[ FEB. 5, 
some resisting the idea of their being infectious, 
whilst others find no greater natin. in believing 
subtle poison to proceed Feci * 
subjects than in supposing it "t 
the bowels of the earth or the elements of e 
decay; an i 
character of many dise and to recommend the 
measures * — a a iur 
on between the healthy and the Ther 
are other maladies, however, which do not, like 
those to which we wt d -— the i 
brium of science, but up their seerets to the 
а, their eigo рит аф to the оба 
which аге kno have produced them. Thus 
po rat or sudden alteration in diet, either an 
in quality or quantity, ^ the reverse, is 
— of recognised disea For instance, 
the long 3 — of salt provisions is productive 
seu in uman subject, and when salt 
ions were the usual winter food on land as 
well as чакы the scurvy was a very common апі |с 
troubleso laint. So likewise with animals : 
a eden | 8 from very poor to very rich 
pasture causes inflammatory fever or be e scd 
an 
scurvy amongst horses, whilst an ex 
stimulating — with insufficient exercise p 
and swel s. mmoniacal vapou 
e greatly affected by atmos ^ — 
1 — eat vieis 
ontinuance of weather 
our oy he —to e diseases — 
imals consequent on Ша. wt season which has 
iled so long, and the precautions — to 
а to 8 the: effects that be 
antici a long continuance of rainy 
of the present generation ; 
well informed and o vere d 
t he has a distinct recollection of fifty 
Winters, but in none does he recollect such a long 
continuane re as that which 
uced od 
itself 1 is robbed of a portion of its vital wernt 
to supply which. ы greater quantity of food is 
required, otherwise the body itself Pes 
used up and dimintitied in weight. eep, it 
endure extreme sold if the 
when wet, although 
latter case ша may be milder. 
Polan 
шү In practice, tem two considerations involve a |t 
i$ | compromise, on 
as | limits. 
into meat. 
of agricultural pum and all t 
of agricultural theory ; and for js 16 or 17 co N 
8 
эй | 
siderations, wW 
prominence to subjects in tha: aa rtion of their 
intrinsic importance, so that the relations of land- 
rd and tenant, the social position of the labourer, 
and the fundamental чн of у, tillage, and 
uld have the precedence, even 
— is talked about but draining, then the 
ULTURAL Gazette should for the time being become 
of the drainer; 
eping be the only branch of agriculture exciting 
eneral interest, then 12,000 or 14,000 words should 
every week be spoken about our poultry shows and 
our Им, lists for Cochin Chinas, Dorkings, and 
, however, we Hoare the latter 
term of — alternative shoul 
for Certai 
than due A 
| any other pe 
t e 
exactly to the public feeling of the time, so that, if | den 
GRI- 
e less influence = 
any remarks. by у ourselves or, во far as we е know, by 
erson. reporter — — too high нА 
be affected by these — and it would haya 
been better perhaps to have refused tò noticè them 
ata 
he public may appreciate the eagerness With 
which disappointed е endeavour to throw 
dirt. upon their — rs, by a perusal. of 
;|the complaint Ü correspondents, whose 
letters about the conduct of Mr. Barty, one of 
parties. ES 
e before n wii by the Agricultural Gazétte, 
o be 2 d. 
we have 
ondemnation here 
ves ; but 
GAZETTE * dé Tenson to complain of the present 
excitement about poultry. It can Nec for itself 
and its contributors the credit of mu 
now taken in that subject. 
he interest 
To she series of с Ает 
with the d its —— mee on the one 
e d, and th 
wg 
— — 
Which he al at pre mously hod Wey 
an pp ess ot im portan 
subjects with in ch i as to pr on iis other, |i 
necessarily restrict this ability within but narrow 
to E in full —— gieti scrap o 
at arises from to. wee 
lists, we ADE to T advérüs 
interested. It is for us to aim at describing the pro- 
gress of the different breeds, and ke poor а 
results e various methods of managing t 
rather than 1 present a full record of all the mena 
carried off by — . For some of 
these, when space is at our command, we shall be 
happy to claim the attention of our readers ; but, 
e believe that we shall be of 
iym e animal lies 
skin, 
muaterially ture of mutton, an 
n — operated С іп diminishing the 
way of ғ the evil 
re rain 
injured by rain than ing ewes or 
This remark is is of itself sufficient to explain the 
ies of our fl 
of the 
ry, 
emperitare in 
eat д ов a cay en by the evaporation of | as 
g 
n; and thus fatting sheep are 
bs. li 
‚ | secon 
notice, given in 
„exhibition. 
greater service to thori by Fertig it to questions 
of practi to those points of 
economi arise in the course of 
a writer, or a practi . Noone can 
deny that impartial honesty and Mood judgment 
are 2 in the notices s mm эше A as 
he itherto favoured u 
of such an pe altogether to esca 
— | critici idet not ^ wi tere | th 
of — — whether ds t eglect 
or injustice with whieh exhibitors have thought 
themselves treated. me of these we 
ished—one, from Messrs. serm of the derer iA 
is printed in 1; we hav 
d from: — - complaining of "the f farther 
c ue e same page, of the class in 
following . A 
The writer in th he first instance saii “ The Pol 
ааа in all чег 8 — + " with beards and those 
ithout.” In 
alters the sense of it 1 0 doubt at had 
to — 2 pu — that he com neutralises any 
it there may be 1 fene or * silver 
fowls of this class. ; 9v we vm “The Polands were " p: iut 
with the exception of ? the white-cres 
those exhibited at Birmingham.” Thi 
с treated wil = a 
GRICULTUR. 
oping id raid 
AL GAZETTE can utter some 16000 | 
E Xnd, should take the 
to your — for d information which is valuable — when 
given. 
Messrs. Baker, before they make Mond of | 
trouble to 
what is fact, and what surmise Had they 
done 80 ‘would have found that our veo? 
, | did oot ai letter than our readers 
any sooner 
what he said w: 
ed by the parties | 
gentleman 
who is well known in the por ею whether | 
so | as а judge, 
0 
however Viggo apte he Shay falsi the pense 
hin VN shown at - Metropolitan | 
he two notices are the 
$ unbiassed by | moderate pri 
onym 
with every other unprejudiced spectator of the w 
in "wee it has bee ailed, must continue to 
n the esteem which P has hitherto conn d 
judge at Poultry s 
| correspondents appear diss 
t they regarded an intimate edge 
matter — judged of as би. je — of all qualifi- 
cation can readily indeed understand: b 
some exhibitors would find — 
„able e i We, ho 
to an nio m 
expre oe by e Sim ? jn our 
from a knowledge of personal eharácfel e A 
may suppose that the e of management of 
Poultry Show does not po — ess, = index for 
their узала must ba hoi IR d prejudice 
affect the man whose quiiicaions or the office 
i n cattle shows 
n breeders o 
are more strictly “ dealers 
skill. 
any ey he enar wich an e nal petal 
ledge of all the breeds, he am 
or whose interest is rtionate with that of 
terested and unpreju decision 
have confined their attention to one 8155 N : 
е committees of poultry exhibitions aw ^ 
arges b 
columns; but whatever may be the ad 
certain | doing, ‘think the 
means ineligible, provided they have the Enc 
di " 
pou) —— 
"J | 
publie, must we think be — w^ d i | 
— 
— . oraaa 
the advocates for feeding it o 
when have — 
