3 pm 
farey 
und that foal pss 
ee i 
several mont 
for ok and, which ought to be fro om l 
hree or four ploughings and | 
delved to the 
dn much injured by 
where the go had been cloven, 
is no 
not a proper _ of 
let 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
their taking root, and the 
A stiek 3 or 4 
the sg: ants 
ey 
feet. long is — e _in the middle o 
nd the b ied to with 
soon begin to show bines. | prepare the pollen, or fertilising dust, and 
695 
afterwards 
nf koras away, when this dust has esca from the 
|an 
ese 
e or the ussia aperi “tal they lay h 
wal twine zaot them. During their pes p round 
is well hoed and FEA p = around the 
fine mould 
rs, and be een committed to the air, ri a by it eon- 
The female flowers are in 
the — of strobuli, or cones, consisting of seales, 
—_— have at their base by germ of ne Kaaya ep 
an nd which have e the habit o enlarging, the scales of 
s deep. 
ely 
nsiderable improvement ; 
2 to 15 of the own around the based 
w Ho ops ay be pic fi 
l but in general there 
Pee s a: consi 
deepen 
y the iS pei next.time t 
inches, more, by wham: a 
the ioe was in 
is sg Sg p first year. arly in November en 
gr round is carefully dug wi with the spade, and | the ea e 
of the ovule, or — pa g = a ee of tthe pollen 
tit gh “i ough the pollen, Sn. enim 
lightne: 
eas, 
bber follow 
rop “which — = nly cost about 15s. 
es sig aa 
turn up ty or “2 inches of steril 
e tie meliorated soil is only from 4 
per 
the soil E, piecemeal n 
res subsoil a the plants are cues ud the 
in | last year’s: ts arec 
| Even where the ridges are high and crooked, it is 
In the seeond year, early i in spring, i oag hillock around 
The 
t off aias hot: oe main 
nd all t spe SA quite clese to it } 
shoots 
- baa 
hi ges oe Hop- 
among the TS, Or dons the ion of the 
gardens, to ensure ‘ the fertilisation of all the y seeda. 
> C3 Hs 1, +} 
stem, ai 
form an —. a ses es es dressed like 
As mnynces 
=n et 
paragus. 
a. 
n by y ploughing. For when done i g 
e roots, and 
he A po ole 
E 
19 £ 
(term n Kent, seedling, blind, or “ike. pA 
Sex, i a or cock Hop) wither — they generally 
extirpate them - the digging season, as unfruitful eum+ 
the thi 
ade labour may be use 
ases- I have mentioned ; 
d bea 
left on n the eos but/barren. ma Ana Incon- 
Saë 
i 
do Th ee so many ge might keep one 
saving of about 30. , per 
ewi 
mum H while by 
I l lytt und. a i error may he 
“the Smee are led > tied as) ee in various ways, but an appeal te the result-ef 
d | the hi ige en hold of it. If by is th convincing; A. bushel 
aceident the bine leav cit a pole, it should be carefully | = Hops, eo eollected. from plants of the fourth year, raised 
i back to it, pa tied till it —_ es again. om seed, weighed 36 pounds, there being plants 
stand ladder should be at t hand his, when the | near ; a second instance, where the plants rai 
The sine being well | from cuttings, weighed 35 pounds; while a el, 
where the plants were 
ving, the soit of a whole farm 
wit ld. of additional expens 
laird or tenant ; but, on the eontrary, to the 
both. Delving as a preparation for Potato 
might be 
ndered muchsmore productive in veeg or twelve 
kna d that w anap e to 
va year will average 4 ewts. per acre, if the season is 
| eradicated, “weighed on ly | 22 pounds. 
a 
T 
favourable. Some i are plough up or 
ground before rs prefer doingit i in spring, 
oting, which weakens the 
runing the shoots, | p 
mach  grenter: (the: ty ipulin, on which the aroma prae v 
ed by Planehé to be the ae 
pollen » dust aa has ali on the seale of th 
d the si ES yo sai bitter much prs 8p 
preceding. vents are -carefu na repeated. Particular 
to the length of the pol 
Fare 
After a ‘period. w when t 
pollen 
was ploughed we 
M While by i. resuming a grubber after » mo |t 
the land mam. 
o the probaie strength of the bines ; for if the pole i is 
makes it 
the males may be cut Att ie the as a $ 
too long, it draws up the bine, and 
H Į 
ii 
ee 
next time 
_— — eost about 
pletely tre 
5s. acre. 
q 
eking. ie. 
pm ea Mien i _ 
aan aa 
o 
18 oer ai 
pestis ma 
esling, the'spade 
° F. Aiton, in the Ayr. 
CULTIVATION OF THE E HOP. 
