THE 
ihe a Potato myig and ajara 
aet: om pi 9 is re — 
71848. AGRICULTURAL GAZ ET TE. 107 
little actual expense is * red by the o’clock for their masters (computing their time from f and left, there is a sheet of wate 
: the produce which remains when the rent, their leaving and returning to their Futian)’ but ra » caoutchouc) stretched loosely to . * 
and a few trifling items, have * en subtracted, field is not m — ile, average at the S; over this t arm water flows, to the 
ne a clear gain as remuneration for their time, &c.,| from the cottages, man ny are to be seen busily ee depth of 1 or N and of course underneath you. 
a labourer better able to join clubs, and afford in igging, sowing, hoei — or 8 ng, &c., in an even- eel a warm cushion, as it were.“ This, 
for t ucation of his children, the latter ing. Very little field work is by in this Cantelo (for the r was my informant) told me 
being l desirable. | neighbourhood, so that many on on their own allot- represents the breast of the hen, “On a tray, with a 
„the me t of eultivating a piece of land is ments while their husbands are earning wages, the | wire g bottom, are placed the eggs,” he 8 
bourer's mind, and times heak ao “and this slides like a drawer, e hydrau- 
rt 
t 
bpr cau 25 rhs. idle to 
as giving t 
into NN in the vicinity of a 
ra only a few hu SERA inhabit- 
6, a erak a about 13 acres was 
0 perches each. The 
subsoil of clay che 
| tees seem well satisfied with iie 
which the 
ently 3 — the ass 
out ae rk ; but, e the allot- 
e amount o 
can comman pl for — sr a or 
psen ~ f worship, ona for readin 
w comes the Jee a 1 of the blessings of 
allotments, The under-mentione 
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ta h es 8 these 
5 being taken n 3 as the parties came 
nto the rent - o 
are | d sw y: roken > ft some for the allottee to consum der 
from three or four years ago, and when entered | was Potatoes, e eee at 12 sacks (of 10 e ‘aah. 
upon by the alent e Depa . of it zo Wheat ~~ If t p Re taken at the low valuation of 6s. per sack, 
and some was ploug over, where es and Tur- we ha 
nips also had pi So rtions were in bad 12 sacks Potat ; 
condition, being very full of Couch, Out of the various Carrots and Onions : „ „ 4 0 
men who offere emselves arly tenants, those N Pade — 
were generally chosen who we t noted for thei Fe viel > _ lrood £417 0 
7 3 7 
industry and good character z and the site of each man’s 5 2 2 his pey A a coomb 0 n m wegh 
occupation was decided b re were last yea g 18 8 721 15 0 
about 40 allottees, but it is intended Bos let the whole of | 5 5 sacks don pecka en each Potatoes, at és. ue <a. hae. 0 
the land for the N 3 yea paai tions are that tics a e na „ we : ~ 0 
be. paid as en ti „ 8 pecks of Onions, a . os .. oe oe oe 0 
year, and 7s. at = 8 of the pen Anas, making the £4 2 0 
rent II. 5s. per rood, or 50. per 3 which is not The te; aoe niet 8 was 
— a ange was 3 worth, hae 6 bushels Whea „ oe 
— 
wn. 
8 —.— 1 that all straw carried 
* * rd ned as 
and that no — 
—— — these are rules 
no other reshction as to cropping, no — 
* the land shall be left, and 
nothing — to an — tenant for unexhausted 
~ | 8 sacks po iag whist M 
e 
The man whọ. gained the first prize of 1, “for ‘the € 
| best cultivation siai from. his rood— 18 
40 pecks Onions, a ee $e * es 
13 or 14 sacks . at 65. ee oe ee 
k of the hen who 
eggs, and in the appointed time destined, by the infal- 
lible laws of Nature, they become o chickens The trays 
are taken out and exposed to the or 20 or 30 minutes 
every day, as the hen By that — leaves her nest to. 
and indeed everything she effectually 
imitated to hatch the eggs and — the Poultry. It is 
the nature of 282 er 2 Ae m, and to de- 
scend when 3 2828 ed that the per d 
hottest at the 1 5 5 of 3 cylindrical vesse. 
water flows over the sheet of vul canised 8 it 
newed heat, again to ase 
serve, the purposi lg eg RS y go, of the chicken 
er. 
incubator, and th ws along a series of other pi 
t the bottom of it into the tank again, to derive re- 
end. These last named pipes 
e 
—. 
