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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND -> RICULTURAL GAZETTE. 801 
= a small crop of € corn, but fine fodder if well harvested. of Bromus Berend and Triticum ~ Ma: ask | 4thly.— Because the land ploughed by steam does no 
= Beans are Eng ara by the continne raina, some of what becam of le in the mad beg sample. AES which retain the water on the forked; as i well know on 
se woe Tack. 4 aoe been = this fortnight 3 si; lade = ol Se s the only objectionable Grass er žana ors a it is hardly ible to void. its 
aaa a ow oak dos <= St 5 na vo! ng at = ead Coke om aking in Eno nee c P Kin peri “a 2 eatin ake vd . = et 
en : a nent o wR: 
tne weather. ee FARREN antag me NNT SoS PFs cile the fact that you p e the first ‘sample 1 as Stratton, of Broad Hinton, ‘js most important :—“ I 
WARWICKSHIRE : ‘August 27.—It is no easy matter to give a “quite an inferior one,’ nd the second sample ‘ ay mention one field in particular, which is of a 
ect reply as to ‘‘ How the “ewe is afooting a better smixtiive than tead for good meadow land? » remarkably wet and unkind nature; so wet is it, that 
Saini fh — ot sone < E è Sma ate Two more opposite pi could not be conceived i aiat has been put to Wheat, it has been thrown 
seine and fewer showers han for a k past. The | the first making the seeds out to be very inferior, | up 1 ridges with a furrow every 5 yards, and even 
Touds also look higher, the swallows are not skimming so | the second very supérior, Using your own argument | then, aie nef So er ie ike a wet time, water invariably 
é o the g nt =p me = beg og a Oe we should a ate nformed why | stood in the s, sometimes oe months together, 
reson and we po pe bo, a hopeful, though not | Your first aiye made with reference to mi e of an y seriously i njured the crop. This year 
a confident belief in brighter d ystocome. The cutting of the quality ‘and cleanliness of the seeds of which gain oi Whe: > ae after poor Lap, gpa by steam, 
Oats and Barley is weil urward, for both these cereals have | the maar 
il has n i i 
S LAS EE EA Wheat | bee: standing Lon pen are | with respect hohe ‘the? Me species put together er biiy 
an Hn second analysis ois althou ug ha d such a w wet seas on, wet 
igle da 
ay, of Ft unset neti of fe waster, pte Hee a Analyses to be of the least value should be con- |the Wheat there ‘thes as well a any we debs on the 
Jarge pro of p Barley is being tied in sheaves, as | ducted in one uniform maue dw ins one definite farm.” » This fa i eeoa T dió so well kno 
Swell’as nthe, Oats: A eik ew: shi ings jos Sage pea. map ~ E t in a loo (which | esteemed will t many a heavy pees = 
pinion k A ig Sal te andl Barley are both go at plea easure), regardless of the serions | farmer i ofi imm afla va SER 
= ough gea lodged, and tho straw not so sweet as atid unjustifiable injury wh hast; careless| It is also of A BO, — Because it enables 
we yet hold to promise a “fair average,’ if | analyses seeds must inevitably ivoire: -r the etto to apply all his diately after 
ravo yopo ai: Reaping bas | sweepi ng an ant ie adi algak assertion with which you | harvest the. rem of his Jand. This, -J „am 
g 
n to-day in a few places, and 
“peg 
the close of the week. tosg ed crop: 
that-we did not 
verses the position of bei 
embers of th e se eed paden 
s are not very goneral, at | clude, Viz. that “the si seeds are as gagi 
arve: 
vë re fe tain, is most im 
por 
ubbles saves the farme great re of labour wa 
att 
rie the “only honest j iae identical a 
IA of s3 
‘Jeast in the ie oa districts of r a Dut ru uld use 1820 por ra 
a he Themselves or at Spi very “es is we consider a direct eel on all the mieken a e ity in the spring, and when he can fee sured 
that sprouting and shedding -have gone on largely. - A few trade, in whose seiner well as our own, we give it the | £ aTh a land ploug ghed by steam Balore orint 
winter een cut—a mid so ing crop ; hot spring fullest andı most sige denial, r, dur ing moderate ely dry w weather, he may 
© varieti uriant as Root crops sea She 
mend | a and k forward to ge tting in his “green 
; are too well known to be affected ty such upan | crop ete in proche time, and with little labour in tha 
ae SEED TRADE. insinuations. Francis § Arthur Dickson & — spring. On this point, t, Mr. Bur misto on, x ma niger 
BSEN e has prevented our replying Chester. [We publish this communication “at on e, Ale rm says. :—“ g rope 
sooner your r Sily a the “Quality of Gra this year will be grown pena to aN. once hsa 
Seeds,” inserted in your impress iai of 21st J uly, | ye yet pe offered of the particular analyses whi ch D arto for the crop, and that will be the syste’ men erally 
ce 679, to which we ask your readers to refer. Meanwhile it is plain that the adopted when steam- plou, ghs are more 
Ping aga remarks in the eter! in n which they oceur, two reports upon "the Clover seeds ‘which convey to | patronised.” 
