224 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Marcu 20, 1858, 
j rti dq uantities ; even when the 1 rotation of i “ the way Boing Bia at : a valuation Fo 
Hoa estar however to this rule which “experience | gae Pagie and q ciiai neutral fenas ‘The outgoin ing tenant by he 
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can Pied be estimated the kesili. of j reena 24. All plants exhaust the eart th by extracting from | of the threshing machine for a twaa after 
oe phosphoric acid it contains. This opinion is | it part of the alimentar. Ta oo necessary to pro- leaves the farm os Maye oy people to reap ang 
ased on the fact that — everywhere corn an nd mote vegeta ation; | but all 1 e keeps a man and a pai 
Ha sold in mar rket tilit the foll g away hec rop; but for the incomi 
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above ~~ The pan of the assertion is| si etn "Those who t ake 
proved by long experience and the results of experi- hy the components of the i muvee remains of the one year’s re nty 
ments. And these show that manures parnai previous crop. It is oe ei ae shows that one | their setting anything off the arn Sent tat 
rich in ees and Haare, vane acid, nd bo th ind of grain succeeds mo s afte oe ponie other can clea oft the Grass and Tur 
substances the haere ema I y th that the agr: ineludin 
increase in the crops. gm alm an the manures— tari Aa s PA f one or other kind of ae nt im- | very impor’ tant items—household expe 
whether natural or stil prepared for sa i — poverishing, sparing, or enriching the soil. Gorn i is so | wages, and having to buy the corn to feed the ho 
quantity of alkali is very small, f 4 to 6 per s (Emportant that it is the niera of the farmer to give for the fir: ‘st tw ie akc many would n 
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o be sent a great distance, and the farmer desi whether corn vba will succeed a it. He will agriculture as their maintenance, an 80 
ve the highest possible proportions of 1} al ihe foregoing distinctiv. vo terial: “im- | often ruin themselves and helpless famili 
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phosphoric r; povafisimg™: sparing, and ‘enriching °—in designating | driving practical farmers to other localities and 
. In sb tern state ea our _— the ore Sr the | certain kinds of produce a bedi cal expressions to be | times to other spheres of labour. Suffice it to state, 
Trat entary substa: the veget syd applied in a scientific point of view. It is known that | unless a tradesman has Ior for every one acre of a fira 
the pat ey men _— wi plants are not i in xarri corn per ote well after re Lucerne, Ve tehes and he sees advertised to be let, he had better 
portion to the of ary s, without dun ppli- | himself to the business he studied in his h 
absorbed by the: individual plant. ted has a | than devot icultural it 
The effect of any particula: ar kind of manure or of | very fedora effect on the growth p cereal piniis: „Suppose a practical farmer to have taken a fmd 
These facts show that pr aaf a cause of the t (which in the south of Scotland 
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be deduced from the simple theoretical thesis; nor can | haustion is to be foun of oy ar an md const ered one of medium extent) at 12007. et a 
it be FHAA from the results of we analysis of the | absorbent nitrogenic ccnsbingtione in nthe oil. As and that he i is tö take possession on the 
component parts. This can only be attained by prac- | speak here only of the exhaustion of t the soil with 1858, and has agreed to a rotation o 
tical agricultural e: experiments. These se be made | respect to the fo Se crop, it is not necessary to go | five shift system, he will, if the outgoing tenant 
under the different circumstances ar soil, climate, and | farth into t ject und to be five- eo rane , have 240 acres 
the different systems of agricultu We know the} 25. A par tially. ps completely exhausted soil which | and 120 acres of fall o be sown with Turnips—ty 
results of thousands of such experiment but they do has long | proe ced but beer or middling crops can, with | outgoing tons cates sown 240 acres with Whe, 
not enable us in fix with preci: cal ring rotation of plants, and | Barley, and Oats. Should the farm be of 
i alimentary R viaaa though they may | with careful application of stable or cowhouse dung be | improvement by draining, the er must have 
afford to the ical cultivator a basis or point of | b; rought to a comparatively high ne e of fertility. en i 
view from — Eng may see how he is to make his | When this i is assisted by a eA manure, com- | useful 
experiments. land immense quantities of phos- of nitrogen, phosphoric “a, and especially 
phates of Time, yp are so a as by or secondary | alkaline salts, the same degree lity can be ob- | dest: 
manures in govt cultivation of Turnips especially ; and | tained in a short time. peta aka caknieoe us acids, | and should a few of the horses, bought at not less tha 
e ant on this enormous con im n | lime, , and magnesia, are o be found i n proportionally | 507. a-pi ecome diseased and die—to meet 
of dn per — if t ere inat From about the middle of March till the be 
not a highly remunerating rı n produc: “It of nitroge n and deabctyars acid, whieh latter are ab- ginning of Aprili is in the south of Scotland soon enough 
hardly be de pied that the pares of these alimentary | embed by the plants. But the agriculturist ought to | for the sow g of eed from the hegingivg of April t 
