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lastly and 4thly, to complete tool great beauty and texture, 
э inam uts ide, at qd найга around the e RUIT. [n crops e M be ihe тт ан) іп the дее it was doa at PET 
Pico A all 13, pressing the ears, and la apping кде АН |result. This continuous cold and dam mp we Wh ich is a ver low p md 
evenly together as possible. Another adva 1 р a short t feld in the \ p different kinds of flour of t 
d stooks is, that the produce of s riens: 1 t tainty R d gum is reported to be making | of ed ce, but all good, and some of th. 
aced on one, so that the land засе t ly, although we have not vxo which I examined recently, the moisture was 
necessary be cleaned or ploughed before the corn is in our own In some place and a fraction to 15 and about a-half per ce 
rted. Т € rule applies t iini and many What and t this applies hi ' especially to spring nitri n in the dry flour is 1.74 per cent 
other crops. stooks too, from the ears bein Whea thin on the e ground, and ver our asit is delivered 1.59, "These 
less exposed, are hotter protected from predatory birds, | a SPE wa nt of le ength i in the € which must t tell i М 10. 84 in the опе case and 9.47 per cent. of g 
whic h often commit too great havoc by devouring corn the bushel. On the ve whieh is th average q 
city cially this year, from | good pieces of Oat: » : 2 р е ү b А in good flour, : 
s of their re jectin the hted corn|tions of soil, uiia! ly if sown early, also appears at extr леу low, being only 0.58 per ce 
ОО so m c uch prevails, А Ж upon | € ен s if of an iae bulk. Beans са аге | au Шы 0.52 per cent. as delivered. Several ph. 
t. Оп small "plots ots bourhoods an in straw, nor have we yet heard of any| we made in order to test the E 
ie viles Coen one quarter soriots "git in the erop. Unless we а avoured qualities of the г, ап Ы t 
S ће entire crop о of Whea t may be fairly stated аз | with m сени weather we Hust О шрны es y я - S УЫ аа еп e 
nl Е , Wü е н: ü 
being destroyed by those depredators, in some cases | таен кее ЖКО oroughly 
half, and in ober even the whole. 4. Hardy, Maldon,| Т ua lity of R Pap heat and Flour.— к 
| be wi 
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Essex, July 28. $ su : 
Crops in Notts.—Since I last wrote to you, I have | nation of a sample of Wheat received from you. 
had the opportunity of seeing the crops in my neigh- | 9th ult., an le of y from 
bourhood ; but as the soil varies much here—from|the 15th ult. The sample of Wheat is the average of 
serong i clay er konei sand—of course there is much | 12 samples, and the sample of flour is the average of | v 
rops, Му ‹ wn fa arm їз a good loam, on | 8 samples exhibiting in the South eus porch ы 
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my Wheat | the 
элү crop, Barley di an Pe the — Wheat per bushel was ascertai by er of | sc 
and li e p i 
if anything, a higher атте of bread не" is adi 
from English flour generally, altho ough it Approaches 
ery nearly to it. І may add, however, that the baker 
М qe store upon this quality of a large produet of 
bread; and my experiments, only able to be on a small 
seale, may | not perhaps have ha ro to the flour ig 
eadily bakét on. 
seen this year; and 1 ink tho b crop I ever had. | experiments, and the average of these was 
On the. sandy soils the Wheat crops e a pem deal; gave 2 weight wd M teg The aee of flour and of 
n 100 par e 
crops; others а rides erop fo aerei олова шай 
is respect. ried b 
a large scale, if you thought it E to d$ so, 
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Lan ондон 2 : otter has d it 
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tion of soils, but I hear of complaints ss ES v on | manner. у described by] M. Bous Eco 
Ba rley and Oats a are ood. rnips are 24 diff 
А і f Wheat gra ain grown in the Jardin ne Ph ntes, 
very well indeed. Ed few grown about The Quote gave me 83.5 per cent. Ens cid a 16.5 
