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Se anes i dit newspaper paragraphs which Lindley Murray panja not] together the whole of the e paris a? 
popem e pe 3 . 1 8 R condemn nor, Cobbett distinguish . any Triming-| noting. any variations from — and 
ad ~ — p es 2 long ere this, if M Lae communication. He has been more 3 Boroni of.. different crops; y res 
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B iliwright from me near to | among — — * than the fk Ybris I congra-|days report the results to ce 
E . 1 from me in North- 5 ulate him. ict boasts of having tugh the Irish to] 4. In the county of Herts the i rd “of 3 
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ive the mills resu nl we cannot vaunt very much of oui Bel. | classification, and the ‘super; 
power, as my wan suber pied: would net terre? er s scutching, for according to the printed | bution aud ollen of the returns. . 
on on having a steam engine ; 7 thereføre none of ake of the Belfast lax Society, a man after many | the inspector a few i and 502, Nb 
my men had any chance till now, to let the farmers of | months’ training from Belgian teachers, contrived to contingent expeuses, would be sufficie 17 8 
England meted one of them can 8 or scutch as f scutch from 3 lbs. to $ ibe, +; Flax p m ori whilst a | 5. There are 85 nt in Great Brita; 
much, if not more Flax in one — in my mill, ! woman in the north of Irel ny foreign tutor, | 607, each gives 5100/., to which add 9002. 
yg katy, Thi ree |, Sh da ea 
66 is the life of | com iole penditure 
3 7 generally matin e zealous 55 tome "oh U, I hope, be he indiseoluble 1 5 e een clerk would be required ‘at the 
instructors and zealous of manual labour, in | the agricultural and manufactu uring interests, the sub- from the secretary’s well-kne an 
opposition to mechanical 3 that I feel much | ject must be important which leads the inquiring mind | information, we believe he would freely giv 
bli ed to them for keeping my invention before she to ask what are the easiest means to accelerate the | of hours to put together the 85 return 
10 ax n 0 h ould then be in possession of all the suas 
My e at. wank early ness: cto re * ps Since the n l of the French court 3 as to the harvest by the middle 4 on 
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j t - lere ar ni i 
geutch Flax for those who send it to me, at Is. 8d, per | guenots fled on the Loire to the Bann, the fibrous are further of opinion that if the 1 
stone of 14 lbs. ; out of this I shall pay my men 8d. per plant has flourished in the ale Aa in 1 it is id returns made by one or two of 
ide and my mi une rmers i 
From the 
d ele sires 4 old fashioned Irish mills. they | scendants of these men I have 0 the knowlege conclusions as to the results of the yea 8 
can seutch 6 stones per day, I will be much disap- of,gřassing, watering, and scutching Flax. n they from any estimates made by professional 
inted if they cannot earn from 48, to.5s. per dày | T red the looms, plied the shuttle, and iteached their curring an enormous expense) when the ¢ 
oar mills, lam getting an 8-horse engine, and as varne, beside th e flowing rivers of Erin, I h have watched | a growing state. 8. We make th 
i will dive a seutshing mill five times as large as the the g foras prosperity of ou r Flax growing distriets, 25th of November with the vi 
one I had at Northampton rs of your Paper | and fro 1830 have seen Flax rise from 8s. per stone to average of each description of 
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of 4 yma ell 48 ledge of | asserted that manual was Poi uke to mechanical labour. | clipped, the number of auimals bred on w. : 
Flax seutel tebing fe Bt po ge to be 3 on. I 2 5 him to the task. Let us divide 1 ewt. of | the 5 and the stock on hand i „ 
being > seute ils in las F i aegis i 
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n s brawny ar wingle ; b Vat ens 
seutched Flax as to be able to prepare it as well as | mine, the scutching-mill of my 9 Mr. Dickson, | w ost cases will hava 8 uff 12 
any of the men I had in my employment, and if my | at present erecting in Skinner-street, Bishopsgate ; and . Sas ER Y 
