s THE 5 GAZETTE. [JANUARY 8, 18 
dificult to determi ality and to ensure that ds the first position everybody may, however, be readily ascertained, w Wheth; 
ulk b un i was. un is = tis * Uses 8 in the € a matter for the buyer of seed for planting 
bes whether it be grain or sugar, wool or cotton K a * of Flax to ry heavy, an "tà cake-crushing, and w ji ave called attentie 
su ject wing the amoy 7 
| dilution probably seldom the re sult of deli f 
e, | ma 8 
ately | flower garden," it is too often d a 
the quantity which changes hands. Possibly the | most disappointing in its results from a pauci ity 
** cental” may not be everywhere considered 2 the * of Flax both in fibre and seed, and a great increase 
corn trade the most convenient unit of quan of weeds, many of which are left as a pm al 
armer 
A carefu 
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by which to buy and sell ; but that e erigi legacy to the Flax growing farmer. That hese a 
t e 
ultimate tely be univers: ally guided by weight | things should be so will not su e 
alone, MEM to a sample pr riced accor rding to will take the i to analyse such , sainples of 
= y, we have not a doubt. may wn them Flax market, 
see 
We have to announge the recurrence next 85 _ in ‘order to put ‘his m: atter in as Ear a light 0 
we ce give — an ex- 
. n Lof a sam kl e of Flax »- ‘which 
May of the Society of Arts’ 
e lately | w 
took direct from a cake mill, where it was l 
ing 
Agriculture is one of their subjects. Ther re were 
in 1856 — candidates for the Society's certifi- 
or 0 
this elass. A 1857 there were two, and in 1858| The following table is vus. up & rom an exami- 
there were none! It is announced that no paper nation of 2 ozs. by measure of the Flax as we 
of questions will be set on this subject, unless be- — took it up. Now this table acquaints 
uneil of the Society i 
ring 
| and if this should result i in a demand for 
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the tint of the fluid was more cerulean than 
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it as we require i 
ful examination may, however, deta j 
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MANGEL i iiem CROP. 
fore February 1st the of the Society is ~~ — m the we: ect of th 1 crop is 
informed that 10 candidates are id M^ nt them- . Number g. f very great paiio = the A pe 
selves for examination. The Institutes in union Lies the follow- e d. S7 g Remarks. of th a: and as it is a 
i he Society are not the mos — S large share vini as shown y the m 
channel through ich to reach the agricultural | Sinapensis ins | 992 24 (Probably other Mus- queries. addres sed t : 5 
; but it is — possible that if any gen- E > p tards also. 
tlemen in the different’ localities * — of 40) | * 1 — 22 | a | i | “not in most loci of interest to some of the rears x your Jom 
wher ere these e amination are to be conducted will The * of the various sorts of mov 
makin * wn the nature me et reges, 3s | fom he past year, as the el be 
Various ^ undeter- ] Millet, and hence a dee was x — — : admit that the 
as ten candi- | mined weeds. } 00 we dilution of the seed | not h t to b 
— “should — piens tienes The exami- but not of the cake. ee vidi monsters in — p d which. T ta 
nati iil a mb f the h 3 1 100 Probably derived from exhibitions of farm pro yis ana which, elieve 
3 N 3 ery the Flax roots. retty generally med — d do not a 
Iture as . — th “tie ence of tillage | great — e dinary manuring 
operations and of manures upon fer he — 236 ent e often thought (and if I m taka 
relations of food to animal growth, and so much | us with the startli t that h j s. becoming pretty general) Tha in 0 
of the practice ok agricult is included in the | seed " = ini a be botl — 
t prin cipal crops and the manage- | as four . — seven Be and . weeds to 
ment of the principal domesticated animals. the pint, in epo — enough to stock the land, 
A properly authenticated certificate of excell- p^ cleaniy may have been previous ly 
ence, proficiency, or competency in knowledge of f ed; and i not unusually the case, 
these subjects will Dyas pe be of some use here- the — — mh odds er (Cuscuta epilinum) 
after to a young man, and we hope that some of the | should e Mau them, no yas Mme: 
readers of this | catenin will take pains to make ment as to the result should rend 
the — ia s of it Au farmers: say a ‘casualty crop,” and consequently 
roots. 
Ishall 
for a well cultivated and gener ally md — E 
extent than holding out inducements to grow 
spend so much of their time in raising a few ji 
now proceed to detailas concisely as possi 
mode of ma — ent adopted in the culvatond 
crop on this Pam 3 may premise that the 
in limesto i and the divi: 
the fa arm 
on viie, the Mangels were grown il 
— of about 33 feet. 
