744 
TH: 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Nov. 1, 
pressing on them ; the former leaving the land myd 
lighter, od the weeds m more likely to ‘die. By a litt) 
in and about Aberdeen; to the writer’s knowledge, | 
one has laid ou t 2004., another 4007., and gepen 
Albert D. Thaer, who conducted a | experim: 
rge 
| agricultural academical lestablishmentunder the Pruss aem 
ance, rake-teet h may be a attached to each | 
wishing to buy | his (previously sold at 14s. per boll) 
sto. j 
| 
? state agp 
Tor near p naa san 
„Tra amps.— Wher reas our highways and byways ar 
nd 
is 
bolls Others he has heard of sending 
north a: 
e Aha 
the stream of a any fror 
bes ssanie who dive 
us of pre 
u More were pie bong th 
ies 
ussian 
erlin. 
to 1828 52y: s,i in his Pr ineiples. of Agriculture ge at, 
tillafter a 
derab) ble 
borne it. It is thought 
space of at least nine years. ought to intervene 
interval, on land which has once 
that a 
said to Bes deficient =: — ear’ 
the othe inity of 
So “many as 2000 bolls even, a 
anay) will be odd, when Aberdeen more 
rt. The 
strangers ; now con whos ly a 
the interest of your own neighbourhoods the safety. c 
dwellings, an g i mforts of lap ow 
i m the m pane? es 0 
by ceall 
mpo: 
week was 20s. to 23s. 4d. per boll. 
FLAX TERENE acne SPEER 
ent sie was 
er 
here 
by systematically refus: 
and other vagrant Spa 5 
ent a s 
ase to wander from their own posma of cpr of “the Society for last year. 
h 
Esq., coun nty Cork, 
l th 
Pp'y 
‘this 
or 
arket price last 
satis 
soil appears i: pee ted for 
ars’ expe- 
a de cteriorating crop when 
mi 
it was 
of Ir 
rience, that 
ee phop 
pon G. T, Teil sg -, to get upon the table, Is 3 
called u 
settle: 
to expend hie ne hay 
e hitherto t 
away upon rey cating pain in assistin 
sick and afflicted of your own neighbour 
an bys far as "yo approya of the abov 
are able, are reque 
g theF pp pot deteriorating to t 
wert re“ According 
ancp. 1036, Flax must be Kept cle 
o fu rther its intention „summe: 
objections to the cultivation of 
soil. He said : 
to Mr. Ste 
. 
er ; and as to sowing reat 
seeds, e 
e Clover, aa ert it “should make 
— the „length ` “and eon of the land, by 
owing whit 
is choked by 
eopving 
e bo th ‘would equally 
F. 
wm 
Io: + Q 
it known am among your friends and neighbours. 
eoi h 
On the Ripening of Grain.—The: ripening of gee crop), as 
It vhie ch will ae men the 
f Flax 
Wheat plant N appa commences at the Toot. 
