THE, AGRICULTURAL, GAZETTE. 611 
into this seen — = rich tone of Ped arms and talent shown upon the occasion; be met with, and, after careful examination and con- 
around | augur well of the i K prosperity of the 3 | sideration of the various kinds exhibited at the English 
and are Society 1. is but 0 years since this association w and Scotch national sho r several y bygone, we 
asof average quality, though t to our eye the | formed, are satisfied that three-fourths of the Scotch farmers in 
ed great] ae society. Its journal i is periodically filled with 9 r will be a paid by the pure 2 
uce. From Thirsk ‘a Yor rk something | s eientifie, al, and statistical matter, ca * ht roper breeding parts 7 
prod 
done, but 
; in fact, fro 
shire 
Grent — through 
n Letter 
nd 5 eb 
crops, and natural ha 
pand Potato — they cannot, we think, 
and Ga lloway, 
cope vith the managem ment of Dumfries 
the Lothians, and other Scottish districts, 
eavhich they work their green crops seem 
hich is goo 
not their execution, which i 
Lincolnshire Barle; 
ey crop, as a whole, is th 
erer saw next comes their Oats, a large portion of | b 
„ productive but rather 
Passing aeross the Humber, oy pro- 
Lord Yarbor 
ntly 3 me 
ood and n 
be sti 
remark applies to ee deep alluvial 
he same ork’ 
ull, 
ugh’s 
ut in 
The principle 
8 Pr, 
FT 
© 
e — we 
r coarse kind 
and Yoristire, I but e s0 iter by one-third, as those 
of our own 
Nottinghom.—From Lincoln — 1 and 
rem 
a beautiful ride. ove 
Derby whie 
made on Lincolnshire generally 5 perhap 
the crops 5 through this r 
qualification tion of 
tract, on fe a — — pi yet 
e have 
107 the 
— 
re | colum 
slin an e 
tioned" in 2 
n Railways a 
3 2— 0 
T 
ulated t 
spre 
n 
ch s that they 
g upon a well- Rir and lasting plan, had pro- 
ed maa merely for and 
well: bred stock, but also for a primen of som 
gement, atte 
be with all these valuable conseque 
getable food, on aic 
in mbers of superior anima als, 
induce the eende to improve in these _departmenta is p 
to confer return—t 
of — 
of those 
3 and 1 the 
ers exhibited in — 
he impr 
ners? a bend ond “Agricultural bur ir iios prove the growing propri nce of the Scote 
k of this aen ph ; for, with the ae well-bred Cheviot 
whic shown, no cross or breed of shee 
that of the Loins ram and *heviotie ewe, apetala par 
sufficiently fe bah — well calculated to pay the g 
tillage ee, far 
e 
at cattle shows referred to. 
eading features of the H 
LA s l proceedings, th ere are t 
fear, do not in 
m 
a st p herots item to, and — think 
— have “a 
hey have hither 
ong our agriculturists. District meetings an WS. 
however hg in their small sphere, and e of f pro- 
confer on all classes many and varied advantages. a standard of excellence or taste as rge English, 
would also allude to Professor Johnston’s lecture & On Scotch and Irish meetings hitherto held, which dra 
the application of Science to Agriculture,” ME ch was | together from many quarters, into one common focus, the 
d d. be Superior of breeds, reared most ee 
well appreciate It uld 
cult to over-estimate the value of this 83 8 
asso: prision are excellent auxiliari 
timula 
0 
ery good. Fro rs. Loe 
ed that er locally ed 5 chemical experiments, and lectures, applied whereby to raise up and stimulate the improvement of 
— bare counties of Lincoln and Not- during the last seven ig s in diffusing rare local stock ; but ear the attempt to substitute them 
. fully an avera in braten and a healthy spirit of inquiry throughout for an annual national exhibition will prove not only 
shire. — to report favourably of the | Scotland and the north of E nd he leading | failure, but a seri ious detriment to the country. 
