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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



gardens under the mmn»gtm '. partly of truate* i tod 

 partly a committee, contishuic of § e of I he wealthiest 

 and most worthy ofour parishioners, hetded by the Re*. 

 the Vicir, and the amount of good that hat resulted 

 from the adoption i the eysteai no language can ade- 

 quately describe.— J, /) , Tottenham, X<»-. 18. The 

 following are extracts from t'.c Report referred to:— 

 •' Your committee have not been unmindful of eve nti 

 connected with the allotment system that hare taken 

 place in and out of Parliament since the formation of 

 this Society, confirming at they do the fullest manner 

 that which your committee never doubted, fir., that 

 larger allotment! than the labourer and his family can 

 cultivate, without tre«passing upon hii paid labour, was an 

 evil, an I ought to be discouraged ; aod hence, in no 

 case, ought anyallo'ment to exceed one-fourth part of an 

 acre. But your c nittee cannot agree with the decla- 

 ration of a noble earl, lately published in the Economist 

 Journal, thai the allotment system, by giving partial 

 employment to surplus labour at home, prev nts emigra- 

 tion to the manufa< rig districts, and therefore oui;ht 

 to be discouraged ; because it is against reason and hu- 

 manity thai en ntion sho I be forced upon the la- 

 bouring poor whilst beneficial employment can be 

 Obtained at home, and only requires the assistance which 

 an allotment garden will furnish to make them contente 

 and happy."—" Your committee have seen with great 

 i isure a bill prepared by the Hon. Wm. Cowpt-r ami 

 Wm. Miles. Esq., M.P., intitule .1 *\ Hill to promote 

 the letting of Field Gardens to the Labouring rooff,' the 

 provmoiH of which appear admirably calculated to secure 

 the object contemplated, % , an eitemion of the gar 

 allotment system upon just principles ; to promote 

 wi h your coromiltM trust they shall hate your ap- 

 pr and the approbation of all the parishioner*, to 



P €t > i I '«srd to be presented to both houses of 

 Partial In the next session, which thi BOD. se< tary 



will prepare in farour of this Bill, under the superin- 

 tendence of your committer."— ,/«* Dta*, Hon. 



Irrigation), — Hating read many of your articles on 

 training, and perceiving that great progress has be* 

 made and is itiil making in this process I have been 1< 

 to think it a pity that the opposite operation of irriga- 

 tion could d receive some attention. It btl occurred 

 to me that these very drains might be turned to account 

 in an attempt at introducing irrigation. I am no agri- 

 culturist, and bare therefore to inquire if there is not 

 sufficient w*ter drawn off the field by these channels, 

 which, if allowed to accumulate in a tub mean tank, 

 might again, by nple and bfSpensJf c machinery, be re- 

 distributed to the land during the droughts of summer 

 X ou could hare the underground reservoir of any size ; but, 

 as I have already hinted, I fear the water c dlected during 

 winter will he insufficient to counteract, to any graat 



fD lCD i! ,llie Im1 effectt of drT weather. — 4m mom. 

 irrobibly, less water, under the same circumstances, 

 runs off a field after being drained than before it was 

 drained. The tendency of the Operation is to cause all 

 water that falls on it to pass through it, instead of runnii 

 aw*T over it. Drain • tends in various ways to the 

 pulverisal a of the soil, and thus makes it more reten- 

 tive of moisture : well-drained land is rarely injured by 

 drought ; undrained land in dry weather cracks, and 



vr -ii . ? a ' r and heat int0 t,le ver? heart of ^e soil. 

 MeJWvensed land, though of course, under the influ- 

 ence of heat, has the same tendency to contract and 

 crack ; but, the soil being loose, no cracks can appear : 



and thus the drought, acting only on the surface, is less 

 iojanous.] ' 



Clover Dodder.— Absence from home having pre- 

 vented me from reading some of the Numbers of the 



fc;';:!: rszP. n rv the ^« concent 



Clover Dodder (p. I ) has only just met my eye. In ft 



™i a K k Cment i hat i he 8eed of tWi destructive weed 

 was probably introduced from Cabul with seed of Tre- 

 foil and „ this observation is likely to mislead the 

 reader, of the Gazette, I think it right to state that he 

 Pod er obtained from Cabul is a totally different specie' 