add here that the Society of Arts offer of which remuneration is uncer even 
— r gold "e D medals for essays and reports uino texte out of ae uestion the subject 
subjects, among which are the fol-| of f fouling = exhausting th sor 
lowi 8 Why th will not the Flax gn ower purchase 
arta or mane production of cyanogen compounds in the good. and — seed ? It can be got if he will pay 
the theory and practice of fermentation, par- for x: ; but A he prefers the example before us 
tical a as Trà to the art of brewing. x , | bec use he can purchase it at a few pence less, 
onte oce noe p 1 hat N chat little trouble should be taken b 
as t he seed ; for in thi i 
di 
pom 
ethod of converting precipitated or extracted 
i 
= a dry state valuable for agricultur sc da cireumstances, the difference in price 
i 2 D 
— 
e direct m to a paragraph in ME the seller; III e 55 
by seed ?—and yet he should do ave 
arti the a ie in depot oe on his aide; the 
Cotton seed—a distinction that must be carefully um being as follow * 
borne in mind. Hy 
NT n 8 gd et ome eh We ae = ME 2 2360 
t of separated seed 2080 
De ec. uS 
inches in 
| with the o 
8 inches, 
subsoil on 
pair 
a a — — ough, turning a 
— — was flowed by 16 of the pupilsd 
rdinary spades 
wi same time ore m a que 
nds own 
Pa 
iously well prepared, and when applied 
time of Sal the crop, it was in a ic 35 i 
| only as many drills SEa as could be manured, di 
By "- 
the freshly made “up aril. pe 
eni 
PUTA ES which assures us that “the best | Vie id 
is ever the — pest ” ig; generally as true of 2. The figures just quoted forcibl yp t th 
— other produce. We | urgency of our second ion, for in investi- 
have frequently protest ted against the glaring | gating KR, we hav ~ 1 into considera- 
the 24th 
| rain 
absurdity of purchasing cheap sed always dirty its uses a tle . 
and s i manne —. In this eaii of seed we ag ave a large propor- 
a source of wi tivation to be tion of Mustard seeds; — are me ee gr to be af farm 
afterwards atoned for pene labour; and not only n ig of foo] value lutely |9 owt 
we would now direct the attention of poisonous to — and Wan selene M sm 
te 
readers to another phase of this 1 —.— subject qu antity here fo und would not be productive of E. 
all 3 was s 
far EN manur em ; the drills were then made up 
of quem equal importance to the thinking € — — 3 Ue fely affirm th 
and eare culating farm erp ve SE its simis | 
Wem oi] my Tr yan Due: 
E 
Among the plants of agrieu hich me 
are daily into i iocari impo rt Me "here is connection with the dirt and st only 
perhaps none that su ax or Linseed ; | come to the conclusion that t rsa ed crusher, who 
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its fibre being valued the ae of à fabric no doubt buys this at a les cost than he would 
for which the sister island is justly celebrated, | purer seed, is a loser y the transaction, if s 
its seeds yield the useful Linseed oil, and their only in the matter d m 
remains are brought to the farmers? matket ih the|more loss would he wm if cake was pro- 
shape of flatten he title of oileake. | perly tes i ut her 
: uld hardly have is 
wmm e discussion as to its capa- is immensely in and a greater servi 
for eultivation, and as a result, it in| sli hardly be dip m than the po inting out |" ut 
with ; e easy and — by. which. — might 
driest season. The sowing of the crop comme 
f Mayi 
s havi 
The manures rd per statute acre were 
om ard dung, 1} of Peruvian g 
alt 
| the double monld-board plough, the guano at the 
with mo i 3 
I 
ce (but 1 not quite close together) for ime 
o yo" over them at the second thinning th 
promising plants s are peer out. This -— d. 
" additional i 
m on the drill. . from 12 to 15 
wo > hand d hoci ings and three drill grubbings, at 
of April 
ng interrupted the so wing for an en 
ewt. 
wn over the drills after spre: 
nal expense The distance be 
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stems: than later er sowings, but the latter will 
arly sown cr ‘op is more liable to 
à ateror n 
Scotland, and Ireland; but probably the 8855 at bet teste sted, at 
which we grow it has precluded the necessary | © characters, a eves which ki od best be handled | » 
: of profit to render it remunerative, and so by our learned friend Profes —— 
most of the Flax fibre as well as seed used in It will [s that cake yir 
Man E the 
Great Britain is derived from foreign sources. before us — pu sweet to the tast iesto cid smell, ai sim 
e what we more p articularly wish to urge indeed, as we happened to fore sae it, we can testi 
the present occasion may be summed up in the at: it Was Pe to look at, so much so that neither 
foloving g propositions :— rd Ae va of the seed nor the subsequent 
5 ax is not so remunerative a as it ought to | One 0% the resulting cake, were we at all prepared 
bes because seed is i. echa its | for the result which our seed analysis Tine | | 
. cultivation ; and strated. At the same time all examinations which 
sm — € be priced strictly in accordance | We have been enabled to make of py wae kon 
— its feeding val ue, — — 2 5 not the | cially of foreign sa samples— convince us that th 
t will be preferred in its production. bare immensely impure. The sum of this im impurity 
able 
Parc se 
| been a regular practice on this 
sace as de of your ee soom 10 
of this course, I subjoin 
ot of ody bec never th dle abo are of. 
Red 
The Beim, of ^ portion of the ieri 
| feed — . — om this source, a 
this farm hav e shown) with very 
* Correspondents would oblige 
samples of Flax seed they eM — A 
ich, «eee zh they con 
Lo invariably find the Long 
run to se 
