25—1848.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 413 
armers’ Clubs. 
a 
au.—At a late meeting of this Society | po 
marks :— 
Nor 
Mr. Mechi n the following re 
quently sold never to return to the farmer, He should ome 
not know whether it is so in this neigt bourhood, but if you de 
ronsuming | an nd purchas 
gs, instead pf thro so in many I snd it's where yaw is not apparent on the surface 
chant or miller. I consider that one eof the pg ‘im —you will soon flow, A gg ped 3, 4, or 5 feet deep. 
he, mere inte in a and, ret my own part, Í a — refore, by digging such holes, if the leve e wna 
ing at the rate of 500 qrs. t e ound os d 20 t a ongs surface, I should decidedly recom- 
it 
ìl farm of 150 acres: and I find that | mend zu rained to the depth of 5 feet, because 
He said: Mr. Chairman, and 2 I feel very much 
obliged to the — — of this elub for having done me the 
ur — bg one me on —.— occasion. I assure you 
fee 
— — © whom I have po pl — 3 to pon- | 
5 y pi 
1000 qrs. of co 
| for a ‘depends u upon ir price, but I s 
of e 
ly, 
nipe: 80 
I d 
one posune z : 
ee 
e 2 and ans 
well, that next year I shal — rchase is for Sa 2 rkp! * soil that the Wheat ee off yellow, 
not tie myself to any , sort, | especially after a wet season. I have observed a crop of Wheat 
all purchase 1009 qrs, |89. en flourishing up to —9 2 of sy, and then it 
med a yellow aud pallid: appearance, and what is com- 
nal called, goes off; and that — in fact, — the roo’ 
ni — farm — a in additio 
w grow 
; 
sider as in the first rank of agric h 
upon what has been done in Vale ‘by. ribet 33 pase 
te Lord Leicester, I am o 8 
me ; > 
with the importance of * aa produced by his extraor 
m 
I see have taken place in this county. And I do hope a 
trust, and I feel, that his example is extending beyond the 
twas my good fortune to-day to 
travel with one of — late lordship’s tenants. On asking him 
th condition of his land, I was gratified to 
find, that the — had increased 300 ~ —— SEN the land 
was wort ur times as much now as 5 years ago. 
at that fonha had — on a 
farm of 1200 acres in the course of — holding, —— extended 
over 25 years, the sum of 20,000. in j ci al m — e. the 
sum of 40, in oileake, the sum 000k. 
in 25 — on a farm of 1200 acres. Now, gentlemen, 1 that 
has been done with profit to the sna, has it not been done | 
i vantage to the landlord, and to the communit 
with t — init not a most penutifal med impressive ilias- 
tration of the advantage of landlords —- 
ving men, as their tenantry, and encouraging — — k 
when they have got them? I admire the landl Gale of this 
that the o 
solid o character. I * a 
the Mangold Wurzel, the Tares, and t ye, sort o 
and | salad after dinner; but 2 their dinner should see of oil- rin ed th 
cake, of grain, or 'of nd | 0 
n to 
ti 
2 2 in addi e; having a desire to go deeper into the 2 oil, and meeti g 
stagnant water, Itis much the same as stoppiv ug the drain 
na flower-pot we * — tt water, or keeping the e ot the 
ater, You will invariably find that the re- 
+ | sult of that is to 25 urn the plant yellow, as I have no doubbt you 
have 1 As to the mode of drainage, I am quite con. 
t d down the hill, and not across. 
poe 2 1 rage sing toa of that occurred on my farm the 
arnes 
oc 
ther part should form merely the amall anon afat thes day iece of land on the slope bad been drained 
wW and thåt they should not be kept, as da 2 
the case, in a constant eS eee pride d some posts for ‘rails on the incline below the draine, and I found 
eating an unlimited —.— kai aay —— It may be said, | chat the holes were full of water, exactly level with the drain, 
ro 
0 nk so 
Potatoes, which people will buy most readily in —— f 
hen take Wheat . do 
Ap 
across te hill, at ouly 2 feet deep. I had occasion to putin 
which although 2 feet deep, being 2 feet higher in the 7 Era 
Nov, if chat 
+) | drain, ins being cut across the hill, had been ed down 
1 the hi hil, * would ar met the water and have been ual. 
distance fro rig: P — of earth down the hill; or it . 
