THE AGRICULTUR AL GAZETTE, 
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e thi iat to those gre at and and es most of th eni _wer injured, : do not | imprope T en itivation. “On examination I have also 
on the oste nsible purpose of | find the ecome worse “he gre of thing re ; to keep | fe P toes, whi 
ne a ts sdi he tea mer. I have followed a} them ary, pr find cows and sheep e E | 4 an iea e 
re sages? ws and sheep eat them readily, | when broken, conta Saihed: i innumerable fungi, tending 
hanical reim which any one may follow tl I have planted Pe 
le mech Ase basal having Peed: sui asaue a jave’ p ante: ot ar es this | räthar to confirm me in my arate of spontaneous 
“ey fe fos eac E Sat a duane cs umn, and same where tt ie infe ih ed Po atoes grew, | production. I perceive that it is stro: a ab recommended 
= wi og pte nos “to plant immediately,” autumn s of last 
ewhere.- year having proved excellent. Surel eaution 
je Paice is E ve Tas h following ris cofied from aw ork oor should be used i in placing Potatoes in soil, an 
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404 3 alue placed on the Potato- -crop, and the attention Believing, as I do, that the only means of steppitig tlie 
| Late Angus . 40 phi 1d bo its cultivation with The > ground for Po tatoes murrain in its ravages is by th oroughily drying and 
Blac ar anan ... . ð Jun 13, i H powdered 
: 1 ad p 
y ye 10uld als laked — in small heaps; and looking at 
; g 
” Fbml part of t the Oat being the in Soba oe every ear 5 ool if either fres! l th “treqanny I must be permitted with all defer- 
ker and i 
ng probable that the proportion of the pio of thè 
el l 
the same seed be 
‘oil two or 
e scientific men 
Tn 100 parts by weight. 
Melton, for Panting ànd gathering the 
Po otitoes, the of lan d being one rood, and t the 
On 
mori , to caution 
to that of the kernel might var much as to} years suecessiy rely, the er ops will in general fail, the | gardeners and farmers against the rash experiment of 
ier the weight ia bushel a  decepti on, 100 parts by | haulm come up ober ‘led and blighted, s year. It appears pei addin É 
ght of n sort were E nd the h oe and ker- | be worm-e a aaa cankere > Ti he N oe Agricul- | fuel to a flames. Treleon 
AT: ae d. The following Table à premium to Mr. Wright, of Great} Farmers’ Clubs, — Your correspondent “H:” at 
by Knig ht, 
P- 777, under this head, soles to an res cree book, 
j y A 
pie a op sce 
Sandy Oat . +--+ +++sereeer . produce 91 rh ath, that oecasion the y p ld k lihel 
Early Angus D E TE 31 oe 4 strongly recommended the cultivation of that ttl ; the 40 and 50- -acre men are gone 
Late Ditto e=; --++-+%+ +++ oa f : Ri valuable r ong ago; z Airs race Ae agriculturists ran 
Potato, fe; $ Eri E E Hops 5; 25 75 herent for "eudtivating oné acre of Land with Potatoes, acco ord- Mgh i int the eir } joi 
Black Tartarian satar He Te 25 75 ing to Mr. Wright's Expenses, and the Valuation of hts Crop: — | vie with the “Norfolk men H could name many en 
Hopetoun. St 26 a One deep ploughing £0 4 0/ Produce 364 bushels ‘arm upwards of 1,000 a and one * with h 
xin seh 28 es 2 Thirty-two bushels at 1s, per bushel ae 40 F seine 
oe à ofseed, Is. p.bshl. 112 0 | Bipetees deduct $0 Da am ~— er, 2,000 ; ; the land done in a pma 
; curious that the Oat at the eat oft eg Aret e ee nner, the crops beau ag ; the farmer alluded to 
2s. r 
sles should be at the bottom of w second. “There perload .. .. 2 8 0| o 
s gre t diffe renees. ao Oats as among Expenses of setting 1 0 0 Barley. If your “eo respon ent “H” will attend a 
t : disik ties, and until A ar aeee d fortheoming Newbury Cattle Show, on Friday, 5th 
everal t 100 2 i 
l have been ascertained by the = emist, we font & es ee ne December, he m ill. have .oc oe mone of oe: 
I not know the real comparative | values. In i p580 i 
E iior ned i ti = | Clu bs, we have many est ee ere re se paa Will 
Clear Profit .. £5 2 0} you be kind enough to give the 
ver all other a as 5 is very E and \ very The item “ nates ap” "exceeded the sual cost by or sithsern county; and well 
ft iddled | suppor rted ao Teale i nelined to 
siping me 
&e. 
