50—1852. | 
THE eee GAZETTE. 
Crass XXIX. Pigs of any riei d above 13 re —— 
exceeding 26 weeks old.— The first prize of 102 t 
John Coate, of — near Blandf ord, Dorset; a a 
pen of three 24 weeks an s old improved Dorse 
pigs, bred by himself, Barley-meal, Rice- 
meal, whey, and milk ; ditto, silver medal as the breeder 
0 8 e best pigs i e 
yard ; second p of 5l. to ut John Conroy, Bart., 
of Arborfield Hall, Berks, for 17 weeks 
a pen of three 
old Arborfield improved Ber kshire 
b Himself, and fed on Barley-meal, skimmed 
milk, and Potatoes. There are 10 pen i 
vario ng high merit. Mr. Coate’s 
are singularly fine specimens, and s Sir John’s. 
His Royal — Prince Albert — an excellent 
pen of three Suffolk pi 
Crass X X. 
p 
Pigs of any breed above 26 and not 
SEI 
fied 
ones on my farm, 
making it i arai rot 
supplying all our own. people, 
brought us home 30 millions of sovereigns. 
sumption of cotton last year was 700 tim 
my 
rice 
o 
noy within the reach of the million. same remarks apply 
the silk, woollen, earthenware, aud itik every-day com- 
odities. Then how has all this abundance and cheapness 
i 
The — prize of — to Sir 
32 weeks a 
pen of ks a old 
Oxfordshire and Essex pigs, bred b himself 2 the 
stock of Mr. Hobbs, and fed on Bar 3 and 
milk er of ‘th » 
skimmed 3 ditto, si dal as breede 
same. a prize to Mr. Fre 4 Crockfo rd, o 
II eald Park, M ddlese f — 
72 weeks and 5 days old Nottingham pigs, bred by 
himself and on to edes, Barley- 
meal, and mi There are six pens in this class of | ™ 
ine pigs ; Mr. 's pen i ly so xtra 
stock pigs, of — there are 15 in number, some of 
ary masses of living pork, ae it 
to get the 
measuring ta) und any 
of them, The silver medal in this class is Saad d to 
Sir John Conroy, as = mag e of the Mr. 
mes Sadler, o 
ns 
one pig in each, 
yard, 
ing each three pigs, and 15 with 
ionli a total of 42 pens and 
A LECTURE, 
DELIVERED AT THE CHELMSFORD LITERARY INSTI- 
TUTE, BY MR. I. E oF OF, 5715 788 HALL, 
“On the present position of British’ Agriculture as 
compared with our other Industrial he ons.“ 
By request of yo 8 oy ee, I purpos ing to take 
a brief and general vi ritish 5 eem in order that 
we may see if it has progressed mn our other industrial occu- 
8 — if it has to trace th d suggest the 
this — — at this county, with its 
— is almost purely agricultural, and that this, 
the — town, like others, is almost entirely dependent on 
be wee of 3 rire: I trust the subject I have chosen 
eemed neither tedious nor inopportune, 
mined the contents of our glorious 
797 
doors and casements, and ne nights, matters are e 
but when chilly autumn, scanty — or deficient : — 
| compel a shutting up for . t typhus and scarlet 
fever, and all the malignant — *. a pol an 
putrescent atmosphere. Thence ensue long, suferi heavy 
PAN charges for burials, and 15 reliefa dete hee 
poe ee g — national loss. ter but truthful 
— cultu 
rries his — rock. poepie £ fom wee to floor m, 
— os lenais name labourer ma here, and come any 
distance, but the cart or ploug b. 0 ores ia oi carefully rho ge for 
in p immedia s neighbourhood of pe oe la 
Ith he time is coming — and 
par acne „ I on an ESS Ke the general ap 
ance of its — pede ag NS Moy be taken as a me 
bu 
e population rrn ea their 
know scores of cottages that are 
te, rented at 31. 2 4l. per annum. 
