570 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. LSupr. 3, 
ng teaching : and what they can do, as It is an especially good T when proper occasion | whom the original conception of it may have hax 
ome dir dw а 15 "лк EY ана (foe the Ына ee it occurs, and Scotchmen are|due. The doctrines taught by Lor d Bacon |i 
mentioned—the claw, the tooth, the paddle and the E slow to жын whatever amon or use of it may the immense progress in art and science of the 
paw—tie line described is part of а circle, and be possible. We do not no ow refer to the knotty | century is owing, may be found suggested ., 
there I recognise my favourite mode of action, E session which, as is ка MN = for some expressed in writings earlier than his; but 
wit the circular, Thus I am led la believe Hel, if | time been raging on a poi mportance | constitute the Baconian: philoso ophy neverthele 
са] let me go to work in my own way, I can cul- in ой-дай comnettet with the ры) arms of|and men have universally given the credit of them 
vate а field, as well as spin a isn or embroider Scotlan to the man who taught and illustrat — 
a waistcoat.’ So spoke the Genie of Stea It = g ше ася use and abuse of the|such success, The relations between 
Now there is such a thing in human rene feeling oe wou e w direct attention It and magn netism have been known — nearly 4 
what may be termed the Gregarious Propensity. appears that da good por a 65 the ground in Scot- | quarter of a century, and it was Haw 
Men shall only smile from ear to ear, aye! and |land has been drained "i y" to i-r omm of|OznsrEp, of Copenhagen, who first К P" 
from year to year, at your first announcement of a 14 inches, but in England so far as“ H.,“ a corre- explained the deflection of the magnetic 
fact, or evolution of an argument ; and wi you all | spondent of the North British Agriculturist, has ob- | the presence of an electric current; but the electte 
itty names, and impale your ideas on | served—“ they plough only 23 to 4 inches!” The | telegraph is but a few years 0 W HEATSTONG, 
m ms x PT harangues at public meetings, E inference is that “ our friend Mr. Mont, who has so | Cooke, and others are the men who uH 
uts of derisive cheer: kindly been giving us, at Aberdeen, the advice to credit and rewards of its invention. 
epu. ‘that Бс long years have d ut mind our subsoil, may with great propriety give it of ed ipsios upon me pes bey 
„forget your food by day and your sleep by night, | to those at home.” Well! so he does; there are | knov and he m 
ill they had become to you dearer than the smiles | few, at all events at this end of the island who до lightning was dlectrieity, and бок, pointed electric | 
of infant offspring, more solemn and sacred than the | not know that. We by no means agr . 8 onductors were thus a true security against the — 
silver locks of parental age: yet shall these men opi inion as to the character of English e or Fundersteem m, and yet no one is surp prised to leam { 
indeed in the general impression which his c m that among vay votes of the past ante is one to 
grown familiar, and been re-echoed in their hearing eia conveys as to the relative status of English | Sir WILIA Snow Harkis, for his application f | 
à time or t second hand, these very men shall | and Scottish agriculture. And proudly as East-|this discovery in naval architecture, and for le 
go and bleat abou as folly admitted by all thinking | Lothian may stand upon the facts which the recent — thus due to him, — life and property 
men a version of your tale erladen and inflated, — inquiry has proved of her farming, we the sea. — Our excellent contemporary, the 
you shall find рае ii н р to | believe that Lincolnshire, when a similar inquiry Mark Lane Express, lately mel 1 
propositions enough to make your head ache, such | s hall. de made 2 reference to its "agricultural E quotation whie — ised in the same 
as these — Al cultivation should be N duce, will take t he precedence of it as ds sentence with H.R.H. Prince ee g 
* The doom of the Plough is sealed; Rotatory fork- roadie -aA of meat, and, perhaps, also к the Duxe of Ricumonp: we ha ex- 
ing is the „thing ! Even with six or eight horses к= But whatever be the relative position of Mr. | posed ourselves to its ridicule p - the stil igher 
г > : xà : ar 
g 
Stay, stay ! you answer: hold hard, pee er | of agricultural intelligence, we do not see what that | we we — ve draw 
you do! Festina lents! The Plough has the expe- | has to do either with the soundness or the fitness oft 
г тіепсе, the solid and confirmed experience of the any змс piece of advice he may have pre- ae панын 
whole human race; Aratrum expellas Furca, tamen | sumed to offer. The practice of converting. farm-yard dung into 
usque recurret! it is stamped, proof-marked, with Still less can another criticism in ‘which this|liquid manure, and distribating it by subterranean | 
the attestation of Mon upon it, 2 the eldest, writer has indulged at Mr. Mrchrs expense be pipes, which is, we believe, de Wei 
n 
ical {allowed to мапі om stioned. It seems that effect an immense alteration in agricul 
-and most econ 
upplicatien of. horsepower to ie бад of the „these improvements — alluding to the liquid is f old either in Scotland or a anywhere a 
soil that hand can mind conceive. Hold manuring adopted at Tiptree—“ which Mr. Mecut| if it were, the more shame for those who, 21 
hard, I say! T exce sake don't halloo so | thinks so new are all old in Scotland ;” and so, of ftl ping machine; in obnoxious 
loud till on are ont of the wood. course, there was a second reason why he should ‘not | to the charge of allowing an undoul 
" Oh ! we know ll you can bout the plough. | have presumed to open his mouth at Aberdeen. tio remain so long in use in! 
