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Belgian Husbandly. 



Vol. VII. 



judgment being exercised in the selection or 

 assortment of the qualities, which has pre- 

 vented the returns being so satisfactory as 

 they otherwise would have been. American 

 cheese is for the most part insufficiently 

 pressed, which gives it, when cut, a porous, 

 or honeycomb appearance: it is also unplea- 

 sant in flavour, owing to the too free use of 

 runnet. The removal of these faults would 

 very much enhance its value in the English 

 market. 



With respect to grain and flour, it will be 

 understood that the new corn bill has placed 

 the trade on a much more safe and steady 

 footing, though there will always be uncer- 

 tainty while the principle of the sliding scale 

 of duties is preserved. 



We have expressed our belief, that under 

 the existing tariff, a large trade in produce 

 will arise, but when we look at the rapid 

 progress of free trade principles in Britain, 

 and the urgency of the popular demand for 

 cheap provisions, we may safely predict a 

 much more extended trade within a few 

 years, in consequence of the still further 

 modification of our provision laws. 



J. & C. KlRKPATRICK, 



Produce Commission merchants. 



Present duties. Foreign. Colonial 



Bacon, per cwt, £0 14 £0 3 6 



Beef, fresh or salted, " 80 20 



Butter, « 10 5 



" as grease, " 18 3 



Cheese, " 10 6 2 6 



Hams, « 14 3 6 



Lard, " 2 6 



Pork, " 8 2 



Tongues, " 10 2 6 



Five per cent, extra, is payable on the 

 amount of the above duties. 



Liverpool, Sept. 1st, 1842. 



Health. — A great number of diseases 

 arise from checked perspiration, and might 

 be prevented by timely care. If a person 

 perspiring freely, gets wet or stands in a 

 draught of cold air, or lies down on the damp 

 ground, or drinks cold water, he runs a great 

 risk of seriously injuring his health; and the 

 more relaxed and weaker he is from his 

 work, the greater is the danger. When wet 

 he should keep moving about briskly, and 

 never sit in his damp clothes if he can help 

 it. The sooner a person gets into a perspi- 

 ration after feeling the least unwell from its 

 being checked, the more certain will he be 

 of avoiding a cold or fever. A good way to 

 induce perspiration is to rub the body with 

 a coarse towel before a fire. — Selected. 



Belgian Husbandry. 



In no part of the world has the cultivation 

 of the soil attained greater perfection, than 

 in Belgium ; and the numbers of a work de- 

 voted to a description of the husbandry of 

 that country, and the manner in which, by 

 persevering industry, its barren sands have 

 been converted into the most fertile of soils, 

 are not the least valuable of the series pub- 

 lished by the London Society. 



Farmers in this country, speak of the im- 

 policy of extensive outlays in improving 

 their farms; " It will not pay the expense," 

 is the objection most frequently made, and 

 one which is the most forcible, in reply to 

 those who urge upon them systems, for the 

 permanent melioration of their soils. We 

 have sometimes been disposed to consider 

 this feeling of regard to immediate expense 

 or profit, more as the natural result of that 

 restlessness of character, which is said to 

 belong to us as a people, and which leads us 

 to suppose, with reason, that what will not 

 pay noiv, may be lost to us for ever, as 

 from our known migratory propensities, it 

 is scarcely probable our lands will remain 

 in our hands, or those of our children, for 

 any considerable time, rather than of any 

 disinclination to encounter the labour wiiich 

 an improved husbandry requires. The bene- 

 fits of a good system of farming, or the evils 

 of a defective one, can only be fully seen 

 and appreciated in a considerable term of 

 years; on such lands as the greater part of 

 those in this country are, when brought un- 

 der cultivation, what may be called the 

 skinning, or scourging system, in which, 

 repeated Crops, with little labour and no ma- 

 nuring, are taken off, may be the most pro- 

 fitable for the time, although fatal to the soil 

 and the prosperity of the farmer in the long 

 run; but when the permanent value and pro- 

 ductiveness of lands are taken into conside- 

 ration — when it is remembered that it is 

 much easier to keep lands in heart, than to 

 restore them when reduced to sterility; and 

 that the eventual agricultural prosperity of 

 a country is depending on a correct system 

 of management, the importance of selecting 

 the best models, and conducting our farming 

 operations with reference to future results, 

 as well as present profits, becomes perfectly 

 evident. 



To illustrate the effects of the two sys- 

 tems of farming, or rather, to show the re- 

 sults of the improved one, as compared with 

 that generally practised with us, we give a 

 few extracts from the papers on Belgian 

 farming; and the first is a description of a 

 farm of one hundred and forty acres, on the 

 river Lys, near Courtnay. 