see 
their tind pr y Sei opposite impressions,” bes as| The introduction of steam cultivation will affect 
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nds ful of seed taken ont of individuals. very variously. On lar arge a rable farms the 
ame bag b 
mine honourable men in 
y high. Be s to the report “upon the Grass seeds, bi 
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for instance, Mr. Redman, since using sten 
on his farm of 680 acres, 410 of them arable, pas 
i the seed t trade as in any 
Ad. Ast, tl either 
frage ad salen in the country, a ispensed 
was to De'i ncluded | Thangat this number. PESIN or ee ar "alwa ays, to some pE: be andn w. wor sA his farm with 10 beirn Mr. Salt- 
yon j! e “little trick ” prac- given relatively to the research which may be occupy- | sates proposed to reduce re horses from 25 to 15. 
tised by us, , we hold t ve been a ‘ ot e guerre” | ing the mind of - analyst at the time; and it ie qnite TE di i of Broa Hinton, m, consider that by ‘the 
perei fair under the aradan: It was the ‘only | possible that a mixture which, w whe en discussing the un-ploug’ h his work is in ve ter place than if he had 
means we-had. ing f go instead of it Mr. Holland a 
ata omn reps ee ( w analysis), your at pronounced, + be better ‘than usual,” % might. at “another hee can dispense with eight out of 20 horses. 
We know from the | time, Burmiston, working a farm of 1000 acres, says he will 
paiatz 
sop iid quality of th hendëda djed in the mixture sent by | dea 
rm 
a and oiis ‘admixture sri be declared | be able to dispense with 10 out of 24 horses. It seems 
ploymen 
a th at your igo bisa bi must | be incorrect, = an inferi tae a Pen: ly there is such a i thing- as to me that the em t of steam will not in every 
infer mple” g ds; 2d, it | case enable armer so reduce his stock of 
d that f ey? $.” is | horses. I do not anticipate being able E x so at all. 
fe an 
rset putti ng your AGT to the 
up J were seni by | criminately from the 
licate 
1 manner you did, | not the same as that afterwards amined Tor * A.M,” iT oe id that la a Baan an oror hors apavi 
to] indis- z, horse-raking, and banlin gy 1 hay 
aN H.” at our request. sly rter, whose | a EEE 
to say. that the permanent iiy in y artani consis istad “it has been to arrive at the truth regarding | The be ‘étive from steam Bn Zend 
of 30 Ibs. Natural Grasses and 11 Ibs. pore A all pga rene i to farmers; and th anor: I mention the case ae think it is sim‘lar to that 
Tbs.) acre. Let usin ps Sr, pla , com- | tun mity w. whatever given for the operation of any possi jle | of many. dairy farmers) will be in the more thorough 
pare your reports upon the. pei ias. “scandalous assertion” to which our cor- cultivation of the i nat the facilities it’ will afford 
Ist Report to “J.8.”—“The Shed punis respondents refer would be more properly described as for SEA cowie os ot crops. These ges may 
24, = weeds, Ere ee ae the assertion of a aioa truth, and it can no ‘more | appear to e problematical w thère is no saving 
with oe nia ae arta rire ory. 708 a aT plant per E por pinte be ‘called a libel on respecta table  seedsmen than the of ae bat 1 T ea the greatest confidence that the 
will convince the sceptical, 
aie homin: asmin ig been added as a desirable past 
ara 
ing | honest men. a as of 
Bite ye 
y on the ; lands of the vale of Gloucr ster. 
