THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



.,..,, r{I E\p, am> DURABLE ROOFING. 

 rrflOM AS JOHN ^ROGGOJ,^ 8 > Lau " 



V1 \?K--H - ■ 





' 



sS 8 ** 1 



- ..';.• ' !.■ 1 . ■• 









: - i-'tr;.. 



« fie agricultural ffiamte. 



«4 7*WID4 F, JANVAR Y i 



;••::-: . 



offered by 



set to that disting! 

 which is unquestionably implied 

 agricultural,' the amount 'of those prizes 



by the " 



Society, which bear directly on the 

 ie soil, should excee " ' 

 present, taking all tb 



the latter. Upwards of 200/. 

 ivarded in prizes for implements at New- 

 .nd upwards of 1 100/. for live stock. This 

 tainly acting in opposition to Lord Spencer's 

 :ement of the principle on which the So- 

 ls originally constituted; wherein it was 

 bat the main efforts of the ass. 





tea should go for 



subjects for reward, we dc 

 should not be taken from 

 offer prizes for well execute* 

 Old and silver c 

 value, 200/. or 300/. and unc 

 the greatest extent in the i 

 during a past year, would I 

 able, and assuredly as likely 



Newmarket * Andthey wo! 



lot see why examph 

 e local clubs, whicl 

 Irainage or good cul 



r! offered for draining 



trophies as honour 



suggest, also, as a 

 , thatpri 



to 50/. should be given for the best cultivated farms 

 of proper extent in the 'district' in which, in each 

 year, the country meeting is held. The competi- 

 bes« should be strictly confined to 

 tenants. The prizes for essays, and especially 

 •ion and on the farming of 

 counties, might also be advantageously increased. 

 We cannot help attributing the non-appearai 

 any essay last vear on the farmini: of the 

 Riding < t Yorkshire, in a great measure, to t 

 adequate sum offered— too 

 out competent men, though sufficient it may 

 been to induce the competition of those who 



iat this leaves but a small fraction of ' wst 

 ulity'tobe imparted at school-: \et we 

 to be true, and we at the same time hold 

 iportance of science to the improvement 

 ition. The seeming paradox disappears \ 



; found to act indirectly — by the energy a 



r College 

 e glad of 



It i* un- 



nay, if this be done by those \ 

 ; object {for whose attainment t 

 m established, the public critic 



tiilthe brain almost refuses to respond duly to the too- 



cannot be helped : nothing worthy of remembrance 

 was ever yet accomplished in this working-day 



ho°rn d and^he% ^ wVri 11 Wr? "| ht *J* gr ° Wn 

 mind half confused with its own struggles to dis- 

 sect and extricate from confusion a subject worthy 

 of its poi 



md efforts. Nature i 

 :he sacrifice, and Science ar 

 And such we do in truth fi 



«*^^£F^* h ^ thc p r(,miums 



***** Acr , riII * l m V ] t mcnt Department of the 

 ^opportunity to „«S rommerron 

 to ^£SS M |„ With thi9 s r ub J ect .™ conceive 



>j* ^ii^t:::^z: iumWntal 



U,. : 



m eM TT iI «na amour.* r • «»ara me great- 



^^r^Tu1 a Zff^sr ,o fmpU - 



^SPi^ * formation !I.t departure from 

 ««*tj»SJ of its premit a PI ,ro l' : > "linsr the 



^tJtf^ing of cattle ;;'" "^^ the 



^bjL^tion rf he io ;? Ce ?*!? ,y t€Con ' 



re k <*» be consl J° j! - food »■* be 



No doubt many of our readers have seen a c 

 spondence published in the Times newspaper, i 

 iewhere, on the system of education pursued 

 e Cirencester Agricultural College. 1 



verted, but, simply to warn any who may be i: 

 ested in the subject lest they should suffer feeli 

 >f partizanship to injure an institution calculate* 



eadily aris< 



remark may apply to 



ggestcd though 



?cline entering fa 

 lar charges laid against 

 faults which have 



?nng here upon the particu- 



been exposed have, we be- 



issible to give the public the benefit of the esta- 

 ment : but, we are happy to say, one thing has 

 made manifest by this discussion, and that m the 



Council that 



nothing shall ultimately be alio 

 thorough attainment of their ol 

 lication of a sound agricultural ed 

 Ve only regret that, for this, a due atten 

 iterests of the shareholders has forced l! 



udly-raised discussion of the Landlord and 

 enant question. It arises out of the time, and it 

 Those who imagine that it is per- 

 brought forward by any par- 



ticular parties, standing on either side of 

 troversy, take but an unphilosophical view of th 

 whole phenomena of the subject. Questions c 

 really vital importance are not made, but grow 

 and the soil and the seed that produce them are th 



urly to the birtJ 



correspondence which has reached us upon 

 lortant subject of Agricultural Tenure ; and 

 casioually given publicity and contradiction 



oned by usage as to need emphatic doubt or 



our last week's impression we inserted without 

 ent the letter of a ' Landlord and Farmer,' 



rmer correspondent who signs himself" R. L.,' r 

 rites la the former character alone. Nothing 

 5 more instructive than the comparison which 



damp hiding-place which Demockitis assigns to i 

 the landlord and tenant question bids fair to deriv 

 llumination from the rays that dawn upon 

 »o many quarters. The propositions an 

 m put forward are to be sure not quite 8 



selves, as the alternate advocates, setting out wit. 

 ie same object, would lead one to expect. Oni 

 ight be tempted to say with the 'bitter-swee 



uch that is good, but that which is good is not a] 

 :w, northat which is new all good. But why tha 



ies, but good culti- 

 > Cotswold district ; 

 other things being 



weight is to be placed on the fact that th« 

 of dependency which he challei 

 are not (as we pointed 



;s':ncs 



him), asked for by the 



could be giv«ra 



for the feudal homage of by-gone days," may be i 

 as fairly open to the suspicion of a selfii 

 e as the spero meliora of the man who c»nn< 



