798 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Supremnrr 1, 1860, 
d | Bedale, ia adkahice, “This nonohi ans Sepang 
crop was co lost i a ie n at cold wet | the amount of clous n t excessive, an o ement 
ar we may expect from the above Table eS 
the. past ‘s ks ‘howe eee ethers es ee iaa “i Fn and. alar Of $ : | M‘Cormick’a reaping machine, improved by. 
h 
a defici 
of only 2° of Rent vals with a withering ihitheties 
a Ba ess & Key, attended by one of the servants of the 
year for ‘this month, In June the temperature, 
1 
on a Rocka prospects, while a summer tempera- | month, 27 have been rainy days; and the quantity “i Wood’s American machine, exhibited by C 
ae or the mean, brings dearth and | of rain fallen has also been large; in June, about | op London, with a Iahonnges to put off the sheaves—ą 
mmers which have been more |the average; in J uly, half an inch in excess; and aa tals had previ obtained a e ze 7 ana, 
tan tally val Haye generally been accompanied jin the present month already a much larger.) mowing machine at Loo bay uinen, in. the ince: of 
by a large fall of rain; the rain, in fact, being | amount in excess of the usual fall. land. ERE 
rather the cause than the effect of the low state o of} Exam mining the crops themselves we fnt - ry d z È baba machine, a French reaper, RESI 
the thermometer. An a season has | appearance to confirm the experience recorded in 
always tended to produce a hargo amount of bas table, Throughout the entire flat district of vhs a ae ing Re es dsl ea 
straw, which, in a tinuance of damp|fen and marsh l the Wheat e become * nnes worka thew: 
- weather, is peculiarly liable ri W attacked seriously and pp eda hag affected during the = ah: 
by disease; hence in the wet years of 1899, 1810, | last six we eeks; though up to that time this distri No. ti Seana al Noe 
and 1811, much damage was done by mildew. | considered itself fayoured with heavy and healthy Cuthbert, |" _ Key. , Wood! - 
Cold wet summers are ‘ual rarer than unusually | crops, bidding fair, indeed, to. yield almost the Isc De 
hot Ones» as in the 65 eee included i in the t able, | only good harvest in England. But the continued | eye et _ i = “0. 0.| 48.10: 6. pe . % 
the | absence of olar. rays has left the lodged and | mwenty per cent. allowed for ; 
mea! “or 3°, ‘and onl y three times did it = er ee Biema and Oats still green and iesi ort onfi outa moplacling fap re be : 
more agra 3° below the mean; but, in the s uicy, w. he flag h ecayed, and the soft Berra tome aata te aed at 0 
posed. the summer heat rose eight times from Ps Kerik rftsing Pi EE ipia solid aie of ae days, ay oe year, o 
aOR must be left to sae vel in ear and tea: 4 
tho cut skea, Field after field, lies a prey yc he om Y He ogg 04 BIO Bg 
“Mr. Wart: s, from l ong sodi mce | to the insidious ildew; a vast nt of. cuthbert's and Wood's r requ nire d 
with the west of nglend that Wheat in general Wheat- being by this disaster reduced, to all| £3chtwolabonrors, ti me iog i 
fails to come to that perfection which justifies appearance, one half in value. Blight and red! gather up the grain; the 
tivatior , ta heig t of 600 feet above the sea > rust, and other. enemies, active against a Baby. tanta pn chi Peng ‘former boing k 
and as Tap er temperature there | Wheat crop are also rife in all. quarters; and the| at pe 5 0 ES 
is 60°; the allowance for altitude shows- that 58° heavy rains and rough winds Having. prostratod Burgess & Key's requires a an cn M 
is, the. 1 eat adapted for perfecting alntost every Wahia he incessa y | penta ae eee “qh ove oC aa 
grain. In a ee of i it is wage that pouring shavers maya or sprouting, on Ave ry 
deficienc nog of 2 in, am v heat (that is, a tem he Wheat may; beseen ‘ growing | The average powore sett ] 
perature o syi 1 followed by a great deficiency of by handfuls ” bet ie is rea a ‘The at“eropis| dynamometer of Becker's (of ae 
p on the rlands. On the eastern plain of in a very. sad. plight eae down flat, and| Ambem)is equiy lent. to injewt. st: 1b mit ab wit. st 
te ae m-growing district, when | kept apeti ee it a come- ‘ thorough- pict ites, ie, E REA es ae s6 OT 
the es Invariably at fallen t sii the | grown” to ent. hardly ever known before, a machine working in aital 
crop: has been, invaria efective; in the Mei Baits aaan Q stems already. in. ‘‘ shoe,” |, thà total power could no 
1812 it fell to. 57.°2, and the nation was on the young ap o the original Oats, so. that m ih beg belascortatned by the He 27 si y 
e. of, famine, In West- Lothian Wheat has | or reaping is troubleso ork, Farmers, despair- i a r 
been, successfully, cultivated, though the average ing of @ ripening-time, are beginning to.cu A BOING wpthing. tady Bursa ; 
ee we ears is somewhat below 58°. | corn greener than usual, but haryesting will aaa hE e A hah 
been pushed so far-to. the north of only be g eneral nex t wi eek (the. first i n Sep- lEcwt., so, that talaya will 
Sootland, th that the meen heat of the season is only | tember behindity po, grea gm ee RIN i 
: But then it s only in warm sheltered vales | Paag ar orice wall: fold: but owing to the needed will cost, atle, £44) 8 edhe we 
