THE 
Jaxrvary 14, 1860. ] 
while doubtless possessing _ facilities for being | lof small flints and smaller chalk stones. The other 
moulded into any desired f aS gh s being that | 20th part was a meet wy ct and | 
material with the ma nipulati w RA our | here were we rills of water,” cited by Me Smith 
mechanics, especially those in country casa are ah Iam now y speaking 0 of Jethro Tull and his fi 
inted, it is nevertheless a treacher ae og that ran upon the surface of the clay 
beat aequa. h, often faili kon ‘ple under the staple or upper stratum of mould,” the words 
ee to deal with, often fai ing uP wa east within inverted commas being all's own uper- 
ould ors sas bF ii oeg Sod a tarry ou Th saturated in this manner “the earth,” he adds, “ be 
= ‘oresee comes a sort o or batter; and bein ua: 
cast iron will s 8 reek without any apparent | mi i 4 E Tag 
pee “sad exposure to rain or frost are often i 
found to produce proaire, «the rupture,” to 
ote Mr. FAIRBATRN, taking place ‘with a "loud 
noise like the report of a pistol.” This liability | 
to snap arises the unequal cooling and | 
aidties e of the teri Cast iron being 
erystalline in character is also necessarily mor 
rey than wrought iva f fibrous texture 
t but n s in almost all cases 
GARDENERS’ 
n 4 acres of excellent Wheat land, ae on a clay s 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL eth BLS 
31 
clearly infe ospheric, at and a aqueo’ 
pase: Bi are in common in tg E ren of 
vegeta ation 5 Yet the author of “A Wor rd i in Sease 
crop” “found no place in the theory of Jethro Tull” ” 
It is, indeed, true that Tull held tl 
a abulum which, insume ed by th e roots, became by 1 the 
tiss ues, W: by the excr 
= et 
4 part sublimed into the re Rr racic oe aa 
Gale to, keep t o the staple o Ia 
and never to st a the su 
B 
this subject by his 
own conceptions in the ch emical wag rap the 
-i present day, Mr. Smith in that as 
th d“ 
ut inasmuch as Mr. pari himself, operating 
las t least, 
impieable to detect those defo od flaws which ary 
1 JJag g 431) es It 
h the outer skin 
ma 
whi h may posse the ik! ai of a oppeto | 
Wro othe 
tely - Tullian, he conceives himself 
ene to fog for a husbandry of his little croft a | 
e wor ont ” occurs in Tull’s wo 
“air,” because the aérial food only of plants is capable 
of SA ea rity If, however, he will to the con- 
clu din me pages ol f chapter vii. of Liebig’s “ Chemistry in 
Agriculture and Physiology, he will 
only completely eu ‘this most illogical mode of 
, but largely add to that amazement, 
g ch e spe sant wi ull’s volume must 
ery on 
eel, at hist eemingly intuitive anticipations of all the 
and „perfect casting. ought i FO'U Y the her agricultural distinction aa AT pe _ funda ntal principles. that belong to the science of 
i a hievement of tilling m han ate tivation. 
tensile fn t e rom the processes of matiufacture | unmanured and successive Wheat of Bo ersing ie order of the two aie ig thus dis- 
undergoes it is free from all internal persons, | however, it will ate peon mn that ‘this a Sers cussed, I sum up my argument thus :—Ist, sg 1 Mr. 
