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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE.. 
241 
‘that barely, suffices for “the Potato > crop. If the 
can be made to cover a greater breadth of 
Potato land than is requi the farmer's use, 
or than he find convenient to isp f tA any 
manner, or than grud to employ the labour 
on expend in seed, his cupidity leads him 
tp set out such portions as conacre, lly at a 
rent of 5 a d greedily is this conacre 
that sometimes this rent is paid i nce, 
p 
conded, E yg satel nomination of Mr. ‘Paget, M.P., 
of near Nottingham, for the 
n, M.P., to the class of 
e Mur othe Earl of Le tp ad rnays 
the Council with eh following communicatio 
ee ree Office, February 28, 1857. 
“ Sir,—-With reference r. Hammond’s eg of the ein 
of June last, I ra renon | W the Earl of Clarendon to t 
to you, to be laid before the President and jakin "of he Royal 
Agricultural PBoslety. the accom d 
from the British Vice-Consul at iag 
murrain L > ain broken out in echet burgh. the Lilbeck 
rohibited the introduction of horned cattle 
, 0! t 
(oot kept Grass be it remarked) cows generally dry 
off very early in winter, and ev ny cows 
are the es very scarce ; a very palp 
joss is thereby sustained, but perh aps this is m 
to maintain on su 
necessary 
such feeding the condition of the cows. 
pe for 
appears mai from green crops 
for summer and winter feeding but more especially th 
; thus ari a deficiency of i an 
repetition of grain crops obtains from not sowing | M 
what to su te in relief of them that shall be 
to some extent profitable as well as from th 
want ure at require it. A superio: 
system of culture might a, be apana 
by stringent Soldik in bu ere 
your lease s0 
much latitude has hitherto been amowed it would be too 
wi 
t m eA pape and, if not opposed open 
i d by every available means be evaded an 
; you would most hkely erap involved in a series 
oe A t good feeling which 
t to subsist between Any rd and tenant, You 
have a pree debs 1 n the village ; an acre or two 
of land attached to this Erbe and laboured as a vege- 
ble g by the scholars ; a moiety of the profits 
being allowed to the school . for his cpap he ae 
habi 
useful pray knowl aaa few 
a farm i better ow IB of ti 
might be followed Sak, not MEA too violently from 
f the neighbourhood, 1 
table mpe 
rasg it, with a mee ital at only Sey sufficient to progres- 
sively improve, will have a weight which a command of 
perhaps, the better way of s istance would be by 
compensating him for the time he would be employed in 
affording information to t him e onl 
farming implements used in the country, wi ex- 
ception of here and there indifferent roller, are 
ploughs and harrows all of one description, one sort of 
general light plough, either of iron ood, and a light 
bad and to scatter a little salt over the 
and repeat it a few times ; it should not be thro 
Correspondent at 
when he says 
plove 
ii 
Erp 
] 
E g 
f 
f 
roo 
plover’s. The water-hen’s eggs are 
; but they are almost Farik except 
ter in colour than those of the plover. 
H 
: 
Soricties. 
the » practice might bring about 
_ [think is ae chief requisite with an inquiring people who 
are, I am assured, ope cti ill d by 
tt ` o $ ver, to effect this end 
the capital employed should not exceed that of the gene- | 
ral experience ; it m id ney does it, 
pm must be seen sam ia it is yA with labour that eff 
re profita ete erson to con 
certificate declaring them 
fr age that state, Anla stad te a ce 
e from the disease. I am, Sir, your a onioni 
to be fre 
humble SENEE, 
“ James Hudson, Esq.” 
Lubeck, Feb, 20, 1857. 
out in Me 
territory from 
enburg-Strelitz, unless they are certified by the com 
petent "authorities to Bo entirely free from the disease. I have, e; &c. 
** Colonel Hodges , (Signed) “J. A. BLackw WELL. 
we Pr Office, March 10, 1857. 
į {Sir.—I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to 
you, to be laid before the i mei ied Trustees of the Agr 
tural Society, a copy of a br rahe from her MAET. s m aa 
at Berlin ae e the n cattle. . Sir, your 
most obedie roel LBUENE. 
BJs nies ey i + , Agricultural Society.” 
e Berlin, March 6, 1857. 
