742 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. (Nov. 1 
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ba e float will open the man ure valve and shut the joa of —_ an y seeds which it eontains fall into the , mer, of weather free from rain, } yet the actual quantin 
bend ve h at soy Jaane takes place in the ee | he e jus e. ay mode in which, while every ther |e of bropr whic h has „fallen has been mueh ln tha 
and it when this occurs, let the floa | iseing ‘mae tn r thre oaee: are thrown into the and during the 
remain suspended until it mae washed out as much ó apie. be ee fa "fall out as as paras rmitted, is harv est period, when fortunately Hes dia a short con. 
the liquid one from a of dr 
hal H E] the’ Potato r si eet he. disease j m 
collecting ; this may be read iy ascertained } Dy y dippi ng | ofhis h Z y Į , tbere is reason to arti it has not 
the well, described in a former part of ‘this communica. z inted te yet ceased, for a few days since in a sheltered Spot, 
tion ; the more or less deep tinge of the oy. ee will de- eeds. nen he m oaigh on the spor) E W probably some peeli ngs m jare a been thrown, 
i i int. When = seem 7 this spindle, owever, 
ot aiik effec a, the float rest r with the spur, is pulled quiet an = | Just attacked by the very anaana, spain ae y bes 
an sen haee in von me $ ‘thie ee will “me the | he, a ms Ru thus gets below d; the co er, 
and op waste ~ ae n as it | qence is, that when this ha aif ne ig Sana. —In the third volume of the 
I ert I by corer rime a given quan- ofthe ee is: pushed up again, rg cup is pushed | “ Repertory of Arts,” &e. 2P: 62, the ere is the deseription 
tity pr water is maet he to ai me the? liquid manure | uya ws its contents out of the iaia | ni a mill for grating Pota simple, 
as descri ibed above, and that this pare is equal | to, | vesel before alluded to into an adjoining one, whi ich | cac io us and ‘not neces co costly. Possibly the 
sa h the dibble tube, and i jh motion of the > har and in turni ing the winch 
eo. eai at } h ntil it is | seds fall, ready t lowed f. re it. turned -asin the 
Ù ion it must b vai churn ; but were a axis horizontal, a water. 
ti ght bearing through the tub would be requisite, which 
otherwise a cylin. 
kept, b plara y ston it, rie the continu- 
ance a dry weather. Tf rain n comes on w whilst thus sus- 
drical grater, moving in a half eylind ipa one might 
pended 
the liquid rises so high as to su bmerge the float, It will perhaps be 2 e Potato fone is: manufactured 
be seen that very little attention is required in n the ma- a, in France, what kind of-appa- 
kaginan vA ye PORTER — hope T have de- ratus is used for breaking up the Delis toes. A 
es o The me EERE engraving o of the mill, desortbed im the Repertory, ac 
pre constructed, ~B., er 
ahh Fs are v oe pameng 
en te Naples and not liable to be A out of order, 
—Henry Liddell, nha road, Hull. {Thanks fi 
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— DIBBLES AND ‘SEED DEPOSIT 
fth t are o dibbled A man walks 
"di “pp of convenient ler 
sag two afi les abreast in each furrow slice, these 
couples being, perhaps, 8 iotas apart ; children follow ; 
and place seeds in the | holes. The operat ion costs from | 
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7s to9s.an acre. The quantity about "the middle of of hese 
6 to 8 pecks, so that no such great saving is effected | In the meantime ye uld observe at farmers would 
is is owirg to the inability of the children, in cold ie well if they pitted t their Potatees very small pits, 
weather, added to t essn Ui ti to drop “Sees À | first putting a layer of jsa seen po! mend or charcoal 
he two or three oe only, as they are directed ; ree | and Baie Nf Rata tely, Wearesdopt- 
more rg this number are carelessly or una ayoicahiy gt ayk iaaa ia prevent the disease 
roppe is sch hole. It is, wee Ny advis AsI a ‘ps I do not? think ae Thand.aib | = rho pit, which I have no doubt 
substitute an instrument for the children? 5 foe ‘asd bling m maehines are y yet quite suecessful ; rm $ preien BR ee me the des ived purpose.—J. M‘Intosh. 
