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AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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d feet and 35 feet apart; the latter wi aid last spring 
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which was done with the 3 feet drains the summer befor 
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3 which (if. yeu think worthy of| S4FFRON Walbrx: Annual Mee ceting.—Lord Soap Rs standin * oer a 1 gardens, | 8 
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proses as a toast “ Pr osperity to sd United States of | ordinary See Theres - Bad apond 
merica, with the health of Mr, Colm the vc — Pre land e be, I was pe oi 
r, COLMAN said—In all human probability this will for W certainly. it can n ty eed io 35 rich en 
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we uffer less, I mention where cans 
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might be. I need not say that those gentlemen Who = pag has b my farm M and tbat 
affirm that 
greatest importance to the farmers of this ki ae who does keep aus mote tte ar ere is 
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how few farms se» with the number is ‘there 5 —. and not roots, I think we are bound to hed ghee > 
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it — that the great waste is — ted; and there is. * abe pay you, good interest for i our cap . One 10 
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throughout Great Britain? I do not 3 it is 30 bushels an rou 1 tha wh — loughing or Say other ‘operatione, od 
e ld be 60. if it is 25, Sakia the whole of England together, — awa ay. ay are mportant fect, for” Fee 20 the 
kn am “fa 2 i N atin ch You may say no, but E| e A tnana run, tho furrows 232 side 1 
60 bushels an see: I know several which produce 50 = in and À therefore * ara ve Go net do away with Jour stetches 
this county, And what has been done b; — 7 ta — A ee and T am aot —— 
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prick hi How are these great crops produced? I nee. 
quoted tlie Flemish proverb—‘* Witho — no cattle; — e cre — 
without cattle, no manure; and without manure, no crop.” | one case 3 — á 8 
Now the Flemish farmer keeps twice as much cattle, I may say | less than a bushel ; and i ae * per acre, the other rather 
three * as o> gen as the English reek not of so improved | ady x Wa e third the thick sowing had the 
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dition ? sap b ber not the means? Is there any reason under xi 8 eine. * = of advantage 
heaven why ould not do that? Manureis the li — blood, the moderately friable soils: — T ust — nee 
foun adatot. ar agriculture. Arieh We hear of agricul- that you ought to look to th ‘aun of pea 
ien Le s sni the resea 1 7 we? 4 le canal 4 which = thin an — 
everything into go hy, chemistry has long 
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eaten Mr. Mec poral in the cours scot the eventing. and said: Heaneenging, which Thad Da b pile. g very profitable 
county ; they are an honest and kind-hearted race of men, but. K Ei av all * Mone — ow vines 1 Bar ryt — kan 
almost as a natural consequence of that firmness and honesty, as well as al I find 11 A. ie — 
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I shall never cease to, war against the latter. My remar kà 
3 be essentially practical. In the first place I consider the and as i wi grind 22 = * 
aggon question as one of prejudice; and to rave ou to — | cut chaff at the — time , omf: 
yourselves oh it, 1 2 — be Happy, | under the inspection of your | return of profit na — above the saving of horscflesh and 
President, ne or two of my harvest carts into this taking horses fro rticular times when they are 
neighbourhood during the next senson t 8 be 8 in Siting wanted upon tho tn N it is a great — J 
aha ge arket, bringing coals i nd also in harvest a farm, and T abl be happy to give any aforma tion r 3 
and when their merits Ea fally tented, in contipelition it which may be = red not calculate that a 
with Har ugly, awkward, heavy waggons; if they should be six-horse power e 4 rl ating | — éc, 1 
found superior, both in economy o of cost and facility of transit, would cost less than soon, 3 1 oa not think that the same 
the question a the county of Essex must be considered a settled oon invested in 3 per sols would yield son ee 1 
one, and that the best mode, as circumstances may permit, be profit as you might . piony it ipon your farms, I agree 
adopted, I speak firmly on n this 3 t, because one disputed | with Mr. Colman that we do not put manure enough upon 
ready set at ron L land; it is — last II. that makes the profit. We none of us 
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pression that deep draining with small pipes on very strong | for the 80 acres Has lost me 80l. in when trary 
clay would not be permanently useful. Mr, William Hutley | might bavo ared me sendy twists of eae ‘face, miich y would 
challenged me at a meeting last year to drain his land, Ito ave . more. Another 1 not quite settled in the 
Lord Rayleigh, who was chairman, that I accepted the chal- | coun roy deep cultivation. I fin eet É the dop tie. 