tering forme —— — e and frailty, 
cotton manufacture are now 
what a pleasant thing it must be for us, in this purely agricul- 
tural county, to reflect upon, that they are al — of 
agricultural produce, Surely if they, by improved means, 
supply us cheaply and abundan h they nota — right 
to — and of agriculture similar advant 
rit Manchester School,” as it bas 
one —.— it a capital good School), has always been read 
to seize — every new useful — — I wish I 2 
say as much of agriculture. On th first invention of 
it was applied as an economy in lighting our cotton fac — $ 
[a aae subserved to calculation and profit. Imagine to 
cotton factorie ee, 410 feet long, 76 teot 
—— six stories high, a steam power of 150 horses, and will 
run 150,000 spindles, 
Thes —— turers do not pull down the 
bem aed s to save rates, and make them 
to their Work, “bat pe ql therh the t — 
F 
rers’ 
5 stairs, for ey are are oor y steam ; and 
— even ee wee that = thoy were — to walk up so 
any stair uld absorb much of the profit, 
Large Hh va yt 2 paea ai is the creed of the Manchester 
ane i and judging _by nena it — not been an unsound 
tage 
been called (and I for — 
ir labou 1 
— 7 two or pe tee |e 
craz; 
and occasionally they ne on so ard prop, t 
3 the’ —— of — 1 agricul- 
left to the itinerant speculator, w 
se of decency and ept y eri Miry 
ttleme 
mes nen on the perfection 
4 — or happy ignorano of w 
early travel enlarges the mi . 
mproves — taste of 
for gur 
news 
cus fos 
ce to origina 
m of four tram roads 
common roads, — render ve removal 
tra nemission of manure cheap aud facile 
eap 
wis abominable, and went a a ga and so it will 
t 
test it by — — e there is au absence of agricul- | remain, until our landed proprietors urge upon our Legislature 
tural statistics, w — some day remedied. It the necessity of applying the ordinary business principles of 
‘aight easily be done, if web pee Board — Agri- register, and immediate transfer — haped 58 of every 
culture as well as of Trade; for it is s important, But — * form, green and muddy lane high fences, 
a reference to Mr. Caird’s admirable book, published — year, ditches absorb the fee. H profit A 20 X 
shows be wri a 770, t 2 100 pi r wate 9 fore that ois * — mber I have 
cen 0 bo 80 — cent., and woo — than 100 | over huge banks, embro ith immense pF wath Fy ¥ 2 — 
per pane 12 a e same p 0; ; but — call — — they are really sharp aud entangling 
it is evident, by our im mporta — * that h is | briars and brambles. Having surmounted this chevauz de frieze, 
produced. Perhaps the most astoun ar 00 14 agriculture just | I sink in up to my chin into a dry ditch. This is no exaggera- 
now is this, * — — — fast . s — tons ah Peruvian | tion, but an ordinary — Pay of fact. I cannot help ex- 
bird’s dung, f — paid nea 9 —— starling, claiming on such occ „What be 
and that. a . — ex hereafter. | wanted for, when a —5 pipe — convey all the water 
The N ri London, * 
eminen 
, is worth two millions . — annually, or the 
— th oth * r to Per 
we paid the past yea r bird’s 
pec cata ae pai 
ost mode siri oa are zea of | 
all a 
| Our great cities ; th no calculation of rain fall, and 
meter, 
ung. i s 
w if a comprehensive — of — — — Pa — iis — mall in 2 pip 5 fee 3 n Sie — 4 
une chat of the gas or water of London, and like that on my | latter encumbered * n sorts of LA 5 — w into 
farm, were carried *. to irrigate the country surrounding 17 — age ent eddies, ares minutes or évidence ected 
London, and even supposing the cost of — to be 33 millions by Ar oei t Board of Health ae h — 
sterling, the ua: millions = heia Per: — ould be six management Wente * watts 
t. up e inves at, in rea ty, the affair could be at 5 f omg ot 8 e 
one for infinitely less money, and with reater results. imentary 2 
1 case iron pipeage cost 2501. per r N bat even if it cost Firipa kom a uting "that sediments waich int eben- 
r mile, your 33 millions —— ena — to tay down |: I remem 1 must every other SE Ton, 
e 20,000 miles peage. l matters. are | that when it became necessary to o commute the tithe 
easily reduceable to correct 2 in detail, — only rent charge, the whole kingdom at 
object now is to draw attention to this all-important question. | measured and mapped, and “the e 
My owt experience of irrigation this — — as much re for theerpense. Well 
— a system 
means of subsis: ene for man 
and 9 ASA 9 uf milk KF first-rate uals 
city or ould rapid 
de pore gh — race taking place 2 0 our — 5 — dy 
“ sky blue, ants closely-packed pet & 
Eye pean — irrespective , by the water used in 
wos and cities, te be — e 8 all 
classes et thinking men — 2 much longer neglect this 
Fen t su 
ossibly some of you may have 
the instructive course of lectures, delivered by 
— men at the Society of Arts, on the various leading 
uches of — ad industrial produetions as there exhibited. 
