788 THE AGRICULTURAL! GAZETTE. Nile ty | 
‘two rams, and if the rev. gentleman had been with me | . My land being in readiness to receive the s too, to indulge in 
this evening at 8 oiloek Ain which hour I always in- | sprouted grain, on the at "of ern kc — previously hobby, and surely no great eactifies 
spect my boxes), to see comfort reigns, I do no 1 2 out rows 2 feet apart, — ——＋ -yard | devoting a few hours, three or four ev in 
think, after witnessing Be y e repose the occu- manure was placed, I had two close | to an object so useful | to your fellow creature, the vad, 
pants of the boxes were enjoying, he would have | together, deposited in the rows at 15 ene rar x Aliat to | untoward events have prevented my CS. Par 
written so furiously against a system which is so worthy panh oF of the pos being e hoed out. Fur- scheme in the neighbourhood I have beds 10 — 
of op sen and id certain t to be sea pensanton and ut 3 inches long were opened for the seed, gg but should such an opportunity again offer livingig 
remunerative where undant, but not o pace at — end 1 inch 1 — the surface e | gladly avail myself of such a chan i 
libat. Geo. William Foel. ai Hall, Dart- ground being moist, the blades appeared in icine r | unlettered brethren, In the case — W 
moor, Nov. 15. ae: days, at least three weeks sooner than if the dök was held three or four evenings in the week sehol 
Small Farms.—I have read with much interest your | had been ee on 12 Ist of May in an unprepared | 6 and 9 o’clock, and was confined t to pr ; 1 aatren 
excellent remarks on small farms for Ireland, showing saie, This time think equal to six weeks in | held every Sunday evening, but for readin; was di 
very plainly that, in A present low state of farm ming in atoma the plants da not pee in the least from the | girls living on the spot were admitted. Bat Fi — 
that country, any general regents of land, with all its 5 f last May. I had ground stirred five | times opened the school for girls on some i eeg 
concomitant exp enses, z ew bui din. s and en-| times with m argk Tims ima — stirring nights in the wee which was well attended: but 
closures, m e be and dad ngerous experiment, | at the rate of pane res a day; this was done, not only | duties prevented my carrying that plan ott to other 
Small farms, if pro oes 8 3 doubtless be between the row bes between plant and plant, so tent, and I had quite enough to do at spare Ping 
of the greateat use there, in creating what is so much | that ye ground . quite pulverised, and every arrange the writing, copy-books, &e., for the A) 
wanted, an increased supply of labour. If managed weed was eA bey The result of all this was, that | however, things went on very satisfactorily until the 
n the plan ee describe, the market garden e grain of Cobbett's corn —5 perfectly ripe and return of long days in March compelled 10 
ing system, they might S made infinitely pro ductive, harvested by the end of September, some part not till | grateful pupils to discontinue our labours, There vu 
might rescue from want and degradation a large | the 8 8 October, but it all turned out much not accommodation for more than 25, and] 
Takot a suffering Population. Mr. Blacker, i in his i in- — one expected in this wet and cold | averaged upwards of 20 throughout, quite as manyi 
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details as to the management upon which such f * ard as flint, and the ears — e equal to any readers who may be inelined to give the plan a bu, 
should be n ay but he at the same time finds the | foreign of the “avast variety that I have seen. I am | that I found no difficulty whatever in maintaining onde, 
difficulty so great in carryin is into effect, that he convinced, from the experience I have had in gone: which in such eases is indispensable. We 
considers it eee necessary that in nstruction sho — these crops, that 100 bushels to the acre might be ob- per week, more by way of giving the thing ‘more alte 
be pos to each holder of such farm ing to tained in warm seasons in the south of England. The in the eyes of those benefited, than for forming u n 
condition, ana rae 3 Provides ond 85 Giant corn produced very fine ears, well filled with | for expenses, and at the end of the Season, when the 
4 ‘tha assistance of experienced farmer, who | grain, but not hard; in a warm season it w W the 
perintends not only the port of 3 but — the | thor EPEN, ripened, and the — would have been ture, there remained only about 2. to for, 
ede of preparing the ground for them, and putting greater than the dwarf, but i an uncertain crop. | which was cheerfully paid by the worthy individus 
them in, which accurate information, he is of opinion, | I also ae about alf a ga sis on a Cobbett’s — on | before alluded to; and when I add that we were well 
nothing but personal inspection will supply. Under the | the Ist of * without pesine it ; the ears became | supplied with firing, candles, books, and other 
_ efficient 1 — a Ser mage e for full of corn towards — of October, coe did — it does not follow that expense need prevent any dae 
purpose, the effec eneficial, that | ripen, and r tied —— 55 artificial heat. The | attempting a like object. I may remark, that all wiy 
pen 5 the tenants of Lord Gosforth — not only ie unprepared = “did not produce a — grain. | did write (and most of them did so), were allowed to 
ff arrears of rents, but have penton arrived at Ind ash plant, and does not receive 3 their books; and a fresh one was 
. — under their ir improved pre pra Yet, however 1 feces ie, T half a as much silica as a Potato crop. |each at leaving, in which I afterwards heard they — 
plausible the plan may appear, 3 beneficially it Taking weight for w weight, it is well known to be one — themselves on Sundays and other spare times, 
may have acted in this instance, it can never be sup-| of the best ps paratives for Wheat. S. Newington, x may add, that some of the most forward I instructed — 
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„posed that such a large mass of indigent poor as are | Knole, Fran iaee letters in a — ely way; ih it is useless in such 
oned to amount to more than two millions, without FF eo — Observing that the education of agri- s to insist on grammar, &c., being first learnt, it is | 
intelligence, education, or SM for . — can all at cultural labourers has formed a 2 e feature’ in better pa Sepa can be —— e agreeable e 1 
once be moulded into the t form s to enable your columns, and a letter from ful, aan 3 — notions laid 
them to conduet a diffienlt ope: eration, Fequiing skill and | inst., having pointed out what pen can mate ae at a —— advi isable to omit many 
perseverance ; nor even, if they co co would this be a | very small cost, I am induced to call the attention of taught at owen schools by way of n 
eure for existing evils. The 17 75 er ge ponies your readers to another plan, whereby much really | system, in order that your 96 may — 
being 5 to 2, on the sins 8 f ground, | useful information may be imparted to the unlettered benefit in oe shortest given time. Having 
` compared with England, an entirely new field of labour portion of our community, by any one possessing a | intruded too r upon —— columns, e pes ie 
must be opened, before wages can be raised to such a moderate education, and willing to undertake the task. | without expressing a a hope of h 
rate as to enable the poor cottagers to purchase their The expenses are not much, and the benefit to those | carried out by some vhilanshinei te 
ich i carried away, before their eyes, to anxious to obtain them is so obvious, that there are but homely — may do some good, t ! 