lenge, and that he should prove me wrong or admit that I was | turbance of the subsoil, te pad by the — 2 very 
right. I drained ita feet BE and 30 feet apart ; the drains paige for a number ears. I have b 
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House of S 9 said they answered the pur- for it. I think that the brin g of t * — soil 3 to 
pose, but omitted to say that Mr. Mechi drained — = ra = top would be "injurious, but the other method is decidedly 
Again, a collection of liquid manure is an important subject, | advantageous, egard to fences, I a — lad to find that 
and I have been imay e as I tray vel “fro m farm they are being dltainisbeds but — is yet very grea neg’ 
— in this district, to see a number of fresh- ae roughing, | in this respect, for itis im . not to —— instances 
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of the former. As to the distance between them, I 
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wr -yi P'aciug the grassy side down — treading 
* oe have them lie flat on the stones, and 
Ps ei op, e clay be careful to eep the active soil 
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it to tne ated to to me St on er I will 
which proves that 4 — 1 5 Mechi is con i of high fences and geet pr gage I — 5 a fence ge — 
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is al tifying to me to find that landlords are becomin 8 cre; and do not let te enpa Aa = f evo damea u and 
W 8 the removal of old scrubby timber, an 3 W " thes eare points 4 45 fori? 1 8 observation, soe 
the tenants are not so tond of growing their own wood, instead | the neglect of which is not only 
unprofitable, 
em of using coals, as they former: rly were ; because I am convinced | think farming to rhe a profitable Be ta if rightly — 
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tion 2 ; pa t of | a and mong many manures 1 Pe found * bene- 
owing wood at four times the price it wo ficial, I beg to thank you you 
„ as a the part of the landlords for the timber. have heard me, and hope you * phe pe offer with regar 
Tyrrell says I am a good.natured man; but whether I | to the carts; and if we can settle one doubtful question an- 
— ve set never moved fa — world without figures. I am | nually, I think we shali achieve a good result, 
ferred to 
strictly a man of figures, and as you are so often re 
ted po — days during the last 777 
gat eek ta pee 182 y he proceedings of the last year, to Calendar of 2 
see where they were 4 e860 that is, profitable, and where 
ppt geal unprofitable. I four d —— 1 eg — 500%. worth of BrxwicxsnmnE Mense Farm, Nov. 24. — Since last report we 
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3 because the bailiff 21 * a A “Kon. 25, — With rather unsettled 
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mething | Barley and carti e same to market. We have com: y 
bourers, On looking further, I found there was 80 minute | Barley 2 * feeding cattle, the Purple-topped Yellow 
vo and unprofitable some nunca = as 1 nae t lon in 2 3 15 8 me , mi 
pe: inched. (Laughter. ) Ifo a Hor vrt FARM, pin 
fading ont w aao = pinched. (stich T could Bars sold finishing ploughing our 3 
Ac ton per acre, to draw off; but atter I had | Wheat, but have delayed ae Bees z a few * 
peg het ubie t to A cut, and hand them to the bullocss, | enable us to secure the Mangold 4 Wa . — 
3238 t I paid for oilcake, Linseed, and corn they all stored, and may be consi 
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ft ringing e the late unf 
hole in exchange for | stored ‘them away in large heaps, 
oven parca, Seg 15 N that when ‘i straw a A = Po at the — . the te homestead; 
f ts with sh on the Our f ding ba ocks have all been , 
can we ought — non — ton = = ving s w root crops to cart | number, and appear to be doing very me carting om on 
pe thn Pree ren p ofitable occupation. Why this is ak Turnips for bullocks, and threshing Wheat 
h in: I find I can always sell | — 
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— pron Talos 2 y s. per stone, or lġd. per Ib. more a Noti e ós to Correspond ‘ 
hil I find it costs me just as much, perhaps rather more, MATTER s Mana K. hc e up and mix 
-= a pound of beef than it does a ore horn Sor naked gg dale a tate of high r- tion, —_ cover 
stead ef mutton ble 
9 esti or ust 100%, (A voice: “But you get | _ the 2 p mith are a of veal Kennedy ie a com pliatioa of 
really lost my ie d o not, and therefore I say let us feed 8 Be e fo eo — and incoming tenant prevalent 
more manure.) jon the land with oilcake, and do not imagine | in different localiries—as stated in the reports to, 5 — 
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that will — A —— iF yoa yat 2 — . — antity of of Agriculture Bayldon on Rents and Tillages = 
2 ae land. (Les, yes.) I * —.— be, FOR Sp: — aue r 1 and 
year, in one of the richest gardens d, the pro- enough to see re gad Seeds for use 22 id 
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and laughter.) That was at Me. 0 much as chat, but in a from the plant ; but they may ach a farmer near Edinburgh 
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