226 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
wire a is a exop which, at certain seasons, employs į Londonderry Journal, w ae 8 me forward, and he | to give them higher wages, nor are the 
n us hands, and demands most a ttention at the wrote despondingly, w ama an Catholic Bishop | country, under present adain ass., 
time when the Turnip crop requires all the force of the | Doyle, and I feel it due to qc ite — here to give his The laboure ; employed, a 
fp: is, therefore, evident t ne of these im- | letter; indeed it is with some — of pride I peon en — i ief. If in England, wi ust fal 
t crops would be neglected, unless there Mek in | do so. ak i ab er — m a thousand s ony the 
r. ow, July 15, 1832, whose 
* nes pbonrhoed a naa supply of . at Dear Sir, -I feel much gingers for the paai of reli ef for our uate to their support, togair a . pper ound inade. 
these views are strongly confirme 2 chess, poorer countrym en which yo sed t pp tome found intolerable-sauid er im 
growing, to any 1 extent, is chiefly con- | comprehensive, wise, and er nat but nea it into effect | Were what must be the sit a 
ned to those countries or districts where the land is great energy is required on the part of Government; and a Ireland, her only source of wealth a uation 
livided into small e In Ireland and Belgium | Stronger sense of the justice and utility of — pe — con- | with one-third of her population existing in . up, 
d th i i e scanty mean 
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almost any scheme for their relief; 2 of the many schemes including in it over 2,000 w zun RREN (a ela 
hiefly ose $ 2 indivi 
88 p plans for the attainment of that “object which I have read whom a t és a 
districts where high rates and low wages act as a direct | or heard of, few if any were so comprehensive as yours; but nidesitiution bat 1k ‘unemployed, and 
Stimulus to its cultivation. when the most simple, the most obvious, the least expen- estitution ittle 3 above the 
„The council h alen into pe 1 of sive, and even the narrowest plan of relief is postponed | a 4 * part will rather require e in 
: SONDRE ANE E gth than ad- by Government, neglected by Parliament, and objected to tion to a pag syst 
this question at greater len 1 5 — false 1 or unfounded fears by many who 
o the poor- indeed, bef 
d door relief Ait chargeable u 
rtant that the general bearings of the questio pr mpr on > boul h = geable upon them, 
should be fully eln before any habs is finde will! Pearson ty hose w end, there was scarce ya petty sessions held in the 
in established sy i or dass Fa: nd, he 3 — Paes nh disgust, bat T know nothing Shieh 1 rare h 
‘they are desirous that a crop sho not be y Te- can occur in a Christian ew 
2 Š ith jud nd cul- | and misery, and to avert the blessings of “Heaven, as the The tendency of the present system is eigen 
Bee ai, inane uae’ B ts the stoik of | insensibility occupying all 3 e our to suffering sn drag down all 2 into the vig of d Wene 
emplo; t for man and of food 9 0 beast. e fol- | with highest sentiments of respect, your r mo ost o obeatgn | th the progres of this pesa kay ea. pn 5 hy 
mary o 8 . rt o 
lowing ax hips de ee 5% J. 11 M. Goodiff, Esq. » Killybegs.” ployed poor ; pe tid eligible vay it doing porte 
1. That Plax i is age an om rene crop Under the peculiar circumstances of Treland—with a ca o be mploying them to produce + 
4 2. That if Flax be rotation, and | crowded population, without manufactures, and there- | food untl sine be a: for the development of those 
ply of manure Renae pot shy it is necessary fore wholly depending on agriculture for support, and a | resources of the country, especially of her agricultural, 
one erop ystem of agriculture that only afforded employment for as will give full employment to her people. XM. 
or shift ; or, if Nhe same number of crops of corn be|a few months in the year, the tillage farmers being, Goodi, Granard, March 3. 
‘grown, ‘and Flax be added as ‘a stolen „crop; it is almost without rie mest wholly devoid of —— a 
that | tai i 
ional manurin ven. j er 
3. That as there are few nee ide Hite manure | and indeed of o is — from the labourers a 6 or 12 FERMENTED BONES: MR. PUSEY’S Menon, 
can be purchased with advantage, the best way of | months’ credit for their wages, as the amount of wages In the last report of the Weekly 
ing land into sufficient condition to grow Flax | was not, or bare cient for the support of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, as —— pep 
Without injury, is to fatten an additional number of live | labourer while employed, and as the employment of preceding meetings, much attention 
e labourers did not average more than three months out been called to the preparation of bones for 
«4, That landlords may safely permit age tenants | of the twelve, it became part of this i ge to find the crop, and more particularly to the plan 
to grow Flax, wherever the number of liv * fat- | labourers means of support when they were not em- by Mr. Pusey, of decomposing them by fermentati 
tened bears a proper ratio to the size of the am and | ployed, and this ‘tod effected by letting small t with the assistance of ashes, or, as Mr, 
provided that the waiter le such . be Fade fi of land for a Potato crop—the conacreing syste ; this by a rong of ee ow I 
* ion to the acreage same system w ae partially — and still in a mis xists with 
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) Flax grow. — 
4 5. That as the N of feeding with Linseed | yet viler form among more respectable—respectable in aie, prp that “alse 185 of economia 
2 may be equally w va wo ined by purchasing | name—holders of land, and even among some pseudo- likely to be engendere 
the seed as by growing it, it will be for the occupier e landlords in a for Oats, the whole produce It appears that on — Nesbit expressing an 
decide i d i i 
' whether it be most profitable to purchase Linseed | of the ground in Pota and straw being by this| that by thus fermenting bones a portion „ 
for feeding purposes, an us increase his crops of generous managem — mse off the land rs ata or monia would be lost, the chai 
corn, or to become a Flax grower himself. six successive Oh, Saxon misrule—can : we | viewed this as of little consequence, . 
