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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
now 10w to be be found where Arthur Young found the Gorse 
bushes into which he N = then Lord Yarborough 
might ‘all, «“ for the good of county.” I was anxious 
to see what railroads could do for the greatest agricultural 
county in mage asd ora 8 1 could do 
for ‘railroads. whether 
that farming which M Mr. —— — of 
its kind, had altered under the fiscal changes scarcely 
anticipated when he wrote five years ago. I had or iad 
his practical nor his scientific syans of ee ; 
I had seen a deal of farm 
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country and in the Continent, and ee 8 well 
the capabilities of railway powers 
e tha a movement were to be made 
and with such rapidity, as showed the difficulty of 
getting it off the land in so flat a district. The blue 
| marl, or cl ay, as it is called here, is the material, to a 
due application of whi ch Lincolncolnshire owes much 
of — fertility whieh — —— eded barre: 
ane clay embankments 
— — ishe — 8 —.— and rails ing been 
laid), ste a iape of chalk followed by a ayer © * sandy 
gravel fo t Kii m power along the 
line of rails from convenient Prag “This s process of con- 
structing grater kments with e separate kinds of 
i cess b and may be 
bein ng used i of finding 
the connexion ees railways and 
best 
e 
y an eminent 
farmers. 
authority “ 5 be not hitherto nena If we have 
any m to spen turn of events abroad will | w 
induce us to spend it at 
one: 
necessary, as it was in Arthur Young’s 
time, for the farmer se weg his ae and 3 make 
his way towards far improvements. 
The 1 turns the ancient result os years into weeks. 
yw barren 
rendered productive rrr of the various kinds of earth 
tead of feet. The advantage 
in the a of labour — irepair equal to a man 
mile, aps as farmers in some 
nor lime nor 
manure or 
8 
8 2 
value bones 
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E 
completely new at fertile r where 8 
est wee ould grow, thus 
ls. an acre 
2 oa 
ee OF 
m cause every pra 
improvement to be —.— “a will now proceed, like 
Ster 
to make my notes on one county i se of a dozen. 
I reached Hull from London —— morning, 
crossed the muddy Humber at "New Holland Ferry, 
and found myself in Lincolnshire. As far ye 
hedges, protected b — . at long intervals, 
relieved the monotony of the 
This New Holland, tw — ae almost a solitude, 
was formerly a 9 resort for smugglers of Hol- 
and prime tobacco, of late known by a ferry to 
Hull, w eee, with — dey supported one coach and one 
Poor aleh t magieian of the 
19th — aii been at work, — amann 
of his deeds on all sides. Hundreds « 
engaged in — — es ng stro 
the water 
or some 1500 feet, like a 
into the Humber, as thot i intended 
e other side, although in e in- 
tentions of the engineer architect modest 
The earliest transit at = se was by an open boat, 
chock- Then same 
S 
2 
' 
g its pas 
— in boats at e water on the slippery Pier; ; and 
ents 
re to 308. 
noth ‘of England coals are con- 
veyed at nine miles an 1 hour for a halfpenny a mile per 
ton. It is some conveyan eap as this chat must 
be ni a in order to iako railroads more useful to 
farm (To be continued.) 
5 eee POOR LAWS.— 
By my two former papers I ha 
show that ine resources of the country are altogether 
ane to the itp of the poor under the present 
system—the con ul 
point ru It is w a question whether 
9 of this system in 1 was ‘are 
her m 
ated i in 1 gross Aare 
— capabilities W d and eh her 3 eco 
It cert 
r law o as per- 
where it did n 
destitute are now 1 ‘ines re pial 
privation of the conacre. The e 
— ae ed of all means of 28 an 
likely to inerease to an amount ant’ is a tnealoulable, that 
the numbers thus made 
so 
oy he fe. 
aie to the empire 
for r passengers on the — side to make 
but one step from the steam-coach to the steam- boat at 
every state of the tide. A 1 lower 3 the stream 
advancing, too, though no 
so far advance d, a dock 0 
* 
ing the 
by sheds for goods and pens for cattle, about to be at- 
tracted to New Holland F conveniences of 
® 
lean cattl 
paratively trifling, | a 
Sera r carriage to 
rom Gri 
independent eomp 8 to lay out 
carried on either by a roundabout 
yor bya daily tidal sten 
It would procs 
— 
mee ee 
cee by ina bse among 
good steam- 
boats, i. e. — a pien, a Gk a a set of 
accommodation for market ware- 
houses for ti 
grain. 
A — is talked of which would afford 
that should supply the dis- 
distance ; in fact, everywhere visible 
part | employers, and 
l —.— them, aid allt 2 other 
er | thei 
be- rr loge ight be generally obtain a on an 
to e to their homes at night; 
them, as the poor houses — from 
obtaining occasional — He: 
ales 8 pence of 
ee pres incidental to 
rst year (for i in the first t year the es 
not ne double ihe, =y of the land on “which “Sele 
food was produ as land of eee good 
of 10s. an acre, and as would, 2 vegetables, 
e 
ould be only about 5s. per annum for 
I now get \alled apo 
u- 
chalk- -pits within a convenient ; distance, i is very grea at | eac 
8 There are s 
No. III. 
ave endeavoured to 0 
3 vad 5 ean 3 result in disap- i 
eeling on 
of — necessities 
petuated the e it found, and has created it w 
xist; and to 
p 
= — pore ee 
the expense — supporting the poor 
che 
‘a 
individual, or 180 
r, being one-eighth of 
A pint of n — a milk to the } stone of — 
eee w 
w receiving i 
has dee so to the labourers 
out-door | poor 
[May 20, 
country; I will, therefore, endeavour ts 4 ~= 
even in other crops, the rood of mene sete . — 
to support its human being. I have 
of an acre of Barl 
ould be s 
steal in a ter 
will augment the amount of ne raised 
a | consequently diminish the cost of suppo ting the poor, 
p ren egy ovem — depen ding apa pasik 
ved the eration 
at food, with assistants, who might be paupers, The 
est of = perism being alone the willingness of the 
sr o labour for food. The primary expenses 
would — — erection w residences for the stewards and 
F 
p 
8. 
ae 
a 
F 
n use 
expense of the buildings — be saved by e 
them persons — relief. — 
expenses would be re es r the leases of those farms 
which were not attac 
n they were s longer required, be sold, very 
then improved l 
se 3, woul po 
about 10,000, 000. 3 5 ; they are eut much shortet 
e out-door eee the poor farms it will 
e 
three quarters s 
continue a few months, 
to rig A an nature cannot 
could have prevailed o 
their ‘unworked fallows into grain 
in sown in rows at very 
we might _— shortened very 
ing, but are 
my calculations on 
farm, &c.—J. M. G. [Pray 
y |of Ireland. Nowa aeo caleulated to give a LAND DRAINAGE ye | 
rage of a da No. VI.— HORNCASTLE.. Date of eg 
munieating w — — gh 8 or se suficient for 12 persons. But we ber and Dece , 1843. 2 | 
eae x e found g of a f Potatoes t, and tent Drai $ 46 2 i Í 
: ——— 1 of the h highest on the line, is we have theref of an acre, or 1} acre, to feed the Nature of Soil ” 34 acres, sandy loar i 
- s blue marl, excavated, | cow on, which, in house-feeding, will be far more than | clay, full of — and e : i 
. — en Thus, the ne T support a | soil, A erigi ims ning £ pe | 
The late disease in the ‘Potato an deep, Tet apart ad the * 
unsafe one to — — e * and soles; the 12 dere ae 
food nf ithe 