i acquired a general knowledge of machinery if I do not there pro ve the twenty fold advantage Néw hos t on Farming.—In an editorial 
in extensive corn mills and distilleries (in which we | farmers have in pace ng the machine system, in July 3d, 1847, * meation that “upwards 12 
had 12 pairs of stones at work witht elevato tore and | Preference to the tedious, expensive handwork, I con- | best . nd scien 
mashing cg ene ty in what was then of the | Sent to forego my 1 boasted name as an expert engaged, each in his own department, X 
most extensive Fl ig "oot nning | Se and permit Belgian correspondents to traduce | work.” As a work so produced ought tobe 
, in ‘Gated, If I say, 8 experience will the Irish whom he came to teach, but could not learn, | rior to any of the“ systems ” ossess 
not be utso: and answer to their repeated “In conclusion, I beg to state that in Ireland I have for the information of those who, like myself, wish at 
attacks on mes I must wait with patie my man | Dever experienced any difficulty in scutching 6 stone of present to purchase a complete _ treatise on farming, 
fee s placed the m on “ their defence, * ‘ay mills are | Flax per day ; each stone containing 14 pounds. I have | ask when the work allu ed to is likely appear „ani 
often scutched 8 stone; and am Mr. r im- whether it will be published entire, or nts nger 
And when the wheels of my invention, provements I am not afraid to exceed m my former efforts. | form of parts will commence publication, i 
Will p owever, as trial is beyond ne if the Belgi monthly 8 1 in autum ES 
` My efforts to prompte e Flax cult ture in England has ie my challenige he can either by public or privet Plewro- pneumonia. Ts m glad to say 4 
been from a decided conviction oped it could only be letter choose Heng next month, as I then expect! now in perfect health, and I attribute this y 
made general by 2808 the far pare. F x Dickson’ in Siba ation. RT the prescription of W. C. S.“ When I; 
EE e aa ot 15 orth mo re than f. Fas gs Cloughly, Glynde, near Lewes, Sussex, March 1 yours, inclosing his letter on th 
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one of my mills, « or if they prefer sending it to mn Hom e Correspondence sisted in an unusual and total prostration of! 
all seutch it for them for ls. 8d. per stone, which| Lord Eldon on on Leases.—It may sisp reconcile | grinding of the teeth, watering of i 
will be better for them than to seutch it by hand, at a leases to 83 of those 1 andlords ee object to grant | heaving of the flank. The 
cost of 2s. 6d. to 3s. per . which is near to half oo „if th opinion on the | blistered, and a seton was placed in the 
its value, if 7s. Flax, I a m aware that if a farmer subject ote the inte Lord. Eldon, -a will hardly be set | as recommended. At the same -ti 
Wished to „say a 10 acre field, he could 2 down as an innovator, free trader, or Radical. At one internally some Epsom sal 
effectually by a number of me his tenant di is lordshi imself | in grue a 
ny with spa rs ds ns 
trenching, and give thereby great employment ; Pah as in the following words. “Gentlemen,—I thank God, most favourable, and t 
. Soot ploughing, „and subsoil ploughing, has been found | that it hath pleased him to allow me once more the progress ; those scferked to tel now aa as any of 
f late to answer the same purpose, the answer to the | happiness and pleasure of meeting you all again. It our other stock. At the suggestion of our lo 
* would d fact ime i me great satisfaction to tell you that I have 9 a Sa I placed a niwa in the dewlap of eh 
1 The ; b; lone I eceive isease, 
inery in | accurate information on the subject, that you have all Anal bled, and l 1 lb. of Epsom salts, # 
e it is like the old wy of travelling frome La London to of you, made improvements in the management of i the others disease ince 
ld * Der B TPN oei a taking up two days, | farms, For this I thank you; and I cannot but aitri- these applications we have not had th 
see Liv in 7 * bd | bute these beneficial eff-cts, in a great measure, to the | pearance of pleuro-pneumonia. 
