| tt 1848. THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 291 
i — — L can be effective her resources will be | as: embly is seldom more numerous i pe ps bay following extract from Kirwan’s table of pro 
Rr and h mem eady reduced to a song, | attendance upon a market day, the sam rawn up from a a, ragistor r of the weather kept . — 7 
as a tale ibat and the cattle are so well known that thes excite i 41 years, which I teke from the “ Eney 
Walther does tan pss gi the . — * little interest. tannica,” ed. 1797, article Weather, and from which it 
baring passed. ov ord us any more immediat But I intended to * said a few words upon the | will be seen tha t the experience of eminent men, who 
of relief; ee —— OM years to establishment of model or experimental farms, as a long ago studied * subject £o far from confirm 
eme regain even t audlin prosperity she enjoyed larinin sheet, 2 r the neten of the funds of our me inference of the words I have quote — 
r were even the Taliivation of Potatoes so general 1 soci rather opposed to 
as to employ the fame amou abour was model Gein, itt true to its name, is one upon which Proba- 
ont in. those times, for it will be very i the best practices are 3 in other words the * z (times bility. 
long before the two millions of who subsisted | beau ideal of a farm ; and to become a model, it must , 4 s 2 = — 11 * 
i nd can be again so supported, | necessarily show s ner annual Selatan iken most of ry spring 7 et...... 8 22 
will be long before they can have those little stores | the eee ng fa A | — 8 3 ty 
Potators, generally sufficient for the year's bro 2 An experi 2 prad differs from a model farm, in 4 5 t spri = | 3A “eens E 4 
them till the new ero ein, or to enable as muc may be cultivated to a loss and yet answer 1 — P erinan 5 1 t 
them to give their labour on credit ; it will be lon og before its inte — e . showing, by trials, which are the F — Ol ae 5 $ 
can obtaia again their old * thas paid the ring best systems, the best a sra the best food for feeding A ‘abl ý Wie senses ts 
couacre ; rethey can ed for | those — . the best plan be grown on each kind Variable Spring’) s v et...... j 7 vs 
it, and it will il bo long before ion — of soil, and ones best manure aps increasing the e growth Th " 4 eo i 41 l 22 
letter in the ta r be restored. For years to come at | of those plants, and in a word the — means of obtain- | = s = ‘ ving — A —— ft 
least the two milions of unemployed — be fed at ic ing the best crop at the least expen i mae y Poete, — beg to refer 
anity, and as on the present in- 
“this diminished relief will be at a cost 
t whi 
Shenton, independent s of any other object, whether it 
may not be possible to find some cheaper means of sup- 
the unem eia pulati 
to produce such an joco — 4 nf vegetable food 
o ople 
ios — cropping, on which alone the hopes of all 
1 * ma the expence of feeding our poor may be 
ced by attaching experimental farms to 
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raised by * —— on these farms, and w 
should wish to be considered 8 in the of 
todel fame, these farms being so seattered over 
country as ow the persons lieved on them 
13 n ir homes. 
| a system not only a az a out of 
employment and the weak =e: in cheaply sup- 
~ ported, but a "oe n in —— of the 
‘ood a 1 Musbandry, which, in a 
few years, would supersede the ssity for many of 
— and for poy of this relief.—J. M. 
Goodiff, Granard 
erpen FARMS. 
_ Attow me to say a ords u ubject of 
ject o 
Jour leading article of “March 25, that subject being a 
os “t Young Farmer's Tre 
arms“ I heartily jo oin win Ayo in your ‘opinion, that 
l or rather ex tab 
satiety is 
er the best breeds of cattle 
aseme 
ees in a market premiums occasionally 
ed ein ape best cultivated erop, or the most skilful 
a allow these — have done much 
unless they base their 
1 3 some other 
ge to” than the award of animals, I 
Arena nt best days have 3 for they ae 
Se this their intended purpose of 
Mas latent energies of the breeders and feeders 
po 
access which railway communication has mo 
of 
mal shows is one cause o 
ormer 
various places a 
„Agin, the show of implements has 
mart for their sale, where the farmer 
berless 
n assortm tment, the 
ke improvements by an inspection 
ition with his own. 