ve 
t of eine (that is, after 
and piksi pa the ceasing of 
h 
ems compara) tively clean 
f a Co’ 
oil 
— cultivated, i in lieu of a 
racti 
him b 
to the l ts Airai tised pihak much deteri ing employment to the r—Mr, Wal 
these si aie — in succession ee Fation to the Tare a if it be determined to regard | an extensiv ee Down farmer, and who ann 
Now, when the leaves are dead and the ia gi of lax as a green crop, aud cause a sora enon to ll cultivate fı m 4 cres of Flax, came forw: 
the stalk hardened ry, there ce of A wA an will in time assuredly fee feel the to Ril th 
nourishment from which the plant can draw, or to of such a system, and Poy a PD A rai of his practice. He (Mr. Walker) said that, a 
which it has access ; and the proc f growth seems ore it ‘altogether. It should never pe lost sight | of | years experience of F Jas gi may he a there wasa 
ed to the assimilation or digestion, as it were, of „cons sidering this question, that sia e Flax must | profit onan average crop, of o npa va 
the nourishment still con in juicy knots and | ing it into competition Now whi te crops a and not |annually, per acre, after paym “ey alle 
upper part of the straw. All this takes place fore crops ; because to rais crop would 
the of corn is nearly ripe. Now, I have heard it|1to it T fa into imme- course ; shift ; F the Flax to be sown in | every sie 
pined tl I lant | at ct with manure ; $ : and if it be raised without | rotation as S g 
De iiia it all the nourishment which it erer con- | nn a fallow etp; it must deteriorate the soil mediala ; and on pa acconnt should Flax be so 
tains ; that the w hole plant, straw, and grain i is this nterially ; no species of ‘op bei ing more rae, Pi at ere pul sc even years He 
posa etaa as valuable as- apr for *stock, as the “whole tl soil than Flax, not even p that Flax did not oaae a the soil for produ 
P lant, straw w and po any ives stage l harvesting a Flax crop, we are s any other description of crop: although, when £o 
ripening. Aiekin ct, lema, that either the quality of the Flax, or the seed, too closely in succession, the Flax crop itse 
sists in increasing th eval ak ‘the nst be sacrifice e gep will not pay|not so good as when sown accor ing to th 
food, by diminishing to oie rok. the wale of meee of aed Seed is produced from 6 on he had state In answer to a question 
bs iy straw as food. Now, nif pn be seriste pi ; tal king the highest at 12 bushels, that by Sir Percy Nugent, he meg Walker) aia, that a 
be useful that san should be ee 3 for, in m portion of th s fhs next root, w. 
< 
where lig 
listrieta, ing is p might be 
got in safely me ty cutting w after it te reached | 
Ri fit ag sowing, and worth 3/. per are (the 
ee would 
the inj 
by pe Clover ; but ie Iso found that the Clover was 
papa a ben — by being 
ich 
a Aries given in — the 
poet pad e rocess of ri ripening, than i in n the | o 4. 10s. per The Flax = 
Aaa gs to season and 
j regas msrap I Esa to A po and Barley cro Will kag from 3. to “10 ewt. = and ane the high. 
-any one give his is opinion on this subjee 
team Engines.—Seeing a pitta in por Pager, | 
produ ce 
gave more empoyma 
nd ate 
bou , 
labourers dervioos were litt “ors 
oul his Fag ‘pulled an 
Ea shew 
| price iv lots Lot 6l. per ton, T Pld will be 31/., from 
gaa “ A Subscriber, of West Kent, se 
ation 
am-engine, I 
eta he educta the expenses of beet tling, | w 
tehing, 
it 
F 
troated before the. yea operations commenced ; 
thus ery ¢ onyenient crop for an extensi 
Ye ee 
n the best means of working a 
hi 
cat + 
e last tw 
X. Cambridge, ‘Market Laai 
O years, m 
near Devi 
m we have worked a 3 horse aya 
e hy 
pes san FN paar will not exceed 8l. per acre ; 
bit though , such a profit would certainly repay y the ex- 
hen observed, that the 
opinion in Westmeath was, Fi t the fibre of the Fasi 
was injured by allowing t m 
Mr. Walker 
state that it will thrash 
izes 
upwards ¢ of 200 “bushels of 
ew taken, even with the sacrifice of the 
Wheat per ey 
„with 4 bh 
that ca 
In Tela the case, I — will be the same, 
one can be seen = pe ins ae or 4 
miles of Market Pirae 
Hitchcocke, Chitieer-. cy gaya 
Man nure Making.— ce desires to 
near Devizes. aay 
make Some 
raise g lax and go 
ri ‘same piece « of ee at the same time ; and if the 
Waterhouse,” 
purposes constructing a tank rs weeds, &c. The same 
idea has run in his head for evi want 
Figen having prevented its construction ; 
be managed very differen rently | “from, that ; prop osed y 
ofm 
but it edi 
iy otation of croppmg as follow. 
