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11.—1846.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 169 
GUANO (GENUINE PERUVIAN & BOLIVIAN) | something which would be of importance to his| arable and pasture land respectively, &c. 2. The 
N SALE, BY THE ONLY LEGAL IMPORTERS, 
ANTHONY GIBBS AND SONS, LONDON ; 
Wm. J. MYERS anv CO., LIVERPOOL; 
And By meir Agents, 
COTSWORTH, POWELL, AN» PRYOR, LONDON ; 
GIBBS, BRIGHT, anv CO., LIVERPOOL and BRISTOL. 
7, Lime-street, Mar. 14. 
UANO, PERUVIAN AND AFRICAN, warrante 
Genuine to Analysis: also Gypsum, and all other Ma- 
mures of known value, on sale by MARK FornEnarnL, 40, Upper 
Thames-street. 
BRITISH GUANO, equal in quality to Peruvian, at 92. per 
ton. aU ne E 6 EE being forwarded, being 
amount charged for postage, i 
SD DIBI. pi gi gent for DINGLE’S HAND 
next neighbour. Why not encourage such inter- 
course in every possible way ?” 
Ir was intended to recur to the subject of Acnr- 
CULTURAL Statistics in the same section of the 
Paper as that in which it has been already noticed 
(p. 140) ; but as it is of importance that the matter 
should obtain general attention, we make no 
apology for quede our further remarks to a 
place where they will probably be more generally 
read. We have already considered the importance 
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LIQUID MANURE. 
ADD INDEPENDENT OF THE WORLD FOR CORN. 
HE punted of the Agricultural Interest, at this 
momentous crisis, is requested to the great importance of 
LIQUID MANURE, and the ease with Sonic it AET be appro- 
priated by the use of FOWLER'S PUMPS, made expressly for 
hie purpose, either portable or fixed ; Garden, Ship, and Barge 
'umps ; also those for Distillers, Brewers, Soap Boilers, and 
anners, for hot and cold liquor. Pumps kept for hire, for 
Excavations and Wells. Buildings heated by Hot Water, for 
Horticulture, and every variety of manufacturing purposes, 
The Trade supplied on advantageous terms, by BENJAMIN 
Fow er, Engineer, &c., 63, Dorset-street, Fleet-street, London. 
Che Agricultural Gazette. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1846. 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. 
MCU ES Mar. 18—Agricultural Society of England. 
HURSDAY, 19—Agricultural Imp. Soc. of Ireland. 
REISS — 2 gricultural Society of England. 
HURSDAY,  — 26—Agricultural Imp. Soc. of Ireland, 
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iy Sa ATEA a REE 
FARMERS’ CLUBS. 
Mar.lé—W. Hereford — Botley — ML Newton 
Bakewell — 26—Otter St. Mary— Bolsover 
— 27—Rhins of Galloway 
— 28—Hereford 
— 17—Bromsgrove 
— 95—Plympton St. Mary 
Tue report of * The General Newcastle Com- 
mittee,” presented 10 days ago, has resulted in the 
following resolutions, among others, with reference 
to THE NEXT Country MEETING OF THE ENGLISH 
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY :— 
1, That there be no Council dinner this year. 
2. That a lecture on some subject of practical 
interest shall be delivered at Newcastle-on-Tyne at 
5 o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 
15th of July, &c. * * * 
This we are sure our readers will agree with us 
in considering a step in the right direction ; and 
after the experience of a year shall have proved it 
to be so, we may hope to see a still farther advance 
towards a better ar of y ding 
during the week of our annual country meeting, 
The dinner in the Pavilion will, we hope, share the 
fate of that for the Council; and the hours which 
it now occupies will then be left open, as are those 
hitherto occupied by the latter, for “a lecture on 
some subject of practical interest.” And not only 
will the time, which has till now been thus taken 
up, be available for more useful occupation, but the 
money hitherto thus spent will be available for more 
useful purposes. One thousand pounds per annum 
may, we imagine, be more usefully laid out than in 
merely balancing the statement’ of receipts and 
payments on account of this annual meal of the 
eo ae that this is about e 
: in this way every year by the 
Agricultural Society of England. TE thousand 
pounds would settle many important points hitherto 
undecided in the theory of agriculture—it would 
Stock a, small model farm—it would almost endow 
a professorship. 
