44,—1845.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 745 
er cal Tooting, 41 Polion (pre 
= 95 Oats, 6 Vetches for nage ee 41 Potatoes, | ailing. The application of guano ery | Majority of slate-soil farmers pay their rents, The 
a The farm is ery high state of | peta this year, and has been ay applied f od young animals used to be merely kept ye during the 
tultivation, and the ¢ Mabuki e green crops | nearly all descriptions of crops. Whilst on this months. AAt two or three years they are 
re perfectly free prne eel: and peo looking better, | ject, we would call the attention of the mem a to the drovers, who dispose o of thea in „distri icts 
E> the ime of our inspectio in August, than any we/| another light manure, invented by Professi icbig, h It 
pe seen this " le reflects Gia credit | and prepared by Messrs. Muspratt and Co, of this | was during the universal prevalence of this system that 
r. Grey, e must not omit to | town, whic ce it realises the expectations « of ap a that the ate Sir William eee prvi: in vain to 
The 
t order. 
soil is is chiefly A a light, san 
ges upon this seth 
Mr. 
84} mown, 
tor, 
fertilisers. 
& October 1, 1845. 
Rebietos. 
lof A 
y Wuite.” 
71, 
The premium he 
ompetitors for several years, 
who had cultivated 
s at ast 
a few Turnipe + in 
reir ‘and pratt pity ne ah 
No. 10. aas ries.) October, 1845. 
Pikon aa Sons, 
. | Tae E pre: ery in We hav 
taken the Sines of e traetin 
el orses, 
: i Siza = (but Sake fe 
) ealves. 
1 ad about 200 tons 
chased by tho gem pn nually, fr 
Gi Halsall, of f the district. 
"prize of Bins cupies a f of 1 he Earl 
‘of Derby. The soil is all a stiff faa se on me 
re 
5: 
$ e ay soughing of dee) 
rder > 
the ira cont sarmer by aa 
16 m 
p ditches 
leh 
eds 20 
cows, l ne 
annually), an 
950 tons ; in additi 
tion to which, 600 tons 
of horse and cow-dung ng, are pun 
impro ovements u eos 
ig up 5 of unnecessary pits. 
The present stock 
vgs ifer: 
fess 
vege 
x =f of its most in- 
structive ih ar ig Pa which shall lapper at tatott i in 
the Paper. 
quen 
o spread amazingly. Liverpool is no 
accessible ‘market for fat cattle 5 and hence, instead of 
e letter b 
» | Johnstone, on the Agriculture of Wigtonshi 
some topics | of considerable importance are discussed. 
ent we have te 
y P. 
re, in which 
now raise Turnips, and fatten them off upon t their ow: 
0 
rearin, 
ya 
ese is pac keg 
of night-s 
on w which, , of e ourse, its agric cultu ral character depends, 
of the soil of the district, and its relati ion to the clima ate, 
ns 
farm is iss itn irp and precursor.* It has 
already produced marked effects both upon the appear- 
ar The real meaning and value of -this word 
rom Liverpool. 
Another, subject, uona Professor Johnstone al- 
The farm is not at present aii a 
pping, as the improvemen 
vent it. 
From St. VADb’s Head to the Mull d 
ese. 
