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— er helves are filled, the doors are closed, and | this, the Society, five yea F it ceensider any iraka eee 
Jet into the pipes. This house is — of | of Flax factors in P e con any trial of thin ‘seeding as satisfactory, 
tde steam f one vat per diem. The F when | ien UP, owing to the difficulty those who embarked in this | rer) grain of corn be scientifieall planted in the 
the de up in small beats or handfuls, of a eige | steeped green. The simo objection 22. proper depth-and that all tho grains be 
E ber feeding into the breaking rollers of the mill. of the Am , since the Fla am — dried in the case | planted at a proper distance ach othe 
cited vats per week can be steeped in this estab- — stacked, ean be kept in this state without t any deterioration And with reference to stall or box.feeding of eattle, 
20 tons weight of straw, and producing |inducemeat ens Ar eap tates sake og Se take |an di T bave advocated this system as strena 
+o 3 tons of fibre. Thus, in one year, such an |theindestructible — of the m — — si rwhp orf — a ae able ; Jet. u stranger to 
215 * t would be capable of turning out 120 to t° operate. eg ould 
N n : 5. Where steam exists, as a motiv. against this system. I have writ 
Flax for market, being the produce of 400 | machi e power for any kind of : written as earnestly as L 
Jo atnto neres. Tho fuel used for ‘tho boilers is [ateam "astă to Bent r —. barbarous 
: shoves, with a small quantity of turf. ry er an apparatus. ence the easy applicability oF “this : g 
l r h z ystem, in almost all parts of the inanimate and without sensation; but 1 alwa 
* the cost of steeping, drying, heating, . when a seutch mill is Srii 55 N — 3 advoeated a moderately warm, — — 
a a : ce e ing r: n stal box fo i 
Subtracting, say 10d. per st mill would th k up th i : every of cattle 
a, . Mind tal a, 5 —— ane ated by the shove fuel would 19 — re intended to be fatted for the buteher; and of adry and 
or Ed d thus appear to be about 24s. per acre—a 1 ae to scutch the fibre and heat the water to ret the stems, well littered farm- for young and growing cattle, 
gum certain! less than the usual yr of these i n — Points on cchich would found un ~ * ve written, also, earnestly "against those modern, 
A commonly — grer by farm labour. estimate of the advantages likely to be derived from | abominable, pestiſerous, putreſying, “ living -eattle 
Mi on 4 3 the general adoption of this system of steeping. There graves,“ as my friend Towers most appropriately has 
3 0 2 e 8 a ares mar are other minor points, of considerable interest, such as hemed them ; just as I should write against lowering 
en is the employment of a number of hands throughout the human beings into dungeons sunk in the earth amon 
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in al, 22 men ie 63shanda, as = ae effect ; the uniformity m ri ene A of handling whieh rasen = them ress not deodorised and disinfeeted, how. 
th bran 3 the establishment. About | consumption by the continental Spinners. These are a But i 1 this view ew of these stinking nuisances 
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and w. 5 en ee, in che vats, mine are, ‘whether this process exerts any weakening them 1 
The gan ms in inferior, me ” mep 4 coarseness, but effect on the fibre, and whether the linen made from it or be east into — 8 — tery fur- 
oie ae 8 s” ea r nature. Of this | is as readily and purely bleached as on the ordinary nee. George nne 
— sa pa unis a 2: read asmall quan- | process ; but if, after spinning, weaving, and 2 15 — 
—— — coe of — à 5 . sae linen mde ar a aing rae s — —— © Correspondence. 
r à aiaa tall ppa E y | judges, as 2 to that made from Flax steeped in the _Aarioaur and Clergymen.— Perhaps Twas 
z i rer 0 0 E — wt ordinary way, I shall’have no further hesitation in re- , in my communication “On Irish E Farming @E 
ae 5 , pe: : wen ablis — A at the e Flax eommendin the committee to pronounce in its favour, the Oth Sept., in asking “ If it nee ta: as I have 
rab aot elem 3 9 has believing, as I do, that it is ealeulated to effect a com- | frequently told, that there is such visible 1 — 
— 5 5 nd, The Flax is brought | plete revolution in the cultivation and preparation of | tween the cultivation, habits, and employment of the 
the preeinets by the farmers, just as pulled and — in Ireland; James MacAdam, jun; Sec. (Report | Catholic and Protestant parts of Ireland; and if so, 
the -Courtrai s stem, or a rude to the Committee of the Royal Societ ty fi r the Promo- what is the real cause or causes! being in mii rn 
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Tb of it. Theseed remains on it, and it is stacked — and Improvement of the growth of Plax i in Ireland 
long ricks, thatched with inferior Flax, and tied | Abridged from the Northern Whig of 28th Oct., 1848. || pethaps it was as eae or careless in A to insert 
— — coarse ropes twisted out of the seutching ; butyour Wexford correspondent of the 15th ult. has, 
* = stones keeps the rick dry, and a THIN SEEDING AND BOX FEEDING. Think: in his boiling — and invective, taken ample 
— ove om round each, to let away the rain. Pr — numerous controversial correspondents, | Vengeance, and if not amply gratified, I herewit i beg 
a is ta en down, the seed is beaten off and many of them are most valuable ones, it is not his pardon, and all others who may feel similarly aff 
— * best of it reserved for sowing, and the rest likely that you can pay much attention to the communi- thereby. The truth (either way) must sooner or later 
i fi mone or pap een! for the former of | cations of so humble an — as myself; but your | be — out by investigation and public discussion, 
Mr. the h chaffare also valuable. known eandour and urbanity will not permit you to do ould by your pene o just observe, what I hope 
— * — imates the. average produce of good | an act of injustice to any individual, however in signifi- wil give no such off to any party, that as all admit 
aud ebaff. It is ristatute acre, besides light seeds | cant he may be in your own or the opinion of any por- ess, i str „and sobriety are next to 
8 tis worthy of remark, that the Flax dried | tion of the subseribers to the Agricultural Gazette. I godliness, it has e struck me that, so closely eon. 
