792 THE AGRICULTURAL else te ETE [Noy. 22, 
rs and mechanies, who lat is 
rage rs agregen their means. Tt must b elef k more apparer ent ethan ‘amongst irinen where ii it is Fi aa aa cee: but did not fad pæn to answer oe 
is work its own remedy. A landlord fin din; g he is so |o openly stat acerne: Í don't think tan es w an 
unforfons te a8 to b have im | out their errors, s, however evident they may ‘be the | you Tave abundance of litter fess at ha ct pea 7 es 
reduce the size of fhis farm, an d|m ost common “observer Such an scknowledgment W., Dow nton, Hants. [Will “ Subseriber ” ae D. 
fall bask till he finds his ievel a for increased exertion on pia tegt of those who with his a ress ? be kind 
T, Zoo od and su ubstantial reason why hav ot ultur! look pees Pat tatoes: Langholm, N.B Py S 
tenant farmers who p tt wh foll sewhere, are tected with the cid apm a, 
iat ant | inuance of a pi cota pasa out of n vatia e different sorts in different cegroeg Highlan 
pa I ‘hire a horse for a given time, I feed him Olt | and | many poameeds of acres, and leaves many hundreds | Earlies are nearly an entire “failur > Oran ge Fark, d 
work him well. And if a man farm land for profit he | more in imperfect tilth. Assertion, however bold, un- nearly the same ; Irish Cups, as appear to ph. 
must exercise ise judgment and economy in the py eae surported by argument, can never have any weight in | suffered Ne aire hay little ; ; and "Prince Regents have 
of capital. It veh with r vefe rence to fatter ning | these enlightened days ; to say that injury is done to a | one-third diseas s, now Apparent 
cattle, he is Peridot o pr the tity | man, rere he is told he et is ruining himself and | sound, will, it is ‘feared, eventually turn out to be ai. 
vo sso meat at bee least E a Butt apes es na fol- | his tabda is much the e as br ingin ng an action fected. nt 2 seedlings of last -year, I find, yit : 
becaus mind alla e to the | again: nst a man fi much aff _To jake the most of a ‘had poe 
discovery that farmers a are to be tana ird Kio the fellow aa from dro wning himself. Whe have been Saito starch for home consumption, t 
isto be justified i in farm Aane Era 2 By entering into partn relate will it answer to mix Aare I ig ve for the calves 
condemning everythin ng in a agrieultu ural pug fi ith a tre d by their united resources Never oer in spring?—A Con Rea the “ Gazette” 
e | whicl It is so | [It will not be a full sabutiinte for Lined, Led pin im- 
re eke i 
the p po slow m most 
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making out that everything is is wrong—then, t coul: 
t as proof of his favourite (a and ` he foolishly in trade ; ioler grocers, butchers, jagra rs, he aie prove the milk, and ther efore serve to 
ly-diseovered) Dypothes The ‘multi anies, dividing the labour and profits. Is there | doubt. As rokardé your ache questions, we en fed 
oof of his more difio ulty in farmers adopti ng the syst ea Cer- | pigs on steamed, cut Swedes, and they filled themselves 7 
tidea, and the picture of a tainly n Ttis that a person can- with them to admiration ; but they were not so nu. 
Fe pai a ‘ spring of | not aden my being in spre “counties Yair the | tritious as Potatoes. Tapioca is made, we believe, by |] 
his own tenia: in.” Nearly all his atmo are over- | autumn, without peters fancying I must ‘have a rapid drying and scorching of starch from Arrow- ia 
strained, and he writes about things which he | been on a ra ailroad the whole imè? when T calle d poy it makes a semi-jelly, which being stirred L 
i emarks in hi 1 roken up, dries crisp. If we had a 10/. note to spend 7 
some dislike to |I had d fields, and inspected the heads 2 upon manure, we wou d certainly pirot oil-cake, | 
a n expressed by | grain. There could be no mistake as to oeus how- | and feed cattle, old or young, rather than buy guano.) 