4 feet in ae of 2 , the would ha wah kod its way d 
only 'eonsaming 7 own spring crops, but also that he is the drai ; but b . 2 — . . ABl, and carrying 
nd 
them sod, a hill, it is clear that the r below the bas 
g a good 
| — Egypt, Indian Corn from e any fen eel no pre — 80 a it, but has a — rt to go to und — way 
into the next drain, whereas, if the ng may tog eut up and down: 
the hill, — portion = soil, yt it co eee would n 
find its way to the drai Iam afraid * d 
c r part 5 . — 
— meg as 77 a and I feel —— 3 3 8 ron of — — . must be ar om to “or ney fo = getting rath . i. 0 Noy mo," a an ry . ) Well, 
of their success ay thei ey arms men of capital permanent value 
— A gentleman 1 na 
is another point, I g sheep on Mr. Huxtable’s 
8 18 Called board veges, (Lauguter.) I. find that it 
DA 
sors, 
and intelligence, N “of 7 a * servile and | farm into his own hands said to me, Loo my A my is a very succe essful practic e; and Í reped 
her 
r men, We know perfectly well that we are not ali 
lessed with capital, nor all equally bisd with intelli- 
gence; but let those who are landlords and have an abund- 
5 5 hem ea t ad m 
and 
to the 3 question of agriculture, “and touch seen a few | 
points E 1 own — i y —— be very happy, as I go 
on, to hear y r opinio ns, wer any que estion , and to 
receive a I may ee 
as such I look around to those who are older 
tised than myself, to see if something cannot 8 learned. 1 
think we are bound not to assume that wo an perfect in our 
jepe 
armer, 
2 
n comfort, capi W 
— with ‘the late ‘earl of Le r: for he said, I rejoice to certainly u i infinitely better than some I ha are N. on the 
my farmers —— aan ne; I am glad to see them old syst folding. They consume less fi n proportion 
a has been taking rent of a bad . 5 has been ex- 
| hausting his land from year to year; I am sure that the whole 
of the rent which has been paid will not a — r — oe : 
— naman 2 a 8 mber of years. * 1 A ean be them weigh 12 stones, which is 24 lbs. kauss for half-bred 
ore convincing that a bad far le 
Ee — Bo a but — to the "landlord, d tothe country a Piece 1 én a, re rition that ne. doen 1 
vocations, but to go on improving from o day 
been extremely 2 on this my aie ele to Norfolk, to 
see that in this district you have such good la ag igre K. — 
Bare 3 — 2 il entl ma 
d 
time 1 
busin 
—— the — . i sapian — g 
the — of this kingdom—the better * will de for a 
mee mmunit: ity y for the landlord, the mechanic. and eine half a hashet of r per day, and sweeping it 
0 at 
r 
peie that there amia in this country (bi very limited gr 
egree, I am happy to say) a little feeling — the old feudal 225 io ee in ‘chat state vat 
which is, that letti 
in operat I ad 80 
sheep on Soani for several h i — the pet, A 
well; = when I tell you, that, at one old, several of 
2— —— 
p 
of the proposition. A good one 0 kit — Occasionally, one or two, from ees, apoplectic 
equal — ng ; and therefore I do hope to see the and fut, were — ed to be giddy and 1 I was lad to see i 
o | character re atie re improved. I “do ope to see them tor they were — rore — to th archer. There 1 
| and 
rm = t 
no foot-rot, a 4 generally present $ — healthy and 
comfortable appearauce. On our cold and exposed land, they 
the celing of the 7 the 1 
he more intellige ou get among | bed Wes Tat they pu ton. There is no 22 for laa and their 
down 
the cra we have 2 excellent rte of manure to, 
t, jimena Iam | Sow the Turn nip k for — your J is neither too wet no: tue 
Y» 
ing the land was not a mere act of will find a ie rtable I. I thin *. 
tenant. I think tha e tenants, t might trim 
gre 
which forms the kernel of the grain; and as we sell off 
from our farms q enough grain Shichi does Sg fin its way 
z seata, I 1 = ought especially to take care of that 
rood 
nen o 
rE 
noney 
8 * 
A 
A 
ope sl — compar 
isagreeable enough. Teo — 
t, alth 
It is true, 1 — 1 sae he oe. — m-engine, and I have | Lord Leicester's bead farmers told me, 
ad 1 of Wheat g 
— should advocate a princ 5 icultu’ We should 
"of business. Ido notsee that you can call it any thing | state the facts, and the result, as a —— of profit. (Applause.), 
kind feeling. 
