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AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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iin OR WHEAT, RYE, TARES, &c. 
OF THE LONDON MAn URE 
ur Guineas per Ton.—After n years’ 
2 MPAs Y, Four ufacture ot ue e POEP, Aan, L 
venoninsend it e cheapest a 
— sod ee * | dressings. Availing themselves 
3 he science of artificial 1 
Ww SO adapted that the food requisite 
wee TE den is fully maintained, The Ur 8 will be found 
HE 
icle of artificial m 
-ideri Bridge-street, Blackfriars, 
The Agricultural Gazette. 
8 i 
ATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1848. 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. 
den. R garnene Im . N of pone. 
W Agric as ral Im of Ire 
Tanukks' ae Jan. 2 Dee — nam. 
Wuar is true Economy in Acricutture ? When 
aman shall have learned the full answer to this 
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nstruction in 
the my of system to regulate the cha- 
racter of the mug by: its circumstance s; economy 
— 
are the subjects proper for discussion in an A 
cultural Journal —or for the lessons of an Apie 
tu hool. 
We do think it most desirable that Agricultural 
writings be well leavened with a full appreciation 
the? material character of Agriculture as an art 
0 con i i 
wonderful light whic 
subject matter of such writings by the scientific men 
who have, of late, turned their attention to 
not be allowed to dazzle us. The ma Agent 
who 
which Agriculture has — 
make us forgetful that its 
ae 1 is the eee of bread and cheese 
a the 
r 
le — 5 of physical truth in Dion 
yards, and the rain-w sar W has generally been 
helped to run off our fields: the practical skil 
of the mechanist 1825 the farmer) has — ised — 
of applying them to u urpos nd i 
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AP a 
sin o mical manufacture es, the Atomic 
theory must furnish ihe whole doctrine of waste—but 
x hen shall the chemist succeed in apply ying it to 
e rough processes of feeding and manuri ng — * 
‘bese points, no doubt, we shall, for many y 
come, be fei t to the guidance of what is little better 
than guess wo 
As 3 Rapidity of process, too, we have re- 
ceived the co 
W The manufacture of (animal) machines, 
which shall convert the raw material most rapidly | a 
est description of Boos bone gh now re- 
down the seg ane pes clear instances cutting drains down 
J the fall in erse 0 
mbined assistance of science and ex- oe 
ed to o something IIR. 
25 that pitch by practical n Wen wie stor a tedious 
history of various success : 
pre ee a Pa 1 Fam te of plants, 
pro 
neglected, 5 — pen the contribution of science. 
. Consider, now, Agriculture as a money in- 
6 aad see how the skill, 70 be acquired by 
experience alone, still remains an a ea 
also in the management of deuce 5 ee in pras 
acts of sale and purchase on which the es of 
arming . depend: it appears, in fact, in the 
whole m 
of which no science takes cogn 
(3). Dou 
that science has n the most useful light on. 
the economy of the We have 
do more e then merely refer to ae subject: but our 
will imm a rec some various new 
alit n 
Ma mage growth which it has pointed out. Here, 
wever, as in all other 1 of the art, 
skill and experience are neede to apply the sug- 
O as to make them pam 
the proper motto, not only for alias ges societies, # 
but for m Agricultural writings and instructions 
_ Agriculture, 3 speaking, i is not a science | whatsoev The business character of the art, as 
ate, Jik ee tal exercise.“ No doubt its the br ead-winner of so many, lays a heavy respon- 
8, dike all other truths, range themselves under sibility on who assume the position of Agri- 
one or other of the physical K es ; but the science 
: so called, existence he 
practice armer is related to many of th 
sclences—so e more need for his liberal 
education: but Agriculture is an art, ly 
eym 
oth are ne ecessary to 
oubt waste would arise insuch 
ae at 
g Article; but it m 
co 
eee ract d science must go hand in hand | w 
in et of an economical result. 
vol: n Ag ; re, th , as EN in- 
apidity of process, 
cae ment, 
t condense the library at 
subject might fil, within the limits of 4% eg 
cultural 5 renders the dogmatism of 
believe Agriculture to be on 
tu 2 ons we Fiho believe eve 
yet was profit o the man who. had received for 
it an intellectual taining alone. 
