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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE 
and settled on that internal | superficies of the earth— 
that 4 Os ground spoken d abo 
s food, these fine partic s these es n: 3er 
are e Tull called s tr ee pdb ge- 
table matter; the only food, repeat 
thought of by him. 
to be the 3 
1 
Har th," he 
P gend and of this oath ‘there | is 
n the atmos phere as if defy 
nt ity 
yet t 
rain wake soi as the p of r is com- 
puted, we might pecudis find it to d "he TRE 
of earth taken off from our hoed s m "^T by the 
ai 
Whe at." 211. The earthy matter Yi n and 
the 
Aie aee 
im erm so indispensable is the mineral element | 
e Wheat crop. It foun nd n 
Tull. t 
othi € and RD Vis 
andowner is “slow to 
eory of Jethro 
He knew n 
vav. an 
14 
RA ade 
ashes are 
4. The 
| manure, in thes sense ed d perten they merely open | o 
he min 
f A 
rop took away. That is more than fully sch in 
article of 
his cree he simply sa ys 
h 
substance from the W “The earth which t 
1 
if it is in gr € 
rment t 
internal 
| fe 
infinite number of 
therewith, and re 
pa 
superficies," before d 
tr ac ts little however from Tnll’s credit that he 
lon be 
Such—as I t 
nutrition, si find, ne xt, that ino order to bring t the bo 
ng 
o 
vestigations of science ; 
AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
s tha 
d upon the unburnt pen pe is it, 
ducing i alm 
arts, increase proportionably tat 
6. I 
fore and the result of t 
nd i 
see and to catch it, for an y o of hi 
f 
almost only use of all m 
o place, e, h how- 
[Decemprr 17, "^ ? 
s cr Ops, , and the onl thi 
or it was, that it helped to loosen HO 
nam ely, the pulverisation it makes 
= 
do I manure for my Wheat crop, 
reason. I find Da use ^d manu 
enriching 
sur- 
e farm-yard 
ral m 555 being 2 
into 
escribed. 14 
aa 
he in- 
t adds nothing to the 
excep 
| validit 
TEGAN 
as 
` | result should l 
3 that the actual know 
nd tarned to accon nt. 
heory of yegetab)o A 
this food in its inner superficies, he had an annnal, 
I fallow on each acre of 47 Wheat laud. This 
nabled him to T the soil to his heart’s content. But 
én the self-same acre he had also an annual crop of 
Wheat al ternating uia the fallow :—In this 
ee le rows m 
allow them,“ he says in 
page 203, “5 feet ‘terval though they m are but 4 feet 
10 inches broa the staple | 
under 
eats ‘cireumstanees ; E 
lou 
pio 
3 e, and s omewhat narr rowed MA 8 
ev lays it down as a rnle 
er many years ago, 
5 mia 
vu 
way. He 
inches apart, with 
| intended 
el 
for Whea 
b 
I grow Wheat on b 
y light gravelly | sol, 
ledge of such a 
I claim 
d 
v . 
it meets a yery serious s disadvan 
—the 
ean e 
| keep: ng it clean 
dressi ngs o lay. 
fund already.. "for I e I am fally justifi ed | w 
ne 
heavy clay lan 
pla 
= eee depth a Store of mineral food for the 
nt, 
eep a 
ne of the ue E ite 
channel a heavy y 
In the s 
alt tain within 
ance, 
a very little, however, for he VVV vhich they | planting, I hall th 
g to the nature of the roc rom which ley i ting, shall t oronghly ye and mix 
eed th at “if the in ntervals are nar rower in K were disintegrate ated and io rived, but stil ; continuing the 
g ropping deben ^d out 
there w ould not be roo dis pulverise it. If Le do not mean that the time it will last is infinite, but | cover the land. 
in shallow dd, thoug gh in the 5 ere merely so distant as to be indefinite when the supply | a cat. ot yA ze 
wor ld not t be mould Eno A rtion of will cease. To make these mineralsubstancesavailable, | duce this after a 
a por don OF IT was compelled to vary Tull's practice. His pra ctice, 
a certain field were enr nly 3 bet. 6 inches in 
s 
continued in good tilth an 
t missing on EK Eme 
dep 
| i es went belo 
w the s € 176. The at of my clay land i is 
4 ^n e most put 
so tenacious as to 
| wi 
em. 
uch 
wever shallow they might be, 
the subsoil. St aples 
e must never plougl 
crop without 
the intervals," he adds, * 1 che damage b of it be ri ighi dy 
ted, would amount to half the inheritance of the 
d, and was occasioned by the wilfulness of my bailiff, 
h 
lan 
who, drilling it upon the level ordered the horse to Far. 
sheer 
WF ast. © 
inches deep to be new, really is new. 
ld water and even liquid manure | not merely the organic, but the 
ithout leaking. - It i is so compact t and cohesive as to Wheat crop. I go de 
the intervals to one-third 
natural state, and oe when cultivated, so much and bring it to one-third more. 
in. The is ipe actually doubled in mark in bo 
on wo acres instead of one. Tull had | what I have ventured to say before, 
substance; becomes 
€ A 
the intervals would be too wide if he followed my 
directions.” 
