1062 THE GARDENERS: CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
recognised by its first beginnings a mation, in which it would be the teacher's dut uty to 1 Ш him 
what 'alkaline' and earth, too, implied, geologic d. 
instinct. Long айуу with the de = оГ my EN pd, » - use of the, — шл which tho 
aoenpeti on, beginning, too, with the mind „of a child Ozford Jo urna sn a ot f of ай o ing тм ans d 
which I ool in ing i natur of t 
the sensitiveness vith whi oh i s early knowledge is Т. pe adn help emu TUM А d ži the use iy going upon the 
received, gives almost е and without | (е m D wi 
the effort of any "spec cial attention such as you must | knowing these у i first of ай? He proposes simply to 
exercise, th f fitness or i i 
for the eral lands 
А Р ог even K ps d 
vation, The uantity which Г no, Clen eui, 
іпуег order of this sor instruction; and, like m. 
; ; men more conscious of their powers than conscientious in the 
q 1 conditio il or crop, or р! ion o em, seeks set case an isola 
3 Y 
i i his My argument re Аы is that all an sted 
Күкене лоно 10 an SR ou ni Po. A. до observer, living à in the pun and intending to follow ed 
Ry рапоп, p Ls uits, SEA know of what my critic calls air and 
tion young." "The article proceeded. to criticize a boo e id eres and an нң шш the Tustio population (for he 
written with the intention of carrying out the idea of mistakes in^ pm that km nni oi DEUS. 3 ene si at Mu 
+ : : 88 where revious foundations of ordinary e 
of im preen a oce Foo Т Тор | гате been laià, an d there I admit І would rather take hem 
d ung than tha yout! 
was thus referred t 0, was criticized somewhat severely vat i in farm: Memes upations ca: Sess qur lm Knows 
on the ground that mm of a familiar talk of air Zu likely it is a good deal е than may be та 
0 Wheat, 
vs if. plant poe fil fne p^ PM 
antit 1 
y the d 
тул n an (A, but Fore 
y cause, үөү, ы. 
^ e ess ity of seed than 2 bushels would de 
n 
f 
а young man from the universit It is true ther 
and earth, and plant and animal, it 188 8. formal that he should be taken through the Dus *formal palet 
hs hich my friend болура S, ‘in whi ht ruth is stated not es 
me but at it exists in the mind of a osopher. tis is obaerved. in in the field, but EAGT ts in the mind of the 
osopher. ; 
he value and importance of the но ot agrigul- Р “ Field instruction follows. I have penned а farm calendar for 
^ the limits dnd capabilities of cultiva; the “‘ senior class" which my critic does me not the honour to 
"ihe manner in which iculture is sins y notice, but on which I have га publicly the testimony of 
and so on, which are the subje of Mr. | such men as the hon. member for Nottingham, Mr. Charl 
ee opening chapters, аге, it was dart. "5 оп |} gst 
"m А — Academicus—a -— Rd Agriculture | boys on his estate at Ruddington; Mr. J. T. Hoyt, editor of 
a Farmer's Club—m est themselves, id Wisconsin Farmer, and secretary of the State Agricultural 
e. which E not the points i whieh. ihe абма йор i Society there; the Rev. Н. Fearm, rector of All Saints, Lough- | g 
Edu i ha disetad: in of th ah pw "uh (а bee. ram A last, d — Mr. J. C. 
admirable, and it is directed [tw an Аа which | Kensington, hiraself a farmer's son, and who not only петри 
well deserves the effort needed for the attainment of|of my proposals at Guildhall in June, but stat e eel Sla 
it—an object useful, desirable, and io a great extent bec за reni ши уа катны ау ы ңы "b. eerie 
attainable ; is, ав we believe, pobiisb "Омор and *Farm Calendar' have been 
essentially ойк ө and its style is adapted rather lodged in. 
t Mi 
х Á- ud M the Lords of the Privy Council for Educa! 
for S men than for the ignorant cbildren for "las rit coleüdar; ug hor fhd atedhis ki r^i 
whom it is intend d 
germ of my proposed арн teaching. Му 
The following reply was addressed by Mr. Walla е omits to state that I bave по Votis быу жшн dd Th 
Fyfe to the eee Journal, on the ушне М of pras ONU tO rely entirely on my own class books, MAE dis 
Farmer We ме been reluctantly obliged some- Young's modernised) ke gp en siis Сыз 
y cm 
P. 
