460 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [MAY 17, 1862, 
———— TED AUT Theat. Limeis , and had 30 tons 2 cwt. of Swedes ner ana To em 
= ut I should thiuk in this case nearly | Farm-yard dung is commonly applied for Wheat. Limeis | and had 30 tons 2 cwt. of Swedes per ac TER 
tons per aero., Fac with de wh ” my root 4 applied io faliow Ф Wheat or Turnips. Artificial manures Жанин: field 7 бе of Swedes with abast up бтен in the 
bout 20 sn, omong applied to Tnrnips, Swedes, and Mangels, | yard, and only wt. eed and а Ryland е e farm. 
o тт үзүлө applying artifi cial manures s to Whea! occasionally x bet Wheat, Oats, Soa ЖАМУ: ; never saw | Turnips did not 8 verage 20 tons, аш 3 Pulbe v D: 
EL Y^ has a tendency to blight ; indeed : find it ir vai d ich good у t on for Beans or Peas. J, Eames, Midhurst. | smaller. i 
increase the average produce much beyond 4 quarters oí 119. HANTS i To Grass land the application of Proctor and R 
Wheat and 6 quarters of Barley, and 10 quarters of Tartarían Under the head of Turnips I would say no Turnips are grown meat manure, when I used it a few years b 
Oats to Ше acre. Our land in its mei аја ылу куры except as а double or second стор. 30 acres are grown, i.e., ordinary. I give oil cake to my milking cows and! shee; 
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ucing most beautiful crops, but it will not what is call Six acres of Mangels are grown after Jate Turnips fed in | machinery and attended 
answer the whip if мы manure too hi Шу; the straw is increased | fower with roots m oso Ж and mixed with cake; culti- 40 оро per cent. in hay, Fed po мше Ying of look b Pe 
but стану booom es diseased, and the corn of inferior quality | vated and dressed with 25 tons of dung, and 2 ewt. of super- | Dot been long enough in this neighbourhood to 
arid quantity short phosphate per acre. VÉ. acres Carrots after Trifolium, cut and g vs bou 
En dres 4 cwt. vian guano per acre. 
The effec Mob arius ч to Whe еч t Бла been extremely | are grown after Clover: (ед ог cut early ; one plough, an dresse: 
idee] i 5 11 to 14 cwt. of nitrate of e with egi gs ewt. of | with А а — 2 ewt. vei ere me. per а 5 
4 nitrate, 3 cwt. guano and 3c " have Artificia. ати xperience. 4 cw eruvian pen equa] 
odii ua Mae corn produco 10 to 12 bushels pe o and pus а 25 tons box 2 g per acre xd m: Potato Ms E. ewt re 
x — Superpho: ud SA me, eruvian guano 2 cwt. superphosphate equal to ns 127. Nox 
a corresponding increase aeria gi sec soie dux and p dung for of Ote by : er - 79 ewt. Peru Ў bue pue will The matter below relates to а -— farm onl 
urni farm дарын ккор о ats by 15 cwt. of straw an sacks of grain only. The 
Turnipe without far уга district epe to manure for Turnips, or | per ac The are the effe КЕ of artificial manures on tico is no variable on other farms that it is nor easily й е 
generally for Swedes. Mangels generally have a good dressing | my a | farm e ААД Bursledi Half the Wheat is sown after Turnips, Swedes, and x 
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or The irte seeds during the winter receive a moderate coat | уред Crop новий m Dome, manu n incr „аы p ан ач ym ren d 392 
of tolerably rotten manure, which carefully broken first | of straw, ор very liable to blight, and vies ees infested Swedes. Turnips and 
by —— and aret, by chain or bush A ITTOWS, vd soon | with weeds than w VM 25: no far mee == dung E applied. | The seeds are sown with the Barl ey. They iro uiii 
carri own roo! i то average 1 ат. per acre, 
— down for two years this manure is carted on | quality inferior. Kith 1e 1 A ре. nitrate of ada а-а of salt, кш during the autumn, or else the тоте 
а е second winter, and thus stimulates села flagging | at a cost of about 1l. 1s. per acre, the increase has generally | Oats are grown on clay land after Mangels and Turni: 
for the E DOCE hoida more particularly on | the A pei pes riri селге А Б Вета s and юса ае are taken alternately MAA on ts clay 
- nitrate a has been app e, oil, which is fi tho four 
hter soils. J. во . Where 3 cwt. of salt has been applied alone the straw ? "The Tur nh б soil is Paris d on PA rl 
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112. tog ре always been — са vel па gt Wem qd Wheat, Barley, Seeds, Wh en e, viz , Turnips, 
1 nt i - heavy and of superior qu . І сап oniy spea RC the clay soil the cours 
Ihave А Ау bt (he ай advantage of using decom- | and the grain Е | only f y ropping is Mangels, T 
e Mein idi accounta for the о wise practice of paring and burn- | ОЁ one bouge eiae experiment with salt, and in на the | and Tares; dm ^ аш, "ore а ternately ; LN 
and ссе that portion of the field where no kind of manure cmd P Ae € x eiee erem Ба баб хе "wn super- 
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э ў t “ч fi а e Where farm Ape rd manure has been applied the| тһ addition t Tenn 1 food. 
ini: etabli atter available for the food rey, — n addition to artificia! consumed on thi l 
dem - My planis to ага w out the manure made after | result bas never been ere o nitrate of soda has Hes a kood deal of Cotton ай 1йшевей-саке is pey 
tbis time, and through the summer and autumn for roots next — the Rd has invari ably been a а th | bullocks grazed on the old pasture lands. Owen Wallis. 