mothe Courtrai mode, and steeped on the patent ke th ks in ref to your Leading Article | nected, they ought to be specially taught and enforced 
cesa fibre of more than average excellence | of last week; in that you * - as et rey all religious — and that everything t 
of quality, while, on the same system, almost invariably | thin-seedi ing alone, as if I w eak enough to suppose ‘them shoal be denounced, 
inithe ' theusual way ofsteeping, whether | and especially to publish tol ‘te ane that the bare am inclined to go fart — r than — —— to say that every 
the autumn of the same year, or the summer of the seeding of eA d with a proper quantity of seed, and un mises (of all seets) should ‘hay 
one, the quality of the fibre has been de- no more, ‘would be ‘an antidote against all the ab- it for clerical students to o rve, era; an 
teriorated, and Scarcely an instance of a fine sample _ | surdities, and, I may add, monstrosities which now! — in this interesting an d important science, 80 
— I chall now allude to the advan en exist in enlightened England in ‘agricultural prac- that in a few years they might be exerting their bene- 
-a ing: ti 1 have wii Se v rpose to — influence in parish of the United Kingd 
by pling tions which hav e been made to saving me se ed — that I never ‘entertained, nor ‘advocated, nor they have their boat — 5 — why not their agrical- 
joe 45 : able weather for drying the bolls, published such an absurd opinion. ‘Iwill challenge the — clubs? Why not nual competitions, also, be- 
labourers at te com? = 5 85 and steep in one day, 22 world to show that my language: bas not been just the tween Oxford, Cambridge, y London, bab G 4 
ts pale of drying the Bolle, Go., Go., 
Wat sieothe simple dring of the entre pat, 2s — | ed — founded on the improved knowledge 2 ‘the man will be offended at m my express ing my simple belief 
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Hatte, were this mod eseed, is all: that is required. seiences with which it is connected, andy es the | that the Scotch, for some time to come, would beat the 
Soca als ere aor adopted, E prontect | language of Liebig, I have ealled this a — of e 83 
8 value o this m be esti ) - | “ational agri A system of agriculture founded | of late general ete 
fan average c eae Tena | CnN MÄA eer è k- | know, isa’ poor test:” Well s then 1 pE intay wh 
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— ext year, 187, 500 bush 1 ; i is’ link in the chain of agricu f 
her me — as kee, 337, 500 bushels, K The | oe — — far from being the a itself. and that the Quakers are vastly supe 
fee et — for meer at 10s., ots be 93,7501. ; | vements, ing a 
N e 357,500 ‘bushels for feeding or crushing, at 5s.’ he nearest T ever approached » e an absurdity ing a gooi t . 
of the Highton beds ‘chaff of ff of as this, was in ; but, even and making more profit by their superior culture. So 
; atls, 37 7,5001. ; being, per annum, a total rea lisa- in that, there is a line of ——— I did not also the difference bas be to 
. mode of steeping, or it li * r 
f ficiency and econ t 2 * — | i to be made, to be cultivated’by the owners | with a spo parson (which is 
saa ve — Bharain — ts ofthe mos — | — ea them exactly as the other parts of the heita the clergyman has as devoted to the 
now, to ¢ a gre =e = neg! of i 1 into them; and temporal welfare of his flock. I will say ting 
ing to — neg aga dand bee interference by any one | of the superior cultivation —— 
À, eer PrE — ied Moravians, in which 80 ciety industrious cultivation i is 
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arre: ange ones u year, and as | sti nd clerical sporting be abolished as 
— ‘so asto obviate — — e — . — i ,| inimical ; and the higher and more pleasurable pursuits 
t proportion is brought to market, with ihe trifle 5 2 inimiéal 5 aun the mgie * ed—such as cote 
l, in — on the ge he vette i ebe 1 sad rial | of the ntry univer: 3 
— ated by s nsures the | ¢ fay, i rable to 2 as it — Phere hen) whilst Iba tage plot 
— — r the hands erg Pain skilful in | (unfavou — year may 86 lightfl results of wh whieh begin 1 now to a appear i m 
have st twhichtheprocess should be arrested. | an opportunity, not knowing — 27 —— tiie 
x whith ‘the aac: sane . Naber Mathew, and the 21 
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Bane seh frequently o> ant reanives no demonstration, | aere of any kind of sb oer 3 —ç etly deter. | epondent pe ein = adie iad * as, and £ 
* ile Fenerally grow. nif that Flax would be uantity would be dieul f hae — to believe à on onan 
43) farmers often 0 Gae: could be mage tor it 2 ed. Wich this explanation of this 22 for ised rid ous, but wiat i Gi iii 
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