 np see before “mentione d has 
d mos a during the 
havo es Pe Y e the sub- 
Bsh 
1 to 
f the We 
ot t shut our eyes to what wal follow rhe fi gs aah re- 
those who have 
the command of the market. It will evidently tend to 
alienate the friends of the agriculturists. Ta mpering wi with 
rity in the corn t 
from fi ur distinct eii appearing in rige pap 
the save 
Mark van orts in the Mark Lane Express, Sept. 1. 
The new( Wheat) was mostly The cient os almost 
ka off at prices varying C 
from 45s. to 55s. per qr., a 
to 60s 
which 
btfu 
rovement in FA is perceptible. Moreover, Mr. 
en fois Pen ike a that a gn 
loes n iled piec 
hose nE v est ree ve not E Teri su aoid: 5 ; and 
tte ate in om h 
a 
to waste, in order to fill th © pockets o of a few avaricious | 
will ultimately be most 
ing interest, and compel those in Aa to adopt some 
| measures to insure a re egular and che: = me ip of food. 
dicial to the farm- | 
parcels bringing 58s. 
per “ar. 
Most of the best runs of new 
were cleared off at 48s. to 58s. 
er qr. 
Mir. Wharford is of opinion that ee water doe: 
vercolate to the > drains so free] a na aeres 
nd the land is s0_speedi 
Bred 
after hea 
ee, ETI 
an ly re 
-| for nee months’ consumption, w; 
the hands of capitalists ; I am told m 
re than 
without touching ‘the 
not subsoiled. . 
I have no peee or dae to offer for gas 
psc rt upon the 
lips more par 
oul is be fig we cannot say Veni is no 
a rregu 
in he 
ugh | Seilin e avera; 
will onime to be faulty and incon 
want of 
alt cote which, from the 
will quote an instane 
| reason for grumblin 
ot F: pply of me a th 
racteristic cof 
he car na ing, 
a bad system in iting "and, on 
as 
and unforeseen conseque 
harvest of 1837 es so deficient, my before the; 
f 1838, the great supera rabun danes a the tro 
to hazard an. 
failur rece Les nore par 
ticularly)—if a conjecture on “the 
causes of the question improvement of the soil and 
the lateness of the ing of the crops, it would be 
that the macy tons Fay so of clay which were thrown 
out of those drain ns and worked into t e soil were of 
upon a ek sie to the monied 
| ms Lag pot wa 
J- 
pan it, too, 
Capa at 7 or 3 yard poser 
ady cape’ sae sub- 
soil becomin y 
too stiff and claye: 
tat in iach a subsoil the 
fi 
an Berto porta and better pee 
ment. It 
is in vain to lecture upon chemistry, a ie analysis 
p foreign Wh eat out | to 
ee for protection, but by |v 
the kingdom was i in quite an e 
recourse could not ave been Tal 
ould ha’ 
ig, by th 
ae, for ‘the water, a 
until carrie ed off fi 
to be built is, in too many instances, ina tg con- | 
dition : might a t as well expe tree t without 
2%. + b” +h 
the water in t 
Ph a s t 
eg gee 737 
wores foor ¥ ing the land. 
— st 
an “increasing po- 
D 
Rint r 
the advance. ae scientific ide I 
eep alone will not lay the thet oad and 
deep hala or borin 
This ig em 
m judgment than 
is at this time on 
m Harrowgate or | F' 
eases the application of Elkington’s system | 
springs by rings | tak 
of draining re- | trary to 
sad 
be t ought rather severe in my remarks, but I 
have not ae ntionally writt 7 arag which I ys 
re liable 
on sense, 
nden 
rnea died this important 
your. correspon 
> Poca Fe 
ts, if they will point “ou tmy arial 
subject.— | f 
runin and to és 
2 z ESE 
rom following. ener my immedia’ 
| are several acres 
