T ? T e before the time ork was to begin and , 8000 rst t 
BURGESS AND KEY’S REAPE | aA pi reaper to be Pa ma "only one pa that in | 507. per ton grea and 201. | er tand in the root. pr 
As I bought a Burgess and Key’s reaper two Tea which I had found the work to be so well done, which |as the growt —_ the pric The 
ago and have used it with great ease, comfort, and | was down the ridge (not across W, and in eee duty free, of fi 1854 
success durin: twr harvests (in the course of each of | the direction of the inclination of the head of the | led t ioni of much of phy pees online 
which I mowed from 150 acres of Wheat, Barley, | Whea t, meet as it were the bowing head, a and re are on believe Mr. Gladstone, there are not 
or Oats with it), I accept your challenge in last week’s | take it under the van. This answering, as before, now 500 acres under culture with Chicory in Great 
Number of Se Gazette to send your readers some cpt 1 desired the man to throw the reaper out of | ees 
lars about the iera of labour i it requires w ar for the return journey ; and altho ugh we have 2 Mr. M‘Culloch assumed the growth and con- 
gather, bind, “ stook, after it. But ir often 1 nd well laid | gumption af cea in the Un nit ed pone nn i be 
let me advise those of your rea o have had n E | down zE pA Ai ridges tried t to eSa all round theer rop, | sit 
mal experience of this adia y5 keep t to be? perder I published i in in 150, a 
ion in mind, not to expect in ordinary p ice happenii ing | that the ~~ has given a particular incli- estimated ou careful inquiries the co 
the extent and kind of work which, under very sp et against which it is desirable to cut, Chicory i in this ¢ 
re ay really s in performing. | but with which the one is apt od pass a ble that ` But Mr. Braithwaite Pollet in 
een me oe go round a fiel Se a constantly | the head of any part of the crop that may be a little | his “Statistics of Bataan Bone Se > published gee 
narrowing circle or square, cutting all straight before it. | fattened. Be this as it may with nas I seis erann rated the actual production of Chicory Fey mn 
asics Lagi without oro ages or furrows, | say that according to my two years’ exper ves — wder in England and Gue ape s- high 2 
with an evenly-grown crop, strong and upright, which | after many experiments, i have io it in pt way | 14,0 tons, worth, at 227 Peat Besides 
ili as swayed in any one speci est to be content with cutting one way, an ea ine ne it will be seen Al ore’ en ee s average 
ial 
where the 
or 
accomplished. 
» quite so fav nae by undor the skilfal management c of 
ienced mat m Messrs. Burgess & Key’s, 
well. But under prevailing 
k eens harvest with thick ed thin 
| upwards of 5000 tans pre n. “The gradual i increase 
| of foreign- grown doubt 
the neg out oi 
be 
f ge ar the other. 
But chad argu 
ued this is a great loss of time. 
Not t, if any, as m In 
itho fat ‘pce there. is the ver ry rapid, peliet 
ry way i in which. what is cut, is cut ; 
n 
aa arsi cle in 
ollow; 
Aa 
price. 
= It was not till the tare ey of 1856 ma Oars 
ana 
| esa then the e ia hae 
Q 
vel 
laid or wind swayed, Be “upright 
d unskilfu! 
ing ca k ntity. 
a a kidati ner bulk “wee boami = 
hk 
bat also eying the crop in such a regular swath 
binders 
nd 
steady and a nately horse working, 
ill e Siena be a waste of time, 
“Tam persuaded it 
e gatherers and to do their wo 
ook maii quickly and perfectly, and leaving siti 
ing. In th wel ve rses have 
185 . sl, hat 
1857 - 93,469 
. 127, 
ead muc ch a return 185 sie are aa published yet. 
“5 
ms . 
a trial of " temper, and 
p m 
S 
The deta taile s for 
um- | The largoa g quantity A comes from Beigua the 
Poa 1s particnlar ly 1 Y» 
3 4 
Holland, and a little from Hamburgh and 
or beyond y your own powi . There are som any 
unwilling labourers abou aa captious and in- 
credulous vee ervers, that iti is S better to start moderately 
and wg what you attempt, and then 
procee 
ers 
ge Phillips , when giving evidence before Mr. 
Scholefield’ s aati ti n 1855, sap d ae prior k 
d of the 
thirdly, yiio brings me at lasi 
you pee desi informatio, 
| only one way you 
x ees with ~~ trials, tl 
with a hilare” that pe nta e rybody in the field out of 
th "whole ‘aay. gk man = had ‘em aul bine 
| i may | 
Lit 
bie Peis 
against ‘all new Mage sad all machinery and exp 
The a day, now just two years ago, on which w 
the reaper, after spending several = eel in toving 
to ses ear it eee (in naia = a but par om suc- 
e had n l head am us), 
Mescrs, Bi 
ye from 
large bulk of the public mse the mixture. 
veven isa question of taste. Th ne trade a 
‘cen price, makes a bet verage 
ould do at the rane rice E 
sol 
sis KIN 
rhe a oa 
the oer i return of 
That, how 
reaper, alae com: wen Kae am fate at the aA 
time, and without hanes of persons. And 
poma o see the la ay worker at once detected, iti ~ 
aet —_ = he active man stand e: 
= sold 
than nny Coffee 
and in a 
The horses 
few minated i leted the man aat 
ae oS n he then monnted the box, 
ight s bac i and restin kme SER his 
e ettening Ur him for a minute or two between 
each return of the reaper ; 
‘amidst a and anxiously 
= than r eons saw on an 
The first 
into the field (in a tin wtih ta fa in fact w pas 
together at first) through i foolishly narrow 
This accomplished, ie: round began, th 
previously prepared horse-room 
the field had been laid dow 
the 
t to have nee o field. 
