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more fertilising matter than 5 ton s of "i ee one hand or t 
equally a — — the — 
oo fat on the other be signs of want 
ve ra 
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roperly applied, England will gra tefully yield — 7 foo Yor i 
p opnlation of 30,000,000, with less cost and Biggie oe she rived from a wild native plant, the Beta 1 | 
Fix ies her 15,000,000 children with agricultural pr BEN TAN says that “the whi te an nd es ed Beet 
he ang 
urze 
no apology for the 8 of the following feed. hort fast" sé k s Ta ration 
THE GARDENTIS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. Sem jg u 
A i owen no infer that they 
j of —— health in — — it is especially so in the New Forest, the Forest ot Y 
C 1 1 plante, whilst in the one as in the other the tendeney fores s. is th 
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Tun Mangel Wurzel is so valuable a root that (Re ^ y p gh the sooner the 
: 3 oot o of Scarcity) " our agricu ivi are culti- into productive arable land 
hardly anything connected with its growth ( vated varieties of the wild Beet;" and speaking of are generally a school Ob gr be ta 
fail to be a me the rootstock he ee 1 “the wild Beet has il no one,’ 
We must hay er and better 
he disafforestin: dis of all the pus 
$e 
are 
fe 
The increase of the 3 vete 
3 a s 9 We yea 
of experiments upon Mangels — 1 — "o e Beet in wild fr is perfectly h 
i In fac ardy, 
present year, to which we shall append some and 2 poo iai teg winter after iet, yet p» at in 1851 it was more than doable ws 
ero y ded, nce both | 8 9 a es — — the garden the rootstock requires the most 
P e have before | careful protection from frost, whilst year by year |- 
record the im mportant fact that Mangels the 8 n 
doe of any of their green leaves whilst in a 
state are curtailed in their root develop- | 
urnips, we 
en W repeatedly asked questions both by |S should be red with. “something Mes — E vd 
1801. And this increase is 8 
nen gomg., 
| 26, 80 res of inhabitants may be double 
present produee of gll the ls 
= the 
f 
cultivation is not able to sw 
which we D aA for in na po vith 
reign parts 3,775,984 qis. "s grain, and 
students and farmers relating to the pos sibility o of 
feeding irom 8 
d look for a paying crop rather to 25 following | 
at the sam that we have e sireuimstáncak- good Jorm, oe mity in má 
several times in a manner similar to that which | regularity: in the rows, and bett er keeping power 
has now to be related, in order both to test the conditions which we will 
as also to ha owi also result in a larger amount d feeding property 
examples to appeal to in our daily teaching. In in proportion to water; * um a the analyscs 
April e pr Ww t our which we have reason to in progress 
perimental plots with Yellow Globe Mangel, de- upon Mangels by P sok, Vorzexen for fuller 
i ithout manure. ence upon this poin 
ed and hoed in| As regards the effects of the recent early 
= — way, and in the middle of August the frost upon the Mangel, judging from the 
P ut 
zii arge outer leaves 
whieh was —.— — the middle of "September, left s ing, we are Anns ed to think that Uy 
and n the middle n v ober. 
plot the gli were left : 1 
ES athe 2th October the ‘topped and tailed on He wea ad our directio edis e; . ine 9 rock 
ili be gathered from | are fully deem out, 2 Y amm think Wat. a great 
part of - valuable e may be well stored for 
LE T Results o of the Stripped Mangels. 3 e winte: We wo owever, su? ea 
in th is operation, as the external [eaves e 
t 
the. ere 
There were y 979. va producing Turnips, ae 
rw T eR Clover, MAN 
for 
| pr esent importation i is Nini Tul 
E bly greater, 
gland and 
by the Poor Law imas sione 
the 37,324,915 acres, * we: pue 
— * 
er AC! 
2,767,776 of Bar ley — bane 
b Pa = — rta Vile at unl 
3,781 e which at 
— 
So that 15,230,849 are under à 
n Enghud a d Wa 
e produc 
From the agricultural statistics ots 
214 is ipu. Maxwell, in 1857, Moss. 
td i 
223,15 2 in Whe emer a JA REN 
225,983 in — — e 
938,613 in Oats and ihe. crops. 
So that 1 387,748 yielded 
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at Tm 
There were 2,025,555 sd. pa Daenips, ta 
dm 
Clover 
are 
naa 8 almost putrid, and in many merely 
root. | core of the stem is beginning to decay ; topping 
then. should. be done "with. even greater free- 
dom than s So 1 2 Nd Peiper ai 
heut the roof, wi Tate 
— the Nu 
pom 
In the —Q statistics of 
Mr. Donelly, in 1857, we have the f g 
eres. E 
551,386 in Wheat, the return n 4 
907, 489 of Barley, ue zehun as wo 
i d, 976, 929 of Oats, the r E. 
