780 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. FAucusr 25, 1860, 
w friend, as to make you more ready to trust) If nar ije be ue the length you heed j miota people in winter when work was scarce 
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ne when clouds come on or appearances are rather allow ing fewer turnir gs | curiosit; my machine viae 
he one thing which I have found to} and aie: iy cocker return of ge machine. lit it was working near a public road have been extreme, 
ato raw against the perfect success of hea opera- If again. your crop is very heavy you must allow | For days.I never saw a pedestrian, a horse-man, a cart, 
tion of the reaper, has been a soft and yielding con- | somet thing more. Perhaps under thes S daoen | a waggon, private carriage pass by that ‘did n not 
i damped by recent rai (o b uired to keep up | pull up 6 gor the machine—-which ind ae “4 
kable 
en clog, the d ght t| with tl But it is Sivota that these things | remar looking object in a pon, i as “tba 
is more difficult and irregular, the ‘work done is less, | ¢ t be ae wi th absolute nicety, from the | round, and the grain bows down —ferniniinge 
and the stubble does not present such an even mown, shape of fields, the varieties in the crops, and the|one of Milton’s words in the ‘dad Seo tes, but 
nay rather (to c a true description of its varieti es in the men, who will in one part of Great | applied by him, I am ‘sorry ¢ to say, to a lad 
work when in perfection) shaven appearance. If too work pady than in another a g 
the crop is low and light, such as a thin crop of Oats, | part. Where, however, to the best of your power you cone hither sailing? 
anda little damped by rain or heavy dew, the work of En di vided the allotments, jar mus ast i sist upon t 
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ecided inequalities in the surface, such as deep furrows | flag and “get behind the machine you will never | to see it at work; he was Soeetiag one on n te io owa 
lows, the reaper will have a tendency to dip and | recover yourself; part of the crop will be left at night | land, but told me 1 had got the start of him by a 
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arly following the- machine. professes, | at an tim me the , work seems hopelessly behind the | you begin a new field, to prepare a way for the horses, 
jr del: ew minu et eve they will also be very useful in mowing down 
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and will require a little w urging and helping off ter an d from | laid, and over w n thus em 
times there will be some jerk ori stoppage, whioh shouid | the machine, But generally there will be a kind of | arrives npon ane shoul soy be out of gear. If, 
to. - | héad man in the field, who will do his own work and | too, the machine should by any accident “come to 
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g to ob how the work who is following the reaper, as he goes u p with it on work and b doing somethin idling. of allowing 
e drive: it d when it is out of t to stand by, jeering mai and waiting 
i going too fast oe Tees ay too | up a iii of sheaves under his arms in th f the vhi Baksh, Whee Sage is 
. He watch the arrangement of the | stook them, or it will do no harm if even your honour- | waited for, or ery skill is tested with the same 
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Piui oan en “gee” or “haw” |data I conclude that the reaper, worked as I have | They all like A a with the machine, and would 
“aha mihien too will help the fenn keep- | described, will with every allowance manage 8 acres think it as much slavery, to reap with the hook as to 
g him, s directly iy deviates from it, nearer the crop,|a day, and if eight men can gather, bind, and stook he 
if he be driving at all too wide of it; and taking him after it, then it follows that shonld you be obliged I do not allow my harvest men any beer. When 
off if he is Siiving too far into it, or stopping the team | at a any tim e to reap without being able to bind, &c. | they do not get their meals at the farm they are 
at once if there om — = shoals ahead. F h | be able to reap all round the field, you | allowed 1s. a day extra for their food, and have in the 
reasons I would always a man Epos “the ay set the gathering, binding, and stooking at an/afternoon ten minutes’ rest and their drinking given 
machine, not to — with it, but a’ f one acre a day per ‘man, As I said in my ti of milk, tea, butter milk, or more commonly of 
tlemen say, “to as 2? And ane when Seos, letter, I have peg "myself 10 acres ina yee followi ing ' compound, which they much like. Half a 
goes on smoothly, rea Ny ea ant sense of ity | ith the eaper P 12 or 14 quar 
hi y, id tread, the brisk, tk th l tmeg and ginger. Our day is from 7 to7, 
fied look, ad meh bh vigilant eye of your tender, Sava with 1 the youre the machine pas all 2 = ihe with fist ai for dinner, and We minutes in the 
ing that though his office seems for the moment or same field without having to be removed, the cro afternoon. This is we ae er than beginning early 
tes ing of a aicu, he will prove, utting. |in the morning and leaving off earlier in the even- 
a plorat me, “good at ne oð,” and may even In the mode of reaping which I have practised, I find ing ; because the pn have time to get their 
something in the meantime of to le kfas ro 
an E, dropping a word as he passes to the | gear journeys outside the work, and some little distance | and the dew is more off the and the ground. 
binders or the raker, certainly being more careful | from the standing corn, so as to allow plenty of room| And because often the eve tig he is the m 
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t, man among your labourers, |petually preparing between the stooks, so that the |work. Ona push my men w. ay longer to carr 
the preference to one who has a “bit | reaper never need be above 20 yar fe the crop. but then I pt er pel them ts Py “Exile. 
