1-1847-] 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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UTVBDAY, JANUARYS 1847. 



.- i_Lm.don-Gr.at 0M^-\ to^narieston 



It was an observant i 



found, becj 



S ? often e ]ierJr^^rface, open to everyday 



observation,— and therefore unobserved. 



"'he Present. No sooner has the bygone year 



niy, me very exaggeration of * {le ™*V^£\ 



that neglect which perpetuates the same folly upc 



essor. It is proverbial that in retrospect alor 



choose to see things in their true light an 



The waters are dark a-head of and aroun 



": is allowable to moralise upon the advent of 

 year; hut to icsistsuch reflections, at our pr< 

 point of time, is impossible. We have passe 

 ugh a year whose financial history is almoi 

 tout parallel or precedent. We cannot regar 



Agriculture— in a mere professional point of viev 

 m ild not, if we would ; for the history of ii 

 iiid be a history of the year 





from the experien 

 accident of a genei 

 they would call tht 



inclusion can be dra 



carcity has interceptet 



lot to be bought at - 

 quarter, as the latter promised, nor a decimation of 

 the tillage-fields of England abandoned, as the 



*in deal with it more politely. 

 tys in which an article may be 

 smand is one ; abundant supply 

 first operates in poor and thinly- 

 ; the second in those that are 

 j. The first is found over the 



England and 



£U?z 



your fields, and 

 we are mutual < 

 se : anything els 



1 plough mine : ii 

 omers to any ex 



ay send me. W< 



that mystlf When my crop 



England alo°ne, but of Franca 

 ie German States, Italy, Spain. 



grow corn enough for its ow" 

 strange as it may sound, this 



language of the 



All seemed to agree with 

 *»**omethingp 



■ l:r. t . 



^-to-be-remembered \ t .;,r 



y-six England, the land 



of shopkeepers," by one 



ts ever prom^ed h\ man 



& oid na d e octr e Thich h final on ' 



courageous a 



'XI 



**"> people wl 

 *«ch,^" , e , thew °rld,made 

 th at took I hestok «lesseng 



•H those I, " [ 

 »ccidenu t fu - CalIed 'acts 

 S*** 1 Scare ,v ,F Sunda >- d 

 amongst th 

 £\ fir * arSe L P ^ ulate d ' 

 *^*aS* hMn »»u 



* go of itself A\ 



er day for kT 

 ■t, by conseque 



of Europe, i 

 :e, is accordin, 

 ass ' accident ' 



,} e .'._r 



>rding to the vocabulary of 



overbially difficult when doctors 



Sr D Let trexamTne^a 

 grounds and phenomena < 



There is an ingenious toy called the Chroma- 

 trope, which by a combination into one disc of the 



ties of beautiful and wondei 

 tions to the eye. Separate the combined rays, 



ary sympathy which draws lor c 

 joint reflection from the Visionary and the Protec- 

 tionist. Two wrongs do not make one right : and 

 where two theories, diametrically opposed, deduce 

 from adverse premises a joint conelusion, it i- at 



|j that both are erroneous as that both 





isserts, the general scarcity has i 

 ew us every tiling that we most re 

 [t has developed to each and all 



gency. Is this shewing nothing? h 

 us the grain ports of the Baltic, the exponents of the 

 I a rope, scarcely 



■• • 



Report of the Mark-lane Express ; it has shewn us 



II of the Black Sea, Odessa, the mouth- 



oliaand Pultowa, and the otheT'"ezube- 



' i fertile provinces, each as large as Ireland," 



cargo beyond the hungry jaws of Marseilles 



wallowed at a gulp and as] 



lot least, it has shewn England the Receiver and 



Dispenser of the world's stores, buying of all who 



;an sell, and st-llii.g toil,-., 



ng to Belgium and France, and giving to Ireland, 



md in the midst of all, presenting the strongest, 



ing idle questions, and begging to be particularly 

 jnnedwhat is to be the upset price of corn two 

 irs hence — when the granaries of the world 

 11 have been clean swept, as they soon will be, 

 I a couple of successive harvests have begun 

 scarcely to replenish them to average mark. ' fie 

 who asks the question ii 

 > understand the answer.' Such was the reply 

 auchsafed to the inquisitive gentleman who wanted 

 » know some six years back 'what was to become 

 P the « navigators ' when the railroads were com- 



As well might the dairyman < 



icapness of milk and cream ii 

 voushire, as the English farm* 

 the price of corn three hundred 

 Of this he may rest as 



London 

 lears of 

 Cheshire 



A capital of 650/. 





October and sold 

 lambs to be fatted fc 

 of cropping i 



. be. The 

 ropping is proposed to be that recoi 

 by Mr. He 



1. Rye and Tares for green meat, and feeding off 



2. Oats or Barley sown withCloi 



3. Clover twice mown for hay. 



4. Beana or Peas, tl 



> maturity in September and Oc- 



al a = w 6o rz tls: 80t< 



- 





, .■:■;■:■..; 



Or "to recapitulate— for sale, 



vi'.",' ; 



; i,u .vest! 



end of October, 



theVeTches^ 



p of 50 sheep, lb 



consumed that, and also reduced 



the quantity of cut Grass by the consumption of 80 



sheep and 40 lambs during August, and ol 4V sneep 



" " 12 September and October. They will reduce it to 



I 35 tons of green food, which therefore may have 



made into hay, or used for soiling cattle. The 80 



> will consume during the winter months, till May 



s round again, 1 ton of food a day, equal to 30 



)f Cabbages and 30 tons of Turniis,before January, 



us of Turnips, 20 tons of Swedes, and say 10 tons 



of Mangold Wurzel, before the early Rye is ready for 



them There is thus left food for 100 sheep from Apnl 



, and August 



tons of Cabbages, 110 tons of Turmps, 40 tons of 



redes, and 70 tons of Mangold Wurzel ; and this (./ 



Cabbages, by transplanting them in April, after 



the first crops of Rye, may be ready for consumption 



in August and September) -this will keep from Apnl 



100 sheep till July Indus- 



nearly October (on Grass and Cabbage) ; I 



end of the vear fon Turnips) ; and till Aprd (on 



Swedes and Mangold Wurzel). Or this food, sufficient for 



I00 ^i^SSKaf fiLfS "w&S 



may be kept on' this farm all the year twwd 