f bran, which is a low per f bran 
of their growth, t the w |F this ES anity of 
s fo bee port b 
Campbell to P S. Dalton, бд the gai for 
S. Australia at the International Exhibition.] 
Crops near Ayr.—Since last writing to you regarding 
the "appearance of Pies ш this county, Ta have hada 
them. tepido ume E very іт the diu | bran, + is voro ary c eoriclusion ps is V 
weeks; hay PNE and well secured. | yield a higher per centage of the E flours, Dia 
Newark, РА оп {һе | ground and dressed in the usual — ru hows 
well managed and еа farms, I am in med the «ее a higher per-centage of bra be 
farmers’ prospects are very good ; Wheat is imens mentioned HE as hav ds experi- 
age crop; Da 
rley ditto; Beans were most promising, mented u upon by M. singault, uy four г gave а | 
are covered with the smother fly, and | Ше -— than this :did, Tene ot of the specimens | 
the tops are quite black with the fly; Peas are|yielde h higher per-centag here are no 
on some farms quite a failure, and have been ploughed | metho A het scale of Rente i correctly the 
and again on other farms are very good crops сона or "ihe yield of the different flours or Беек 
со 
very little sunshine or eh wbich has done Bali. 
retard vegetation; and I am sorry to o have to report 
very unfavourably on үр їп gene. In - and 
rt r, Wheat promised 
be a fair if not fuily an average erop, реи on light 
soils, but it is now evident ust havı Ө crops 
and a considerable deficienc: y in те quantity of straw, 
We have also had several heavy storms, which it is to 
feared, must have damaged the Wheat i in bloom, Oats 
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хр, Aces 
Potatoes are generally good d epe. the Swedes on hen from 5 
clay soils, кеМ early sown, ery good. Sum up too much, while our means of rubbing hee 
fallow: in a forward Mae i well cleaned; id stones would sie m insufficient. Ihave m: 
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many o of d farmers are now busy in pen fallowing ever, experiments by passing it through a 2 SE 
also 
their Clover stubble теа айу for TA ж Te bet goa end likewise by phi git down with the be 
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be more {һа an half а crop, to judge from pr esent 
extremely light, uch 
е there a "hd x e delicia 
clays the 
at thin on the Pu in badly some. this several times on the brans, in order to separate | 
to be singled. 
E em. a considerable extent h 
Whe 
with a very small ear, and Barley a bad crop. Charles | only the coarsest bran. With the steel mill tt 
Doncaster, Southwell. bran was only 3 per cent, while with rubbing it dow 
Arable v. Pasture Lan a late Number it was as much as 6 per cent., A is probably ае 
valuable Pu 4 is парро оп ш одоту? of | low in the one сазе еч too high in the other. If, how- 
Mr. Caird, much ever, Itake the m of these results, and calculate | 
of 
10. millions of. qut ers of er Sa 8 out yn culti- | the total yield of p sifted products „рег bushel of Wheat, | 6 ton 
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Corn-laws, and yield of 
laid down * ipte Now, I would Mr. Caird | gross products vid even if € d been а ada 
re told. ing t 
P йош, cattle and sheep are chiefly means of Fahrenheit i is Eoy 12.57 per cent., whereas in Wheat of m 
manufact cturing m manure, „and if so their increase would this country, i it varies ау 2 to season and othe 
ercent. The dry аа 
constant inclosures of waste lands must have greatly | in which are included и nitrogen and ash afterwards 
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many years and we cannot now look forward to an 
early or an AEEY harvest, Andrew W. Ralstom 
Lagg, July 24. 
added. Near Juge and growing towns {о 3 peace | mentioned, is 87. 43 p ent. e nitrogen in the 
ufa d produce ern за have Ө гэзиз йш ен oisture amounts to 2.08 per | Farmers! Clubs. 