Rib G hy path th ell 11 Ibs. 
of the whole Sedliighs Knowin; 
AEE 
Clovers va Te sap: | tion more by joining | Ar in trying b 
pae h thatit 
unt the soil in question, and oak = still if when condemning these we were attacking them. ] 
Fai more than the latter) est 
mated 
counted for by the “shaking” y 
waivog vag this point i ei you ve perhaps explain APE } ed wti jrs E ; 
report to J. S: you designate it a ey of the Steam-Plough C F believe to | MPloyed, just 
cage a only pone + Wis Riedie! SAR i 1 feel steam-plough must be divided among the number of 
why in ; the first 
3 or no weed, 
Teports convey 2 irik ae ope 
‘between 24,960 and 17,000 Plantain seeds 
WATY 
uced as odes irable pacts be 
we maintain that the two | convinced t that it 
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whose Pe 
oubt, will Sari their repu ‘uta-| How does the comparison stand as to the cost of 
exposnre to defeat ploghing 1 bet ween steam al wer, and what 
exist, than by angry protest, as | margin is there for mutual benefit to the shareholders 
of the company and the farmers? The first item to 
ste e is the cost of pa by horses. _ We ma 
tbh keeping ah FF te 
days it is actually at work. And, judging by the 
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originated with the patriotic A bs i lence of the gentlemen given above, it would appe.r 
osite os tee ane are | = 
Ist Report to Ls The sam sé è of Grass seeds is estimated 
to contain D al ental a the ein as 
and 
ad: 
It be r Apres ar . of Gloucester haile 
pam ne Sone ocala fs a meadow | a of this co 
pS Holeus, but much less than is gene- ti 
on 
wy the 
These Po oa (like be>Glovers’ 
hg mixed befor ce they ot n: paa 
can prove thai 
indiseriminntely from the el bulk, and were 
yor | as = cause i of the pepe in the two analyses. 
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samples analysed were — 
not “ Nera 
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tiant into g for tiee convenience pai e ag 
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ta the hnit 
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th ie Jri as to account for 
| agriculture, apart fr 
josey to be a pro 
| the simple desire 
a farmer of a small q 
na! ty u 
justified in purchasing 
— seg before private ii 
out. to 
ted as 
-n demonstrated i i 
and how 
eading, an 7 
ble) a which the steam-ploug 
of pa Sting the agriculturist. 
om the mere selfish v iew of its] 
ofitable investment of capital, I 
m further satisfied that those gentlemen who took the 
initiative in n the formation of the company did so ie fairly estima abe tio voib owe nP N EE PRT 
a d 4s. per da: Judi 
t is 
nantity rable lan in the Vale 
e able, b; 
steam for 
Ti uring the 
ploughing season, compara atively idle. If this were 
ald b 
e to be ploughed ” 
r DANES Sckoning sheet f of aw aies 
at 
ien 
o beon | day's mor at das and the horse plonghing 
want to | 
so. It 
k can be done at a chea 
rst poi ve 
s tiat Gee euro is adva | 
superior to horse 
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a “eee? ; I might have ; 
i t uals would have io from the superiority of the work, at what 
t eres 
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Contingencies s. ae 
Interest on S00, “at 7 per cent. we Še 55 
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i anal ses. It is exceedi shaking and disintegrating the soil as it is Bas 
ys is exceedingly easy thoroughly sha sly. Because work can be executed | =n; orgie i i Gite Le APE TA UPEA W 
ible to effeet by horse-power. | this Sum 7 nbe 3 ploog 
s the ane neS you ae a “tolerable admixture | by i which it is impossi 