Te would, indeed, * no use 8 eggs, unless the 
chickens could be reared. . ey h 8 
themselves from oy shell i they are 
part of the incubator, e euch dere n 
is a box, with a lid, over the tank of warm Thi 
is half ‘filled with short-cut straw. * the 
drying nest. e the teoder little birds are pla 
for about 36 hours, when. 
improvement ne s, Fp : es : produce 8 other vegetables, he values the — N the paren th me placed close 
e Coue been or forked up, the to the ground, just leaving sufficient room for the li 
different spaces Seer for occu e. dug over ; | 2 eee A e wpe y ngaa — me | creat - at de tu they would 
some with the e, others with a — — three- 3 — se nnen Shem | under real par 5 At Tight . angles rom this, 
bladed Potato-fork (a very useful Acar 8 all 0 3 Ie . 2 2 0 there are rows of pens, with n s, to divide the 
. * —— — —.— of fine 2 sacks 80 bushels each) Wheat, at it 25. 5 * 16 0 = à Thi pipes are 8 ae placed 8 tas 
_ polverised so re was ing up ö pec „ nee the groun they ance, 
y bo fine ee the h digging le x 2 — 3 0 chickens as they noone in — x n six veo — 
spots w — ‘of hungry silt, This they can take care of themselves, and rank wi 
operation, of course, —— 800 by air: t And also a qunli: Rena Mangold Warze, roosters. I bou mgmt 0. a copy of Mr. Cantelo’s pam 
in Turnips, and vegetables. oe allot * ted it ; 
soil . a depth an g fresh earth from entire rely by himself, and yet had ‘only bee bout two and went home quite deligh s 5 em and bb last I 
a in e grea iterer, an 
3 is alles e o a hundred of fowls of various ag some like little ex 
„ Ontos OU ie. ug ee y d ot for market. I learned fro 
~ 12, | Cantelo that it was 5 great difficul y he one were 
£613 O his contrivan ractical result, and I e „as 
d. The Onions were of remarkably fine quality, six of I felt, my EE NE of the system, and a boke that he 
t e measured 123 inches each in mference. would meet with a due reward for h 8 im, 
This was the worst allotment in the field i in Seer to he told me, was to introduce his discovery into 8 
75 Patten of the land when taken. The fourth pes pre . h there w enious.. 
> e culti a 
5 meeting of our Agricultural Asso- 
held in October, 1847, the prizes were. 
— - eects ee 
‘ dex o oya escription, how- 
Adu can have the effect 3 —— — which 
* the managers —.—— recent rent-day, 
sede hb: — about 40 allottee 
8, — was 
— aure® or peer had 
s for the great advantages they 
hoped that the would never be 
Ot course, as there 
"E 
g 
red gratifying to find that 
nefited by — eee — even 
has to fin 
in 
perhaps, get it a tittle 
tan 
these men are | Str 
vr} will observe 
| water is 
ters per mas 95 and 7 
Another ve sacks- of Potatoes, 67 16 pecks of | ao 
and N Beans, 
Onions, }6s. ; 8 bushels of Carr 
Spinach, = reens, &e., a 182 0 
Another with 27 days’ labour, yielded : Fury Pota- 
toes, 4/.10s.; Beets, II. 7s. t otatoes, I. 10s. 
Beans, Peas, ts, Turnips, &e., II., making a total 
of 8/. 7s. from 40 perches of ground! 
n conclusion may I hope that these facts and obser- 
vations will ove prejudice from th ds of 
objecting individuals, nd impel them to attempt a 
similar method th 
of productive improvement in 
immediate localities.— J. A. C. 
THE CANTELONIAN PATENT HYDRO- 
INCUBATOR. 
Axout the beginning of August 1847, when strolling 
— the great Bath road from London, my a) agenton 3 iaa 
whi was painted “ Poultry for me me. 2 ab 
bition of the Cantelonian Hydro- ) or, &e. no 
I walked in at the rusty iron gate = fi 
turf, and opened the door of a lar-roofed building 
right before me, saw a sensible farmer-looking 
man with a brown coat, who civilly saluted me 
making a graceful sort of salaa ng off his gold 
spectacles. “This is a 4-tray incubator,” said he, point- 
g toa of furniture much like a shop counter, 
about two yards long, with a sm cular pot or kettle 
on the top of it. “A 4-tray incubator! : 
ange,” though “ They are called trays or nests, 
and in each I place 100 eggs, which i imes 24 
ours will, if they be good, bring out from 70 to 100 
conti leman, 
as a tea-urn, 
t warm. From the top of the 
of 
| fine faiber, iing. 5 
e cops ar 
ctical use; y ing 
nventions constantly e iming . notice, he w 2 
others, be obliged to “ bide h is time,” but his hope 
e has c loc 
9 3 to 106° Fahr., though that of man 
and all o ni is 98 old me some curio 
So much fo 
gig, an 
telling you about My neighbour, his cousin, I 
rode 1 ick, Can this genius batch ducks! e agt” 
Yer,” I 
” was my reply, 
3 547 oy creatures be altered ? Per- 
haps your own mother did w, * 3 Jou, but has that 
made the less a man of you? Having y aira the 
incubator, ripe were some of the little i chickens 
ing away at the butt end o dia 
t the point o of their bills, like new-born miners, work- 
into the light o 
ld. fat and thriving, and hun 
245 and hens running and pecki aey about in 
and some in well fi 
Indian corn cd 
notice. 
each egg to about the 
is is the 3 for it exactly ` 
coops, beautiful iy 
