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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
has but very гин idea of where they begin or end, 
urtesy M - doing so has led him 
all with that in his 
this, if not altogether groundless, would be a serious 
charge, I ask you as a simple act of justice 
се for P pore from growers of m 
Wh 
“м 
Мт. 
ted a s D, but t too late V чн эч. R аа 
alike to it, as the grub - c are in them ane 
them befor о the means 1446 Considerable M 
own et me that 
a few 
tbis year, Sich a ey have been printed ып Ше In e say 
e ot A. сте 8 due Ves aeter forces the 
last month i n the а journals I am quite at liberty 
odue 
l Ih employed for 
t his S progr 
for st orage the erop i in n October, 
to reproduce nviction that the success of my Wheat has ка the contents in bulbs of each of the f, i 
“I ресів Mk yest, o Л f Mr. е. Hall ott a bushel of ДЫ нед та стт а upon the sale of his own. Frederick An ills, аА tha result in tons per s statute aa tioned 
Pedigree Wheat ed on my Binten farm, in the mon a "er 
of АЧ about 3 acres as he direc cted. Thé Зей: ме poor F. Hallett, The Manor House, Brighton, ве ept. "5 my. thu асте stood 
dy field of acres, and al it is eat; bu e par носо рад i 
dibbled with Hallett's is conspicuously superior to the rest of Ёз: Е. ZI produced .. 
т часи was drill Мотора, кад освен to оа дете, Hom e Corr rrespondence. , c COE Ole » с 
the old fashioned way. ears arge, containing » 9........ 
and sometimes more corns in length, p^ four chests. Iesti- Ste Sors — According to your ем 1 was | Your ie a ee 10 15 
reader 
зало е сорав Un ере тр шо у ка меу т for жй E51 plough A оге "hs am jus stified in mde. er uU ce n ng 
“I cannot fix the eire Jue but ыр "November1 dibbled | the Sparkenhoe Far * Club, an t beat by both is ап indispensable auxiliary in с ОЁ botany 
- M" - acre i " eis еа E — сЕ Fowler and Howa a "This isa capital j dashed agriculturist, as it is comparative acria of an 
, УУ. 8 ап en: sui р " 
Му! bailiff e Ме this crop after the rate of 14 sacks to the |11 mM abse се, ior I was not present, neither did I|ahorticulturist. I feel la ustified in siae e M 
„It has, like the W |. on the sandy farm, generally | enter or send implement that s he last time | the absence of such a preliminary in an earl E that to 
Me corns in length, d -€ n and vn 5 еч Тһе | I worked publicly in the T A" with Fowler's and | can be a uted many of the mistak Miss 
w on both farms is higher and more o an the com- 5; М 
red sorts of Wheat, Which gives Hallett's һө ап more ^s ta aKa was at Bur iP t. Edmunds, таш culturists in the ordinary poten of their m agri- 
additional value to me. еи (ка sie pe a too, for the m ur agricültum auem 
“ Farnham, Aug. 6." от hurs n was one 80 | the absence of such knowled. а таоге 
i. g їп the Midland Counties Herald of Bisa A badiy»: кт ior ploughed it to ide it than i in that of the а Маан War лер, Г shown itself 
an article headed ‘Pedigree Wheat, in which one of your | from 99, of the purs ыа” *ha latter was а Pap —the to be n not very 
pomegrondenta seems to doubt Mr. Hallett's description and oblig чү "o Ss kd up without aes af, c T  wond, as 
wing of this extraord: cereal, and says he should not Ж do itt 
object to go о t ce ш k Ў DEW ie йо d if | al ble, to до (after trying o T kt : eoo Ci 8 isand m was engaged =: dne "E Ee : 
he would venture as far as ocality I think I could satisfy en e per enhoe Clu practica otanists i in LI Maj esty’s d 
p cene үз cen y pem pe ent ao i e his I am to get thrashed whether I will ha id it aj me н. Баг. m 
description of Wheat, о planted an e or two last em. 80 о befor e the Show a se cretar агу o of t t Ciub rots te that tl T ort T 11 de t , ex cathedrá ers 
was with some friends examining it yesi , and foun: pro essor of agriculture, wh, " 
Stools containing 40 ears, and from 70 to 80 pier tat the show his tackle is there, pe there is also b лев eve much better bot: idu th gr 
м Js ari men е "s about one-eighth of an M дае еб of mine without my authority, RE I еи "But the most extraordinary aru 
ndent should pay a visit to this Brighton of | will iquat or not. So in this way they manage to | was, that that Professor had forgotten the many ^ 
Wales, г should be happy to show bim та = стор, мөл a | thrash me. Yet according to Bells Weckl 7 poc ments tried on the stri ping of Mangel Waral cx 
En е Аид i» forc fus дш Eo CHA > me my No. 3 made e cellent work. Here are Bells words: | some 25 s ago, and published in the periodical of 
** Tebed-Bryn-Maenol, uu Aug. 7." ** Mr. Smith's No. З did m 4 allotted to it in а very | which he was the joint editor. Yet i Revie 
excellent manner, and w not precisely comprehend aue А де did not say, as you have so just] 
* T can now add my Pme testimony in ur from There s had ORIS eady vi red 
by thejudz SERE not slow E to Бо оц ыл сеа day." d 
Me also shows that 
in its ѓа 
having had an o S Norton denim of ng таў на some of "ihe. crops 
хоо fror, ihr Nort stay in 
angel leaf is in a fit state to be whole. 
