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_THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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w inters and maist ikonik or severe w. oye and very | ry | I a always ys drilled on a stale fu 
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occasionally yi 
ba that toes pe alter the general average rule 
he rows. I 
er the ground is dry, for t he purpos 
and facili tating the escape o 
Shole Am 7 feet 2 Aas ae: hid on vial two | f: 
Å disturb deeply 10 Jl 
he t shall u p 
THE 
to both thick 2 thin sow- 
#4 b nia man ci ) 
CU LTIVATION 
HEAV Y 
OF ROOT CROPS ON 
LAND. 
seuffler, without: naan at ae I 
looked over the field see oe a root crop very eare- 
fally's ya. out with ree-grained every 
blad Couch tha ee after the land 
ad ce ce got into cain, as by no means 
| either a teary, ath or pe epes jobs 3 never exceed. 
ing, as I before observed, acre. te ground 
bet thas 
repared, at sap earli 
ou. 
wy 
WE are 
r strong 
now 
ia tenacious ~> for es growth 
of root 
g ‘he rakin of 
jange ofair by perestation and evapo- 
- whilst the warm night are in summer 
sited into the open | cinta purrs e. Unless 
done thin sowi ove a failure. 
e horse-hoe Should eae gia succeed. such 
eee Me cite ay be necessary between the 
It isa hr corrdborative fact paat A 
pode aad likewise to what extent the pati of 
: such so -I belie 
mg 
ve agh every fnn so as equal 
g previously well o open ned out the old furrows in 
aa = =a I stay 
dung ; and spre: 
e manure by carefully shaking 
ith 
ly 
„I poise iarrann 8 to plough it ‘into ridges of 
J 
r 
d Wh heavy 
d), sath looked b an the TA. duri hat Ni comes y 8 p Ja i a t 7 inches. 
ing rains turned y Slow, which I attribute a ac puzzling pose “Can eat f th Lg m A siget: 
9 our ban unalle to horse-hoe between the rows Bp paneer ee ae P nehate a aieru onc 
A thin ed dijlled, which had been horse- hoed, pockets, nd ulti inj nye to the land i” Som dful, a ym roller lengthways and across” the 
dt ago inl seufiler to work len y 
Ne wher ra ’s_dibbling machine altered Nig 
7 feet 2 ine ng es, fe Taa taok 
Nrin, or if i had pene to it at all, it would ewe 
of the 
usclessness and 
use 
pay so. as to to 
S any 
me 
I am not aware YN wa 
folly of 
Ë the 
í 
and then put the wa 
pen nih wiary anita, cutting the whole surface about 
2i ine ches in depth, | and | thereby destroying a, multitude 
attemp 
we sere discovered a , mode ‘of, E taking a nile and stacking 
ro 
ploughed. The dung ploughed i in befo 
ore 
Nothing: ie 
her ‘ea for ‘the "yellow appearance of the dibble d away th s whe: en arri ived a map sturbed and well covered. 
o ease hei 0 be done till the a EE planting 
: ao hoeing, the spring : ve also p the resi das of e expe- | the Cabbages and the Beet r for drilling the 
bensable with S R but eck erioa Wheats riments earefully tested ‘and duly registered, found out Swedes 35 at whic h time the s was again put 
heavy land: being keoply. rooted, they ar fall | depth'o of the fur- 
ya a surface of a ee | supply of oxy gen, | warm and dry, \ will thrive faster. and with less food than | row, now pretty well mellowed ving the pram tar ent 
I must further acters ing the soil. By these means ‘T'ha 
ark likewise that the ve i of moist clay soils ia ia to produce t the requisite fie tilth ; at 
lig ght or mellow soils there is no such risk. In (which nde were, from r been com pelled to to sow the es twi 
soils all corn HSA Ag dibbled ; but until I have face w te) i ll ; i lant 
f trying dibbled W g y OF fl attac x fae the fly; I have “while ‘the dew was on the 
KORKI , I am ho prep t b ied on t d d with- | young ‘Turnip, dusted them with fine c slaked lime ; 
whether dibbling with the machine in a | this I cof vate ys found a eom iplet A sacked The 
advisable on heavy lands. a am | for if ple it will not be onset I am sorry | roots hav carted off the | 
g is to be p d to dibbling, if we | that I am the result of Bu, own ps oes the y bo Geamediately prepared drilled with 
a et ‘ted ‘Spr ring ant cannot use the horse hoe experience, facts on which you might safely pr roceed, Wheat, aren with „the mae ye tome be it has got 
acently ) t that I shall 1 white st rop, to be planted in 
Sdified as t nts and s sugge estions for FA adoption or rejection. the spring. 
