THE AG RICULTURAL GAZETT1 



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SATVHDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1847. 



jo. Thus, people talk of " Scotch " farming as s 

 no "E.-li.h -—apparently ignorant of th 

 utiit within the one country, as within the othe: 

 ptfjuriety of management and every degree c 

 «a"is exemplified. And, to take another instance 



BOoabting confidence, a detailed and yet wholesale 



Tie amusing, and, we will add, instructive Totji 



ed in an adjoining page, is worti 



xmL We do not affirm the inaccuracy of all its 



.-.inly the general idea of Scot- 



a troth, that the chief " instruction" we draw fruir 

 \ :<the lesson we began with ; and our chief reasoi: 



■ ■ ':■ the article is the strong confirmation 

 mt that lesson receives from the ludicrous errors 

 ».hich the neglect of it has led. The extreme 

 ■M and the perfect uniformity of the soil 



■ : " Midlothian, Clackmannan, Linlithgow. 

 ■■■•*..;■•.'. Lanarkshire, Stirlingshire, Perthshire 



aid the Carse of Gowrie), parts 



,-•■ ■•.■•::.-;;iie, and the seaboard from Aberdeen 



ith,and Dundee, through Fife 



i. 

 ■"■" :•' sacks of Wheat per Scotch acre are 

 »DDcommon"_the tale about the worn out land 

 ^woum now only grow 50 bushels of Wheat 



Understand, for averages — IjTriese* are 

 SS vnf 1 t? rr0 ^ t0 ^ hich We alIude - Tl,e 

 *itiind h S e " escr ^ e( i is a pure mistak 



siind ^1 DOt P erna P s so variable a geology 



^"Bthe X rent an f| Wh r h *"" abund * nt, y obvious 

 Jjtf us ^occupiers. Sixteen^acks oWvheltaZ 



' !'• 'wo print "arfd ^i""' " !, ' U ' 1 ' " ow iilst tU ' 1 '" il ^ 

 "Jedirtl s!nv T We to admit the bad farming- 



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* *** LIT *«? hin S a »« -win,-- the 

 15 * e 'l underst 1 I i ° husDandr v, which are 

 X* The a ||°„ J . e L Ver y Ploughboy in Eng- 

 **> to o,ni • ge , nch ness of soil does not 



^ofb a *dY a ' r ^ e irrecon C'Jable with sweepin 

 ^. C ; rre8 Pond en fi 8 not hnu , „ . 



rSlo ! us' 



^h ch ^e h laup° n - lhe Subject ^English cUj 

 StSr 7dft, ervinrth n Cona P wi *°n for the mo 



• UU » the tfT &]] ? of «"»ch heavh 

 tH Sbsh. On the subject « 



ie great merit and justification of Scottish 

 ng certainly is its large produce under unto- 

 circumstances; and probably its principal de- 



value of Warmt 



come prominent subjects of agricultu: 

 and when the erection of compendio 



relating to Fixtures as between Landlord ant 

 Tenant have acquired a new and important aspect 

 At the meeting of the Law Amendment Society 

 on Wednesday last, the subject underwent u 



Report on Tenant Rights which had been read bj 

 Mr. Stewart at the previous Meeting, and whici 

 having been copied from this Paper by other agri- 

 extensive circulation and comment. 



On the motion made for receiving the printed 

 Report,, Lord Brougham, from the chai 

 formed the Committee of one or two cases 

 bad come before the House of Lords, since t 





it now stand 





is one of 





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have for 



so^time" r^i 



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tooutnln 





r decisions of 



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w upon which they are 





Hi. It is 





to be hoped th 

















* on the subject, alluded^ 



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Chairmai 







uggestion 



offered by some of the members, 





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Lord As* 



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final reception leport, in 









st felt in the 





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be afforded, and that, too 







the variot 



s points elicited by its publicatic 





CHRONICLES OF A CLAY FARM.— No. XIII. 



Murky days of November ye have come— and gom 



—again, over one at least who has found out and tastei 



rowded diary of years and days gone by, his han( 

 an scarce touch without the gentle pressure of ok 

 3 llowship the page after page that recounts the actm 

 usy-ness which lighted up even your dark atmo 

 phere and drizzling skies ; till the spent and scant; 



ar, in fancy, the drip drip drip going on through 

 lent night*, while weary labourers sleep, and 

 ••'■•' . 

 What a thought-to the mind that ;. 

 •y and value— ay ! he may be bold enough to say 

 to has known and felt it— what a blessed thought 

 a well-drained Field ! A portion, a small yet mea- 

 rable portion of Nature's reality, brought by the 



a barren quagmire the livelong Winter 



peared through the soil, it has dragged the air after 

 a n d M te m W eLu^ a d ^ ow i n S t l,U u t,Un,,, ' ' ' ' '" ' '~ 



to say!" 



Of all things I like 



- .. 

 perhaps, to get a bit o' bread by." 

 ^ " V. ,.*, u t m,« M ,th.-*,w, I ihink I may 



'•"And it will be too! Theiv'l! never le standing 



it I for d 



'Bear it ! Lor' blesh you, it '11 conu -. us „ 

 a garden, I'll war'n' it, in the spring : .< in 



ling so shallow ! If : 



■ite about the fields I've drained, and send it to some 

 those Editor men to print and put in the paper, 



as true after Uwas in print as it was before, when 



n in thing, that is ; 'cause of course 



here long words about Chemists . 



^"^ofwoT't believe I can doctor the field and 

 at an appetite, eh Dobson ?" 

 ell I don't know— I ben't no scollard, Sir — one 



And «rh :i l <.»r:> 'good night m n-t,::-::. i;-u.l-._s 

 >or old Dobson home from his hard and wvt days 





