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No orth-westerly, and although. the wind had changed at 
e surface of the earth, an upper current still prevailed 
— the N.Y W. This relation of winds in the upper 
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when the wind veered to the West. urin 
this time 
a very hon gale swept over the whole island from in 
the S.W., but its foree ine r 
the mereurial col 
groun on 
mometrical scale of these winds dries the grain, which 
becomes more elastic, and the shedding ‘thus becomes 
more profuse. This was ene wi observed i in 1850. 
th mosphere, while the barometer do ot 
fall before the storm in the former, beeau e chan 
takes place at the surface of the h. After the 
fall nd cirro-stratus cloud is „of 
its appearance he west. This 
cloud gives intimation that a S. W. wind is about to set 
in bef ar is affected, or even whi 
i So far bse — 
extend, — peculiar form of cloud, which first appear: 
in ewe — — only occu 
2 — of a S. W. Falis bai ota 
of the ground, penetrating a N. W. nt, which 
continues to flow above. In fact, it is s evident that 
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of ct gp the current into the other. To 
very e evident that he natural action of these 
— ne —— assist most materially as a propelling 
power, and that all stor ‘ne wit odin © te regarded 
more in the light of a continuation of local effects 
n they have araia ee Unlike the other 
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ground may be Blowing at a = time from ve 
ints of the com Britai 
across the island o Caithness. 
Totary Wan 2 ight e oma — voering of the wind 
from S.W require to 
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ill con ntinue to pre 1 above fro m the N.W. for 
the u ins the N. ea . 
yeer 2 rae dreadful gales of the 8 * 19th 
the upper strata of the atmospher become 80 
intensely cold. On the 20th, 2lst, 22d, and 23d 
Home Correspondence. — — week, 4 — —— and garden rent free, and 
t| on “ Diseases of Poultr 
t month ; the man must — 
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Poultry piosa —Since writing eam a few months back | stand — ar — and the use of the horse-hoe. 
g used here 
y I have received several — 's ploughs are beeoming 
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enquiries as — the best — of building a p i ionan neral in this Weald elay. — mine is a common 
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I cannot, perhaps 
r than sta name, you may no know me unless I add the- 
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operandi I have proceeded m First of all, — it — to it. You may ask, Why, captain, what in the i 
be a “sine quå 
ock of 16 to 20 
back wall; two tiers bui llt 
birds roosting on them at 
ung on the sa 
placed pretty close ; 
v of two doors are 
o door t 
ventilation all 
door you kee 
dations of 8 me stealers, 
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s,| should be built "with a © southern aspect, and the yard | become farmer?’ For the present, I will only answer, 
i ma a proper fall itis. I 
deep by 18 in. oo and 2 ft hi each ; oe lower ones | displeasing them. Yet, I often think it i — eruel in me to 
r to be separated from the upper . flat boards covered | be so continually making those people unhappy. 
with mortar, and Jet the top of all be covered with | not do so hip but some way or other Tam al 
ta | boards, on a very steep me i t 
he amateur that the house | of the intended French invasion could induce you to 
the water run freely so it is. I have been at farming more than four years; 
fore a. . 9 ft. kor: —— j in that time I have deep drained nearly 500 acres of 
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the — will be sufficiently e, built of ch | clay land; summer 1 best, for many reasons. 