av experimental farm 
to a loss, and yet be satisfactory in its results, but a loss 
is Em a 8 appendage nder judieious ee: 
ent compara rials will not cause more e 
ture, beye ond the timo and trouble ann in n securing 
n Model | p 
is not to be|toex 
thin sow 
ing; © Pa ern trials o 
the results obtained (collectively upon a 
oe) would eq ose png Os by aN 
r | who rush into extremes upon a la 
aper of the ‘25th of March, | pega 
the hoarded iade ‘nly 
object o is 1 
professed oh 
h 
of aiding the * 
ing —— y in 
ossib 
ek of each. 
a report might b 
perfections ; and it 
pur ae. 
have engrossed attention 
of 7 produeti 
plants by 11 selection. b as hard] 
tion at all. papaka more ma 
they might aa — 
ive reas 
ilst 
be 
uce of a —— reful choice of the most pro- 
du olive — — of — yu n can be added by any 
ment in the b mings of animals. This selection 
and i i ate ement might be cne of the objects o 
pcrimen al 2 and thus afford that advance 
pineon in the various kinds of grain and cult 
plants which our a have effected in the breeding 
e manufacture of implements. Trials 
, or of. food, would gh 22 Thro tak 
if . profesinall by 
the accuracy of t 
care of others e are no 
a2 
w 
— a if oo 
4 
can ta no 8 but that an 1 al farm | 
may be cultivated = 
— | a 
n 
be n 
Å| — slow m 
themselves. 
5 for 
the — the extent to which the system 
otan ex- | 
7 is 
furnished, in summer particularly, 80 
a for 
| Cold, damp, 
render 
marks by Mr. T. Squire in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle of the Ist inst., wherein he comes 
to the similar unfavourable conclusion respecti 
considerations of the fall 
rame 
my object being specia 
> | tention — wher I conceive to be the fallacy of expecting 
’ | a season to be necessari an — t 
er to 
that which — precedes it. Observe 
Hydro Ineubat * our advertisin — C. 
will ae again — o information he inquires for, 
ing the prices of my patent hydro iveubators, 
n mas eantime I must refer him to my pupus 
published oy Wm. Strange, Paternoster row 
of the 3 ires, Regarding the eens 
2 eeding poultry with every pena bought at 
full London —— prices, I have the amcunt to 
constan 8 are 
hatched out. If the facilities of ecg posne in — 
to prevent 
oy an — 288 7 incubators, which 
mense numbers of birds they produce will on — on A 
re of any difficulty in rearing 
poultry all the year — by my apparatus. It is, 
i n 
send out with every in 
and „ will, however 
y use 
y A separate 
— house, fatting, roosting, and layi will 
be re seale, with a one or two tray 
will direct 
2 * uld 
eggs, but as I sho be 
tend to to patronise m 
pa ai 
perimen 
of perceiving the The 
ve 
H 
to prevent p 
integrity of the 
experiments.— II, — 29 
Home Correspondence. 
tter Making.—lf I want butter only for my own 
sheet of blotti 
ressure by a serew- press, it becomes 
3 — the simplicity of this 
after so much rain 
— of — weather 
23 I beg 
ur readers, to the 
ga by men apoie — 
a plate, | like Nature t- 
ikers’ or 
and 11 days at a lower temperature! 
— . 4 Cuntelo, Cie (ex. 
rou some home, 
cme — into two basins, and tried to destroy — 
of lime with the one, aud 
* and — of salt with the other, 
re deetrpyers of the wirew did 
estruction. Knowiog soda ash 
either of the articles used, I 
fe plant been i is necessar 
armen ato jd have on a stout 
porte gloves, otherwise his hands be very mucis 