and 
ripe, 
t|riorated. In poi ail 
und a: should be 
custom was to all 
conceived pt it should be pulle 
” otherw 
a pe regardin 
allowed to lie on the grou 
Walker meS tbat it depene® age i = es 
weather, but from eight to 
the 
required. “Phe ground | best pee 
ang tha 
Opinions « on the present Flax Agitation in Irela 
nd, 
age 1018.—Mr. Henderson, the —, competitor 
or Irish Flax, exhibited, at ES 1843, gives his 
" Potatoes s or, ee 
the theme of every traveller, but none, so o iar Ti 
— lausibly accounted for its nat Th 
know not how e engen dered, t that aes in. | 
2 hea 
t= and i ane cut rr hay, being top-dressed 
vith soot. 5. Pasture. 6. Pasture. 7. Oats. 8. Flax 
it a not require to be tu: —Mr. 
turist to the Flax Impro aa Society, w: 
upon yk the Secretary to detail some of thes m 
andling of Flax. 
g saiet that the ‘ca po suited hay por 
ay 
rong loam bsoil. He $ 
ax wi 
pei pra 
Mr. Haz- 
ing Flax 
| | lax coming after a corn crop, as above, 
Grot to construct a tank for the production 
iscov: 
eombining azote in any proportion. This, so far as I 
a the — of a os would ~ a very |n 
mportan discove But _ tank taining j 
3at 
of these |° 
+a e eml; and ‘owing down Clover with 
sa co ni: to =< ripe, was 4l. 
if niee oct wou! 
„after 
T were it; ier ise ag on land which had grom,¢ Clover 
or a long time, Clover would soon cease to In 
reland, where the culture of ore but of r ecent 
‘ow well for so 
gers allowed to 
T bolls» v 
acre, while th to4 
= farmer should beware of the 
pose water, een to the sano not such ali 
sa n not contain 
decoction soon teem with life ? 
more a tan e substances fas it would ac- 
count for? Has the subject been examined by a 
hink animal life would, in 
rule his practice by our expe- 
wan ae sage? uttin iog so so useful 
1 plant to 
the root of the Flax pani "he t desce! 
to the | trial aa 
doubt, grow of io -asality, ater Peas wae erop, on lana 
urally fer deg’ 
any in good conditio 
sy an exhau usting cro 
r three- fourths of i aaa ie food was 
chemist? It 
of its parts, first absorb the azote w th 
ma apt 
the water, and the Water continuing to poe air, a} 
fixed, 
to brai 
r a manuring ; and if the main pegs Ai va > Tri 
‘farmer ŝ is to — to nad os of the finest quality, it 
£ 
and suitable to be sent to the fields in the shape of ani- 
E bo. matter. Yo our co: correspondent’ s additions of lime, 
would be bett acquai im at once of the deterio- 
rating effect of. Flas thus pseu upon the condition 
scl SRS ge Say to encourage h him’ to m ake the othe er 
surface being 
ae ge Gazetie. 
Sepa eae 
LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL La 
OF THE INSPECTORS per 
~ Day belon the N s a other men om 
of the farm 
socrErY: L 
raise: 
: that s7 theory has i ite i this sje, and 
d the constitution of vegetable an 
wrong ‘opin ion. There seems another wrong 
opinion abroad in ireland, in to Flax, that that 
Serenity v valuable plant is bai its culture ; and 
pr 
e neglect of the Irish farmer, he 
than he is. 
a ls o E le ad ths, kaana 
ioration of soil; for both corn and soil he 
Potatoes | ontinue to have, in "perfection, along with fine Flax. | pasture, 146 mown, 4 
He should be 
g money in cultivating 
of corn or 
cannot 
an accoun 
coli 
ce the had ae rt has 
500 The so 
ich is om Wa 
oam, sa 
