i —— — 
n this respect three fertile sources of danger | e 
a ey i in teen every st abstract—accident, mistake, 
Accident may mislay; mis blunder ; 
ere is an intention a giving in the 
d nts relating — 
bs 
the Pigs at documents by the solicitor “of 
rt 
compared wit 
2 r on th I need not tell you how important | 
the po is. how n aie is that the persons who per- 
A should not only be and honest, but competent 
The omission of three words the 
s, in a certain part of 
alter entirely the eon. of the party in 8 
7 n hether his remedy be in a gpu 
a court equity. The omission or altera 
mi may | _of most material consequence 
nof ricate deed or will. How necessary 
that he 8 "of an abstract on the one hank — 
n the othe r 1 should be properly per- 
ae no docu of title is omitted or sup- 
ace! ray nt, 5 ge) fraud follow our footsteps 
in renderin ng the title insecure. But we will sup- 
our abstr: 
e Nr y 
s done 
carry hi s suspicions into a corner of the engaged $ 
not . witch all perpen 
borrow ag: 
2 . at however remote a date, and however difi. 
88. 
s this over, and let us suppose that none e of | 
deed, | 
| at allis the security of purchasers. 
act has escaped all these, and that it is a 
Ta th 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
ommon sense to be affronted by being told that a title is good to | injurious to plants, but on the contrary produces good effects 
| hold, but not a good title to transfer? 
pt i 
we want of land 
monies, which are pre 8 ot lit tle or no consequence? 
Why are we to apply dis evaded by 
the very persons W . most o ih 0 ssity? If these 
inquiries that I have mentioned to you are s essential, why does 
the law permit them to be evaded by conditio sa rts and 
why are they usually set at nought entirely RA t pur 
apen of small pieces of land ? Ae sort of inquiry as to title 
* applied t 3 else Se last land in this country, 
t en, th 
grossest ca arele ess: 
‘is wh hole of the 
plants, but on the contrary p 
indirectly, On ted tarn he was inclined to prefer subsoil 
ploughing to tre ploughing, until the subsoil was altered 
in its epnatitution; and N it mig 
with less risk of i 
good effeets 
s A an experiment 
him in subsoil ploughing. Shed, 3 at the uae, 
man, in consequence of his inabilit to held of t that Lick 
Two e with a common 
Nee then followed four of my 2 ae es w 
subsoil plou ass , in the pied furrow ; 
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them on the 
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advantage has this „ EP it cl eap? Is it certain ? 15 
it speedy? Is it safe? The only reason for inquiry into title 
This seems to be J ee 
to insure their prened and peril. If I am asked what better 
propose, I may an worse there cannot be;” w ed 
certainly believe, and 1 do think a far better may certainly be 
given you, at all ev 
And surely we may Ae freely consider a substitute for it, 
and inqui — — r it be absolutely cag to carry bac k 
our inquiries w years or 100 years, for 
this is the chief sause of all this perplexity and expense— 
rule be it remembered as to the origin o 
* n 
extra cost ofa 105 
soil 
vers 1 a controversy among the learned, which is not yet 
aer r fri requently occupies a very long time. I 
Mpa not Erno. Ha ergy pas years, consumed i in the 
or wha ta of evidence _ may 
peel all these doubts are 1 — this 4 thet ex- 
Limitations, and the other on the duration of human life, 
of this rule, and the substitute I propose for 
it, I will, with your permissi on, inquire in my next lecture. 
This is not a mere conveyancer’s 3 it is not a mere 
o the length of deeds, or 
common forms. I believe it to be a question of vital im- 
portance to the empire; and remember, that these sa 
evils of 
2 ‘Partially correct; some ches ne 
any legal foundation. The rights roperty must be pre- 
se erved, bat, inorder that this may be 7 the just grievances 
of thi andowner should be „also attended to. He should be 
pended, what is the result? The is accepted, the 
chase. money, 
is cbr 5 enters into possess 
surgeon is employed, one, perhaps, anxious to flesh 
sword, or ~~ pe 355 in the nar rbid anatomy 
call 
with that curious 
equi ie an unmarketable title. Now, 
fee ng this matter? Am I not stating 
ppen ae in practice? I say as t that this * 
arily abused by conveyancers, who are 
ible as well pe learned body of men ; 4 ey galt 
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Ẹ 
In no E MEE ee c country in Euro) ope, | I venture to assert, is mo 
transfer of land so dificult as in this country. I do not kno 
they may be properly MSNA 
It in those countries in ae ners of the e 
most 3 2 on e Holland and Prussia 
(Proper), and Saxony, 
d 2 arma ot om of Talg; ; if we, the most practical 
ation of Europe, find ourselves as far behind them in this as 
— are before han i in most other things, are we to be so proud 
so di strustful, so bigoted, as not to know that we live in an 
o know something of 
lit 
themselves! Let w iame lay aside all national jealousies of 
this kin d, and Iv e to assure you that we shall find mat 
3 halll 
11 
H 
i 
on RAT not exist at all E the extent t 
exist. it is too great a trust t imposed on 
Wor human nature, - 
Teannot leave this region of doubts a surmises with. 
