THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 347 
e has required considerable skill in its execu- | been in use at intervals Pp since, cultivating m the 
94, 1858.] 
in other sections, & mo surfa 
am; | 
Swen” rich lo Tw o-thirds of thee farm have been completely | summer f 400 acres, gas as far as the 
pes Stem Suisun Valley, passed the foot remodelled, by eradic ating the old fences and planting | eye could detect, ‘was none — worse wear. Mr. 
i 00 miles from Stockton, and spent t le | ne ns well STe The new | Ran a says that great c ires t ken i 
” Messrs. Thompson proprietors of fences Fro y large tank | winding up the rope pr or eve pertes as the rust is 
celebrat orchard and pes where we TAT ea e enze oon a owl hold = cow pet more ro to e Rand = the wear. To 
ined. T ese gen pipes are o various points in the | preven ting Mr. Randell has the ~ 
most | serie Sta agers frnit cu ure, a pl ted | land Laue y vhich gutta | pa ry time it is put by EL Dna - 
aS in 1858 858. Their i a rd and vineyar a ha h at be screwed, of suc ery expedi itious manner, and at a cost of about 
1 ore pee 25 acres, handsomely fenced | c l tly manur red vit the guid A i The mode of opn ation is s this: the 
5 ae a by wide double avenues, from the live s t payed out the rei of its lengt a small 
sth, lined on either side by fruit a ‘orna- | into staal i "The Ya er for this purpose is raised oot =| | wooden trough, riled. with g as-tar, t through which the 
N motion, 
nd 
ses, which serve the double purposeof Sk aa ram from the low Ms pe a the farm, at the 
t 
= „and affording an pace e park, or drive. he drains, which are all brought to one point. The|a man with a fork stick keeps the mope in the toma 
wd contains 10,000 Peac each trees,all in fuil bearing mode of c cropping on.this farm is of a very mixed | another pouring in the heated gas-tar, 
be 0 Apricot, S0Quince, 1000 P! rie- character, and not any regular rotation adopted. The incredibly short space of time the whole of the rope 
eu - 15 varieties; 600 soft she T» od A o the river is kept i 5 igh condition | has received a coating pa agrare which effectually 
ne . 1000 Weeping Willow ; 250 Locust by liquid manure, ean ld pasture the more prev ents i corrosion. n if left ex e 
bey ines, 30 varieties; 1000 G Goca ; of the ı has been ge ‘boned, 1, and is |W eather -BJ this little errn it is supposed the 
ob Pear, 150 varieties ; 4000 trees in | now pro aie of ae vec: The eat and Oat | rope S. 
le lso, fine varieties of Fig, Olive, ae ig mopa; mostly after green crops of some piden , ar the 
a, t, Maple, Elm, Acacia, Magnolia, &c. 1 heavy well fed crops, and clean, being drilled at mannfaetor ao "Messrs. Cyt, Part eee - Co., 
trees are of a ver, large growth, all io oking re- e Gat ains team wice hoed in the spring: Some | of Tineo, supplied by the Messrs. Humphries, of 
7 thrifty and green, without eds awe sub- portions too much down by the late heavy ra All| Pershore. The ee: and all the cultivating appa- 
> the cultivator, which is sed often and} ripe, and one half ct at she Beans are sown in sot at ratus was also manufactured by — Humphri 
y? 4 feet paeo with a urnips in each interval. ere were six Sse employed, viz., one to hold, one to 
adapta- |The Turnips healthy ae hriving, and the Beans | steer and assist in road at the land’s Sr two shi 
tral i Phe rome: well pode, and the, land clean. One acre | anchors, one ai h niles one driving the steam- 
il for grain cate aT wing, seem to | of Celery in n double rows, 6 fee apar rt, and a row of | engine, and one with horse to fetch water. But it is not 
rive unknown until within the Jast seven | yellow Turnips in fd tin = The Turnips sow ial that th maip be men; for instance a 
o Yet we now find that the or contains about | early to be removed in time to earth up the rn oe lad would manage the water carriage, with hose 
of acres suited to cultural and. grazing The last exceedingly luxuriant. A crop of earl ched, w which is thrown into the pool, ditch, or brook, 
as po case may be, and the water pumped into the 
d by | Potatoes had bepp sold, and a crop of yellow Turnips 
5,000,000 of tule lands, easily growing on wa and which were healthy and clean. | rre 
of grazing land. There > 2 acres of Carrots had missed coming in pes and | The Prete covered a breadth of — six feet, 
ith stented Mangel; both a full crop and f work done about 12 ac es per day. 
