828 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZ ET TE. 
Dec. 25; 
misnomer, and therefore should be corrected ; now 
too, that so much attention 5 oa to the breeding of 
fine fowls of various kinds for public competition at 
different towns, where pr a ‘ies awarded to the 
successful breeders, a far more useful en yee 
for the public — east 3 1 for 
nefi own 
f lean stock in fair 
a state 
of eraen An by dae eee that they are in many 
cases troubled to stand up, and, in the instance of swine 
at the Smithfield ‘show, avails watered to keep them 
ive. And I at ee 
eral i 
TH 
m- | evening, „ the 5 
* or sees er swine. 
error in j nt, and cannot be t corrected, | C 
more especially 2 a shows Nee of lean stock, 
Ve 
the distance bet the 
t will be parm to those hs pea 
stand the way in whic yae under-ground 
drains, ran 3 is gxined by pla ail 
higher in than is required to Creare th the 
water forrest them, still many will be startled 
that the 
at these i nel et 
at 163 188 and a = fee 
been selecte mor | 
perfectly ns appropriated to 3 e garden, 
but I find, after contintious rains, that the alike as 
rains. | 
es has shown, water is intercepted by land drains | 
enly in its ae upward, and not in its descent ; 
but this would be s d 
o pass to as 
drains, and, of course, the drainage gi b be effected | 
in shorter time; ; or, perhaps I shall 
ying, that whilst i 
raining 8 to the a meat s pro 
evident, if, as Mr. |a an 
better e | 1 — 
ter fro 
20 kletles. 
Roya 5 e —PRESENTATION TO 
v. J. S. HAYGART e —On Saturday 
th inst., th studen 
the e hall, ~ which the Prin- 
Professors were prese] Mr. ee ma of 
the senior students, in in the chair. In the of a 
feeling and appropriate address, whose rece “i indi- 
of the institution | po 
whos 
cated how well it esas sed the sentiments of all present, | 
the worthy chairm 3 lt on the ts and eae 
progress which had hi gan marked garth’s 
government; a hood aira 2 
feeling bire embodied itself in 
them as students 
e of tendering 
ivi heir 
and rejoicing that they ha an 
bes acknowledgments, and 
entiments of respect, ons 
i for his 8 as a ele 
f England, and Prin 
, 5 e for his 3 m. a 
tion in all that concern pr = meen 
who could s 
ey 3 
m 
end. The 
Haygarth a handso 
tea 1 a portion of which ety this inscri — 
To the Rev. J. S. HAYGART 
from the 5 of the Royal Agricultural Tontege, 
en of their gratitude and e 
Dec. 11th, 1852.” 
an 
ipal of ae 
ome “silver ness 
FLAX Improvement, OF IRELAND. At the 12th annual 
meeting of bee Society lately held in Belfast, the Annual 
Re eport was read, from which we make the — 
extr 
Nen vAN 8 7 System. — In the last deere report 
it eip stated that the p atented eis 55 ste 
d 
the 3 an salty of the fibre retted 
ame 
3 was sound, and that saat e 
i i could be pro 
dries — “The 
ing this opinion, as -o find that, 
retteries establi shed in England a Wee. nd, ga 
xcellent 
| produe 
inners o eve lately been — for 
on this plan, | point in connection w 
time expressed their belief that the a eek 
eee ns 4 produe 
— via ea 
ployed. Se achines hay venteg, s 
accomplishing 5 ———— ad — i kat 
being made in differe rent pa rts of the country, 
sults a more definite opinion on 
š een 
me Ci i and — 
an 
as sta 
old implement, named the “ 
arated eff ] 
— 2 e 8 Y, and with economy, 
invention was made 
imperative duty to point out th 
which w i 
e nd has since role to omie 
himself to the oe of those pit arse ma 
investigation cond 
3 el at 
0 
appears to 
pared 
a mat 
to cotto 
f new plans 
petite or Pies te 
cuticle. Diffe f maceratin 
erene by ihe. different individuals who have promul- 
3 novel principle ; but all aot. 5 ee 
eru ing ~ ma ee 0 stems betw 
is th atio 
| eperation at Be 
to examine re thei fas t, ei Mess 
Nb À of report upon the subject, for | The maceration i ns in this case, ected y steam ; the 
* epth o a From this report it | saturated straw is crushed dried by 
e descent b e its 1 h is neither appears, that the pri a f the superiority in | artificial heat, aint seutched. As soon as it had se 
28 or diminished bythe number of drains ; whilst, their system would must fats — in the quality ascertained that these processes va ee 22888 
