bee! 5 HE AGRICULTURAL! GAZETTE. 609 
BIT’S CHEMICAL AND AGRI. 
those who already having the right to kill hares are Agricultural 7 have not described so un 
à so unpromising 
SCHOOL, 38, Kennington-lane, London.— | concerned in the privilege c onferred by these acts. | and so difficult a material to work into a fertile texture 
knowledge of Analytical and Agricaltural The only parties to whom this privilege will t conglomeration of black gravel, intermixed with 
Surveying, Levelling, Railway Engineer- 5 eat (which has n gen b 
Geology, “ined in Messrs, Nesbir’s Academy, in | useful are cottagers and owners of small patches of 3 49 d E gency of 
e 8 ca fon and who have hitherto been helpless sufferers bed water underneath), presented to the indomitable 
g on Arithmetic, Mensuration, Gauging, we d f E h indust Mr. Davis, A ging soil can 
English Parsing, dim, are published by Lona. | t epredation of anot ers game acts them- hardly be foun „and yet it now yields more we ht of 
may be had of all Booksellers. selves, ex ny meddling with the heat and other crops than better soils in th i 
School can be had on application either subject aff h bil F die whel Pp: 
dect atects the stability of the whole structure, bourhood, and with less manure. But th jeetio 
are of the very smallest importance to cultivators. | may ny land may be forced into fertility by 
Į a ette, Perhaps, indeed, in s as Py may tend to a great expenditure of labour and money ; but wi 
ee aaritultura 3 * | increase poaching, and ex sperate any irritability returns overbalance the outlay ? e p oprietor, or 
FURDAY, SEPTED SEPTEMBER 9, 1848, on the subject that may already obtain between | any man who has a stron ng passion for farming, and pos- 
be 6 landowners and tenantry, they may be considered | sesses ene e é the grated ion of his whims, 
C MEETINGS FOR THE FOLL as injurious to the latter. Certainly, however, they | may contrive to extract certain classes o 
ay Gane Set 9 ins oe de saat tt, ret do nothing but justice to the evirip s class of er ie ay eee O A 12 of gravel, but no 
Sept. 16: Readin e eee who, in in glan pawn nd man who expects a fair interest for his capital, no 
8 e have enquired of us the merits 
Conte for general cultiva- 
‘ou 
t 
amongst cottagers — ente laboi We | tenant farmer K a nobody who has been bred 
both 
. . * ev @vevull l 1 1 
may mention that th acts specially provide that . would ever dream of rec aiming a bog, 
beh 
rig 
= 
ise] 
a 
vena 
to the killing of hares by poison laid for them: and | landlord's family and the impoveri 
they adhe also to sporting operations “during Let us learn from his own testimon 
e season of 1847, the day y i 
generally fatal to the Bean crop, scarcely 
which had been autumn sown. The 
Wine Bean, like other plants, is however liable 
ks of mildew: and m 
have this year suffered in this way. The early 
period at which the crop is harvested enables the 
— —ͤä— ex ‘T 
We take the earliest Aty of calling | his estates, to indulge his farming propensities at a any 
attention to a work from the of Professor | cost, or to work out 1 the e projects 
Stmonps_ which, in F eee vil he had re out in his lib 
doubtless be considered to be of the highest | “I was 21 before I thought of becoming a farmer, 
importance.* A practical treatise on 2 and I feel it has ever been d dann S pig that g 
vina, or SmaLL Pox Ix Sher, from the farming education did n nce arly as 
e 0 wel informed, will, no doubt, be penne say gs me with anyparticalar practice but dag ah 
n a panic n with this Was of an age to seek info ormation, and open to every 
HR bi ee rn pe = sheep. market, Mr consideration that might conduce to a more profitable 
very subject p š : k 
3 ihe was consulted with reference to the deen 8 ` 
o has made 
„in e 
stages of the disorder, and it is full of history and while I was gaining practical informa 
e | detail, both on the arn subject, and on the treat- 5 what was do in on the farms, I was learning 
ment of particular case e cannot Pmi the | the elements of good farming by el perusing 
pe extracts which w uld alone be able to give a | every work on agriculture that was recommended to 
good idea of the contents of this eis work ; ar A W ie W T "rha of pine Re tan Boge: 
our limited space hinders us; and we must content | an ; 
ourselves with naming a few of the points which it he, protes o! = , s I thought myself ne ack 5 ‘ 
appears to establish. 2 