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obtain a higher price ina better market. It has been| few who would not make some naw sacrifice in the some farm-house might easily be converted into an J 
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d marriages ; but there is no reason to suppose e ago I lived i aiya district where gr popula- We — had an experience fart "ia en E 
this to be the case more than in England. Human tion almost entirely depen ~~ on farmi ~~ . 2 own as regards both methods and results.] i 
is much the same in all countries ; it is every- pa those immediately depending on arge landed] Bowx-feeding.—On opening the Gazette this mori 
where distinguished by the same passions, the same proprietors, ae these nS greatest sae were engaged | my eye alighted on an article entitle Thin 
feelings, the same propensities, Irelan is now pre- in s way or other in agrie e ursuits ; and in | and Box-feeding,” but I soo 
eg in the condition in which England would be if all | accordance vith the custom of the country, as well as | dismay on perceiving the 
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this it is clear that even if the whole agriculture of Ire- | h d time to make much proficiency in | into Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace,” unless a 
land were improved to a degree equal to that in this scholarship even preng they or their parents had | tific men should agree with him as 
country, the mm diffculty would remain—more hands | been anxious of the doing so, which I am sorry to say | I do trust that, as a mañ 
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effectual remedy is to be found in the improvement of men of 20 or more cou barely read little words, and | carried into execution, for, having a little 
the ds, Difficulties are no doubt to be met with, lads of from 12 to 20 were in mu ch the same plight, science myself, I have thought t 
in the way of its becoming a Government undertaking ; | and as was out of | empanelled on the jury in question 
but where pg the only sure ere a trial should be the quest pas í -suggest sted to my worthy y employer the opinion being opposed to that 
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arterial ings, were done by the iece, and that at he e en 8 and we er 8 work biae quences of my verdict. 
a reduced rate, there would be no fear of aes pe aiis A suitable room having been pasiga, and a | susceptible of two significations, th 
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be sav * measures. Law. ä soni at first, who ceased to attend aaam ds, and a | in a box, for on this fact, in a LS 
“Penwortham, Pr w, perhapsdisappointed at finding the tree of knowledge success, If our object be to ration, We we cannot 4% 
——.— “eee ty Bacon, A l —A A lady of considerable sapere in amore * oe dung de from wastè orjac — 5 similar to that 
! d, for many years, reasty bacon, until | up the but the majority attended very regular! , | better than put it into an hydrau jo press si » 
the cause was pasted out bya friend. Until che time | 50 applied themselves pai err on a — le ol u used for pr — out the oil from A keep 
the con was salted and kept in tubs, the brine not the season; so much so, that some young men, who at | convert it into cake; by so doing we ex 8 
being able to escape. The advice was to salt it aud ay entering, could not even form a letter on paper, at the out the atmosphere. This, however, 154 very 
it on stone shelves, packed one fitch v i another, an 3 were able to write a fair, decent hand; and | affair, more particularly when we erie 
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o make up accounts. But, as Mr. Peacey justly | crements alone allowed to accum j 
observes, the * pee most t difficult and irksome. | observations of Mr. Wilkins would be Jus 
m, I felt it so E who did not know their litter daily supplied effectually a t 
ape and — res some e littl e persuasion on cheer | from the dung and urine, and the we! 
a young m his Gites, ru — on to 3 out animal effectually compresses th d 
to ek sort of a peo — three simple le access of the oxygen of the air, an 
while he sees (and not without onal fermentation of the dung an 
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may be d d the object is one of whi littered farm-yard for y 
de ility, and but few e u ard the cattle are 
viduals but 2 8 ist in carrying the and sleeping at 
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was | The greatest of mimes individ ideale, Tex ring ments, and this dry and well 
leisure and trates to undertake such a task, As an all the rain that ma in this ! 
encouragement to well-meaning persons, I may remark, | the wettest portion of the year 5 
that there are few events in my life ales i * ook back animal is lying on a hotbed cause 
upon with greater satisfaction. ih ung i fe 
season in the same 3 I would eee com- | time on the damp layer of straw drer 
menced the same thin a tye A excuse in rain, Now surely a loose box, in (ne 
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