ular 
ts which are going on pre- | 
rotatio: 
nearly the whole of which similar obstacles t agric 
f| tural improvement exist, and a similar stati sons ry P 
slowly advancing husbandr ry. pi h in pa midst of this 
on 
rallel system, with 
d slate sol 
es, the drai 
tiles ins 
ing 5 yards apart ; otadia ai of old hedges, by 
e, or trap, or 
of old red sandstone ‘appears all ato once the diffic 
h 
fw earth seem 
trae 
ultizs 
e W iaon a and ‘ene is the more intresting at pet 
ahi the circumstances in which we are this -e 
placed in reference to the Potato c: rop. ° With a few ex- 
A 
ts 
‘You know that i = the neighbourhood of 
the es of Pota 
ing, and th; 
anis and n 
ich a number of fields are thrown together, and new to conspire ‘in pte. the diligent nil ator of the | arming, pas this arises in part fi circum- 
fields afi It is the nature of the rock, therefore, on which | Stance that the great weight of this crop excludes the 
$ w Whitethorn hedges pemi waste from tte | thie abils res distant producer of it from entering into ul com- 
Eae malesi pits fil p lly been fered har has created, as it bind the di- PNE with os sub yo “4 od ses paea 
and made into go nant is assisted in fth ts begs good Potato occur, good crops are, or can be, 
these improvements is landlor , and we need|—has subjected its crops to mildew_and has ladet easily raised, at a distance from markets, the tenant 
scarcely say the work is all = done, The length of | harvests scanty and uncertain. The physical aera d rare , by the cost of transport, from g hi 
fences and ditches which hav n done eee a tion of a country, its latitude and = Ned = e the | Self, in the greatest degree, of the peculiar qualities of 
d. is 34 eae eyond esac: of han n influe and 60 pin soil. It is t erefore of consequence in su locali- 
and the land gained byt these and the pets ae a “pits, far as climate is dependant ies to discover a mode of manufacturing the Potato 
‘&e., is upwards of 4} acres, This is unalterabl t such is not oe case with Coc a in | mto he a ry s EaR tf & ren A f —_ if 
tances of his lordship’s a which are fac, being so far as it is déit dant upon the nature of the soils, TOn Teas y vo the pg urope, 
modelled and improved. iho nk it a worth pe and of the rocks on which they rest. These are toa |15 " js ing ka es jon thing e — a ny e i a 
: t has Ree gee certain extent n vapa to the dominion of man, and it is rge farm, for the purpose of working up the Potato 
i pi extent on the estates of re, Tari of S erop, by converting È into brandy. In our country th 
singe th 
a parrain; a mighty 
a district which ‘ae hitherto partaken far 
“ing and 
beneficial effects of the latter have been very percept 
ps 
ange 
- too padol of the charac ter ofa wooded wilderness. Drain- 
ite 
to stru ruggle wit cog success, aa where these difficulties 
exist man is sans in settling. The easier ways to com- 
fo rt are chosen fi rst, the m more favoured spots a) are culti- 
PEIE 
e 
t this method, but he can convert 
Into thi 
is P ny 
| pate eat improvements have rece 
eer ipro 
Enen spd the farina is con 
‘onvert 
nto Pea and other sie which find a more or less 
market. The waste fibre of 
ee i in p ts c ; of the pore Ain ponpa, Ee mand a quicker and more sure return. Pioneers pene- realy fy ia coast Tora pies de Pies cae 
bert Birch, o thert o the Earl 
See tek coer see À i ony acy and ai poeri mta a mi ae 
‘improver Fen) nlnnohie tre at + to th ? a 
of his tenants. Macling of land is still pag rely ce and men pe bak ith tl f higher a pi pee — se ASERRE so ae enneh 
Peise, d with great adv; vantage, espec: Say n poor | knowledge, find their way amon A ee em, m, and show that se Sia ig onsen a ened is lake Mr. Bintlog Sain, thas 
or pied upon lad ai dy soils. It is now mo Ta tly | the natural difficulties which the region presen may eia y yy hings, when allow w à to da tee Se Pinks 
upon land in a state of fallow th 1 db ertio a - x 
t somo of th a state of fallow than formerly ; > a i Alar erage i —— Ting! ly an sys drills, had given, sr Stirling, r crop 8 Pots 
te, an nape that it ought to oe applied m Grasa oun f this part of Scotland.” ied? 
