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"allwell gave up de. system after this, the exp 
eding 
eating 
ter the crop W. 
rin Coleman's 
completely cut : is inte: 
wards th 
el 
am sure the 
the — syste 
Bets - Cal 
reds have dri 
m from well 
Coen; fr paving aede this latter he tried 
e form 
and scuffing 
i gr an T work t the 
be don 
eT 25th. of Augu 
6th of March; rolled on the he 15th o of 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
brine "This plainly shows 34 „high estimation in 
betw — the rows of Whea 
1 143 i 
them At sang liom the Oxfords | 
he 
d Wheat was 18 inc ium 
rwards ; moulding it on 
mould 
Duchesses. At the Tortworth sale in 
sold for init (r4 $ ce the Hendon sale in 1855 0 
geri Ae 
Col ao $i in Xd quite a fake in 
The straw was 
ec 
Lois-Weedon system from —— 
up the produce. 
eit bo always scarified the inter- 
ea be, mad rui broad shares, 
m stubble 
ns forked ov - er by the five- 
d taken off, 
ee gon of usn. 
ook th 
to | the two 
— for 480, and a bul 
or 200 gu "Thes e prices suficiently distin- 
them; mee in addition to this they have — 
rably placed at the meetings of the mde 
At the first 
ord Mr. Bat 
hink 
why they r | 
be 1 eie over in . — of = ira wie horns 
ia * the late Mr. Bates. nr ry few of 
are left in England. The | ke of Devonshire and 
E — =p I N the only sons who | be 
of this breed. Mr. m 
— Ox d. oh at the Kir rileavington sa 
Duke of Sacer" — purchased Oxford 15th (ister to 
sold ai — 
His Gra 
Oxford 15th, Gu nter "bas 
operation—that shall, in fact, combine the w 
ine th 
steam with the capacity and finish of the — tai of 
„ rs? Clubs. 
N 7.—Mr. Bond, of Suffolk, read 
i RANDE -Educati, 4 
— the whole of ug c 5 Y Ez 
eek. He 
| agriculture as a prey i imitative art as compared with 
| agriculture 
“The — as been always noted fo 
* sense which, t — no — dek is fairly worth them 
mmon sense which c - neither be wo 
Abe 4 1 nor be deluded hy: dolus theory. Pro t 
bine, = — ate of Fp bt it it is necessary now to em 
— 
xi 
uem 
dor mon ‘he the 
Lr pa. m L ce i 
he 
od ful ly, — 
view, viz. T —.— "s Pong Me bors 
On Wie écquirement of right Le T in — to 
mere kn e, Mr. e el 
is from the same cow. ee 
Sotieties. 
d 
his band on and in September, 1856, he — a i ria ha rena im Saat wb de 
sowed an acre 7 Wheat. wi h 28 lbs. of drilled in me at a mistake, and th t FR 
rows 1 foot apart; and in November one acre with ing T this is Society. an —— was given vn the mparative abortion. The ro must be the ballast of sound 
Ie of 1 in broadcast, alongside « each other different modes of uem alin 2 rer to - principle, « — . — „ and right doing, as wel! as the sail 
age pu rposes, n, Professo; -power of ability." 
F r^ paid 1 hoeing of the drilled crop, mb d of Agiculture in tlie University of Elin bub, copiously | H He A ar referred to the deficiencies of local schools, 
the b apr t did not require. When thre - a illustr: -— by diagrams and models. x e importance of a thorough grounding in the 
out in September, 1857, the drill r Wilson accepted steam power as an accom- f an 2 "d gi 1 — * in a 
th plishe ms “fact. He showed the form of the ancient g M he importance 
— 2 — E — — * a en I have tend Egyptian ploughs ; of the ploughs in use. at Nineteen, | agricultural examinations ; and rr 0 — . 
An experiment on Lois-Weedon Wheat tillag which were similar to w in in Hindostan. i leaving school. i 
made for two seasons in Kildare, a dry south-eastern He also mentioned that the ploughs at present in use nd re than half the elt m te N f 
county, but was a total failure from lat wing, u- | in the South of France were similar to those which are | or five years of their r d clastic restraint. Tb — 
mulation of weeds, and from being altogether con- described by Virgil in his Georgics. Steam ploughs, he | s a thorough desultory life; they throw up all intellectual 
= E t regard to the principles or practice on | Went on to state, are not of recent invention. Twelve e to suite ae fain. gor ably tin the farm 
which inet doner; r 14 years ago a model of one of Mr. Heathcote’s was | management; but as they h ibility, the farm 
Such ha ve cos mta our attempts at Lois- Weedon prac- exhibited at the Agricultural Show in Dumfries. In occuples but little of or thelr ave Ro respon 25 but little 
en to be seen whether the | England Lord Willoughby, and in Scotland the | ‘te x pe observe but little ; and the rat-hunt, the cricket- 
National Board of Education has been ecessful, | Marquis of Tweeddale, had done much to introduce | party, the shooting ex he har 5 
There is however a Portuguese proverb poe gives us 11 ploughs s into DR EIS The first orde = with a profusi ae —— = —€—— employments—their 
some Cue p rm “Blundering we learn not to Fow ked by true business of thought an 
Wunder? And failing we may learn not to fail. that 8 Mr. ot concluded a wat — and valuable 
The di t one rN d the field, an d the engine at the other. paper, to which we shall next week refer at greater 
difficulty of uade bears strongly on an observa- 8 * 
tion I made some time ago, that from the dirty state of A steel sr wire Ripe was applied to the plough or rather len ngth, as foll 
our land and the moisture of our climate 2 gang of ploughs—the one eee ee e ham ay especial stross o inia v pair 33 w — how 
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weeds, it uld be M ek to à the 3 other downwards—an was bal nced by the weight of he hare head upon his os, om and es, an 9 o show 
— is- growing by a The saving 1 cues fe vas fom EA eg hen om: — pass through lifi life half f asleep ; but Ilo ook to habits and dis- 
cleaned ! crop, this Ta also. any young man 
sown grain Ios cing N Pe spr ing compared ith " bour. The net 8 he | Wil succeed in 3 “daily life of — — by informing 
convenient, d ibed thi f Mi Smith = "Thine wiachine dole is mind alone, he will find himself mistaken. For suc- 
Barley might be best, as being a shorter time in the CeSCribed was vum cess there must be habits of industry and of radence. 