 the structure 0# it. flower. bein ? very different fflft 

 now destroying Clover in England. From ruber ex- 



?' n l \T e ';J h4Ve CTery re " on t0 Wlm that the 

 Clover Dodder (Cuscuta tri/M, Bab.) is imported from 



the continent of Lurope with the seed of Clover; but I 



vrZV r°. , lb , C t0 get SUCh eXact ^formation as to 

 prove it. I wish that the farmer would note down the 



Bcari-m- .1 to two of the Linseed- rne*l and bran when 

 led, wit water sufficient to make it into the consistence 

 of stiff dough. I *rn now I <ng the compound made of 

 rley-straw chaff and cut Beet leaves in the way men- 

 tioned by your correspondent in last Saturday's Paper, 

 with my lies and cows, and hope to send you the 

 result of this kind of feeding with such stock. If it 

 answers, it will tend to increase the manure heap, as the 

 ives of Turnips and Beet are very often left to ro*. in 

 the fields, which is not the best way of making the most 

 of them as a manure. If you think this worthy of inser- 

 tion I shall have had pie sure i i sending you it. — T.E.W. 



Piys. — I have a sow which had eight pigs ; six of 

 these I penned up by themselves in halt of a cowshed to 

 fatten, and they are doing very well. Two sow-pigs 

 I kept with the mother for the purpose of breeding fiom: 

 besides having a small piece of the cowhouse to them- 

 selves, they had a small square piece in the open air in 

 front. As this open part was very damp, I tried to 

 make asphalte of boiled tar and gravel, but the tar not 

 hiving been boiled long enough remained soft, and over 

 it some litter was spread. Having been away from home 

 I was vexed to learn that one of my little sows had died 

 in my absence, and on the morning after my arrival home 

 I heard the other had been ailing some days— in fact the 

 butcher put it out of its troubles before the day was over. 

 Upon being opened the livers of both were found much 

 inflamed, and the meat soon began to turn green. I 

 ought to *ay that from the great rain we have had lately, 

 the ou'side space of litter, tar, &c, was quite in a swamp, 

 thoi i their house was dry. \\ ill you be so good as to 

 tell me how to account for their deaths? Could it be the 

 damp, or had the tar anything to do with it? as I pur- 

 posed flooring h pig-stye with asphalte. I should say 

 my brother tells me that he has lately lost three pigs 

 of inflammation of the liver, and that his styes are 

 dry ; mine have been fed on oatmeal and wash. What 

 is the best medicine for them ?— North wood. [\\ 

 believe the disease in your pigs is to be attributed 

 to the swampy place they were allowed to remain in. 

 The tar could have had nothing to do with the matter. 

 We do net think you have any reason to fear using as- 

 phalte for the floor of your pigstye, if properly prepared 

 and allowed to get firm before it is made use of. With 

 regard to a remedy for the disease of the liver, the fol- 

 lowing will be moat likely to prove effectual :— Proto- 

 chloride of mercury, 2 grains; powdered opium, 2 grains 

 for a porker, and double the dose for a large pig. To 

 be mixed in thick gruel and given once a day.— W. C. S. 



Waste and Destruction of Fences. — Although a 

 tenant from year to year is not bound to put premises 

 in repair, he is not, on the other hand, at liberty to do 

 anything which amounts to waste, or to a breach of the 

 rules of good husbandry ; he is not, therefore, entitled to 

 cut and sell hedge-rows, or at least not without making 

 up the hedges and fences according to the course of good 

 husbandry. If there be a quickset fence of Whitethorn, 

 if the tenant stub it up or surfer it to be destroyed, this is 

 destruction ; but cutting up quicksets is not waste, if it 

 preserves the spring.— So decided in Gage v. Smith.—-/. 

 Quiet Observer. 



Irrigation.— In this neighbourhood the usual method 

 of irrigating meadows is to stop up every drain and to 

 flood the land with water. Would it not be better to let 

 every drain be open, so that the water might, as rapidly 

 M possible, percolate through the soil? [Certainly]. 

 Here also it is customary to let it remain on for some 

 days; would it not be the best to allow it to remain on 

 only for a short time, say 24 hours, and then let it get well 

 drained before another application ?— A Leicestershire 

 /• armer. [ The proper period depends upon the weather 

 and time of the year]. 



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Sbocfetfes. 



ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY of ENGLAND. 

 A Mom hi.v Council was held at the Society's 

 House in Hanover-.quare, on Wednesday last, the 4th 

 of December ; present— His Grace the Duke of Rich- 

 mond, President, in the chair; the Rt. Hon. Earl 

 Spencer, Hon. Cant. Spencer; T. R. Barker, Esq. • 

 S. Bennett, Esq.; J. F Burke, Esq.; Col. Challoner; 



Esq .; W. K Hobbs, Esq.; W. H. Hyett, Esq.; J 



W . Shaw, Btq., and J. V. Shelley, Esq. 

