Show TEXTURE OF SOIL soll the quality of soils is very var various loli particularly as to texture and consistency and no quality has more influence upon the well being of plants than this all the operations 1 ons of spading dig digging ing plowing trenching drenching tren ching ana and draining have havo for their object the product production loil and breser preservation of that condition which will allow all excess of water to pass freel freely IT away ardd arid admit as freely fresh supplies 9 upp les ies of atmospheric air while humidity J is necessary and too loose a texture makes too dry a soil excess of moisture is a great evil and must be corrected by whatever moans means is applicable when the soil is saturated saturate with water the access of the genial air and its gaseous properties is excluded the soil is kep kepi too low in temperature by constant evaporation at the surface and by exclusion of the suns rays fiands plants are deprived of the supplies 0 of food which new supplies of air would constantly afford and the delicate fibres fabres imprisoned and choked and drowned out in greater or less degree in proportion to the extent of tho the evil when rain and air can permeate freely a constant supply of both gaseous and aqueous nourishment is afforded I 1 independently nde altogether of the richness of the soil whether natural or artin artif artificial iclal doial on the kotlier other hand if the soil be compact or baked haax hard by drought in icorn consequence of its natural condition or of its having been previously worked and stirred when too wet no plant can flourish san ban sandy d y soils are noven never liable to these condit conditions I 1 ons unless when they have a clay stratum s t lining underneath very near ngar t the e surface all the water they absorb sinks deep into the subsoil and far below the roots of corn corli or any agri agricultural cl plant on the surface suc sueh such h a soil poll needs neither draining nor subsoil plowing neither does it ever require r aquire to be exposed to the frosts frost of winter or any kind of treatment by implements for its physical amelioration it is almost always in such an open friable state that it may be blown and sown at any season the cultivation is easy and executed at moderate expense and and with moderate care and judgment in their easily maintainer maintained maintain el for these reasons weli well behave ave several times urged that lands of this character are no not ai sufficiently appreciated te for we find them in many p parts arts of t the country atry thrown out of cultivation 11 and laying waste in such descriptions of land laud llo ilo however wever it often happens that beds of clay lie alternately with those of sand at different depths beneath the su surface these thae beds not note frequently lin tin crop out or approach SQ so near the surface that the water does not get readily away a and nd even a sandy surface soil is kept ke pt too wet for the good of growing plants in such a case draining is the remedy it is well however to know that avat this reme remedy dy may often be applied at much less cost than if it were hec bec necessary essary to seek an outlet in some low ground at a con considerable sid erable distance from the tho land hand to be drained if there be wet and dry places in the same field we may bo be assured su red that a bed of clay or other impervious earth lies beneath the wet and a porous subsoil beneath the dry places A drain of sufficient clent depth opened and filled nearly to the surface with stones stona or loose gravel from the wet to the dry places vill will soon render the whole dry A avery very short drain will sometimes some somo times deflect j this quite as well os is one made at four i titi tinier iollie tile cost enst to convey the water t toa to oa a ravine balf bali sau sun VITALITY OF OP sled sied slid PEAS three years ears ago john hill tailor of bulver ton somerset rec received elvad from his sister in aies ales three single peas taken from a bottle found buried in id an old ruin near that town tho the bottle contained a parchment from which it appear appeared e d thatis that it had been deposited there years before mr hill ill planted the peas and ill in ills his garden plot the produce may now be seen a most luxuriant crop ori of orl gantle gigantic peas the stalks much above ith the usual height and covered with very light green semi semitransparent transparent t pods of enormous dimensions ono one of which measures five aad arian a half in inches chesin in length and three in circumference another being I 1 ng g seven inches long iong aia ail and aud d one an and d three quarters wide tim THE english people have havo been amuse amuso amused 1 I lately by tho the vit vagaries garies garles of a pack of rov ing zealots zealous who call themselves the hallelujah band they visited among other pieces places derby and placarded pla carded the town this notice at 9 the soldiers of the cross will open fure fire larthe market place on the kingdom of the devil A procession will be formed to proceed at once to the field when a 1 second volley will be erred antho on the armies of his satanic majesty Fa jesty ll 11 |