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AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Marcu 25, 
THE 
S sa D —— 
upon the other side, and walks off with the air of a 
mely, t u 
ant shina, the he aid of the 
educated amateur, the resident saiia the intelligent 
and er uential ene the farmer, and the 
clergyman. 
d well deserves oe ge 
tural his 
in u Mr. Yarrell’s unde z Brit 
also 2. good, though 
genre giv 
gentlema l ike every other original book 
ject, have be wn 
st 
of birds mak have Wes een 
hite- 
of the 8 naturali 
has been obse 
rve 
The first i A een v — every one w 
ted goose ent, would be that i it enii not | 
be trusted with bert 3 or the sight of it exercisin 
parent, but not a faithful spouse. 
ical information has of late been ob- 2 d to 
litt 
other p — wo 
“It 
8 
country | three, grt the common fat 
dis isputes 
The white-fronted goose is an oie a noise, ste no 
ur second nage 
Indeed, it is time to 
contradict what aet been published on this latter poin 
ur bree 1 8 ganders have not 
Sei cipio Two now before me, 
e the ‘allowing passage, ° aiffering ‘lightly from each 
ording. 
en ascertained, by M. St. Genis, that geese 
will 2 ir 3 pigeons and partridges; in the course of | ye 
his 
experiments, he remarked, mee if — number of the 
anders exceed that of the geese by two, and even by 
ther, no Seite nor 
pairing taking place without an 
bo ubt by mutual choice. Besides the 
common father, he 2o two of the young ganders unpro- 
ut the couples whi ch 
, the 
* 
per 
in his Potatoes, by the hoe, but Mieto 
under the surface, and show W vi ae ee 
crop, nasking a wh next 
Grass seed with his Barley have a y he did not 
needed, as plenty Grass a naturally w ien iy told pos = 
as nat 
or three drills ar own are hardly worth co the 
my eye, I do not think 100 cotters of a uti — 
ts, Could 
— 
ng. In one 
average size of 10 
lubbed to 
rl 
whole farm, so that on a lot of 10 — Ay = — 
shane should be at least 2 are es under 
properly far med. I am frequently told that 
in 1 Turnips, as the a fare anse abbits 
Ands 3 do, 3 there is jus enough sown 
m ply to the hares an rabiti — ite, neir! 
3 24 10 acre ae had 14 ac na aapea: hood, w 
somplai 
r his po = iat 
er know whati itis to fet a A E 
es except his seg w rty to be 
and that every gander, ee 8 „ was 
mitting an ion elity. What with their 
jealousies ‘efor I ying time, and their quarrels after 
it Se plenty of eggs, we “tid not 2 a single gosling | ; 
any sort eae the whole season 
HIGHLAND — 
wrong in 
SYSTEM 
des 18 
A pair f young ones that were bred 
were Kindly supplied to are and though | 
wild, pl friskiness and viva- 
to insite the quill 
of recovering it. 
this co 
wing, an 
of Aight till their next Sanai: 
however, their confidence and 
to the future, 
The y are perf eely un 
the sitchen garden is 133 pen them. Durin 
ere r, while the herb bage was buried 
showed no wish to seek their fort ere, or 
desert their old companion, a China goose, who could 
only proceed on foot to wa her draught at the brook. 