So that 2,735, 804 acres produce 
8s mg thus cay of the in 
pr II.— Results er. Intact Mangels, will be likely to be commenced, Our notion is, 
6 larg is...) 2% 4 75 8 | ig then, that Mangels this year should be cleanly 
E salon d do. .. 11 10 1,4.| topped and Jedi, and afterwards left to get as dr 
no cce | j bici wilt 
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roots . nmm lo: Uds ered v not only eause a ditior 
Here ien we see the immense preponderance callosity. to the wo surfaces. we make 
of root gro of the unstripp over the trimming, but will to a | great extent. have a like 
ed roots, and from it we deduce the following | effect upon the scalded 
important conclusion: — That as long asa Mangel Finally, with respect to the much injured roots, 
Thereare3,067,194 acres ng Fosio arne 
| There are 5,802,998 acres. under eel ni 
and its produce. 
he foregoing statements 
Fro " 
of lad unde arable cultivation, 3 X 
mus 1 55 
Wegner 
Lc is in a std ate to be wholesome or useful as we cannot help thinking that the frost-biting may 
vod for cattle, so long is it. i important to the well- | hi g 
the ri ripeness, at least the affected roots thac we have 
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experiments upon this subject have examined are much sweeter to the taste than the 
tended to the same conclusion ; and indeed, the | others; we should therefore employ them, and that damen 2255505 
g away a few leaves from a ee as speedily as possible, without any fear of evil | MOM Pen Ev 760 p 
t is kl e „that on com- from want of ri peness, „Our plan with Ireland. 803 608 75 9M 
e more than once them would be t i ity, 
In the case deri they Ped rg be vasi into manis; and 
result 
us the pping in 
bad but Tittle ct, 2 the frost so 
stopped the growth alt 
poma cin seeds, Turmeric root, Gentian, 
e and — a enen of a 
t. suggest that carting. these | 
upland but dry ——— and 
pd 
Bot hat r 
grain. But we. hase! ag of 
of grain to maintain our popula 
Now, as this is really the pur 
1 Br 
our 
andi if the pulation continue e G 
ir aed r ani how can this 
the popu "m "be supplied with th 
he fact of the À ; hane ae th sheep a. inel) en- require? This is the question. is D 
whilst in the a Ri got een het I 1 the : nd, and we cannot but Mr, man, in the Sta i 
ng Super- think that the — osi de bette tha G E —.— has gi 
1 5 were plentifully employed. r ni 3 of Grea . 
h It will be noticed tha Cart Sd Y was draggling in w pouclied Swede lands, of the quantity of land: 77 — 
the 27th October, four days after th Acres cul- Acres Yai ogg 
st, which en the 23d registered 1 2 of feriam BREAKING-UP GRASS LAND. (ease paren 
and we are enabled to state that they were little n Times of the 29th gei last gives England. 25032000 9,455,007. 
affected by the frost. This may arise partly from 8 oe of the dis orostisg. of Whichwood Forest, Wales 3 —.— » 
the cause suggested in a late Number, viz., the | forest ne ving to all those who hada clai Tela: 137280 4,90 
partial shelter afforded by the leaves to the then Crown rig nd $ there remained 2000 acres left to tlie British Isl ..|:. 889,090 . 19 p 
pd mes but still we ineline belief wn, and after =e oe ds - 25 down, their 16,522,970: 155 
ha other cause was activ i 2000 acres dia rubbish cleared away, the | 40525 
karrer Epi in this respect Wen Rai seven arab — vt he oe — Ec TP 0800 mi 
and the field crops which have been very seriously houses and | maar] pr 
damaged, and that is —that our plants in the hard excellent fouls mado to — — TM mi be 0 — —— — i 
rim 0 re less artifici i publie roads, all eno the | : ATE 
ci timulated 107 this eg done at the eee of | gultivation we have . 7 
tions cer der eos : end to the con- per aere, pes ihe. farms were let on lease. for | à sin 
eee, IM over stimulated 
tee ur isle.” 
| oy. or d dis promt y eti ihe — belonging to the great 
Ae a, À 7 aie = = unproduetiv of good to the m Fi i 
GREGoRY’s *' Coane us of Medicin 
Observa 
Sen that with roots of 32 years at the 
: s ES UEM all kin * | the Times, yearly rent of E peti acre. And, says 
crease the producti 
We , 
* this act 2000 acres of productive land N the natur eh — pro, 
unproductive land into much . 
bare it into am alternate : "a 
has been shown that tom e, 
ou published the other day rel 
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