THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE? 
nereasing, would old-fashioned dung heaps, as well as to the stock yards Fear, he trusted no one would consider him arrogant 
pán were tonal facilities for the sale where the buildings were not troughed. He considered | enough to think he could beat Mr. Mechi. It was the 
vi i market towns of a landlord as much an agriculturist as his tenant, and it opinion of many gentlemen, that the conversati 
ed. Your was to his interest to provide good bui ings and every | their meetings was not turned to a p 
believe this subject to be well worthy the | pre for successful cultivation, because if he improved and therefore he challenged M 
of grain-dealers and — could affo rd | — d, he was justly entitled to a better ren nt, i y. 
ae farmer a remunerative price for his Flax- —— meeting a gentleman who was a most improving however, he was not quite so dead beat as their friend 
i - an excellent farmer, and ord rose he had the greatest Mr. Mechi considered him. He thought they would 
or any other seat of oil-milling. II ue of jr | respect, mrg pma him (M ec wi to show Swedes admit that it was not the ex inary crop whi 
-EP eed for rearing and fattening the hand of t 4 Mangold urzel against 2 s year; he could | | only p be considered, but the cost of — ear e 
been frequently pointed out, and it is believed d | . 5 “A boing Sorry. for the — and glad for | Mr. pense to produ 
ö e its employment for this purp ld be more | acknowledge | ee sold’ ; in the spring he put a little manure between 
to growers than its sale. Attention has latterly | himself — feet e been beaten in 8 — He he ridges, and after ploughing the land he put in the 
- Mango in one row or ridge of 3} feet apart ; of course 
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i cation of manure in a hore state. (Hear, hear.) 
h ry Jai d down a large n 2 undergro — pipes for i 
1 his land, and — they followed his example at the same expense, he brought greater profi 
of farming, on scientific principles, is demonstrating the ree Leeder at them every year.— Mr. Piper: What land. He had been over wf 
profit to be derived from the fattening live stock ; and r Swedes weigh ?—Mr. Mechi said most of them | he was delighted to see echi’s green cro He 
is oil-cake is largely employed in the systems mon e. 3 12 Ibs. to 14 Ibs. each; 20 before they were should be very happy to pay 7 wager he lost — Mr. 
proved yh the establishment of such mills would be a full grown, about a month ago, weighed 180 lbs. sh and | Mechi, who he was sure would be equal y 
yseful step to the age of the practice of English he believed” they were estimated at 20 tons peracre, He | it, as he thought it was the first pound he ever gained 
sod Scotch agriculturis was not mentioning this for —— 5 nal considerations, by farming. e trusted they should do all they could 
but believed that the power of putting on liquid manure | to improve agriculture now that they were completely 
y CooGESHAL . —At the late annual meeting of the and keeping it always moist must beat land that was — on their own resources. They were told 
Swiety, the following remarks were made by Mr. Mechi. | not treated in the same way. He mentioned this | was prosperity for them looming in the future, but how 
He said, —He had kept his eye upon a large number of | fact, because. he was now going from year to far that future was from them he was unable to say. 
tural societies in various parts of the kingdom, | year to see honestly ha vin Aeri sagen sd whether | They were told, if the British farmer r paid proper atten · 
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with a Labourers’ Friend Society | interest upon his capital as a tenant also, He believed | distant when they should not be afraid of the forei : 
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cmnected their operations with the interests of the | profit both as landlord and tenant, and he should con- | chinery, a little reduction in rents, and -rates, and 
hbourer. It was impossible to — the benefits sider it ae owing to the or of drainage | expenses, and putting their 27 to the wheel, they 
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fat must arise from encouraging good conduct, and with irrigation. He hoped to the day when the | should be able to th 
| specially when that encouragement was given in = refuse from 3500 iehabltants ` of £ Coggeshall should be | with regard to their keeping pace with Mr. Mechi, they 
presence of and with the approbation of the higher passed through pr 2 3 e land as must not expect it; there was no one 
in a particular * He must confeus ra liquid manure. He an other sick of the | him except the man with the cork leg. [Laughter.] He 
was not quite satisfi h the 2 of these question of drainage, ‘that ‘for * he offered a prize. | approved of much which gen ad done ; his 
weieties generally; they bens nat expect after The draina; y was beautifully ex: , but was | fi h state of fertility ; it had been 
| had ded the that something should be | not done deep enough, and their committee had kindly | an of timber, and if he would only content him- 
id of the position of agriculture, its deficiencies, the | undertaken to accede to his wishes that for the future self with practical farming, he might make a profit if 
means of its improvement and future prospects. He | the shallowest arine should be 4 feet deep. In strong any one could. [Hear and cheers. Mr, Mechi, in thank» 
generally found that the more they talked about the | clay he would prefer 5 feet, but 4 feet would answer the | ing Mr. Dennis for the complimentary allusion he had 
— of agriculture and its defects, the more likely purpose; he mentioned 4 feet because the greatest made to Tiptree farming, 5 rege that his roots 
ere to be remedied. Their excellent chairman | amount of science pec ~~ exercised 2 that question, had not cost him more r ton, and if the 
— that all the yeomanry of England had and Government w satisfied that that was the farmer could produce them at that sum he must not 
with him . Mechi) as regarded agricul- propa er depth in strong day, that they pir not t lend grumble. [Hear, hear.] He wished the stakes to be 
ire; but it was his lot to have kept up for many years any landed proprietor money for the drainage o of his | handed to the committee to offer as a prize for res 
Svery extensive correspondence with the first agricul- estate if done at a ‘a es than 4 feet, and a steel forks against spades in digging. He had ha 
tists in the kingdom, and he every day saw and felt we had a right to assume that that was the min ac : ho. paid 
8 very propositions with which he started, such depth that would be executed.—Mr. Bullock — vas only 2d. per rod, there were more applicants for work 
— og introduction of steam, landlords | much ee ed upon the — sent . = than he could 3 — thought the use of forks 
— — for the oe in which Government, as .. se ended 2 e 4, and | would very greatly economise labour where it was re- 
b keep = of w hedge-rows and aer 6 feet deep; in is * his friend Mr, wage quired. — He e i 
timber, many 5 Ber things, the carryin had done a ron deal to his aod, — a — enced 
which on E his own farm causéd 1 — as sènt —— r 
i nce, were gradually creeping into ractice. down to inspeet it swore no drai nage was ated; . 