Ye Britons ' venerate, &c.,” but we ve changed | The assertion is proved generally by the fact that 
all that now. Hurra, for circular cultivation! So | “it is the practice with many housewives in Scot- | But Mr. Mon 
let us beat our loughs into о rotatory fo veers?” and land who have a kitchen-garden to apply all the 
ted up the soil, like so much stubborn hay, dropping refuse of the house to the greens and Gooseberry | It i 
it behind, tops and bottoms uppermost, anyhow ; | bushes with profit.” (1!) And more particularly 
and there you are with your fie oA cultivated i in half Mr. Mront is informed “that all that he i 
the ne at less than h f the c has been done before (with the exception of the 
not this enough to ане “ split oneself, steam and pipes) at —€— and other places." i 
asd, goto buffets with — = ‘half 1" Can it be The Bun TED ment, howev verbere: no resem- | others wo 
necessary to shew that (whatever the exactions of | blance whatever to that at Tiptree. The former 
the steam-engine) the plough is = фенол i true, | was an illustration of the value of sewage manure, | is 
as absolute to the horse as the spade to the hand! which i is an altogether different matter. Mr, Mxcmr's 
Does any one in ber o the — 
i nd, 
through the test of ag t the instinctive tof 
upon the economy (which is sil ift f di 
sonny of toil — s eliminated —.— the ar alembic | sion) of the mids M application ; tert ойу) 
which the s and hor been | upon the greater efficiency (about which, we suppose, 
ым, drop 5 лс through centuries of hard- | there can be no doubt whatever) of manure in that 
PA OM, sap сап be dis- pro w, by the hasty liquid form to which he converts the whole of it. 
Chast's, 2 to Caen the "things M are Fow ч (i erui or not -— idea of thus converting | of 
at the tails of эмы? nally the soil into i con: | for n tcn m mper sa a 
ade : — were original with Mr. Mxont, we do not know; | onl 
fusion that e do know that it was, at d rate, also original | bet 
Yet so it is, m soit ever will be. The birth of with Mr. Suim of Deanston, and probably many 
an 1 is a 5 birth; long and iir ds its nt м a i MY by the owner of|ho 
gestation, and many the sharp pang and throe that EAS is 
attend its all-but- still-born entrance "d being. 
a dwindled exist = а é an-cbject of ft dM meets Me conversing ps the UAM меч Surru in Tia 
ot IBI lence : fof men d reference to this very subject ; with that confi- |5 
faint а nr in ef m ds cix believe 8 dent foresight which characterised ed lim, he ventured 
pany. By-and-bye a voice or two is hear К. the to foretell the time when on every farm the manure, 
а? has grown bigger wider ае уат. better. solid and liquid, would be mixed, diluted, and 
Then the Shores , , pumped to a cistern built on a higher level 
; egins to swell, and that which was ит level, “from 
^ the ins i eh o appre- 
e. np tof n to reco, 
are exaggerated, fts бө» эш t 8 over the land. But this idea Mr. Swrrm did not 
distorted by the confusing voice of nun iiber: ti bid live to see — Whether Mr. Меснг was the Past 
bomi. Me of its former self: and its own | “St even to carry it ont we do not happen to know | to 
eee rejects the grotesque changeling, disfigured —the dates are not before us, but we rather think : 
y the handit that ignored it as it was, in its true self f M venil nter yed p subterranean pipes | 0! an iei dir the heart 
and its steam-engine and force- qoe before Tip- | tinguis ed f 
— daa a$ v not think that in the former | frank and cordial 7 by 7 
e they w. scenic the” АНЫН proceedings are charac " 
It — true that cirenlar, - Be speak more accu- both solid — liquid manure, — ла ihe ee columns 5 if he he were some unde ^ 
— — : — — ^ e by which the teristic t in Tiptree anagem But, how- | tactician, who ha d been "n pg aiming ; 
"NEN Ane ivate. ut it is not true | ever this may be—whoever may have taken prece- — and duping those W 
ea g is either an effi- à — m regards the idea, and whoever may have to pay him a visit, ү 
г — ate, or an economic application of | the precedence as regards s the practical development 
-e засва SHINE though condi by а thousand єт that idea, the merits and ithe reputation of Mr. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL coL 
е, equine cultiv. supersede t ECHI aS an 3 . which „H.“  sESSIONAL EXAMINATION.—— 2 
jecific and dnnn of the гай would assail, remain the 1 s 
CW. H. i е d. Practically it ES the case. Dp, theoreticall reped] o gs tiff, heavy, ™ 
V. А Kren spirit of nattonatrry—ondoubtedly one of 1 that men award both their . n € Жы: ^er oni ee 
the many — able features in the Gane, of our E e ка 8 to rr 
Scottish neighbours—is a very good thing at amy time 
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and es and accepts it in its false and shapeless 
b . le, t 
orce an idea into practice | judicious teen form some of the ' 
it known and useful useful than to those 2 "There are 
