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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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12—1852. | 
680,000 is traversed by several irae rivers, 
— 3 natural streams and artificial cuts, 
by which the uplan e many "counties 
e will ask you to picture to yourself 
is piace 
vi 
which g 
aries and rivers, What, then, is the oondition 
of the surface? Is not the “marsh land” adjoining 
the sea a tract of watery ground, guttered by wandering 
creeks—its silt and sand and * mud elad only with 
ts of o 2 samphire and marine Grasses, crawled 
ee over 
ed over by eel-fishers, shrimp-netters, 
aiat Is not the “fen land,“ occu- 
ani — * the level, an ene ** 
peat bogs lashes, 3 by turf- 
diggers, ea wl ena pa reed-cutters, and osier- 
rs? No. Thou — y aa A eain a ewhat e 
—.— a sieged city, well guarded all around, desolati 
and disaster p 
ot rei ithin because of the essure 
of a 1 foe without. A throng d busy 
i raise from i 
rting to 
other countries, build not -y — ge — — 
ooth roads, eo 
ae airs ; — 
in all “directions with railways, and 
inable rivers. The 5 
and * — Yo Wate 
ee the e ground; the healthy — ploughs 
the bright h — fallow, regardless of the heavy d 
fall afew days before 
wan 
of 3 „ and 
ing left to 
diseased Facog 
animals are sheltered in winter sheds and 
and — ria — extra food u the frost- 
fields, ore genial — not only erop 
The 
zontal 
as it is, does not present to the eye watery patches and 
Š be witn rains 
“ee Se be a medium point in the drainage 
being no less possible than under-drain- 
— is well known by the eee 
* by the peat farmers, 
mossy 
< inconvenie nee and i 
| from 
intimated in the following 
E en 
— wien and — 
+ —— 
what 5 — 
- | cultura! 
arisen in nce 
ock | labours of the above — — 7 I repeat they have a 
is their own ; | 0 
» but enjoy the oilcake — ni and mi 
s. arable land „after chan 
t doubt that all the N of the 
r- a balance-sheet of the model farm 
i worthy the attention of the 
cole? Do not the 71 and gaping of the elay, 
and the * and honey-e pemp of the "To at, ar ar} 
from undue saturation rather r dryness 
both Er idaran the embankmen 
flow of the main — 
when water is wanted to refres 
a balance o 
the peat fens anciently were 
laid out in regular fields : their — gm 
the ploughings, tillings, and drillings of skilfal far 
a 
d clay. Farm- 
ards tenan 
good food, and ded by stout and lofty corn- rieks, 
beautify the plain ; and cottages and villages congre- 
gate about the yaad À the bridges, and upon the 
l * aa whole — in short, is 
tural een conduet 
——ů— — , in other 
t portion of our island. Respecting , “the peculiarities of 
the farming, we shall speak in J. A. C. 
upon 
Home Correspondence. 
A Ct 
iren aceste 
The 
far distant when there will be a general move 
nd breadth 
through 
2 . of the land for 
a genera: 
There is certainly som iiih in in all this ; bat you satel on which — mainly de e existence 
not overlook the great e circumstance attach- | cultur l body and the A th ma A of the — of 
ing th ainage of moist land—there is the dif- | the — Varro, March 
ference between winter and summe the fe c not | Sewerage. —lf diligent inquiries were made into the 
have too littl — e 5 former s nor can | cause of g iim it would b und that what we eat i 
e they in ma ny par a sufficient supply in the | as much to blame as what we breathe. In the Bills of 
— What i is 1 * a perfect command of the Mortality we weekly read of such a a person having — 
» when every available ori is | in a neighbourhood where there was an open drain 
— n requisition a discharging the floods, every sinuating that the ditch uced the complaint, 
both 
Although the fumes from such a nuisance m 
disagreeable, and, to a certain ay p mest to 
close contact with 
temporary 
annoyance during re? of weather, which is often the 
case, it is harmless compared with the food the 
classe: i 
2 imperfect sewers, but however perfect the may 
he, 2 will not prevent a host of maladies following 
of sausages and pies made from animals which 
very 
1 nfit for sale unless disguised, having 
either met with. accidents or fallen under the butcher's 
ad 
d spir men- 
their turns, — ok — a a oison to 
assist in thinning the population, entailing much misery 
por suffering on frail humanity, Another source of 
generate 8 fever, &e. 
upon which dwelling-houses of 
ilt, and the establishment of 
to be accomplished by 
e owners of tumble-down tenements, who, rg 
men, wh — very hair would 
4 the idea “of visiting the abodes in ques- 
think hing of deriving an income from suc 
de aanpas receptacles of squalid Lr and vice, 
Many are probably u hat they are indirectly 
— such profligaey; in ! let us bakers 
so. Falcon, 
The Expense of 3 Waste Lands would not be 
wages of an able-bodied 
of this country have a Tight to t to i inquire 
have accrued to the 
; what favourable ea 
b im provement ; 
ce of agriculture by the 
EFH the cause i 
= Colloge there be anything — ame of a — 
of Agriculture, a jus — of the high 
interests involved . eee e 2 and 
results that great 
experiment which has been making for some years in 
this seminary. Changes, frequent changes, it is under- 
stood, have been made i ministration o affairs 
of the Colle ege, in the course of study, and in the mode 
of cultivating the model farm. It would 
ges, i wi 
ep ve yond t reaso 
to cas n the — or ər profe SSO 
a — — ia nor to 
ise and manner, nor that substan 
benefits cannot be to have resulted from the 
urs of those e acce a 
of the 
ety and kindred institutions, oN 
College would publish a report, wi 
attached, at the aa 
arts 
y as they shall spring up, for spring wa ha 
certainly will, it being understood that there is 
_ nglish 
College 
of the College —— 
taken in the spirit 
that it could not but serv 
d orders is an import 
arth tan — 
e the great cause up 
convict, who costs the country fifty 
of which spik 4 a the e in the shape 
indire The welfare of culp 
horse is stolen. — 4 —— g, by w4 of novelty, the case 
of the peasant rought m rominently under 
notice, and an attempt made to gpl profitable em- 
ss i crim 
isfi 
of hislimbs, The 
country ; but one of g grea t consequ 
up in industrious ha r and giving them 
labour, —a part ir instruction 8 Tos sight of of. 
hav 
of 
revention of press 
wo 
effect on society than punishment after the pte * 
been : nkin naturally depraved : 
hence the few: at when young, the seeds of vice 
—_ be des troyed, and good principles instilled into 
e heart whilst it is capable of receivin 
g im 
vi ¢ e faith of childhood. The want smagi the 
45 ons 1 
havin but ny indifferent example at home. ere 19 
canoe h that may not pads 
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