Juxx 9, 1860.; 
these matters, which are included i e phrase, 
“Science with Practice,” are being ‘iseananted 
among “ie rising generation of farmers 
Tue prospectus of the pete ain competi 
trial of Steam Ploughs pa aes 
itive 
ial 
ar the 
n the Province of Zealand, pre: the 
For th ibi 
preparing the soil for crops, which shall at the same time serve 
as os ee eosin tes for hor: tte power and manual labour: 
Fir: 6 AN {about 1002. sterling); 
Bec aG 
pr Medal. 
endl 
For the exiibivens ‘of the best ins sen for reaping corn | Se 
cheaply i in a workmanlike manner, as a substitute for manual 
labour 
500f. (upwards of 401. sterling); 
First prize ns 
; ty a ] FER n 
oe rize 
pios 
iting Sobre ral J uly 1, “1800, R “the a antie: of 
A Y iety, W. LTERBEEK, at the Hague, 
mentioning the irs on of machine, and the 
price for which it can be furnished. 
machines oer be delivered at Wilhelmina- | 
tors of the best machines for ploughing and | 
necessary for the | ther 
THE a CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
species of dung, a ee the 
| innumerable root- ot-fibres w which y plants extend in every 
the 
originally “present în 
he essence = the 
ae a limited area of pete crops, and by this | 
of 
t 
carbonaceous matter 
pli 
A few instances ga re of these natural functions 
of soils will now be 
| 
db e give 
d s. obtains enormous oben Mangel and Raleigh Bey =? so, Hlzabety haere bea ye 
t ; is m 
| Sede that haat deserve a notice among “ Agricul that territo y, now part of the Southern United States 
axim He naturally concludes that| f America EA : ; 
persa 3 pliment ig, hi Pisma 
1 ton of this is worth 2 tons of farm-yard manure | sovereign | th f Virginia. 
peat 98 re be denise ry eee 3 hetig fully Sp of the next century it began to be cane from ‘tho 
nion tha on of we 
carefully preserved farm-yard dung is wo anh the soil pecsived the ieh spay of cultivation ever 
i tat "i mca’ tye nta ined in those: penpe tinh Ratos d on it, y giei PBJ rn the poeh eatereits 
ave been p ag ik ucts. In proc @ Wheat and Tobacco 
and air. But s not prudent to end a a esis be mt vee er thse year after year were 
sown in uninterr rupted succession and with 
ar — ‘who tabs a limited nathan “ot ‘stock t 
PP 
tld 
urn his manure heap imes in one short 
ason; and particularly if on a farm which 
benefitted by the application of a man 
far: ung, containing a large proportion of 
orga „mattar, Of th tement eyery-day 
e | exper affords constant illustration. The 
erie 
action of. farm- -yard manure cannot 9p ascribed 
n to exhibit its ais and this gra aaar in- 
a return began se 
creasing, the original locations were abandoned and 
left to the care of nature, and fresh a anprophiaioni of 
| irain: soils made elsewhere in the surrounding wilder. 
n this manner Virginia as le as several of the 
other older states, Lara farmed, „were Ai ia 
to any one of its constituents, 
poi = h the extre iks, construction ‘pat upon 
f Lirsie’s views farm-yard manure has 
peso Famós the ashes applied, and the. result 
d the practice. Its efficacy, 
a n i on 
cord 
t 
re 
i) 
de ree 
ords the sto 
of fertility ; in other w 
the accumulation of ages whilst oei soil ua clothed 
| with an unexhaustive natural vegetation, was drawn off 
and realised, thereby reducing the fertility of the land 
charge to 
The ex. xhi bitors will, howeve er, 
od 
nd s 
strabl le that the: results obed from this fertiliser | 
= 
tion, where 
Aa ias of nutriment 
each yer s Seile ga each syare 
The we have thus 
| cited was simpl otis ocean a 
water cistern who a contents, without 
hines. 
information will be given on er on | 
ary. It is to be ho gee ay at a 
ead 
See 
Pe 
Lae] 
ic} 
3 
oe 
the rival machines may be made, 
ae end 
ta 
es an sik to for gona in its "carbonaceous he 
Kencitropettand organic matter. And in 
ca eee i A Fia eer folly to so promote the pabed 
tio inish tog a extent the per- 
y trial of 
awe cannot be. a doubt that the level langa ‘oad 
| centage « of Phe etic 
field for the steam. plough and the reapers ‘ad 
an excellent market therefore for their maker: 
Tue Bath and West of England Agricultural 
Society have during the past week gathered at 
Ir a hoa and naturally be er that in | 
g mass of | w 
f tk should bxist pA aori 
and a ary at the present time the opinions of 
ractical farmers:on the g an beg uided 
by well a tested principles. rot 80. 
art treasures, and stock 
eather 
| gis is e yield of the ES ys filled it. 