by means of i t they t | t e | Potatoes and Salke In reply to your Thanet aongee 
master’s directions. Bentall’s seed h d dp g tl d.—M. IS. spondent, I beg to say that 
instrument : by aa s of it, at each motion of a ee tainted with the murrain to be immersed f 
Weiss 4 i co iee = : Eome Correspondence. three minutes in boiling salt wired cia 
i grains neral are thus dropped, and i w ing. § 
the holes be 6 inches ae every wy they wil and. if) > Pohio io in Ireland— Since I wrote to you thoroughly: before storing. Surely. youre 
in number m sorr i d has | for hours.x—F 
a bushel, I need not deser: instrument atter nthe het ot ried hte dre: ahi l extent ; a the Potatoes are| Mr. — weer Deanaton. —I have read in 
reference already 
made ao _it oon page 519.) je more sr a damaged, particula rly a om the red kinds, Number, with much interest, the speech of Me. Gy 
y b nth o +47 mifries, 
is a notable instance of the value of efficient machinery | t} wa at at Marine aie ld fence t I f tiles, pipes, te but what 
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to agriculture : = it will not put a.sing'e hand out of | each an and on examining them yesterday, I oe d has more jae we attra 
cted “my notice is, 
employ, in t will probably render dibbling more a were ai destroyed. Asia means of preser — the | has for ae been manufacturing pipes and ti from 
papnler than Beretofees, and so will Fg apt I would advise the Potatoes to be dug in = = ae If he would ee the public, ae 
n saving rnal, with his method of preparing ‘ 
aba will probably bespent by him on the farm. There be them, they should be lai id on the, ‘ground (a a me ihe tiles, &c., and give ive any other 1 aae 
r 4 been-several attempts made to unite the dibbling on the “ground in jangle tinction to the common | which would fa EAR the nufacture of so val and 
and the depositing of the seed in one instrument, and plan «f pt a pit 2 feet in depth), and lime, which | an article in the Frmopihtt e peat abounds, 
very great skilland ingenuity have been exhibited in| can be bought here for 10d, a barrel, sprinkled among | good clay is rarely to with, he would Keni 
ee attempts, but I cannot say that I consider them | them, They should then be well covered up with | lasting ge ie on ie spas try at large.— y= 
Me oea r successful. ‘The first of these was by | earth,and in the operation of covering, a drain 18 or | Reader, Porimad ¢, Caernarvonshire. [Peat ‘tet 
sn h, of Droitwich. His iaire 20 inches in depth will be formed all round the pit, | not a dried. oad 
manship (in all that we haye seen) does the manufac: which will of course add to keeping it dry. — is at| When to Lime Land.—“H. A/S.” would bo TMi 
turer great credit—consists ofa copper tube, on ae top | least s simple method, and I have every reason to sup- obliged to the editor or Pinki of the ae 
of which is a box of the same metal, to hold the seed, iln dryi y would inform him what is heir 
be in the bottom ies to measure the "quantities, boiling water, or similar plans, whioh are  ealy experince in liming Clover leas ? Wheth the“ ye 
SENEO | mio -tbe reach w. 2e p wg sti, at a W., | or “cons” me eee me’ Haifos A barai 
og whic Cloud fodd ouse, | course, clay land, and applies about 
= patrala ina a care this is piston. is onnected n prevalent in ‘the’ Somiy ay are Wicklow, | pedian. Poel per aere every course on the siete has 
ogni ane nants side the implement, moy- Bi ER ma bad in the latter as in the | bles, which seems to answer so far, but 5 course d 
ing eas ‘down in slots, and connected by a crank to | two fermer. nite ‘nds have suffe red most ; for doubts ree wet is the best time in the 
pies taining the dies, When the hole is made perne the ch as and prolifi e White apply lim urse is, Turnips 2 Baste ae 
"The Cu ups s have not ra ne so ze -o ae] Whea E PADE E. [We e consider t oa lime 
affected than t be applied on cor 
teed into othe mhe; when the iron es Err BP, | the wegen system. My white sorts are a ofan Soap as a Manure.— a dosorve 
argia the bottom of the hole. i partly sapere = _ — ee zi — as = were ee — e = iit ae o 
y ey Tai Rod. tof “G ” letter in your last Number, ry and that i 
Saee sound. p lai teta ln ‘is. cw tting | mean to ey it pem As to the price 4 
y the bad parts, and-using what is good as quickly | the form ee be rend | 
os tle ey ca mand they boil good and sweet. Potatoes | leave th r the present. Let th 
wae ine, e market is glutted. | himself ot the. bar of ‘he 
can, sells his stock, which he is afraid will remove the duty, which being 
to ae e i inttyaniaye Potatoes will be scarce, and | turer wi ial put it m “a 
it ist ow come hear onthe — | —An Amateur Farmer. ; 1 
na Killine " zy e ieni ia your Gazette nu prem ‘ 
ato Disease—-In this oo where the disease ap- | have a most important pn Wheat i 
perien 
d p th as seed? Did any one 
tent w I tł fi I | Bee ae seed ?” Which “a, ode of 
is cme pen nof the. matter, sae irere | two correspondents, giving their m satisfacto 
porcus green sand faanatiay mae have Gogh seed; but this I do not conside f 
ried our best crops, they: ha ave this year suffe red the | | inquire . Ihave been & Wheat gro y 
while in the cold vah rious success; oe ae : 3 r 
ca clay Mie of plastic elay and upper fresh-water >| na plue-stone water, “C-» 
formations, the crops have been much less attacked. Shed | varios T havo smn ‘and mew seed 
pie REECE amaras == a elay soil, and where the air had | steeping, and t steeping, 
eepi 
seine the with x or box “held | sine " attacked, by cused up, the: Roixtees eva even without p 
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the pt 
Sie poms i his foot, oe 2 free moisture. io a pa gr tieien oe va certainty, 
m_(see fig. 4), | rena PAE KTSG E S r dame) tion 