ures and in — — 
pene — — pai 14 pm 
cep * s — a: you yag y? a some few old prejudices he! 105 ot accuse 
U par — — 8 — bad tenants, of which | of being slow in adepting wha ay 8 agricu ja — are 
else; but still, in all eee of — ae wen between the | 
trader and his supplier, the and the And then those who have the opportunity of seeing the 
ss | goods nd a will always. be, between — a man, a where there is 755 capital, there is general! 
m 
e 
dee vere pa can draw their own conclusions, I know practically 
y an ample desire om 
| the par verything that is profitable. I do not 
had see it N. as much in 
as in agriculture. agree * 2 Y 2 Prejudice, ae — ulturists are slow 
I speak — 
. aes that ‘the same | to observe things conducive to wh interests Rayo 
y few, will always find business 
, | of thin sowing is now 8 a ticklish 
nsider par miyn ure, at present, what I have seen in your neighb 
uch progress here, But still a See att Few yg the 
Norio mind in that respect, slowly and Ser 9 of. 
the other t he 
— * Tep ing from 
made 
ng 
2 to farm tolerably 
n 
for | © an 
put up an expensive steam- poe dadine Ge — t 
h — ug season; although his neighbours were 
; because an would 
si seein iene e to — ur ts in 4 bushels, he feels quite sure, that he thould’ never put in 
I 
e do ; nor do I believe that | 
— of building, aed that troughing must be put up, and 
soon; and while I am aware that in every tine it cannot be 
— 1 am quite sure that in a great t many cases it might be 
T 
more 5 pecks, that is dibbled, but most likely 4, g 
to “the a st tai of th e land. „My 0 own experience has invariably 
make it arule every y 
t 
are aly in the ‘infancy of ‘agriculture. When I go and in almost over eld, to leave a portion ot my land drille 
D gardener, holding with 2 bushels, as well as 1 bushel, in order that I may, ev 
isa very admir. rable ¢ one, and I believe that the country generally, | 
I for one, rg 3 I am indebted to your 
introduction 2 arm. I consider that all manure should 
** aide un r free from water, for then the animals 
are kept in ri Tre healthy condition, and the manure is also 
kept in a more healthy condition, ready to go on to be soil 
ured, 3 hed, and undri ed, whenever it is regni 
have adopte d the box mearke for my animals with Fe, cine 
and I regret extremely that the whole of my farm- yards are | 
to infer — are 
f i 
invested in a market garde 
k 
I 1 —— amount of food, both for pies ane beast, than at 
=. the ch 
a 
farming, althoug 
wh 
h it is parara iis atiemp ow those | that in Suffolk, a very able and careful old tarmer, after wha 
ery 
ear, arrive at brka results. Those as 11 said — 
Sy 
—— per ae for — crop. I can give yo — the a rity; 11 been invariably in favour of thin sow 
the 
last year being nacre st the rent of 1 — — 
at | happy to hear frum those gentlemen present, * wg — tried 
have the power of produeing a very 88 quantities, bol eee 5 oar * Meat 
* ~ 
Dot 1 covere 
of Ayal should fall” in any portion of them. I know of no 
street. I saw there an enormous number of beautiful animals 
ane tural Society’s Journal,“ has shown clearly, 
is rejected bi 3 Ibs. be of flesh t that is put 1 by 7 — eanifial, 5 om 
af pope 
— — a doubt. Th Therefore, if we can purc 12 ieee quan 
e I do not care o of whats sort or from wher country 
and if we can purchas 
are 
if | loads 
the principle that I have des 
larger ge eat 
afraid o 
er ac nt for our 
y 
re mutton o: — 
much manure 
nsive ani 
on the fsrm, at — ve for it, it requires no conjuro 
ob <i d hall, . 