“ Feeling far more obliged than otherwise for the strictures works. toin: I take m bos first farming month 
in e£ ch o 
chief; Which i is especially felt i n small fiel 
rua. Ы lia wy bo o loss of plant by the TA 
of vi 
some lands, inter 
z 
ma 
ж 
un 
et 
X 
kno 
hs pigeons, rich Ъ elp the ps to lis rent ; ; nesk ia in 
goes the PUDE, ти ig you hen нА, ould rather eat 
a Куа k piec MD hin, green, 
d ; 
gaol, this is the terminus of loss of plant, Asr 
Wheat, I should be truly sorry to hear that, under any 
i t been 
of the Oxford Journal on my ‘Catechism of Agricultural Science | thence go o the last, notin; wn 
as in Practice' (the main title and purport, however, of | culated to "llustrato, Жее M Fel 
w publication—* for — ичре in the face of edd in the in-door occupations of farming vt 
Nature, by means of а Farm Calendar, appears to have | arrangement, ог in any pina: walk of rural economy ; I ask 
been жүйө concealed, for the M of Зо - writer's | the teacher to. exhibit these things minutely to those he ma; 
onslaught, ll you, nevertheless, a etos that the | be instructing—men or r boys І е not, but not two eyllable 
whole article is founded in error P ене, pus misrepre- Lorem xs —ani LE. d it is necessary their 
readil enough j iscus- m 
There із at the same time nothing in his objections whizh I зану objec а opera kir: of farm life will co 
bave not already striven to clear away myself as а preliminary or ^ октан ы алейне meaning рд т псе. 
то the entertainment of my plan. No one can be more alive күнтү: this they na. t about heedless Md unobservant o; 
than I am to the startling reor кы T а сүт to instil | the real bearings of their actual work as before, But І have 
Science into the rustic mind. had only looked | no objections to their jme i already и with things as 
into my short paper, read рач i» X duit I Edveaiond Con Con- anag сым I har "at eonceiv ess their time were 
[эү and reprinted as an introduction to m: ise taken uj ihe moment the; һи мее. master ©“ two 
in the face of MM he would have iion that I Sens ere box it, PM be otherwise; it E E foundation of 
not only that in accordance with our. and | my whole 95, that already th parties idi ve 
practice this must be done, but that I attempt to show how it | become Mer Were h farm operations, "appliances, a 
mM In a paper which I subsequently read befo: ена былан pud. (sb Dep о MUT M6 NA ж 
1 
is to teach agriculture ‘scientifically’ in common ls. Опе | from me. No two projectors could be m completely 
of кыры! ME, RR of the analysis of soils— | at one than Edinburgh (for my -— dates fom "ашо 
а: that m еы be fou: b " by о 
of conveying y xf 
set 2 Scholars out of чө! homrbook, "ате ides. of je o Edinburgh has put into a tangible ie what Oxford, to use 
abstruse and difficult р and proci philosophy of | its own words, never will, at least if adherent to the childish 
Оше. fancy of teaching agriculture, or anything else, in words of 
m уп tible 
with my . name strength 
upon it, in consequence of having been got up for the Inter- Lee of us Id stupendous kind, agriculturists to be 
national Exhibition, and for this pupon I judged that the | shut up from the correet mechanical" knowledge of the P s 
readiest plan of throwing off many copies as might be | and ог уру wh mes they nm а ves proper meaning of the 
required, and no more, would be X stereotype it—partieular]y | processes they pursue, the tru ns of an art of which 
as the copyright is offered for sale in this country, and the | more rem m ец Dod, wit bin p kem half or quarter of a 
right of translation abroad. But it is wor a published work; | century, through the medium of science, than had previously 
itisa эке OM jl full 
extensions, and avowedly contented with suggesting to 
ieacher the supply of Аз i к explanatione E 
