512 ee cc sit ee AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Juve 2, 1860. 
a relativ t has not only to contend Pernet T | Bie practically that, weight for weight, it wil will make 
coffin. it there is ie appearance a the corpse mi al ditian ies of ee ci ability, bu m also uch meat a 5 Linseed. yet 6 although it costs Jeni 
ens the coffin is put near bn bed, and the end of | equally serious obstacle of parece fo a sour ao than. half the p Its residuary t in ma 
the coffin projects into the e floo of the family room, or kali sed and stagnated soil and EDE oe deprived by according to Mr. Tora RP it a superiority over 
ge of all advan- ah day to the extent of 20s. per ton. Ab 
across the interior of the ba _ My tat t i t estroyer of wire-worm should com 
ra ge father J, and died | in the ma sei for. Miine hs farmer’s | especially r the farmer of light lands, wh 
in such a es , will excite surprise. a landowner, | pocket. “Teonsiter it childish and rari saree draw | season, many thousands of acres of corn hav: 
ant-far. „an nd labourer, each, according to his|adverse conclusions, because Mr. Smith’s coachman, crippled or destroyed. On my light land which used 
REN eg “datie es to perform. i: one will dis spe cowman, or EN uile till his soil. What does it signify | to be particularly subject to wire-worm y ing | 
that e Saane of iak - a a hich | who does it, so long as it is done and paid for at a |sheep with _Rape-cake, my Wheat crop to follow 
bac volves upon the lan in you | remunerative rate? I object entirely to a system of | Clover is this year a full and luxuriant plant, 
poci think I am eiea aginst ‘either gee examination which draws no comparisons and sees no that of many of my neighbours is seriously injured, 
ners or tenant farmers, which I a t, I may | contrasts. I remember many years ago visiting Mr. friend of mine who farms loose light lands in the 
state, if you deem it judicious, that, “my fat Hewitt Davis’s farming, ony knowing the we pre- neighbourhood of Reigate assures me that j 
ma: panie id my mothe: full for tl gji dices against him, after leaving his land I strode sianal cleared his farm of wire-worm by t 
tweive month he aiga aged. My statements in No 12 ‘across the adjoining corn fields at the risk of being wt d 
Rie the Agricultural Gardie, at page wee fu un me the he a | impounded.” What, did I see? That whilst by very the surface. By the latter mode he saved his Clov 
ing “ Notio: vtec apital,” a atements in | deep and clean tillage, and a small quantity of seed, | crops which the wire-worm was eating, the Rap 
No. 52, my Ta age e 946 for 1858, will, I think, pirat Mr. Davis’s crops on a naturally ey are soil were | acting also asa most valuable manure. As one of 
evince that I h full, even, and abun da nt, thos se of his neighbours with | sources of profit Rape-cake is an important ele: 
on the part of tenant f: | ly tł ti ofs , foul, | enabling me to produce my eak at 50 pe 
not Hey going for all the ‘evils ienris some suppose | ia irregular, and bat or a very - small comparati ve | less than other farmers. Of course, if they w 
them to be. 4’ Labourer, esnlt. The same remarks a applied on my visit to the | convinced of its value as E the jtina would d ris f 
—— Rev. Mr. Huxtable’s farm, and y 0 aa eln Linsee arie e R recent 80 
3 | whom their country owes so much ee been snubbed, | alarmed agricultur as to its use, and so anno: the | | 
g Ao MASSER teat ne twitted, and DOOR pooled in the leading articles of the | firm who had to pay the damages, that they decline | 
N i ject, y farmers own papers. Sir, : do consider this pandering | warranting any for feeding purposes, and thus. 