à year or a year before F reakin “ig The 1 of F Me p to which guano an ure had been applied.’” 
ils of Wigtonshire, appear to 
lime, the e A aoea 
nd farm arm-yard man: 
“ In Germany, a method has lately been introduce 
successful i hi titor, Mr. n, mp No: contain but little are also 5 
ely applied to arable land în Jast winter and spring, | dent i this important mineral ingredient andthe poon pich în this countrys Dt which recommended 
f its artifical appliontion akaka 
ke vay tan bo no doubt (hat tho maniing jx ewa RN erys renidi marmer r the infue oki ai as giving a better, a more palatable, and a more aban- 
n 
= tem oe tn a beneficial effec t is grati- | facilities ai internal an munication have | preparin g Potato starch. Thin metlind sunita — 
5 at for the new prize “sftered for the | upon the ss of m sain ing i the Potatoes, eutting them into sli ces, as we do Tur- 
‘The r aaa there have been four claimants.| “ For w on o Ties psn ch of the improvable | z a 
F mittee awarded the prize to Mr. John Birch, of | land must have long lain in of comparati =i 
<an (tenant to the Earl of Sefton), and recommended | prod en AE of sea-borne lime aoaia ce if ona. pot cont of rae 
tot, sr pe of the same amount should be given | at a cheap rate fron Cumber p from the Isle of with pure water, drying k preni sa 
> Of Halegate (tenant to Mr. Blackburne), Man, and from Trelar , first “i ing thee Gok Pe Ria Gua The donr Alone ob- 
ae (half filled with sented Oaks bees copes tone a? eee sb iier oy next ur nai ca gt Hive ger cents of the weight ofthe the àried nn 
r), u upon a farm of 232 S5 der to ad P h ` EAE 
se ‘gh ti 
will n 
more complet, = had filled up 
a pits. Fifteen fields were, by tl 
e into si 
s improvement, 
bring into arable culture many 
eanit yer te 3 had hitherto lain in a state of 
nature, om which te possession of lime enabled the 
d tile, and 
ditches 
would n 
w give jan opi 
baie the distri 
ae ae 
ss 
j 
enerall 
iil ccana, 
Be 
We 
a 
ea gain 
MP: 
(ih ayeraged ken gaS in width, and by 
be less ae cres. perienced. The farmer ee eee a 
nion 
rass 
ay 
t, but the Rema crop of 
y hedges 
we 
ctly as 
we have had of jt pee: of the state | where 
n un- 
Clov 
eat, we believe it will 
wW 
to they very wet and vol, weather which 
just at the time it was in blosso Bar 
n good, and althou; 
been som mgh th 
we cea cca a full seel yoe The | a 
scale gray uch on the 
After lime had thus bee: 
introduced into t ‘the ‘listrict, and its usefulness ascer- 
tained, the money vale of good ro road 
his lime a 
certain kres of m 
w 
s ere to be ex- | on 
‘otatoes, 
t 
But the following is re most interesting p of in- 
| formation that we have met with on this Tjak: Ib 
refers to the ag t eonnomionl method of using the 
seg m so age uz AAE of Potatoes, 
gevas method which has 
and what may still be seen in many parts of 
for 
lately 
| making the Potato more e aniis ee more profitable 
ase, which 
by tei being 'subatituted by 
of t 
and Kirkcudbright. Where the 
ding You 
babi aT 
it has ever hitherto been. 
e a 
w road 
ne stopped, and ate facilities for 
port P TaI wanting, moors and 
mer prevailed. 
a ne Pota: 
verted in sugar, and that ia 
tained from i it is largely paa for the oaeiai 
, and even agr the Soan 
oa ww g 
coast, so that if 7 reper meens be t 
ier “which comes the 
orthern of the » Fre woh wi wine-growing at vinces yE is 
toit.” 
crop ; gor it 
result, as the ro 
tt, owing to the lateness of the harvest, has not 
ecommend that they 
as it see bee 
almost 
roadcast. 
2 doubt- | 
is again | 
com ge of Grape-juice, 
mgth and richness to the 
Aditi 
ah 
connexion with me vt of this ein: cn 
influence which seam PEE has exercised in 
graly gat ‘he long-established system of rural 
) husban The breeding and “th of young stock 
the 
wine, 
is 
ten 
ge f the prams oe by ‘which the Potato-starch 
eave “ato Grape-sugar is ~ mix it with one- 
ight of ground malt diffused i 
aisee ere el h Pr) r3 
— aa this illustrated in an aa manner in 
| was, and ‘still is, the principal means by which the 
bo corm somal of the North British Review published in August of 