 The following new Members were elected: 



the r »L," b T ''J' 6 , buj ,' hi * Clover-seed, »nd the name of Kinder, E<q. ; H. Price, Esq. P. Pn£r EsTm' p"'- 

 the .wholewle de.Ier from whom it is obtained ; also its p p "" K '~ ■ T ' " 1 \_™ey,_*,sq., M.P. , 



JHritah or Foreign origin; and, in the latter case, learn, 



the nil r 6 '"""''J 'T 1 " hicl1 " i8 im P° rted - " "'en 



coun rv i I IT ' Q the fie,d ' We shal1 know to what 

 ' ,0 1°°* for »• "Vgi". and may gu»rd against it 



bot h.T Tobtl ? SP " ng V, Sked for si ™i'ar information, 

 DOt "are obtained none. The Cabul Dodder is the Cus. 



7Zl^Tu:l^h at>d b ° th " " nd C tr^ifare 



the Flax Dodder r^T eUr ° P - C " epi,h ' mnm ' a „d 

 V/ rl r°Z,J' C - n»l>n«m.- Charles C. Babinaton 

 St John s College, Cambridge, Nov. 30. " ' 



M^"^orrf tt i^^ i js^' m i 



5^ £ .T wh - ™<* •"»» thr,;;^ zi n b ° 



ground by a common miller without any X than the 



nsua stones employed b, miller,, if ,he miller adds an 



equal quantity of bran to the Linseed. I b« Z annrise 



your readers o thi. fact, a. some parties may be defe' red 



from ual ng this useful compound, by tbe'.opJSd [on 



that they reqmre a mill on purpose to crush tuT^etd 



I have fatted three bullock, on compound made of Bean 



neal and Linseed ground with bran at the mill, and 



lound it answer very well, and the bullocks eat it »i h ' tee onThe^.IfTT.r"; "T v i' c , ne P°" « the Commit- 



***,< the proportions I used were three measures ol ■ Z ^n^nd^ K ^i^^^^, 



Cox, Thomas, Parkfield*. Derby. 



Fountain, Henry, Leake. Boston, Line. 



Wwtcote, John Baker. Coate, Martock, Somerset 



Peers, Joseph, Ruthin, Denbighshire. Jmerser - 



Lucas, Lieut, Richard, 2d Life Guards 



Anderson. Walter, Oakley, Bedford 



Harding T. Goldie, Monkleigh, Torrington Devon 



Turner, John Beresford, Broekmantf^Leominltcr' Her 



Ramsay, George He pell, Dervrent Vdla, Newcastle on Tvnn 



Le Blanc A.thur, Mare.field, Uckfidd, Sas.e^ »e-on-Tyne. 



Norns, John, Hughend,n H e, High Wycombe, Bucks. 



The names of 15 candidates for election at the next 

 meeting were then read. 



Finances -Mr. Raymond Barker, Chairman of 

 ^^ F ^T_ CeCommit . tce l rcad the Report of the Commit- 



nested capital amoontrd ,„. ~ 



cash balance in the hand, of the banker^ fto^T** 

 al,o laid before the Council the bTaTe,^^ 



>uthampton meeting, .bowing in deuil Z 'J?.** 

 item, of receipt and expenditure connert-d .£ 

 account, the t.tal amount of receipt, (inrludi. ^ 

 senption from Southampton) being 4920/ ^" 8 ,« . 

 the total [payments 37367. 5s. 2</., lfavinja n \ ^i- 



^yroents over the receipts, on that no~? *• 

 806/. 19,. id chargeable nn the fund, of thHS' ^ 

 addition to the sum of 135o/. as the amount^* 

 only, awarded by the Society at that meeting. 



Local Collectors.— The Council resold « .l 

 motion of Mr. Pym, seconded by Mr. Giob, fc ^ 

 desirable that paid collectors 'hould oe p^^ 

 counties or districts ; and that the details ofTe.vll! 

 should be referred to a committee consisting n/u 

 Pym, Mr Shaw, Mr. Gibbs, and the Me-£.^ 

 Finance Committee ; three of whom should form a **? 

 rum, with a request from the Council that in their feS 

 they wou d state the rate of remuneration recomoS. 

 by them to be paid to the proposed collectors. 