instead to carry t ba ou out within an impossible e—ÓÓ—— 
idis t 
plates id I conceive it to be so Tittle ЕЕ СУ) {о айуапсе {һе д0 SEEDIN xi 
invading that dense D; j 
hopelessly hems in our scientific agriculture, as the Ozford | MY apology for ing the Editor of the e Agricul- 
л would have the world believe. But i of the m Gazette ie te Te aerea pies is the 
Catechism on which Dy itio оо mm NT. Мө, pripa of Me m MES Rel greatly 
which will be found exhibited рт) Аа реча Ке ае. from out n by delicate 
case of Class 29, which may be Ee y the pivot ge health, I will try and и їп relation to 
point on which it all turns. The Catechism y rd Wheat тени а ураа NR has lately occupied the 
Sci columns of the .4grieu tte. I пож that 
H me 
piece, full of er ee qug capable of many M T ins in isa RENS nearly 6000 years of m Oxford 
he pui lm “W, WALLA cx yrs. M, ab 
obtain 
e present state can have 
иы кое - te jargon ci вше tha than I have; I have of late fa Ho subject of thin seeding, especia 
and en i 
be obvious that where real опа sub оа: AME observation Да. "ia T Ae oare corel then, } МЫП i iet my 
көт! is to be conveyed, this must have its limits ; and | 008891008. ust be according to 
of two syllables will s pajanan o—1I hardly could nix ure of the seed sown, so d the erop 
have expected them to be so m че at Oxford. To|much depends upon circumstances, which are various 
even a cursory outline of eight 9 or nine sciences, as in different localities. 
applied in agriculture, thin m ordinary limits of a book of hief 
ction js no casy task; but excluding technicalities, it The chie PING. of. олш the Supreme 
К h and, let me ада, useless. Опе of Been: but success subordinat agp ind also vw 
P pannin m APT Lm the me of seeding, the qual — the seed, the natur 
mus of di ү: шз ы, е pw land, pe eus dms cc inel of the land. Taik or thin 
oxford M ay that it is unintelligible, and ing are an an; What 
it rms should, 1 vite the world to pity the Univetsity. may be ik prd быз in а bnt чадны зм "be thin 
which uo solent et passages бе Pob э, сезіле thassfore in | în another. Mach depends u ppop, the condition and 
Єл cleanness of the land, and the of the 
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size t 
nib passed а реса ik Cols UE m. MA too little 
ab ry g^ " Десе 
ia нын My land is abou н 
highly січе, which indeed І say is tbe as 
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sown with less. than 2 bushels of sed to 
the acre. 15 should be remembered that now m 
queh stock is kept and so m Turni е required, 
e cannot fin ert Тагріра T Wheat much 
mn" Christmas "What chan asd such 
modicums of Wheat s eed, as e mmended by 
some in the Agricultural di л against tbe 
various enemies of Wheat, of f which. I bave only men: 
eap I fancy that t 
ms, will sooner or later, sing for their 
mud 
“Тһе Seng was great, because the dose чаз яшай; „ 
*'"Twould have been greater, had ad the re been none at all. 
And what will be the harvest song of the credulous 
British publio с? Will it not be 
** Bone and Skin, p^ о geeders thin, 
Would starve us all, or near it, 
But, be it known to Skin and Bone, 
d l blood can't bear it." 
t the middle 
with m ; and yet I наа again, I 
be sorry m" them or for me to иш M m 
i те! 
ресЕв re. There is of course da hme 
heri e 
victo S for pe: There is also à А 
eory, believing % 
lic. 
I must now > шау these Eur err 
which but. for the » impor will be ret 
un 
to the | be unpardo pable, and 1 will h vill hope that t lare ойда 
with the nd Love кер bee pert 
them. John Ford, Jun. 
Oct. 27, 1862. 
"- акр, к» 
Seed, Sowing Б y Steam. рех уоп, after 
cultivation in ad Paper 3 p "in 
iving a passing remark on my d... will generally 
UN thus: api g of the lan =» very much 
oes" No 192 1856 
seed | remain to be done by ho! 
reminds me of my position 
