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“PIES AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
[Mar 30, 1857. 
“Twill only then obser observe} shortly, “that am among ong the horses, III. MR. YEOMAN’ 
exhibited I did not see one very worthy of that distinction ; | “ Sd RE Street, Russell Square, May 21, 1857. 
that of the beasts there were some of great beauty ; that among | | Mr. Hartas ho orse- pow. the present oe cutter 
these an animal marked No. 244 in the catalogue, which! answers very well ; vie nine trusses per hour with 
at raid attention from the circu umstance of- its bein t 
as jit is publicly } each on. i be a great demand for them, 
The horse seems to pe work without any apparent 
hin legs; that I have ayo in markets better in “than fatigue, and at Pa ime poa be happy to show it to ae 
which were exhibited in the ‘ Augarten ; noas that. as I (Signed) “Gro. YEO 
was we the best sheep were those of the merino 
“Of the + wagon the best—naturally—was that exhibited | 
arg 
IV. Mr. Lvsacmn’s Reronr 
by the ho were very well represente ü konti Lodge, Ripon, May 23, 1857. 
wo told (but I did not see them t at the exhibition vad Mr, Bast on horse-power has been ap plied to the following 
were some specimens of very excellent writing paper m. nu- | purposes: threshing, chaff-cutting, Oat crushing, and sawing. 
factured out of the leaves of the Maize or Indian Corn. I mention | [ eng of often timed. the quantity of corn threshed, as it 
this eit me the fact may not be known to | usually is only ae ng > supply fresh straw for fodder ; how- 
our English . Asvery bad writing paper | ever, on one occasion, a stack of black Oat ts, yieldin 12 qrs. 
is made with straw, is to be manufactured from | 5 bush., was threshed ae in 44 hours, the Fs aw of which was 
equiring for i I have since had 
| full maturity | very long, having been geen on fresh lan 
a straw shaker 
for the ad- 
and a blast attached to a threshing sate 18 
very other 
win lf in a Ena for kdde is 30 vel of 
ledrad ata ana four horses, (durin 
illiant, ate, T a | months) rs two bt orage weig! = à ey 3 
N : | Five-an nty uniformly occupied in ae 
quality of the guano remaining on the hee Island. | i t diolar tw 38 uaa Lt sagen D 
—Mr. Isaac Hartas, of Wr lton, | been found very | pase th for cutting fence wood, not e 
| & The advantages z aea x be the 
n Yorkshire, favoured the Council with ordinary m oth 
sya of submitting to the | 
e satisfactory dng s he had 
(o diffi 
TRD-ISLAND GUAN e Earl of gsm also | ent = 
fhvoared the Shun @ with an extract o report of ™ 
Pa 
necessity of any traction, 
o driver being required a saving of manual labour 
fected. The dietes results have given me great satisfacti ion 
duping two a half constant use, and I think the 
i. > | machine is Tirek suit tall to to all the purposes s — moderate sized 
and communicating motion to small machines. e | farm, whether for fixe or moveable barn w 
the aving bee meee! 
SP 
s Tanes LYSAGHT,” 
The thanks of the F 3 — aves to Mr. 
ne the kind sat le t bei 
ion, and for sain nce in the arrange- 
and - Mr. it w. be then Saas that ge should again attend the 
e to postpone the consideration | Council at 12 o’clock on Wednesday, the 17th June. 
of Mr. Hartas’s details until the 17th of June next, 
when a fuller attendance of members O E opia 
than on that occasion (the iry Day at E 
e following i a —_ n in the ae nag may be 
ei 
S 
ntil 
or albuminous matter ; 
ug j 
pressure Minie p oat about 200 tons is applied 
The Flax t 
when 
fibre: 
oil i os restored to it. 
