YEP LEMBER 15, 1860.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
841 
best of a bad j ob. In this same harvest of 
making ing the pened to FANS a 20-acre field of oe os 
he: I hap 
p will produce less by 
| prices a 
last year.’ d yet 
ce hi difference 
Fall. 
1507. than 
e 50 per cent, higher this year, 
food for cattle it would be va to i imagine. It is tru 
that very much hay was destroyed in the valley 
£ 
ER 
istricts; so in 
Arein ae then 
o my great annoyance became visible e enou ugh à, 
ges 
| appar 
kan ha 
of about rand finally the 
and exhibiting | 
rops continuing green a 
harve 
the « 
an ewer Poeni and certainly delaying 
erhaps m 
and impoverishe 
illy fields much of TA [t 
ashed away. . J. Mechi, 
Beers 
feels quite certain that 
e angie and its Vitter: 
sy, that the of the Thames 
e Myer Ay 
sedi ment of 
me they m: 
repeat t the baleen if the aed wil 
combine to improve the waterwa ay o of t the fat 
English rivers. 
obser vation, | 
others, 1 
ti 
Now api 
and such infor mation as I can gain from 
Potato Disease.—H. B. J. 
the lime, salt, peo ashes have prevented his Potatoes | 
— least of St was a bold 
Many about him laid | 
being as bad as his neighbours’. 
out „He had fully- as | 
„40s. en acre on their hay | land. 
es of my 
ia got upa rety idas as it 
r 
ipta thinks it prevent: = corn 2 Auge se so poi as is ‘often | 
seen, and Setha the straw 
_ Burgess s and Key’s Reaper. shyt and no doubt | 
who have used B 
ar pretty pein ae maar tthe ‘he 
peration of slate the 
farmers ess & Key’s reaper | 
for the first time ae season, an "greatly in ing 2% ted to | 
h). He yield 
d 
was bid weather. 
as n ju me 
Ps. 
The Wheat was thin in the s spring ; 
in any grain crop. 
ughed up. will 
a piete which I condemned to be plou 
Tea niya r qui 
an re 
tides” 
blossom. 
n hot, as far 
hort 
T 
, the corn would h have e mabority i s t of 4 
r | your correspondent. “ ot. and o 
nded to 
rom the aon 
iore ype than I had expat Altogether w 
bont as queer a job as ever I was concerned with : but | 
tad; ‘end if in 
have s since append i in n the Agricultural Gazette. 
ve had no c: u 
ers 
biosa a as | factory. 
We | Las 
to the 
fortunately the 
be dri r keeping. 
ei ok kilas were Daihgeneds and in a ver 
iter hl back came my Whe: 
in quantity and as 
per fectly safe 
at, I do not think much i 
to 
quality 
a 
ssing it again esi 
the tad 
the corn a ‘alittle d t e the 
land in Barley was wet 
a 
longest o 
rea malt, found th ie fami iy: in 
and soft, an ndi tie Clover half ie up the corn, we used 
thre e good hors rses, an nd chan ged thein twice in the day, 
e whole tier: To give an idea o 
lative value of sou nd d and damaged Wheat at “that 
for the w 
stances. — We pta a shes on the first horse, and = 
ti 
han da maged), I sold the lacis harvested dry fo 
n | equal to 1852, 
y. 
under those circum- arda e fine weather the harvest ain 
poh ell secured. O., 
r cent, in favour or 1860. Here 
ave Abite cause ror PoE f 
ua entity of rain has been, oa Tr month about | 
oe wettest er I ever mber. 
w won e an excess 
Vhe and Dat ricks are springing 
up to- day i in this ante et with the irai a a 
1860 will be ` 
n the A 
Heav. aai to be 
ex 
abundant ERD 
© | Abin gdon, 
The ph os a want of Rain in causing the Abortion 
he kiln-dried or 90s. per quarter. Samuel Taylor na tfe on this matter, I had an aa x spe, kept in. in BARS —Some year ago I observed a piece of stand- 
Houcester, Aug spect of one field iy which the work w. growing upon Jight sandy la nd had mostly 
thet aa of "the Root Crops.—The present wet cold straight forward, and which was as fol ie Th is yea 4 
ave the effect o! greatly diminishing the fi eld w s Wheat, and measur red 10; a cres, ‘The work per a few Barley planta i in pots in the pee tog so 
e hay being also a the hor o er them for the purpose of - 
al be daiira ble to feed a portion of the roots with the | the Pane tying, and stooking mA sheaves. The hotietig the e adit of water their pro- 
ay to keep the young stock in an advancing state of | hands pennn „comprise, the driver and boy, with | ducing prop nd just as the heads were 
ondition; but the greatest difficulty will be felt i in the | the hor fi shooting I abstained completely to give water. The 
ad m of the spring, the tare at 4s. per day . £112 0 result is seen in the enclosed specimens, which 
feed for sh en with the view of econo- 4 women at 2s. + 08 0 show that whilst a am of pa rains at nearly 
ising t consumption of I should suggest lay- pass ae Bd ae sk REUA the bottom of eads matured, , yet 
ig up some portion of our pastures from the ‘present AR ak 5 those of tle top portin are SSortions It will be 
me, dressing manure applied now would £210 0 | remarked i in one there are two grain 1s like the whole of 
crease the quantity and improve the quality of a good The hands provide their own beer. 
