a) THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE: 685 
order to agricultural os this single fact was conclusive | Octob then housed and fed on straw and Turnips 
roviding shelter and food for mendrtants 1 eg : the manufac eturing firm of Garrett and | until waive time (say February or March), then thoy 
aop them m, fro pone - streets, proved the heartlessness evi e great n 4 May 
an 
t ure 
0 — P 
ost 3 - found constant employment for 500 or 600 men. And | annually, which is principally used for Potatoes, Man- 
and principal strooi a Bon . | wi —— d —— and Exall, Crosskill, Howard, gold Wage and Carrots, and any — is put on 
d uneer 17 vo * ah to Scotland | Hornsby, and Ransomes, had all extended their engage- | the Grass land. The whole of the Nquid manure is cok 
— The ees cones of. the Board of Super- ments i in the same way. _ He too k this tobe a very hop eful e in a cover The claimant also buys 
one. : ë : 
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é j had he adverted to topics — these! It was for used for urnips, and the remainder mY t upon ra 
1851), shows a — — — ores ig 2 the ab ation of calling t oer attention to the pressing land for pasture. He also purchases 2 bon 13 of guano, 
unions from the system the board 4 formed, viz :— | necessity, fast advancing upon — of having recourse which, santy with e gr and salt, is used for Man- 
GENS of neseemment since tho hoard was Sons i to every possible mechanical appliance in order to| gold Wurzel. 10 tons of farm- yard manure, 2 et. of 
Assessed. Contribution. reduce the cost of production. Without this, it would | guano, and 2 cwt of salt, is also used for nyae 
230 i 
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t and 110 
= and, in the level districts of this county, he anticipated | las ye Asi principally with tiles and slate soles. 
wed 228—— | seeing in a few years the smoking steam-plough—un- Claimant drained eight acres of moss land last spring 
In some counties the voluntary System has been poetical as the thought might be taking the place of with pipes, the mains with 4 ee es and branches 
adopted to a considerable extent, in others i in a low the horse-plough. “To this complexion they must | 2 inches. ‘All the expense was borne by himself, except 
ratio; in three, only in a solitary parish ; and in seven, | come at last and if they would not adapt themselves | the tiles = slates, which were provide 4 . landlord 
not even in a single instance. The sums contributed to the altered and altering condition of things t * at a cost of 197. Claimant, last yea 
ul 
acres 
in the churches of the Leg essed pa re during ti might rely upon it their expenses wou d increase, an og et tho 2 * has m arle à 69 asthe of this 
last year amounted to more than 14,0002., of which tl 
ieir own e a bone-dusted all the 
about 8000/. was applied by the kick sessions to t ay if there were any truth in this rough sketch of their Meni ale up 175 old. pit eradicated 300 rods of old 
relief of the poor in their respective parishes, con - | position, surely it was their part, as wise men, to com- = es, raised new ones, ound rails, posts, Quicks, 
sisting generally of persons who had fallen into tem- | bine together for the dissemination of intelligence—to | &e., 8 saurey at his kii expense. He has also filled 
p san d difficulties, ore the view of prev enting them | Sharpen each other’s wits, and to quicken each other's ae , and drained the same, at a cost of 30ʃ., by 
from becoming chargeable to their parishes as paupers. | zeal, so as to meet these trying times like men. He di en means 57 perches of land have bosn gained, He 
It is not necessary {to . into the minutise of the not eee or undervalue the difficulties in the way. has also deepened, by an average depth of 18 inches, 
modes of assessment allowable under the Scotch law; it He knew them thoroughly. His pocket smarted under a small brook which runs thro ugh the Taa, or 
is sufficient to state that, of the wg D according them at that moment. But he would not despair. In 10d. per perch, in order to obtain fall enou geal 
to the report assessed, there are only 69 assessed on | the branch of manufacture with which he himself had | the land through which it passes. The 3 deere 
means ard substance. It appear s from a minute of been connected, he had had to contend with difficulties was 1847 yards, and the cost 14} There has 
the Board of Supervision, that the clai aim of a parochial just as great, created, too, like theirs, — 2 measures a manure tank erected by claimant, at a cost of . 
board for assessed sums are preferable to the claim of a of the Government; but he had never despaired, | towards which the landlord contributed 5“. All the 
landlord for rent, and in case of insolvency are a ayable neither would he despair of agriculture aoe. Relying | meadow and pasture land on this farm is in high con- 
out of the first proceeds of the estate, and that the pro- upon God's help, with a firm, unflinching, and perse- | dition. ‘The Wheat remarkably clean, but its produce 
pe a as owner and ig. mam nt when vering coura : j lear head— 0 i iden 
n appears, 
a a sinewy arm, and a ead ly medium. The crop had evidently suffered from 
thrown upon his han tenant. „ Nought ee then ra the light and open nature of thesoil. Of the Oats, those 
also, from the same authority, that in case of persons If farmers to themselves did prove but true.” after leys were a roduce, and those after Wheat 
refusing to be ordained elders of the church or to be 
good p 
si i P., in the f some remarks | were equal to the best crop the inspectors have at any 
elected members of the pagers board, from a desire to . dan had done | time — 3 in weight saat gut The Barley was 
avoid ee. the proprietor andthe minister learning, he had have done divia 2 z. a full and clean crop ; all the green crops were in the 
become legally and of necessity the parochial board. M. D. He had bs | highest state of cultivation. The house, yards, garden, 
of finishing schoo — but never ja of a | and fences, were most satisfactory. ma of the Man- 
finishing school for farmers. A great boon had, how- | chester and Liverpool Agricultural Societ 
refi ever, been ‘offered them, of which they had not taken ——————— 
Orie etles. eee, š 
advantage ; and that was the Agricultural College. He Notices to Correspondents. 
