330 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [May 21, 
capillar} attraction losing it by * What Td On the other hand, ‚ from the expense some 50 miles to the railway station, invariably 
the force is } 6 the ten evaporation tof keep and attendance, and the want of proper | becoming more or less febrile from purging; next they 
S overcomes” fign entiv ich capillary | accommoda ion, the counter. depression is eq ally | are confined in the trucks, exposed to th lemeney 
| а een the supply exceeds the demand, for on | of the weather, often only arriving in the metropolis 
; but Hine forces are, atall events, 
ja sucks x ie > antagonistic; and when the air ke ve 
vapour, less water in a 
ordin tho better: 
due says that he has il e 
oses the water raised within it by capillary attrac- 
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бар except by evaporation. this involves the | a 
essence, and ind je whole of the € of 
land drainage! It is se the soil 
thus part with water, ined viti it by e A 
attraetion, that hd; is draina 
n and 
r Хаже йе of the 
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familiar with the Huctuation of pric 
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in Smithfield and New 
the influence of railway and steam-boat 
ith the proverbial — ession of * Lucky days Hh 
wgate. 
dieti and sloping 
s of its drovers 
may not be fa 
infer that our 
1 ce of the Soci 
uelty to M 9À а —— — e will 
Aberdeenshire farm: 
on a day." "Som 
f x" most sue 
of Commons 
To talk of the existence of a Bei below the sur- | adj — ME PM eae айда almost | Committee of the , 
face of the soil, Below which water exists, as it doe sitis wh wh f hern dro assed. oss, wi easts wee dept суд from day to 
а tubful of gravel, into whi ch it has been poured, farmers p of York саннай. their cattle іп | Friday's market, at 37. per head, not so much from 
Бнын wi practice ; those days to London salesmen, a large proportion the expense of keep as the loss of weight. Now 
believe that the ire theory of land- drainage depend | of their stock arriving in the midland and southern | the loss which Lincoln beasts sustain in such cases 
upon some consideration ne And, | provinces only half fat, where they were fed out А probably not enda than that of Aberdeen sent 
after a heavy rain, there is in pu uch a level, for Smith ald. Those provinces fed more then te a o day га Boos > i 
below whi ^d ve exists ite eely, and ata which it | than they do now, but reared fewer i visión in A en 5 owever, is n e only . 
= Е by е capillary attraction. That level | to their keep. Many had always fat stock on hand which suffers from the above practice. The com 
the c of the n undrained bend they EN turn va A ont a eitis 5 85 laints against rail companies ar e 
; Sd indeed, evaporation is th that the ly w ver. to be all groundless, while the progress of 
only way i which the soil will part with it: in 25006 it, they had a stall to tieve the ‘antay of the among — — but surely overturning 
pe fil — that level is about the level of the drover, whose interest wai to sell at a sure | antiquated systems—c м 
drains. But there is another level to which water profit rather than incur the Ys d risk of the | consideration on their part, as to the f ДЫ. 
be raised in soils above this serj level, i t k y of easts in Smithfield in | the supply of butcher-meat for the capital. B. 
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for the germination of see 
low the level of 
M tat at and be 
рсе of soil 
the channels betwee 
the charged 
upon on the con di- 
iere the plos are still 
gh the interstitial channel 8 
е” rus E: tendency upwards— |$ 
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g had stoo markets 
0 ir i 
E tht t impulse pu now be felt as 
w. | Edinburg rmerl 
;|acco cag: to the 
io abroad will necessitate the grazing dis ist 
dnd : 
those dana (perhaps tne fut of the whole), 
on e way 
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buying or selling, sometimes 
farmers of the distriet—hence es bo com- 
plaints so frequently heard am espe- 
cially farmers and innkeepers, boot bad | diis and 
the want of trade in all the market towns of the 
g of stoc 
5 one away with in those provinces, ее being few 
who do not fatten for the торса 
; мете» 
and the arrang 
security of their с in te Palace of dm | 
UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION OF AGRICULTURAL 
AND INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AT та 
N 1855. 
E Lords of the Committee of ET Couneil 1. 
mmunication from the 
Trade have received со 
Secretary of State for Foreign p ow itting a 
copy of a fro 0 'alewski, Freneh 
Ambassador at the Cou ondon, in which it is 
announced that by a deer th h last, 
his Majesty Emperor has ordered that & Universal 
Exhibition of agricultura dust 
r 
shall take place in Paris on the Ist of May, 1855. 
The French — — € es that exhibitors 
bes countries w this appeal will meet 
cnn facility y both e regards the * 
receptio 
and the different k 
be exhibited, roduet: 
mite. Wa Wave 1 a hope 
will be ad 
mers 
B ad oe although gat and. bute viui 
rovinces sou 
far 
iheis sims ted — pi the 
stock, and the genetal want of any форма system. 
province, 
soon a 
was at St. Ives, the 
than 
result athe er v inira the fluctuations 
to prid the supply. 
3 ontrol the supply properly, farmers 
y demand, 
consumption of the diferent kinds of meat is dif- 
ferent at different seasons, yet changes of this kind 
are not fluctuating, but Ат and easily under 
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ESPPEX 
z ce 
— 
on behalf of th vernment of hi 
that the British Government will fe in their power 
Formerly the demand of t capital spread from | to th 
np like the waves of the ocean from the 
А pons vessel. sed the re is but one реле Е 
of 
indus Lyon Playfa 
secretaries 5 ү arlborough House, 10% May, 185 
LOIS-WEEDON палтои, EA 
for sa ahd oe wich gen ee 
h than that that which * Economist 
tood. The supplies from foreign countries may be | frost, snow. 
force of evaporation, n the second we must more difficult to control, owing to their want A 
it w come by the tendency apes p an e supe | 
R см fre of gravitation. ring summ same may be said of the ; 
— wo to make, which, exclusively Grass feeding districts of deen v. er 
— ot foreign from his old habits, t these must pore — 
of Far Srock according to the gi e fore the exten railways on the 
is of the greatest import- | Conti and the progress of а science both at home 
and abroad. 
better distributec were—a pr 
lishme nt of ar 
triets of England, 
i whole periodical system, to т 
mation in this country from the heavy 
ich it i 
ge 1 ne е are already 
housefeeding denc rn is fast 5 ] 
and the estab fe 1 
| to w 3 subjeet from more causes| 
extreme fluctuations during summer and 
г, and met tropolitan expenses with want o of 5 
in the capital, beasts require to be 
i Mri wd hose which have | siii 
allo re 
h i 
pavement, subjeet to the 
and thei 
“to ws their bew 
i 
graziers of Lincolnshire, i in their va before 3 
Hou estim 
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