AGRICULTURAL GAZET 
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80 THE |JANvARY 20, I 
>| a farm of a square mile, or 640 acres at a cost of 200. 5.or 10 men dig up your 10 acres ab mum 
pes ern — li vds a . " | per ar acre, or 1 800“. per mile. The machine may be deep, mixing the sdil p Eh : H 
*On this system jn tivat ion by — it is | estimated at 2 „making a total of 14,8001, which | it hollow and lo oose. Let it lie thus Pe 
dhh that a — surface of soil is the bes sid for interest d materials will be 37. annually per acre. | w ell harrow aud pulveris and level the D 
that a level surface will involve less power than an But the machine will go over the whole mile i that, as an intermediate er will not 
incline. Iti is — ao, that leer longer the n of hours, say, three times m a week that four square at this stage, mark out y line an 
the machine the more convenient will be t 1 miles estimated to one machine Reflecting pra -— into com mpar nts or narrow 
and the less the cost ‘of ert as there will be th of — miles, or 2560 acres, vex d Res h 5 feet, There 
proportional amount of heading, and, doubtless, as the med 5000 d th hine 25 T x rows E Oats t apart—the middle row 
— on, lling of the soil wi ill ta ke plac e, weigh t. 502 5 pa ‘and tota — ost 53,200L, and tota centre of — 4 feet. compartment.“ 
as on roads, to oe draug — om er things being | annua l., it does not see Á E : Oats are growing ng, be 
equal, the level surfac l be worked at less cost thas | yer of tenant farmers you Di and stir the land in 
incline, BEER. — use "n a 9 ing pe inasmuch as they can suitable — se-hoe or scu 
w come to the — of the Mls aia machi- 2 off the whole of the materials at the end of the In giving our attention to the Wheat 
7 — e out by Mr. Halkett lease, - ** more specially with the probability of a | Weedon we — not forget that it id 
ork a railway economically with the least | double c af the e extent of ground at half the oor 5 the least important part 9 
ee of fuel, it : em x reat feature in it is by its 
not deflect either vertically or horizontally. The Ls ie manifestly practical plan, doubling the — tural sources of fertility and of 
greater the pressure re the stiffer the rail must be, and | strength and pow: <3 a 1 deos nation, be suffered | mineral ingred 
e a standi ing satire upon the 
the greater must [^ the strength of the rail If 
traction be performed by the adhesion x drivin 
whecls, the greater the number of driving wheels Js with 
a given load the more the pressure wiil be distributed, 
and the * — d be the rail. chat oft cos h 
"n 
4 agricultural bodie ae amongst 
traditional names of our country.” 
LOIS-WEEDON TILLAGE. 
I WAVE said that after attending to the great prin- 
ciples of the Lois-Weedon system —— that liber rty |! 
them the oldest p 
fa 
fou 
sui table to the p 1 of grain Crops is app 
to th hem, another portion by ers me | 
r to “eat much es the capability . 
a greater n of — and to 
= 3 in they — — vo 
Ihav — ia t€ the 
a larger amount of mi 
cv of. driving wheels. which we all like to enjoy, judicious modificat 
an ordinary line of railway the wheels have a under slee caution may be admitted. But while the 
single flange in the inside, and the peripheries are in Lois- re should be followed in its integrity as 
the form of co and not of cylinders. The object of | an dieere: fact, such modifications bye e insti- 
this is to compensate for cu on the rails. The tuted a nd he ld as exper ime nts, I hav myself some- 
result is a great pressure, tending to fi tk il erent „for whil 
nd widen the gauge. For this reason strong cross ties | en enter the highest admiration of mith’s 
are essential hold the rails together. For the prieg aid would give all praise to him t he has 
of cultivation these cross ties are inadmissible, | effected, still I am not satisfied that an acre in fallow 
and therefore the wheels of the machine must be made and crop under such judicious treatment should pro- 
lindrical and with two flanges. In this mode there duce no more tha ood average of an acre fully 
will be no tendency the width of the gauge. l nor = I be till = Avr nit — on the 
“In using a single pair of driving wheels for the udo — 
TO 
pai 
g in a straight line, there sho uld ob 
of p —— 
be no rubbing frietion, provided the y |six 
of the same diameter. And whatev mber | 
ver is the 
of the driving wheels, the exactness — exist be th in 
the peripheries a e * the crank en s and — 
rods, or in the chains be sed. 
t 
rocks to s and tho 
— man. vin e then of manual 
bringing up ot hi in smaller quantities ande 
years ru h 
| Led — — — other circumstances, they have general ly 
arle ey, ye et I see not that the same 
Wheat. I 
have had 
| them in — 8. s have been 
those who grudge the expense in manual 
eu urred | by Mr. Smith to try his plan. 
