WE THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETT E. _[Janvary 99 4 
En the 10 they might probably have be 
The following 808, the imports during distinguished, yet for our — Er 
extract extract tho — — which will be inter- 
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QUANTITIES OF THE PRINCIPAL ARTICLES ja dis | Mie) 
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ARTICLES. 18448 | 1849 | 185 1851 | 1852 | 1853 NN UTE a 1856 Em bau 
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> | 5 9| 482,514 447,266 518,802 | 441,500 Content 
puis come] e e e e , IP mu 
ae D 4 38, 812, 008 | 3,060,268 | 4,915,430 | 3,431,22 2, 5| 3,437,957 | Moor 
e Ma... . * 48405 800578 1181 800 4.281.303 | 3,581,461 | 3,992178 | 3,419,271 | 3,061,539 s v 420 | 8,107,225 | i 
Other kinds "rl (24449 | 6459 | 881944 218005 3,865, 178 | 4,621,506 3,646,505 | 1,904, 178,148 | M u 
Wheat E oute. 3,104,419 | * — á 18,508 | 8,955 L5 6 | 16,5 58,656 18,094 21,967 6,028 th kar 
2 2 5i | — * 
. Vo. 88,012,585 | 97,745,849 105,689, 060 | 115,5: 20,245 | 108,281,233 | 123, 450, F E — "s € 1 po) 126,818,600 | that jg 
,4 d. . cwts.| 1,463,661 | * — po 918 | 1 203 — | 1, e — 1 EF n 305061 91.501 rea 
— er. 1 1,061,808 | 1,048,635 | 1,298,412 1,008155 12612 wa] or 09855 INE d Bto 
toes à t j | 36,771 773,619 1,133, 2 55,057 | 
m 3 arsi 88 . pil | * 28105 io 785 161 | 2 | 987,813 | 1,504,699 | 1, m 2,288,108 3,692,001 3,416,557 | Mars. 
KE IR | ,627 | 31,828 327,150 31,481 | 23,670 19,477 : : 900 a 
— — bie nitro  .. ewie| 515070 — 560.94 | 529,012 | 495,007 565,58 641,014 | — 893,344 KENT. AL 808,646 andwelln 
x MOREM ra | 99,813 130,954 | 93,649 184,567 124,629 214,695 141,114 178,698 y 171,585 | 
Flax nd Lise. UO OU T 799,050 626,495 | 008,984 | 603,471 799,402 | 1,035,335 828,513 756,951 | 1,180180 | 1,051113 | turf alm 
rwn dne * Aum 29,480 | 107,020 _ 822,394 146,230 86,815 | 103,155 162,358 264,920 18 possible 
Total f timber, n jlit | 817,909 868,179 | 1,102,069 ——4 1,180,135 1,216,2 908,514 | 1,081,223 | 1,178,689 | G 
Total o em sawn oF - 809,783 | _ TO4,178 | 1,000,708 1,345,308 1202, 401 934,579 | 1, LS 12970800 lh 
. TA lamb and n Ibs. | 10,864, 847 | 76,768,047 | 74,826,778 | 83,311,975 93; 61.485 | 119,356,449 | 106,121,995 | 99,200,446 | 116,211,392 | 129, 749,398 di 
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T. fc a cu SO CRE ATI M 
But — 2 —— figures there have to be — E err 64,103 tons in 1856, and 23,741 tons tritious, and thus indicate a E. m n 
with 
from 5000 9000 ewts. of cheese e exported, an Mw the Carices å Sedges whose a natural 
oe lapadh 60,000 to 90,000 quarters of When, a mporary gives umber of other s ever the moor or the he eath 
and 80,000 to 100,000 ewts. of flour annually, | most instructive sh cen the recent rapid peculiar to the more or less s 
ther wi quantiti f the other increa of trade and manu- | whilst others are favoured 
articles named, before the exact quantities added eaters an g 1 of impor Od. ture. The list is one of the largest of 
to our home consumpti ine We add to the figures already extr -— a table groups, 6g numberin 
The re-exportation of gua owever has showing the quantity of recorded sales o f Wheat, are probably less dependant upon soil opal 
3 is from 20,000 to 60, 000 tons annually ; | Barley, and Oats during the past 10 years. or mere geological or 
QUANTITIES OF BRITISH WHEAT, BARLEY, AND OATS, SOLD IN THE runc AL MARKET TOWNS IN Bis the absence of cultivation 
ENGLAND AND WALES, IN EACH YEAR. ing sheep upon a portion and ing 
| 1848 | 1849 | 1850 | 1851 | 1852 | 1853 | 1854 | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 rollers, treatment wi de ls j 
arters. rters. | Quarters 
Wheat 5,390, 884 (| Yass, 088 083 bt oy anon Mie 2889912 913.25. 957 prs 874 C 46,79€ 736 92 243,940 parto erede — these Grasses, when À 
Barley 4M 737 2,099,821 2,235,271 | 2,333,710 | 2,389,489 2,474,206 | 2,267,997 | 2,608,862 | 2,078,936 2.202 733 | ones, Which in soil however bad and 
Oats 10228761 '851,080 | 866,082 940,006 | 947,500! 890,408| 705,488 810,688 701,150 637,364 | will still have a remnant left, immediatch 
to dev elope their powers, mom 1 b 
b 
Ix considering the a ioultural 3 of Kad et the species absolutely of use 
British QT. we CD per comm Mine: i ote as that at id sth tne yis can not incidental to e cultivation, 1 like 4 the 
better than by arranging mM in groups inii: busdly be believed. If however we iem m a set of Grasses, but oe uneulti 
f * a the nature of 2 and circumstances few penis on the cda as laid dow the | waste places only to give up their "P 
E rg Table, we shall be in a better position for pers ca g emi skilltakes antep And ye 