oe al here 
and a or wear, time opened on the fibres, making i the Flax 
Arvicty 5, | is 
were brought into action, and its pressure u n 
in immersion, operated "upon By two aage the fibre, 
e 
= l 
Flax is ontively f aoed, Sates 
is then 
remains under this pressure for about fi 
it becomes not only nano pyc but, by its ao layingent 
s natural vi i 
The Vix i is the 
air or in sheds. Wies a X 
through a machine > with Pon an etiga rollers. This 
for the spinn 
On the details of cultivation we make an 
from the enon of Mr. M‘Carten at the same meeting, . 
ground should <a CEA Pop a imi ploughed 
and gru 
oin own pa 
AY sowing is of best, even if it had n 
than 
stee 
a 
Sixteenth Annual Report a and pbs cmt sv oh Es Royal 
spaces / Jee the Promotion and 
rg Flax in Ireland. Daily ican 
considered iain 
x og AM 
ercury Office 
ira 
This is pamphlet gered besides the matter interesting 
e Society, information on the 
gement of the Flax 
be waht wy extent of | its auntie in Ireland which is 
to all agricul 1 read e learn from it tint 
FE 
ern 
Pi 
By 
“ The statistical ret 
ub- 
pi =a by he 
of Irish agricultur 
Gov. heresy show the breadth of ead reari 
in Telid, last 
97.1: 192 in 1855, bei 
of the of haik 
pee vu certainly ee for its novelty, wilalive: may Å‘ n 
the re oe derived fro ni i, icult 
berara A yit r. Amos, having su jet the on to 
has furnished us with the following interesting 
2 
ey 
an 
le horse work Isaac Hartas, 
of pg gy Lg | t 
or some a eiin in America. It | He also employs fuller’s earth in the 
dl With the woody portion o 
which he e recommends fo 
had also a miball hs chat ean gk ` 
ery simple, As srka ae inaa containing steam stems 
k place, as to the al effect, or ð en are, he states, a 
worki h an ` 
n the first Soe Eines 
and Chandler's One Paste ig i 
to wi steal 
work: done. The horse 
did rk 
Mr. Pye explained his process at the annual m 
of the Society, and we give ve Hie Spie as follow 
“ He took the plant, as grown and haryes 
was removed, he the 
mi -66 feet, chet he height the orse 
36504 Ibs. 
horses worked ually inall the experiments, and every | "#4 
afforded was taken to obtain ne best 
te 
a tube v 
rak cheat mite 21, 1857. being a solution of fuller’s 
i with the 
with | al 
geome ooking withdat 
3 SSN seer e least 
t g exception of mie wooden art eg whith 
soft a ae no w having replaced wit 
not anticipate., hing will be 
t of the 
, | fi 
| Ku of she) comet age aya in 
soil which pon to the 
y cong 
` of the thei inhabitants of the Al 
e 
a 
the Fla 
My own op’ 5 
cale, rather inc! 
roduced by pulling 
of rie nine qualit y. 
which I S 
of early pullin 
may desi 
und ate is worth from 2s. 6d. to 3s. per. 
of the crop. Ihada Matfer: 
m the small hae i paeas and, should I be spared 
another’ year, I intend to pull an fein ire acre before the er 
the } 
he has resolve 
bottom during the ni 
main’ 
performing this importan ; rovement 
would do it myself; and, indeed, I know of no Frat would 
that could be introduced : 
meet g f 
p 
Ister, 
ymen 
way” is still the bost, and a checks 
that inordinate ben rer to ‘centralisation’ fhich T so mu 
| t e fashion of th 
pi ig ag oe made to : 
. a 
wer 
Calabar: the ‘tyro Camiols Carinthia, a 
2. The eastern coun comprehending pirs ig 
woj the Banat, Croatia, Sclavonia, the military 5 
was Transy The northern 
rated tubes. | + mia, 
4. The southern odoniriói namely, 
Dalmatia, OF the 17,000,000 acres s ee 
share of the Alpine ining 
e covered — fea: The 
The 
rear cipine countries i is particularly 