some whom “the cap fits.” This, I beg leave for my- | ever opinion may differ as to the cause. as not Diggin ng.—* A Subscriber” (p. 759) inquires what 
self, in the an ogc He manner, to contradict. pe at the rate of 60 ight es I nie Na down | quantity of land was dug i itor i 
Ha) spily f e I am so situated as neither to see, feel, nght in malice, and, how oughly I may be | “match” (p. 696), and well he may. It is stated that a 5 
or Esr t but t little of the evils on which he expatiates. handled Riog bear it f jatienüy. «mons conscia recti. ae 8 was allott man, wi vas dug in “agai 
It was from convictions already mentioned, and because ieee an be ur and a qua It would take a good iie 
I thought his strictures calculated to bring practical | Sta nt Feeding Milch Cows.—As the practice of soil- SOKAR è ree days to aig a aé e rood” oh ee rly ; and if 9 
farming into contempt, that I contradicted them. His | ing milch cattle has been fo he dy recommended by the Vasat was a square rod of 3 Os anta the time 
observations in his last letter, I am pleas ased to say, are | ag gricultural writers, I ng had a wish to ore t ary itis a gre at pity » and & k 
not applicable to the Isle of Thanet, He may reply value as a profitable practice, but until this year 1 never sabe d th T. 
is not all England. let him | th 
T there is not some known Mike of À 
make exceptions in his sweeping statements. Our | stances ; my h opes were in favour of the system, and, adopted amongst hiema which might be readily oada 
labourers are fully emay RON at prices which he consequently, I I was much Wp At ot in tes bas t | stood by eve the dF a re seems a perverse deter | 
mentions, nor are they (thanks e Ernie 9 the | there would b n following it, | ™ nd obsolete measures, in com | 
pitiful ereatures he depicts, “ arid wal ances The pasture ir in which a eee iy of t iiy cows were ble 
and n less arms—the mere s loa vA car I | grazed, had become bare at the pits of July, at we Pa aper are as a“ A book” to a large odio) 
as places readers, Since bend! are legal standa R of both 
er ll kinds, how desirable iti 
per wee in win ng 
abilities), receive more. n turning to my labour weather which then set in prevente into in every point of view, a e 
account of last week, I find I paid laren men for their | hay, a resolution was formed to sina the beens of aie adopt these, and "eee sily in their commen to 
own peg regi 71. lls. oom ing from | as no doubt existed as to the adva e derivable from | you. To return t uf, Sub wept t uiry : it may, 
12s. each. ma as receive from 6s. | the eat as Ay r as the The | perhaps, interest him o know what a day’s work of” 
to 6s. per week. I have Pee and brought to them as they eat it; Siggi TA nr be. Man ny years ago I empo N 
wae coun ak of England, ene like | they tad’ eases’ to wattle aktei times a day, and wee dig a field of 6 acres. The v . 
“ Falcon: oo. casionally travelled. But though | on the whole treated as ordinary a fed cattle ; tot p ] 
> rye often travelled fo ipw the ioa os of fron consequence was, that the first day hey | did not "reed | 
an eye bred to it) lands, yards, corn, and freely, and the produce of milk an 
cattle, farm nt and laboure: ca fe I never saw, | nished ; the nextday the cows fed very freely, still the sli perpend 
a pe — a egg anything that would produce continued to get less, and at the of eight the wrist (to 1 i 
idh jmi arks on the neglect’ of the farmer, the | days the produce of the dairy Lon fallen to. eins one | pletely inverted the spi it, o that when Ar 
d two-thirds the pr hed to the depth d 
of "the © country, or ibe awful misery of the half the usual quantity in a sels o- | finished the whol 
i oe naan 1 labo 1 havo observed that in Essex, | duce in butter ; the cow oa returned to the | inches, eo perfectly than any plough co coll 
and asset they me billow their land every í ego year, | pasture, id decidedly inappli- | ma ASR tile ny Of work done in this manteb a: 
and probably they g opped | cable to mile sh cattle in the summer season, and, in dig about a Laie it Gosa yards each) it A 
the whole annually. Where persons can make cattle | twelve hours, the e by in ae early equalled d the day, an add Its 
pa, r. i uantity.—J. ighly satisfactory. 
i T. 
| on the Sai crops ss hi 
ce o isea law both of |? © drawback on agrisntiate, as a profession, 
more manure, be able to crop every year. , where | animal and vegetable life to require increasing care in whilst the manufacturer of every description, 5 
manure can be p d sufficiently cheap it can be their progress from a wild to a more perfect state, and : m 
done ; but, situations and circumstances must be. con- perhaps the Potato beyond most others demands care. 