ae 2 were 3 by the sagacious mind of the 
al Con — aud to them 1 —4 have = — to refer, as 
THEE 1 o, 
© TE 
2 8 
gees 
r 
ag production. and consumption and I shall consider 
that I have a ri 
T. availed itself of similar advan — 1 produce 
utmost happiness and welfare of a people. To doubt this, 
aan to approve the converse of the — e This is 
— wee ja 3 actures, but not in our food; for 
ne land ae its — of 
cience and mechanism done its 
Who will Sony that the’ pro- 
or I may almost say the manufacture of our food, is 
necessity of our well-being and well-doing ? Has 
carla been treated as a business? Certainly not; and 
wr ded proprietors have yet to learn the fullest develop- 
Ment of the trade of a agriculture, 
astonishes me, that whilst 
fertility 2 
utmost ? Most certai 
duction, o rta ais eat 8 
our merchants combine for 
8 useful purpose their . — and . ‘energies, agri- 
< ural proprietors are disunite ine 
e, that if 5 0 
ap and One would 
fetid » that if in ie ase gentle docks ami warehouses, 
are in active v “navies, and twenty other useful associations 
horself, to 7e operation, that, at least, agriculture would exert 
m our towns and cities — 8 stream 
t d 
r enormous — — — pro- 
that, by mighty 8 —— all its con- 
our pigi iron produce 
uttice it to s say, 
8 
Current deve elopments, 
oci 
have * mr — 
e e g 
rg wel public goo the La Settlement, — Economy in the 
means of productio on is i reik of success. How stands the 
oma with kr A 7 agricultural t — the labourer 
r gre ufactu led by law to take care 
of the — rar and — of — kely r. juvenile operatives; but 
independent of this, their own sagacity and bumanity have 
. d in a great many a watchful regard for the moral an 
social condition of their work people. The manufacturer ands 
A to congregate around him the elements of his 
ae isa —— I can fi 
e, see 2 1 ae not — * to — ardan = of 
property 
I 
ber that the interposition of a difficulty of . 
minishes seriously value of landed y; if imme- 
dietei 9 and tran saate ble, it would be as 
urity to exchequer or consols, and ht 
raised upon it at least 1 per cent. cheaper than 8 
cannot conceive — e same dence on personal respon- 
sibility should not exist in land as in consols, provided a proper 
public office for the Ares n of or interchanges were 
established, 8 iy 2 in Scotland. i 
. to Corresponden 
Gas LIME : J P Tracey, After being used for cleaning gas, lime 
is then 
poi n, but by l r 
A H 28 . rarer on hydro-a 
into sulphate of lime or You sho 
onths you 
2 tons per roadcast, — go . ‘and 
plough it in. It will ti . to a dressing of lime an 
gy 
1 — AB. If you plough your land and transplant 
early Naringa in 2 vou will have the use of your 
land again towards the of June. Peas will correct the 
Boe mpg foot of Linse 
: T D. It is best to mix it in compost with loam a 
allow it to ph: wet and w: fe 
wem j 
and 
iwrotay 
success, How is it with the agriculturist ? mean the land- 
holder, under the 9 oieta by the 3 9 ea law of 
allocation or settlement. Cottages are pullé os down, and the 
3 remov. brances 
labourer: ved to other — towns, as 
or — This -suicidal policy reverts re on the 
farmer. 
The physical — of a man is the m bodily 
wer. His labour is sufficient without the — of a three 
Pille walk — and evening. It tisa 5 — of . 
rance and vice. The time n 
acquiring learni intelligence, ir there were poet 
opportunities for — 80, whic! re are not. 
ne is str he — that our — a s are now 
and 8 ie , by 
with 
with food — 
e 
untrou 
RZEL, He asks veut is the worth of a 
N a Ware ia ‘nha SUE eaa ye [We'woda tive miik; 
and — at y quanti y. e wou ve about 
— ade quant daily, and rod iad them 
to be worth 7s. Ba a gen 
Pouano : . this word to to signify the miller's refuse or 
ran, shells, ae. „ the aw te 4— 0A at — 12 del 
as . — the pro es of str 
mentions; the shells of Dati: 2 3 — water pad 
nye BT ged Bean-meal, are much more relished by 
ing 
Canter “tt is impossible to give an opinion on 
e wi — inspection. If — — is within 
— description I sho 
much later; but although their faces are not white 
e 80,000 e r ton. 
and even nas H . 2,500,00 . age 
ithe oar now it is rapidly increasing, for our iron m asters, 
ag riculturists, have much to learn, and have, in some 
k you 
Spanish co cocks show the white faces at seven months old, the 
pullets 