Р, 
Bells essenger a 
Stockingford who showed m; my No. КЕ Ed trived 
ur- | last year for this same Mr. Terrell set of 
it | mine and опе set of Howarg’s to ав "the latter i in a 
Howard's 
* The first 
Mr. Govet, at ы sh 
e some of the Wheat last ien: 
a piece of Potato ground. n 
to the well- ts of the BER ын 
much if any know 
ota 
e die i in the season, which is n the | amal farmer should understand this, if he but for a 
US throve n isa full "ы, v with lar rge | was placed to work upon a piece of nice working Bean ent reasoned a little from the за, that such a 
ears; hav! x pas рна ау nime ve ави тв к 5 X mine upon a rough hard Oat stubble, so pun тр: to the da nod tha EN [^ на 
ало оре: sud p ei S Кш. 8 о 10 n his way the Брагкепћое Club т manages to get ri rid o of his Pota r Cabbag lot by 
quarter Грег асте, bably the latter, there is no un its money. 
Ae eri every vicc e, Je feet og Pise уе А | for but one moment, seeing what Mr. Terrell did last а growing state. But Mns Гун. Nm on an igno- 
uan 0! жаз оп i та "vi ^ 
Nd сне У SE Li of * Alland,’ only once | Year, We М Кол had an excellent rance of this delightfu d a n fi abl 
ploughed; but it did not succeed, the land being very opinion of m No. 3 to Me Rus LP it in PD 
dry at the time of planting. There is no doubt that we often see them Ee: by witnesses in our 
ni 
rid sham fight last year thrashed it himself йк а а mere 
һе tainly the 
Wheat will succeed; and I believe this will Bei to Wheat 
mv in all — where the land is dry, and rain does not fall 
hurdle, a mere makeshift, that can't do t 
after it is ly o 
toug! 
In conclusion 
vi 
ted to yield nol mith, Woolsto 
Both Шә д sowu without A7 dressin; " od r3 he in | Blete cle 
a е eyed аш ty of soi ut no ЧЕ 
es ә RR cted by Caterpillars. 
in an unfair position ч ju 
p courts, by j jurors in their divisions, by attorneys in 
elb counsellors in their 
and cross examinations; nay, SA 
in their e 
ple adings, direct 
Ex land 
ith all eis yo in the pen 
angel Cat. 
Itis a кыйы, of UN that a себ 80 valuable to the 
1862, іза lotter headed farmer as i сй Мап 1 Wurzel should have 
A: ad 5 і 
ects" the ‘following paragrap 
б 
ing. For over 40 years I =н +h tal 
a ү tivating si eof and never cde 1n one season did I se 
the dn ub so 
6 Between the English Channel and Middlesex 
e it attacked with uch ares of i in 
avora „ме оп КЕРЕ farmed land, excepta TV 
land is M^. por AS T. of r quality. 
varieties on n Sussex, none of о аге а 
average, ано it attacke 
well as in improvi ixl their demesnes. 
