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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
Das. ig 
Iong- woolled sheep; third, eee e sheep; epn 
cross- n each e 
nied 
paun amounting 
d 5 gold m pam Sog distributed ‘i fo 
assification : 
are a 
r pure b 
e bree 
= ise — re — un 
ong the nine classes as 
classes have each a 
a silver medal ; 
money prizes offered t 
em, rp S in whole to 45“. and three — — 
money prize foreach withasive medal. 
dals are awarded to the breeders 
et 
e 
to Un 
fittest state to be 
short- | wi 
3 = nts Pig. The silver medals for extra stock 
o Mr. Robert Beman, for the best beast ; 
to Mr. W Aan anday, for the best long- wool Ne 
o his Grace the Duke of ae for ho 
woolled sheep—a southdown ; to r. J. R. man, 
for his cross-bred sheep; * to Sir i ohn Convo, A irg 
r hi 
11 ighly 8 “commended K t. 25 Judges. — Prince Albert’s 
Devon whe ahs ox, Mr. Stratton’s 
shor phen Hen 
William A Leicester peat 
Cotswold sheep, Mr sek Mawr 
Davis’s 8 — fet 
Rigden’s southdown 
sou panei 
down sheep, M 
8 pigs, the Ea 
r. Sadler’s Berkshir 
wethers, Sir R 
ethe 1590 
Salter’s cross- — d i 
eee 3 Walsing 
am 
Sus 
rl z e s "Coleshill 3 
d 
Theory of Manure 330 Years rs a90.—A bout aan 
ago a man was born at Agen (a town of 
tiar aronne, 80 miles meas: 
ruggling against pre odigi 
F courage and pat 
siderable ri 
ormed a sys stem 
unhappily for 
r. arvaaine 's Hereford steer, the 
Mr. Hinck’s Hereford 
ford peed Mr. Allatt’s 
ratton’s short-hor 3 
Spraggett's shor horn 
wineries s short- —— he ifer Goo dw 
short hom heifer, Crisp’s edict Bs heifer, 
catherstone’s Shorthorn heifer, and Mr. Car 
rington’ s short-horn 
Com outa generally. CME Gurney’s gt ed bes 
Mr. Newbutt's short-horn heifer, Mr. Willm 
PIANA wethers, Mr. Folj pobed. ‘Leicester 3 
Hitchman's cross-bred weth Mr. Willia ams 
outhdowns, Mr. Haymed's southdowns, a Rigden’s 
8 sheep, Mr. Newman’s pig, a hamber- 
given next wee 
Home Correspondence 
der-draining. * clay ~ = now = the 
ned, To n the efficient 
epth of drain for the different deceriptions of 1 is 
advocates 
ub 
i any practical man that a drain oe 3 feet deep will 
a reaper os depth for all agricultural purposes, in 
stif 
3 
7 on 
Pigs, a pen; and 15 pens with one pig eac 
bemg 160 jai 299 ‘sheep, and 96 2 aei 
ańimals in the e yard, entered as competitors for 
sr The names of the judges’ are, for d long- 
woolled none Roberg Smith, acne Biorridge, Charles 
Stokes; and for short-woo sheep and pigs 
ope, 5 n Farncombe, mre Willis Tanner; ‘and 
an account Wok their awards, the number of en 
each class, and a few remarks thereon, &c., such as . 
eek. The 
. | 
from 
2 rods, or 33 feet apart. The 
the drain 
s the earlier and more nen rmly dry 
fi 
ex 
and subsoil; thus causing a two- 
fold g namely, slowing = rain in 
the land to do much mischie 
conjunction with the ra a 
efficient depth of drain will nny entirely ‘on the 
porosity, or e or ny gpl of saturation, of on some 
r the surfa 
in its pas 
? 
rains are most effe mares on others 
the surface soil, admitting T a 
the stiffest raie shallow d poe 
after ra: eep o 
deeper drain ; in 
haps some weeks ; on the 
e 
which water enters 
a more porous clay, or pereg T ee the water 
- entering the shallow drai misconeeptio: 
appears to have ge nerally prevailed on the manner in 
the The 
suggest future improvement. 
eee oe reformation: made this year 
commit such a blunder, Were the live 
— added 
fattening it wo 
us be im a 4 summed up; : 
Anma making a 
stated ; yet Laka speaking, ‘it — 
4 
in the prize list generally, to the drain 
uld i e the | pouri 
value of the awards, stamping, upon the — a — 
useful character to * : the 
e e . 
0 
on one end, per 
with mould, and ö pipe 
- 
the subsoil 
— 
Pipe. The bottom of the barrel will represent 
il below the drains, a lready saturated with 
tly pouring water on the mould in 
* constan 
the point of 
wi 
the b 
you will see that 
and 
lain’s pig.—An account of the Implement Show will be | par 
ek, 
ras 
less the distance between | m: 
the land 
necessary | se 
ve their very important 
h 
sage off an 
and pre ae sy air, in 
e | the 
surface, 95 “whieh shallow 
ce|s 
"= keg much sooner | w 
in than dee 
other Ce pap ies a will # det tai the shallow on | man 
e cen Water po on th Id 
| descend to the bottom of the barrel, and will not enter | i 
the drain 
out further introductio 
sages. (See the — to the“ Life of 
potter 4 a by, a Morle age se 
to grow w rich in Farmin Take n Be shi a1) k 
the r wil bri 
heaps to the fields some time befo 
aoe will observe that, af : 
shall have become hi igh, it will in that place be thick 
— a and more flourishing than in 
Ses ou may know easily that it is not 
which has Er that, for 2 labourer thr 
is, that, where the said mam 
n the aaki — — pies the rains vaia oceun 
Mie through t eee | 
had dissolved 1 carried with 99 a certain 
of the salt w 
quaintness of . e 
3 
o have the ene = complete 
it in 3 convene place ne 
in the shape 
been PAE that 
— 
Shelley, 
Sir 
„ „which will then act, and carry o 
ner preventing saturation above it. It is eon 
water on the mould in the — and frequent 
off the 
inually 
„M, 
Digby 5 — Bart 
Bennet 
and, pe raises the wa a level with 
capillary attr kert this will 5 
ex from tho —.— of the drains—the poi 
and is sup extend 18 ine 
consequently the water, rising by capillary attraction, is 
re a grea the surface soil. 
It is of great con ee to 5 clear tion of 
rt, let 
8 — 
Mr. Wright í of en Uni 
money unnecessarily. | th H 