increase in the usefulness of the Society might we 
not expect from the judicious expenditure of so 
large a sum? 
which, from the 
that the Society has now entered, will, we doubt 
not, ultimately have the effect of increasing their 
available annual income by this amount. e 
ual meetings, similar to that which 
eetings of the British Association 
he Highland Society, or 
D e Agricultural Chemistry 
cussions on PES. e VERNA 
subject: 
public breakfasts. xus holdueien 
An English gentleman who was 
first of these breakfasts, (we SU in. m 
“ Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, writes as 
follows :—* I gained more practical information by 
the discussion upon draining than f ing 
else I either esr heard at Dantas | EA 
Most desirable if such meetings could be got up for 
the Royal English Agricultural Society at New- 
castle next summer ; when such a mass of people is 
Congregated together, each may be able to convey 
and n acq with the agricul- 
tural statistics of one's country. Let us now refer 
to the practical part of the subject, and consider the 
mode in which they are to be compiled. 
1. Who are to do it? F 
The parties to undertake it must be located at 
convenient distances all over the country, or they 
will not have the knowledge which is necessary ; and 
they must possess a practised judgment on agricul- 
tural matters, or they will be liable to mislead in- 
stead of instruct: and we ask— Who are so com- 
petent, in all these respects, as Farmers’ Clubs? If 
each club were to prepare, afteracommon plan, a state- 
ment of the agriculture of its district, and send it 
up for collation with the others by the central 
Farmers Club in London, who would no doubt 
willingly undertake the labour, the result would be 
of great national value. We hope the London 
Society will take up this subject, as it has already 
so usefully taken up the subject of tenant-right, and 
issue circulars to Farmers’ Clubs all over the 
country, enforcing its importance. — 
9. And now, in reference to this work, let us 
further consider—howindividual clubs should under- 
takeit. Thefollowing plan would probably answer :— 
Let a committee be appointed to introduce the sub- 
ject in its most general aspect. Their duty will be to 
report on the extent of the district—to present a plan 
of it laid down on a map (the sheet of the ordnance 
survey in which it occurs may be had for 7s. 6d.)— 
to state the variety of soils occurring in it, the 
boundaries of each being also marked down on the 
map—to state the extent of woodland, waste, 
pasture, and arable land on each of these 
subdivisions of the district. In addition to this, 
the committee may report on the more general 
agricultural features of the district, such as the 
general size of farms, giving the limits within which 
this particular varies—the nature of the tenure, 
whether the farms are held on lease or not, stating 
the proportional extent of land, in the district, so 
held—the rent per acre, and other taxes on the 
arable and the pasture land respectively—the value 
of the waste lands—the nature and neighbourhood 
of markets, &c. These matters will be amply suffi- 
cient to fill up an evening with useful remarks and 
discussion, and after the corrections arising out of 
this amongst a body of intelligent farmers, we 
should have perfect confidence in the accuracy of 
their report on these heads. Another com- 
mittee must then be appointed to introduce the 
subject more in detail ; their duty will be to report 
in reference to each of the subdivisions of the district, 
dependent, as they are, on the nature of the soil, 
as to what crops are grown in it, and the rotation 
of them' which there obtains; from this, coupled 
with a knowledge of the extent of such subdivision, 
they will easily calculate the extent of each crop 
annually grown in the district ; they will also re- 
port as to the proportional extent in each subdivi- 
sion of pasture land mown, and pasture land each 
year depastured ; and then taking the other sub- 
jects also into their consideration, such as farm 
capital, labourers, impl power employed, 
live stock, markets, &c,, they will be able to give, 
as it were, a heading to each of the chapters in the 
work on which the Club has entered ; and power 
should have been given them to name a member, 
and a small subcommittee for his assistance, to re- 
port upon each. The work is laborious, and as it 
can be carried on only at their monthly meetings, it 
may occupy the Club for a long time ; but we are 
persuaded that they will derive more instruction 
during the progress of it than they would in almost 
any other mode of occupying their meetings. 
These chapters would refer to the different crops 
grown within the district, each forming the sub- 
ject of a distinct report and evening's discussion. 
