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habits, characters, and, if they are married, families 8 — at e of the former destruction 
8 á also, when they might e — and be ere long in- = re Pot Hes 1 yo = 1 quite con- 
` 2 4 dependent, eo mfo ene, and 1 table by simply la rmed to the fact that whatev e remote causes, 
drains ; air alone contributing . ing b by spare ings. Non 3 — nothing contributed more thas — i tho on 
ee he is the batten: of all the shillings e pounds he has e e e of age e tuber. — ia $ 
° mis-spent. n n gar isease — y aeaa: € * was 
carne = 37 hort to the combined influence of na * respecta e wo such a e invariably to be worse where the . W yas wetter, 
man ved all these sums to spend retentive, &c., and vice versa. The trast was 
: m | them afterwards in improving the com ‘si of himself eee ee e 
lieved of ex- and family, his little stock, or his allet nent, if he has | procu in poro soil and we „clay. 
mang Sae a ed obtained ia. Wages ill spent do those who get them | The — was —— = thie neighbourhood of Kidder- 
after s drainage by gravitation ceases, and stones or tiles harm in place of good. Both good and bad habits are minster and Burnham, ne rid 
ess liable to sanp "Thi is air drain also in effect | acquired by degrees, pm imperceptibly. The mis- 
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iken the minor = —4. s : e practical rd, ms to me t offer the ail pre and on Scalable the peck; at Tenbury, for Is. 4d. at the same time. 
ntages arising from the at method "o be satis- | mode of investment — savings; yet there are very That year was remarkable for the extreme humidity 
iflin any who kno think but little * it. Among ° of the summer months, as I perceive from notes made 
a at the time. But why should I adduce proof of that 
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Bell! for the information of the agricultural community | by 283 only one or a few shillings. 2. ae each de- —.— cause of the destruction of the Potato was ex- 
that results should be . Simon Hutchinson, | positor gets a book for his account for nothing, when | cessive moisture in the earth. N , these 
Manthorpe Lodge, theater ne 18. e first commences, and whi = book — full infor- data, the problem was to secure a plant obnoxious to 
Unfermented Bread. — I hav ve used unfermented | mation about the rules, &c. 3. That no cr 3 we sam A 
bread in my famil ri some time past. At first we | to see the bank books, so that nobody know in future, The plan a 3 to me, and which 
made it by using the quantities of bicarbonate of soda | positor puts in, except the depositor himself and pa 
and muriatic acid mentioned in the “ Physician’s ” pam- | officers of the bank. 4. That besides being safer than | it had not been so, and success! 
phlet, viz , to 3 lbs. avoirdupois of flour, 9 drachms of | it would be anywhere else, the money or any part of it, ; n accoun 
bicarbonate of soda, and 114 fluid drachms of muriatic | in addition to interest, can be got back an . If la- of it. Having had my ground trenched, as for the 
acid, apothecaries weight. We soon found a very great | bouring men live at a distance any one else may go for | Winter, I caused the — to be dibbled in ‘ee at the usual 
improvement both in the appearance and flavour of the | them, or for any number of them at a time. Those distances on the top of the ridges to about half their 
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tions—viz.: to 14 Ibs. avoirdupois of flour, 8 drachms | to the well- doing portion of society is kept much lower pan 
of tartaric acid, and 11 drachms of bicarbonate of soda. than it otherwise would pa. Improvident men not onl 
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into dough r rather ‘thinner than o ordinary, and imme- | are high, that these men become most issipated > this int know g 2 ofthe b beneficent ‘ft of, f the Cr ator 
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5 -i : aking in * quick ic it into bre in 5 fod not) is | compels employers to introduce mor ii 
at is required to m Se in es the employment itself can pe i 2 33 
Forty of this process over the former ono is obvious. | has the eect , ̃]̃—' of | te Potato in utility and value and we s must ‘ay y every 
The bread is of pie Be quaiity, and is much admi 2 sadly redueing wages. t is when work is scarce, and fou: or 
by all who have tasted it. I have 10 stones of flour wages are low, that these men work hard for mere sub-) 3 werf en w one destruction ; 
a time mixed with the two powdérs, the 2 of which sistence, and their ill timed and increased competition Cate Whit vord, Rector of Burford, Feb 
of the best meee f. = that quantity of flour is 1s. 8d., or | then reduce wages further down to the most melancholy Foreign Correspondence. 