where. t the ae o n be relied on. Thus the | wet ps REEE ed, and. will su day for 0 6 8} 018 Be l 
minimum amount of hoat necessary for the ripening | ereat loss. unless ae weather ât onge- supervene| The total of these sums _ac-|, i ikiya 
cece ot glad, where a if Rena age a fai orp, butinot well) Serre e * ONY oo al va ela 86 
o s are ning a Sano Senn Cii manmade ars 
and, ore ver, wenty Netherland. roo Brame ee 3 
i ; a , 
time ke 58° a are noant of solar heat in the same As far wide locality in question i 1s con- Ch for each competitor were minutes | minutes os 
7 | cerned, peta is g doubt that the hopes inspired |, cutin 46- rij 3 
Now in estimating, from these data, the corn- | p TEF ERR | 
spene piya of the. present son, we will | | by on ozpoadi ngly y fno and. well-grown Wheat | Calculating 10 hours’ work pe anew 
take one.great Wheat-growing district, the South oti shing w lai disappointed, and the result ery ngii in N 30 “0.36 
pa area level, im. whi : bi oF a produoe A Valeria gerass the = cara oi 
of many years’ average) is 62°. only of the grain) was cuts 
During the A rear m Uk wht spa have |? nul involved in ipa T,- ther bo get opp i 
shown. the. mperature; to be as follows, —for degrees, lower than its, apenas saa me | about one-half + ys 
the Wepkending tant 9th, 524° ; for the Dei end- caval be under the minimum temperature amount, therefore. ~ FO dod, |e 0. pts ofr ee Seat 
So Gt, cessful Wheat culture as b And on an average-the actual} i aS one 
ing June 16th, 544° ; week ending Jane e 23d, 54° — cost willbe; e -me waft Ook Foe 0, % [i 0, 2 ME 
week ending July 14th, 57°; week. ending aast while near districts In, the first) case th acres., a a SO 
Hse Os weak ending July 38h, S44; werk ofthe countay the above gloomy piouro wil mo | tesa aanaeio Re) | 
ending A 4th, 58°; week ending August | generally: recognised as true; it ilk a found by And vem average; as. most}; t 
llth, 55°; week ia s Anast ON 6° ; the T in other ae that the aa will be the pect ee 
skag tempe nay pe pistoi one y whinhr: kave pfo | “The madiine.of Banese A Aa codes create 
being Pepa on lao than No below. ig a rere Be t yield ir rote Nes eat GE Woot Lave ! g 
mean summer-heat.of a number of years s. and, Sof good c e, however, i Bro eem; Thiet gaini t 
TAa ii fits fhe ripening f very aritical n state, a e ajii er week of apa Tao a ia P 
; ermometer. has been. and i we ather would be generally disastrous 8, ] ree Archin screws fi : 
= piy poen aian: than any of those i i v pate E OSes G j ; 
in, whic oduce orable, è : 
r p EEN past ex! lae pat, ` eas | PRIAL gp TRS TIONAL The weights of. the gta lewtist-Tbeclomt Se 
atall, we ots 2d only for a Thest grenko of. | a MAGH INES Tho "breadth of: the " entire). eim : 
will be Epes eis p an ee ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SC THERLANDS. | ican semis cut the. 20: roods} ciel — 
at_once burst, forth vith | Pursvanr to dls already’ published: in. this By R A ma aa 
cold and saturated harvest. OPOR WS" Journal, a e trial: of ;iacbines took | Tho two fist put the kn ee 
tiaied and selene Shey Pend etn ie tne”) "RTE ti nC 
extremely iot t, mshi; ie ht t het rrr prepreg nett as vary amon s eag ote in, Burgess Tey. ‘shy ale Foe he 
Sees of-no steam: » plough being, entered. to, ; compete ‘or the,| the outsi de, and a screw on the 2 inside ; in Wi cab 
= June was racy 4 w the ‘ser nity fhi 
owest years, 1843. oad bss n i ink it was = of that description, were a b fi ble state| . Burgess.and. — by 
the same, maximum as in eat ; and iy August it of the wetber. ms setting. in in. nd, as ake ayer ee 2 
hasireached.only.73° as yet, o 13° colder. than he 10th however fining. ouh dry & 
last. year, or 14° under bre hitherto the lowest, Worked.in the morning e pili eee the| The teeth of the knives are e Jigged in Burgess 
mper: 
elge i aedi with.a clean; cut. in. theo 
n to; within adip of: Ma y point; in July, to 
within 43°; an a present month to within 
9° of the es poi No 
fu few. days of 
as; in 7 une, the heat, t 
of 2 
75° on 6 days, instead ti 
risen. to 70° 
days. as. last year, An 
> Would be 
pae iyernt in| 
'ainy: days and | 
society took place in a field of Whe Ap at 2.30 in uliarities, y are not of suchi « nati? 
att as ye are a preference to any one. of these machines 
y th part in the competition; | much over either of the others. os 
of Dr. Marie’ invention oa exhibited by Peignat, of  height-of the stubble left was equal in tte 
Atbibendaihg having: got outs of order after arrival-on | and was as as ible the sickle to nate 
the ground; while a ‘af the Husspy’s reaper with Dray’s| Where there were furrows in the field, Jai, 
improvements alr stubbl a somewhat longer, all the 
the "Several overcame difficulties oceasioned on 
Wilhelmina on did nee compete. 
others nae were entered) did not,come, 
competing machines we 
one-horse machine, wita a labourer to gat 
up ra sheaves; by p aei ea of 
‘the-firm of R: Cuthbert-& Cox of. -Newtonsle.Willow: WS, 
are was, however, much difference in, the al 
report, as received from Wil Se jt a I 
our. a thane are. mon 
it ta 6 ORT, are used. “i We tre RUUAN 
