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proved rules of good husbandry." To the landlord's order the tenant paid no 

 attention, either by communicating with the landlord or his agent, or by taking 

 any steps to plough and cultivate, and a warrant of apprehension was taken 

 against him in terms of his registered lease, and he was sent to gaol on the 

 25th of March. The tenant hereafter presented a suspicion and liberation, and 

 Lord Ormidale has passed a note to try the question, but in the meantime has 

 granted liberation. A reclaiming note is about to be presented to the First 

 Division by the landlord. It is affirmed that the tenant, about the 18th of Janu- 

 ary, under the cloud of night, removed the whole stock and implements of hus- 

 bandry, and about the same time dismissed the ploughman. When the officer 

 went to sequestrate the farm on behalf of the landlord he only found an old 

 disabled mare, two small pigs, and two " pet sheep " belonging to the tenant, 

 while belonging to a neighbouring farmer there were about forty head of cattle 

 and 20O sheep on the farm eathig the turnips and straw. The explanation 

 triven was that the turnips and straw had been sold and bills granted. 



Irish Faeming in 1876. — The directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, 

 in their annual report, remark as follows upon the results of last harvest in 

 Ireland : — " In consequence of the unusually dry weather which prevailed 

 durinf^ the summer, the season of 1876 was not favourable to agriculture. 

 Most grain crops were deficient, and straw, which has of late become so 

 valuable, was very short. Turnips, at one period, threatened to be a 

 failui-e, but the rain, which fortunately fell in the autumn, had a beneficial 

 effect, and a fair crop was the result. Potatoes were very abundant and free 

 from disease, but they did not keep so T\'ell in pits as in former years. Hay, 

 thouo-h sowed in excellent condition, was not more than half an average crop, 

 and graziers had, in consequence, to sell a portion of their stock towards the 

 end of the year at low prices, which under ordinary circumstances they would 

 have had sufficient fodder to maintain during the winter. Foot-and-mouth 

 disease, which was prevalent in the cattle districts last year, has disappeared, 

 and the prospects of graziers are now fairly satisfactory. The corn trade in 

 Cork appears to be recovering from the result of the large failure which had 

 occurred in the early part of last summer, and this business would now seem 

 to be in a more healthy condition." 



Tree Murder. — The plane trees in the garden of the churchyard of St. 

 Botolph, Bishopsgate, are now (says the Gardener's Magazine) in a nice condi- 

 tion to illustrate the first principle of tree murder. Those planted on either 

 side of the public pathway to form a shady avenue have been carefully "pruned 

 back," and are worthy of a momentary inspection by such as are interested in 

 town trees, and know something of the way they should be managed. It will 

 be observed that they have made a nice growth, and if left unpruned would 

 now meet overhead and make a delightful shade, which pedestrians would ap- 

 preciate. But as they have been severely cut in, their natural beauty is marred, 

 and their vigour of root-action diminished. There are no windows robbed of 

 light by these trees, and there is no reason apparent why they should be pruned 

 at all. 



