Ni AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[JUNE 18, 
are laid (following the ва 
paving two lines of owt about 6 an 
the side of t , the roots being towards the field 
side, pone from where the eid soil is thrown upon the 
roots. Feversham 
Sotieties. 
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ROYAL (n SOCIETY OF EN 
e last Monthly Coun 
n Han 
fellowed by an кз а М Weekly Monting of s Council; 
ord ASHBURTON, in the Chair 
J 
се се — ч 
п the wes 
the local wants of the po 
far f England, while it should aim 
е | enlarging the range d his | d into the experience > 
аз 
of the 
S| to ee their 
journ 
any co 
jects of Cider. of the Con: on 
of food by Stock, and, by бе liberality о of Sir Alexander 
the Pastures of Som 
et to 
to draw the — ы e 
p of the 
the е eral co- 
The e jou sedan —— lg in the highest oe of the 
value of the essays s 
e | offered. 
in to 
ey have obtained the perm 
contributors, besides the s 
h Setin in tl 
Prizes have already 
‘of the Devon Clay 
улар ог 
ourse 
xperi 8 
y members of t the Mn Societ 
e b 
in in the 1 of this Society (page 233), and ‘they would 
ssion of several 
еы competitors, 
ex 
he prizes 
SEE 
. эы ig as 
subj ects їп 
8 
ut nu 
me бочы, 
а е) possible period 
oper: ation of the council mi ight be 
e members ; as ner believe that no 
the|but we must make room for 
ged eourse 
ES 0 
mamaie precautions, 
e accepi 
ment of 
of 
f practical 
after the 
were held in the city of Oxford, on Wednesday an 
8th inst. It has been usual to hold its annual 
menting were closed, the | but although he had w 
esday, the 
d and Doreen bet 
agen n the way of- 
advisable to 
be no 
nta 
a ; vus the 
Barrow, M.P., Mr. Burke, Mr. D, Da . ai ie » Dr. council па to every member of Ше Society an had said, of elites, | he trusted that God would yet 
CC M. 8 гаг ра ag ? abstraet of its receipts and expenditure, made u spare him a few ye o devote to the service of 
Mr. Dyer, Ir. Gadesden : , Mr. Garre vaa Mr. [rini eur. July 1, 1852. A complete balance-sheet was subse- | far ers of Engla He sincerely hoped that the 
Gibbs, Ме. Fisher Hobbs Mr. Cuthbert Johnson Mr, | quently made up to the Ist November, 1852, and де | farmers bis forget any little whieh had 
A. G. Jones : C. Law. e Mr. | lished in the first number of t eis ciety’s journal, deli hy arisen between him and themselves, as he had done; 
Maning Mr. Orlebar, Mr. й Pole Mr Porter vered to members in January la balance which | and he — that in his paren office he should still 
(Hembury Fort) Mr. Pugh, M.P., И” owlandson, appeared in favour - the MOM; at that time Vid е4: useful to them tnessed with mueh inte- 
Prof. Simonds, Irt Thomas, Capt. Henry Vyn ner, required for the payment of the expenses of printing pss the show of d - 50 0 it was small it was 
Mr. Jonas Webb, and Mr. Vor and circulating the ates; for the premiums awarded | good for a country qu here were many 
der ~The President hid, before to the prize essays ; and for "the current official expenses. | жойо of i ney ement. o m place, he was 
various communications, a 3 him The whole account for this Lem will be made up as soon glad see travelling — amongst them, and 
by . Trimmer. in reference to the к о of a | 28 ете hae — dun ee with the next 77 of the | that the gaining ground among practical agri- 
ectureship on ХЕ icultural Geolo gy. The ойпан | Journal. esent in hand is з. 7d. ; | eulturists ; for when they had received their on— 
tions having been read, a general opinion was expressed and Mii. the labile already ia p^ prizes and not till then - they would take root in the country. 
by the members present, that whatever might be their to be awarded, an e general expenses of the exhibi- Another object of interest was the exhibition of half 
ifferent views of the extent of be be de n, exceed the 1 t of cash in hand, there is good | bred heep. did not intend to anything against 
agriculture from abstract geological knowledge, there reason to hope that the receipts at the doors of the | their own breeds of sheep, because different kinds were 
ne who, from his experience of su erficial | Will enable the council to p ta favourable account suited to different localities an escriptions of food, 
deposits, was better qualified than Mr. Trimmer for t the e ason. i ard to the future but still he could net elp saying that, in his opinion, 
the practical department of Agricult Geology. | financial prospeets of the Society, the council IS {ем e" сер: = hat bad long required. 