Of course, there were many afraid ting int prac that Mr. Mechi sdl he did not mean to say y% Government East oF Lace mage ae 3: The Syoem of Liquid 
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rents it was done—(hear and laughter)—and done system by one exception. He knew that ore ae esp system of liquid manuring as practised on some farms 
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: he saw an eminent steam manufacturer in go that depth, or even much Spoje if they liked. He suggeste 
fompany with a neighbour of theirs, who admitted that felt quite 8 about farming, and had no doubt if f ce eos a fom Me. 7 Feat — sp weet 
on going to have a steam-en nue ne put up on his farm; | spared a few years longer he should find them all fol- ths pig ag . in Ge 
. Was happy to find there was a change in foo gentle- | lowing in his pemet were going 1 cia i bei riai ji aed. yearly, ona sold, from 
€ machine near Coggeshall and Witham, engines, boarded floors, ter bong and other pe ear ag Ein 8 to the eap 4 
ern = binges him m he 8 between applian ances. „The farm pre e iei bility a inquiry into, and discussing the question of, the 
k for it, but it earned a capi t, as | C d I these subjects he 
shing his own and other pene s orn adding | yards, and it was pro roposed t . have a seamn-engie t 88 2 his 3 recently an opportunity 
it was v very often oe ted by the neighbours when ut kaak the gentleman . of visiti 8 farms in the system 
Could not be had, and was never idle. Now; that nearly every — he could not afford at present to io keep rry i of feedi Sien aia cover, 
' e business ; and he believed the time was fast | one of his own. icultural improvement . f 
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ockin n floor with a piece of stick | manufacturers ; on their skill and investment, and on — ö t, taken from the Berwick 
K. sai ar- angh ter)—as it wou uld be to put enterprise depended their success. They had not only 3 piecemeal in future numbers 
loom w. e the steam shuttle which to compete with the foreigner, but with the well-farmed of the Agricultural Gazette. : 
tired. Then it it used to be said, there was nothing — 75 of this eountry; and he — there was as wat 
wed tae par Rebiew. 
hee those pipes which had been called incr He. 1 them ie M the patient attention In. a hes Bagland ond Trlan, h 
t them, — by passing through, instead of as they invited him to meet them, he should awd wy x Mane ic" = pilet, pp d H y Wm. Tighe 
f the land, it became beneficial Las a le the liberty to tell them et tei f ilings. (Cheers.) Hodges „a 
“ets lad to find they were likely to have a | Mr, Catchpool wished to know wini Mangold woul would pay il 
Smith. 
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ved Health at Coggeshall, for 58 was told that 3 1 fed in covered hom Tux able author of 2 p 
ad à population of 3500 persons, and their con- he had fed a great deal of stock, and a aled oat overn 
; beef, pork, and bread, and many other if they fed their ani upon urchased food, 
of this life, which produced at great , hay and oilcake, th ld h 2 give ts 
farmer, went intothe river. ( No, no.) — for nothing. If they kept the roots and fed their stock 
few to pool to the : there are on cut straw and a very little oileake, whic 8 pom 
wns from w — manure is way about ld. each p any: gh get — te ; x occupiers of land, we 
ng jarmers, who are very glad to get it.— per ton for their Mangold. He ' of the proposed measure, referring 
said he was very glad to Eri it; Sot hight ee is a great deal of purchased never give an 1 1 * Kie. pamphlet itself for further 
S Mat accounted for the fertility of the land in | returned it within ve pe i. ne on asked how —— cate details Are of too legal u charac 
neighbourhood hen once a farmer became aware | they were to drain their land 4 feet deep in in Dengie f Aion 1 journal not specially devoted to the 
great cost of making manure, he was sure he Hundred, wate deep ditches would not econ a singe | or * 
More interested in those natural sources | winter — Mr. Mechi said foot drains were in many su 2 7 2 . ce hh tw 
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ter care of them. It was all very well to | cases substituted with advantage, and he believed had e or bail and i A be compts 
5 aan Pia bringing out h year a balance | been used by Mr, Hutley’s brother. Tt was of. 225 e e Act, oo he to ie tat * Larne wad ao 
an apparent | b intained mpossible to drain the land i , 
could feed stock u oa ood Kihoni a frequatilly the difficulty rested more in the head than to a. Daly. Thai a sound dere of property sh old A 
or 30 per cent ed a charged against = he = Mr. con a 2 ed to kno how he was to ve 
en, our man ost so much, it was get a fall, as he hi two miles for a fall of two | P. all owners jor a ter such 
ential we should take e aiid of it when it — feet. Mr. Mechi si 15 Me Hutley had not a fall he 2 Fit _By em empo arago duo cara aa 
: as oar hear.) - sain late heavy rains must | could not help it.— ennis said, with re- ena eee W substan- 
incalculable unt of mischief to the | ference to the Aa en he gave Mr. Mechi last mp 