introduces 
ae people, and a pound.of the mixture, is boat th 
ame, The tr ade say, where we use a portion of 
Chicory do not know the fact 
| of my own knowledge. sold in mix- 
to | tures is of a superior qvality B that sold as $ pe 
Being really interested in the 
rateful to Messrs. Burgess | and „Key 
duction of such such an 
invaluable) implement, I have myself 
age and truly | § 
r the intro- 
ntry the most foolish habit rane land is Spe in ned) 
that er be Segara in. These ridges ran up 
d down the field, so that the poor canna s “first pro- 
ey mes these ee ridges 
nd down yea giy = 
ng it pisá ne 
hid its 
e had 
=G ae of 1 ‘construction 
of har 
aay 
the rity of the proce rte 
ground, however, manfally, protinga as I pies ve sin 
= le reason to “eg the 
its ability to HS an 
only were there these ridges and furrows in | 
, not only 
the way of the machine, but the a hipan on the 
headland was very thin, : and far from ctly ripe. 
‘co 
my al 
‘Sioa oe 
a most — nable prolixity ; but if you 
will be of aa wna er ur an eaders who, ons 
as quite a 
I will fh "this detailed" accoun mE 
mploymen it ne eek. 
me to say rose ieee the. plan ote described, | flowers ; some 
I have had a field of Wheat of 10 a all standing at | wick they on 
< o’clock in the uated ng, and all reaped, gathered, 
und, rots set up in pees by 7 o’clock in the evening 
ot the same day, only 10 men being employed in 
Exile. 
ON THE CULTURE AND COMMERCE OF 
ORY. 
| article wont ve very difficult to pale it depends 
think ita tion of taste and arom The Chi 
w fi e” 
{ thi are many varieties of the 
r part of which have Bar 
red. In Bi 
Magdeburg: The how 
* ccount of its pee the at 
sned um variety, which has neither very n 
very broad leaves. The plant thrives in all soi ils that 
will grow í Carrots; i ndeed, , the moge of te 
"The p 
w ns with a pee ey subsoil, drys 
THE cultivation and use if f Chicory ha 
worst = hen ng near 
It ver: es seldom thrives in n heavy clay 
wet land. 
and oe 
on the 
stubble after two rounds, an 
the road G eqnent idoti provision, I h 
observed, _or mortification of agricu cultural 
also ‘in ‘the United Kingdom. Dating its poten use 
chiefly fr ursued by the first Napoleo 
m p n | manure. In 
| to substitute home-grown | for colon ial produc! cts, 
it has | recommended; 
- | bable 
y), I 
their” heads “ead jeering at the failure o 
ta 
the 
the tte vert of noo er 
him ey: the Tit tle knot yin 
Sasol eee 
| prophecy ; and pred cee 
his st D penei ibe foe 
work well | he was 
1801, wh 
soon atter parte wae into France by M. “Orban, of Litve, and M. a, Ohad ae | 
ora 
rage, ei ee used alene or mixed with = in nume- | sur: 
es, where it es po n be sold oe er the ny 
caer aie 
but 
agen subsoil plonghing will a 
t be well worked; ideed 
tn century. 
j 
retiring (for it was now pasi 
S 
I walked over sere new stubble and examined it care- 
fully. Ov ver some of it the r reaper had pas — so in- 
of it 
effe 
sent cely 
hy Ae | WW 
of the pinte: will ru 
called “ rs”? 
E ENGLAND. 
cory iyi Gre: = Britain a or “tru 
: fully lagi nd dest 
of 20 per cent. was levied upon it, which, 
rep presentations of the rina was after. 
NTROD D CULTU 
the first AETS of Chico 
7 dut, 
owi ing t o the 
the werk was done superbly. I mained G this out = a 
sg old man in my employ, whom $ had 
same rate as that then payable 
| on » British plantation € aoa a high duty thus placed 
up has ; because if allowed to 
with the b bulk ‘they, will Spoil the sample. 
crops have been obtained when the 
to its cultivation at the prefe 
best 
seed has been sow? 
usually given to 
oe 
1 
and cleansed. 
but s so little was the “plant known i in Eng land å 
12 taches nyaris = 
Reet, 
me! 
and who had bee! 
byt = anata Teall, and he admitted its = ht 
eared that the grain deal shed. me 
oa. 
ve found sete satan st =- 
since observ: 
for the use of their land. In the autumn of 1853 w 
find i it groa in Kent, Surrey, and Essex, where the 
a pre repared, a 
d | article w: and met — a grea to leave spaces 
reaper than with the sickle, tl en cai Tiat and 
and much less - forcibly, knocked 
careless hand of” 
together | shire, 
about 6 6 or 8i 
t sale. Fin 
ing tl the nd a = root, its 
| culture apres F bri 
Srm e 
is very 
| extent of the home ge seers 
rately asce: does =e allow of the land nearly so Wi 
rtained. In 1 
eater oe 
en 
8000 acr: 
crop with it ones) a circuit of 10: Salas of Soca the practice of a is adopted. 
city of York; and in other districts there ere 7000 or r| atni FAE In October or Novembetr 
