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as the said Commissioners shall think fit to employ and ap- 

 point respectively in that behalf ; and every such licence shall 

 contain the proper Christian and surname and place of resi- 

 dence of the person to whom the same shall be granted, with 

 any other particulars which the Commiasiouera of Inland Re- 

 venue may direct to be inserted therein, and shall be dated on 

 the day when the same was actually issued, and shall hare 

 effect and be in force upon the day of the issuing thereof, and 

 shall expire on the day therein mentioned for the termination 

 thtreof. 



XVII. All the clauses, powers, provisions, and regulations, 

 pains and penalties, contained in or imposed by the act passed 

 in the fifth and sixth years of her Majesty's reign, chapter 81, 

 relating to certificates to kill game in Ireland, shall be of full 

 force and effect, and shall be applied in Ireland to the certifi- 

 cates to be granted under this act and the duties hereby im- 

 posed thereon, as fully and effectually as if the same were 

 herein repeated and specially enacted in reference to such last- 

 mentioned certificates and duties. 



XVIII. Every licence and certificate to kill game taken out 

 respeclively in Great Britain and Ireland under this act, by or 

 on behalf of any peisoa in his own right, and not as a game- 

 keeper or servant, shall be available for the killing of game in 

 any part of the United Kingdom. 



XIX. The act passed in the seventh and eighth years of 

 King George IV., chapter 49, intituled, An act to exempt 

 persons who have procured game certificates in Great Britain 

 from the duty on game certificates in Ireland, and to authorize 

 the persons who have paid duty on game certificates in Ireland 

 to kill game in Great Britain, upon paying the additional duty, 

 shall be and the same is hereby repealed. 



DESTRUCTION OF WEEDS. 



A bill has been brought into the House of Commons 

 by Sir William Somerville and Mr. Bellew, to provide for the 

 destruction of certain weeds in Ireland. 



The preamble states : Whereas it is expedient to provide 

 for the destruction of certain weeds in Ireland growing in 

 places whence their seeds might otherwise be earned by the 

 wind upon the adjoiniag lands, thereby causing great injury 

 to such lands, aod serious loss to the occupiers of the same. 

 And it enacts that it shall be lawful for the occupier of any 

 cultivated lands, whether arable or pasture, who shall have 

 reason to apprehend injury to the same by reason that the 

 seeds of certain weeds commonly known as thistles, docks, or 

 rag weeds, growing in any adjoining field, or in any adjoining 

 cemetery, or upon the sides of any adjoining railway or canal, 

 might be carried by the wind upon such lands, to serve a 

 notice upon the owuer in occupation of any such field, or upon 

 the clerk of the board, or secretary of the company to which 

 any such cemetery, railway, or canal shall belong, requiring 

 him to cause such weeds to he cut down and destroyed. 



The notice shall describe clearly the particular kind of weeds 

 required to be cut down ; the particular places in which such 

 weeds shall be growing ; aud it shall be served by such occu- 

 pier, or by some fit person on his behalf, upon such owner or 

 secretary. 



And in case the said owuer, board, or company shall neglect 

 to cause such weeds to be cut down and destroyed within the 

 period of fourteen days from the day of the service of the 

 said notice, they shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five 

 pounds ; aud if not then cut down he may serve a second 

 notice, and recover a second penalty not exceeding double the 

 amount of such first penalty, and in addition to the same. 



There are other clauses by which parties may enter the land 

 where weeds are growing, and cut them down. 



REAP EARLY !— Farmers will profit greatly by cutting 

 their grain crops early. As soon as the blade is ripe at the 

 root, that is the time for reaping. The blade of the corn will 

 ao more good lying on the ground than standing up. The 

 atmosphere finds its way into the tube, and carries the sap 

 into the berry to much greater advantage than being exposed 

 to the air and the sun while it remains standing upon its root, 

 besides not being hable to grow or sprout in the ear. This is 

 a practice pursued by the most eminent agriculturists on the 

 East Riding wolds of Yorkshire, and where the system is once 

 adopted it is never abandoned. 



AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS, IRELAND, 



1860. 



RETURN, showing, in Statute Acres, the Extent under 

 Flax in Ireland in 1869 and 1860, compiled from 

 Returns obtained by the Constabulary : — 



1859. 1860. 



Total Acreage under Flax in Ireland, 136,282 ,. 128,240 



Decrease in I860 8,042 Acres. 



Extent of Flax grown in Ireland in each of the following 

 years : — 



Acres. Acres. 



1854 151,403 1858 91,646 



1856 97,075 1859 136,282 



1856 106,311 I860 128,240 



1857 97,721 



The foregoing Returns of the area under Flax is pub- 

 lished, as in previous years, in anticipation of the General 

 Abstracts, now in course of preparation, showing the acreage 

 under each crop, and the number of live stock, by counties 



