746 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
enormous waste to agriculture by the present mode 
of mismanaging the offal passing through the hands 
of our butchers. 
operations, in numerous instances there are farme 
holdin 
lan 
goi r Marios have 
been, 8 consolidated er tars of robe Ros this was the case 
From the calcareous loams, the cerea stay „ probabl 
i THE yr OF WIGHT. of course — good; they appeared to me in most much the less Fahir: for moveab 
AFTER an 8 55 of 30 years from this portion of parts magnificent; but gr ismanagement in some | the farms were large, and the ! 
1 went there last August to mark the instances marred the bountifulness of Providence. from the present buildings, it 
chan N Riis arge a measure of time has made | Weeds abounded among the corn; the nip hus-| to have ne a Pines buildings fo 
there e present condition of à fertile distriet — is bood; 8 and the ground is sufficiently hoed and | fields. In no should pr 
so oy, distinguished as tho garden of England,” kept free from weeds, whi quent instances luxu- | down Daily, Fah ag 
0 any person famili che characteristics of the riated through the Oc sionally Thistles | likely to cost little by remaining whe 
Channel lande of; Jersey 1 more Ee a and accus- deter ermine contested “the posession e ground | short, I aoe it to be clearly understood 
with a a‘tesble crop of Barley ; and in rhe paN 1 * advocate rash and co 
rows, lilip ti and small which very numerous on the farm cupied after due consideration are not lik 
villas w ee 8 8 splendid | petty rs, weeds were maturing their gr 7 5 — 2 When new buildings are would 
ee, of fruits and vegetables; the high Chalk-hills of | rently without any danger of itati Where | consideration whether a: bui — 
ight, its 2 lains, and large hedgerows betrayed nusual neglect of clipping and portion of each building, should be made 80 i 
fields of jars e land divested of the original bo plashing, and horses were grazing together with cattle | “ portable.“ The Cry stal Palace of 1851 was rma ‘ee 
(vet embel Babes here and — with patches of coppice and sheep on foul pasture land or Clover leys, I con- proof that in some Cs it may be well to ‘make patis 
and plantations, and with well timbered deme in | cluded that the land was owned or occupied by poor | of a building in some degr moveable, so as to makes 
some | , gold throughout miles people 3 ve pai — apparent to me that, in most materials useful for different purp 
_of unbroken extent, afford a very different impressi , the re turned out to Grass during that| If any one doubts the value of having farm buildings 
“Each of laux has ‘its liar beauties, but —.— 1 that Poe — a iain moveable, let him bear in mind what a saving of labou 
„Assuredly those which are contemplated from the r 2 n'és assist m. mont g or saving th in some cases, by having portable 
of the very “elevated er from — —— to The waste of manure — sd by this grazing i tn cattle-boxes, &c., to take to one end of the farm, instead 
_Arreton, a obler on a r or is considerable, yet in many of the'farm-yards there was | of bringing the Turnips and straw, &c., from that end 
“autumnal ed meen any prospect which “the 9 — of abunda of dung ; te i as if — eee ‘its Brevi the farm, and th king the back again as manit, 
‘the Channel 1 Islands’ affor — juices might b āsi Unnecessary lab causes other labour that would u 
But Tam not going to — detailed comparisons | or les: ss), to flow away with. every t — of rain, Ry thie otherwise be necessary ; for instance, unn * 
n beauteous rivals, nor to lavish admiration on wayside, to the nearest stream. M. D. ing on roads causes labour in repairing them. 
our faie domains ‘of Southern Ham PE in the manner b be bonktuued-) uming the j 
mpiling a guide book, nor to enter up 
oky elde of geological discussion 2 which this distriet 
furnishes an ample text; but sap) y to offer such 
„remarks on the style and economy o ig bein pursued 
N „ as limited time and opportunities permitted me 
But first a word or two concerning the fitness of the 
popular See gh the “ prope of 1 4g applied 
to the Isl s re t rstand b term 
é 7 
garden 1 Halde a. My 3 aang “a t pieco of d 
‘enclosed, and cultivated with extra 
the esr in meton has no si 
extend the 
militude to this is 3 but 
In the ‘neighbourhood es Sandown N 
common, but a few 
No 
same — os ree of slovenli- 
= #0 frequently. the gardens and 
8 the. common labourer, evidenced by the 
Po 
care, plan in 
od, or laid e out for pleasure,” wo! 
