kd 
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THE BRI CUMEURAS 3 
IAN. Sy 
of the poor, and in spreading spade husbandry as much 
as possible.— Humanitas, Oct. 1847 
Fall. — A retired captain of the East India Company's 
whom I saw in the autumn of 1820, was then mass, 
of a field lime slaked with 
e red ad 
x 
oe 
pr 
z 
to the acre. The Clover 
ls of a 
ec 
on Saturday, will you allow me to as 
e. in the use of salt for cattle whether they 
r M 
animals.“ In my bullock- yards in the bins al 
of those tied "pi "e St Se are placed lumps of rock- 
salt; same another yard where the year- 
lings nd two y „and v con- 
vineed it tends to keeping them in health; but I have 
also introduced rock- my cow-house, 
oe ow having a a to lick at her opaa, Will 
p 
— E — 3 portion of a field of Wheat with ni deposited in 
t at the rate of about 6 ¢ . d it no soluble manure — at h 
very frequently duri g , until i at | grows tar 
e time. I likew r por- 
tion of the same field with superp a of lime with 
similar results; both we 1 after 
the application. — W. 
e grain of Barley wa n th f Mr 
—.— of C — in rene spring. of this year ; it 
ae 75 stems, 50 ars, 20 
ng wide enough to allow the pigs to 
indifferent ones, | Kn 
are | P 
the 141 
of two oe 
B 
se a ws spp agg $ aR the soil, not less 8 is it 
the 
to 
gana 
05 
è 
eee and Les 
m- yard m 
fermented, and ca 
abroad for use i 
— 179 of wey The plant — produce ence.— 
— — preserved, and presented to the — m of Sw s 2 
the Royal — ATS Odise toa 
The Tenantry of a Farmed Districts in oo 
he „ Huxtabl asked if he would allow the 
hi 
— 
them), whilst others have obtained the situation of 
aud at the e time v little fitted to b 
such, Tradesmen who have failed in busin l take 
become ruined, and are more 
humble employment. Many farms in hire, as 
y Dorset, are in the hands of men unfit to cul- 
d 
near Me 
his with anything © equa 
the tarch 
22 
5 a range a cart-slied 
i nd i 
e 1 = ae we wou 
| for ingenuity, conveni 
cattle and travellers, at 
irst, the source or sp 
A 111 
r Leese de 
turating the pan 
ve points in main- 
re by the 
ale- 
nse waste of man 
of paai 
f 
and | th 
weather. These tro 
number I cannot , but there must 
50, as the herd numbered over 2000.—D, §, 
No 
So tieties. 
BLANDFORD AGRICULTURAL SO 
e pa 
of hod: feeding ties, Which * had N — 
the Sturminster meeting. 
One of the objections often made to my mode of fu 
tening “sheep is, that the expense of carting he prokt to th 
— e 
A 
a + 
ing sheep in the summer 
a place eur our 
no ame 
o the mixen in the 
cart 
fold, and even 7 it oo —— with ear ‘th, turned, 
refully covered aga ain, 
os 
sheep will consume one- third ‘mare food tha gh ii 
from the weather. Let u en, see what is the 2 
carting their food. gt ‘will oppose all the Swedes to oly 4 
t be im 1 . in, and the 
vege 
the soil, the tate, but if 
weak and 
th is iles away 
me OP ditch, or by 
t in the sea. 
haps, be gained if we 
in pounds, shillings, and 
of — 
| thei regularities of dra 
neys, 
8 wages of the ee are 35. es Pe ; the work of ‘the horse ad 
64. . 
: rien ed at the nee would cost less than 6d. And let us call the 
cep 
p of Swedes thus consumed are saubi i in value to three eaten ou 
this would not be a small holding, if you remember mH g 
square mile 3 630 acres of land, I assume all the 
esar to be half a mile distant, t be 
. this greater distance seal would compen 
ughtin ascent and descent. It 
wo nie six iniduted 10 “Joa a one-horse cart with a tong 
Swedes ; they would, pe gah a oe me one-horse e 
and each cart woul e two jou an heur, 
heats I tak t 3s. a-day 3 and the working hours to 
each 
ton of 8 
cost of carting back another 6d. Then the whole expen } 
nected with the procedure is 1e. 5 the outside. But, by as z 
tion, the sheep eat one-third less in the sheds ; that i is, twot 
of doors, Can anything, gentlemen, be more conclusive, thi 
shed feeding sheep is far more profitable than grazing 
doors? ? But 1 have 1 3 Fat 2 s; 2955 
and i 
is, iny Gatcome Newport, Isle 
of Portu gl iy sabes wer 
— of eee London, 
ce, and cleanliness n be 
-sides, for the e ` 
ogee I have often sl ed 
istant 9 50 
ring 
miles or more. The Portuguese and Spaniards no doubt 
farms, and pointed out the i injus- 
hes ard in re. Ladies of 
blam ' n 
takes it into his own hands, he is told he is s depri 
a class of men (i.e. tenants) lei their a ory Hom they 
know no 8 the custom of the eo country—that any n 
éi mag 
a And many farm h 
— by being ae ab 
eavour to excite a prejudice against 
pshire ten 
past, a 
the green crops next spring) — 
er 
0 
w dis. 
