T D ani THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
af breeding in, in pursuing the cross, and set) generally no great harm in going down, farther than inoc 
l failed, Amy I believe | the sinking of ; so levied as that i 
‘the wood side, but al your money, but not ay" 8 it shall press equally upon 
the eggs had never * 3 A ** for the wide. I have found, and — laid it — as — a 5 fin it 1s not in local rating only that the farmer 
cock is not only as shy a bird as the guinea that there is far greater chance of errer bes H jew. dealt with ; in an educational point of view 
but exercises great favouritism in * choice of | mitted in res idth than in respect, to depth — 1 * ion is far from equal to that of other dames 
de ee One ef those. indeed a8 Ainet fi, (an snah. moila) ia and that bor these, but disregards him ersten in making provision 
hen placed ne most a can be thorough! À ’ s him entirely; 
ip any ben p ris year a moderate: depth pl m6 end rad hr he is considered to ys —— — 
with a cock pheasant in a coop t i I : — N less, 
paced brained by him, the ape of the back of her | only incurring a expense which might well be saved, ampler means of ob 3 it, 1 e not. This, 
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pearly totall lected d i however, I do k 
4 ped. Another was totally neglected, and in all likelihood render h z ° cou 
eee ‘ * "m 4 f his we 2 N of remu ion, no improvemen 3 j py yd superior — — e what — 
fed with him were hatche agg ; otr 7 ne dr aoe of suc is expensive at the never be satisfa toril ; rovement will 
in the circums ted at, the cause of very many an if it is to ‘be injudiciously gone abo pouring Loa the — etorily removed, Let justice be done 
‘i the failures in attempting to rear the cross? Mean- | the cost of deep cutting must be considered—little of 2 a — tural in the above and other 
fime that poultry with one, two, Spee strains.of the | I am afraid, would be attempted. may. conehiide.this ——— we shall be —— to have free trade, if 
t blood in them, bree ood layers, | portion of the subject by remarking that the modern ae rests continue to cherish it ; but otherwise 
snd many of them very handsome, I ca duce nume- improved system ef thorough drain hg consists chiefly — t be expected to beso. Wich a 
p to show ; and as all the chicks of the |in the employment of drains moderate in depth id | riv prospect of remuneration, and the aid to be de- 
pasis ery remarkable characteristics of | placed at narrow interva apa enever | high f » extensive estate improvements, 
those of the old established pheas reed—character- | these means are departed from, by extending the. width gh larming, would, I doubt not, become as: universal 
istics which d uish this b from every other race, | and cutting down to the Springs, it is just go — — — ; and no one would rejoice 
8 yself, 
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that their origin is, and may be soon proved | the old or Elkington system, and applying it toe } 
to be similar. As they grow up the plumage often Deer of subsoil, whether 2 f ae Pa ar — that our patioualyno-less than ourindividual 
but From all or otherwise. Elkington’s 3 iii „ demande sucha change; and it would bea 
in efforts 
can see, I believe that — shoes reared this season ober place, but it must only be adopted i june. i im wy 
ient-number of the p RF pion age may be se- | tion with thorough drainag te a bol take — ae e — — a —— 
— to reproduce: in an — h. seaso r two the true its place; John Duncan, Thornbank, St. Andre we pe do well if — ena e» ant all — — 
bee p relief are immediately within our reach, but we 
3 PROSPECTS OF FARMING culpably neglect to avail ourselves of them (whereas 
TM a e yaks that th In your Guzette of the 28th ult., Mr. H Hewitt Davis the experience of thousands, yes and many of — men 
-Jr has bee already rem uae 91), that the | states, in a letter with this heading, be — is little | of * Aa and fortu: eo show us that farm. 