I — w the request of a correspondent for in- 
bation s subject, we take the liberty of aw 
costly apparatus 
machine, with all its nokea p “eee 
eo es its work to good purpose. 
re Agriculturist; abridged. 
nched o: 
nn “plough, with all its 5 eost 
ted o o the 
t feetiom. 
of Gath, — _ rass —— 
the 
val the feos containing te seed will be of a fine 
straw colour, turning t ; it is them in per- 
When it Z oversripe it rings a darker tint. 
| No-time is now los any hands are procured as | 
can be api caer oust. T 
women go. out of the towns in the Hopping 
and earn good, ly 008 in the Hop plantations. Digi! 
they sleep in barns a nd outhouses. In 
g 
numbers of men and | placed on pos 
the Society of Arts awarded 
from the Hop-bine. 
SBR BS: 
e fo nena 
other. Hf “age of these 
i eaan it would penas protect ion 
whether it will be worth while to soak them 
the teeing aed are taken ag and the si 
bey 3 feet from. the pt if they ve were cut shorter 
would haga s ing it to bleed. 
The ep e 
9 fe cag Haks and 4 feet miny Spe" end kge. 3 fee 
‘high 5 ; this is called a bin. loth is 
h 
— remains yet to be proved but Pi it should 
preserve them, amies extensive f Saind 
have a tank for the purpose.” 
rrespon 
—At the 
n the 1 "aiming extract fr 
) Farm 4 ork of | 
value to the: farmer. g. 
1 
does not reach the ‘eon. Three men or women, 
ry mellow s soil and careful í cultivation, Iti is aen 
re pl 
and pick the fon 1 from. two poles at a time. 
"e 
ne i 
careful of the, quality of the Hops, as at 
arnham, 
"The sat ee of i llops is raised in — 
green, 
hich are not $ dhis Ppt; 3 i light ee which 
— very dark, which are p 
rable le dept. or made so ati The = 
be dry ai and sound ; a porous. rocky subsoil, 
isthe 
Hops. The ex exposure ei Pape towards the 
A $ on the Slope of a hill, or in 
èd with 
ve 
pea ig each side of > bin, 
aere | sj 
Home Co ere rg 
Improper ose. Y Guano: e great Jesuit 
La Mereed, : at St. Diego, Upper California, th the 
n th f guano as a manureever 
. Monsieur’ 
Pome become pce or ta 
E 
TE ee 
‘he Hops ot picked are dried o 
loth i vie ttleoy ppear pirkan aay | 
be dug tw e Spits Anter and the 
ed at the bo soe where they will graduz ae 
nd afford nourishment, to the slender roots 
ike 
is the sure sign of am 
of sna should be ared 
bg it u 
ex 
re- So an the Hops on the: Socal 
inches of the surface 
hum 
P with ines “pai in high ri ridges before | 
off 
at bottom they are tw 3 it is however thought. b 
some Hop-driers pr rer turning of the Hops isapt to 
is: best do so; but in 
d the cal i ira (and wi 
of <a ‘of Tapondh) banes barren. In Calif 
shia 
4 1 = 
d | means of whi 
x 
óf the land isto them a mon of little moment. 
they havea well-arranged 
£ ; they e onvey water ov 
oling de eposit 
fiith: 
p t the H 
soil. They pian a. 
4 
plant the young s regi ets 
ae stems of old oe aher aro imid 
par teen strike, en aoe are cut off 
-bed. ust be 
taken 
a pe tr sa they 
but where there are 
be advantageous to 
in heaps on the floor, where > they 
sama! takes place ; so dint, ane the soil is 
its original value, yet after‘a rest of two 
aan years, and this treatment, it forms available past 
ture land, Tt should be further explained that th 
This is. done through a round hole 25 or 30 inches in | 
verdure, never use guano in the neighbourhood 5 aa 
M. La Talle thinks that the lesson to be 
[iene fe a rownd, iei the lofi 
peaa Under this hole is a bag, th hie 
through the hole, gg open k anaes 
the. hole, and the bag remains 
guano, but the sparing 
ela to those soils whi 
led the 
“ane it is made fast. The hoop is aan etea 
tan th suspended a hand- 
ful of Hops is now p 
there tied firmly by a cord. A bushel or eal “Hops | 
d| eE in 
SE ar pe eal 
br malon Pen and pe 
but he recommends its use — conj 
are put into the 
Hops tight. The bag does not reach nah 
| As the a io week the feet, m 
—— 
aati is full. It Sioen skats oft the st 
ag ANN OHNE SIS 
rin 
Knowing from practical ex 
which this manure is coming i 
inl 
~~ 
d tied prey io 
femed lose and tighe it it teebavedh inia dap plaie ii aie 
wanted for The crop of the third year 
eorners were ; when | conceal 
ee em 
u 
reading: 
of “Falcon ;” and though, per- 
want of suficient acquaintance with a 
of onc farmi 
m: 
“re: | rine a the emp of pA Tn isnot an unm- 
e: ape eakesy malt dusi and wollen 
F 
an angry lecture (see pag area S65), C yet Fam eniami 
ee of the our present agricul 
flowers, sufficienty 
grow on stalks quite distinct from the female ag uson labour on the land :—“ The day before our arrival at 
which | trating the importanee of << a 