sidered before particular practices are condemned. I If the disease which has this year made such havoc be on the other Lae = nore 
never yet happened to have an acre of arable land |a more a cil form of that which has o ecasio oned in the most perfect manner, kis : 
de: do n. | fi ious loss } perfect machinery l P ompelled to 
uman labo 
z 
onsci his plan | b p d, one n 
sa ET in all situations, and under all cir- | notice, which may pahips tend to vee some light ee 
it so 3. epee that See ‘fallow’ cap | upon its ace In a field of Potatoes, in which stood 
is upon 0 r ve 
Ss A aP 
fh his ‘own ‘brain, es gan et oy bee from practical Potato e ould be found i their shade. Now, the | Rowe read a paper on the “ Importance af S 
1)? should put forth hi axpaie ion, I think, of this fact is, that the | Agricult ure.” He began by observing, that 
sheorien. o on certain prineiples which he himself under- Nincak had acted as a screen in prot ecti ng T stalks aoe > thought by some as of too little p 
and not be trying to Satem epee by reves | from dew and rain, e thus t attention ; and that this. opinio: 
on practices of which he knows neither the reasons nor | hindered, no proper pabulum was offered be gee: in- abe ee sete vailed mee be E or Gren 
godean. ts, otherwise | al & ever b raising meedicns visible seeds aa fungi oe are said to abound so | would not be the only co try in Europe, wee 
eat he aa Peoi d thas the close of autumn, and whi a ception of the Ne ome ge is, devoid of E CoE agr a 
ifal ` ly no practical farmer saw a to be y the cota Anais ag the tubers. | information re jouste 
han per acre dropped anywhere. It appears “ Fal- The. established tat of Potat rown upland dis- | founded upon a official in = sky ot be 
n” was not aware that last harvest was not a tricts being best suited Hal ‘planting hay. p aha tend | having eeen incited to ma would it "gysten 
eason when corn was — 3s = from the ear. | to strengthen this 'hypothe is, decomposi aand there not |as far as acticable, by 2 sri ae does 
There is a proverb a ich, to him, is| taking place so soon ger idly. Im test this | statistics, to S settle the sagan sg «Bow ie Oe 
doubtless pey. unintelligible, w The more we lose | theo: nn. by pame Jo which pen prote ya the | culture progress t each m 5 
in the field th e have in the barn.” It is|t along w ‘iho ved not | should occur that the objet o 
crop dh t nage sci whieh may be rved until sprin and was “the advancement 0 
come in August, oer a most careful and p i th it I oy a Me aia communi rate oT he ee in | rn 1”? but without corre 
eannot help losing a portion. SS ol s the time for far- time.—J. B ties, were they not ina t manner 
mers to te Falcon their thum fn ? and to “strike a ae to“ E Subscriber” on Tropical Agriculture.— 7 far they were aidin 
how 
astle.” i a would con ne himself to su ibjects cts | [See Gazette, Nov. 8. ira ri S osing that the information | ther, in fact, any 
is one Indies, the best green crop, | made? In 1832, a department 
e age principles, and suggest improvements with be- next to that of the , Cane eer that a can cultivate for | was created, for the cence i 
ing diffidence, I should feel fagri in reniiog his | your cattle will be Lucerne, drilled ir about 12 inches | arranging statistical in 
letters. whi od have | apart in March, or ne i ngs nt, 
no e but “in his own | brain,” oe exaggera such | feed your cattle well ‘for six poten cag the year, pro- » fro p t 
such y in proportion to the size of your | but ‘the attention of tha 
matically : — | hypotheots i is as little iikely to|estate. The young sprouts from the Canes, after Bein ing | pied in my 
‘parted mends of w ae Pota- | cut, will furnish you with a quantity of fodder, and if and J intercourse with f 
to kee cep “them m dry aa under cover, will g ost every © 
iom the land than ever they take she Ee “Mangold Wurzel Mie been strikingly alive 
‘and Farming.—All nations are eS ya to | and = Mang’ Ta as roots, ar a i The | bearing upon the 
+ the truism many be vied further | Guin 3 fine a ing p in | department in their 8° 
may ay said, men Pariski, a thers in April or May for fou ae turists as a body gaye 
occupatio tions have | then allowed to go to, seed, and ta i December. [such matters, and 
