Szrremprn 22, 1860.| THE GARDENERS’ CHRON TOLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 859 
i a ee SOR TERPS AES Beene A naea = ue ma 
list ist oF wild plants, that the weeds of the are are | Au; gust, 1860, asks: “Hay » you ever turned your, 
certai not so troublesome as in most dist tricts. attention to the annual increase of Clover m 
ga and Turnips are lec ar in their | our Claran leas; it is injurious ip to 
early start by Chickweeds, Chenopods, oa Gane ees bing to destroy it.” We > ite Se the 7 et the fen Wheats will aes reach an average. 
ustards, and tl o nothing of | s opinion, and the best means to ‘this end will b arley i is heavy but discoloured, and Aisa secured in 
A coment Rhizomatous te 8 Oba ouc ch, F jorin, ale seed. ow e observed this pest in a few Clover tek is | good condition very tolerable malt 5 
creeping Poas. The Thistle, Har rine Coltsfoot, | in Sussex; at Pagham, eik this and the next plant to | it will be an average crop. Oats yield well and weigh 
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educed prices. Eighteen-stone Wheat will not be the 
ral this year, and at i the whole it will be 
more productive and of er quality than last year, 
noT s u the plou ighing, be described, were found in the same field. well, and will be more than an average crop. W. 
“til leave enough behind to ake ey fasine on the} The Broomrape (Orobanche species), like Dodder, is Peterborough. 
limes stone es and hi lks; but it is not so, however, to any- rapic os progr essing through hout English farming, but 
Sussex 
fields as in Su 
are on the flat can easily be hoed and regulated at one, or though in Wilts, gia and Gloucester we have Sorietieg, 
whi Ist the farmer of caleareous occa sionally met with larger masses in a single field. 
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| a e have lately seen a quantity of O. minor in some Nor LANCASHIRE. — The 14th pi 
-notion that his fields are “clean as a flower garden” is | Alsike Clover, in which case every root of Clover it had hasty oF be this ‘Societ y tole place | last week at Bur 
d BE E a fiction, meant to express how. te would have | settled upon was completely killed. We have lately ley. In all there were aan ut 937 
en ut even here the rele 288 fa’ rmer been info ‘ormed that most of the farmers at Reading | cattle, &¢., and premiums and silver medals, ee = 
aie oe his bat r, which on the sandy the plant, but they consider it wild, and it | to about 5002., awarded, 
ularly emn in the blazo; on of Red Poppies (Pa- would-also ppea ey »| The trial of Implements included ploughs, harrows, 
ill ł it i Tabi in England is ortai Turnip hoes, Spuro &e. The P ap reyes is 
the result either of the plants seeding ‘in the soil from | but its appea all over a field in a} given in the Prest W Herala of the reaping machine 
want of efficient weeding, or else of refuse atid di it shifting ardh: where it was never seen before, eat competition 
finding its way to the farm from the dung heap ; but only be accounted for on the supposition +f j — Sarl at work were—Messrs. Crosskill’s 3 of 
in either case they have been allowed a gz been brought with the seed; everley ; Hopie with Burgess & Key’s patent 
_ the farm only to be pan kept up in consequence ; not could scarcely be detected oy the most curious pintoras Messrs. Gardner & Lindsay’s, of Stirling 
that this view is at all t believed in, for with the wild Fi rver, as they are scarcely s (shown by Mr. R. Atkinson, of Lane House, Ulverston); 
Poppies of Sussex as with the Charlock of the Cottes- | in the print of this article, and, so numerous that pro- and three of Wood’s reaping and mowing machines, 
wolds, we are to ld tha tit prr natural t o the and,” a a | bi ably ; respectively by Mr. Billington, Preston, Me 
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theo: an ch will go far specimens before us & 
of it rath g as af is 80 earnestly entertained. 20 SDN we may | ; mlett’s steel mariae and reaping 
ssi the UEMA of as | single flov machines combine Wood’s, Bamlett’s, Note er am 
here else, tuigs presents a sufficient quantity | Hov te, and how nyt oF atiached Linds say aje were the machines that a opie 
of wiht may be termed agrarian weeds, or such as | to ih roots of a Bro pe, is a subject upon spectators, as they appeared t tobe 
track cultivation diet everywhere. These do so | we are now experimenting ee the hope of getting re least liable A pad bobe A or ser ago 
because shifting crops are necessarily cultivated from | some interesting matter, to which end specimens in | And he ape a 
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courses prevails, there will be found to be a won- | dou us fecundity is on purpos eet Ma pT obtained. the * Socie ety’s prize of 207. 