the soil was “also ready ‘manured for another crop ; $ 
If your eorrespom 
visit Berks, on leaving Readi westward, 
ing by poorly 
pegs his attention to is, 
Home Cor rae both the should therefore be | the first farm I wou uld Mr. 
periments on various For uce tl fi t, whieh Prospect-hiil, the next to Colonel Blagtaves 
aed perch (Co: aval) TTuifoliuin $ 1 de. | nine pounds.—F tho cake see pr at te Beveir, 
; 2do. Clover and nd Rye-gr: ree Cause of Po! om Failu re—Autumr Planting, g Bogle a a ig? el farm ) Mr. Jobn mr Sar sa 
r i Sa Sy ss cause of disease has been a tö the want of} Benham, Mr. Folks, Midgam Lodge, Mr. Caves 
E 3 eg. fag _ Nov uring the firs t | Thatehatn Mr. Northaway, Henwick ; from thente to 
IERA 3 3 ph |a pc P: y ‘if indlined to journey further to Hungerford, 
Epe 5S | 2S |of food. They are’ so pas ht nd the road, he will observe the i vement sinee 
om | | racter, a the cultivator is obliged to ta oe net an Knight Brk sai. if he takes a ride northward on 
18 feet year after year, to ascertain they are likely to $ e wil ong tiA the land done as 
E f: 252 | 156 218 | 129 | of value for stock, Thus it appears t that the natural cor — as it girola d by London 
ed for hay, 1st weighing} 40 | 25 55 35 |p very am, so clean = so es is the general sys- 
patter Pend — kept sai torether s7 | System now universally pursued. The physiology © tem. Among the many — — ~ sa benefited 
a owts per eas a i the Potato points out the only pone of keeping a good | agricultur cow it tands pre: 
acre, green .. =s. ++/18 0 j11 2/ 1511 | 9 4 |sort when once acquired from seed. The fault does a Philip Puse iMP. 
Ast weighing + |217|115| 318 ys 10 | lie in continuing the Potato anuually by eithe luable P 
“isi ro fe 5 bo 18" 0 |u lanting it- whole, or cut, in carelessness in| suffer a slur meg upon the Baiia me aee 
x} 2 1 8| 38 5 |2 2 | Saving, setting, an oe the crop. Altho! gh | Snelsmore e-hill, Nov 
| $ Potato te be considered as climatised, yet he ease Like seth other people at the present 
t will be m advisable p re y more attention to} moment, the quesi on of Leases occupies a good deal of 
80, | 51,4 | 100 62,8 its cultivation | “that has hithert n done ; not merely | my time, and aes eae i € Looker-on” in m 
ot hay Per ‘o, 400 © s op g the spring, and taking | last Number is a valuable addition to our stock of in 
ae poet E Turi ana TU p in tl tumn, soca more is requisite— Teosa Will you allow me to ask one question to 
ble fi dyi bits of the pa The selection of seed nee ein rd reg ay after truth? A lease is undòubt- 
uce, which towards the conclusion of harvest He "been too ach either othe omnes ; seg su pposing before his 
veral times exposed to heavy rain, though it was | venience. The Potatoes for t “this purpose should b e 
lly weighed in an extremely dry state in sunny ai iling size, pw and allowed thoroughly to ay ptt to carry “on “his ary A Aeri ankrupt ; or from 
hence the loss i e barn in six weeks was previous to being placed in store. other reason is obliged to qui aes his farm: What 
n would otherwise have. been the ¢ase, and no | throwing large masses of Potatoes together, and per. has the la: ESEA — to fall back upon? He must, 
t change occurred in the a f the | mitting them to heat is at any time likely to imsprovė e | it appears to m pia SEEE- ge tian the 
The were grown i eaty soil | their ees fermentation must surely impoverish | lease. It, ther oe orant person like 
with clay and stones; they had taken a second | their s — and, to a — degree, alter their masa caper riss gneisa g ren nilateral 
th, and while t p 7 ar stem was ature: se in, on open ing t the stacks in the busi , MU uch i in favour of wen see , but nothing to 
p t ere tco Sk: is part of the | spring, tl the side of red landlord. By 
i eneki wi k eontioned $ in | to hay own ong white shoots from most of the EKE this letter in your Piya, may be favoured 
The 1 rifo aa grew on dry ground, but it | eyes, whic ae be broken off before planting. with wer satisfactory to 4 Young Landlord. 