defects, my flaws, and impurities or scoriæ „ were it Myr ta of the | Smith, a though living, as he says, in ‘aba appier age, can- 
a ufal s0 of ess in cast-iron mame which the pena Tall lagriculturistthan, 
E ooet iron portis from. the tepid increas reba a hon cor a : de pet i nto what may Laara e at Lois- Warten, alt a pi of originali e grianan 
z ty, se 
of weight arp sooty ‘opt m “> P eme. ee hat really of no yin hg pn By nine High in AALAN EA or theless | can hardly be over- prais sed a Hati ge irable 
ssita constant repetition of columns OF! execution or novelty, than that of the young I’ Wheat g 
| ort gi balore, whe engrafted the deep tillage of t 
orth o and on the Ta er cultivation al a 
and an 
of the power of tillage by alone sy 
nisl saws ing a and c ati nuous oth fertility. Nay 
in conjunction with Tull’s experience i it carries 
one-third the f ight of ca sarkar eams us av oR E not plough deep he mind 
equal length, as there is scarcely any | was o bes! because his soil Pe de it in him lt 
practical limit y their span, large interior | wo laa also forbid it in Mr. S sith a x take it in | when unalternate corn-cropping was the only mode of 
ces can be observed by using them, without! hand; but that he was at, heart an advocate for deep arable husbandry, and very materially aids i in explaining 
e intervention of supporting columns or walls, | culture I humbly think is very apparent from the fol , antecedent 
Cast iron, notwith g all this, will be found owi in his chapter on “Th to the introduction of alternate farming, the r 
useful in a va of ways in agricultural d New Husbandry,” in which he writes ies He te system had not only not exhausted the 
construction; how and in what wa o mntahd ee 1S : amt We not only Plough a deep p farro ow ate pats a of the p or intr ua arte in z 
; ; plougb 5; is, we tren cts, but, on contrary, for iderable 
gpa poser lig -_ aS i plough where the land allow it.” —“ And tw Saas had been gradually raising England to the 
WOYE pionghod a pial (that is, one arif man ed under ano condition of a great expo: in Prese: 
as muen m 
le ifficulties or poin hese ut as 2. bushels of Oats ar ter t 4 
perp even aroak we when dioonosing gone al . ga sg Tg lg wa I will admit 
plans n the occas asional | ers | the plough to go the depth of two common furrows 
use | without reaching ; but deep land may be 
of iron a ae ouch A ibe romting easily thus trenched oughed with great adyan- 
ildings. tage; and even where there is only the depth of 
sprp ainga single furrow, tu: may someti t 
LOIS-WEEDON EXPERIENCE, Fonghed at twi 
k a The other point of discussion raised by Mr. Smith i is 
WE are . Smith, Lois- Praten? purely and resolves itself into t 
the A, Gazette of the 17th ult., “to | tion w a not it was adien by Tull that gf nes 
reproduce here a large pm of the additio aes to in their growth the solid poses! matters which 
n Season.’ ‘They a it i is aptesa the soi on t i 
mew edition of ‘A Word 
added, “for an ams ‘part pran sed to the pee eoa 
Is the practice n certain fr. 
agmentary sentences ep the con Mang 
er cee res of Tull’s ents these a2 is readers as bri 
comment on the extracted passages, I will now | proving that the mineral e 
e poi atio: 
ry, agar that 0 As “the | earl 
offer some remarks on ints ra ised ther n, these 
and e 
ure g anh “it generically 
experience, is eminen ee calc 
belongs, Lois- Weedon e 
of pu Ak E S and to break in pieces the par ne 
fatt 
as e impalpable ingre- 
die re of the peii ek ; and, detecting by way of 
t ion formed no part of TulPs ‘theo 
held 
he the belief that 
| stand out i ip = 
he. sa; says, n Ch 
plants derived 
atmospheric ingredients, 
re Gye? n,” as a reliable 
lowing passages 
rong thpt in Tull’s chapters :—“ That,” 
the F 
their ensine aliment from 
n d i 
100 acres of a season? and . Whether 
Talls scientific conceptions r i eck 
d augmen is the true food of it 
Every plant is is earth, _and the gro wth 
of be mor on the one hand, the vegetative 
powers of soil and air, on the other, were not fan da- 
than Mr. Smith's 
additional. a earth is assimilated tọ the plan at it 
of it” 
Jerry, Flint. 
‘ood of Plants, “ which 
a 
becomes | 
—“and earth is so surely the 
share of the | As to 
u 
rdin: 
| districts, „the free use of salt 
clauses of the modern lease. maor 
toni Oa IN WARWICKSHIRE, 1859. 
e ET ae irable. 
heat and moisture it T for if those be] 
= 8 4 
a system of alow Tillage had pre- 
td alimentar 
In nA Vos ‘Tal treats “of the Pasture of Plants 
and there, eo premising the doctrine that the m minera 
ary substances are eliminated on t 
of each ry particle, and hence that 
ania gn Bem 
us subsoilin 
he modi 
g increased deep Ploughing. 
mae presen of this —— though no 
ng next to Ti hemor woe ron event that ever | 
relate 
fine particl 
o cavities et h “te with wherein the roots are in- 
luded.”—“A p ot separate these particles” 
the BH ng ‘of which he was speaking) “ from 
pa which they adhere, 
which helps 
oe ae ap the nitre 
ni pre eraart prirna seems to be what is called im- 
e | pregnating ee 
operation does not its character, 
e eerie Pa 
ir pabul M 
the superficies of the pores: 
an application o 
superphosphate of lime 
ahs mo, Peruvian 
common salt. 
lay soit. where later sown, less salt was applied; . 
and though the field had been manured at the rate of 
good fi 
i 
” 