My d that sie 
the House pi Sna z: the rapid spreading of the 
disea I have the honour report to dni tevdehiyy gre 
according to the latest accounts received here, it does not pracen 
to have ossed the Russian frontier; but pee has been cause 
by its nici lA, n the neighbourhood of gsi a fone 
ary oo have been taken by the Prussian ed agg S to 
endea tit thiskingdom. I have, 
ze The "Earl of Clarendon,” ia ned) “ Merce deag, 
“the 
Roy gricultu iety, extract of a despa hf her 
May s Minister at Brussels, relative to epidemic diseases 
among horn: wd cattle in Belgium. am, Sir, your most obedient 
hu ope e serv “SHELB LBURNE, 
he Meky of the ae sat ct a 
t Extract from Lord How: 
“om p pranga a paw 
Lor ag —With reference ot my d » No. f the 
n which I transmitted to sone g anar PA a e of the 
I have now the honour to add one i 
rll yey gpearenty of all the laws and regulations w 
1 the gene eral hiirer se cy poe ard to contac 
rvice 
the diseases of iniisa. a Ro sd to 
the as pr dane Fi sin: my despatch, that no speci 
ea aoe of the character of an Pa: perdi may se) 
prevalen lgium, I have since received full opifrmation of 
the foent eats of that information from the department of the 
No law 
Interior. exists under ee diseased cattle can be 
excl trons olen law- with a view to such 
ni tion was Bt in 2 ye s two years 
activity o B fron localities, by en- 
forcing the general regulations in re als w. 
the range of their jurisdiction. 
igned) HOWARD DE Winns, & SEAFORD. 
“ Lord Clarendon.” 
gn Office, March 28, 1857. 
“Sir,—I am directed by "td Teal fT of Clarendon to transmit 
herewith, for t the information of the eee and Trustees of 
the Royal po romeo Society, a copy 0 a despatch from her 
Maj at —— pa keporo po appearance of the 
I am to add that this 
iatel mits receipt. I am, Sir, your most ene — 
prone! 
“ The Secretary to the Royal Agricultural Society.” 
t Berlin, March 25, 185 
My —I regret to have toinform your lordship that mee cite 
disease eared in the miara niga i of Be leei 
prec a posed m to pre 
arrival in the Prussian emma cand mneudbives have fete ay Par 
rogress. Having sadad to 
Baron 
Baddin ngton Gra 
hirae d in the general 1 Tist of Council occasioned by the | 
sfer of Mr. Bram truste 
a 
repu ublish the regulations directed to be observed by the notifica- 
tion of the 7th of August, 1852, in order to prevent the spreading 
n og 5 = goons. Sai. contagious 
he 
particularly after the pares inn page ms Bay about ; less 
rg wer for food, indifference as the cud, d 
he sou and its ersan 0 paisna s pirm yaik places, and 
after these deg —_ 
tla mptoms have — d yl 
2. On the rab spr of this Roast; Born 
when it is suspected to exist, the ers “of 
te) of 20 Sailers Lehre 31. ie) oy ie 
to the chief o: of the police (or ig a bea p 
A “Travemilode), who itl take fering steps. ringing 
in of cattle fin e Lübeck te y from the Grand-Duchies 
of ra wa ee ner and | Mecklenburg-Strelitz, s “shall only 
a ermitted when the cattle anied T lge premami 
i 4. A 
Sacsan isease should 
vera the I Liibeck territory, te z pret the rg sages? sanitary 
pre ions ee the instructions of the po eg 
Reneth ions of the li 
under penalty of heavy z fines and imprisonment. 
rs, bai s d’arm “A 
beye 
A Finally. all 
are bereby atoa to 
ha in case any 
cattle should be preman? wig car » pulmonary grey or even 3 in 
cases where it is Giv t Lübeck in the 
Assembly of the iarsa a this 14th ¢ pe of Miri 1866. 
(Signed) “C. Tu. Overbeck, Dr., Secretary. 
“ Hamburgh, M 20, 
“MyL ith th inetroctions  osatatnad tb 
your lordship 8 despatch, Consular No. 7, of f 14th instant, I 
have the h transmit three copies 7 and 
translation of the degree of the Lübeck Goveroment, dated the 
5 of May, 1856, re ê, &e., 
arl of binaan "G Min Ho DGES. 
“ Foreign Office, April 1 
“Sir, — reference to my letter of the 23d ult., I am i 
by the ‘Gaul oti Cinrenidon to zation mit to you, for the information 
2 f the Council of the SOR Agricultural Society, a copy of a 
urther despatch from her Majesty’s Min’ t Brussels con- 
arie particulars as cc the disease amongst horned eaten I am, 
Sir, tog eon obedient humbie servant, “ SHEL 
“ The Secretary to the Royal cane Society. 
eign Office, April 1, 
“ Sir,—I am directed by the Earl ti Otatendon to state os oe. 
for the information of the Sarg ted one Trustees of the Royal 
griculturat Society, that her Maj 8 Minister at Dresden 
reports, in a despatch received this pig that ‘ at on moment 
the only existing cattle dise: sease, in nakong, i is of the h na; that 
of the lungs called in French ‘ Epizootic’ does not now exist. 
I am, sin, your most obedient humble servant, SHE LOURI. 