crops here also, which et fresh and of healthy colour. elements alike of scientific and practical husbandry. what we h fl 
and ps and Potatoes improving, aremark | We regret his connection with the Chemical Association | of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the north, no jer st the 
holds true as we — 3 rd to Sheffield | of Scotland is likely to cease with the valuable efforts Needful guarantee of funds would have been 
into Lancashire. Pastures thro ut Derby are rough, | of that Assoc ation, How far its position may be amply Again, why should the discussions — cond 
l the country looks well — Sheffield, and the ride oa usefully ei ied by the recent attempt of the at th lose meetings, with so much success and approbation, 
thence to r beautiful and eis Highland Society to engross ject of the Chemical not have been continued at Edinburgh in August last 2 
ki | Society, is, to say the least of it, very problematical ;| and why no ge ture from Professor Johnston, or from 
but of we are satisfied, that had the landlords of | Mr. Smith on draining, or others, or manifestation of 
Scotland appreciated Professor Johnston’s servi pirea war A the bommon:place compli- 
hig do our English nd the 3 pr Gest, rence? Those who a to 
agriculturists of the United States, he would not have | seen “a times (and many such there 
been allowed to accept an invitation from that country wares, e t of 
early 500 
ur 
ve the result will be much 
e | as to stoc: 
fro 
to cross the Atlantic and deliver lectures m er po meri- 
cans, as his time and talents would have been amply 
required in his own country. Nor is it unlikely that he 
may be permanently enmar = Sw ye Ta al in 
aoe — chemical kno 
o the Highland Seely? 8 — as repre- 
sented in “he newspapers it was oe: of the a 
h has occurred in S o doub 
8 als were shown None, of * ede 
5 445 
1848, but a —— advance 
future advancement ude Ge E., Dumfries, Aug. 16, 1848. 
ome 8 ce. 
Thin Sowing.—I have been looking throu 
Fa. age Gazette 28 week to w 
finding an answer to i 
ult., but I have bedi disappointed, and 
3 a more competen 5 Rte 
asses, as were in August 1 
and, and as regards the east, — generally taken place, gi a a grea hat T venture to take 1 to 7 — the relative 
fr information | improvement of all sorts than was ever Selon ‘exhibited — of t r thin se g, for it is quite time that 
from agriculturists —— the Scotland. ne d improvement this important but knotty point should be settled, in 
districts peful that, in, the short-horned breed, strongly indicate a growing | order that we tenant f. may know whether we are 
Ike. will be dere experi- | spirit of enterprise and of intelligence among our Scotch | right or wrong in the system we are p g. 
| rm e ox tribe have brought to as n for some As far as my o. 
estimate —— of th crops appears, high a pitch of breeding as this sort = e mainly, | rience goes I have to differ from Mr. Davis; fi 
to be on the whole as correct believe, because great pains and ave been ple, I had a 12-acre field, land, which is now 
year will eng tee namely, a bestowed in ecting breed ; aad — — the supe- | Beans, and which November, 1846, I sowed witl 
m yielding near | rior climate and richer food of England are en 8 Wheat, as fi 4 i ushels per acre, and 
d S, thou reed, 3 ss they are well fitted 8 acres with 23 bushels per acre, all of which I sowed 
the weight ma quantity of last year’s | for the most fertile distri many parts 3 myself before leaving the field, and under the 
to plant, we reported and their blood 3 when applied i in er to | fav ces 
'gricultural Gazette, y 
the pearance of di Wes are no admirers o d overfed cattle, but 
it has renewed its attacks, rather the — of uneconomical ‘and portio 
through Ireland, England, injudicious A than of breeding pure short-horns, | s 
a th a virulence little and w o say that hog taste udg 
spas, Dh virus of these years. No of this sock m badi be on the een 
to, or yield of, this crop, there- | of compact and nea’ 4 iether than upon encou- 
ing the om formations of fat protu bera nees 
EN e purposed making | which have 0 3 ä in much of the 
ork A ited ve kes Smit ows. one acre, 1 ; 
a es stock ia 3 acre 3 Mr. Davis might do me the 
> we 
meeting 
The 
laving also attended the Highland | 
ert 
were 
high | 
nspieuous for the 
breeding. Though differing mate 
most ed poin m good short s, they 
showed, in peculiar symm and fo N the cha- 
racteristic indications of that pure breed for dairy pur- 
8. beside our p to N that thi 
breed (from their ability to live, and milk comparatively 
better than d of cow, o tity 
d low quality of food) are best adapted to inferior 
soils, urposes, and e, when crossed 
ith «horn bull of pure breed, stock | 
fe of being fed off at two apadi old, which will 
1 
om 
do 
selene to come himself, or send some trustworthy pm- 
n, to superintend the operation, in order to in 
fai air ‘ria it being to be understood th at the respective 
proc 3 » — TANN — threshed — 
are I limit the area to 1 
ham, Ken j 
Dairy Profits and Expenses.—I send you 
Gazette, two years’ dairying accounts, 
accurately kept. In the first year 
rn, 