he disease is new to this 3 (pp. 2, 3, &e). farm 4 ae 8 pae —— 5 ? por fae 
It was introduced, in 1847, in sheep i mported from are a 
Denmark (p. 25), ‘and from ‘hes parts of the Conti- | farm would have P art of i 
nent. It is produced by contagion appearing in experienced farmer; but I entered upon it with buoyant 
will 
the distance en the me —.— oe 
Bie ae 
alte however arly over- 
— adore — be left till avant. ai 
“The produc a Is thus infected in 10 or 12 days after infec- irits, and was young, and not of a character to 
i but itis., i ‘al no large as that of other | animals 7, 29, 39). Itis, of course, communicable pa nd; nor did 1 then ere the teked bil TRAE 3 
s tis earlier, and leaves the ground ready tion (pp. 2 9). „0 > „despond; na ) 5 
oper, flow’ or a fallow crop during the | and in all its virulence, by inoculation, -29). But 2 necessary to A gage Psi 
‘tua, be: y nie it mas be communicated by inoculation in a mild — and . as ast „ scan 
ias de — — form by a superficial introduction of lymph, pro- other 8 3 od er e aiii 
Can Pian not n from te last | cured from the mildest cases (p. 107). And lymph ee ee *. pra ot Ar ati there 
: icle in the week’s | from cases several removes from the natural disease every disappoint ment ien tint y said ‘petvever 
benen the Wesr or 1 is less likely to induee a virulent case of the disease cg whee ts 
Company are eee confined | (p. 127). The disease is not e mmunicable to the 
Lup 
ble 
a . — — er * Pv Spring Par equalled 
alar district, Applications from all | human ubject, and “ovination” is no substitute for those. pay: much better and, although 2 at nan 
uy may be entertained, and opera- | “vaccination” as a preventive of small pox (p. 156). | cost, an my Wheat is now grown and sent 
rts of the Country conducted by the The artificial ovata of the — Pee d market, — of all profit, at less than 36s. “rs 
iati The title of the Com- cenerall adopted o Continent: and is found | qua 
rather than its purpose. 985 atly A diminish - hsi fatality. The treatment Here i or a ee: ene of a 
to the fact that as pro- proper for animals suffering ander it is given in fall gentleman brought up usiness, 
likely from edu- / 
Compatible with the| detail in Mr. Siuoxnps' work, which we sone com- pt As 1 f ah yest rd as a land/ i 
Performances, it was not mend to the notice of our readers. seg e ; 
ag — * . 2. i 
l. capital ad in a - NOTES ON SOME ENGLISH FARMING, _| during eight hours in the day, to pursue a losing 3 
w d 
tem. If, then, this tenant farmer has fou i 
DOYLE. 
Scope enough and de- Avr intelligent Iri diy weed whe may be favoured | even euere the abstraction of his official ir a 
aud Improvement Socio- tunities of observing the modes of husbandry | a gain — 
esirable that many such eb pm auntie cultivators in Great Britain will a hiiti; N ot e r and i wes “4 dispit 
on the Opening of another not only be pleased at what he sees, but dis sed to | where labourers —— ; et: = e e 
hn to ask for a grant of the] introduce in his own homestead 2 of those 1 ene eed fpi vu Mk 2 land 
ng read o nan leases of 
we heon conte rene = Nee firming © a 7 5. i Davis r Spring Park | much longer duration in general), would song: 22 
readers are iu Ses „I went there lately to comp: ris re tal „ tala eee W bog and, whieh in 
ive 
ve the right to kil wri L. the eee EAEE MA beard a quality is vastly superior 5 the soil of Spring Park? 
ave the rig it eae 
ame Sen As it is not my intention to notice pies d that may è The subsoil at Sprin E Aa with = 
ween them appears to be 9 lead to t hich, 
p 
nfine my remarks to those W in in some | it with the n of Mp 
degree distinguish the practice of Mr. Davis from e 
~ ‘other ex experienced cultivators. The farm to whic 
shall first invite Balen in ion. con 215 acres in regu- 
f seat us 
permits them e ed the: soil was a ea : 
each parish who 97 Label be se darkness of ‘he waite aie 
8, on the land | jecture wer it contained much humus, iL wl a id 
tends ; while the | at the un et margins of the natural soi eee 
; 1e pti ins i tins aud gravel pi T nene. a 
re d been principally oceasione 
thorised, that the “blackish reo had i gaa . Irish Éo sence 1 * h 
al ay is only apparent, entire por ese of whith the surface did wed 3 more merely 3 ase 3 riii 
— al n 6 or 7 inches in depth. The Chronicles of a al ing ad i d loosening $ the 2 ö 
andowner, so Ped which I have read with exquisite — ma Nee ho possesses su 
e positi off = < James Ripeway, Piccadilly, London, 