‘and coneytenty percolation, and the internal The ese I leave. to your be yer adinen nt, and to the test |_ Phavenow told y I know and have practised 
of ‘air, unless the surface is 5 Heaneniy of pe in the growth of rt crops on my land, as grounded on 
by cultivation. rained He y land the 
k the 
re EEAS and e 
will commence then 
iy telling you what | I did 
surface 
or solidified, the internal T far a farmer anda grower of ir ass and you may No doubt yo W 
fend ‘to the drains fia! aa Mlustration, quid wil take me as an example to avoid: shun my errors, | you doinot will again, in all inner in the 
w out of a cask un MH , being aware of the great péra ntage of a| mire. P I 3 lea 
the vent peg. Th he pe the roots the es s |pieatifal supply o of roots as food eiei „stock during fingers imthis “matter, an e et 
hs, wh -e to sa i ranket en 
tay be admitted- that, } ele land into ing many years sin weenie a he $e ow: ih my 
feces hr sight parts, taking as f favour; which were fd against me. Limagine that 
drought, stant cracks l , Whea 5: Cakap and Beet, Oats, eee possess more ‘knowledge and experience’; ee 
thee ans of eae exténsive Guide and or velnes; A las Siy Wheat ; thus a fourth. of my A the heavy clays is now well u derstood’; a greatly 
3 ble l as annually producing a root erop. js Aprov ved miethod of ‘storin ngt _ root erop is practised ; 
only wet ones, which cause loss by | went on for abi ; I grew roo od. ones, and plen s reckon upon feeding 
sila” T id crops. Bet even last ya I spay of them ; but ho’ Sy ene they j be got off on jana, A ri he? ‘Turnips as as they grow) i a necessary part of the ‘of the 
thin crops being the mó st productiv ive, on, wel Leul, that time we thoroughly draine ned 2 I will tell u ho w business ; and Mr. J Morton, by 
tt by the Ten aie hr. at l 
hy siz hink of feeding them off where they were can be fed in 
We i ioy eae a Kihai i ee od grow ing i quickly, with ‘es eb aaa would have 
yi Pat sort is aus of Hera, 110 
so Ip 
ulle ed them and fetched. them Aaway i in Saua as t 
d open‘ peia fold. 
hted fr 
also RR 
r Or pry at ins heats 
ther 
wW: 
“a say I got 
You tinto the mire 
but: this was not all, for as ae season adyan 
when the spring crops of Oats and Rocke were, to be 
I did so most leeran, 
_ Now, gentlemen, matters standing sis, p confess 
time to alter course of cropping: ` 
Arable land 
way 
mu 
amen be ae not ‘only to free grod 
above some 
Si 
er, as well’ as isin he 5 pring. 
ji 
ibe lent grain | was cones o NA a rat 
r 
D 
ter 
ir upward growth 
me the su bsoil, out of t t 
ought, E thers are pik roots to Wheat a 
and a 
oot however, like to allow „myself t o b 
ii Bites 
red fit 
ut also by the ticodactial of roots, w 
tal ae b n crops, be made eapable ot ca ig 
a large stoc’ s ant or penes ri n t consider ' that sys- 
an exa ample, ra Tease on Sa yi be followed. i did 
Corr tahr iii 
ood for man and “beasts 5 
5 suas’ 
efed by a 1 
winter for 1 my ope I change 
the 
mt of this’ autumnal rolling, mar 
ht land Wheats i z 
44 è fro Bois chy 
horth ‘side of the Gi 
fo ei me to- iy. that ¥ A 
aa hav 
= Wheels Had‘ 
ous. 
Y: sponse 
wint tf bee 
d the roots $ es ba 
ey farmer aie Most 30 
which 
neig! 
The or ieia ining pi 
and also, being tolerabl; 
hee been to the 
ly so 
the ld previously 
again 
his ain, I Sorga no eae to 
full as 
ed my, course of cropping, 
arable land I at that 
rege that st 
age yy l in’ succession * this ‘is the 
d the reenter of all good husbandry, 
from ; it is oe fo 
in ntroduee 
be e perm 
aadal ànd t 
vought sr = ~ pres omy si 
and 
eiet e ever nto an 
of mner Vetches. „ On 
mplain of my crops, 
on Ae those of. my 
ieces situated near the homestead, | 
und land, they having been 
of his xp a my 
adhered to; a e a and the 
“for if this were sei 
t might also be į 
of removing a 
minds of m 
Singa es 
in "the n 
Gloucester, aga 
land; whi 
tills age 
ed i ina et Autumn A 
might be use i although sieh land 
easa, Trop, 5 
with y 
eas I could, 
jas success as to their piirne sound. _ This plan Ihave) 
J 
straw or corn 
white ero 
tnt pt off at we conve 
ps. oats, I have 
nience, e Ea as dry 
dth 
ajat lar 
ji ce 
and ha 
eh, 
Ww ould ae sa tenant the l 
I can show 
} rom vilats 
ap: 
and which at that- tim: 
press 
S t gee ] years. are now very a A 
AN] t i apt ey Ai never been over driven, are 
r w, each kernel, g of considerable, advantage to my winter . 
x hy É a h tity of land bei ing amall not, fitted for being return pasture, 
tr “Sa my iy tard ar toe v by te i Tate Toan have. icon heart than ex pag ote 
Ronit. ri bl d to withont difficulty. Fj you will say ve rumi 
r piar the mos TA EP nae gi W whole a ; having | subject proposed, and I gees r 
y be eee of 80 E alwa; ops 5a roots and corn. next) ese doing, or papaes tek 
h pha lif By. havin eat a file o or 
Up eae Aes and. ab- oer un Bt To of ee ving ream eg 
ot ering or branchin, ing’ of fap them clean at a small expense, by. forking a arie fint, drained 
—that branchin little Couel y ther i 
vig AVe ‘and any one rth Meas Faa e opted ints = wide, a one 
a: wi - | directi . of ys at it intervals oF 8 
kan: S0 owing? frequent: deep, frill pa aig caki erop, and in al te years. the, rige corn — a i nmin eee of the'f ——S re 
Atn] absence of f weeds, oecasio; onal sin, js | are usuall a in ihe fos und bei: ‘ed with the or 9 and ennai va so 
tare, if radon Th hot of wich quality, or the pian oegi withon vhs ee ae yaad I had | ing pepe ame Seepra = resi 
ee haliga ST eraa was ores -This I effeeted | It is my intention to set out these lands afresh, 
«6 i "afer the” following “As soon a8 my winter pe ae ots we done the- others) no sg ot 
ht peculiarity of deasome, si ad mild growing | Vetches. were iñi 
‘Wheat. sowing finished (which | 8 yards in-width, 