* * 
* 
, Examine his theory. It has been for these latter 
Wh 
rum 
n 
me such land; ** cd 
n is clay." 131. 
ead 
= We e $t whose stra- sis aed ina happier 1 75 has en nab 
but for Mio "d 
Add e to my 
tillage and well. fed “interval and 
bera d blig th 
I give it for moti reason, 
appa 
The weed seeds are 
broadcast at reaping, and the foul 
petuate: 
nina of manure PT leave it ri 
in preparation for the | 
D effusi mo 
the 
dne Line 
contains e = 
tage in the ordit 
rent impossibility 
thus 
straw Ca 
T 
ing il 
FR UPS 1 
that he 
a 
ML 
for example, y the EN 
sor ce of the 
ould.” 
I begin gradually a and bring up to the surface a small 
of water y run upon 
clay under the stap 
z 
45. There then, wher 
Corres 
r stratum of 
re Tun ended, I begin. 
or up) 
Hom espondence. 
On ori Mangel Wurzel.—You are 
1 
good ser iind 
win are the special ingredients it requires for its sup- 
atmospheres. "ds — sadi of that great laborato: 
uired to brit ngit = perfection; and t that s 
sable. 
cally an 
echan 
it, till it eee from a UNT or blue clay a ‘dark 
n loam throughly permeable and open to the fi 
tlet. 
tory 
harves ing root 
that subject in Jour riis in 
nically; mix it; stir The 
estions. 
gua e 
This exposure of the subsoil I bold to be D. 
n clay soil even for the time its 
hat is very brief. 
gns 
toge em again, and all si 
f an 
r|the flight 
0 arrow thro 
1 
Orang 
f i + 
may b 
the Turnip buib pe tesis e 
with the 
The clay soo: mes 
he work are lt, Me 
e air. 
haustion of 
Ico $0 as in time utterly 
| assim ilated by the pl ant 
e oar Sesak chemical action. of. the 
| mecha 
nd the 
th 
taken up and 
t diti 
e inorganic substances brought to the surface. The | of 
nieal action of the frost and i = ove x i 
hoe rest, an 
the r 
accom plishes 
is drawin farmi 
ing. For 
full r estitution 
mineral elem men nts 
wing near. of | 
To pee defer * E day, du still, piro a a 
come to her. He is speaking, RN | th 
na 
et 
z 
e 
inanition. 
around it a 
er 
f fal 
oes speak generally, however, | ne 
sickne 
but in a PARE 
uta" 
however, in 
nt 
d that is water. 
e 
m this i nt affai 
e Kass 
may sicken, as it 
It is powerless to 
nd close to its 
deal of co 
0 
take in the food 
Typs 
sa 
iic ration, tha 
Pire € open, fallow intervals like — 5 this 
ent, No 
ng. 
from s 
lying an 
iyi Move t inus nces, u vege 
e vehicle is want- 
ntil 
life in spring, atus fresh pus 
When the bulb o r root is 
heavy pressure by 
eepl y 
. is never wanti matter how des d pti 
s vin gei ei. organie be, thane it à e dog ed article you allude to the quan 
sinking so deep into the porou 
ban n esd, . 1 7 men t eat crop, he as to be far out of the ng 2o of ye lation 23 sun and ime MI 0 
W ply—that it is evident iid e wind. The crowning * of the plan was yet es cx it so successful t 
at fea ka dd ve ig d reap a large| realised. oduce must be raised to a farm adoption. I pull 
EL am E App 1 ion, and la it accord on average, or wo uld b be beri in vain. ° Narrowing, roots in heaps, and taking 
8 M ly as uns my intervals tebia Tull’s 4 feet 8 or 10 inches, t thatch of the leaves 
ra eS m poo mine dicii e application of | only 3 feet, my object was gained. For my average most roots, for the Mange 
1 crops, uce hitherto h r i i 
= . eee me certainty ee the heavier the | bushels. "E crop of wi : ah € M yet "iE | pad ose p » ar Te 
P e ner the exha ustio come; the was exceedingly fine; not merely bulky and large in pronto er number of days a 
E ear, but unusually he in the sheaf; and at] weather. nist in 
remains in the land. The plain truth erem thus|r 
is a barefaced truism. It is clear as the sunbeam, and | 
u 
reaping was estimated 
one thing more, and I have done. Tull 
at 40 bushels a 
east. Just 
5 x sweating," t w^ 
used no manure į he 
them from rain, and t 
round, 16 ^*^ 
3. 2 
of 
r period for 