1 
paar 
from right to 
werful s 
+| They were then the greatest e eae ts 
Many o 
on the 25 
sties. One sectio 
a way, from left re 
h 
portion of the latticed 
for a par art, by m means of aqueducts, conduits, _ 
a stone being everywhere at aes from the 
r 
is 
and powe: sway. 
this 
n or oblong square slo 
right, while the contiguous one 
rws 
hanging | fo 
t. 
| ahi fattening g young sheep at all. 
riticis Som 
ituations, a 
I. ats „ an 
subject of c me object to my giving along wil) 
corn boiled ‘tinsted Swedes to fattening pigs, statin 
they would do much better on meal alone. pig i 
meant that pigs would fatten more quickly on meal o 
I assent to the 1 pas K 15 bo tial. and n 
profitably too, I join issu that all an 
require n = their care wa’ nas I Are ave them the s 
they want more chea n boiled roots than I can in Ba 
ny other HREN vas. ** flattering things were 
L pone any scale and number = Eon from 1 to 7 just now by Mr. Bankes; but there was one little point 
v as placed on a large piece and on a gentle wie t. Speakin 
clivity arising ground, By this ingenious ion had a plan for amending the climate and superseding the 
of the spot it could be irrigated in a few minutes, and | he added, “But Mr. Huxtable has been xa; busy with the 
edi er Sor tre. f 5 — able po atten 52 the sky.“ Gentlem hope t 
F y me: Of A 8 5 Lacan 
clear spring water brought through a mduit from a and fT hopet that = Bishop w on’t believeit. (Laug nter. 
neigh ing mountai ese conduits u year 
y | shine, bat they have 
raise Turnips 5 and 80 likewise 2 cannot r 
abus ed climate eten as regards free trade, I know 
that we have not the suns of Egypt to ripen our Wheat; 
the e we 1 abe bad for grain, it is good for 
—for green crops, and therefore for stock; and it is 
ta x law, gentlemen, that the farm which can keep m 
will ultimately grow the > most corn. “3 he nation that cons 
the most meat wi Thus 
n Fra t 
l4 bushel of Wheat per acre ; and why ? they have finer 
ittle rain in su ummer, and = — 
cattle as we do are compelled to. a4 
meat 
atthe Ja 
mon 
ope. 
‘Bren! if our prospects were darker, I would * 
It is ever wisest to dos 
Sure, if looking : well won't. win her, 
ow ean 1.979 Cheers. * 
At the same time I cannot help thinking that under the 
of free trade, we, the agriculturists, have not fair * 
have many just causes of complaint. Nor do I think 
Government behaves justly to us. 
but of _the present t law of settlement, which is 
5 8 1 
T | employ only such skill as 5 e in il his m 
= 850 operations of Bojer bang Ag we 
d of 79 unge 
-= | hea a do and need 
- | should be the 1 destiny of that jpegs, 
So long as it lasts on labourer cannot take 
nor the farmer obtain the best labour fi 
ulture advances, the need will become g) ba 
gete now feel to be my greatest difficulty to ob 
skilful labour. Would it be possible er a manufac 
carry on his delicate processes i were compe 
1 coni 3 He would 
such a 
scoff at the 5 i 
es as capital is increasingly i 
must. be ae 
from the labo et of the world the best hands 
ean get.“ I — a geen the 8 of 3 oa fos. 
Mr. Seymer, had not anticipa me in 
skilful labour. I 8 that bas the area e. se tile 
ba 
his capital ; andlord "oia not object t o build su 
residences — che workmen required in his parish ; . 
ali; the farmer lied t 
s orst in the neig Wee we on 
kas got a parochial settlement, Such depre 
ges, and takes away from hi s bosom 
his condition. A Bory confident that ere long 
bod 
— gg 
pl 
— e — “kil a Engli. h agric 
g 
every house should have a perpetual supply of water, 
house a tts pe ‘closet, and se whole 3 * a 
ought 
tt ance 
know that in the order o nature, the refuse of the 
eee ife of the vegetab 11 annot doubt that 
is intended not to taint our rivers and then b 