eful milk-producing food for ewes after lambing. B. ri ange 12. Š th the awn, whilst a lternating with these two are , 
mes rigs fa iiA pes iety suitabl foe ee hen filled grains not much inferior to those more at the - 
ina; ct.— The icul —The very ttom. mperfect seeds peen, 
wal Gazette being now so K PEREA 1 TE En ings ve had, only by the = arilE be scan the 
ium fo rding valuable information to ale p - | skins and beards are not ly in sis in > 
‘ho desire to derive rofit or amusement from rly Wheat, or plants grenter ma gona in parison with those are filled. It will also be 
he — of their estates, that it may the grain; in edo ias wod the especin enir erved the ins on à 
aed be considered one of ‘our “ institutions,” for cold land and late situations. The para epog heads are had intended to have 
me, as E Il » grown un sar ma cir- | examined if t peculia: : 
ben’ ter Š sed erful aid | the G th yet evincing, in spite of the A eal [the grows rt plant ‘ad often the = aovalop= : 
y of preparing before next session a ponte ables season, 2 a dupaia a o perfect its grain and pro- | ment of the pollen cel thus prevented fertilisation, < 
i ran fo A rl United Kingdom m. Most unfor- | duce a stra which | but unfortunately gaged lected doing so. > 
was not taken before the five | hus suffered less from ‘the riek tate of mE aatis However I suspect, er the plants had 
Sa A pg drainage and the Drainage Act| warmth than the others in the same field. Th so fai “ges = skin tt gree that the non- 
large sums would then probably not have been | being collected, shoal be sown by. hemselves, when vache g ay res non-p on ; 
ited. Estat and are still attempted to be pt yenn e same prosess se of Pear ay act ht cells, W. Woo 
ap sped reference to t pas above or below pin aga ke slow the however, eiad wo eega Feast aire E alien 
n districts, the large outfalls bein na ) sun a ve average warmth, ors is GO a PITA TEER 
int and ae Lotte nd the fall aa d- | opportunity ay plaat which has struggled Societies, 
ted to the whole area capable of fling dead ed. In.| best to raat its destiny, and the favourable chance 
dependently of the want of uni landowners, | should not be permi to pass unprofitably, W. nae AGRICULTURAL OF SAG D. 
* circumstance deeply be t the | Woo. Sept. 4, foll f theaward of the 
Peti is destroye Acts, one of which} Sm all Sheaves of Cor gg tl judg of reaping machines at the late trial at Ca nter- 
eres u as a specimen ; this 3 is an Act passed in t Agricultural Gazette la 2 m a ing 
t Parliament of Geo I. for drainage and navi- a gazite pidly ed ee them eg te ae portions is | at that city :— 
es i he two could be combined, in a fiat | I fin m, in on ptember 4, 
pe The ee ee in = ocality are vee akg by | p i p alf the size of our he ey enana K peis “stew prizo, a rat ria ms 
i we ry to avoid this or Ae one The process o in Eý moreover orn £0.01 the Moya) Agricultura iety’s Show, at 
kylla la the n ‘fall Tato > Earb nother Act in force TA by, a The pi the mf in apart from each n| EE ee [sont soa oT, re. Cuthbert & o., 
er. Thi his | is chi efly done i in the Hop | distric ots, the | consider the reaper exhibil & Key wortliy of high 
t comn m 
sands have been laii 
for aem co-operation, Sanit 
to a consideration of the evils 
alone; I speak of E 
ras ney Å es ne whole district i is, at present, incapable 
ed, though thi d 
placed at each end, and the sheaves are made to re: pi: 
of 3 feet from the ground, by means of cross wick 
In o ne | 
in pairs. 
place I saw a very ingenious manner of fixing | six | 
are muc! 
there jis little 
3 an enor- 
a hi year from the want of 
“ There b 
h | were secured. J. O. 
Westwood. 
The Rone 
Berkshire : of 1 
of this year. 
expressed for the harv 
have had. 
he? 
and inclination watched the phases of every harvest 
Tiang that t period, I venture to B AEH opinion as to 
| the t ultural irs 
jon 5 y iaa r d and ba backward spring reduced the 
; Pr Si aambared with last year, 
grain crop, and an almost jea 
. The onl; : point is 
above nS 
“On my 100 acres ¢ 
A great 
fritar Donat 
à ght 
wet Au: ‘ore: erop, and esta 
root sande aot the ‘activity of the rao sare him 
to take adva ternations of the weather. 
is dg extent the meat market would Sze (ses 
he ensuing winter but for this timely supply 
860.—Great fears are | Belfast, 
As I have lived | Farmers’ 
in one of the most. fertile corn-growing. districts ot ved pe a 
co! 
to hay and į; 
wi 
ited by Bu rgess 
mendatic igned rge 
* Tgos. RAMMELL, 
“H. P. Austin.” 