j 
fi 
a 30,00 
under cultivation 579, acres, of which | filled up wi 
e produced 3,968,690 bushels or thriving. The Man gels, Cabbage es, anı nd ae: es all during 
154,670 acres have produced 4,639,678 bushels well, and n 
and have produced 1,263,359 except one portion of the Cabbages, ] nbb 
e are also in the State oe 600 | at the root very sy and made the crop full of Aa 
head 3,000 
of cattle, 2 sit is i to 
eres of tìme to enter into any calculation about cost per acre, 
from what has been 
After our i 
which time pegs om single mishap or per occurred, 
repaired to the rege ttm Wheat crop, the land 
he been cultivated by. team, an y more 
h tifnl crop: 
ret 
i 
£8 
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rat 
the 
the 
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was 
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nto 30,000 mules, 654, 
to sheep, 186,585 swine, and 266,300 poultry.” d clean, ~ Fou 
His i ù ir.—“ A sample of|t Turnips w ere da a “crop a winter Vetehes and | but a tol 
wer Merican at, raised in Contra Costa, by Messrs. Rye. Tees pe of Italian Rye-grass, sown _ last al 
per Isse Brothers. Reported yield, ‘45 bushels, of 67 March, had been twice cut, an to by those already in possess 
rom Ts to the bushel, to the acre.” Te and berry very | cut again on one porti "The new fences clean “and|a steam-engine, although the steam-engines now in 
ré Barley. —First pn i acres, to Mr. | growing well, but f the old ones a sais ed, or me possession of farmers "gem exceed six-horse power, and 
ind. CJ Leach, of San Joaquin. Mr. Lents certificates | crops dressed and coarse weeds cut pie Ithough stiff cl ot be broken up with less 
lich, lee of 870 bushels on 10 acres of land. ‘The | garden ground (13 acre) near the farm m homestead, E than eight- -horse =i nae, the light soils, we are 
500 oy the most tidy, except about one-third in Rhubarb, | assured, can be bro! with six- power, and 
the ot às 
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Eas = ha Lyons, of Ione Valley. which was very fine. The shippons, Aa and zan certainly any p n be worked with a six-horse 
5 ul samp! eavy and well rowed white | sheep pens have lattice Som with tanks beneath to| power after it i n up. ‘The exp 
oom, oat Seanas of the accompany- | take all the solid and from the pren, ge a snatchblocks, anchors, friction rollers, 
ihe *109 bushels, animals, whi oinka the delightful odour | &c., 1 ; Smith’s patent turnbow, 20/.; wire 
wre, arisi erements. 