e have now had them more than t years. In 
spring of 1846 the 3 > laid some eggs in an ex- 
posed spot, and dropped one or two oh hao a nd 
there, which were added to them, and aie then sat as 
ing to the persecutions | 
der, whose deli 
urning to it from grazing, the eggs w 
addled, a the poor bird, for some time ale 
goose, 
of the 
her dejection and disappoi men Her m to give way, hea mg Ante ec- | sized farms, and give a handsome well- paid rental. ——— 
i ture or inte Annt T, 2 bet tera 16 too fre- most entinent mages ee Fay and agriculturists that Grest 
did he to protect from the — M of | quently 8 that the whole — 8 simply of an Britain has ka r produced—Mr. Blacker, of Armagh—some 
her enemy, but his interior size an h rendered | outer room or kitchen, and an inner bed-r where father, | years ago, * — 4 more rational plan, n, that proprietas 
him powerless. S t d ying, 3 ons . — ait ters, vot all ages, 4 together hd one | should aa h oe st whether these pact r anorani 
as 247 : be ie . E ate $8, so as totally to destroy every feeling of | not capable rovement and instr 
is the P 9 many an so abe similar brea al | e or propriety. In f ak the door is a hole dag out | this plan, thr a the medium 5 a culturist, e — 
adian „ everything in the shape of dung wholj oted to instructing the cotter’, 
been . ‘ae ge ia orig 2 ha selected a and filth is cast, ase the very smell of which, added sd larg enig under his charge in the north of Ireland; that 
better place for her 8 ne scratched a hollow 8. pe Ei a ae 1 show * dirt in the | would raise a eks of ou as e 
ouse, is sufficient to account for the great | prietors, wer visit the estates where 
the ground, oe the pigs ot walk, undera White- 3 of cleanliness so frequently met with among our | been pursued, and a ia hem wit where the go 
thorn, about 18 ke above he | surface of the water, | peasan e possesses also a small barn, a byre, 2 5 Id system or 1 the people (expect on rent 
‘The eggs were removed as laid, and, when she 1 er his stock probably consists of a horse, a been ow rule. ag th ae been confined tò e 
to her, with a bun f straw, which }, ane ane „e and * pr pa wien a 3 plough, under Mr. B.’s charge, for he h ae the Rs ars vf 
: , „ Hoe, and a few se lying considerably above 100 proprietors i 
Ghici oh ged fi ing to h wn pleasure, aud with | implements. He ——— firmly that his land i very a. Telani, aod ev 2 nglan d 3 ar poe 
e could cover her eggs whenever she had occa- to that of the neighbouring large farm (from which it may be | their cotter tenantry, and with. the trae is system 
sion to leave them a itting the 7th of si arated only by eee to all proposals of adopting a which I can speak from persona Ri inspection. ten en 
April ; on the 7th of May two very pretty goslings came prone @ land, or Mahad is reply is, “ Such might answer | has now been in full — — for, I believe, about 
forth ; xt da y we ing, and the rat- 117 vat — beg send E impossible hie s ae ee seg a pe aig os 
catcher ined of their disappearance by | With the following rotation on cotter lan : Oats, 0 a o or 3 FT 
j : s ri e of th 
extracting an eno a e . mm ediately — = one or two drills of Turnips Barley, Grass, a eine the Pace „ 
under the nest. The — eggs proved unfertile fer ne ai ite crops, &. The land is not ploughed till just | precept and example, is it to be 
Waben Todi Gi thei P 5 ore £6 po time, and the plough, drawn by the cutter’s starved | less willing to receive instruction 
ing permitted to enjoy the | horse, and a nei ighbour’s, “sat! Se the day, in equally low con- | turist says to a cotter who holds 
society of the above-mentioned Citina goose. After the | ‘iti, Seldom turns up above 3 inches of soil; indeed, owing | year, “ If you please, Pat, did 
loss of her young, the abstraction of her worthless ind P — 5 e havin . been omassa there is little more to | a field?” „None of your Scotch blarney, h 
eggs, she still persevered in sitting with vain expecta- ed cow and horse having spent three fourths of telt it coma eee vas 
tion on the empty nest. To prevent this, we filled the | on the “pasture” land, or trespassing in the neigh — ee Ta Well, b * agri ow D 
hollow with Thorns. She then betook to watch | Pantene ele or no droppings have fallen on the soil wo | the proprietor of. SD perhaps Ep Pa 1 
e success of her rival, the China goose, who was still 5 ee 8 os tints “aro | 
wa > Whe ei 
sitting. When the little ones came forth from thei to sow, but’ 20 it some coaxing, Pat consents, as m adn 
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— iy prison, she i 3 of carly — 5 N h ~~ = Souk tale he 8 x the So thin ng. Of Of course he i is char med with vibe resule 
care, leading them to the tenderest , brooding 2 * ube p. TA 8 tempt him away to lose | country, ou ers would not hesitate 955 En i 1 
under her wings, and accompanying all their move- neighbouring large fields 5 are e of a properly qualifed agricu aly say th that 
ments with their real parent. rowtb, the dry spring weather sets in, and permanenti 2 al oer on a E A the 
The eggs are smaller bate fis ero which nev perce reaver Y ae ground, a an needa ny stints er la nd in ae 
of 
ong oval; wheth 
i also presia than frw other 
eggs. The flesh, t Seth of the wild an 
excellent. In hard weather, they are frequ 
E shops oon 
9 at low pri upon à hastily turned 
the provinces at 1 Pe, Zi y p ices, fectly matted with weeds, e rf a ey aes ben 
pa A t, 0 unfounded su or expense to clear off. it cannot spare time 
on their flesh —＋ 1 as in the scarcely 18 2 k art, and the split A yen rn lie gp 
ble s yj pa „an set within 3 or 4 1 28 
nt goose. But those who are fond of e, other if you observe that the large farmer has 24 to 30 
—— it, if Been vy long enough, a dish for an epicure. | p neles betwee eoh . and 12 to 18 inches pares each split, 
f my B 0 er e land, but 
eee ee 0 taken as specimens, the | poor land requires quite different treatment.“ ‘Of course, 1 i 
in 8 a pattern of all that is valuable the large farmer gets 30 to 40 bolls of Potatoes per acre, the 
eneorin ine nature, „gentle, affectionate, cheerful 1 cotter rarely ema „and — reat bulk of these of the size of | 
self. dependent. The gander is Walnuts, owing 2 the sets being too thickly planted. He 
| interspersed, a few blades or Grass. 
