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EN< V( I.Ol'.KDIA OF AGRICULTUKH. 



SUPrl.F.MI- NT. 



feed them well ami keep tin in w arm — the latter being of very nearly as much Importance as the former. 

 Some exot Ileal observation! on the subject of rearing and feeding poultry will be found in our Ency. 

 of Colt. Arch., I 1324. to 1329., and 5 1356. 



mm:i 7.Y,-i. jite pheasant-fte&r (Jig, 1196.), This Ingenloua invention is manufactured of iron by 



Ml Mrs, Cottam and Hallen. and seems the best utensil of the kind that we have seen. There is one ol 

 tin, lighter and cheaper (see Gawd. Ma/;., »ol. ». p. B89. i, sold by Messrs. Bailey, 272. High Holborn, 

 and by Weir in Oxford street, but it is by no means so durable. 



B490.— 7631. The mole may be extirpated without the use of traps by digging up the mole hills in thu 

 course of the month of March, which is the breeding season. In order to give an idea where the mole's 

 nest is to be found, reference may be had tojigs. 1 1U7. and 1198. ; the first of which is an underground 



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plan, or horizontal section of a mole-hill, and the second a vertical section. In both these figures, a 



is the mole's nest ; b, vertical tubes or runs, by which the mole ascends with the soil which it has 

 excavated from the place forming the nest, in order to raise a hill over it to protect it from the rain ; 

 c c show the surface of the ground ; rf, a tunnel above the surface of the ground, in the soil of the artificial 

 hill ; e e, the common run of the mole extended to an unascertained length on every side ; /, line indi- 

 cating the base of the hillock. After removing the hill, and destroying the young moles, by waiting a 

 little without making the least noise, the parent will make her appearance and may be also destroyed. 

 (L'Agronome, vol. i. p. 220.) 



8491 7632. A mode of catching rats by baiting the traps with ground pale malt scented with the oil 



of caraway seeds, and which is said to be very effective, will be found described, at great length, in the 

 (iuart. J.',ur. of Agr., vol. ii. p. 319.— 331. 



8492. — Z684. Wire worm. The refuse lime of gas works, probably an impure sulphurct of lime, or lime 

 combined with sulphuretted hydrogen, a gas, the most deleterious of all others to animal life, ha- been 

 found by Earl Talbot to check the ravages of the wire worm. (Proceedings of the Royal Agr. Soc. in 

 June 1841.) 



Px\RT IV. 



STATISTICS OP BRITISH AGRICULTURE. 



BOOK T. 



TRESEST STATE OF AGRICULTURE IN THE BRITISH ISLES, (p. 1121.) 



8-193. -7711. The evils of the bothy system of maintaining single farm servants, arc forcibly pointed out 

 in the Ti ana. High. Soc, vol. xiv. p. 133., and, as a remedy, the lodging the single men with the married 

 ones recommended. 



B494 — 771 1. The employment of women infield labour is very generally condemned by benevolent men, 

 who allege that the association of numbers of persons, of both sexes, in the fields, demoralises them ; 

 and ample evidence is produced to prove that they are in many places demoralised. On the other hand, 

 it is denied that there is anything in the nature of the-congregation of both sexes in the fields morally 

 worse than their congregation on the basement floor of a nobleman's house, in a large workshop or fac- 

 tory, in a drawing-room or ball-room, or in a public park or garden. " If in the drawing room or at the 

 ball, or anywhere else, where the rich classes congregate, there is more decorum and refinement of 

 in aimers ; it is not because their inherent nature is different, or that the passions slumber; it is because 

 they, the refined, have been taught, and made to feel the value of outward decorum. Whether in the 

 servant's hall, or in the milliner's shop, or in the factory, or in the farm-field, we look for good be- 

 haviour, we shall find it ; but we shall find it existing in a lesspr or greater degree, according to cir- 

 cumstances other than the mere associating of a number of persons together. Are there not factories in 

 I ; -land where the workers are educated and trained in moral decorum, and brought together in social 

 parties occasionally, that they may exercise refinement of manners, and cultivate the higher sentiments 

 of our moral nature ? And are there not factories where the workers are neglected, and ignorant, 

 and debased ? Are there not workshops in the metropolis where the associated hands have the most 

 scrupulous care paid to their physical and moral comforts, the results of which they show in all their 

 conduct, in the shop and out of it? And is it not a notorious truth, that in the same metropolis the 

 greater number of workshops, and those who are mistresses and masters and workers in them, are dis- 

 tinguished for conduct quite the reverse? And have we not an aristocracy with large establishments of 

 domestic servants, some of which establishments might he a pattern to any school of moral instruction ; 

 while others in licentiousness are a disgrace to civilisation and the age we live in ? Have we not at 

 orderly, ay, a virtuous and well-mannered population of both sexes working in the farm-fields of North, 

 umberland, Cumberland, Roxburghshire. Berwickshire, and the Lothians ? And have we not. according 

 to theevidence in the Report of the Special Assistant I'oor-lair Commissioners on the Employment of Women 

 and Children in Agriculture (presented to Parliament in June, 1843). a population in Wilts and Dorset 

 distinguished for their poverty and their vices ? No, no ; it is not because men and women, and girls and 

 hoys, associate in the fields promiscuously, that they are demoralised, that they become foul-tongued and 

 ill-mannered. The association of the sexes in all conditions of life has a tendency to refine the manners 

 and restrain licentiousness, if no other cause to the contrary be at work. The farm-labourers are no 

 exception 