J. Hilt Dickson, British Flaw S N Mills, Skinner- | alteration which you have ee * AT thi P 
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the tenure of your to make this announcement, as 
street, Bha lla farms, in taking them for a term instead of — -e satisfy the minds of any party on this sub; 
* isthe fetter, somewhat abridged, which | to year. It is evident to me, as it must I think be to they d the i pour of c sate 
; z Sorrespondent 4 alludes to.] you all that a tenant who is liable to be removed in a cattle on my pre ho og 
find itor of the Wiltshire I ndependent, ni year from his farm, cannot satisfactorily to himself which were not bled of “blistered Al ied a in co 
Tris} 8 a Flax-seutcher, and one of those stupi | make those improvemanta which he will do, when he is | days from the commencement o 
: yard, 
dustry seems so 5 that he can rm lon i he : peineta 
Unlearned pile aig í <a rg native and foreign. | reap the benefit to himself of these improvements. I treatment. In no case would I allow the animals 15 
my plain statement thank you all for your improved management. I will shut in a ho uring their illness, as is bed 
may be, I entreat its ins n, were it for no other | come Bang yo as long aN it shall please God to allo ' ch I tale to st 1 
J the unders of Mr. me. I wish y urselyes and families, th and Saunt practice ; AOR drive them out to & iz 
8.2 oseph Fieux, and che Editor of the Mar iness; and I sh ver I live, cease to pasture field for two or three hours each day, 
press, to acknowl al ire, if they will consider my tenantry as part of myself.“ Campbell’s there eby afford them an gran of eating Is si 
A truth, urning from the farm of | Lives of the ChanceUors, vii. 600.—A Landlord, oe 7 5 binge so much advantage on t 
ka e Esq. whose Flax I mill-seutched, a Whisk Statisties.—Mr, Labouchere, when re- nt subjects through the medium &, 
3 M. Dicken i Lacton, I presented may: | COBY asked in the House whether the Government 75 Ar ee ee I beg to acknowledge, ¥ 
Shah cn Mr. Dickson, with specimens of my work, intended to p ceed with: the b obtaining. such | much pleasure, my sense of the obligations on MU Py 
nonnes eer oe Gibetienced judges, were |returys, replied «that the expense be 40,0007., arising therefrom. And at the same time 1 et 
Which “Thee ae un n of jand that. the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not con y warmest thanks to “ W. C. 5.” 1h 
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: transmi pare the money.” We differ wid ith thi s it ain be my m 
prove, as he says, that t however 1 . eer pi hed ment estima’ hei i al thee wah this iaaa Does se Stas ee Shogi} 210 ase, 1 
their ; 
and kindness 
their 3 aidr and Wales for | 0 a hat to his tan of eat 
icultural pres eminence, co (the Trish) are one-sixth of the sum, and the necessary 1 1 mg of Go. one when She e is len th time some 
nor indebted to the Belgians for their | vernment amply remu The following See our | be effected. David Mackie, Cauldside, 2 
management of Fur. A Belgian has, oe for such annual return to 5 n the 
2 M zen of November. I. Is the ap 19 f i 
Dickson, ligent agriculturist as the e ir z an inte 
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$ to 
aape ea motives of rptarng for each county. 2 The appoint- ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY oF esi 
A à collector, the parish A KLY Councrt was held at the Soeiet) in o 
I i eke the es, and who,on obtaining the blank in. Hanove , on Wednesday last, me 
fae etwas — ector, shall en m to each March: pr Mr. ND BARKER in te u 
rested motives, I ‘ill aah Wine i bt them to be fi i returned to Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bart., M. P. ; Mee ds 
hed to b ys, under a tari of 40s. Such re- Mr. Brandreth. Mr. Cherry, Mr. Cottam, 1 l 
P may e a 15 to be pel the coll 25 2 es - dreth Gib prn pe Arkins, EN 
f e wher wena K . Majen Cis 
‘who in his conde — by th Rose i r when certified y | Sewell, 5 — 8 11 Piste Mr. R. Solly, Mt; 
tor, on receipt of such re- | fi r, 
2 in | turns, sh | enter spector, pt of suc bed e P., Mr. 5 
them ss | and Mr. Bullock Webster. 
a proper book, and adding 