The extent grown, the acreable produce, the mode 
and details of its cultivation, the quantity and 
expense of labour employed on it from first to last, 
the mode of harvesting it and preparing it for 
market, or of consuming it, would all require dis- 
cussion in reference to each crop. The following 
i, 
also would be the subjects of distinct reports : 
1. The condition of the labourers, their wages, 
existence of benefit societies, development of allot- 
ment system, average amount of poors rates, 
quantity of labour employed per 100 acres on 
quantity of horse or ox labour employed within the 
distriet on arable and pasture land—their actual 
and relative exp di ion with this 
a statement might be made of the mode and 
expense of road management within the district, 
the tolls upon horses, and the tax upon land for 
their maintenance. 3. The agricultural machinery 
employed within the district, implements of tillage, 
machines for sowing and for cultivating the land 
during the growth of the crop, machines of carriage, 
harvest implements, and machines for preparing the 
crops for market or consumption. 4, The mode 
in which manures are managed within the district ; 
whence they are derived ; what additions by pur- 
chase or otherwise are made to the quantity manu- 
factured on the land. 5. The number and kinds 
of live stock, cattle, sheep, and pigs, occurring in 
the district; the mode of their management, and 
the nature and quantity of their products, beef, 
veal, milk, butter, cheese, mutton, wool, bacon, 
pork, store cattle, sheep, and pigs. 6. The acre- 
able amount of farm capital employed under the 
various modes and management which obtain within 
the district, the relationship between landlord and 
tenant, the rent paid for the various descriptions 
of land, the nature of the terms on which the 
land is held, &e. When all these subjects shall 
have been fuily discussed, then the Club should 
depute to some of its members the task of 
arranging the materials thus accumulated, in 
order that the information they convey may 
be placed in a tangible and useful form. Per- 
haps the best plan, as we have already suggested, 
would be that the London Farmers’ Clubs should 
appoint a committee to determine in what method 
the subject may be best approached, and to supply 
to the Farmers’ Clubs throughout the country the 
form in which to arrange the facts they may be able 
to gather together. We shall be glad to hear that 
the secretaries of these societies have turned their 
attention to this subject. From some little acquaint- 
ance with the nature of their duties, we believe one 
of their chief difficulties is to select, for the monthly 
discussions, subjects which are at once of general 
and of local interest; the one that they may be 
usefully discussed, and the other that a sufficiently 
large meeting may be drawn together. Now, we 
can hardly imagine any subjects more perfectly to 
unite these two qualities than those to which we 
have alluded as arising out of the attempt to com- 
pile local agricultural statistics. Only let an active 
secretary and two or three energetic members get 
together and make a hearty beginning in this direc- 
tion, with the view of sending the results of their 
labours to some central office (and none can 
be better than that of the London Farmers’ 
Club), where they will be compared with others, 
and published for the general good, and they will 
soon see their meetings crowded by members; 
some to applaud, others, no doubt, to protest ; but 
all interested in an attempt fairly to exhibit the 
actual condition of agriculture in their neighbour- 
hood. 
The labours which would be thus undertaken by 
these few leaders of their Society are of the most use- 
ful kind in the cause of agricultural improvement. 
The Royal Agricultural Society of England has told 
us so. Look at their prize lists, and you will find 
them headed by offers for reports of district agri- 
culture. And what would be the results of labours 
such as we have described, but a district report of 
this kind—a report, however, of much greater value 
than any which the Agricul tural Society can obtain 
by their offers of premiums, for it would rest upon 
the authority not of one, but of many ; and it 
would refer, not in necessarily general language, to 
a whole county, but in minutest detail to the 
methods and results of farming within a well known 
district. 
Will some of our leading Farmers’ Clubs. who 
favour us with occasional reports of their proceed- 
ings, be kind enough to discuss the policy of the 
suggestions we have here made ? 
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 
Tue readers of the Agricultural Gazette have re- 
cently had the subject of Agricultural Education pro- 
minently placed before them with such emphasis as to 
leave no doubt that many influential parties will be 
induced to fall in with, and second the views there ex- 
posed. With entire deference to their superior qualifica- 
tions, I will leave “C. W. H.” and his coadjutors to 
pursue their noble object to a happy termination, 
bidding them heartily God speed, for the cause they 
advocate is one of deeply increasing interest, and it 
must, sooner or later, force itself, I hope not with un- 
pleasant vehemence, upon the notice of the agricultural 
world. 
The object of this communication is not to illustrate 
with any further ideas the importance of institutions of 
the magnitude and wealth of the Agricultural College 