substances so in succeeding years soon enough and la enough for 
effect Pao soil during the e cultivation of other crops. | alimentary substance, in order to r the excep- | the ri ‘f i 
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Saubere experimen: ee so ade with Chili | [tion ted — rule if such should occu ef about the 12th May till about the T 
ammoniac, gas wai other n Seneu iiris The | mber of the g opi June is soon enough and late enough for the 
combinations, and the results have been made pre t as ep th w of Jone ies edish Tur Sipi ; then yellow, ther ; 
su las, owever they may | which should be before the middle o w 
tion, cularly of corn and rorta is great tly | pro- sane discover strong symptoms of the nitrogenous | 
mote by t * * We must conclude that the paian AE E S tth i 
appropriate components of the manure for each plant — sole expense of the tenant firtnet, commence probali 
are determined the components of the ag itself ; NOTIONS “el bhi CAPITAL. at th 3 much of the Se 
ei 2e corresponding plants are ags rich in nitroge ms Any one who has tra an agricultural ae possibly can previous to t mmencem 
e Turnips or other Gine arih in phosphoric acid yh n | the Turnips. Such an enterprising farmer Wil T pers 
the ‘alkaline combinatio are particularly suited to lth lower parts of yar th get, previous to sowing t the Turnips, 50 acres drained 
pr e o "iy emyioyed, be sdrained. fl fet a a Bona elimi hue, while 4 when vg Ae m 20 to 30 feet apata 8d. per 
m- can tageousl those the are of a at 8 lin Aep fet Ga ly from 6 to cartlonds ; 
are best suited to meadows and the production r. i An ST e or like The ave ae in Nor 3 
22. fodder generall eo hish] +, | close to the above, but perhaps belonging to either berland” is 10d. se mit four bolls of lime is Cul 
z ung g t| farm; the t rising man sidered a good cartload—hence the price of the lime, 
shown ths _ Agricultural ”chenits sr repeatedly according to the porosity of the surface soil and sub. | and paying as naar as oe per cartload, accozding to the 
ane sored > | strai i kiln, is 11s. 4d. per cart 
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horie. acid, and, in or degree, | drained it 4 feet deep and from 20 eet apart, and | draining of | rt will be 4l or $ | 
yp Sap Say of tren Tern filled the leading drains wi hen at 30s. thoes 102. tae = ne ana 
such ma 30 often wasted. ° [and the furrow drains at 22s. 6d. per thousand. ‘The | of land, corn uag 
AE otk eat plants in that ‘eld would be as as healthy in the} have had practical proof that they can, witho 
arp: cera n large to e | bottom = the furrows as those on the crown of the any sliding-scale of im ch on core 
Shey are not  suficiently EA their | pid e drain $ iS. rted ; 
a ang is ve understood. Agricult ays —— em- i ws 
ploye i in st chook of husbandry ion that first 
grea! given to the prepara n of su ch | erop on land after it has been | farmers have lai hod 
ai sums of money, 
sul noes "However it a poms aos remneraie efficiently drained is said to defray all expenses in- lating ere the ie a 
Yidal sorts of plants manures PR ai ic or indi wT have seen trope of corn an et u ces is tru i return eq 
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, properly | w. e has draining the year f | Mate 
ee og = ~~ greatest import- | dried produce after lime sen! bo sae have pen ode (Ie land prepared fa soning the Tarps have ve the wor f whi 
cially FX fig en pe v pora Ts sj eg | Sously applied more abundan t crops of ri Tar iN] old Grass field renee a knpn down m a Sot, the tenet E 
the same time the tary in the atmo- The profits of oe A risen a: pipes can : 
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sphere are attracted in a much greater degree to the |in cropping. The prof $ h 
furrow draining h Gr. drained during 
soil and converted into a useful vegetable substances, enhanced the rs p of arable hid, brda to firme d pre- = Gras and the 9 ye on cht w from my boyo 
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I the aaan M ran 5 The cei maio Stat Mert two asin) Pasig: and Whe Wheat farms avaa ot spo tide Sion teal need 
countries it is mot desirable that the samo sort ar eros | ae of an adhesive argillaceous ve dence been |above will show that any man, hek a moes 
should be continually cultivated, it doubtful whether a Wheat soils in Berwickshi kibire grow sounder Swedish | lay out 107. per acre on "lend WE must 
Pini Loni tg Be genet ding: qualities than the | within a period of 19 years. "A Scotch Rustic. 
ma be enh va replaced oH taser AA The recto and the east pe friable soils 36 Resbat ch: dirt bree te 
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he geeveth | the summer fallowing of land is almost abandoned and | ON THE CULTIVATION OF WEEDS» | 
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dually merge into nation when the work of a demand aai ber ioe and autumn fairs | paper, contai other useful matter the 
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at with the rental twice a year, either by Whit $ iad a y = a rise as ——, ek Bs Took of 90e 
: ra age Sie by wint iel If the Leases This is praetor nie dtl f 
od: Dy ped | Straw and manure are “steelbow,” the incoming tenant | no necessity whatever for weeds to be at a tention 
nou IR proper | in which he impugned Dr Watney in ee pene 2 sen afwerp bana ‘spe dre 