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- а EN —With 20 to 25 tons of Aus dung and 3 ewt. of Aem = 
w | superphosphate, the crop averages about 35 tons MS acre, Hom orres 
ning o! а кузда pondence, 
loose hide bound fero without tops and tails, ascertained by weighing ve 
LEE sers iiie d Mem A, - soll tn Tease the | portions NM А Steam Cult cse —When the Ser ns instruc- 
inelination to Moss. [i eni found rom. years experience that | — Clover.—Nitrate of soda alone, or with salt, applied to this | tive vk calle > * Talpa, or the Chronicles of а 2 Clay 
injures manure when spread more than frost. сий TT pu dius мы the e most port А Куз ы: adding | Farm,” was a few years a a ^io pod 
in the autumn I spread manure in my рагк, its virtue y 
ол Hei by the frost. Iput on more in the beginning 122. DORSET. pr obably little "thought that the System | of steam 
of March, and I am sure I gained a ton per acre besides superior| Land intended for Wheat is almost inv bly * 
mality. The bad pastures I am bregking up, but only #0 | with sheep. Farmyard naris is applied to ; (he x lea" n eu in so short a time so fully develop itself; In that work. 
destro, the bad Grasses, and then to lay them down again | ploughed іп а few weeks before the Wheat із grown. Should | he says:— 
кете enriching the UA A € have a natural tendency to | the plant appear weak, guano is harrowed in during the spring. 
to turf again, T. For Mangels and a great portion of the Swedes farmyard 
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eed 2 pipughed is it digging that we want. "seo 'are P means, 
i want is the seed bed ; we care not for the process. Show 
In this count; fd аы nearly to an every | sown, either salt is somni bro roudcast т е рер ме, pes the soil, comminuted, aërated, and | inverted 6 or 8 inches E 
purpose, the pe $55. nev т having b ipe loughed. "Му? success | &c., drilled in with the see manure Grass lands with | and I will not ask you how it came so. What does that 
d d and well | farmyard manure, at the end of four years with lime A matter? If you wanted ш er ground z breakfast to a 
up for the winter. If Turnips ЧЕ, sown direct on the tail of | earth, and at the end of (about) three years they require | certain fineness of us aton e, would you be very particular to 
the ploughs, the land having been Jaid still six weeks previous | manure 5 again, кы O " en ask whether the m 1 that crushed the сарай bari had 
to sowing, little artificial manure is ever required to hasten San is also oves very beneficial ; portions | worked by Ыр Б vertical, alternate, elbow crank, or by 
them out of the pen All gy а manure wig for | of various pastures where ү was laid on about. 50 years «ines circular motion. If the farmer or ш gordoa coul aly 
White Turnips. Geta Turnip crop and Barley, and all crops (in contrast with - wisis where it was ,not арр! е] ave his seed ` Doa mado ready for him 
will follow. present the appearance of a “water meadow.” W. J. Pope, | new mol as. ho wind ue - 
I am sure that artificial manures are of no lasting benefit to | Bridport. think he ое Fea са Ed soil had been first cut m 
any land unless to gain a large crop of Turnips. and i by feeding 123. DEVON. longitudinal strips, оомо or into rr s cubes, spade- 
them off with үг: mr mes od Ae E fep Му second-class dem is generally manured as follows |fsSbion, befo. as finally granulated for 
ы ee Ho with Whaat. f "Turnips an and root | VIZ. farm-yard dun › 15 tons per tds once e years, or It was макы ud. as this and à the ideas со! 
