THE 1 CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL ee 
earance very y commonly known by the 
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| Novewnep 2%, 
t going the leng gth à of say ying the | > : 
mil 
EA appe eans so easy | tai to sterility. The use of 
seen the | above term. apu this is by no m d oe i numm 
ffects of pate mg Phot dh roots by the as may at first appear, for this generally m— E n mdr, S 15 is 9. 
plough, and we . no doubt that those not the spring = eterne oe: . ^ sory litle | pues the 9 Ai p* 
inj safe. Folding long. In this condition ceu 
pl n Gr cen rion with the injured | alue as food, and certainly do not r Gerig of oases Led ov a Us pai i = EE 
3 is now being followed out at the Royal Agri- | their eost of production. — us ority © this is 3 exemplified in the f. richer; 
5 : d t |this may be taken as a pro Lad wq — 
lege farm; and is doing goo to poo T f roots, which h has delayed their consumption, bu but per aere of our ET nt soils vary į 
Loca dps ig — T eo » felt ad P 0 O ; e e e, rary 
ha — s oT s y — of the Mangels late has given but little cause for anxiety about | from always being supplied by ou 
vil. will id M — will enable the farmer to completing the consumption of our roots soon sive an i" of the 
, i em 
ais Swedes, which we should eaves enough, nd one which we regret as the richer soils demand 
kn. Mibi up and kkon more than ordinary peg" bee 2 iae " 1 the rotting of the ties — natural fertility, 
ee roots. is E deca 18 produeing very eee ~ nan 
Tun consumption of the root crop is influenced | serious loss firenghent the kingdom, and many 2 7 
toa considerable degree by the co = - of the|speculations have been advan s to cause du 
roots at the time of their being consu It has It appears, indeed, to rival its redecessor, the oe Tull and. Mr. Smit 
been remarked o rmer oecasion that the ripe- | Potato disease, for the multiplicity of opinions | by my own, go far to 
ness or maturity of the erop ally influenced | entertained respecting it. merous € have | more cheaply and more safely be locked tot! 
the result so far as the increase of the animal is assigned in each of these des and that elements of growing corn; a 
W l 2 gr 
considered. hen the root had. attained to a neighbour | y val 
mellow condition and the acrid matter originally e 8. so any’) then is there before us to increase the f 
ed in it when its growth ceased had by any | eireumstances it is matter very s im- come : ore particularly of our 
means been converted into matter capable of Lad omne to the stock-masters. of this country, and are 2 rie — the — 
inistering to the further development of the w at o of it may Sid dup NE imi eerie ka 48 
animal's body, then the use of food was more | p ove to be — fert re another season for Kim dod andl e oo n: aud give ang 
table and the health of the animal more safe Turnip sowin let us hope for more from ange of soil to plants tej 
an when these changes had not n place. information than jue posse We believe “ Yours, my dear Sir, very sincerely 
The plan of storing roots for use is adopted in ne hat a fuller knowledge of the organie com- "Hauts 
ease of Mangel Wurzel as a general rule, and there position of these roots their various | « 3, Frederick's Place, Old Jewry, 
is every reason to believe that when ‘carefully stages of gro and development would * Nov. 16, 1859.” 
stored the p be valuable in tr the changes bis A P 3. 
thereb . The uioy charaeter of the Mangel | commonly observed. is because we feel the Pi 
1 IT 75 great eee of being more fully acquainted CAVERSHAM ANNUAL ROOT SHOW, - 
s tity of moisture to be thrown off gaas ith the organic composition of our roots, of the| ON Tuesday week a large family Mere * 
t, and this arises from that t io ey to heat | changes they undergo, and the circumstances which | principal agriculturists and pre cie iai 1 
3 vegetable matter of — description so favour or retard these changes, that we have thus 2 Park, sembled at br reni 
ly manifests. The heat of the stack noticed the subject; and if we should be th — iride Rt petro 1 
frequently rises very ool eni and under means of drawing t the attention et those miden s etae picem by 
management, by which the steam is k such investigations to favour us with fuller conservato y, where a vi 
in, we have known the roots to be almost information — ing subject, or t we - id by vegetables, and fruit was 
ed valueless. The great nce 27 drawing the n of our practical m he several contributors attached to them; ands 
be to allow the free passage t | elucidate facts [o4 g upon this very jardin nt splendid collect Man 
frost—through the heap so ak su tas the question, we shall have no ee to regret giving | other Turnips, 
steam thro 4 is p when | such prominence to the subje table productions will probably not again be 
within moderate limits is decidedly favourable | season, rag 
Me: -| THE EXHAUSTION OF ENGLISH SOIL. | tee productio 
8 far as we know at the present t ime we have 
son t belive that the Swede is beneficiall 
nee il 
bys fuller 
ained h 
is change Bet, — place in the | 
1 ter cannot 
wih had ben previo 
which hay 
| pren erving 
be 
hey | prac 
- E 3 of thes soil, rdi that the Rev. Mr 
a Sm eedon md for the 
TO J. J. 