derful agreement in the kinds of weeds. Thus the aaa “oh atisohisig themselves to tele tatare silver medal, Bet and clearer w Bric we could not. 
our _ Amer ican Gas s with a widely tence urse; still circumstances will in such i ae be not | wish to see done, maah we believe, the judges had 
ri a | unt et d, and i iding between if and Bam- 
ogni vèr medal. 
our i one onies ; Mi can Ah a asecnnted ihe fom the as it would Appear is necessar y to convince some people Pri trial of Churns concluded this part of the pros 
fact that they are sent over ib arts of the | that mme, which took place about 4 o’clock, in front of 
world with the crop seed, and t it is om Couch _ As "debs its fo pipelasrez: 4 we shall have more the ¢ Lord’s | Farm, F: Sajini ing the fi field aoe paper e 
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d elfheal, d is itself a plant being gd agen with 16. quarts of groa o “A toll 
Alkanet, Sandworts, Daisy, and Plantains, are Tooked of Aaike Srdiatoed roiie. whioh anes act 
j sears to seeds.” So saat _ ed is s the for c: attle, i matter. “There were deie 
i be called the “White man’s tity four churns in appear oh viz.: ’s barre 
Plan tains which are so co‘vimon in fields i in ENE Tork "We now adi our notes on the limited district we churn, shown by Mr. James Hartley, Thon on Hill Park, 
and Pennsylvania, are state ed by Be ck in his Botany of propos josed to comment upon, and in conclusion we can | Bur nle y v which produced 12% lbs. of butter in 14 
the United S tl ; Mr. Thomas Standing’s four ms sun 
hirme the Ribwort Plantain, pias may eo termed the “cena, of farming, yet that planet e chur n (Preston), which oP age ee butter in 37 
a Iekibsotata! we. are quite aware Rime it is mot un- four dpe? upon agrarian bot 1inutes, weighing 114 lbs.; Mr. James ie À 
ees mee as a valuable fodder plan iti be | out int i» Cirencester, Sept. 18. P adient churn (Blackburn), which obtained 1 
fo 0 a ; 13 ozs.-im I4 
a mixture of Plantain therein, for in this we have; = ` 
seen a field becom: al Plantain, and soot lore r be 
quite a secondary er; in such cases it is trae 
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Home Correspondence. minutes, 
Harvesting Wheat in Wet Weather.—On the three | tioned apparatu: he greatest quan- 
t| days, August 30, 31, and September 1, expecting co tity as well as ay i My Sedated the prize—a silver 
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the sheep, will fs n as what will they 
eat rather than starve ? At the same — both wet weather to continue, I had 30 acres o eat | medal or 27. By some en L ee that if ania 
in its effects upon the-er: „which it occurs either | reaped and placed under piaia 4 edb hovels, cattle | churns had been or one ho trial we tat ot ve giv 
y accident or design, as also upon the animals which | and ee sheds, &e.,— hose who ie larger gh ha 
exclusively feed upon it, we have tting prig g to the small danti of milk with stich they, were 
deleterious nature to convince us that it tion of tl Tach supplied, labouring under some disadvantage; but upon 
most icken? weeds of seeds, and ought ‘never | acre of Paid uale á an area of 4 ial 
designedly to be mixed with Clovers, and still less bi hte si cut when dry and feyh imineditely 5 
noie t aet were Dignity commended, 
Discus. fter the trial of the 
should Clover be seeded in which it occurs plentifully, | i now xcellent order, an “i my people commence | implements, the donne E aoeaseded to the Bull Hotel, 
which is too often the case, “ because’ it is the most | Pidhi it “th-ttlob rrow. Had the wet w cates con- | where lunch been prepared. After par’ taking of 
profitable way € of ia the bee with it.” ti nued, the whole might have been re moved in a few | the seh aie ents, 
30 acres, and portance. 