reland there is som 1 ut Irelan ааг ро - | ш in its ordinary 'stato to 1.91 per cent. : ia M nd Reaping Machines 
duced the number of Pres stated; generally speak- nde ts in the 12.96 per cent., and in the | At ае Mac неде pets a sid 
€ I believe, more grain is now produced than five, p o! гаа and albumen The i he had been requested to p үс 
еп 9 y g btained in sra the Wheat was 1.58 per cent. on “ titors"—Trather а 
that in finitely m den: — If, €— Mr. d in its ordi state 1.41 per cent. which ser M griego M for one of 
Caird can fur ihe ing proof to the contrary, |i vus enn y below the average per i ene of ash in | the judges who had been the means of placing them in 
I must bow to "his authority; the return т sales in the | Wheat t in this country. In order the b о com- that awkward predicament; but everyone knew that 
various markets is no proo whatsoever, for "these | pare these result; ts with those of Wheat i in "hu country, | wher ere were nine competitors and only thre 
constit te but a very small part of t тев, віх must go to the wall it] to the 
ritis de "Fariacdo en s ii снаа Table of Moisture, Dry Matter, Nitrogen, and. Ash. trials which had taken place in the field that day, they 
vii das E: ieri bem t and cerra vesti Substances found. ае т осе кшт е ge to do with. We heard a 
concomitant of : trn 10 years : 
Edere cdd ^re & deal in dairy counti about the 
oris serious injury, we Moisture in 100 parts 12.57 1 ^ f he was 
t Furio z , тло d servants; but м 
beers m of th the pa dom ore, and prospective y % 87.43 82.90 jud катоде г whi ch the mowing in. 
agricu Everywhere we have ha PS d сеп worked that day, showed, к > eu: that nine 
5 5 i t had each а servant 
ecured i а ndition. The overflowin ng of the e s pi ша 208 pen — Y рэбна eg ла t. They bad just 
Thames spoiled some hundreds of acres between here | Ash ditto .. x before t| a gentleman who ha returned thanks 
and ord, and in m eremi w. рге gits wept | These results E ho сна нов neu sh Wheat I| behalf of € r and Key, who, it must 
it entirely away. The hay een an|have taken 
unusually expensive one, сд very e otracted; and a «Ов е ее vx x e E > pa А 
considerable acreage is уеб unsecure If the con- Quarterly Journal of the i i 
dition of the Sud baec for winter keep presents an | where а gentlemen i Сш b Soir, vol 2» 
ошаш Mes to dairy farmers, that of the root | from their experiments п English Wheat, that a 
is not тор s0 Peu the flockma ster. The Swede ru per- o both. of dry matter, together with а low 
e ver: p ng, f mineral m att er and of 
than ordinarily severe, in many tances necess ing зап апсе, аге а впге те indication ө fh о я 
even a third Hem ry and in fields bens quis af t the grain. Ву а co ир of above 
has not been necessary the growth is very ults, 16 will be seen т in all Нева іре the 
w On most farms the Mangel has been and Sout th Australian Wheat much the ien ya 
үг ring from the ravages of “the worm," a|the English Wheats in du average of ten years; but 
of white maggot with a black head, boe in vem. «wu im Е The ash of the Wheat was 
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its way ao the cellular interstices of t ined f. tuents; but as hibited i at o the whole of the Se el ке С 
€ а th inority 8$ 
confessed, were so far e mi y a 
won only the third ers with an rer 
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lough and а new опе: puta new plough 
kad ade by side Bau an old eget face of wb € 
share had been «ано y sm r А) 
they would a 
| latenti of steam posts and mowing 
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voracity most damaging to ihe no! thing differe nt ens Wheat h: all eed 
ofthecrop? With this and the cold | not, I think, give the analysis. "The Йош to y, ned 
wate 5 retu n3 
it ет һе me Т been obliged, by T 
or the Royal ACE. 
2 judge and a v ing, from to 
