684 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
severance ш one stram of breeding, it will easily be 
believed that it will 3 уун satisfactori a sua vam — 
Still the horns in this breed (when any) are only abou 
6 inches long; to account for the di erence i in rtis in 
the two breeds under consideration, I can only suppos 
that, as is generally the case with all i importation 526 
some other — — the same species have been intro- 
, and so p y. 
Crops in in Yorkshi 
night of continued wet weather, and farmers are hec in 
ing to feel it deeply. There is much "an sown Wheat 
yet in the fields in this Riding, and this morning I found 
no difficulty in taking out ears of Whe oht with nearly 
every grain sprouted. here t 
hooded the covered sheaves have suffered little except 
in ing ears the tai 15 po 
— all grown or ready t s which 
re set up in single 2 (cae duo ri found had 
tha grain sprouted, althou e she " was standin 
quite upright. There are oe pra orn 
still in the fields in ре county a and г think it = al 
— — in a greater or less degree. Potatoes too 
have suffered dreadfully. I some iin. wA " his 
and I am pretty sure more than two-thirds of them a 
i hen deni чесе ped tr a the crops were 
sent in, a a bad o d Potato tee а not be fourfd in 
this field, — Richmond, Oct. 
Far armers’ Club. 
M.—At the с: ‘meeting of the Society the | 
P. diy the following addresses were delivered. The 
ehairm rman, ord ayleigh, » АӨ e The Health of Mr. 
goa Mr. aeuo 
ure you ords pH pleasure once again 
йв y усп at this table, in “furtherance of the objects of Фо 
itham Society. It is come ed the Labourers’ Friend Society, 
and ptm hibet. unt I shall 2 be cons * mia an in- 
чад have spent а good deal of money = 
trader, pe 
pad small i picce of of tand p^ Tiptree, and 2 Pte бы 50 0 
- =ч that it has conduced largely to the co Santor’ 
с" ^ ie i ento When 1 | look at th he mil- 
lion of bricks I hav — 
thought oat to giva $e p 4 е the Кед jak z Pim 
ith abl 
al of soil at little oat: Whether ie stilling of RES the 
and 
иг Patches up ч piece of ground, covers it by “what is scratched 5 
Mr. Hutley farms. (Mr. Hutley 
r 
: of 
ments in Шәле things, and does all п skilful ants, tries expert. 
uce eded sult is advantageous to he farm 
I 1 have sugested t to се жа бэ that we shoul have a trial of 
ed 
succeed, 1 е ѕееп а 3 dt it, te 5 ‘think, un vid Mortis it 
g and 
ing p 
shall be "satisfied if it does — but this pi am rather surprised = 
m ie 
Боа will — eppiteshe to ‘all other objects in farming—thresh- 
g, or anything on the farm; and if it should entis 
it я be let out as drills tala xg — farmers, 1 have n 
Is 
railways. endless s Topes, the farmer кин А. able to use. an 
w d. 
PER 
u pie 
wi ith the manufacture of bricks, a matter connected w 
and a better те m would bea great sate 
not die Whether | any of vou have seen Beart's p 
t Pea: 
Ф armer grows, poe will find that it w 
effected the improvement in it 
an tha 
or 
gardener. This man that has got the crops I ha ет б 
а readin an; that is, һе has read u the ide u wied 
the subject, and perh ps M ork; 
what he does, an farmer 
a he ter an 
am 20 or 50 mes the quantity, yi he goes to his da TN 
w, in reference t tances that seem to з А 
роне of a agriculture, I canno t help remarking on 
p ith great care, 
v 4 
as er - 
believ ve e he has 17 : m tem that it is because ina Season like’ 
an t on that 
| MS so well as re can in dry weather. I believe that to be 
? т sw 
s to root cro 
en a grower of Mangold, and I do it — — -yard manures: 
grow them on EN 21 inches ap mers 
5 Ho h the gro p dee ply with y ШОП, plough 
top I put 13 ewt. T guano, ^w гона plough it i "i ы tiat tho 
shall be well 2 у ied with food for several w 
brick = the Fogle mà a уме — a shall but it took 5 tons i 
M. 