ly | a right manner, 
w —— would not be — 
of “a — sera in 
t seemed 
ON THE 1 OF PORTABLE FARM 
BUILDINGS, 
SUGGESTED AS A — 2 IN SOME DEGREE, 
FOR THE SCARCITY OF FARM LABOURE RS. 
— — 24th of July, 2 a fe —— for my 
n as best oe complete 
on" reason to . 
— on a farm köt yet eh Toed, o or 
tered by ee or — ar rtificial 
5 woul sual cir- 
— buildings, — as 
they were to 
a t 
se if the best plan was not adopted 
aoe and unanswerable excuse 
iai 
— the general fault of h 
m was that —.— did not —— —— — — . all 
to 
enclosed in the very 
or three habi- labour fail what 
| advan 
soil and 
„with 
eee epastured marshes of hazel loa 
N ee clay, with here 
to th 
its rivals on the not see e how we can have the oe gt buildings — the 
in every respect the laces for general u 
ountry so variable as 
meres hills from 500 to Sa feet in height, 
and e ros qu 
gravel 1 and tracts of 
maris; 
so mild a } tural im 
y lambing was safely and systematically | 
Me siya, this and references h 
pyi t it m ah 10 0 
3 place 
ver Sue is 
ing tha 
duced have. 8 a 
and believing it t ibe almost impos- 
hole — of buildings so as to prevent the 
z 
S 5 
ments — modes of carrying out agricultural opera- 
tio — ed to the conclusion that to make the 
ee portable, or remova 
another, would be 
io not 7 only means, w. — 
position, and to give room for cipap ar or ORES 
the plan as circ might prove to be necessary. 
I have known 3 in — it was eee AE 2 proved 
than 
m one 
tatoes | that some of the bes p 
— — the machinery itself oo out of 
i 2 extra ‘ 
by bi 
*. —— 
“ portable ” it could have been — 
vantage. it appears that the — 4 portable 
—— and as Mr. Th 
ing from 500 to 1000 aeres, principally z tillage t 
— eee as 
Wait gin in; When 1000 m 
they would be able to 
e in same time 
e f. part of 
cleat the pon 9 means, 
errors of ne 
th decided |i 
n a case where all was 
avoiding the first 8 = apma 
art of it, near to 9 7 i 
operations saved w 
so I will not attem ae 
cases yan henge in nee 
of the corn by 1 it more a 
equal to the while Ae of the land. 
I that, 
accusto ig 
If 8985 rses had portable doie close by weir vork 
they would lose less time in going to 12 15 rn on 
re n 
most atl A ia 1 to grow e i 
manure s ould be close by where it was wanted 
Besides all 2 numerous advan saapa which m me 
al d from 2 healthy ho: 
lant be borne in mind “That, if 
of „it Woah ery important to 
the sick stihla and N from the rest. 
sideration would a more or Jess to all 5 
aud alth some 
res 
subject will 3 agree 
buildings would be des 
indi 
I am not aware that any one has 
the trial 
trial of portable e farm-bulldings aas 
ae N 
the use of 
as without it I do 
e more generally — in the colonies 
or in other countries where the lan 
f closed and in its natural state; — the same remark 
would ‘apply more or less to almos 
cretary to the R 
of w hich was i 
"in ‘the recent report of their late 1 
f| constru of 
treating of the sub jects cis under dis 
ents first place, with re 
i W 
e e a oe of 
Se 
ociety—the receipt 0 
THE HOUSING ta AND FEEDING wi 
Iw the last 15 sear 4 have 2 Li 
of 1200 ‘cattle, besi es having been intrusie’ 
2 of cattle, 
