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in my own hands, I moved, for some — — the) our money, and for a card, good for five visits, 6d. The experience of an old smoker, that the Tobacco is 
pi din 90 poles; there were not a grea menin | enclosure presented a very pretty sight; it was divided | genuine and unadulterated, which is far more than I 
i aean rmed by te gu in 
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of the hoe by one’s own hands for half a re to —— at the trays of “bifsticks de boot á wee ‘ bifsticks de | A small collection of models from Crosskill’s agri culturat 
the value of the labour. Candour, however, requires mouton, the bushels of Potatoes, one of sausages, plements were looked at by a all classes, high and 
that I should say that such —.— amount of work is more piles of cakes, and barrels of beer, here brought low, wich marked and — interest. 
than a man could be expected to hold out a from day | together, induced a high respect for the “assimilating” | I am afraid my frien t home will — Pe go 
to day, for any great length of time; yet I must tell powers of our worthy brother farmers in Germany. I at the ae 8 = cis and wish tha d my 
“ Buffer,” or rather his man, that the labourer who cannot, counted 40 tents ornamented with flags for the poorer, Beitish top- ed quietly — pon in 
within the hours of 6 to 6, hoe half an acre, or 80 poles, = 30 for the better class of visitors, in which eating, England, tees s heiii 4 with my “ forei 
F 
now of some instances p 
season, where Wheat has been hoed for 2s. per acre, the | of Saxony, another to cakes and diees md — to eatables to be ae Dèn „ had bee n borrowed from the Royal 
i an i e i brewerie = het use i 
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Buffer must have i en some mistake when he modest booths — Potato and corn brandy to the of genuine Peruvian guano. 
calculated that it would take 15 days, at least, to hoe anacre | lovers of that cheap and 5 yer liquid ; besides these | show were small booths —- Pe soldiers selling 
of Potatoes set 2 feet apart; at this rate, the labourer “ee OE of refreshment, I observed upwards of 40 anars wa oes the committee—and a harder working 
was only hoeing little more than 104 poles, of 304 yards | booths for the sale of cakes, gingerbread, and spring | com never saw— — runt tickets to an 
per pole, a day. Why, an ordinary spadesman will dig * — — dion at ls. each, for a lottery of horses, 
the same quantity of with the spade in a day. e animals were lodged in 1 — — — pigs, and instruments; in short, specimens of 
« Buffer” must make a mistake. A Constant Reader, North- plontifully — with clean stra hay, i ibi . i losed 
— [To hoe, may mean — between the and fresh water, and — 1 diligently by rari male at the end of the second day, when upwards of 60,000 
ere surface operation adopted between rows of drilled and female guardians. 2 was no 3 had been disposed of; a tenth of the sum received was 
and the deeper tillage of the land — rows of the animals, and i crowds people | reserved for the expenses of the exhibition, but about 
of F. Potatoes; and its cost varies therefore from „3s. to obstructed the wa ay, I parama considerable el in | 2700/. remained, to provide purchases for the lottery. 
gg ot of 8s. per acre. calculating the number of beasts ments | There were about 1100 prizes, and amongst them F 
Guano.—A cor responde a where and from whom | exhi bited. — well as I 5 — — —5 — were observed 60 head rae’ fine cattle, a one bull, 
400 
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inquirie s would, he — — of importance to to the first and longest visit was to the bulls, cows, fat beasts, committee, consisted of medals, ane goblets, and 
g aeeie 277 North Staffordsh — alves, and I certain certificates, or, as they are — called, diplomas. The 
a part of Sonshi where the | collection. The bulls did not appear to me equal to the | show was on the whole a most successful one, but some 
—— are rs — richest quality, it — every other e = 2 were strong and large, but not fine | unquestionable faults there were in the arrangements > 
year that about the middle of May the becomes bred ; the cows and calves excellent, remarkably clean | the cattle had not all arrived before the opening of the 
bitter, and the butter rancid and unea — This and sleek; a the fat ao in prime condition, not | exhibition, 
unfortunately lasts till the middle of — mash the | ann 55 brou ught to that absurd state of useless was no catalo ogue of beasts or implements, and no power 
butter and cream re — rn to their usual e The fat which was the fashion wi vith us a few years ago, but | of 8 the number of the former. , the nature of 
plants in these pastures are not known ‘a aoe injurious, — at, firm in the flesh, and having the the foo 1 of 
and the om À . are in perfect order. Can any oman nee of animals enjoying perfect health. I was | time occupied i in the “process. Mo oreover, tp the 
clever dairy correspondent solve this problem? K. ably su e to ae ith very few exceptions, the thermometer stood at 88° in the shade, the ground, 
— ... — diligent use of the curry-comb; and the clean, healthy | which was of bare sand, was very scantily seal durin; 
milkmaids and — servants seemed quite as fit subjects the day, a 1 severely felt by all but the vendors 
Foreign — . for exhibition as the dignified looking beasts they | of beer and w I will now finish, 8 only hope that 
AGRICULTURAL SHO ing to attended. The finest-looking beasts pe were English, | this — 3 aaa long-w account of 
England thro — Saxony, 1 — — tr a aon once the property of a Mr. Smith, an English gentleman, who | the “Grosse Landes-Thier und brodio ten-Schau zu 
more paying to Dresden ; k accordingly took my | has an admirably conducted "farm 2 the ps, mabey od Dresden,“ will afford a half-hour’s amusement to some 
— 2 the ee and Dresden railway, and of Tharand, not far from Dresden; also farming friends at home. 
