45.—1845.] 
| Titiated, and thus dise: s communicated to the 
Ei aa the waae ‘of the Potato. i jorto plant thus 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
= 
rotten. He kepi 
out upon the held, and gave free access of air, and the 
e liable to the attack of parasites, 
s di seased, were a affected in a 
at these were better than those 
which | had been a pte Te therefore 
state of cultivation into which fo is ag i it, gr 
the exeellent Ag s which am been aiak y his 
There 
ipa that it would be better not 
aa bT that those Potatoes that were 
n 
pit 
Potatoes —Mr. C unni ingkat Dy of Craigends called rv 
ed, 
‘they could be 
of Bucki ingham’s fa me. ing that made 
arri by making Ro dril ls and shoe ‘Potatoes 
dy stored would continue so, and that the d i f lime in a|system is a great rovement in agriculture.” — 
would not mene in the ensuing fede fro y infection. pulverised state, as being an effectual means of _ pre- Maidstone Ti ag % 
however, to Baco the Potatoes i 
Rebtetos. 
The Farmers Almanac and Calendar get 1846, By 
px disea: sed Potatoes picked out from a time te 
Mr. B Baker 4 the e right drill he covered with earth, and ne 
ter of the Pota i with lime slaked. Tho Cu rege rt W. Johnson, Esq., F.R.S., and William 
formerly. This “en pr to eh growing them me whioh had got | the lime, on hg è ined a Pao Sha w, Esq. 
in succession upon the same land. It wa ate , and the maintains the high character for 
a gous to b eeding of cattle from year to year > teeth ‘ite rs, wht not got sepa de were dis sefulness, which ere its past a <2 p nce, 
e blood, t , whereby a certain | Mr. Penfold gry the abrorpton o 5 the moenie i from ttis term bg red. Besides the usual information 
ould take place : and so with poet Ser nak Eob by the lime was the of the a n farm almanacs, it contain eg A ersten en 
rtain Setene itgi also took place, and it w; e thou ught t that Jan ndlo agg an nd gen pare p a useful essay on condition 
o original pic A t ota sapin 1 p g 
mp 
E Knight, of atiioditeiis followed Mr. Dake a a 
e was carefully aaRS over his Potatoes, and se- 
nes. 
their present mode of cultivation pat had exhausted 
their Lhe and made it weak. He 
back to the o origin mgt 
y skiing them with laked He fully 
nah a Baker in the poset “of, a ore = 
The tance of the dentro to 
ation of pakana and other root crops aes 
yede “sree should be secured at latest by the mi middle 
1500 tons of them i in the course o 
hese were P: t well eiiis 3 it 
o 
History of ix Horse. 
f 
it—and a most instructive advertising ae 
W. C. L. Martin, Charles 
ight an ace, Ludgate-street. 
One of Me. Knight's weekly volumes, and a most 
interesting one, admirably illustrated with 
was necessary to have them to renew the pa 
must si for seed what were called in E ngland waxy 
Potatoe —Mr. J. xoang stated, that he had been in- 
n, starch manufacturer, that 
erous 
ravings, We give an extract from that pro- 
eroi of it of greatest technical value to the agricultural 
er. 
s ‘We may now turn to the slow draught horse, of 
r. Pol 
tons of Potatoes produced 1 ton of flour. 
J by pulling with He thougt eds in our decidedly un 
s hook or any penar or cutting gA Sana The | that farm: pe oni a t allow their Potatoes to lie in walled by any i in 1 the _ Wozia. Tt is trne that between 
h should be only partially removed from those in- | the groun adh, for het er month he was afraid they e giants of their race and the 
nded to be preserved longest, and none of bres | would be lost altogether, He would have them taken Ueol ng “Tormod drudge of the costermonger’s 
roots removed ; the blades should be stripped, not a immediately and red up, with straw, and con- | cart, t ther many gradations, and these ere and 
ff, and the Turnips t ted o | sumed as soon as possibl Esq fee w us Pisis the a 
itable spot, and thrown in heaps (not thickly), of " Nethantbsntishas said that h had coher Rapea for | horse was, till by care ete ings i 
slightly covered over with straw, &c., or might be|the last three or four days in separating the sound | elevated into the Cleveland or "the "Suffolk panch, a and 
eed between hur rows, 8 feet wide, which ideo from the unsound ones, He found that by|the huge Lincolnshire black, or mottled grey. 