“J. Hudson, Esq.” 
iof C Office, March 30, 1857. ` 
“ Sir, —I am directed by the Eio o Oar r to transmit to 
you, to be laid before the e Presiden mmittee of the Royal 
Agricultural Society, copies of re omiaa despatches from her 
Maj wast a, Consuls at _ Dantzig and Stettin, _ Stating that the 
murrain 
of those cities, Iam, Sir, your most obedient humble ctl 
“ Jas, Hudson, Esq. h “ E, Hammon 
“From Consul St. Plaw to the Earl of Clarendon, dated 
Da anzig, March 29, 1857. 
41] lI 
in this pereda it having been Sena to "East Prussia 
and Lithuania. 
upon to give any directions or instructions.” 
“ From Consul go tothe Earl of Clarendon, dated 
Stettin, March 29, Eal 
"N does not perar: here gulations against it re 
nak Full account of disease be a in my despatch ‘of 
May 30, 1856. o gned) “ BLACKWELL,” 
Nota gn Office, M ma west A d 
—I am directed by the Earl Of Wlarenice t t to 
“ Sir, 
Aen to be roel before the Present and Committee of the R Royal 
cultural z ety, copies of despatches from her Majesty’s 
pal saen at w and. Königsberg, reporting rng the cattle 
disease. I ag "Sir, your most obedient humble servant, 
“ Jas. Hudso! n, Esq” “ E, HAMMOND. 
“ Warsaw, March 9, 
“My Lord I have the honour to report to -your er to 
the cattle which has such ravages in the 
farms of the landholders in this on 2 aged ll prevalent, ` 
eee not, as far as it was 
during the aame Within the last erenight a a pentia of 
my acquaintance lost nearly every beast he possessed in the 
neighbourhood arsaw. The w so virulent that it 
is said a farm serv has been in attend: on 
cattle, m i ther 
a pcan aiea which he 
s- 
atas] 
nsienr 
ease had been traced to a 
that those which had no 
trates, and th 
contact with them 
- ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF ENGLA 
Mostuiy a ; April 1.—Mr. mrp Pies 
sident, in the chair. Fo orty-three new members were 
the 
current cash-balance 
Salbary Contain Port? re 
ct ra ittees, which were adop ted. Mr. Brand- 
the completion of the Andover and 
Beas or FSi the unavoidable absence 
» High Sheriff for the county of Yorks tp 
moved, and Mr. Raymond Barker 
reappear r, notwit ianantinds po age ree measures and the 
utmost vigilance of the authorities I ba 
“ Earl of Clarendon, K.G.” gued) “ BLOOMFIELD. 
Fore! gn ı Office, March 30, 1857 
Sır, —I am geared A; the Eno Chaoten to transmit 
1% to be laid before the Presid ent r Royal ance 
iety copy of a despatch from wd ‘Majesty's C s sey 
at Hamburgh, forwarding a cop of pie no 
issued by the Lem re eel ing po ay a. 1856, sulatine 
diseased cattle. I am, Sir, your most van nt ha — 
servant, sen Esq. E. Hammo: 
“Jas. Hudson, F 
; [TRANSLATION.] No. 14. 
fe 
Haps tification relative to the pulmonary disease that has broken 
ten the horned cattle cay is a Duchy of Meck. 
-Schwerin on Ma 
lenburg Be nate, fe, being officially informed that se of 
ve occurred among the horned eat cattle wi within 
the pulmonary danse Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, think it proper 
untry till a late date, it is said that the evil has been nearly, 
if not wholly overcome. Iam a whether an exportation 
of cattle takes ae Dantzie for the British Ports. If 
there should be such a trade, it might be advisable to subject all 
beasts imported, ag that town or Königsberg, to a 
lengthened quara seems to be no doubt that the 
di occasio rset out m g me after they 
— been q The ginally 
comes from Steppe id the Ukraine, whence vast —. of 
katit arè yearly estward. It w: r to 
driven ould appear ence 
ries bee fever, whieh Th rapidly debarra into dt ayaa 
animal baer in a few days after the first appearance of 
the oinik of intes ulce: art I have, &c. 
ed) “ Ww. W. MANSFIELD. 
“The Earl of Clarendon.” 
“ British Consulate, Königsberg, March 11, 1857. 
“My —I have the ponar to acknowledge the recelpt of 
Lord Shelburne’s despatch, No. 2, of 7th March, and to report 
that since 1854 rumours of a kakat or cattle plague in Vothynia 
an time the disease 
cars 1865 ini 1966 took great prookoti ies vent the disease 
i rom en! Sap nn cage mt al ae} 
from Poland below the autumn of 
overnm' 
waar along the borders, 
Amare Senge — likely to 
l Jews and 
' way as ‘of having tepa 
rmitted 
any sc gaa shettiet te made the 
se these means the disease 
been kept aed of Prussia, and the greatest 
ury any animal when a 
og Harald have for some time 
