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THE; AGRICULTURAL. GAZETTE. 
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ulture would be attended with any. “advantage. For.a 
and liquid 
This Ks of theim 
W. 
* W. oe o W is to our southern 
rorce 
ses for summer feed than | — de. at wae 
provements most req ired in the sion o 
c 
eyes |i 
unted 22 
ploughs, chiy i iron, * — all ‘the stg of one. 
and to i oc! 
ss. The hunting field 
ealth of the Brocklesby- district, every farm 
orsemen chiefly in scarlet, well 
hat when all I 
40, 8 
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eagle erop of : Tornin yo e > 
ps. produced at grea 
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aes the best d 
—.— if. it were thought advisable 
nge into the agricultural 
class; 
2, I. neran — a better look. 
are pleasant 
ean and — — pe — women 
very pretty. 
I shall not deseribe our sport on this or any other 
ate The country is a pleasant one to ride, nouns pre- 
dable obstacles toa,well-mount Se- 
r- rotten 
e foxes na a sad spoil sport, 
8 
The huntsman 
they do in Durham, G 
He does his work very quietly, and the pack being very. 
silent, it requires a sharp eye or they steal away from 
sce 
prejudice in SATAO, of a little awie on breaking co 
At Brocklesby th ey aidr me that they draft more — 
arms, the size of the 
and horned stock, the neatness of the rs Bates, and 
general Signing excited. my. constant 
admiration 
. er isc . in summer than evon, 
p | Here. we find it.advantageo 
no easier 
mate and soil are suit- 
80 tha heat in summer is too great 
Cornwall is a better 
w the two pony: can 
— ae 
— but simply bee 
1 its profitable — aai 
Turni nip-coun canair Ey, as all who 
testify, being almost — by the 
For this 
of Scotland) is a 
from its proximity, to the sea tempera 
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in the island, _We have here the kind of weat 
succes. 
ite | farming, eee ‘vegetables, ea Der ton 
| Should this. mee ae ei pn ch 
and grain, may be most suitable for the Wolds of T Tim 
coln and the sands of 35> whilst a 
market gardening on a large scale, —.— with ion 
— — 
Ge the 
early Jam q 
more pene climate of Dev 
iculiurists of 
D they wi 
ing. that the a of tile 
any parts 
be 4 
— w. are grea 
n all Aenne where 
highlands are now more accessible. by wheel carriages 
— some of tlie fertile valleys. within = miles of 
Exeter.—James Caird, Baldoon, Wigton, N. Bs 
THIN SEEDING, &c. 
our Gazette of the 10th of this mon 
d, Mr. Mechi, and myself ha 
rn ‘and have been laid in our —— snrtouts, or 
in summer, mild in autumn, —.—— 
om frosts af any severity betore Christmas. 
us to push n culture to 
because we have climate and 
farmers | 
— too hoi in 
rain, and seldo 
its utmost, extent, | both 
my greatest.source of surprise © ay in the farmers them- 
satan, 1 every other traveller in this county J 
— this — — out from an apple.cheeked farmer 
of 70, in n on a stout cob, a story which others 
wy. have heard, befor 1 —1 have n ot. 
8 hen Lord. —.— after seeing 
of Wold the same query fermented in 
80 at —— of f. 
puzzling. question, 
m the Siar end of the table en ow 
I tell — — his lordship breeds ’e 
TURNIP CULTURE IN DEVONSHIRE. 
rst time I visited Devonshire. I was strongly 
impressed Mew t 
managemen the ‘Turnip. crop com 
with man —— less favoured enen of ‘this onip 
It was in winter, an onished t 
von breeds near! 
in the that i ia fed in it, 
A oxy first. place, then, the want of Turnips, as 
of lane, pis h _ nd 
neither bound up b — rigours of winter 
rehed by the fa — 
e in large fields 
| obat 
d| they are grown 
grent — me m general |t 
| or aren, 50 tons of — e. Grass per aere in a sing leseagon. 
Wil f En 
ing | 
sheep, bred and partly fed 
e north, are kept for a few months pore for | 
n ma whereas Dey y all 
cod for stock, is less felt i ih Devon than in any | 
Britain. the laboure 
of Devon, we have no perpetual vendre r us 
independent of it in winter. They, 
more fortunate if they, can dispense wit ith a crop which, 
beyond a others, is the most expensive grown by the 
15 
nding a change of management to 
any.| Semer 
Pia A aasa we should also consider: the. physical difficulties 
dmit of 
— 
* 
green 
wn, by sheep, with great advantage to 
soil; in fact, without on was the soil pir not be culti- 
Journal) obtaine 7 enormous p 40 
3 
r will the 
food equal to this! 
vie mp pn am 
Splendid. fields of e which were bs be. wath in che 
| neighbourhood of Peign 
ing of; ee 
a 7 5 — d that it ious to 
judie 
y | garden . coe ny = and dairy lands for — 
| frien 
the coarser 2 a ip of less fa ee distriets. 
The freque: eee. ves of Devon 
render it impossible to — ers the land with the same 
e- nor But 
he complete extinction re n- 
rags -i — coun 
advantage roprietors, t or the 
labourers, t — a land should be 3 unattrae- 
tive to t flock 
wever, are the m 
5 
mple, 4 
ough hie 
should we there- 
disti 
—— ee t of | harsh 
| mised to bring into meee the rout inspection ad Pa 
ossibl 
re not expect to fin it wou 
m to have given ; bur I did expect to find, after ral 
flourish of the pet, some account of Mr. 
Cook’s farm y hy ond the ve pate on a word can 
I discove he ; that, th an Wing, or 
“attractive,” I ba is most n EEES 
— promised blast of the + t tself. But, if there- 
o aceount of the far 
m, am e N is made for 
he 
' — omission by a eee of some very queer 
Baker writes, 
arming buildin dings, Mr. 
meen 
antity of s consumed, and the ue 
quantity of ten Dabibed in in 1 8 rhe by oe 3 
in summer months, by the action of sun a 
bined, &. Here zzled again to find out i. 
1 uantities of water are imbibe Mr, Baker 
y 
weather, but I cannot comprehend how this is 
peus during the ee 
ut Mr. —.— 
“tes that pak Cook 
be for the | enou 
every ro 
manual! labo 
* 
ed against thin ‘ceding or 
p a 
al” agriculture, as Professor Liebig terms it 
thi opris 80. n 
my ee y sun of s rs lener; or |“ r ; i 
especially favourable to the growth of Grass, and the | would: the rent af ey Tandloed b be maintained under | —aud I k appr also my opinion 
long Meg sn of i „often into such a change! Would all of them be in a better nothing whatever aga system, but onl 
Len spot aa t perpetual verdure on the pasture sition. to meet the competition: of di ies, | against. the instoument with whieh the land was 
— enables tlie the stock, i in the best parts of the county, with which they are threatened, if they substituted the | seeded. But what are the facts! are these; an 
an oeasional kept in the fields the season, with cultivation of i whieh these as I consider them most important, g ö 
is famous ceensional supply of of hay in severe weather. Dev. von | countries can send to us for the vegetable produce, | ticular. attention to ooo All p life I have been an 
from re or A emeena eaa s 1 ages, fresh — 4 — = of 2 e © 1816 and 51757 
these sources, — he stock erishable for. long vo, or the fr utter an , sowing — s early as „ 
- only b in pann from our own ne letters on the subject, I have 
ther, for, these natural 
Now, it may be questioned whe- whe» | milk which can, 
natural pastures a substitution tution of Turnip | fields! 
| resumed within the — few ane 