Hd n Pec this study was comparatively ignorel, 
е est educational ЕШШ M the 
profess f bot may have delivered their 
there, but with little d pan to them except MM 
alon man hom learned just as 
of Hallett's, the seed of which I had from Messrs, Lawson, 1S ePi „The year in whi аһ Ts TE T 
- е Беейвшеп, and which is good in quality and quantity—say | , an > 
гүш" n 
ir examinations, Bat 
bushels an acre. in England also, and if 
[-] J 
x v we live in, 
I could, with the permission of the writers, add | the time the insect Leg 1 th 
many more such reports, some of them from millers. | by you. Ве that as it may t the insect p pedet 
Mr. Shirreff sa; ж, he found two ears of my Wheat on- ES, grub on my plant was a small greenish butterfly 
ee: 50 and 56 grains only, while in a neighbouring Бү неч 
стор he found ап ear containing 61 grains. Let us = s s produced between the upper and 
Soror of the leaves and а ed its way йс ш the 
softer ts of them, lea as it went the v. 
blanched as if it А т Ъееп а off ami blanche d fo 
fortnight in the e lea 
Ls 
Mr. Айн Shirreff, а grower and advertiser 
for sale, t ng over my farms eagerly searching 
um species of dA is, even in Ireland, brought 
home to the door of the poor man; rye pw can hope, 
to use the words of Sir Ro БЕН, Кап ne, in 
the ages of iudustrial ignorance, “аё time - Jona 
away never to pst » Edward Carroll, 
"i erra Ma Aug. 
Drainage of fti Me. Bailey Denton, in yo 
inst., states that “agreat natio! 
994 
respassi 
for the very worst ears in my SE in order to com- 
plant pro dots E cease in as far as the 
made b; 
“= Р.В 
injury. is being enacted at „Ње present time i 
г: pv 
ttack ii one or more of the bs. 
were attacked, but 
Those tha t were 
© 
thi 1. 
p^ Шеш with the very best o 
Wk a few leaves 
but 
in many ons the whole Were so. 
attaoelrod hnt 
ignorance that the usual poer is EE about 22 
(* free soils”), , implying, I take i 
opinion the common practice at is "im 
an ear 
ins! Не then proceeds to say that in then 
&c. 
befe ore him he foun nd 100 grains в, &c., those that were 
к 
тей particular. field. It i 
LEN Nl 
and equidistan nt drains, without oh 
for the alteration of Ра {тота с1 A 
alar feld. | La to ls oi bs the тті! 
et aft 
ears of my Wheat grown this year oni upon the Dens 
one of which contained. 114 grains on 31 “fertile 
notches,” t 
1 wish det 
each. Ialsos 
Whe at, the one grown here a "the chalk, 
the other on sandy loam, that you may judge of its 
geni Six ears 
u 2 quart 
can wel 
v 
vus end y 
F 
ЁБ 
"o 
ч 
Ж 
=. 
R 
S 
© 
т" 
| selec n whic 
| ben а fair average of the whole, nd gave it 
of his let 
hé 
up wid to the grubs, but st d d 
the my, before h 
fully k effect having satisfied himself, Or when 
h 
quality. 
Mr. Shirreff in his remarks un the Wheat i in 
* tubs” at The Exhibitio on, 
e could eir i 
the fact: ts, 
removed. from where they grew, pe en to Batters 
mery show the number of stems a single. uin | 
call А. i another drill of the same character selected I 
bad all е. affected leaves ta ken off qui uite close to the 
able. And in the tef D^ drainage а! t all 
can — e cerea ed € t р 
ti 
to 
woul eode, and that they have been unable 
val. 
vive рест 
. The w empty, t 
bd were all Aux AR y Са ра 
: Los year for inspection ш full, and the average 
contents of each was Lie cap? 
EUM Mr. 
| just below vilior tis Pod Another drill 
1 had treated ed with a A ug scissors, had the 
rts y be lea in e grubs 
Y. io mur 
LE + 
leaf as Ned аз ible uninjured— hing the 
hirr e I should haye had 
much pleasure in Docs rm "everything upon my | 
his CIS it whic h convinces me that he | 
m "Ап Old 
| ceived that D w 
ты ап рег 1- 
опе, апа їз 
Aug. 15. 
were | s 
out, po b aom of ih 
possi! tc 
progress, or the absence of it on each drill, I soon per- | h 
e practice co 
that of the drainage eng 
e | pri D of land drai 
eiu of the present 
LO ibat bet 
this respect; but there is am the 
Пе landowner's pi att ын 18 
he pays for his draining. In the ioris 
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