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AT URDA LY, JUL JULY 29, 1848 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO ibis hiak WEEKS. 
gricultural Soc’ 
pi SDAY, Aug. gland. 
EDNESDAY, — 
Tacnspay, = .— of "ta e, Society at 
Farpar — 
of Ireland. 
a a Say 
4 
3—Agricultural 
S—Agricaltural Aa ag A 
ociety of Ireland. 
10—Agrieultara 
oa Cron- “pose, t. Deke Moie- Aent 7: 
We beg the attention of our readers to the 
Propuce Returns tabulated in this Num 
r. e have to tha . — er re who 
obligingly so promptl 
9 to . — on this su soe = "Tt 
that the generally indicate a fall averag 
0 
aratively px 8 of of Beans, a very 
bei rop of Peas, good Roses of a Turnip cro 
and a hea avy e rop of hay of variable quality. They 
indicate also a 2 si of Wheat nay eer consider- 
pe years at this season 
tato crop are given in 
On the 9 
e date of these retu 
ſor 1 a: anticipation regardi 
vest. h of its result, owever, still * 
doubt, on ce weather 
Turnx are two 3 4 pa hae in — 
action of the mo v nds 
Macuines y are pia 80 illustrated: 
e that on 3 the corn 
0 
le a series ‘of blows or . — 
it, in a directi 
in ‘ity of the Scotch threshing machines, and of 
the grating common in the English machines, are |y 
d. 
eat, a 8 yield of Barley, a com- ot 
ts and 
AG 
i — have 12 55 indee 
| eee i oni 
in ipe > old plan, is fully 1 by r ne para 5 
but the number of bushels of Wheat that 
them.” 
of it (Continued cheering.) The 
Alben we a 2. asi” Baws, © Hitherto in Pal thresbiäg Bunsen (the Prussian Minister) . i 
machines iven by wheel and pinion — ; tahy 3 none in 
e ‘made to ‘revolve about a thousand | Oa ne ea n that agricul 
times in a mi and there are six beaters on Kia EEN dere bee — 5 
so that the 15 of blows or scutches that the — between the landlord and ‘ie — and 
straw receives is 100 per seco g great | the y —80 as that exists, and societies like 
velocity of drum, and t efficiency of a few flourish, so long wi a free and y 
blows in doing that which under the lan | nation, and I am sure it will be so, so long as you feel 
quired a number, renders feeding rollers, to hold | thankful for it being so.” (Loud Nor must 
re 
the straw while b 
the sheaves are accordingly merely spread out on a 
anig board and 1 15 the age A its own 
The drum so constructed i m 
of the English Hare enclosed around one- third 
—— W e ce by a sereen or cast-iron 
This s screen consists of 4 or five arched 
a form a portion of a cylinde er. 
of bars having a square oa 22 so that e 
one fa „present an edge to the passage of stra 
und a 
thus 5 
This screen is supported on iron bolts, so that 
when at rest it shall be about 4 of an inch from the 
a pressure on 1 em. 
The straw is thus threshed Kilia this ar 
harp or screen 2 2 which the most of the 
at once driy in case, as vill frequently | 
appen, any of the should remain 2 on 
the whole of it falis 11 m the drum as it passe 
a hag upon the 
e have been — 9 in — 
this machine —on the m page ah tien any hav 
been constructed through the e rach — 
involves a principle bee Sa different Dae that of 
the common Scotch machine, and as we believe 
tie to it, though we must confess that a a mode of 
applying it effectually, and so that its performance 
rhe one 
YORK AGRICULTURAL sage TING. 
Now that 4 great event has “e 
its warmest 
ts probable results, may unaccept- 
able, a e general excellence of the Sh ow, whether z 
e impleme or cattle, is universally admitte 
es at fact i is establish ed, as a reference to 
and copious reports of its proceedings will suf. 
And to what are we to! ook 
ab 
cently attest, 
but almost nth with it, the rule 
m the root to the ears, 
t 
e application of this pif: 
r threshing ra n has 
simple. 
ciple in the 
been ante is is ben 
board, it has 
a blow, as i in the first e 
the hadnt of co 
of its po — 
cutchin: 
. ier os than 
I 
ed r ing 
facilities of ingress an 
djir rai 
, | of England (remendous cheering) collect i in these =o. 
tings of the Royal Agri 
uri | eee our finida, m we shall be proud to exhibi 
corn under the new than | number of men can be killed and slain 
by the — advantages of Tork, and. the 
ded by the nume- 
was a 
po cer an i dakotat | 
ts 
And the Paes of all the land 
n that 
8 of f this kind distinguished by 
of rank and nye 
ed them o 
And when princes and nobles unite with te 
farmers and practical men in the a 1 of skill, 
science, e various bran 
t 
0 Science and mechanical improve 
the mere practice of cultivating the soil, in 
into an indus pursuit, requiring capi e 
skill, A n in the struggle of yn ea 
. consider this a rogress, as 
nd ape intelligens. 
griculturis 
11 to take 
al that of the Scotch machines, has yet to = 
t 
me off” with all po 
promoters 
And th h 
the probable g results 
- | and com 
cheers. 
and eloquent enforcement of the beneficial 
influence of English agriculture by ft, the 
verloo on this occasion, 
and 
i 
its b may but rustle in the 
ze of — ee revolutions,” da 
rated cheers.) uch for the beneficial effects 
hom ne — abr 1 of p — gigantic yet truly social 
gat 
Bat independent of the presence and influence of 
and a host beside, of what may well be termed 
these 
the s mobility of this one age and ra the Show must 
own i 
a doze pare 
his Arg with the | 125 (Vor 
ead of stock of 2 deseriptio n, the la 
In 3 0 2 r has n the ae 
f pe soe ement ; Lord "sl LOW e nine years ago) 
sisting but of 23 ents pe York, 1508 1 Our own, 
— other papers, have fully dese pee the —— 
and operation of many of * that it is only 
brief parting ce at 8 o leading 
—— of the day. =a application of steam 
elsewhere been ed, is vastly 
sent e 
— 5 him for the purpose? Very effectively, we 
only wonder being, that with n e 
force so pool h can be accom 5 i 
ast division of our subject, 
of this noble uae 
aul's rau and know. it 
ess on a soil rem parka for its ob- 
cultivation, nay, the very 
soils, o shall say what effects may n 
rom a mächine by whic 
te drain ma ormed of any depth pro- 
portioned to its motive Fit followed, as it is inte 
another mach same principle, to tear 
11 
bear sira 
but for a very brief allu- 
n, The 
communicate to eac 
2 the 
the application of science, in 
ra ya in the breeding and | 
rs.) 
tters such se 
e in 
2 trating the importance o of these 1 not 
selves only, but to nations too often 
our enemi wag n roi [What a 
perversion of common sense ! ot less excellent in 
pe, ge 
m international anatina (applause 
them, a and 
he progress of civilisation, to compete in a than 
battle (loud — and that, in showing to one 
bit, not the | 
icket 8 
ntiments machinery, sh 
It is 
our- | So 
rem: 
| its way was the address of M. Van de vae, the Bel- |in every 
8 mbassador. “I ho ntlemen,” he said, “ that | va 
e sh soon use ), 
af and that all the nations of f Europe shall be! for once cori- u 
vinced th 
