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Javan 7, 1860.) THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 1 
" ag toa greater degree of light—two agents which must , in a building, Of those in 
SES IN Eie EWES: | exert soetat nfluences onthe wth lants— | building soon began to turn black in the centre rennet 
Asa large grazier and breeder of sheep in Romney | and it remains for vegetable physiologists and agricul- | the e top was cut off. I rien’ those in the pit were 
am very much in terested i ae the correspondence tural chemists to say whether th r exposure to the the | same, and had them examined ; they were exactly 
which has lately appeared i in your P; ir and light could pt uch an effect on a lant gan sal en cand brew w 
causes of extraordinary deaths, sudde en and unaccount- to increase the size or specific gravity of t e bulbs.* | worst by temselveethi hose t were gone black, 
able, amon s. Unfortunately I am subject at this | The ox periment, as tas besii already TAMAMA was | onë en and another portio decor t appea om annatur: ally 
time of year to heavy losses ; and in the hope that I may | most carefully carried out, and the er cumstance of so n the centre when “scratched w ith the the mmb 
throw additional light on this important question, or soo én nite other All th 
yin some of your readers k be able to suggest a paded to the e that the entire crop of din tl n we had 
emedy, I give the following facts 
ewes are peat kept on green land or giht land dd | 
at the rate of from 
f bot: 
cots ree been accurately mere 
act 
Whe 
nished the second best were ‘also pitted by themselve 
t and air tends to 
decaying Apek was remove 
e 
all taken in and their necks out off i in slices til the 
d. 
ven 
sale es timate 
the portion very ne injure edis one- 
sever al tons per acre 1 more ‘than the Pg cro’ 
that the variety of Mangel e 
A his 
e| mented upon returns a greater weight of raved’ nd 
the also of roots) per acre than any othe er ki nd we W3 
d it ma, 
h LA 
with a little hay in case of s oN this land has 
been fed hard all the summer and autumn 
My losses occur only (th , al 
age of SED, in my breeding flock. From the tim 
the rams are put out i atemos until lambing com- 
mences, I am always over anxi fr 
baeer) of the formation of the = ‘oT can se 
ene „ine rease mortality ; o n many occasions 
i looker, 
odes three dead ewes in one field at a re Baw § are 
alway: and their bellies are very black 
my c 
by pera and thes quantity which now appears quite sound 
about- o wnt and I fear the other half will not 
March. Ai ay 
ei 
bm 
a | tity of lea Hl ves from this particular sort will ot a dit- | 
ferent effect from that pene eed by taking off the same | 
quantity from another kind whose leaves would be 20 
or 30 per cent less, all other cireumstances being equal. | 
As the crop of — - _— season was an unusually | 
t of pl 
s much “blown,” 
Be Pr wool Z pulls out. „Nothing radically wrong 
can be age a re b f their intes- 
tines. E oe ei especially, that in the next 
Naty 
oles ewes, fat, , tier vinta ie too old for breeding, do not die. 
t ther refi ‘ore conélude that _ there is some 
ai te a P p n 
doot die beyond a gen Fei E ntage in the same 
the following particulates: as em the preparation of the | i 
land, &e. 
The field. , or divisi sion, of the Albert Model 
Far rm, in T 
sertion in the Agricultural Gazette, if 
suitable; an i as I have 
cultivation of bape = Wurzel, having grown 
same groun 
excellent crops, z endl 
odia is deeply du 
n May, the seed wn in 
shallow drills and me thy: about + ai hick en 
fine soil; the seed soaked 24 hou 
a 
p of Beans 
remo val of that crop in the latter E part, pes cle nde of hat 
5 
1 Bat 
pares they are ian a -H i ne 
cla:s of land, | ane aah year ir the Se months 
alone was over 1 my breeding flock. 
nd th 
fore the leaves are so olaia as to 
cycloidal grubber, v which has 
implement on this gee and re oes moval of some 
Hoping that i you ait pes this at my own and the 
public good, W. Farleigh, Maidsto C. 49. 
