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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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ous. pe prt get 8s. per bushel. 
J, Moston, 
T LAWN GRASS SEEDS, Carriage free ro 
— or Bristol. — The great expence of cutting and lay- 
turres may e ed, and a very superior FINE GRASS 
1271 produced in or 
ap EDS 
bee tee fro bels to thi F 
ushels to the acre, price 25s. the bushel, or 
aim, Ai , PERENNIAL MEADOW GRASSES, mixed 
soil for which be are 1 at 328. per acre; or 
Je may be had separa 
angst ng i kind $ Carrot, Yellow Globe, 
Sons, Reading. Berks. 
„N. B. Carriage 2256 to London or Bristol. 
The Agricultural Gazette. |i 
TURDAY, MARCH 11, 1848, 
} MEETINGS FOR THE 2 1 eee. 
—— a TÀ comers oc. of Englan 
we mre mere E an cultural Imp. ane 07 Ireland. 
aids — Soc. of erat 
8 
eee 2 —Asrieultural . 
Rs’ CLuss.—Marc — 2 Oakley, Yoxtor, gt eton Hamp- 
14: Botley.- March Har esron.— March 16: Carlton- on- 
* 17: Hale wot Debenham, . St. Auste I.— March 1 
nt, Reading. M h 30: W. Marke’, W. Here fordshire.— Mar 
—March 21: Wad 
E shou'd be 3 “9 ae the — 
readers in behalf o 
otland. 
1 
X = lived 
ility of liv 
‘The cu cable aa of those on the spot, who |‘ 
“dave . ch a state of thing i 
ociety, owing a ex 
ende to the zealous labours of Dr. Mac KENZIE, et 
File d of Mr. Box, now 
h only 12 months 
a most influential position: 
e 
nd the expenses 
ing —.— ka the Society’s address 
ee of its Journal sutiiciently detines 
; e community have sur- 
ed the expectations of the most sanguine o of i its 
of the Patriotie Society to improve 
are equally i important: 
vast numbe 
of pe 
s lating fand, — would others . fritte 
o | tende 
miles of is was their plan of rel 
e | their shares rat the land in point of qua 
as quantity. It may be belly ed that ile quality 
sea-weed was attainable; for althou range of 
moor was attached to each township, =f alf ‘ee 
crofters had some cattle and sheep, no Grass, nor 
land would return the ——.— pe ger, and 
- then Potatoes the crops frequently 2 . all 
laid down till the middle of June, from fear of 
“ weakening the land, med it over in 
o | set 
only one grew before ; by showi ing, as the Patriotic 
Society does „now the eroſter m may kee | 
m 
ared, w where met one 
of an average quantity is now w obti ained ; t 
who would not promote 
men er be 
happiness of his fellow Selene! or utterly une iel 
rende e cottages of the peasantry, and the 
dwellings of the poorer classes in town 
fit receptacles for human bei 
observe the d 
h 
has already entered, and the ne ssity of which 
is self evident. mprovement and extension of 
the fisheries is anot of the Society’s objects, 
pags hich no question can be raised. Its efforis 
o promote a feeling of independence, by assisting 
industrious, under 1 an Fund system to 
: | hel nste SEF auperising and de . 
* tang me almsgiving pen rom its financial 
ntaining, as a etu — str 
It will keen a more accurate idea of the task 
ei ch this Society has proposed to itself, if we give, 
s, through D indness we are able 
0 do, ci Feijter in which it 
roveme 
The 
will 1 fated 15 following description of it on 
te Gairloch est 
N 
gle strip of nomi- 
nally arable aah in Aap township; and as it ex- 
in so a mile or 8 along the 
shore, a man som tim lit rop in 100 dif- 
m nt patches, the raie bais all marked out 
by the as themselves every spring by means of 
oftemper was anaes sei 2 proce 1 fact, 
the mental storms at t g equinox were far 
more violent dink those of the ie 
As to their mode of cultivation ‘tap the land had 
been allotted: in the first place, no manure but 
ma green crop but Po'atoes was ever grown on the 
property, and the cattle were always pastured on 
the m 
that the straw la sted, e kept at 
night in the house in the same room with the 
er, however, the straw 
in spring till pulled up 
by the tail. It will 3 5 S seen tha 
likely to be very plentiful or very go 
deed, * people disliked b as it was s 
pay Ane for when used it was invariably 
eld on the cots so pan in 
creels ( baskets), . — e pine and em ptiod by 
thei ir fair fingers. Nex their rotation of 
crops: this was s to grow + Oks ha Bere as long as the 
keeping it out of water, covering it “with a Spoauifal 
of earth with the we — of spade the me use 
for probably the last it mple- 
ment—a bent branch ore a tree shod with | iron aof — 
size and shat of the hand, and having a woode: 
peg driven in for the foot, the handle be ing about 
6 feet long—they slice over the soil about 2 inches 
p. and as it makes a long slice and turns over 
say 18 inches by 6, they get quickly over a great 
al of ground, sme N thoug low 2 inches it 
rred. Ofcourse their erops have hi- 
therto been ia th and they have neverdreamed 
oor, on Heather, except during a a oar J 
when the i 
of paying rent from the 108 bat We 5 on 
| herring fishery, y. Whe they 
or 5, 
e quality or e of the 
soil ; desiring that every cotter should have what 
a make k; poma of good land 3 garden 
oun eat number of the peopl 
or quitting the 
all took lots. 
in 
ass through 
every Sead was obliged 
n lot; wood was given 
and they w were obliged to build their 
houses after” models which were erected for their 
to every house, into which all 
ater r — 
The next step in i the _process was to introduce a 
better sy at of e en 
for the various districts. And ere t 
grew almost withont exception as ips, 
Carrots 1 Mangdi Wurzel, Beet: root, and 
ver were seen; a little guano havi 
been sided 10 their sea- weed and dung 
re was much indignation among th ir 
time being d, as ‘they hought, in trenching 
and draining—things ti 
eed given out tot 
but the tune soon changed, and 2 all but foie 
was obliged to be used £ em drain and 
sow, many o hele ow 3 that i it 
was Nb to eee the <-> efit they had 
by the whims, as supposed ton whi 
e was Shea carrying out at their expense. 
The difficu ulty of ee such a ma — 
o do things in time y rule, sing that n 
rei of them have never had an ye 
ver, must Kva been enormous : 
one 
task, and pet ced the people N 
Dr. MACKENZIE was possessed of firmer resolution. 
He kne 2 pot started his plans, Lge the people 
were children, nd he treated the such, an 
though it is n i rown EH children 
This spring the G 
Clover for the first 1 with their 
crop, and they w 
en cro’ 
ure, pape cattle, milk, and all the resùlts of 
5 cultiv 
We are ve indebted’ to Dr. a 
for the Ere eres particulars; and w 
sure the generally is deeply indebted to 
benevolen i 
to Mr. Bonn, as we have said, the oe 
of the Patriotic Society: pe he has started it with 
meet the difficulties 
Scotl: 
ividual — and 
at present encumbers i 
embarrasses | the nation at smi 
ord Gro ce Hirt, on whose doings at Gweedor 
we Sane in our first er for the best 
year, has proved that similar methods are as cer- 
tain of success in Ireland as in Scotland ; and both 
examples surely ought to furnish encouragement to 
the bewildered landowners of the former coun try. 
RMATION OF BUT 
manageme 
3 and profit more than is generally sı 