(Cadwecd paS which in reer te rely sepa- | in me latter € case for at least 20 acres m To show wate fame mid hed sis chal nitro pec 
rated from m any sample of terge would yet Ba be seeded | that i of the weather pith permitting Ean eo the on he ool ti Pheri de from Burley. 
seeds are too light, th 1 be saved, Im ay ie a great e: in carting it, and at the 
and | the might stil 
it woak uld not pay. Plantain gi erat are heavy, | pis that two walzpoti Toads of pyak standing i itt | in rae time an Set on was very desira art of th Fon OSLIS ie ie 
pigs weigh well; they are comparatively large, and | the field throughout the wet week ending the 25th of — state of the a 2 pene to have a o ree of a less. 
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f the measure. It is a se 00, grown more | August were carried on that, day in = pouring rain | bulk, and at the san of a less price, and with the 
easily and with greater ora and hence, then, we kug placed under cover. ily Pe then 7 soaked | E sine Dents, Hotad erie d bonos, and ho had tried phosphate 
Mig ener i it out with Clover, whether erSUEHOuE, and are now. Sés pele 10, fit to thrash: | hi h idered phosphate’ alm i 
way me > » Sep year, however, he considered phosp ost á failure, but 
ted with Clovers, or as purposely mixed with | I h adi one field of 10 acres dried in p ataw on three | he believed that was to a great extent owing to the wetness: 
then, s omg reprehensible, if not too frequently a a | kilns in a ma althouse, each of which was Lippe square, | | eek odao bo a barria be geod aair = 
Frederick | à hosphate. Another year per is might 
Pony ‘Shin m of seed, ha ace have the | F. “Mallett, the Manor Bone. Br sane Sept. 10. [We | reversed: ‘thet herefore, under the. present Browse, te 
— of aoe ADE parasite: 30 of Clover, namely, Dodder Times of Sept. 12. oon the society should, by experiment, obtain informa- 
Tec these are gradually but at och The Har vest, 1860. ue large quantity of Wheat p | Ea aren gavo it as his opion that night-soil ought to be 
Baers, especially the red kind n |a ‘om pte where ins ral deposited vot for 
Lik ase, re hat ł} te ought x 
ww some of our readers will well o has ry ‘and sil that two or three weeks since | Py fhe Beep) rsh 
rer apet rerata aera wire-like tendril-formed stems seid some of our oldest farmers. The commencement et 
wist around the plant i which is to be as Soa parent, | of cutting ee at later than En outa was, in his 
Si there by presse agro me a ched to the! to have impressed many perso: with the idea that corn z aA 
hes a ee „thereof, and indeed. so eer united | ought to be ripe, and Forthwith they th made havoe of it, 
ther i win eari e because it was — laid in he [mixed wit 5 
ith nu t hands hn an carted | miles, 
g? thu i to Fn trition sot the cellular some because they thought t to do with those | the bene 7 
of the crop, for f Ol Clover can hold its o: the = engaged for harvest weak the end is that | 
difficult; a a a ae “polls righ oy eed pitin = very m corn has been cut a week or ten days too | became 
a much musi ae Nepean pas be i = soon, tye oF a green colour, and considerably less in | Prope’ 
creased by ? Sa such a tyran he Dodder to fe bulk and weight than it. would have been if allowed | 
ae little Nog 5S the pntpddattion of Dodda to stand longer. We regret to say that blight e 
’ ve it in ildew | 
samples 5 and though it ít i k a a disputed point whether the some of the best crops, looking bright mda upright, have 
era =i ter a Cuscut ped trifolii of Babi is | nevertheless a considerable Feber nit ps and | a consi 
d in and, yet there ca mple ; but of the laid and unripe guano; 
fact of ae new ` Sene EAE abe i oar of the Poop i Poop di aa a p nly reaped tð 8000, on’ mpression that th elapsi manare was ight-ol and vit they 
and only at very | paid 13. 12s. or 141. per ton, at not less than 87. per 
f its 
ve the same attention to it inthe shape 
time, and t that t of Jate yours it fae ‘= der aid thrashed $ too soon, in ie | in: neoe iat ea di fficulty is am i reel ener 
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