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a bae or less complete list of Taf genera . Pastu —— occupy the first column, and have aided in fill 
of our native Grasses, in such a manner that we iis we see $45 sist of 15 genera, eMe into 
ean see at a glance the iibi of species which | 24 species. de in pro ity the senem 
, 
tonishment and be ready to GR 
conditions, which the species of even a M suis species of Grass in England of ool 
small genus are marked. | past ture d iem nswer will be :—Search if mit : 
It should however be remarked that as yet we | yo of land for a high prerogative to till the so 
are ys in possession of sufficient informat tion to | manent pasture, iow dor: n of. these would you food and increase, yet in reality Natum 
say that an ticular allocation is absolutely | employ. Again if we look over the species waste, no void, and just in proportion asm 
m ‘nor indeed are the specto limits of the contained in " ‘pea meadow, we see the list of vate, so have we cultivative results, Y 
t all 7 — , yet - Table will| Grasses making up the true Grass part of the jd tends to wildness, 
ha principles | herbage to be ridiculously small—small almost ater Grasses.—Though th 
connected with the subject, id which will be|in proportion to their goodness, and though the but small, „yet they constitute an im 
eee dwelt We list would be greatly augmented by adding the section; Bes 
or Barris Witp Gnas. | Dames of MÀ plants to whieh the term Gr under common circumstances the 
—— is — — y applied, it is a question whether a — assa. prevails, For at 
8 a ROS .|g |g$|meadow is not the better for being Grass simply, Poe d the year they are of no 
“Forty G —— 18 is E E: Bem and whether the — of Grass, which is but their trailing method of growth a 
ala i — Es | abs MK the growth o other pg ever | herbage Ne er. $ 
pe | ale eo fer di a i mischievous in stopping up w 
3 — Adela abs important element of quality. . . thatrea Dna Ek of wate 
Alopecurus ..  . E EE GE 2] 2 A Grasses. — : 
„obo KKK 
Tagurun F have as constant attendants some kinds or other Ben de e that wi 
Phalaris -II i. i]... orf Grasses — the species differing not so much sti wil not n : 
Polypogon m Ye Pl ä ith m en » ith the soil, Thus ts whi f 
J a sand, clay, or limestone subsoil can at once instituted upon the Pas laris du 
. amid very great changes or |@2uation, and P. fuitans have A 
Rottboellia .. DTI TOL the of certain species of but im mportan nt res 
Los ERES i 1 d these are forms that have tracked m hes pn when ege 17 7 grow 3 
Digitaria : pum : the farmer into very ote regions, Englis ee 
2 2 1 Couch, Fiorin, Hassock, and other Grasses being been Ls ult i 
ana Oboe cares Rd: to North A mdi, er 5 
.... "IR PIT This list is somewhat larger than the preceding, | dwelt y 2 5 E at length in a future 
Ama .. Ero MS ils being 26 species, belonging to 16 genera. They can become, 
bb ce i diy be'Ganaidered ae ey if Grass is would have it to becom 
Hide — 01 ames PEE tant! ee de e hough they are | vated crop, iti is is of = much i 2 
Arbenatherus 1 „„ 2242; constantly being attacked in various ways, yet the principle u ich new 
Hierochlockees fi. e S ROF Be | from the little known about them and their these cai asst a nc d. suitable for di 
9 9 . s n history the very mechanical means uitis 1 E es 
Arundo * genios us gs for their eradica tend to their greater! develope new forms of or o 
FFP ² ˙.(e dE (nado St bonita, the sodi of — r 
. 4-131 2794-253 pue just those that the farmer is constantly sowing, grow on the perum the list is 
idm M muda them in th fr, consisting of 14 gener 
ee AN AS ee 3 441 id. Qu —Thi | these probably choose their 
Dems n 2 T3222; à |distinetliet, many spesiasof Grose eng us pred ote, purely silicone conditions v 
. eth abi wd acre cobus ,many geet Grass see: | pertain ; others in all probability 
Bromus 3 Eb t, to which indeed they often add e i j 
pa rA R 1 in a most fei ey often their choice by atmospheric causes? 
es. 1 j z s c ha ost efficient manner, Tn such situations they | this may be, few Grasses are more use? 
ER | 24} 96! 14 | ort 7 | 1 I ie n remarkably well, but none of the wood than the marine forms, being unif 
15 ple mn atüongst ther Mobs teal Grasses grow so well even ee ren of Eo NA. and rough ; those howe ver Wit ae 
the highly interesting one that in a country pre- | to be sown i their uses in binding together 
minently pastoral, and in which jani onm so | which - ~~ = elds between plantations plantations, the j t à of the low shelving beaches 0 
rtion of our soil we have yet — 40 — Wood Meadow 3 Ph. k the habi 
.. [tere e pega flay wal er Re 
r 4 Mone a sufficient to show us how 
Heath Grasses.—These, though conditions to which the several 1 