LECTURES.—Mr. Pusev reported to the Council the 



arrangements already made for the delivery of leetsiZ 

 before the members at their ensuing Christmas rneetiT 

 by Dr. 1 Iayfair, the consulting-chemist of the SoStt- 

 when it was resolved that the lectures should take 

 place on Wednesday, the 11th, and Thursday the 12th 

 inst., at 9 o clock in the evening; and that Prof. 

 Sewell, Mr. Gibbs, and Mr. Shaw, should be -- , - 

 to act as a committee for engaging a suitable theatre f 

 the delivery of the lectures, and the exhibition of the 

 chemical experiments with which they were to ha 

 illustrated. 



General Meeting.— The President announced his 

 intention of directing a Speehl Council to be summoned 

 for Saturday the 14th instant, at ten ©'clock in the fore- 

 noon, for the purpose of taking into final co ation 



the Report of the Council to the General Meeting to be 

 held at one o'clock on that day. 



Lists of Members, Models, &c— On the motion 

 of Mr. Fisher Hobbs, seconded by Mr. Shaw, it was 

 resolved that a list of the Members of the Society should 

 be printed in a cheap form, and appended to the first 

 half volume of the Journal for 1845, to appear about 

 midsummer in that year. On the motion of Mr. Fisntm 

 Hobbs, it was resolved, that an Inventory, with an 

 Index, should be prepared, of all Implement-, Models, 

 &c. in possession of the Society. On the motion of Mr. 

 Fisher Hobbs, seconded by Earl Spencer, it was re- 

 solved, that a catalogue of the books in the Library 

 should be made by a professional person to be engaged 

 for that purpose, under the direction of the House 

 Committee. 



Judges of Stock. — On the motion of Mr. Fisher 

 Hobbs, it was also resolved, that in future the Judges 

 of Stock shall be appointed by the Council, from a list 

 of nominations made by the members at large at a ge- 

 neral meeting, and on the report of a committee to 

 whom such list shall have been referred. On the mo- 

 tion of the Hon. Captain Spencer, seconded by Mr. 

 Bennett, it was resolved, that, in the appointment of 

 Judges of Stock, those names only shall be given to the 

 Stewards of the yard determined by the Council for each 

 breed ; that in case one or more of those named shall 

 not appear, a supplementary list of Judges shall also be 

 given to the Stewards, who shall from such list fi.l up 

 the vacancy. 



Exhibition of Stock. — On the motion of the Hon. 

 Captain Spencer, it was resolved, that after the awards 

 of the Judges of cattle shall have betn delivered to the 

 Director of the yard by the several Stewards, such Mem- 

 bers of the Council (not being exhibitors) whose duties 

 for the Society prevent them from seeing the cattle when 

 the public are admitted, who shall be named by the 

 Council the month prior to the meeting, shall be ad- 

 mitted to view the cattle from 5 o'clock till 7 of the 

 Wednesday, (provided the awards shall have been deli- 

 vered ;) but that the awards shall not be declared before 

 the usual time, namely, after the Council dinner.— Mr. 

 Bennett gave notice that he should move, at the nex 

 monthly Council, that herdsmen and shepherds, not 

 being exhibitors themselves, or relatives of exhibitors 

 should be allowed to be in attendance on their Bl0 J*» 

 but on no account to remain in the show-yard when ta 



Judges enter. . ... 



Trial of Implements.— Mr. Shaw having wiw- 

 drawn his motion on Trials of Implement?, distinct iron 

 those made at the time of the Annual Country >JcetlD n 

 Mr. Shelley laid before the Council the joint rep° no 

 Mr. Miles and himself, as Stewards of the Imp JMjeu 

 Department, on the communications of Mr. Clay • 

 Mr. Comins, and Mr. Smart ; and letters were receiT 

 from Mr. Jaques and Mr. Graburn, on the *"•" Tj 

 spectively referred to them of Cultivators and n»» 

 Corn Mills. -. 



The Council having appointed the « tandlD * j.^. 



ittpp fnr the enauinir vear. and aereed to the pre 



the consideration of Mr. Gordon's offer of a 1 rWr 

 the communication from the British Association on 



Analysis of Ashes of Plants, till the next Mo ( nlbl J tf j ii , l 

 ing. Communications were received frooi Mr. ^ 



Secretary of the Border Agricultural Society, 

 Mechi, Mrs. Welford, Mr. Dean, Mr. I^»n>, 

 Moffat, Rev. S. Lysons, and Mr. Garnett. tfae 



The Council then adjourned to Wednesday nex , 



11th of December. 