Linen an ans er gg thi sa for ontang A ànd | These evils should be ed if we wish to ward off | [A Sirena would be much benefited by dden 
of s cule nt ste: ae bloss on ‘the disease, and p ve this nutritious root in ‘all its | reversion into his hands of hk cecupied under lease 
t head atthe outer skin | vigour. Potatoes like a oderately rich earth, before the na expiring of it, were that under any 
seeds Be dps nad been “sana * The uce was| soil should be well drained and pulverised, et it cireumstane le. But the tenant’s death places 
tough straw. lover was in Fall and the|turned up rough d ving the winter, exposed to th tion in the hands of his heir, and the advan- 
j the produce Sic action of the atmosphere and cleansing frosts. Little tage, during the series of years whieh has yet to run, 
i il the tenant as t uee of "m inv 
to 
ssin partial blossom, and 
rable hay. The soil in 
wn is a cl, ate | 
which poih the 
bad Hav ring ¢ cométne 
rops 
ted 
Aud, 
thought has hitherto ens tare ve 
prod 
ital,is too -_ se it to drop into 
of the Potato, at least not sufficient t 
mh 
lya tah] 
hand s for the wan a claimant. You may depend 
ilate meee affair 5 
not uneommon, “ Oh, a Potato. ‘will grow any where p 
unt 
tlie dried obtained from the green pr d I 
arded i for : agree it will, } ply fit the t err bene 
be deemed of sufficient intere: The at perfee Raw manure is s, because spen of He pat "n an the inter- 
ention required to insure t talean accuracy need often meet er e sets in se trenches, to keep them vat of the tenant to make is invested in the permanent 
insisted on; hence, perhaps, a record, even of loose, or co to give t can, well — stiff | improvement of the estat SY aE PES 
ials, in ‘whi hall th t quite soil; w would it not be better to = e more troubl etoren-| Stati-feeding.—In your Paper 
eldt e ZET “=n Ph they | der t? well rotted farm | is an „article on s stall-feeding mile mileh osa; in whieh pam, 
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Sait better. Too much f ither ren | k nmen hink th t the y 
s | doring t the ter } T 
and leaves, to the destruction a foe main crop. The | pert cows ae on cu 9 _— only, I anr per: 
cold and wet during the last summer have no doubt been | suaded.. In saleting the extra quan of 
4 D ipal agents in fostering in, rendering | that may be kept, and the extra quantity of manu 
the Pata predisposed to generate the fungi whi t may be made, will e the in vidual al who 
now rar = ~ and "Sa h are ager A ofspontaneous | adopts this system to a P i 
zR the wire th po table to the om of the Po- | or -meal, to eac —< a In ee 
rrent io bt f arrourable to thie poe err thas the fangi | I am strongly inclined to believe that 
a a — “ing dova of being th rimary cause of all the m isebief. On open- | answer, regard being had to the health of the animal by 
d ved by Dr. Fotster him- | ing Pota which in mee appear- | allowing her sufficient exercise. You vont I am sure, 
4, Leadenhail-street. nce eo not affe found that deeay rous 
as beer vatida at myself and | h al ne extended about a quarter of 
otatoes have ser below the surface without breaking through | the perro y statements of correspond 
Pst ce aan P the skin, in me to suppose, that ro eg ae fungi | tendency to create. lees 2mm should be found fault with 
ae perce the malady to a fearful ex they a a 
big accounts FES in his theory of "m first instance sot donee unhesihy wat of the | hibit it te the bestadvantage. This qu uestion of stalls 
ence and | feeding mileh cows is one on which I should be glad to 
the darkened parts 
Potatoes plante — 