rd Bern ore ieular testimony to the value of enabl ort a steady advance ; at Man e d found them 
Mr. Trimmer's knowledge in supplying him with most they wish to impress on every individual membe nthe | to be pec aE sheep when they sent them to the 
in ting useful advice in reference to his lord- A of further perso ertion, in order to place the | London markets, but s this disadvantage attend- 
ship’s own property in Leicestershire ; the President I of the ум — on a sound bas tin ing —they were constantly under the nece: af 
considered that courses of lectures оп surface-soils and | * course of progressive prosperi The income ‹ derived | | purebasin g ae ewes, might mention that since 
deposits the surface would furnish much aid in im- e he had been in this room he had done а stroke of 
proving the fertility of particular distriets ; Mr. 0 offered in the present ye ar at Pl ymouth a | business wih Mr. Gillett, having 10 ewes to 
Rowlandson dwelt on the especial necessity, in all cases o 7104 The cost of ostii x ione and all the | be picked from his flock. Perhaps it would not be well 
of soils, of having a chemi ell hysical ei pé incident to the annual m , and to general to state the price, as it mi of 
pa на m de of their peculiar propertie anazement, must к, be provided from funds а ugmenting the sum to be pai he 
дайан 442 такоде ing hich are precarious in their nature and uncertain in | E: ne 8 ped and i iu mate bye 
Fee hid be zA nci gofili ount. | should become one at his time of Ше, should 
ot. Flor fon и 85 7 1 Aae een Society of Judg „5 ME same 3 tions have like to say a few words respecting the state s ** | 
ыа" 3 a Rim from each of been given to the judge n the former occasion, | Thames. The Thames was a good un. ra | 
icultural bodies of their wish to transmit to the 1 their special Кон © te e cir саана of | took poseen of their land for a short time, but w i 
Society their published transactions, and written infor- he 88 x farm — in Аы of England, in the | it remained for three ord four months there 8 a 
mation of the of in g facta in agrieul- follow e judges ем instructed, gene- disadvantage attending the visit. But, nevertheless, à nils "i 
science and practice, it was resolved unanimously, rally, t 5 in г iid the object of this Lg il namely, s should be so: 18 get = of the DATAE and in the | 
on the motion of the Hon. В. Н. Clive, MP. lieconded | (9 benefit the agriculture of the west of E ngland ; and, кө river, 99 45 t alm dry 
by Mr. Jonas Webb, that each of those institutions therefore, that those animals and implements should be | summer ; and = 5 to ps that 
should be placed on the list of Co iio” ehm encouraged w hic ite e soil, climate, and | which had been sitting for some oe | 
end the Жаай ded to ковае у. other ties of — m With regard to saw their M out of the difficulty 
Mr. Harriott exhibited to the Members a model of | cattle, sheep pigs, n nto consideration the | expense. e committee intended 
Pulverisi ч Clod- ant Miser 3 d M. Pre eX — to the еей rot 2 en e ited, but 4 uem. чет. and their r терш 
Terwangne, of Lill nsmi to decide according ive merits for the fore the landowners, who, 
th treatment p textile plants ; including Fed be | = of breeding ; г therefore that ртк аг attention on | would find it to their advantage to invest 
tive analyses of the products it | processes ould be given those pum ts whieh indicate n- e undertaking. He was happy 
of Schenck, Ati, nd Delisse : an account of his тени to Poss ӨЙЫ 9 healthy constitutions, connection had sprung up between 
own by means of rural келүү 47 454 prepa- having due regard to s ғ, size, and such other | English farmers, inasmuch е 
rations the tment of Flax 5 - = ses heo. best prospect of ас With | Society had done him the 
The Council ordered their usual qaia for | T° consider especially the qualification | chairman for the next year. 
n tr of the communications then made to them, for fer wo es — hilly — et as agri pa — the Ын ере ғ 
urned to the 22d of With i next meeting was to take Á 
" make ei жу men in mind dmt, in the west of "England, to en f — mee 
Barn AND WEST or ExdLAxD Socrety.—We now farms erally of small extent; to give especial gentlemen whom he now saw befo 
present, as was last week promised, extracts from the | attention to small implements for the cultivation of | following year, if health 
council report :—The Society at present consists of 73 n crops, and for th 1 of food for stock; preside at the Lincoln meeting—a 
ors, bei bserib 27. wards ; 9 life and, generally, to give the preference to — of at the present m t, 
members, by composition of 10/., іп lieu of annual su simple — and Tight weight (wi | consequence of the conversion of 
dol or ваё 528 members, by annual subscription of | to strength), handy for use іп а country in i whl stony | into as smiling as any 
a of oe a total of 610 members, g an ground | is v 3 th rd to all classes — Considering the facilities afford 
ova 0 since the meeting. The council | stock and implements, to give no ти in any class in | by railway, he hoped they woul 
e great tin in announcing that they have whicli the articles exhi — ide t possess suffic ient | tion he now gave them, and that man 
me Duke of -C 1 the nage o H. merit to deserv ion. They have further | do him the lionour of supportin 
т yep by a donation of | instructed the ju udges of —— pay particular attention 
Pu or they that the Crown a to - — of ani he: —— as breeding stock, | FLAx : Bzrrasr, May 25 5.— Some 
munificent contributor to the funds of this бобат. in its and to refuse the prize to as are, in their of а new — ty, al bes nnb 
perire ets, fol They так to trust that Cornish = — over-fed. They have aue instructed. them to | Mr. Frederick A. Haage, of Erfurt, 
will be incited to adopt — example thus set them e special n ao — do | the following de concerning y of the 
trate, as ever elt; M course, and to to illus- | all in their pi) o discourage th e practice of hiding | * omburgk, be vicinity of the. 
ss Jour Ma eM heen ip p defects by ane ilie rule that the sheep shall be elose | in th America, who 
aeos Ac " Ain ote in shorn.” The — Е күз — lost sight of the recent on account Ге its = gros А 4 a 
i uarters, | regulations of the al Agricul iety, in ve е W 
Феу published о јо without | ence to the condition ot b: — s bu 4 have fibre. It is — the flower, W 
waiting for the award of the offered f. reeding stock, but. they : 
üsionp su of | — Сии Me ught it better to wait till experience shall have tested | алу of the other cultiv kinds, an 
ke with zrattude the m PS E M ve to. acknow- | the efficiency of lations made under such high te а із шоге spirally 
bie pen : ; pem — ore recommend. the Society to adopt мае wer. I have named it Linum 
of h repute, t especially of the Journal of the e course havin th lik bj ect t distinguish it m the other white 
Royal Agricultural Society of England.” eee ee actos g W north eastern. provin 
е: wish, and that of the committee to whom ге OXFORDSHIRE AGRICULTURAL Socrery.—The annual тод тагал governments. 
of stock and ploughing mate match of this Society | Flax is much superior in in strength 