ше land after having been joined by an pi борода D. 10 ewt. pera acre ооа nt This ао 5 mei ead veyed in that work on the subject of steam cultivatic 
Pony, 1 — каде the land is deterior Sod sc itai por сар that first awakened the attention of Mr. Smith (1а 
RR m uhcst ыза SH I dung my arable land the second year that it isin d in error in this I beg Mr. PUE pardon); he b 
Ni КУЯ Ж а, Swedes, an Уа, the latter | поп, Теп iti prepar обе астро gt жор Көп d аду the matter deeply, made experiments which we 
followed by Turnips or Swedes. osphate, She jore ane Baar oo of this neighbourhood is tolim tolerably successful, and took out patents for the sam 
or anre, 3 cwt. 5 еа асге, із E drilled with the eat, pe e fo cung Зарр 6 {ог or Went Not, itistrue, in зт арена Hoskynsdim 
liquid drill. "ET p not su! farm dung for all the Grass ractice is age arm-yard manure for | sh; adow ed for th, о tha t of a locomotive engine, wit 
land that is saute I purchase abou t 8 cwt. TE = green cs a a little on the inferior rass land. "Усу few P 
З or 4 cwt. per acre on the poorest grazing land.  Superphos- аге ш not Бой абаад in ҮМ district. with a gia due engine ani ies and cultivator, 
e UE — D ? manures Artificial manure for Turnips, guano and phosphate, scme | And now, after eight years ot y ent and unwearied 
mention rom : i tui pco perseverance in the application of Mni the 
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EE — — T after Beans, but | yenta at tha rate of 4 to О tons пасее of the soil, with a certain and profitable reu 
€ pedes and Vetches, which are fed off with RUE EE the  perplexing and difficult problem is solvi 
di eua ў e а ү do we ишы in the letter to the Times, dated 
The great ad vantage of using SIL ба saving | ticularly on the thin land, which I уи every crop, and am А 117, 1862, from Mr. W. Sm ith, о of Wo E 
of the farm- d vi ding d x your Wheat crop, and the certain it pays me well dor = outlay, as T get Sni the that а heavy, co an у 
saving of carti у great distance ecd yards, | quantity of straw, Corn. oots I did before usin been finished at one operation with. bi s combi 
and also of fortius ст "t to y: harvest (?) much sooner. I put most of my Deve dung on the Grass E n 
Generally to the Wheat crop, р some n" lied for forward The farm-yard manure in our neighbourhood is generally gin The 
Turnips апа Swedes. Also to the M. л , Hungerford, | applied for Wheat and Turni Hips, some on. the Grass land ; M with Barley at a cost of 6s. » io thi 
15 Moe nma e is пае, апа or Wheat most farmers apply | will come v». he says, as “ living шко 
i manures for root га oft 
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Bob. of e kept; Le bout 22 We 25 Welsh heifers, pus two years, 125. CORNW. What w y lords a and рег. ME. "Wil the Royal 
1 ту autumn;| I have used large шнш "et artificial А Pee Soet of England say to Aid 
the next year's placed in a fatting yard, with a large] portion of | for several -years, especially guano, and find "that it it E iere is ES ы they think Mr. 
the Wheat пране n and roots and hay and home-| answers exceedingly well on Grass, applied either in M Кеп in hii Rear; an ой? Will d 
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press of profit or loss from the use of artificial черні and quality of the Grass and hay are much improved, | 205 t00 muc 
TÉ but without it the Rape and roots would be deficient, 9 T bonis Ех with great need for Wheat and Oats ; of men, hol 
and the substitution of farm- manure i it impracticable, mi. eel 3 ewt. of salt per acre, sown on the Wheat | have been in error, and been beaten by a tenan for 
ав well as injurious urious to огей сол. И C. Hannam, Deal. in Fe harro the Oats. I formerly used | but it matters little whether they do or not, f lis 
L3 half inch bones with advantage, but whetheritbeowingto | Smith i 1 way on a-head, and is working. 
I have formerly used ата yard manure | its being adulterated ог not, its effects at present are neither teda The ploughing i 
for Swedes, but not with an Ка equal result, so great or аи as they were. I apply superphosphate | system with his brother farmers. d the 
I purchase manure from Sandwich and elsewhere—when | mixed with guano for root crops ; шү drilled A the | as surely condemned, and will be supe! pie o 
EE to foteh tt s seed, but now sow it broadcast and drill the seed ; the plan | cultivator, as surely as the atmospheric engine 
rti manure is seldom o! er used h 
dressing for Corn—for roots o ds 5d I am wd siperphos The Ordinary Farm Practice of the Neighbourhood.—Farm Ја ага | thrown out by the steam engin :mrovement of 
phate is superseding the use ri guano. One gentleman in | dung is commonly коршы either mixed with earth or not, for | memorable distinction—whereas the imp to this 
this parish uses 4 or 5 ewt. only of superphosphate, và Wheac and root crops VOCE. cart it on the ишо and Watt ov comen's engine stands in force ed ak 
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Ei etiusd ftoi 40 pound cach winter in yards on | January February, but it nes not appear re -— . |fürst, bat held its rotid а serico Pri any other 
roots, hay, oil-cake, ety абы my sheep eat a large quantity Lime has been extensive]y used for 40 or 50 years, Itis | of ploughing that со! uld be brought. шо! with 
re ise di T dic. i last tW Ыт not to repeat it vi NM. Large tracts of ре а д could be b: ht inst it, combined w 
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land, except farm-yard du perphosphate does well on ананна 
our chalks, also on our lower clay 1оашв— їз not worthsowing| In 1860 I grew-7 се of Swedes with about 7 tons of still v xs eid 
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Peruvian guano ie the best and only profitable manure on this | Wheat. М Grampound. è different systems and judge 
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on our real malm lands. farm-yard and 2 cwt. of Proctor and Ryland's Turnip manure, | ?nd see what the future brings orth. 