LAND "T r Sarre Ii. 
R LEDBURY, HEREFORDSHIRE.— 
em 
ey eee question, as far as my experience goe 
and hope that the tolas short hi — ory of my little 
ae will enable you to pick out something that may be 
hen all p asture but 
to do a little 8 to all as 
got t between 20 and 30 men 3 and d e 
ole fi reales °F — ruary, 1843, with 3-ineh ar rainers, 
laid on flats 2 feet 6 ins. sama mostly — — the slope, 
30 feet 1 In the 843 I cut more 
3 50 tons off 70 acres sere my 
1842 off the bels of the . viz. 1 15 aer 
It is true I used about 3 5 o (with fine soii |0 
i a 
eep, er iiij loamy, almost 
bottom ; hence the name of the place, 
inten 
while the application of 5 
hitherto so | jnt, 
Rose 
oney transactions of the business, pres l 
mal 
nizan I 
tless, it is in the details of Agriculture 
throw 
L 
casure i in responding “ Pn call on — x un re a or u 
ful. 
“Tn a m w fs — a farm of about gh an towar 
ic ielded 
on the forme al ot is were g 
3 
fall was not in duly regu 
the water found its 
w 80 3 under the ‘plough 5 freed from 
apart. 
Tiles are unreasonably dear, 35s., pore labour by no 
means first-rate. The cost I estimate at from 50s, to 
31. per acre, pes everything, au 
now a wet s i 
y one; a 
ally the poorest land in the parish, I am 
ing ke ex of well fed e yor ed and used 
yli uid manure, ploughed deep, a 
. told it is too good ack gae ee 
allenge most of m ighbours ; * 
utumn ventured to offer — pie for the best cultivated 
amas desage pate was returned to me for 
want, aria a com peti titor. 
fied ‘th at true and effic 
I ient draining must 
he with the: Th of the land, 
and not across—that the 
d be the best judge ra the ‘intervals but 
ep, say from 5 feet t, 
fe feet 6 age om arg the pa tiles 
are far 5 ae serviceable than pipes, not card as taking 
away aar, quicker, an 2 the ei in 
ing th 
pier s 
ary moderately de 
p 
cost, diminished len 
ber "used, the additonal cotins and laying, &c., y 
difference w ill be found not more than 5 or 7 per cent. 
in . svi of 2 Jatten, i in prime cost only, to say nothing 
„of eff ance, Neries Hali, near Led- 
bury, pg How. "hil, . near Worceste 
A TOUR IN ENGLAND, 
SEVERAL . ago—ere the Thistle was Serie $ 
existe 
H 
pe rsh more falsehoods than the tbat er 
rs, and commits blunders innumerable ; 
bat the ol old reivers, even in their deadliest strife, ce 
eee excellence in friend or foe, as who does no 
recoll 
br Then Briian life Earl Percy took 
man by the hand, 
And — Earl tiny for thy life, 
Would 1 had lost my lan 
h eee charadterises these moderns. 
s to a “Tour in Scotland,” x: an English 
Dished ts last Bi te’ volume. ] 
reammoan 
No su 
[This refe 
correspondent, 
bal 
a particular branch of English agriculture, I trust 
eee 
e chalk fo: n j 
in its application to the e. ben chalk — 
mestic econo much was new 
c me. ‘iutexving Himpe 150 — south- 
western railway, I perambulated a goodly portion of = 
county, visiting Andover, and onwards to Wilts, return 
ing to Stockbridge, Winchester, and want 
s ach sameness of outline 
— 2 hills way al 
man these 
are the remains of t 
nothing grand or 
beauty in many of the graceful s 
ead: The wil 
2 eye of the rs 
uxuriate in their 
el 
trai ong 
farm- i 