* i uliar circumstance affecting the exami. 
of It is well known that * are divided 
5 
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The doubts of a willi urchaser and 
unwill ling urchaser. Now ae ntlemen, we 
S é ody and it is pos~ 
time the digestion of a conveyancer would be 
Tn; which at another would give him 
him, after en come notice, asked 
He the suit was we peivadely what he thought of the 
Bebe Se Joa a e . e pr 
zi gentlemen, 
an unwilling pur- 
we have hitherto supposed that the seller of 
= the 5 tad 3 ney title 5 rel * 
atal to the marketabili 
doubt in all cases, and that if it is 
At the conclusion oe the g ornai Mr. Ewart, d 
and Mr, Hedlam penne: a vote of thanks to 1 lecturer 
which was carri and the meeting separated. 
“FLAX IMPROVEMENT SOCIET 
29.—A stone o x, grown this season by W. 
Sones, ‘Armstrong, Pad» Kippar Ra Blessington, at 
— g unanimously 
pae 
it more easily worked. The cost, per English acre, I estim 
at 36s. This plough is quite unfit for land that abounds wi 
stones or roc cks, Ww. herever I used the la ge subsoil plough, the 
part icu 77 rly 
he bare rocky land, Subsoil ploughing I consider more use- 
fal on og 
often lays muirband, or some other retentive bottom, 
which — 8 ‘the water from immediately esca ping, a and also 
prevents all grain crops, as well as Grass, from ving as 
they otherwise would do. My reason io not subsoil ploughing 
— is, that it would throw me out o ith my oth 
ork on the farm. It may be repli 16d, pets ot get emie 
strength # but I have asa ase for so doing, all —4 — — 
houses being already oc The principal reason, in my 
humble opinion, why con plooghing is ‘not more frequently 
bros ont de is, 
usu al strength on the farm), combined with the expense, which 
is considerable, the ANY oo apt bear in is distant, and not near 
so immediate as the same amoun oe nded on fore sa h 
this year, 
two "horses. 
lowing ordinar, a ‘ie ugh, (the Chairman} was able to 
subsol h a depth of 16 inches, die ordinary plough going to 
the depth of 1 — and the — 6 inches — he 
time re x cttw for subsoiling rial acre was 10 hours, 
and the expense was ealeulnted ot 88 per acre, of e 
aere — 9 inches obaunstirred land 
. This was ae information n he had v kash 
them. It was 
ta + the 
to the S ociety. 15 3 is much superior z that grown last 
year on similar soil, which had been ry gy 8 
The eee is not fine, but long and strong. Mr. Arm 
| stron g 
es— 
From ey observations I have made, and the experience I 
have h had of th e of our ‘ Highlands,’ now the 
inness of our Boe oe — 
seed in . 
e With prata ; 
that the porah 88 be: 
of years, failure y 
hy 
much more certain, n an average 
Fa — 
Farmers’ Clubs. 
East BERWICKSHIRE, Dec. 11: Subsoil 3 — 
Why subsoil ploughing is not more generally practised 
i istrict ? is que 
n 
district; and it certainly 
that any question could have been selected of m 
a must mip . or “conceal them. Tatna y be a ne- 
ven h 
urchaser 
and jà bids 4 for ta N he subscribes the 
rest or reer 
rs present had 
he was 
t several m 
tood that embe: 
less extent, but 
aad heak afterwards finds that the m sho Pingo a 
sos the abstract is barred by the e ite 
ondi f sale ceed- 
PEY it 
ci 
€, let me explain to 
nt h they relate usually are ae yr gen 
tate Upon, safe to the owner to 
eal one but th 
ne 
is freq mA apa tecting the z 
uen a itive 
ot ya positiv 
mean f Why is our | 
ot ae which is — — 
ted in favour of this improveme 
drains in a Pal 3 
ge actual thickness or amount 
to 16 inches, thereby affording double nourishmen 
al increases the ring — or temperature b 
. 4th, In when crops’ — — 
to pene- 
the 
ng'a Pere trenching, and the effects of 
a in subsoils a great deal 
8 consisting of ve 
protoxide of trict, The effect, however, of 
opening’ a the subsoil to the influence of 55 air was 3 
the t two operations, There is 
to convert the protoxide into the e peroxide of iron, which is 
from the many showers j 
more in- | P 
due 
Beneficial effect upon the land. 
ence only on which they Aaa gi aeg rely, and he trus 
tlemen who had trie 5 — expe 
3 with their v upon 
aid his opinion differed 1 pret from the statements 
they ‘heard both from an and from Mr. ‘hat ie 
was not t without considerable hes: 
his opinion before them. He ana: 1 about 80 acres, put 
en and extra horses. The 
abour was very great, and even with four horses, he did not 
think that he could obtain an average of mor than half an 
acre a da: e e he calculated was = 
sureme perly 
subsoil plough would go 6 inches deeper than the ordinary one, 
but he had never been able to obtain e than 4} inches. a 
de th, be found that it was y 8 or 9 inches deep. Mr. 
e rene that, on ye. black land gl s had subsoiled, 
rtain neticial 
— — of Stirli 
i the sala of Trent, 
arried on 
— expense. of i ih 0 
— e : 
| te 1 —.— large fields of rurnips were going to 
use than want ee 
er © Me 
oe ore owed on the 
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28 
= a benefit t ri 
of fe 
—— in the habit oe usin i he common four. 
= 8 undecided question 
s yet bee 
spunk decidedly 
ploughing. Heh 
horse pee 
whether that 
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surface. 