s should be filled ioi the ae of went wages! and | examining the eyes he could detect the disease. He | Suffolk | punch is now seldom to be seen m pure, bathe 
llel rows place les, so as to} ha procured a large ar ntit, s crm eds, and was | much crossed with other breeds, to ch it has im- 
: init the ai ey to circulate, an d ste covered with | laying the Potatoes in ring the seeds | parted compactness of form and power, We suspect 
slight covering 0 of str aw or stubble thatched ; as | over t them ; and he > tho ug it that b y presery ing them in | that it greatly er to the establishment of our 
i _ He also of op inion best old ro ads ters, t to th 
rotected by Placing wet straw or nian for that pur- 
J 
that by J D 
Pah t purity principally to Dur- 
d Yo Snp te of the sources of our 
i ; but if placed in houses, they w 
: o enter quickly into fermentation, dete 
hi 
to be ee halen Peho he iy ube shows 
very à 
oo ahin 
rkshir 
Lea drunter, crossed repeatedly by the blood-horse. 
eed betw een it a nd a blo — orse of sufficient 
one 
ered 
White Tarps might be kept in this ee. with 
woul ld be important to pion farm 
ntage, soli 3 
clear and oe and the diseas 
} 1a on | 
with abel neck, and noble lo bearing. 
e some sto: 
Ə 
+} Pr" 
3 
gh a as t grea! 
e, aS they veld by 
f 
e tak ve ‘et p be kept very dry ae well 
cre P ica Gee osed. Man sold Wareel = 
red hegre! from the effects of RTE Sng r 
Ee ind be ab inne less precau 
E pullin ng "aie te o strip or wring off the a ia not 
© pull more at one time than could be armi in the 
g r b 
ightest fr urřin eing 
the lower portion of the ies and 
t in clu ith the sides 
e way as Swede Turnips, having the rows only | ¢ 
oes width, The object to be attaine dw d be 
describe bed in the “ Essay upon oaj ean ing of 
> published by the Royal au Society, 
described in ta! a as practised by Mr. 
amg , of that 
Ż 
wW 
Toa vate 
sep arated. then asked if any gentleman present |s 
had had sae me a or had been re expe- | 
ments —Mr. Young said that Mr. 
g, of Fu wond ; id he were getting a mil pre- 
pared, which would be able to grind 120 bolls per day. 
—Mzr, Penfold stated that it was n e fari t 
fibre of the Potato that was di d.—Mr. St s 
kan the engineering dep: ent of a |o 
in the pear 
t 
Frage and gig-horses. 
The oy goer black € exce all othe r ‘reds i 
gan ure se is a animal, 
perfec attributed to the landers by orse, 
Pie it is ry this admirable 2 Seca that the teams 
wers’ London are 
for ing i 
asian abont 100 bolls per day, would be from 60/7. t 
707.—Mr. Young did not . - Ron t 602. w more 
eae Flemish. The sasien and heaviest. bore we ever 
A breed be- 
do t to erect a 
curred in cloths, aie. &e—Mr. Wate 
pinion that a much em eaper and simpler m: 
e got than was ed. a would take 
than half 
n the heavy Lincolns srg cori the eS gua) 
a pah Í is esteemed Bri superi tivity. and 
huge as are the noble r air which the wealthy 
brewers and distil llers s of Londo: on pri ride the mselves 
displa 
7 Soop 
having oer at great len ngt thy very interesting informa- 
on and suggestions Heat ds the a ae ao y ka 
ae pise ease. 