&ear Sir,—I reply of th 
e etium m the Soil of Gre 
EPEA rrt 
t g 
e 3d 
of [^ manure, I can 0 SO 
Gibbs, who ^ the party, 
at | tion was splendid and ereditable to th 
nbi 
tiet, the = 
was of 
ed hov 
pes eta able eproductions of — 
poe 
- be made the si 
w highly valuable ma le 
ighly ne f 
mer. of 
n to mpending from it; and I would take 
de opportunity this affords me of showing the inex- 
es of nutriment from d 
re nin 
farms produce; I would simply show how ais may be 
done to make supplies of extraneous manures unne- 
cessary. 
Bie E yd — reg proved by many — 
possibility of growin 
oe i her diia e» orn by deeper — 
last 14 years been 
Bes Wheat year after year 
were the 
h 
good; and six Drumh 
— Ibs. each. Carrots, pint fr 
ere all very fi 
and in an unusu ally d y and 
power much restricted Í z. 
| influence of a moister season, 
Adjoining this allen "m six roots 
Red, Yellow, : 
ellow and. Red Globe 2 Mangels, gon gi 
Alfre 
to 28 lbs. the 2 root, „ 
some. Some ver, 
n I can readily believe 
lecomposition of the l and I, too, in my 3 EM [^ 1 ts con 
WW thin sowing, bo that the fertility of my land | Esq., of Cyfarthfa — 
e de tillage deeper and finer. | another of the sons of Mr. Craw. 
With respect to quotation from  Prof.|the whole wer 
am so learned a man turn- | above the level of 
for it was sort of Mangel W 
anden and i the | and extending to 
jo à; culti- | the smallest being 
and frost, but à double t a i i 
| panied these, which vari 
UN acre ri such roots are always found | di o prove, it cannot be from II lbs., to 
more valuable Ro x viue of this — b» of soil in the ex years it has ll shaped, a 
important plc. change in the composition of pied, oF re he part of Europe per long since and other Carrots were very 
the root will, we believe, show that much of the have e e productive. The cessation to grow | of Kohl y: we! 
value of (ots depends upon the more corn i aei. the ire is readily to ac- weigh 
perfect ripening which is thus attained, At any femme forin the large tribute of corn paid to the | Savoys were 
rate it ect for investigation 3 CJ Romans by the world (not even excepting Britain, | these roots were grown, an 
would draw attenti pied x a kno owledge of the t ries), and gratuitousl ; di Lema acu Pech 
condi üitously dis th this contributi 
fm tion of these wedes would enable of the towns in Italy, for this at once deprived the exhibited two very large 
eee DE management so as to | country of a market for its corn, t away its | weig à 
rode e - TR the iA : lal ho, er by a free some for such a 
a an e ‘ b country a work, for a re d th 
qr M ro of | Swedes, we must b cau- — life and idleness, and this is quite suffi- * u 
tious of t e opposite ah t has eient to acco r the decline of production | The contribution of Mr. Hy. 
become full nadie it is then in a favourable at, home, and the fatal depe on foreign | Gloucestershire, 
ag oa si m —— the country's declining s h atory, 
7 se em. i to the assist: ted the ad 
ving off : 1 ance | exci e adm 
ng o mew » the | that ade Chinese find in the use of this particular | The gigantic 
for its MN - were ex! 
ng Reds, the weights of 