Id. for 7 lb For making brown bread it will | state of depression. In other words, when wages are| Boxx on THE RHINE, Jul iatt the two last n 
found necess sa use larger quantities, viz. high these men are traitors to the common interest ;| bers of our Gazette ‘dat 8 reached me, I eee 
drachm of beben, of soda with 3 of a drachm of | when wages are low, they become unfair burdens on the in one „ as to the employment of oxen in f 
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‘tartari pound of meal ; P., Camberwell. then scanty supply of labour. Undoubted] 
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ged Habits among the lidia” Classes.— | measure of cure for depressions in wages would consist 3 Laue Eee, 2 N ety cone ares 
e late Mr. Loudon in his m — in reversing these irrationa A ha 5 r Hence the impor- | with profit, and propose [We only quoted the pre posi- 
aa. a orm provident habits, observes, ( With | tanca, as appears to me savings-bank bein mg tion of another on that subject.] using your houe fed 
the respect to saving money, we shall not 33 to state pressed upon the attention of al to whom it would be | cows in such work as they are capable of undertakin 
a * eat proportion of wages that ng Bs s e A 3 useful; J. ough a subscriber to your journal of perha 70 
ont 5 geet raie Sere su 5 is ne fi 25 of dill ha nasbindry, Wis oF ante dae ie RE Se Be ee Fh the geente etjo ment 
: s > Bare. T ather of drill husbandry, was of opinion that land |I have no present connection with agriculture; 1 take, 
ty of keeping the ultimate object (being inde- | ploughed deep and exposed to the action of frosts in i i 
din rm in old age), and its great alvantages, con- winter and the hot suns of summer was a sufficient 8 no pare ponme i arius 
high i y in view, and to prefer security of sont ge to preparation for the land, without ures, to yield a modes ken of and reco rainanded with 
wi 3 The vulgar reason why a you good crop of Wheat—the Wheat to be drilled and what happens to fal under my eye. Fe this district a 
85 save is, that le may get together as nich a hoed. Experience showed that good crops of corn | great proportion of farm work is performed with oxen; 
y enable him to collect some furniture and get maré cannot be raised without manure, and Jethro Tull's not unfrequently is a cart or plough seen to move under 
ried. Thi calle th u i dence Oh 5 h ed; i 
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© quantity or quality of their furniture, All they ae aa ing the drill ; but that —— 77 .* mere opera- every house one passes in the villages. The Serman 
3 ary is accordingly often acquired be- of ploughing alone, could yield white erops sue- are gentle and kind in their manner to their animals; 
y are 20. Housekeeping and propagation are post. without manures, is now an exploded theory. | this gentleness is universally repaid by the 3 
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— — 21 scanty food, and their attendants, bad tem- and in many ins ances the cereals when thus sown are gence 9 ween the man and | is brute. 
dist = disease. After 25 years of bustle and toand to yield superior crops to those sown broadcast ;| relate various instances, but your time would hardly be 
duced, and alf a score of children have been pro- | but Bae Soa of drilling was to enable the crops to well employed in en details. I witn however, 
ignorases š ang probably growing up in rags and | be hoed, and on lands subject to Werks no system can the ves interview N a m and an ox he had had 
ed 1 ma all that this couple can say is they have be more judicious. We ourselves have found by long for a ree years very no oble looking ani- 
that by which th create nine times as much misery as | experience the broadcast system to be more profita le, tg — over fed but in 1 5 “conditi tion, it was not driven 
man had limited ey are themselves oppressed. If the but our land was clean; besides, we have found our r led, but followed his owner, who walked rather 
eads of pins , himself for 25 years to making the tN 1 drilled to suffer more ‘extensively from the ak iedly through the streets, like a dog, till he aug 
pins, he might have accumulated as much as rav the wireworm and slugs—the plants have at the butcher’s 1 n 
and still had pet him independent and comfortable, aiei 8 not that drilling poh an this, but a Re: e had worked for more than two years bed 
enjoy the comf cient time before him to marry, and | that the thinness of the plant, ard, being in rows as the farm, increasing in size and weight, and earning his 
2 goin, ort and solace of a wife and children.“ a necessary a 54 5 on of drilling, did not allow a suf. —. thefwhle eee. | 8 I believe, un- 
g is clay | . true : picture, Labouring | ficient number lants to co ver the ground. The known here; the land a good deal subdivided, we see 
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: t is young unmarried men that can surprised me. On poor or middling soils drilling Wheat Your case, when you describe ba effects of your — 75 
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spending r. it is then also that they are apt, by mis- is a dad practice ; 3 S.S i i ing s ; it is, in fact, m 
bp ee” to acquire those habits, alike| Humidity the Cause of the Potato Disease.—Dr.| on the system of a nail "holding, wish the use of 
dence, 8 Opportunities of improvement and indepen- | Buckland, in the letter you recently published, speaks 5 fine and expensive implements requisite on 
. any of them. It is sai be a of icity as one probably o veral causes pro- farms; you perform with h labour, at a 
hand bef, y ee man not to have a stock = ducing the decay of the Potato during the years of maiad cost, with eine ae to your Psa 
yet it is melancholy to see | blight. What I now * w Meda before your readers neighbour, but with the 
how many 
young 8 men not onl i i ‘with 
Rey. § men not only squander mo- is one of those other a prominent and manifest | work as a 8 3 * and wi 
> by carelessness and dissipation, but ruin health, | one—one which I 13057 ae found doubted as a plainly | jess hum and conseq less wages 