Flemi 
£ +} 
ying, 
ntle the he driver is suffici 
h sera 
ntrol or direet dhe pe ny atten, nip rem: snis 
able intelligence. The ordinary cart- of our 
co , and those employed in ors tte of ‘the farm, 
are ‘smaller T, lighter, and mo! aa e than the huge 
k ape on this subject, M ing, of Barr roch 
N _ he had = ey! seen nthe disease—only owe or 
had made very rapid progress 
rage He had lifted some 
that oe be immediate ay ogg pA sored in small 
srs excellence, an 
a and thereafter the u 
as dry : as | possible ; Poy 2d, a, the crops 
le of uncergoing. A sige cart 
September, and put 
anih oly feed that a were area good, while he 
Taised some only yest e out of the same plot 
eple he had taken the s in Sept come, and 
a fresh i amon ia hen. The sound ones 
lifted i m ‘September; and the unsound ‘only yester- 
t associations or committees of the farmers 
pth more immediately inte 
several districts of the teat for sec! 
tion of grinding mills, &e., the best means of taraig 
such Po tatoes to account t for food or other purposes ; 
vad be formed in the the 
uring, by the 
dj haf per op our, accord slat ok besides 
cart (seven or pny hundred oh should never 
niger Pack four agrat we beyond this 
in w 
e is ‘ee and 
the severity of the work is de- 
aa E pleughing, 
d t o pace, the of the soil, and the 
po th at there was every reas ason to l 
a ae 
ing 
dried | the 
n | cate, in regar 
E 
when formed, may ¢ 
operations, and in he V cag v af 
pester and diffusing farther information on 
teresting a 
from nthe on gener Adv 
district c resi ge eae 
n 
and important subj pee inquiry. P- Abridged | : 
n the 
n the pace is not 
than at the rate of a mile and a half or two miles 
sixteen miles daily d 
Annual Ploughing Match ria Dinner of this Firkee | 
"The e a prio says an able writer, tis 
Thursday last, G. R. Surru, Esq 
‘Sug out of the fi era uieaing at si clock, 
d | deseriptio: 
fed; 
r expatiating Ps n eloquent terms upon 
, too h above his work. 
Thi Noat an * error on nes d right side. A = 
of Selsden. , after 
the benefits which had arisen fi 
light i will always enable the 
stated that he belo ged to 
kaemy founded upon s principles 
it had not been so aa resent. yet 
apon S which i 
dne 
he — ‘fed. The size hv the h 
and the seas of the : 
imal 
to determine whether be 2 sng Bep Po a we 
the 
work, a ragged 
hI oe z po Te af h 
f this; fi are ee 
is ; first, pene 
all classes 
ich fact 
food. 
for th | the general custom :— 
ashi 
O 
« There i 
t he said, “ for the i consideration of persons preset, | year one 
The following accounts will ee i 
t Mr. so n Bank Hall, Lan- 
the year through, 
and allows 
e bushel of oa 
, of Glynd 
x, s 
ulm or straw, with but very litile 
m Which Tea iele Sè ounces; and the hird was 
fortnight. by | thought th 
g belare, “and had bem lying in the fields had “gone far ahead o! 
on being cut rn before the panier school for bes imini, young farmers, and, seco 
ess ; the lt was from 2 lbs. of | by the unan which existed among 
ina, . Young stated, - | advancement it of agricultural scien 
d been so hurriedly prepared 
en quite dry when he weighed | very me prize yearly 
weeks ago, when he pitted | the best cultivated farm 
ning asl gana ast es E 
an thin n wi th E £,,3 < 
At all, except where there were pisi t year, jand I feel it my 
+ Or sixth Pi g 
5 RE, oe Hewitt Dais, = 
3 
y winter weeks, He gives one bushel 