it I bl tl ity, and trucklin: the prejudices of agri-|its price is kept down. I continue to 
and convincin ing addition “to our PROAT} ine pati culture, unworthy and exceedingly damaging to the | my pee. and bullocks with the same sort of 
of its truthfulness no one dares ex xpress ado ubt, g rogress, and I beg to enter my | which was made the subject of the trial, and whi 
many years to 
y t inst it. If agriculture is in its ney A I have ts ght of the same firm for 
the discussion. owledge of the great natural Taws ‘and extent of 100 tons. It is made from Snehi i 
the Club who were to anatomise Mr. ‘ions practice | crannies ser phvaeat ee ti | whic f mu ea hot es sie, Sn seed. should not 
as well as his mutton and roast fowl? be based (and Liebig says so), esh m ade, they wil not then 
the comparison between the past and AA con its lethargy, for wo, nd 
dition of pe Jand? and where the contrast be-| for the good of our Sata sA J. A Tiphoe 4 Hail, ies relish it. ete a sheep are now eating 141b, | | 
tween his crops and: those of his neighbours on| Ke lvedon, Essex, May 25, per day each, Bullocks will abito m 3 to Itis 
the A description of soil; Echo says, where? t y » Mr. Horsfall 1 being ajia M that | 
Then t have we learned from this deep and prying | on the shallow ploughe ee tiff, un- | opinion (see Society’s Journal). It w 
venan by “the e sharp men o of the Lor idon Farmers’ | dr ained clays s? _ Why, to wash away from the surface give it immediately to animals just Feed pe 
b i much driving and i 
in y c 
ing lands are only tilled to the depth of a| most valuable portion of the lan ably settled and. r red from their fatigue, 
mon wine-glass, all below that bein ng like cas cast iron. ae following is the isi Woedon reply to the| begin with a little and gradually increase it, I 
t i : g of 50 1 
They don’t sa: to 0 . will 
four times that depth, he grows much m alf an “Sem see eived a copy of the Mark Lane Express on the tend to remove prejudice in this matter, and thus 
acre cons his neighbours do on a wholes ie re. - They | ing o of Ñ May 15, giving a circuf$stantial account of "the discus ssion increase the farmer’s profit. I see no reason why it 
say that by employing a greatly increased KERA bar een bea She Ban sentfor my tenant, I told should not be very nutritious for horses and shall care 
of human labour on a limited space hod has on that ne resolved—that my land was the best Wheat land they had ever | fully try it on one to satisfy my mind. J. J. Me cha, 
created an additional market fi r his increased produce | seen. EI Srana I a. : von hare ial. 400 aa of | tree, << 28. P.S. I have at i succeeded i dmi 
diminisl crime mine, the greai rtion of which is of exactly the sam® qua- | yincj iohb f is ine 
ae hed and pa pauperism lity with the field Eiaon gana is difference, that Sabie j rar ae mng Hi P lean sheep a gx = nal 
Do not farmers want a market close to their farms? my land bad only a 5-inch staple, and yellow clay under it, p 
Some years ago I went to see the Rev. Mr. Smith and | yours has a clay subsoil with from m 5. to 10 inches of Aes EH ta, ae atin ‘were fat at the same 
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his farm. 'I taxed his | that you see n the @ever seen oo offered most money for mine. He is now | no 
li ten lit d ha s of hi va by the Farmers’ Club; and ¿this being the case I cannot. do ak y 40+to) jp 
Aran TA kin enjoyed the. happin 1 bio. intelli | cluotwiaa than raise your rent at once from 27s. an acre to 50s. pe-cake feeder. As I vith use about wae 4 fally i; 
gen e and indness, and that af ai amiab e lady. i at least. with an increase to my income of 400l. a year.” We | MY g a jieren: aaun 
omparative, and I v: hf aes Sch ree oe fact of the webcle parish of ve acres | per annum, gra near 20/:-pe Surely my farming 
tated to compare his s neighbours? Boug generally of a similar quality, a very. small- por- | friends can n fy iiei? ion I sake my profi 
H La 3 n bein a great portion better. In ft, *the whole , 
ed as pgp intra se ed. mies his . gedlogiea, formation” ‘ot th te eer on ito, to the pe ee of eo that have been fed on Linseed-cake will not eat 
. 0 tl s acres running right across “nglan 
is thi angi His ipate, of deep rather is a per- | from Dorset to Whitby, is much of the same quality, and The E ditorship of the Agricultural Society’s s Journal | 
manent and pungent condemnation of tha Pe wness | Tented at much the same sum, that is, from 27s, to 30s. —As one of the late candidates for oe editorship of th 
pung The gentlemen of the deputation, without k the rea- 
£ British a riculture I mean in its rin- A y and 5 is | Agricultural Journal, I cra’ ssion to enter à | 