cutch} (the seed of which was 
Italian Llosa 
_ This latter _opera- 
renched, a depth « of 20 i ine ches 
impo: with the | over 
ss abd), it was suhsoiled, or ‘partial y | Man 
Nothing more is required 
tal one are pa to take up. pria rt ight tonm 
avel. As complaints are sometim Epp sp ut 
gels scouring cattle, and giving a “pad to 
butter, I Pangi g we ec to prevent the latter rey ohe 
sO 
` LEAF STRIPPING baai MA NAEL, 
“ MANGEL Wurzel,” to use words, valu- | 
able a root a hard], y a nythin ine nanny with its 
gro owth can fail 1 to be a eataa $ ae ? d 
Impressed | of 
I feel hat statement, I feel 
induced to patent to you the following remarks on the | p 
crop of Mangels raised on the Albert Model Farm 
during the past season, and vodi yon may, perhaps, | a 
trenches at proper irria a viv furrow was formed | 
rs nced washing mine, and w 
satisfied w with the result rg I Aire continued it ever 
I belie pre th 
~ 
b T the ordin: nary two-horse plough, 
this furro furrow a considergble qua ntity of th 
was 
work), each having his partion my the esik: marked off; 
Gray’s subsoil plough drawn by a pair of bullocks 
he 
k done at the rate of 1 statute acre in eigl 
up with steel digging — by ery of the | 
mpils (this number keeping the horses regularly at | in 
and at noon in 
ei ing that giat at ip her other 
rood hay: only. TE you deem this suitable for 
seen that 
anagement pursued a 
have differed ty widely mdosi from those y 
you in‘ the Å wral Gazette of the 19th ult. 
I allude principally ee the effects resulting from the 
from the plants. of 
-removal from the pl of a | their leaves. ted or 
As the leaves of X eis St Raya oon ound om this this ae 
stom for several 
y iut > -engon jadicionsiy pull off the 
rooping roia ‘om iddle st to the 
middle of October. ‘a expr aw ini 
mp rried out on a pretty large 
wat detersiining whether roots 
gained or Jot i weight by the s zaritza Sa 
intervals, of the falling outside leaves. The leaves, i 
feedin; ng p 
to the milch ro ia has been 
ears carefull 
t 
| plants regen on) 
ings, 2 by. 4 big 
t} 
hours. 
In the early part of the ensuing April the Jand 
was deeply grubbed across nr line of the preeedin ng 
trenching, and the soils were thus thoroughly incor 
Pig ati 
will give it a further trial and report upon it, and 
should be obliged if any correspondent would give his is 
experience of Adore the new Cattle Parsnip. Zhora 
Exhaustion of the the Soil, —Finding there are many 
mixed rhe Aha 
mized toge 
a very fine tilth 
movidboard pion plough, the seed sown 
jas to the exhaustion of soils, by. not restoring to ‘the 
at the rate of 6 Ibs 
patie sen 7 hee d in openings op by the | shi 
Tiani hos Be part 
upils sow 
sage 
of the se seale, 
come to the 3o aia that “it is at all ti a 
ers oD ae 
e described the 
ied by their tae ‘ich ÀF pu f 
ean w we find it very t when | w 
dist nf , as is is vary ayi the case p ges 
| plants are in a continuous row on the drill. At the 
4+ 41°. 
~ aperi eet ex si 
g | between the mp He of 
piecajg ot le 
shape of grain, I take liberty to point. ont to those 
zee have an opinion chat hed any. of the lands in 
| England is decreasi 
ings os 
of the aes that-they 
d the ies of former mcr manii 
apparent 
7 during the 
ason. the ic by the numerous 
on ors to öx the institution ı and farm as a remarkably even 
ar one. 
regu i 
The following table shows the result of the experi- 
rao Ah ne: the manures employed for the general 
| 
: off per 
Statute Acre. 
% 
per 
Acre. 
Weight of 
Bulbs 
Statute 
I No. of Lot. i E 
Leaves taken 
a rie 
£ r a 
igin former years fte 
removal of those lea 
ished the 
ised. Two hand-hoe 
ant 2 1 may 
but as t ie nt article has extended beyond 
the limits contemplated, T shall, with your Pig sa 
return to the igen on a future occas Boyle. 
dence. 
out 4 or 5 tons of 
many others I was 
“tage severe frost before 1 iy crop was ane 
up. IL let Me iuue till the fros quite gone, 
en 
Corresp 
zel.— w abi 
n the garden, like 
says Prof haic atai 
E as ane 
nou Hus the te 
t the, Whelont en oth 
land, awh. it ipa ah the power of re 
the maltster 
endl which causes the crop to sede to the detriment 
Bar and ag gene as 
p introduce sir 
creasing richness of the 
of the ley; en 
nt clause — 
ore cereal crop inthe 
mable t ethene 
rw 
ible, rate “| tion, introduciog a five canted of a a course, 
be used first, | itis well known such 
the ‘hands of a 
would under 
to air wud Ug 
ay the wood |Your s 
wn | 
a short account of ons method — 