brickwork, the walls about 7 ft. Sey SE a span — F pui When I came here. first, whatever field I went into, I 
if ich I rrupted 
t come- 
f be slated, and fill up betwixt | at-able in the winter. I find, on the whole, ‘that the life 
w laths nailed at intervals of | of a farmer is a much easier one than that of a s= > 
down, and there will be this | and if my — na would only let me alone, I 
advantage gained: in the winter the house will be kept | pass my time pleasantly enough, but they go out of t — 
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out 
gro = n, W an ild in ish, 
birds — A on the lower per Then as to the nests, | they have twitted me no more on that subject. The 
would advise their bei z made "the ae length of — convertible ates of farming, they aa will not do Ped 
* nch brickwork, 2 ft. this country ; I mean to try it, however, at the risk 
ways 
incline ; this will prevent — doing so; when they contended with me that the seeds 
night, and keep them quite of Thistles would not zor and I convineed them that 
clean. There should also be a brick on edge in front of they did, by sowing some seed in as many — 
the nests, to — the straw and eggs them unhappy 
The floor 1 have paved with bricks, and on an incline, | When I told the rector’s churchwarden that church was 
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falling out. S ants, L made 
be easily washed out at any | not written ‘eurch,’ I thought I was ore the man a 
little unslacked lime on the | kindness, he took i it the reverse; when I found that, out 
recommen 
the birds should not be made in the door but at the do so, they took it rather as an impertinent interference 
side of it; with a slide and 2 as which will — n their family affairs than a kindness. _— — please I 
prevent its being opened from the exteri I have b 
doors hu i 
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aiae latterly have leſt off -e 
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me frame; 0 q 
strong panelled door with lock and iron har and padlock ; | all fore me into the office of — guardian 
the i i way, but wi i 
li us in a i 
si locked. The ad- | shop, beeause I — for a full, fair, and clear financial 
these; in the day-time the | statement of accounts le to the form of the 
and — - sing Yar = € poor-law board? i in the — orders for accounts, 
the summer it may be left No. 17, instead of an extract of at statistical 2 
ask — 
and i y ins 
open all 8 3 in the winter, — chatting the onter 28 — — gimn: I rar 
4 and f 
warm, and escape the depre- | of the i r paupers‘ of the 
who at that season of the signed by the mas master ; a 1 iol tit the the 8 — 
year are especially on the “ quê vive.“ There made out and signed by — ——— officer, 
should also pas a shed in the yard for the birds in wet what relief given, where the persons reside, Xe. ; asoa 
quite open on two — paars dee — statement’ for the —— K 
i ney has be 
4 ft. wide, w it — 
which does well for dry be as oon expended, w what the parish is in debt, or in advance 
i d the yard 
he wall prevents its being scattered about the yard. | to the union (No 19, a). Now, all this is agreeable to 
flying, besides being ex 
e the birds a run of Grass 
eee give mine the 
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The yard should be surrounded with alight fence, and | the rules laid down in the * general orders for accounts,’ 
—.— Cochin — poultry are kept it may be not in a book 8 5 a — 90, Fleet- street, for the 
om the peculiar shape of the | poor- law board. roeure me one of your 
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than 4 or 5 ft., 
* a of this wird, they are by no means adapted for union“ halyenly sta ened ‘you oa lt further 3 
extremel. 
y tame. By all means me. Had I not been laid on my beam. ends, I 
wherever practicable. I | not have aer. time for this long epistle; had I xe 
3 of pea 
pen of a ready 
where they do no injury when the plants are not very stories about the farming and farmers of this distriet. 
small. I will conclude by stating a few of the ad vantages | The Times ¢ commissioner’ could not find his way here, 
resulting from following the directio h 
lised awa ha F 
of air. The lowness of the perches prevents the fowls — wr — — have not observed in your 
r | injuring themselves when descending, and the places for columns any sta respecting the recently intro- 
e nests being m made of brickwork, are easily cleaned ; | duced — skinless — I send you the result of 
sects, and chased. 
when dirty a Tittle my own experience e year before last, I pur 
igh i e peck of the 
of space for the birds, eompletely separated from others | ters to h 
— — “eee partition; and wi th hens from Bibs. to 9 lbs. 
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such good folks are too apt to snub” us —— J 
Who are i gric 
a ocating progressi 
tural — enlightenment, and science, I am gal 
to from my thousan 
of that month, hail showe rs with electric eumuli were meaning ng but wrong head 
more or less prevalent over Britain and Ireland; that our national 
e elds in Forfar- 
shire and Morayshire. 0 d, Ben Lomo constantly advoca 
and Part of the Grampians were covered with snow jiii 
— very frequently succeeds 8 of p 
rage with great intensity. It 
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extract my 
communications ee, = — yeste: 
d and one 
terday fro 
be called i in the > Mark 
barometer indicated sucha small amount of old nautical friend (whom I had lost sight of for some 
; e ah ), coming out very strong as fee r 
ee zain, and st | "eee — — nat ies Soe 
— w coun pida p Ea Al gr h of four fat horses in a line, with long whi a brace 
* i i ich this particular cl ieni ETS 
th in tl et Se WN. A pcnier sinpant of ety tasty | ‘alto! eal — res coe —— 
out in th je i otahad principles as to his | does well. 
mode of action is much pen pcre ari weit pe uniary and most beneficial expenditure. 2 — far 
= permits, 1 intend to sketch out at next n fing as sueceeded your readers may judge. I own that 
British Association a few of the me 
afford a W ex . 
which occur 
| Li felt. t immense! his pungent a ie 
7 Ji Mechi, Tiptree Hall, Kelvedon, 
Feb. 10. a pos es 
“The Ve eee of the Balancer bt 18 neither to 