o. 8 > ean J Pp son, were stating the fact, notwithstanding. Inch by inch this | 4g > ve perm $ 
is, “deep. cultiva 10n ; eel humi- | c y subsoil of mine en brought to the top and mixed with | protesi ‘OU; e columns oi no widely s 
ciple and basis, “ deep cultivation ;” and I feel } lay subsoil of mine has been brought to the top and mixed with | protest through the col fy idely dissemi- 
iated that the Central Agri ish Club of th banter till, o atelo na ait he veco rein adoally, nated Chronicle to the new phase of nep 
papon did not recognise tl advan of this great | peen a progressive work of 16 years, after I had first pared the tism which the Council of the a Royal Agricult 
th and award to Mr. Smith t eed of praise to | tarf, and taken it off the land. And the deputation were quite | Society have inaugurati 
which he is so pre-eminently entitled. . The e question | right when they walked over its surface and pronounced it to | that Socie ety, no one would have been s 
of. how we shall disturb our soil deeply is a mere matter bd ee oe ges ‘gosh ee eo Aes the Council appointed an editor on 
of cost and opportunity. we have not steam | mark. It is well worth 60s. an e; and if I were to let ‘tit opinion of his merits without soliciting any pa a 
e oped orses = men. It will pay © do it in | should not be for a shilling under, ‘The produce not so much | of testimonials. however they thought fit 
either My own experience has taught me that ee een ig Sega ra See ght reat pion oo adopt the contrary system, it musi be regarded as 
[i my ee a eaten of kryr if you will pay them, per sere, and ot co much as ex expec aT TN a an insult to all who. have b 
“* * The pli ractica urely not. It might have 
t h | ineas so e but chat time has sea E ain le can be ex- 
E as clearly on five acres ason 500. I may fair] D, 
for! pt Oda A moet ow th busy tim a ime ay k t T F posea case, S labs a des havea400-acre arable farm, 
to to their w er their day ?’s work to a and thet he sets apart 100 acres of it for Wheat upon the 
ii veny sti ipend. . The fact oe phe British | Weedon plan. I will suppose his land to be like mine, wi 
does not accep eep cultiv nasar 5-inch staple, and a good heavy elay under it. Immediately afi 
ae pia sts it would do x Ti invariably do | barvest the steam nivem tg epg iT ce ace hakime 
at crop. Tn oe in a souk of th thia sa inches in pien ge lepth 
ve used virgin Be suficient for 
res mans ie Pda at Ar 
mirae I ere 
i its f 
Fay Pe — then vk ot toe cannot—he then gains, with low ponh a net pronte a i 
d deep cu ultivation o on drained clays are ruinous. Clover, roots, stock, &e., on the remaining three-fourths of | by no less than three chief editors 
Herein lies the secret of 'the apathy of farmers about | his land, w seh a he Dae with in the ordinary way, in hig a metropolitan morni 
deep cultivation, Whenthe: ey havelearned from chemistry | rotation he including Four obedient davant e by the editors of 
roots of plants as to their| « Vicarage; Lois: Weedon.” ‘B, Burrs} of at least two weekly journals. Other testi 
i I fone were for 
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to deeper cultivation and duly appreciate in after times | Home Correspondence. my intention that the latter course sho 
the enormous value of Mr. Smith’s principles. I believe} Farming Economics, No. 2, Rape-cake. eg know of adopt ted i y case; but the 
very few farmers examine what is gomg on subterra-| no more striking seme of the prejudice and } 
neously. I looked at the root ofa Bean that wasscarcely | calculation in British agriculture than the non-use of | of what they had stated in my favour. In sisa to 
Olt of the ground 1 inch, and found that its tap-root | Rape-cake as a profitable mete stuff. ne SR n these paa of confidence and r i 
haddescended v par more than 9 inches, pushing vor vee seven years used m oar 2 100 t, I ust not for ot to add that Judge Haliburton ed 
í or lateral fibres, and I know that of its value with é Ser ir Puser? s ugh to “soft sawder ” 
Shera fag, paon gnito. 9 Deha deep, pe ce on this subject in the Royal hig ans tablet of my laudation by a testimonial. of his ow! . J 
tish agriculture is | Society’s ie Vol. x, akg es meny ong since to | his nowledge of ue ag acquired eien our er: 
care ih dye when the plant strikes its | have ait nviction ag cult: tura ral ind. eration n in ournal.“ It a Mr. Frer 
roots against the almost im pervious subsoil over which | Professo Way's s (Vi 4) th ha tod i Migh te high h testimo- 
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the plou, y lected “im rac gees of 
value of Linseed- hte and I phen į nials.” If this be indeed ine th 