Y May 
more intimate relation y the fallowed TE the 
My produc btain 
i d soon 
both. Mr. Halkett, dealing at present with 
ble which ean perm 
thi is diff- 
achines and suffi- 
— nif — oh = not 
st be in the fra 
at can be — rived, 
firmly fastened down to a 
soli d base. xí have phe such rails for light purposes in 
anent, | 
ts have ed by equi- 
T — E — 
"the —— If 14 
iper's experience, of 2 
s Mr. Aeon 8, that — rops, and 
of Wheat hav 1 1 
the soil, a aa uai of huis 
app ie : 
ies of W: 
bt all our bree vim af "thes 
of either ien or mineral subs 
except from — e 
| —— À 
row s abou it half the yield of an outside 1 row. Now, 
if this 
vae: 
Ber nothing. This may render somewhat 9 
pro: —.— — the outer rows, which a — must have 
suffered more or le he from that of the centre row. From 
this I won cor that by substituting « equidistant rows 
for triplex ones a considerable increase might be ob- 
tained. 
— e: 
D it vita je ter hel 
of - 1 
D à widen laterally, decreasing their vertical 
load increases. If he ee 
N 
not on the strength | 
n the hatitnti f 
| ones the same previous preparation 1 is required, int, as 
he land 
the necessity of exposing large d 
mineral substances to those actions which r 
soluble. 
| Methinks ro ien pe, should — 
tions to pro early and 
leaf and get; ms more keys 
9 ope ins keeping the surface so 
mit at all times the iuflow of mi 0 
e|that it may operate on — 
Ager oots. J. M. G., Granar 
PS. In Wheat after Wheat there is ru 
ae 
» 
ripe 
+} 
concrete Ii — wide. The cost is stated at 200. 
the g. and then drilled cit either by 
55 T 
green e 
h 
A 
any time the course of the rails needs to be changed 
a barrow drill, obese by the 
FL 
8 
te i 
h be done after 
her a curious he ore i that "about h 
Smith commen sn his pu that is in 
Pot ggested, as 
a self-contained rail of = strength can be 
pee cus on ‘the surface in such a mode that it 
taken away without any waste a 
aca a 
tion, a li — done 1 mou — 
— “then — throw the 
o failu y 
, | immedi te and 2 vam y of food, t 
same time giving a more rational — me 
gi 
peers than ae up roads, to 2 
0 nd removed to another the rows of n to earth iles u d t upposed stel 5 
position when required. Ifa rail be used so weak as to also leave at iie "for the sueceedi ng ore, ee = i Oats ow — ct rows 2 Prep 
VJ 
- t. rai 7 eave a drill for the seed corn at ‘itt d f 
pueri aes will be sufficien hen occur in getting in the Whea t. As soon hane ‘on 5 es —— 
weigh abou u 3 tone — wel or tee per w — — ana IN THE aid 
s this weight is esive —— it vil - esential to future development ; ino this sh Ir we wish the labourer to be anytai 
re ent to 6 p 0 ion pposing no | as soon as as possible the — = = od mere tool—if wish 
undue iel — f ——— of 6 es diameter b ork, with e — forethought, to be conscio 
kot dein siet wel amd 16 inches rok of v —— ing than — by 8 "Smith; all — piece-work must be re in all cases v 
i he | light summer hoeings or grubbings sh cable, i.e. in employments o 
8 wheel, and as i = Meri — cns nni and as they Sa Hi s fedet aud a as they hoeing Peri a mowing, h " » 
LIE sion a ought frequently ring and burning. Once ake 
m x Ibs. will be left to work the dine at | face e triable a a singe | — sii e nly be d in chance of NE. — 51 above all hi 
— them & last operation this his friable soil | omnem dem Me b^ 15 1 
E Lm -" E "fhe standiug rows bs i llc complete the ut 2 trusted to him. 
Mesue — of raction will pud — ee allt the re desired by Mr. Sith — tech: ed that the quality of 
nearly the whole force, . 6 in 25, about 23121bs, | tained without incurring an expense in al labour in, proportion as the q 
“Tf the driving w à failing or imperfect 
gine for 
beam then ke 
displays 
of e ving 
oping the 
great ingenuity, but whether the. "multipli icity 
u Tor 
ite worth whl while t to try the plan 
aga a. 60 feet may be 
ystem, which will only require 380 
ings, 
worked on thi 
yards of rail acre including headings, caleulatin 
le lect, Y 
ains yet to be su 
it; 
the common implements in e da; S 
ius cun : p veryday use — will only 
Impatience to try the Lois-Weedon n plam has, I sus- 
-— very Misi ein I Pit say almost always, led tol, 
Wheat ero: 
‘many things fo: 
1 and dius 
et 
and rael that t the rev 
mportant commencement, 
nted ; 
for the 
ur gang, then, 
E of piecework i H nid Meet 
a gratifie 
us com 
e agriculturists of the West o 
| generally p * 
is by no et certain that 
1 is r t 
tic 
sich asa : 
O — 
Raynbi sae 
Royal EECOE J euet 18) V has Mgr 
—À Le ecework that arise both 
f the mployer. 