of 52 Ibs, to the bushel, | an hme 
We, inspeetors, about nh nti 175%. A Correspondent of the Wor- 
d Her: 
=e ellaneous 
Misc 
sumed gre > homestead, are : 
a Saal te ro sr es m F- ing a portable steam engine of 4-horse imp hong a —Draining is ah oa he admitted 
ted farm of not less than 100 aur nor | Power for threshing corn, and all other appliances for | ; rc De. Shp, er gut oe geod mig- Sra à 
tenant not being “principall | cutting and steaming every description of cattle. food. | ™* Woo practice it enters a ar an to speak 
» "The following n a| The arrangements of the farm , buildings are not the its praises. Manure as you will, cultivate as you 
spec- | nost convenient ite lg ser and {crop as you will, in fact, do whatever you will; per p 
h k ow undant moisture to remain in the 
20 acres, and this {y 3 a itt] tidy ount} à 
3 acres; |an SAR K ery considerable amovnt | and you might as well fight against a dead wall, ex- 
fton D Wheat E ne a A oa provements ces for carrying ou’ th a congu 2 ©. x 
otatoes, ps, rag eA Itivation and feeding of stock wich is adopted. |able return from labour and capital invested under 
Pomc A i The e high s state of cultivation of both a istances. Not but that there are those, and 
ps een, fiand fi in this neighbourhood, too, who are dragging ong 
Potatoes, 3 acres; and on this season, their existence or - 
creg | and the we ight of a speak much in favour as to the agricultural A gies pi 
EE F i ; total, | met rits of the claimant. we have great doubts as} ; 0 There ange Aa: 
a E to the profitableness of his syste em Ad cattle feeding, or r | only liken their progress to that Sa way engine 
D anis of 4 farai hor of converting the solid manure into liquid, on account attempting a stiffish gradient on a Ani mO 
cows, 2 w kin arm horses, 2 hackneys, | of the at ar , and the great "tentney of the machi. | With a heavy train behind it—the steam on, 
in wink ayo Rs + i Po pigs, and 100) nery to t of repair. We have been on this farm i the wheels ibl, Teni 3 
oS che ed in summer on several Yon and always found $i par t of | be made, from the 
winter | repair. Aa ig i Aae Lire practees ifested in accom: 
anure which is | the same health Jean] apparently simple ra e 
a aN y or cleanly i ose yt ; uce 3 
oan Not liquid, and | same weight of ehea se, as the t Cheshire dairy stocks | he Deans' We stem | ae 
inini Gm rchases annually ent = ‘the usual way. Me ected August 19, 1857.” peri we believe, first attem f, arwickshire) ; 
manure, and 100 tons of night | Journa taf Liv erpool and Manchester elar ral| we have had draining with stones, with turf, with tJes, 
The w and with pipes; we have had shallow draining and 
| deep-draining, canisi in the line of the greatest fall, 
been d by tl draining in herring-bone fashion, and draining across — 
edup. New] fal ra myself mi friend sailed fort bets } E the slope oe genus omne. It w the other 
SEG ER ae ose 
La 
eae 
drained an 
required, and new roads made, all at | nit. across our beautiful vale, bent mie 3 ‘lease e that pp 
expense, except a portion of t the Quick-sets | mi ae = business, but more es our | cations separately entered 
f enterprising: | agricalturist, re Randell, | estate not many miles hence 
minent 
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; The Jand nd to be © operated u: as sti clay, was | th 
e ete whe or vi and ted ‘een Dlowghed twice by heer, 
lem sed was the “twin har 
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ia aa A She 
[i 
good, thi SSR the Pore ih mith a ey ingenious ppt 
i dell, and ee 
an 
light elly | attac! once solves the problem of using eles 
in its nature as | implement now in us t t 
sand, gravel, fox- | way commen gee ) sbk any land however loamy or 
The surface is much | uneven. This is a grea Port mes eta ae farmers 
satan is westerly, and the sew their favourite implements and lee ap in this 
Sibera part of Sh] cest tbe i m ag en T ana, kio hered with the, most t excellent makon a 
ig ; 
above z western. The home- | ben tifal condition; but i brewing. up Ì TE thin urA 
: i 7 5 g Up ian operation, se-shoe tu 
the à is no equal “Smith’s patent” | and ation, Tor a ator “on 
been the article Py 
lary. OL te ta ae (ne rae me nate 
og Se The next thing that attracted my attention was the favourable circha ern arry as muc 
appears to be perfect; and | wire pope ee a ura ait o of og has raised so much |a 4-inch i «tis But in what 
subsoil and the unevenness of | doubt. The one n June last, eat: has- “ne ce them? In a useless, valueless condi- — 