whee to another and m aa instance : 
Eai S are pastures w. a h Tat as 
sa AEE, by oe Boneh. E many. centuries; 3 
and when n any of t old. G s lands at last 
is often 80 extreme as, in m first year at ir to be 
| the produce. Usually ia such cases the 
gro ow. successive and un 
rst NOA of oe so soi) 4 
| then hrow the broken-up gro 
of pee oH which. in rotation farming is design 
" to abstract year! rly, by means of. the ac tiv ve einempiase 
he annual 
supply of nutriment elaborated in same season, 
is provincial were 
ed in rri a, 
Which are gtr evidenc 
by de ; for 
boat 
A| Epa td are shut out from 
. | tration of their man 
aan 
sonia er Square, 
r 
Canterbury, yet 
constant. 
the 
h ony heavy. lau s 4 da Coirp; wnang ag the 
sbandry of Suffolk. broken from 
ead ure within recent og The Basa a of the 
soilin such cases is very great, and it is usual to take 
eral Wheat i 
, and | manure, ‘The mode.of breaking up the land at first is 
now Dorchester greatly exe 
All the leading oe a e given apne ot 
s generally given 
pare and burn it. at. 
this can be done paz a enoug) 
in the season, a crop of 
Lak pinkie, Mele p 
ne aae apas is sown 
But the p in whic the ioe siders his at the annual pree of the English Agricul- | With then taken in suc- 
superio ole H. cession, four agg hin dol crops. are reaped.” 
+ i essrs. J WARD, HORNS- | Do otish Agrie tore Tor j 
turns it pian bariyeri ix times, covering it | sy, BURGE 3 wS ton xs > Pe ult ia, on ina rade. of 
each time with a little saai; We he eard his story | TLEWORTH, perme Bang Bineerr i EXAtt, als intelligence ia pet agno = Het PIi cases 
withattention, & Son, HEYWOOD, CAMBRIDGE, SMITH, f | analogous be tha. one last. Pei ag r begot the 
ponn man, There is something in it to com- | Stamford ; pit ag © WHOL NOUSI Rosy, | universal and. well. conviction that. soils 
d; but it seems to 4 ee ig or ye head aeo oN, REEV wars and HASLAM, | exempted from arable hus and laft ia a asihe 
ure so ently as Caamaien, send steam. | or semi-natural, state, as in pastures, ithi 
freque 
peara AETA ARN aie dui nguished, peed 
all, his dung into a hollow averagin feet 
beneath the Pipe never, touches: it till required | 
for use ; and es his convictiom Beeri 
ctice, and. t 
c 
erly, one | 
, aD 
With us it is Penal ° 
t; | course 
al | has een tisfac | the fi 
One ptega feature of the Bath and West | 
sok 
po ai threshin aian , drilling 
ougks,. pashan pa rence arenes and hay-| ¢ 
makers, and ie variety of implem 
g|The showyard is as full and Pam as as that of the i 
nutriment, which, like the j 
of the mill pond whilst the wheel i is. standing sti 
gain put 
in motion ; andi in point, of fact „various modes of corn 
Society hitherto has 
sod the business tran meas which “i 
me wa rams ena n to implement makers, 
mportant mstance he functions of soils. Thus 
in the p “districts of. f Somersetsbire, and pro 
ny 
of hi 
of England annual show is that fenegao of it | certain pear of years according to the quality of the 
| which exhibits specimens of fine a A ne soil, a en, throws them onb of ae a dergo 
190.feet.long-by 40 feet wide was “thus filled ns man e processes r in a anole 
p nutriment "t belonging to all s osant wit wn fro} 
contributions tro rom. Kensing ton and from various 
ic 1 
dra’ 
Thus replenished, the tccurnlatins sof f ivo, 
the rte 
of art-manufacture at — periods and i 
— countries as well as at the Sore dayi in| 
ngl and, Bie hures es saiko , many of t them ae 
| over twioe mote its patefation but 
ifa farmer pa manures, some 
guano or vi vitriolised bones seom better ae ulated 
force on. the young other 
manure, and, 
fully man: rele Wadia. 
loss when its a ea goes ae, Pape 
e embodied i per 
certain 
cs com 
oe tened 
e 
His 
gom Neca “aie skil- | 
manure 
pen in ie, eta , and visitors 
during the week have had the advantage of T 
thing more than mere meee poh, 
i 
eather 
page. e: managers. 
Empra on bo 
wea 
THE PERSSE AND cla OF THE SOIL. 
‘ontinued from p. 511.) 
In Pea ES ay 
‘cout were arrived 
i pream elaborating from 
yoge 
fo 
at, that not only _ 
their crude m Is. the 
eta ble life and ‘gro but 
ide | 
say provi 
whieh would geis tal prove 
of farmers, "He obtains a ves ren, et 
elabo matte: tored up 
safe from ‘waste a eat pi At) abstracted by the í | 
rmer ” sale the. eal sois | ti 
joare and growth. of. a series of, su Aon mi Ée: 
crops.of longer or shorter bat according. to, the 
desretia mf the farmer. In Sectlan: coat Spa 
enlightened manner. 
ona 
b Me Kor vai ki 
=| tho Tarta in 
AE 
adopted to. 
except th 
ase of foul vegetation wher 
of t the a land i is subjected to the cleansing p 
fallow cropping. 
Passing now from the province of industrial 