“6. That in deciding on the expediency of growing wand at oy 1 of the land! By the . Lawes had shown that ammon 
Flax in any district, the amount of unemploye ed lantak of Oats so e persons p artially derived support rt, but by the Turnip crop ; 80 that while from hi 
gin tha rate of wages, are the most important the somes a of Potatoes the whole mas sof the labour-| both in science and practical farming, we are 
erations to be taken into account. ing poplation employed or w or unemployed, w supporte a 3| properly recommended to 
. Tha fi l fi the Potat ase was nly th — of the means to prevent the escape of ammonia from 
Practical i hi 
j men will not be sl as | food of the H order : 
‘far as the question between 1 and tenant is con. ployment and of support, and this annihilation has left phurie acid or sulphate of iron, or sulphate of | 
5 — the four first of these ped farme warrant the the people desti rn — destitution continues and must pa we are here assured that in pre ee ur 
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be the poorer oy it; but that sa farmers may safely found > etabi the labouring people to support them- No hen 
be permitted to grow or any other crop * ae ey psi n the wages of their labour, and means are monia, whether in the i of Peruvian 
may find profitable; and eg with reference to the | found by the employers to pay those wages in money | other ni i r 
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à man is a good or a bad farmer is to ascertain what Tt peka rom want of a due poeni = 1 diffi- ing to its presence that land wh 
antity of live stock is maintained on his farm in a | culties in our several ions, or it is er 6 bush P heat per 
4 -| formerly produced 
and thriving condition.” countable ignoranee of them, that expedient after after expe m yields 36 or 40, t 
ON IRISH POOR-L. ee adopted, fertile ea uriched and th E i 
i 8 OR-LAWS.— No. I. grace and in greater prostration sais 5 deen weeny or the Lothians from the 
In 1832, when the question "Wien a Ireland | country. ith an obsti ahi many half farmed | ae 
became a subject corral apse expressed | b stp abel plage upon a neighbouring country, TR (aot well know armers of E they wi 
b e publie Ar the land is 1 reed to a vain effort to — her working dae little ane in exediting that itis of I 
0 i oralising—in rtance whether the ammonia is 1 r. 
port 1 system ppm . — 2 . f England useless and unprofitable ie es fr ot ge $ t ae 
— F 3 a — one. siete : In 1832 I calculated the number of persons supported | erop, it is surely of the greatest importance tote 
that b, the 1 of art delet tions in proof by unemployed labourers: at 2 „000,000, that is by means one which su hoci. in fact, amongs 
y iar the able-bodied poor the entire of of the conacre; the commissioners subsequently ap- elements of which natural or artificial manure 
i ist, it is the most oe and 
the very gen 
on an average to little more than one paeis attention to m of relief similar to those I 2 
; a 0 roposed in 1832, that is, to ren g s 
a farthing a day on each person taxed with the p re ndering the labour of the — | den hand can scarcely bear it. 
„A unemp oyed 5 
A sum in its totality which, relieving and tending | their food 55 e aap ee „tmospherie A 
1 i of persons, would not have exceed Such a plan of relief was one among- those measures | combined onie the = fermentation takes pA 
tie 2 k 8 roa aerd ae proposed, — in 1847, in the ire Committee 8 of the atmosphere unites 
relief N an f | and Irish Council as demanding the undivided advocacy | of the mass, and sets it free in 
— unca for, as — pol | and support al the Irish members in the he Par- acid, whilst the nitrogen of the bones 
supported by those on whom they had liament; how with them it became in the ensuing ses- en of the water, and forms 
a ka for support, relations and friends, | si (hited i ydrog , 
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ess c of a vision, let histo meeti i cid, esca 
as imaginative Leagan y nn charge- | their honour record ; perhaps she may tell the ec 3 3 which 
e commun at . that Ireland owes more of her r degradation to the im ermentation 0 
cility of her sons than to the misrule of the Saxons, — that they never keep 2 f 
Such been for some months past strongly ground bones than they can help, nor place 
and ably advocated in the Farmers’ Gazette of Dublin. | ing till shortly before the gy Ba for them wey 
-| Itisa proposition that e eey gain ground, for it Prhe he practice of fermenting bones is, 5 sae 
offers, the only choice be the conacre system and means new; it has long been practise tised in ge pr 
em oe ruin 5 —.— the death of the I am informed by a Yorkshire ewe 
ont toe i a viov to the be the condi- The e raj ial treasury. has been to a great extent, xe eli 
bettering onaere system ö : s i ae 
Des n 27 of making him | Potatoes sufi janti for . ng the ‘Iabouring classes | fukeffects. A few days since } 
ringin 5 hether employed | farmer in H hire that he had many Jen g 
ofa money paid pea hat na, "a of labour Ara mented his eee in the 
one of the” few y Pal , — — . could not hire themselves k;| up the plan after several trials, not r 
m - rent conac uivalent to i tion o 
eg Poor-laws, eee those oro Pease) T E fed by th it, was 3 3 an facts; 
nd — i ireland sal they recived little encou- | Depriv ae. hse to work at very ne wages. ammel portion o I have 
0 n Wa og e. 1 2 as S C . penai” 
nly one besides the editor of the are insufficient ; and there neither exists the disposition | us bow mented * — al oe 