2 proposed to! — adopted pa . i 2 that a large 22 of the farmers of Britain — — and has been ſor man at best 
y the nature o ut barely existed, or lost m mone t rotile) — have but ‘Titulo i 
— y during he last u 42 ' — either sym- 
t. 1 price m — e — — Mr. Davis was excellent, 
ered se dep draining is — t applie vat to the | addition of 12, per acre to the rent of land must be bot. but the effect of his letter is not likely, 1 think, to 
er cy of 1 A outfalls = levels 2 for ;? ears argues that we are to meet that re- be What esired, unless he can acquaint us with 
y instance where the | duction by drainage, enlarging our encl capitalists who are prepared to advance necessary 
ourable or difficult, the depth of drainage | more suitable — —— — by — “of fare funds, taking for interest a — the profits 
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lect will be fatal to the success of the opera- little > or een to induce parties to incur the expense | 4 L. A., Nov. 4 
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the chief means in the attainment of this object. Apart Capital is seldom 22 delib 
— erately in what is Home Corre ; 
from these diffieulties, the x modern or . system of seen to be unprofitable as the ie — of money-| Mummy Wheat. — A great ang ren A heard 
draining Aeg ri fai, i in eee with the making farmers is . os —— f to Mr. of Mummy Wheat, said to have been — 4 rai 
seience f te required under the old or Elkington Davis's own showing, I am at a loss to know who are found in an urn or urns at E e 
33 one, simple examination of the subsoil likely to act upon his recommendations, with the pros- | or ten years ago. I do not venture to any page 
Ens vith id 815 pects _ — before them. The majority of present statements MN ead oy Eri aco 
it will be evident, must relinquish their grains, as ma cpt At 
; other, as compar sative N a holdings, a such unfavourable cireumstances as we remarkable is, dat — . Kin ot are 
dnima ae employed, an — these one 50 laid out and cut as 5 are told will occur. Parties who have been ing now rown in nous them daming a 
springs, great skill is often required so money for the last seven years, can have but little 8 33 from a gly gl 
— nn e latter method fails in — chance of gaining any for the next, under redu onld, j be y T pe 2 w yer d — 
nally a of the soil which is aceomplished | prices, and probably increased taxation; and those who —— swith full details, ander th the name of any 
— mid t it effects much by small means, and | have “ barely existed ” during that period, can sca 7 tablish 
ton 80 requires far greater knowledge and hope to thrive henceforth. It will be strange indeed, I cannot myself comprehend — nas of the pre- 
ee in tlie erefore, if many do not, of necessity, relinquish 80 | servation 0 ghu! farinaceous grain “ce ge 
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a — eee nage is uninfluenced by the — a calling, or remove to another country to out decay, or at lea e of its 
e de alis and * the system to be ado opted Pursue it, in a more genial elimate, and with more power We — ow eni there are 
be.ased, and pth and distance apart, the materials to | cheering prospects, than are here afforded him. deser iptions which may be 2 at 
hua particular, depends entirely on But can it be that with our vast colonial possessions, | depths too great for germination for a 1 course of 
5 € e circumstances:of the case. Durability and with the many aaao they give us, and we years; ‘bel all such seeds are of peculiar construction, 
efficiency in action should be studied, | otherwise enjoy, at sucha sacrific s by h of durable 
may b W eco that t 
uad be rendered to the highest degree bene- day at e ee on the opening of the 
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amount of pon a limited nor by the fullest all interests,“ if it must thus be perilled — the very 1 would 4 vegetate or rot. Then we 
the ings Profit upon a large expenditure, but from 3 advantage of the manufacturing and co i i 
Judicions application of money up to that point be- | mercial in ae Is it by thus depreciating brani is always preferred for sowing ; that the seed of the year 
stern healt ome to be remunerative. e —— rer nseq 22 — indus that this 2 vould ne be equa ally productive, and that if 
Mart rest; opted in regard to d epth anà d distano | nation is hene Sy pire to flou seed five or six years old were sown, not half of it — n 
Ang Wholly on ———— the e no What then is to be dens 4: ? 7 ee make the bet come up. But besides this prima fate ei evi Spd 
t abroad; the e story of Wheat 2000 or 3000 y 
ou ; ie in fact, admits of none, and never | herein there „and abundant sespe fo om 
dama ai £ = parties i ive 5 coda every one’s exertion (independently of our one-sided ed by — most * n — and naturalists 
ae each ot i de be his talents, ocen- e u urns Egyptian ‘Thebes 
adina langu 77. pe a a ga e — — SIN GAA they who profesed to hare 
i | tried the first t experiments 
$ npara due regard to wh i lished the results in wae good faith; a 
at has been laid occasion : 
: ian respect to the attainment of the utmost other countries i with our own (which — of naturali ists is, the constitution 
Wheney, 8 things considered. Jam sure might be sullichontly increased to meet our | grain of 
to admit Ade SUbS0il and understrata are of a nature | largest eee. - — eee ee gold, —— — imn re * 
r eon 8 : H cire ome, of growth irom 
tious shoots of maestat e disposed in = entirely abe obeia oe Js er lis 
must have nearly in the — of the dee then w If we are committed to free-trade, and we are to traveller or British expe nan t, 
recourse to fi la ie iven | been led into some error 
raining, The what may be termed deep- * with the system, let sni play g h f the å 1 Da 
tte traning degree of depth mil depend much on | to us under it. We know that at present all local citated t = e dayso 
breadth of powers: of the under strata, and on — burdens, amounting to e nine millions of pounds Hor: ſeedin 
land s i n rental. It will be inferred | notice the veils — — 
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— fi mness, for tlie support and | affords ne oriterion “of — and conse: | allude 10 
We the 25 the d = Again, on - ther hand ity to bear those . — ae oa nun eH he box-feeding s 
aal eo, abseil is found to be li Sila sinh ne abr: e country, amongst our agri- unqualified abuse he — 2 ps ya 
ar ‘rural population, but chiefly in the towns, | if allowed to go ee — — where re they wil answer 
ses for that large t hae that in all 
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de. fl, though L am opinion that this is inconvenience and loss in "eo m — ey by baring to |a able manure 3 ut it is quite cer tain that 
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paee with si in soa — efit does not employ: unskilful bands (and who be it rene nber, pr —— 
oe The drains | can- neither close his works, nor stop his mills with 2 injudieious 
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E en lites eae ipart, ithe depth a is called epee — ; which | out a greater — z ra i pa 
never we oa nd seh : 0 3 we a esi pereen mee be just nor 8 — giv en ue 8 en re 
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rete, Boi Pense of going 8 3 new Lee. bare, —— ve general head of stock, including cattle; horse 3 
ep if you will ; there is eld. 
