Aveust 22, 1857.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 589 
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last economical manner 
ener pors A ere dite been carried out | cause arising. Another important f ure of a convertible may enjoy the pleasantry of Mr. Trimmer’s 
+ feel much indebted to him no less for his | corn rent i is its capability z smoothing oe TARER of sallies, and benefit by his more serious essays on that 
~ dicions arrangements than for the masterly manner | periods of agricultural distress ; for whatever be the science to which he has devoted so much attention, I 
i. which the different works have been now all but | cause of these periodical v visitations, their E ines is am notat all likely to adopt a mode of draining 
Goat to 10n by means of a most efficient | ‘adiguestidhoably aggravated by the circumstance that I am bound in self-defence to state is unworthy of the 
staff under control. By not com mmitting himself to | rent, in especially, is a fixed sum—an un- age in which it was executed, and is no more deserving 
any one system, but by dealing with the ratek ab changing charge upon the land; whereas the source of the able writing and pleasantries of Mr, Trimmer, or 
sf wil according to its close or porous texture, by | whence rent is derived—namely, the produce of land, the distinction given to it i oe President of the Royal 
i i in quality and amount, ence i i i 
ever the amount of fluctuation mag be, or from whatever decisively any connection with it. However much $ 
drain, rs pa me to 
adopt the common sense view of this difficult question. | in value, and an unproyided means of meeting this x voiy back when clay soils were Sanr impene- 
The professional man who has at his command the | difference between the character of rent and the source ti rable by a when drain-pipes were invented, 
most ample and varied mea ns of relief will peee | whence rent is obtained cannot be regarded otherwise pee when Wal Pit. Trims re oa have hræ! the his- 
effect practically the we amount of good, and will | than as an evil of greàt magnitude, and productive of toriographer ae a not that the 
establish his reputation upon a broad and therefore jalapeno distress and difficulty. A properly appor- d 
ne, 
asa poiirer i corn rent, however, by fluctuating as gain ned a prize, and that “judges when awarding 
As I now occupy 300 acres of the heaviest land a s fluctuate, places the landlord und het tenant in prize spoke of the re rpe drainage ang 
Hinxworth, I shall be enabled to record any facts wh ich thee true relationship, under all c ces, by what I have ventured fore to state, that Mr. Trim- 
may appear likely to throw any light on these disputed gaie g the est of each, whitelec the g of mer’s eg a and the practice he has described are 
points, and I shall feel pleasure in giving every reason- farm produce two very different things, and that “occasional” or 
able facility to those persons who may feel disposed to Two grea t distinctive features ehh the agriculture |“ partial and irregular” draining, as suitable to irregular 
ot = the = eet ara has been done there, and who | of Scotland had t that of England are, the prevalence in “soils and surfaces, has been and is practised by other 
to judge for themselves. Robert | the former country of leases for 19 pany and corn rents tan besides Lord re gan As Mr. Trimmer has 
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payable in nd to t tances arai m 
we attribute the fact, that in Scotland all changes in system (!) I cannot act the ra abana A 
ON CORN RENTS, the value of ee. whether arising from Bon ripe: distinctly arid if a sored be ar p which T am pe! the 
ther causes, i 
eae poe cry of ural di ger! Pu Bd less loud pai to dig a drain’ 2 z Feet. ye Sean axis meager 
myo country ; a oat e also the prian to ad out his drains system the 
s ; reaso ye rents in Scotland are Staal i A vancing, fa ess there ips! as at Lye 5 and hollows 
SAAREN tee this zee pach ent | ee ee of unrestricted ais itioningrain specially requiring drains) he would be dismissed in- 
=, ge akin h Bier f er y the Legislature. This latter stantly as one unworthy em oye va onl 
| ome ag ian of H in the face of free trade in corn— e yen eg ar the Aralia Keythorpe are 
inadmissible with ep ws who have learnt 
Laig pian K is eases, , bai lessons of experience As to which N. ' modes of 
corn rents convertible into money at the average draining adopt in the instance hich Mr, Trimmer 
Although Phe sy 'system uf Mri oe bein pect Beer f pened: of the respective counties for each crop and year, refers, 43 may be pardoned if I pa the foll para- 
both land! le rs er nd t int pen y Gnd fe has ‘taal? sufficient impart to both landlords and tenants an amount of confi- | graph of my Letter to Lord Berners Kegs will pint the 
Me gid Uherbe oF oA id alton z dence which no other arrangement could confer—the principles upon which different modes pted 
simple; aly, ti wha b ra ai ddont Ake paeng ia idles interest of the rA and leaving him | gron. in thes ame field : “ Parallel equi-distant drainage 
The first t” to be determ ten te aaia: tur crt ce ame rata tg predate, nrfhoes uniformly wet, as it i for soils 
ti id Lind of coed to bE copier wegen MATERE E ribean ner iat pi ve | sS y wet, as it is wrong 
ee cs the artiodlar price or san ; the second, | capabilities of the soil; the convertible corn rent secur [atina 1p Sneek ot or inclination, or only: 
ae to the landlord his ‘wet; and, by the same reasoning, partial or 
ed, for tie aa + he cea tekiekated of his estate, whatever the range of prices during the | draining applied to uniform soils and circumstances, 
t paid in kind but in rtridaay The | hile ‘ would be as e penha as it is correct when applied to 
fast ‘of thai atiesti ons, the uantity and kind of corn hand is assured that his pae by being estimated in the soils and surfaces of irr de rd condition.” As to the 
i ‘ioe i a À y the | time’s rice of produce, shall be the fair annual value of, Hinxworth tables, they will be hed in 
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his farm for the time being. appendix to the Referees’ Report on the London drain- 
quality of me “sil, nd o her ei ny OF ei -tocal That the combined influence of leases and corn rents age, and will be open to the scrutiny of all parties 
affect he value on land; ve with Tiny eii h Í 1. 
