26—1848.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
> yIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL 1 
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AND GARDEN 
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It is of a nature t 
being loaded in carts or barges.— Direct to Mr, Preston Leib, 
at the the London Gas Works, Vauxhall. 
The Agricultural Gazette. n 
TURDAY, JUNE 2 _* 
MEE ETINGS | FOR THE TW 
Toxspar, atc! Tony Socie of 
6—Agricultural Imp. San 
ar Cr uEs. Tune 552 4 — er.—July aa 
Melrose.—July 3: Claydon. 
MANUAL HUSBANDRY in the case of 
dia 
WEEKS, 
of ao 
2 — 
ewcastle, Durham, 
July 
USIVE 
might not with Yh. be 
cultivated Wat iy tly sy. the spade or 
ows the gr 
c 
tion. This is . sa best way of diminishing 
the amount of horse pow — on 
ra 
t but while 
epee ii it would also diminish the 
of the far 
gross produce 
And, as it is the labour of the busi ne 
epet 
s Soi be 
ultivate pare fields by 
owever, W 3 exha 
diminish its pro would increase the crop, 
benefit 5 ee ae diminish oes cost of horse 
cultivatio 
Havitig’ Mies all this in our own experience, 
ntly recommend its trial elsewhere. 
ts, 
uring the pre- 
sent year. 
The wages of a ploughman during the year .. 
And the * of it horses, at least 5 se 
.. wre 
50 
2 76 
0 
0 
0 
By an lay a 
‘On sans 1 acres at 303. 
£30 
the ‘culture of Carrots formeriy 
3 acres at 2 26 
0 
© 
4 * 
one Dy P 
0 0 
unting in all to - £56 
Th T T saving is considerable; ‘the increased 
produce will no doubt be som ewhat rth of 
is saved ; id 301. worth of ien Abo 
1 
rience, too, on the ex- 
small farms, and believe | g 
d good, and | a 
e had some ex 
clusive band cultivation o 
where population is abundant, lan 
ence 
8 be a yn of * 
sufficient: 
n ana Poultry will gre 
e fork. | dr 
z gees 
e soil nor B 
most profitable. In this case the farmer each year will 
grain 
five acres of after 
ve 
anjane rnt cropping such a 
my rates wou uid | be as foll 
ll. 
For te pre ina manure from head-lands, 200 yards, 
3 2d. per yard 
plitting drills by the spade, to cover r the manure, 
1 
m 
a 
4 acres of Wheat, after green ‘crops, a s, 6d. 4 
1 of Oats, after gre p, at 155 et acre, for 
igging g and 9 see 
5 acres of lea — dus, * seed covered, at i 
ba acres of Clo 
The land a be tilled to me my . treble die 
common wi armers; rops got in hr eg 
in better le by peon and free ta all the injurious effects 
8 eee and conse 
nen 
n 0 
crops, five | o 
ess no „N 
~q 
is that we P d buliocks 
heifers just as etme b ned to 
of, recommends t ares be 
returned to labour a month after ANE ai ake igh at 
jere until within a r days of orm ber ext season, not 
only he 2 eee injury but wi 
are aware 
riving. a enh very far advance calf or in fall 
istant fair, of 10 miles and back, without per- 
— s re vine 70 tever. 
e vat s inj 
wie 
d i 
con convenient t 1057 the farm: yard for two rage bw 
exercise, beya there to leap and horn other.” 
n case, what horse-la bor * — be re- 
t placed by the hand, it is ape ed shall be per- 
formed b house-fed e 
cre, mu 
um 2 spent i in ages on hb e ordinary s sy stem 
of 155 orse ee in 
hav 
— manual is more a 
ry. On a farm 
of| p 
tested by — result. 
8 id of 
e 
We have Ou vei very high authority in 
hat 
ree advantage ea 
the | tree on 
ee gon ard 
Mr. 
qui 
a bushel, ie wa so ran 
—— close ; but miie that it E= thicker still, so 1 fed 
off close. again iled the crop, a 
For the fu 
4 at, ae tila p+ avery h 
f Mangold Wurzel ( (a ‘fall. 8 $ 
— 14 Rape 
a u 
red by wireworm, but filling up oe 80 b 
indeed that it w dly give the spring sown the 
ay 
ste 4 
astrong dressing of farm-yard manure 
r the roots. But, depend upon it, 28 tons of Mangold 
acre tak ore out o 
flourishing so long as 
man, looks — mo 8 in the months of wa — 
June-its or food exceeds its supp 
bilious Fee of the Wheat crops — — n iiy 
residence and the metropolis give unmistakeable 
evidence of the truth of my assertion, As to the 
Hatley near ie tat 
the 
th 
antly 1 us = joining with him ias recommend 
the system for general trial in Ire 
glad to believe that his 1 75 lation ef wages 
will prove too low, as i not only in the horse 
food ated — the gross poe imt increased, but the 
larger labour vin te that the merits of the spade 
— especially lie 
SOWING AND DEEP DRAINING. 
paid 
not rainy ar, ing and 
on a small — before he presu 
those who. do „and w who have facts to guide 
them. The“ iclnantin asking questions, 
| proves 1 and is neither —— nor admissible 
in matter of fact farm eologists or 
may e for centuries a which 
proved, but there is 
can never be 
nothing in f 
1 
is born to be unfortu- p: 
in 
thin ae on a own | sp 
‘arming but may be | W 
uestion, Do Mr. 
— “answer they do 172 1 Mr. Baker 
actical m x said they would not, : 
of a course they Eg never tried deep drains 
soils, If whe ins do run freely after ion, M 
save still considers them of no sah j should decidedly 
topping up the holes in the flowe 
n such 
t- | enough to state that the Rev. Mr. Geshe; whose balldings 
he so justly praises, is a thin seeder.—J. J. Mechi, 
ORNAMENTAL POULTRY. 
Pea-Fowt. 
state, w 
tendant upon keeping them, 
indifference with which e everything not rare is apt to be 
by us, they would be so rane EE as never- 
tiring eure, 3 to gratify the 
ho d. mber the thrill of f delight w with beng 
brilliant 
in childhood, he he first gazed u 
Peacocks an 
It is so oN ge my lot to 
meet with rab i 
at as 
pe 
ultivation, properly 
riage required, and the i 
calle, would, for t the most part, still remain in ithe r 
hands of t the la 
In Ireland, 
— 
urer. 
where the labour . is so full, 
employment, relatively, so scarce can 
t a kind but resolute employer could 
essfully r on the za spade hus- 
to himself 
» «j 
thin 
knew e e 10 > avail, 0 I quietly ] 
placed him in 
‘other day a violent opposer 
came to view my farm. Argument I 
a rofit t 0 all around 
ULE, whose — — on this subject * 
We —— already noticed, is i very eon oo : — 
. ad e following as his 8 of ray — “of 
O-acre 
farm ouverts by the hand :— 
system of 
: Zo of Spade Hus —— and General Manual 
. D diba are, de. By ‘ALEXANDER YULE, J, M'GLASHAN, 21, 
— two Brshels the rest of the field having only one 
bushel. 
It was in vain tha 
sown s tetches, i reminded him that he had done r. 
He ex i] promised to do this forthwith. | 
„ the thic 
of Solomon 
| rye fable more ly chose its Kg 75 
which attached these 
wz (he at Tast, in Sead baie am 
1 rn 
two bn and when shown the thick sown, ad- 
could not difference. 
Now, ifthe thin sown thick enough in “May, 
eer toe terna- 
banishing A very pret and familar pais, or 
depriving my children of Stra 