rning of the ri of May at p German some fine cows of the Bees and — ‘the Ara re — — 
’ Florence. I ha a never the old town in sale breed ; the animals of the last-named race are small, 
len: 3; crowds of pa cae people, sa 2 of a light t dun colour, and are good both as milk — Societies, 
in their. — costumes, thronged the roads and and for fattening. I next went to the busi epartmen pe 
Squares ; omnibuses and droskies, to an extent I — cad here, Io u, I w. as disappointed; with the exception ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, 
— se oo — aoe usually quiet — rattled | of a very few animals, there was ‘nothin ing which w Continued from page 365.) 
h the d the whole neam the place — bdii Tue lecturer then pointed out the connexion, of 
exhibited “unusual e excitement and ac vity. however, is not celebrated in s way for her horses; | geology with the three principal modes of i 
and people, who were more conversant than I am with land—draining, irrigation, and the use of mi 
Acacias — Lime trees intersect it, and _ gardens ae 8 n studs, pronounced this show as de more credit- manures. The importance of geological knowledge 
nither p and p able than -y had any reason to hi iea 2 to the success of operations, undertaken for the pur- 
noble Horse- Cl bs) hès t horses I saw were from i “ Jork- pose of obtaining a hod gl of water by means of 
through it ; rae 3 an and Purple Line, shiere.” as they were pr out — the 550 ach tesian wells, was insisted o S paariga made 
Guelder Roses and Ribes, vie with each other in the there were some maguificent specim of the Saxon to Mr. e ome on water-bearing strata 
richness of their colours; and the soft 1 rain which has breed. round London, and to - on for supplying the 
fallen during the last few days has given a fresh green Saxony is celebrated for the beauty and fineness | metropolis by means — 
2 seldom to be seen in this part of Germany. of her wool, and was certainly here well represented; down to as the 3 greensand, like that rg ‘Grenelle, 
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handsome coffi „commands a b largest an ion 0 of liqu 
the windings of the Elbe and of the neighbouring Vine finest goats I ever t them two enormous one great impediment to which, in some situations, 
i uses, ones, and two kids, cach with double sets of horns. | would be the want of water to dilute it sufficiently, 
Dr. ; 
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es Dresden into the new and old towns, impart to | some of them labelled Brabanter Riesen (giants), and | come before him ; namely, where the best an pest 
it a beauty and character exceeded by few cities in —— were Poin as large as turkeys. _ The ‘pigs m materials for 8 farm buildings, erm $ drains, and 
ti f th be extensive 
On alig t 
continuous stream of human beings which I had . J wi 
remarked, was wending its way to the Grand Cattle- | appeared, as an old woman ex d — as if one 
show and Exhibition of Agricultural Implements, | could lay — on their — and roll them along the 
the first which, I was informed, had ever been held road like a ball. There were many much larger, but 
in Dresden, and would be found unrivalled in extent, | very — but all were jakid? clean, and none 
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hting at my hotel, I found that the till night held a continued and ded | districts 5 inted out, in which the grentest improve- 
resulted the 
presented the intrusive rocks forming the axis 
M well as in excellence, in any of Germany. | over-fatten 
y interest in all such matters ary ed me at once to n there was little of peeuliar 
devote next two or three days to Dresden and its oe usual supera an Soe of eee plough, | 
aa 3 and divide my time — ves complicated threshin; mean er. self-acting churns, | m 
pars Pit 1gs on the one side, and Murillos, Raphaels, | prevailed ; but I could see noth ing pen ek pair in — | 
half a * on the other. The exhibition is held about . anythi ng equal, t own. chaff-cutters 
coiii mile from the town, on the “ Vogelwiese, a large | and Oat-bruisers senna Performed — work well; of 
wer on where shooting matches take place every year. but they were clumsy and heavy in construction, and f i i 0 
ie say, en passant, that th required a 5 ne e of labour or coal district, et of mines ‘anil nie 
The Dre . teresting. an was ae o perform the same work in and the western, a ea > lime each Matrict 
sden club was formed so long ago as in the giv A small steam-engine, by Pfaff, of | pasture. tural 1 
2 N it meets ie —— ade the shooting lasts Chemnits, i in a full work aaa Ente ett and the were referred to the age pogra hand, and the 
the 98 t days e King and Princes mix freely with wondering loo observations of the and uni — The of 
rd ag and take their ct — 4 = oe — to n There Ww perficial K ta, 
= club ; for 10 4, =F Hoe — page dles eee e of e wes Fi = a 2 ted by rap series 0 ao laid in an inclined 
rovided, and the ting for ifi ood specimens of home-s " 1 y 720 ee 
—_* performed ** 8 Fen home-made sugar, and oiron Tobacco ; and ition Their relation to the unstratified rocks which 
or the cattle-show a space of 15 to 20 aeres had been prea which were be sold at the rate of five dollars, di them from their original horizontal 
enclosed by a a wooden g, and at the five e entrances | 155 r abe l fragrant w condition were explained by means of a large root of 
ie Reena e 2 noses- at cigars for is ba pet — Wurzel, against which the books leaned, and 
m experience, fro 
Wee sce das I ip their 
order. The price of ingle admissio } lone of thousand; turn ap tei them 
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