of manure, by purchasing food, we shall, it we = . 7 bashol 
ing overburdened — rg 2 pat On; 40.08 80 corn than on the — of the field which had been drilled 
č act, thin ng that instance, 
at stubble. If we pies I said at a Suffolk meeting, altered his drill on an acre of lan 
i field. He to two mon ) 
— any disfere nee in ac — ve him an advantage of a 
I get the n fow gm : 
t 
| hich I — not — in the shape of of grain, v which it "would not do | There he had nv increase tr — hin sowing ; pat he saved the 
— er- * 2 N bushel of seed, which is an object, being worth 7s.; and he 
sora D 1 this rac? shee ote ough on poor land; and I be- ain e Wann tks chime fet 3 
lieve it is because I put a quantity of manure under 15 I have g aw from the same field, and found, 
ot seen any such 4 this neighbourhood, aioe ugh the land is hare nel be thin alan it is called, produces more 
ine. I do not say it from vanity, but 
an m 
to illustrate — — that we pe A pply much enough. D may not fi — amen, or the 
a fo 
ing © 
green crop, it is equivalent to having a ce um of mouey ; : "W h 
because it is the means of producing a There is the fa” el as T do, that it would a thing KA but „ you must 
75 
ve a continuance of pore I A r, those 
waggon que rti 
now — well settled. For my own part, I think waggons 
— A umberi — — se not very useful ap- Wheats rand heavy in the the —— = J Bin * loss to to ene as 
— to a farm. I use 
7 commend, you to do the same, if 
the tra 2 of sites Prodase, I shall be very happy to state 
ý unity, t be very 
3 apace 5 shogid ye At all events, I hope yo 90 * not — a that I — 
much, — each 5 — at try the neee r at 
—.— teach cart is capable of think 9 a — conclusions. I sh pee 2 87 1 me ths 
T 
—.— 8. 
è practice 
will do | Sreat diticatty is to ge a profit ou of the land. We rama 
tie hs pac ag esa 
Aois quality, f or ae It was proved in the paper t 
which * alluded, that where animals were purchased at a 
— aes 4 or gra — tliey were fed with hay and oil- 
lost — grain, all purchased—that though those animals 
the tly do when t 
e 
— Hie as fi 
lis ere an — nsideration. We know, practically, | 
anure is applied to the land —I s 
y fiel 8 the land feels it at le — a year — 
* any e manure you can put am 
it ` he e farm-y d man 
a Peete penn, like the tea-leaves that are left in the pot after | 
K 5 the tea has been poured away, But I am quite sure, 
— de glad ch have my opinion confirmed by * 
x sos that a farmer will never 1 well a 
h an affo d i 
& stock, in fattening them with purchased food, and, in 
g 
ri in selling to his stock that spring corn which is now fre [su 
ar. 
the same work. oie — club is are on that question.— k , con at À = 
f paratively a ior business, The great losses arising from dis~ 
gines, I am glad pos hg d that you pears e Portable | ses in tock, from diseases im horses, and other casualties, 
ste 
There is uo doubt that ill have fi — * 0 —.— Regio. at all times rather a precarious affair, It 
a ultimately, fo for 
n bet 
oa te 
You c 
3 when = 3 sd ten of pompensation is becouses, ‘shen, Of erent miportance that the d etails of the 
7k is gnito as expenditare should be very closely = tehed, So far as my own 
3 3 aad 
agen A 
ou me Subject, 11 will 1 essentially a question between a horse-hoe, Now hoeing is aa operation which requires to be 
It is a =. 
found * — 1 in certain 
| man pet — the outgoin ng, and the stne operations from oe e use of an 1 which 1 do not see, I 
am sorry to say, in your neighbourhood. I speak of Garrett’s 
dthe pon ringers Di N very farmer will be gl done very 3 at a particular time, ag if possible, very 
urfac 
t 
and we ought always to ascertain how near the water is to the 
e by digging holes. 
y hi — ney away when sees the value for it, and no 
> pay hs m wish, to Neue money unless there is the value. pair ori i assure you, that during the last five woe with — e 
regard to drainiug, your land here is particularly situated, | Pal rses irn days, rT pe r 
Much of it does not aopn 7 ago! but I think I was a little dry weather to * e ee there 
b 
there wer en the rows. Now that operation was effected 
at a cos lid. per ae = I have no hes — in saying 
which i could no 
If Ta dig a post-hole in land—I də 
