508 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
eae we this rock, which is hydrous, and its 
ineralogical characters and positions, it was originally 
Anod ts in the poor described above, when its place was | 
ut its iron and man- 
ot 
Bee: 
there gai it 
larger features to trachytes a and basalts. 
in changing the physical conditions of matter, kA Mi: 72° 
the Bees Pane the food of fowls, have become co: 
in rock. On the rg hand, we find, in the au rhe 
we th iti ones added to sea-water, th 
phosphoric and diganii salts of lime essential to 
continuance and multiplication of animal life ther 
its various exhibitions. Edinburgh New Philosophical 
Journal. 
LODGING-HOUSES FOR LABOURER: 
-house, ki c 
public attention. Apart fr 
London, Gik, ai 
wever well adapted roa ome tor 
o not find x ba favour with our 
: k 
> the most pihe part of my subject—the cost of 
Re the same, apone- to the plan 
sd for tie jasar Aa I have gone carefully into 
the details, and find that, from an average of prices in 
mre nt districts— 
eho, hee a about, including sinks, tn . ~ 
. í 
To pete the hole: ‘with eight iron bedsteads and 
bedding, tables, ia = on and seats, shelves, 
a the necessary ¢ and c ooking utensils 
hing, in sanity except for the master’s bed- 
rec will cost about 40 0.0 
tarot. -š şi E 0 
The EN expenses of the establishment may be esti- 
mated a 
beta for the 20 20 perehes of eond for og site of the 
010 0 
Interest at 8 per Teat on 1700. .. zs < eae 12" 0 
‘Ys oz HSS Ree eee, O 
e | Ditto at 10 per. cent. on 40/. 
The annual income to be derived from ge lodgers 
and bere master, vat ls. sA week each, i -£23 8 0 
This ing an extreme case, that evar bed 
would j PE ee ee week durin 
we shall ink, an 
uat five beds out of the 
r the first year, riada the wee 
ag a Nyh 
expens In 6d. eek may be 
TE tout: ain if t the kam me a a private or one, as it 
were, and confined to the labourers on a ee estate, 
no difficulty need A gs: p making it, ni as self. 
supporting, 
remunerative for the oiak Tai init. 
s S peak fy Street, at alate meeting of the yd 
0 | Mr. 
ought to, her saticienily d 
Mr. Cheffi 
influential member ¢ 
il 
provincial me 
— 
Sorietieg, 
HIGHLAND AND AGRIC 
yearly meeting.—333 new makea ET v 
Agricultural Education. mig- fol 
the Conncil on Education, sake ri 
charter recently obtained by he society, w 
Hall Maxwell :— 
“The Cou =: consider that, 
system of educmsene there a retwol 
to: 1st, The off ofe ve 
a piee o 
i of a 
selontifi and practical—the one to be acq 
arene n the farm ; ; and the eet hy 
and ‘on the farm 2dly. 
CSC. 
after the Ruaa irria e a been 
tion to, a perfect _ now letap a 
and the details 
hi 
ry, scientific and applied; 2. 
aa 4 t Siem a: of Pog | and 
4. Veterinary med 5. 
ustrial science ‘a heb on 
i eying ; 7. Mechanics 
knowledge of their use and 
A bee od and buildings of the — . B 
wate Berane d= 
colle ege inary, they i shal 
certificates of: attendance a esc! 
a2 
d by 
na nataral hirtey, botiga 
| farm mec 
the det: workings of a -house for single men . 
in which certainly exhibited very poan te "Chellis read the pie ihe Chipping Hill 
results, though t that the agri ent ai ply la established vide comfortable 
formed but a part of the success meee = re lodgings fo: TAN single a Tabourers; 5 namely a 
Last year I observed that ing-house was opened separate bed tor e ach lo — and a on room for 
at Parndon, in x, which was built under Mr. Ĉlark, all. The provisions were t an o S dge could be 
the diocesan architect. Since then the Rev. John admitted fir a Jess period than one month; that the 
ramston, of Witham, has opened a labourer’s home at house should be locked up at, and that no admission 
that place, which is a escribed in Bip iE should be obtained after, a quarter to 10 o’clock a 
j in the presen h 
anuary 2 
not so aae a the establishing = odging hone upon bee 
philanthro unds fi ee pai 
mprov — habits, 
and consequent increased Satish of the ] T, I pro- 
at hee heme asa A amei ion 
one. A small barn or a amre 
if phiwi might be altered to answ 
but I perfer 
to 
to which , AS aha two appar and two lower rooms, 
to which is added a ground-floor wing on pete side, to 
i sn md 
ements of 
tion. 
esser, = and 
the stirs, 
by the as a store- 
and other articles, — 
lodgers artifi who would 
prefer a lodging =o that to the more expensive cne at 
the public-house o; In the 
ing 
: . sat a bowls, #5 
occupation which the Ts ma hiai 
leisure. A 20 
by 
ed 
ce in return 
7 ie 
to advance with them 
abour miss 
and investmen t liea if that pent ian ‘were withdrawn 
cottage, 
are rA vane to meet the its chair 
do: nke 
oman Pn 
h 
ers, who | of the United 
enumerated the ne 
1 will now speak 
Home Correspondence. 
fel, mi sarge a in rnips. ~The 
C izata ’ in. the las 
u 
“ 
‘draught two re are a 
‘to a horse, the lattari is equal to the power of five m 
so the power of miga donkey may y ~~ equal ual to 
and a half m When 
times a wag 
to two 
e-hors 
vagon an and team se to the mill for af a few t tis 
of flour, to the railway sation for a new plo 
h the Turnip fold with a few bags of 
P 
ave unw wisely | 
donkey. 
851, and at page 
at instructive PoE volume, ar si The Industry 
Stat 
is Pr that can red, 
a’ dekey > power ‘suitable for driving light 
ho wili And great dificulty im supplying the 
e great i in i the 
3 and it is quite possible that bs glen i 
a the be strongly recommended bs 
fi 
tan 
s of ca 
O ascer- T 
William PF 
a 
roceedings WO 
! dmission and arrangem 
d 5th topo E and exhibition of implet 
ree? oa - 
of. t mittee in the Town Hall 
sufficient — soviet 
and veterinary 
nh pate we in technology, field engineering and h 
nics a ture, and book- ae may i 
years—two at classe 
departments first, so as to enter 
ta Fo a pate 
ut the cote 
vid 
the termination of a winter session 
rrying to the agricultural class ¢h “the | 
and natural history acquired in 
class. 
the 
T mended that two winters m eip ataa w 
herto be it 
anticipated i in a ffectin 
r any o tions ding 
would probaly bgt the ‘effst eof “excl abt 
ears from their 
| obati po 
John Wilson ; : 
Kilwhiss John 
Professor Balfour. 
son. eo mey — Professor 
Book-kee 
d Peter. 
rogramme of pt 
and ith p eens 
and exhibition o f poul 
Anderson in the Trades’ Hall 