with. it, and Ik now, as a — abo “of па, Phat extraordinary ты 
1 x. rd Sir Thom 
1 e made, heii al o f which: — ait aly I feel convinced it 
was a happy day for the neighbourhood that I was so inclined to 
spend my ыу, tra ugh it was a — Sonrce of — 48 — 
to me in other points of view. I do not admit I was as wrong 
spending my money, Ido not say I did ev erything as cheaply 
as it might be done; but I do think an investment in brick a 
slate is very much . than каре ап = cor teh. I think it rs 
a r 
ey are as good as the firs — wont put up, and are, 
therefore, the cheapest thi we сап use. I now see a hope that 
my o nye llremunerate me. I have been for a long time 
a 
my balance-sheet, and a few days ago I set myself 
р какаш down t my books to examine the accounts of the year; 
called bour here to assist me in the valuation, and 
— enti 
ss; I am 
ready to produce better erops in future; a y say I may 
fairly Шын Жакунун myself on being now ‘safely Taki in е 
harbour of profit. (Cheers.) -The system ‘of irrigation I 
adopted certainly does wonderfu ‘things. It will no 4 bad 
pasture into a good one in the course of a year, There 
ож le to confirm what I be 
say, that do pe will, and spend what you vill, ot {а aie | 
ре 
to get pas on the hard yellow EE Dole ation 
appears to make the old plants die ere a jm w 
stock of Grasses and Clovi r, that makes nd a —.— look better, 
and ere ou to keep more acre. ( That 
0 ; and the more carefully I con- 
sider that, the mo: I ight in this сены, га. 
for I assure yon that t liquid manure not only saturates the 
am 
the d 
ground to the depth of 3 4, or 5 feet, but runs through th 
solid elays, bey if, Py А bad a and you may trace it 
r2 , or 400 yard ow I am desirous that 
ihe crops hes he канате rae measuring pie ud 
(Hear. I have tried an iri sedia. with the 
myself, but т cannot say that I have been DT 
- of winter Beans in single rows 5 feat 1 pad and 1 
of Ma angold Wurzel between the rows, and also 
kinds of nome as Turnips, Potatoes, Onions, Parsnips, 
Carro ts. e Beans 8 were put in on ploughed 2 E 
9 
deep; ; "2 put the top spit with manure on it at the [dmi and I 
ut the new soil at Ж pA on due Pree I grew these root 
The crop of Beans was 16 bush the acre, and the 
Wurzel produced 7300 roots to r^v acre, weighing a little over 
16 tons—it was taken up this m E dn E. intention to. 
test thes with my ordinary crop of Man Wurzel gm 
27 inches apart t, which is an Mie me Bg D des 1 
weight of that in — маа rows beats that the ustal 
way ; and I feel quite certain there is quite halfa as iic ү 
the single rows. (Haar r.) For the Potatoes I put и no manure 
Y. 8 but the new soil and they. cama 
ont well; I 5 auch fewer rotten or diseased alami n than 
a 
m gla e Mr, 
mong uc Higa manure a — in the Tight dix 
your mind undergone any didi as to the 
. I thin 
ve arisen to nm Mary lands of Essex, the Dengie | 
Clays, this rei гк с draina How is itthat this year we 
hear such w. unts — rs crops in in Dengie Hundred ? 
Mr. WX. Bor — — t seeding; there was not hal putin 
be in a triable State, and should T vem it е нА, 
acts at all decently, I 
shall 22 kan agriculturists that like to come -+ see it, ‘hot 
only bon cond] day uL or whit tt is — work, when they can 
t * — e road, th 
horse regularly stis e nn an hour; z takes a comet; 
he is then ta n off for the 
nt 
57 other operations in which i it is employed. THa great 
of the matter has — to get the great weight that was * 
. — I might 
NM experiment oma rhe I began last E 8 ri 
Smith's plan, but I was too late; ebbe, : vens I гайы 
Wheat 
mine in till October, I had the crop threshed ae 
that I have 24 quarters per acre. (Laughter.) 1 ao 1 
with it, on the — ге — fallow last year, and 
make the third crop of Whea 
r. THEDAM sai ungen — 
Hitherto I have been in in the habit o ng bu 
the results of which bave been laid before 120 hing 
being wet last iting a total failure ips Listar ; : 
of the kind to communicate. rds 
and I think it n undoubted that more nen pe 1 
failure of the than from ove ing; "1 t 
ecks an Ung в much better than to to sei 
(Hear) As the question of statistics has е 
as that which I was though little about, tot cat 
hat on this I am sadly in me dex, for an bene bid e of E 
learn is the quantity of о ris an Pi 
population. Fu oh r we know t hat one quart that i$ 
— upon the a verage from 360 Tbs. to 370 Ibs. enc 
about 1 Ib. per head per dari for every m male and fem 20, or 0р 0 
сано if we take our population а t16, 18, s of quarters 
24 millions, there will not be less than 18 millions © trig $ 
required for the general annual consumption. i 
— CMM ог 
owes wil sary 
1 hear] ET is true that a a x system of 5 of 3 of our КЕЯ 
а ral produce ak o amount of 
— — 
difficult t to arrive iti any certain 