ground than Oats. J. M. G., Granard. not only Fuge ex Št cultivates. It rips p the sod in | of early rising, of pred — of trouble in busines 
two The cost Mort tog roughly do I 5 e habit o 2 — accounts, 
was as Mr. Fowler’s, ood the sa ving it that intere g a 5525 i er 
jare 
e well, 
e Correspondence 
a, —Having been a 
many years, I write now to ask 
of Robert Bond, Kentwell, Long 
he bases his entire success 
M den 
rior food. 
— of your 
for informa- 
Melford. He 
and live at so cheap à 
consequent profit | v 
management, and md rampe caer — 
He next tells us his ew M stra 
We volvin 
about t the 
effected was 80 the same. The next two in the 
series were those of Ricketts and Todas. t the last a 
They 2 both modifications. of 
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feeders » with a 
busin 
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his Duel 
especially in 
mmercial € ch 
Own, fibres, 
ed ba to 
mi 
and if Mr. Bond — favour | 
a detailed x wg how he I cd this 
ess, beca e only st 
I, Ke. er all the rel p of ded garde 
about 30s. pe The las 
as that of Mr. Halkett, a genius in Pr rom k 
This consisted of a perfect railway—60 feet between 
the rails—laid down over the fields, vand on this railway 
se 
was worked a couple of e —— 
carried a plough, a sub-soil plougli, a watering appa- 
ratus, à ped of hoes, and lastly, a platform on which a 
number of people might sit p 
other — — with ease. In short, n machine pe 
ing 3 
neously. The! rofessor concluded as fol lows :— 
lanting or performi ng qu 
thro capacity to e dogs. d 
know that there p more ES “situation in life than m 
3 to fill d emi re good opportunities than men 
HEXHAM: Autumn Cleaning of Fallows.—Mr. Lo- 
raine said the usual plan of commencing | to clean the 
Whee ic pay ing 
T s i + 4311 
necessary. 
mutton mn wool ? 
t EE 
x A MEE S 
a certain quantity ‘of loose work done by the horses, to 
plough = land with as deep a a hold and as broad a 
value al. details practical r 
the Feber, 5 flesh ee 
ripe 
ail I the kd 5125 have from time p time aided in 
- | revolutionising the agriculture of our untry, | I ha ave 
of strong horses can pull—indeed, 
put i in three horses for that — 
a furrow sli 
a pair 
pube ‘farmers even 
principal modes of applyi ing t the power of steam—that 
~ the 3 traction engine and the locomotive 
Each its strong and its weak points—the 
power e byt the „traction in the one is hong. 
eet ^r a or 12 wide, s from 6 to 8 deep; consé: 
e 
o a consi ba. and most of the annual 
seeds thus pl laced are beyond the action of "the sun and 
absorbed b 
and shed. The Stes d ar 
tke cultivated. soil, the geeet engine s comptes in 
unders 
you and 
ver the ground twice at least to effect. .Betwee 
plough and the spade—ploughing and E 
ere is an | important difference ; and her 
l 
nr 
» Stock House, near 585 Fort. 
r. Smith’s 
am sure is unin- 
which he 2e of 
es, 3 he 
bes not m 
using * Belvidere” Mr. Lex never | 
ion the | ing the 
ess cows with any bulls except the 
we w.: 
much as cultivation that rocess 
pee four, 
e | crops is co 
irse A of the roots besides a a, 
Le, = to the surface, 
3 more inte 
xc Tired. th 
Ae: “implements r^ requir —the 
harrow. compl ete work 
then i — engineers ne cone up all i 
ill-assorted union between them er d the gone 
bec keep their attention fixed on the a 
cnof a machine that shall complete “ts work in one 
"m are 
nes ond 
f 
h, | fact, with all the pain 
with good men, women, 
take, he seldom can get 