of machinery, and who has a fancy for new test trouble and delay is in changing t the | op gp es a aa ; 
Tigis if you have sueh a man, or-ean wt such a| field, w nthe ae has to be Pans or war 
( the worst, and you | ome Correspondence 
non sometimes), make such a man lac tl | thi Valuation of Manures. .—In the continued report of 
once “un i d c: thie pees porn “take et in case of the 
proud of it, and think and work day and night ae distance, Bagh roads, or narrow gates. $ aso den my | Hi ighland Society, relating to the valuation « of manures, - 
a wor In ime | he wil pa l gates now and w Jen appeared in the last eter! Gazette, I 
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littl ender will carry on his back, and you ca me pass | lowest rate at which such articles can be purchased in 
since, in order to keep up a Sek an of work, you | en rough. With narrow gates of 64 or 7 feet width, the | cargoes, consisting of hundreds of tons, and for money 
hal enon pre horses (two of which are required | delay and annoyance of “getting through are consider- m the manufactured article (superphosphate) is 
nce in the morning, and once in the|able. It is almost better in such cases to remove the poa at the highest rate at which it is sold, packed 
reir so as not to let the same team continu e at | gate and one of the posts, and put them up again of a in ags, and delivered free at r Hence stations. Now as 
work above 23 or 3 hours together, one of your oe al hes lei isure, than w waste the the f th 
will be probably at liberty, and if he is a fit man, he precious hours of harvest and the th P f partly 
Bight new anage the tending of the machine. But it is Ine horses.and men in n liftin ng, and turning, and pull partly , they must evidently 
unhappy reaper ost ihe = a field | be erroneous, I siir to meet the various expenses 
Bongi a gat t was n eant to 
to ya ah of ail your Dail ff, who, e you have — stil pai more than a do; ake eye cart, d the final realisation of the manufactured | article, 
land, will have his hands and his hea with rega-| I need scarcely ae on the gg in wages iA the several items of one year’s interest of 
one pues wi work, helping at the stooking or Ueongehe in| in — sta a the crop effected by the reaper; this cost, crushing, preparing, m: urer’s profit, bags, 
one while the reaping is ) going on in an other. ust be ol s to every one; I know it from expe- cating railway carriage, and merchant’s profit, in- 
rience. Thre ree fe baret age I had to Pay as much as 1/, | cludi bts, margi some- 
He becomes master of the open the team, per an acre for reaping and binding, and 15s. is a very Atih ao or 25 per cent. is is required. If this be 
treated with confidence and put upon his honour, will | common price. rages then the ea is eee rh correc f the phosphate of lime, 
drive on the work vork and n not mind a little exertion to keep | not done perhaps at the right time, and t ne | &e., ials, 20 or 25 per cent. ought to be 
everything.m if h added The I believe is sound logic, for it must be 
of the aE he should = himself richer than his | shed, aod the men you hire see your necessity and | evident that we have no more right to value the dif- 
by half a sovereign or half lerably exacting and parker popula. ferent substances of a manufactured article in the con- 
pepe per ogo your Gide, or as they a are rather ag with the encase you Ge your work don ane at the sum at which such article might 
i engineer,” shona time, with a third part Ake iare peed e manufacturer wholesale, than we have to 
Sante noth cca The dri eid] aoe ‘ould otherwise Panda a tind patlebahe estimate the value of guano in this perenne 
tender, machine ee thus arranged, J om expense it would otherwise be to mae white Lay 
describe how we managed the of the tere » vr thitig ages eer and sed NA : 
the binders followed the kork: “loosely, takin, p the! usually re 3a a10 aee 
swath where aed could, after tae lone it by th Calendar of Operations, 
time in tre adin g upon or following’ each “te, al help of the reaper with 10. ` After per T hunting for ; AUGUST. 
tk country, ite n cost me`l5s. | _ West Sussex.—Weare still in the middl eof very wet weather 
gu k es all paid nee it | Stormy and com comparatively cold, and nothing makes much 
the i reaping, and ge at amo -k co ork will never be | costs me on an avera 5s. 6d. an a = Sartore Reet 3 Vot pnt harvest will in some 
done. onnl o ur bailiff, oever is s arranging I be AM know it from my y-a saved 507. (the fall | entangled sta e, and a Sarda would te ak of little use 
the w r with rgs duplicates, von in | anong it, ana such will always be a serious obstacle to the 
the swat th, and = fence into equal parts, if all iak ond pit an¢ value and amount o n |o om r 
pepmrceairing: a smaller portion to women or boys.| and straw nearly as rec a we aor it will not do to have them fi 
But in it is best to ohare men, the wk men came one F look my reaper at | lay them asi t: in thit ones tMi year, amd be an 
non ee oe but ean Oats and Barley active| work, and I asked them petty ae liked it? = to cu t the heavy crops, and they wouldiot be a 
noms . Suppose the fie! i u? 
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re an "do se up! field | Their reply was “not at a 1 asked ? ee and will avo id th possi 
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yards, along the | They plied Because ie is taking the bread | This is a reason with ang he aa mone t Ts, but I think 
divide this Rein eight parts out of our mouths.” I said on the —— it ve! cino might be got over by ing with a p: 
Soili to ei; sie i Set a bra was Hos the — into their mouths, for it was | horses to keep TE POERA ae Bog! the Se tr slag Coa 
e limits of eac mations a rg Bee 2 Ba -a condition and Se employ it; and if the terms are a li advantageous f for them 
E aaa bind: sak) Wheat cata abandaats and whit. everybody- hod as | there is no doubt they wall soon adopt it much of 
the machine| much work as they oul Shosibly do hiring harvest | tHe corn is laid, yet there is not so much aso he: would exp 
with so much rough weather, and I fear he 
quarters, | time, it left money in the farmer’s pocket to employ | heavy as we could wish t them, as they rise 