on the contrary, did- r pass in at the top of the of the Flax straw they pro with exhibited, and that Mrs and 
drains, the distance of —— would be the — . of | | which yt has been saved — —.— and th at several were pita willing. they should be searel ingly 
the distance between the drains, and the discharge | plans are carried out by which the fibre is cleansed a mee ing w „and arrangeme á 
would be ishing the distance. The | | from shparities and becomes much improved in strength | for en 7255 an experimental trial, under their close 
ex distance to be ado drain d will vary our mittee are aware that onal supervision This trial was mbrace 3 
with the of il and subsoil, the form of | difficulties and a which have hitherto | entire series of processes employed in the conversion 
the ground and other circums and can only be attended several of the a mpts to carry out Schenck’s st into he, testing of the poes 
i by experien object here is simply | system in ave . some persons to blame qualities of the latter, by hackling, spinning, au will be 
to point out the waste of money om putting drains | them for having expressed so high an opinion of this ya T port stigations in the 
unn y: close. nd to bring facts in support of method of preparing Flax fibre. In r ly these | laid before this meeting, t 
eee of draining attended with the greatest benefit at remarks, they have now to say, that their 8 present stage of experi 
east cost. Hewitt , 3, Frederick's Seg Old Jewry. | of Schenck’s process as conducted with the m ins- ronounce any decided opinion as 
Sulphate of Ammonia.—tIn reference to the i inquiries taking and cautious 8 m thai pam so than | Mr. Watt’s invention, but would, at 
0 ndent (p. 798), the 8 of gas a year’s trial, from the fi he results venture to express a ho 
liquor with sulphuric acid, and evaporation a: jakasi „of exp made, both by t their — tee and ascertained, that much publie 
ad a great quantity of ammonia in by other disinterested parties, at —_ and abroad, it | from ik They earne 
h water, leaving the salt very a was im or them to make any other report, or to interested in the improvement and e 
cal method is, to distil over the come to any other conclusions, pe those they put production ‘should closely w. 
All the carbonate comes | forward in 1850. Every one who has instituted experi- perience in the commercial w 
quarter of the liquor; and, by adding | ments, with a view to ascertain Bes value ad novel | shall Dei —— i 
ipose the es in the indu strial a arts, be aw t, | eol oes with 
be off with a comparatively however promising the results, they often afr no 15 f of Flas-seed.— 5 ontertaint 
2 water (Great Exhibition Juries’ | criterion of s success in carrying out such process n this point which the sc y has y ae A 
AUL. xtensive scale our committee, brae pre — committee e the 
. the sanguine opinion on Schene s system, | induce farmers to past 755 , saving te id 
which was warranted by fac es the shameful waste 
Black-leg, ter-ill, or a! 
e 1 
own here o 
once taken; bet 1 save fonii 
bep ab 
or communica 
abstai 
value ous qualities, it is 
finished ' iy N wers, Akat l ted to 
the details of working, and the economy of 
throughout. In the conduct of a scientific op 
hot-water retting, persons ble of such super- 
intendence as would be given to any other ch 
rocess vd ; and much of the want of 
I trying out the details of Schenck’s 
or | system, may hp attributed to the absence of such 
ig eee 
Unsteeped Fibre.— In their last report your com- 
mittee 1 to the projects for nens the fibre 
om the Flax straw, without ; and while they 
1 out that from straw of Re a much more | 
le — could be o y the ordinary 
processes, Suggested int when the uality of the 
e(a 105 plant is so inferior as aot pues 
| the usual mode of of treatment, the bre mach 
cated to them 
ge in it must depend upon the price 
y enga 
48 pay os Ben 3 their skill in putting a right 
the state in whi 
if i 
80 were distributed among 
society’s W and tl ough the 
farming sccieties instructors sat 
urge it by every ‘means i in i powe $s. 
ch 
— “a 8 A to believ h 
havı ke gon effect, it is 
regret, that no decide change has 
usual, fully 3 
„this year, lost in ti 
been shown that, in ever. F 
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