mmuta- 
aol he commend “vr 
. : ie Conifiöritión of the landowners and tenantry of | the perder’ and is to accounted for not by any geolo- 
ee ee tis "aii erama geo ns pee: not | England. d. Mr. George Rich, of gaien — (Jan. | | gical phenomena, , but by the simple fact that the clay: 
a3 ? per- 1853), quoted in Mr. Cowan’s Pamphlet on Corn Rents, | Soils were drained uniform fi ith 105 
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mit; and in Scotland we accordingly find the sum con ppi 
chosen to be the avenge pric price of the crop and year of Home sg nines. ndenc 
county, annual he M ; rah ? : 
jury, and called here “ fase AEF peal” In England, how- | has a series of trials of t the m state upon various crops. | pare Ray vig ee Sood sory he wg rif a oa 
ever, fiars prices do not exist, but something similar . Sown broadcast upon Radishes it killed them. Ground | ards off gas ough “ela We tol zi hel it 
iar published in the shape of “the averages f| forked over and resown grew the finest crop he ev yi asta Tha Mf oes interpose in ge 
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coun’ 5 and such averages are, and shou kr saw. Beans.—-A large qye manured with nothing | era Bailey 
n as the only true standard for converting into else; a good crop. Beans in this complete 
il Farmers will give their crops for the cost of 
as reni | new manure : 5 
i megil in t er geente = ing i gine with feat 
causing the farmer to pa . No Potatoes co er 
means, in the latter n Aah the indion” rent below ae well. Strawberries.—On 
„the Ari viagra of ordinary seasons. This feature | in spring: the foliage is much larger a 
of the however, has been entirely mitigated in | the gardener says the fruit was as superior to the other 
_ this country xy the adoption of a maximum price, by as the foliage is. Dahlia.—Mr. Philly Vood 
eth the claim of the landlord is limited, while Wakefield, mixed one part of the manure wi 
_ interest. on the other hand is sionally al he a| earth and applied it to is Dahlias. . I 
» mini w which im does not = as ha e 
~. can be but one opinion as to the prop er, Works, Wakefield, has applied it | 
ei it as , but I am diced to “doubt Sted with ‘four times. its 
_.. Whether the minimum mg row of n applicat 
~ «0n, on our advent to bin ee too late in aer season for its full benefit to be wi 
äre yet in ignorance to what will be thé ergó still the improvement is most mark iB; W eer 
_ Range of ees wifer eta new regime of unrestricted | Mangel Brutit Bread. — Amongst the methods of | 
<- Competition. ers F Wheat at i ees jee addi 
fie d 2 Wurzel must no’ 
` laces. Not oe only 3s it it a SEN Jap pean and produc- 
Afixe harr A to ve cay but — Sarieties P would |e 
M ‘impartial itet and amid all fluctuations of price, | make it Sa a irod eet as of. it |2oU ak 
uctions so prevalent , England, d which are every to: -rate bakers’ bread ( ii n- 
now and then paraded lence” on the part of taining 50 per cent. of Mangel and to 
Think of the benevolence of a deduction | hearty, wholesome, pala’ p 
10 per cent. to whose means of payment | that the Mangel Wurzel is steamed and pul through 
been ced 30 per cent., as sieve ; and more or less of the j 
years, beyond his caleulation or | off, according (or palate) of the maker, 
These announcements. r cen the is worked wi Se flour, &c., i 
y annual audits öf conntry gentlemen are | it is very desirable to ha a e > of t w 
ly characteristic of ish- provincial journals, | have tried difiecent: anitae with eventual “success, 
$o ‘never found i , and the reason | J. Prideaur. a 
á ‘hot that Sentech landlords are less Lberal than thein] The Drai aahi tiy faniry fetid: Mr. j 
angliski brethren, or that Scotch rents are less in | Timmer] eRe L oanad it save ab g 
-= „Amount, for the reverse is the fact; jr ea the er hospo drainage-—which is (only) peculiar (as I 
oe tate universal i have before said) from its having ee executed 
however violent, the just amount of rent, and this | were wrought fo t forward last year gen me An oral a at | 
Without necessitating a recourse to those  eleemosynary Mr. Wilkins’ meeting at Reading, said to be equal in eae 
rapa agen ae of Arie riaja 18 aclis deep with stra w and bushes in the year 1854, | some idea of how are 
ka to, arrange the a t of rent i for- | and becatise it has had a eminent cet it M. