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Ocroser 22, 1859.) THE GARDENERS’ . CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTRE. 857 
Sach crops, they succeed i in getting g crops of To: which, je le and row in the same boat, sowing as much as} farmers w 
bly well as I can . on a large e, I can E — d oem because it should “ — the weeds," 
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but the time is come that we must secure means to | of 1001. per annum by the rag A 2 nie sow 
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- te patches of it I spea s m bene uen A Ma down: > Author ade — 
f was also the aed of leaving land to rest much if not entirely obr iat ed. If Wheat, | was 22 for a flock of f sheep, but he kept none, as i 
* sowing Grass seeds. In this district I M not Wilter Being, A Oats, or re to be ide for them. are, be all eat off 
believ e there is such a thing as a field la id out without fallowed lan after early es vu Beans, Peas, &c. sown in the autu imn, and if 
~- ften inferior seeds no doubt, | the land sh d be — well ploughed, and perfectly bi j^^ Tarai he was obliged d —- — off the land 
mere sweepings of lofts, vi still better than te and repeatedly comminuted by Bentalling or scarifying, | instead x feeding them on it, re! would be a 
and, as I said before, Clover and pro seeds | also by harrowing, and lastly by rolling, all under one | spoiled ! by the rabbits and ha 
D are largely Successive corn forse) from the same | Operation, or at one time, not later than how end of July ed ik in one year damage 
land have greatly diminished in frequency. The better | or Seblaning of August, thus obtaining a beaut iful | was don to the peor e s by 
— — 4 do it in this case, viz, where the first tilth or seed bed for all kinds of indigenous and ung Chesnuts and the young growing 
is Potatoes after Grass, the second is Wheat, and | spontaneous meg to cepe in, as if it were for . That instend of a poor ma n walking home 
the. third ‘Oats or Barley, with Clover | and seeds ai. ma tender annual flowers to be sown in 
"at, ud grow Carrots as well pry a few 
er is univ eli and largely grown. The 
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— this evil, in order to ag nt with those that do gladly PAY double my | 
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When the ua — every ger Shoah Be be possession, his de kept 
l exhansting course than—1, Lea Oat ee tatoes ; | brought into requisition to undance of — t hie confinem ent — 
3, Wheat with — aud the Wheat dats s bette m time Li Hh their seeds, to | county rates—an en ds fornia, Me ile ak by any 
-— has — o previous oro en Oats, ed the| be fed off with sheep at haelmas time, or to be of the tenants on Be release. calculated that a 
seeds do better with Oats w lul than with Wheat. | ploughed i in as i md fod fort — Wheat plants. In | rabbit spoiled ten tim oe or he eat, and 
— g! e with Potatoes | fact it is — extravagan nure for "the weeds | eat ten times more than he was worth. Are landlords 
id ad Terni ‘A man in whom I a — | before the su mer ploughing, ins tend of for the Wheat | | ne thus preserve to the injur of t Ta AL d of their 
Lr eap — in this — hiefly to in autumn, as they will germinate — their country at per representa- 
farme The provement in cattle is d belie, | in more abun dance, and at no — whatever, We inve | E ives for an — county ? — myself 
t as full of a set of 1 d at ti ted aft what To A Sma 
largo. Be aded, hard- bided, brindled stock, whose only one of our early crops, 80 N e covered with anuring run do What is the best manure 
merit was that they did not die under t 1d he progeny of many | for meadow land vu ing Rr ia to water for 
and exposure they underwent. Now the stock would years’ sowing nc no doubt, that we are ashamed our brother | irrigation, of 8 cost, that will proc we the most 
bear comparison with those of many parts of England , but we i pra regard it| Grass, I now top-dress my meadow with six cart-loads 
a beautiful crop, and anomalous as it may oe, of farm- -yard manure per acre every sprin ng o f the year, 
No doube eut o» farming is dirty and — more this very piece of land we flatter ourselves will prov: ld 
more manure are —— yet Wheat crops, feeling. sued that, no| 
— in des part of your same Paper of ‘he A. and effect 
increasing v. — value of stock in Ireland are | good a a cure or Ferd for the weeds, it m "it fr 28 wt i^ 
conclusive proof that the farming is improving, and T years to come; whereas if the land had 
rapidly E ia pe d ,Ploughed at great expense till the resent 
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agric rik qux os came o K last ri — on L of the seeds of the weeds ae have lain dormant t, and | Lo we t i 
— 0-1 17 — ‘his man his €— after zm po ‘have X x till n ge 35 Wheat, o ES n | ested m — rures land. C. R. D. [We have 
v indly open nis mansion rge party o e sprin th — ave been inevitabl | th Y hi 
neighbours uid hem rs to dinn er, To elicit informa- smoth IT A attended With much labour; and expen nse | 2 he x^ highest iol ewe "d Pod f for the grown te 
t 8 um 1854. 
by the parish during 
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tinguished guests were drunk, and — were invited to ns to eradicate them pom the corn, not even with * Dip "Thi. * Wheat 
give their opinions freely of what they had been o and amount of — toil which Box: al 21 m i appe pA — 
witnessing. This led to some useful discussion, and it A now in "these ti a 0 prices be afforded. | reason? it is often asked. 1 us to reply what i we 
th À believe about it. By * it has d 
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of stock they carry. It is therefore not surprising that op of corn. rnips are to be taken as a stole ini e — 2 in 11 was “ Piper's 2 
ood Bedfo whic iot gine: strawed then extant. 
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n o in rolli e late fri j Pi imse he at first 
— on his lordship's farm to be the finest they had | for sheep feeding, a out to uniform distances, uode : li u Yi l iper nd va” pori is d 
this season, . coming into the county whether somewhat thick for sheep, z thin for market- tant o 
medi we once see the land is not so well adapted for|ing. The we eed cro P may be lef 45 * 1 the 
corn as for pasture ; t y | middle of S later, if they dos n to 
2 the growth of * The — of its nm some of the N kinds, when the summer 
— to produce good ? olds out till kobe ud Sa wh when the land was atone be 
ti fences for the pro- meg til thed 1 by falowing, "T educ iol 2 
i imit the breaking up of ith a cou ; 
this county with what they elsewhere | eim im ediately (if i it si ‘loughed i in, which by since he 
kable, and is very deserving of general | the bye is x RO B p e si ote as possible, at n ss 
eir rich quali 
w years before his death, purposely to view a plot we 
aT he. was surprised, and pronounced it as 
fine a piece of “Smoothy” as he ever saw, and flatly denied 
that i . grown from the stock he sent 
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is half a pnt n ge ove rod; ; common sense however aad | prolific -— as it may appear, 
dictates that even this is ; but some people e| like all other 5 Ede td ally red varieties, adds 
x vob uble that qu 5 ! Tmagine ( borik Nr — little to its 8 e dum. aal 
t to 2% bushels per acre, sprinkled although i r 
equally EL 1 rod of ground, I. chi average nearly one quarter more per acre than the 
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rate land into —— — Berners pointed out a the carts on his farm * i and Ii ight, not — heavier article fav) from this than any coarser 
field, which, from a feet nos 7 feet side; i in fact they ipe as they cal 2n prolifics. But does the better 
$ tenant (the o ordinary t renta ment elsewhere), had fallen | are Mr. Hannam's harvest cart." With them Mr. Mechi price they and the m i 
in value to less n acre, opt which i — his "€ carts “coals (2 tons), corn ieat 80 bushels, Barley 100 | sate the grower so pres rily as if grown 
ship’s * hands, a "A iod. rs now cheap at 40s. 99 hay, straw, planks, bricks, &c. He one quarter per a i 2 coarser or larg 
When we consider the benefit — on farmers by | ^ d the — cart so useful ; it is not la e | grained variety ? Query. of growing quantity 
zuch a gathering, by such an exposition of agricultural a ics ag. r light Essex three-quarter carts do | even without Quality, if the. d of the latter is not 
im superior i lements, ery, as | well for —- only, but Hannam's are always wan d, | equivalent wi m value of the former. Hardy 4 So 
was exhibited on Lord ers's estate, we cannot an at harv e never use more than one horse in Maldon, Bae 
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he value of expensive improvements, Ed de grateful to Mr. Mechi for all he has attempted for Societies. 
mportance of implements anl Bims me and . — with myself must acknowledge caste Cire 
. *0 assist them in ant ing corn at free-trade | we hav 8 Sy thank him for. e will however} CHRMIC O- po y; igi A „ Ulster, Oct. 7.—Arsenic 
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: y teaching ; and no gren t peace and Sandi 5 " Qrodgh your journal the name attention had been directed to some newspaper e racts, 
ücreas ilities of communication are opening new an nd direction of the man he employs to make|and also by a — e: in the Belfast Daily 
les of corn t these carts, 2 whether he knows whom Mr. Pow to a communication to the Royal Dublin A 
ailed since this ceased to be an exporting country, and — employed for this purpose. I hav e read Mr. | cultural Society i 
ent and wages are not likely to bear reduction, his yal Ag Mene Turni and other upon 
ordchip's zeal and kindness should be highly appre- Society’s Journal, Et p ut n ux on dam aker is | — Mt prepared from oil of vitriol (sulphuric 
j hese times of —— pans farmers | w irm dedi ee ish and m anything, T am so convinced | aun, manufactured from tes. The presence of 
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n well remember | a 5 g r. Mechi i can oblige me in this t, I| nation by arsenic of Wheat which had been wn from 
et Wheat 2 ges used for | believe I — ‘send — maker m — unt MESE seed whi 8 d 2 stc vh e Ur renamed do 
1s still, even in this enlightened age, Mr. Mechi also mention whet — cael the desc ion of the 
practised in in Fidis districts, and sometimes more chan rod M for manure? He hat he uses the times occupied " ‘attention o of chemists, especialy 
Wh : eas fo sowing |1 ree-quarter cart for dung. > T shall feel obliged | uri nce, where at one time iro a — — 
Wheat ier and thi their c ps get injari conseque nees " 
Y es foul with weeds before winter, especially the | as well as — of Mr. Han G. P. [Mr. M echi’s | The n numerous investigation 
k Gr vd 2. hee admit is feasible, and not carts are made by Mr. Eley, \ ‘Wheelright, sore! | "x : the conclusion that fo arsenic mr be detected 
m reasonin ng, a ourselves have sometimes | Knights, x Kelvedon, Esse Led ops raised fr from quem which had Bae — pe 
ough very Satan) Vien induced to follow their! 4 Word against Rabbits. ln conversation with | — 
