[E AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



"' k t tor hire for 



'2 ^esflmonials, 



flje3flrimltnral®asett«. 



SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 184 



ukeplice so rapidly, as before many years to have 

 ibwfW the vast numbers of agricultural labourers 

 a Ireland ; and any reasonable scheme by which 

 J» desirable object can be facilitated therefore 

 &erres favourable trial and immediate consi- 



reached us, and to 



Ireland of places for im- 



>ut Ireland of p 

 rtaimiiLi -eueral 



iatr *t£ e ' t ^ ,oincr ease in consequence of" the 



^ Nation! !f a i V . d, 'i age wil1 '"' ' ! ™vcd 

 i?g. ,0 init f thls Soc ' l «ty which is not 



' i, yielding to it 



face cleared, so will 



tl >at Ur ea^l a v d thorou gh drainage, 

 m«;.: Ca ? not be estimated with * * 



f-5555 



■rplus peasantry of Ireland, by thus 

 lum for their wretchedness (earned 1 

 our), without tiling that the measure] 

 made the groundwork for ,|,.. rege 

 ure permanent good of a people, than i 



{ions one more truly wretched, nor v 



enough margin for tli 



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appears to be as likely a mode 

 The pamphlet, contains mu 

 Manure, &c. 



ny rate^ordsXr; 



London Farmers' Club on Agricultural 

 ferriiig to it. The importaio 



The uniform and regular supply 



mount of supply. I 'rices 



eiHgentry high < 

 according to tl 



prices ever again unexpecte 

 would l)o less of ignorant spec 



ily appear 



l 



i.-te 



that be called by which indiv 







present u'tii ded in their doings 







Ih, -business' of farming w 

 Thiols the only aspect of the 

 cussed at the London Farmer 









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I:- 



I lub ; a 







attainment of this end we quite 









the speakers that Governmen 









re< But e the more important view 



of the use 



nine 



s of 





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;• re! 





to the 'Art' of farming appears; an 



1 tor 



the 



gradual accumulation of the fa 



• 















Farmers' Clubs if they woulc 



only ene 



rgeTically 





t fitted ag 



;•*'< 





could be employed'. But we 









enter upon the mode in whi 

 usefully labour. The attentior 





.u 









frequently directed to this poin 



rVsdtiT 



ull Agri- 



tics would be the 



■outrastsw 





h ','- 



between districts; and 



Comparison of the practice of diileiew! 



md the comparisona ol 



•he produce p 



lashelB, And \ 



in disgraceful instances ilk 



ss for the whole State of New Yoi 



Our agricui we are sure, 



present a more creditable picture than the above. 

 We do hope that very soon we may be enabled to 



CHRONICLES OF A CLAY FARM. 

 Much as may be learnt, by a willing mind, from the 

 ■ 

 rived from their failures. It is too late, in *' 



open up my early farmh 

 just beginning to recogni 



my it was, that I 



to feed the young brood, 



>roke ground : ' the first 

 all describe my farm geo- 



juble to plough an acre, he w 



id of sound fron 



rich I can only describe by t 



plough chanced to div 

 'ould see certain blue 

 hat would, if a lover o 

 oplacency by a sugges 



Wax rerrinc antagonist— we 



I inches deeper, 



r presently be regaled with a sound as of 



a heavy-laden cart dragging over a new. 



road ; and aftei 



t variety of conglomerates, 



te pull would suddenly be eased, and the ploug 

 eard swimming whisperingly through a bed ot 

 and ; and just as the filler-horse was congratul 



- 



grinning at you 



10 Have I dest'r I add to this 



subsoil sketch a faint and feeble idea of the surface 

 (some time about the nu.nth ..i Fvhruary), surname* 

 'fill-dyke' not without reason ; and endeavour to 



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fallen, or melted, upon fields as flat as a bi 



for escape or 



There it would stand, day after day, and 



week after week, and month after month, shining along 



the serpentine furrows, as if it never, never, never 



would go again! And the only wonder was when or 



• i.iiiat. It took me. That 'mysterious lady, who 

 is painted with a bandage on her eyes (she can see as 

 well as you or I) made it, with a pat on the back my 

 property and sh , pin the face 



my possession. It had been performing for a series of 

 „/«™ * sort nf « (reometrical progression —downwards. 



tl at atWUl nan uie prev.uua 



rent ; dabbled about a bit for a year or two like a duck, 

 and retired-lame. It was but a simple equation— a 

 very simple one— to say when the rent would come to 

 zero. Ulookei .nanja^sum 



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This brings me to my proposition No 2 : 



fact what is commonly called 'No. 1 '—myself, it 



there was in the catalogue of human callings, one which 



red, dreaded and despised, didn't know, 



A from my 



rda I had heard described and deprecated 



under the almost forbidden name of-farmmg. Dr. 



1 P I S^fis^Lora Bac^T, tel* us" Z « cbo^X 