8 | been bails by nd, 
common 
er this is a 
uliarity, I am en 
d of the tame Pira, | ek 
the neighbouri ing lot, or farm, or in the 
Harvest being over 
send i ir to the mill. 
proprietor’ “planta 
his grain ang 
Ine result i is invariably awe wretched rety 
2 the cotter fi desea 2 
to returns, the co 5 e yis * oni 
eed no mo re than he sowed, and i a — 
2 
f pi to tl t 
ume all the Potatoes grown, and 8 bolls of meal gf 
* 
ma aue 
me of 1 5 correspondents wil 
tate the cause z their 
our 
f your reneis by 
printing the accompanying letter i in ‘whole or part. Our 
ected 
but 15 neou- 
vice of their landlords k pen 
` 
E gle 
1 
state, and 8 do believe require nothing 
and advi 
aad are at presen 
J. Mackenzie, M. D., Inv 
The Tiesi 50 extra 
originally publishe 
THE 
Ssin 
m the “seo referred to, 
din ‘he. si verness Her 
sce A D.— 
comparatively 
own and unrequired as yet, in our northera — 1 will 
| examine first the g ener ral state 2 om er population, and I 
sel pee one of tha class, not a this estat 
th ate 
.—ByY 
I find him t cupying, say 10 acres 
section send: Cana two of re ha: er his ‘‘ pasture,” and 
which consists, with few r rig a of moorish grouo nd, Peay 
under Heath, Broom, Fur r Juniper, with, her 
and ther 
His house has, — f 
thing toi xcept, perhaps, giv e it a new roof and thatch, or 
puta 3 to support wer oy. . be bd So. threatened 
ither archit 
5 
— other string to the cotter’s sore viz., ‘hae r from home, 
ve no hesitation in asserting tha tin our northern 
— wat one of a — cotters, such as I have been 
ing, pays * u 
lot of land, 
a 
died,” or, I boug orn and 
keep the ¢ — . sien: “through the weinte aad hen 
lawye 
n bee expected 
ut 1 ho 
soon, and a T’ll leave pee shilingi in my em. 
— | ployer : hands ‘till the a be paid up, if you'll not 
expenses now.“ In fact, the diffe ste of 1 
— poe it, and if the answe 
estate, while — 3 I am i happy tos 
all 
land, dun ) 
what is to be done to ‘alee 9 hed state of matter 
One councillor advises the whole of rot tbl class to be got of, 
= rao into towns and villages, or transported to Canad 
r New South Wa 550 where there is 
5 ity in Great Britain there is not room * the population, 
while their small lots being joined together would make proper 
d 
om 
of tine 8 
tion da 
AON-Ga 
—n ing mo mmon than the 
saying, I 8 ae Oats i in th 
ee ee —5 Pas Seid Nene threshed — 
ae it 4 been injur 
and a very — 
land 
the "capability oft giving 
have e et with some pe 
nothing like ex — e the 
wore . if they would not thus sa 
ing or do ving 3 1 
e | commonly ters f own the blade of the Gouch-grete He weeds | s 
| some years ago, publish 
msio on his — 
I dissent entirely ee all these 
he a me | 
. 5 
nions. 
e small wo 
opini 
an invaluable 