believed that of the 60 young men who were in training | n ea whee bes + sag ct 5 e 3 oen — ad 
Sur 1 —At the late nt of this there, not one of t as the son of a fg T farmer, preference of it would be stronger in the latter case L N a 
Society, Mr. Gadesden, of Ewell Castle, the | It was very true that no man could get w idea after] the former, The division of food is not so necessary in the 
President cf the Association for the curr — 85 ar, Dect. 50, but he prem still go on e e the ideas he had, case of ru minant amg ve ep * KN hay and an 
cc in a mixture of 2 of the former and 1 of the latter, and 10 or 
. oy cultural 3 P i oing Prosperity 83 and improving his sons the practical details of 12 Ibs. of Oats, will be good keep for a farm horse. As for 
y ociation, rern intelli- farming, whilst the latter were devoting “themselve ves to straw for cattle, t that 8 depends on what roots you 
gent farmer admitted that much had yet to be learnt | learning agricu about 1 cwt, of roots, and 
cultural eee They might 2 give them. We have given them 
with regard to the earth’s fertil ity— that science was 7 it that in this respect, as in others, they must about 14 or 16 lbs, of straw, cut into half-inch chaff, damped 
only now beginning to lend her aid i in this i inquiry—an nd ahead. Another 
thing, they did not take Suffielent over with hot Linseed soup, 1 as to add 2 Ibs. of Linsee d to 
: $ = the straw, ang — a — 3 or 4 lbs. of Bean 
3 of machinery, ough it was to that they] meal. There pre- 
ould see a much larger acreable 2 than had | must chiefly mati i had done all it could for — — to chaf in n open a yard any more than ia elles Ae that we 
„them, and it es they must now turn their fon #78 “Article, n 
he yay to the combination of —— with practice, attention. Ont the wisi, 2 would k to them in the | «Ras; a; Ran“: Woodfield, It occurs in the list ot agri- 
that they were to look for increased benefit. Without language of encouragement, and call upon them not to cultural pro vincialisms about to in a 
uat combination all farming operations were but empi- | be disheartened. He had heard a great number of ENE O t a hrga T aee tthe signification 
rical, and would lead no satisfactory results. The | persons say, “ Oh, I don’t see the use of going to these lose s shaly sabudi ra peene ií Waiter * — — aot 
state of circumstances with anid to the late harvest | meetings, They only want us to go, to our brains.” | _ belo’ 
tended very much to impress that opinion, with ow, whenever a man ed of another wanting to Roor-: Hanve A Young Farmer. The following observations 
additional force, on his mind, and it was now felt by | suck his brains, they might rely upon it there was wat this subject. are. already foe tne fares to think of 
many persons t in some parts of the country, nothing in his brains to suck (laughter). Whilst, on —— such portions of his root crops as he intends 
where agriculture had been indifferently as ge the other hand, he who had anything in him that was Fig. 1. 
much had yet to be learned in order to avoid such ving would be very to im it 
a fatality as that of the last on. It was to (cheers). The real tenant-farmers could not afford, and 
3 „ they must look for| ought not to affo > = — 5 ere ex n It 
3 was science 8 would give them not their b nd money in new 
th n to 
iene and enable them machines. They oe esti afford it, let -e "y 
the machine — show it to the farmers, an 
orm Ahe of the ¢ component ere of the various | article — 5 pee t, then it would be time k sii rel the 
e ce | farme: 
th 
1 ul growth Farm Memoranda. 
t was science, also, bens would give them the com- Prize Farm or THE MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL 
ponent elements of the various kinds of food used in the | AGRICULTURAL Socrery.—Mr. J 8 Sandi- 
and fattening of — and teach them to dis- way II = 
een the fat- i i 
2 rising ion t 
to lok een r erg A sap of the goo 
that ir — gwen attention to the acquirement of | Potatoes, T Tarnips Mangold Wi Soe — . 
they wonld only be pied dg for without it he feared | Wheat and Barley, with seeds ; 4th, Oats, after 
admitted that Bo aie gp Son with Grass 
rs.) He sown seeds, the same being covered in 
ath sees ae kee ly ped — but he — after the 3 — — with bone-dust. ave lt eg 
one, by their young men ; 3 4 farm 5 dairy cows, swt hly drawa 
8 especially recommend to them to take a 10 heifers, 6 calves, 175 sheep lambs, 30 as a thatch, which hader = in ps place bythe wel . — 
gt ang respect out of the manufacturer’s book, to | pigs; total 256. og From 170 to 0 sheep are| poles ig upon it, or three yards fag- 
mark the manner in which he pursued his —.—— f ff ananally:) horses, in Cotte are three | 89's are pla the centre of the heap, incl backa 
inquiries—the mode in * h a SO. y.) an ching from the ground to the roof (see a, a, , fig. 2) 
his. Scientific ; Fik od appli the results of | months out at —— wad in winter are fed on cut hay| These act somewhat as chimneys, and facilitate a due ven 
ag investigations to practical uses, and the | and Wheat chaff, or on cut straw mixed with crushed |  tilation of the heaps, thus hindering 5 d to heat 
seg — a Success, which had followed the appli- | Oats and ts ; for two months in spring they have oF 
10 ye ose rae en thin the last eight or Rye and Vetches given to them. cows are 
l tb „ 
another is built within a so of it, the pian left 
of the water 
: i th The intended hannel both for the egres 
by their Grass from the beginning of May until the month of drops from the thatch, nd for the sireulation 3 No 
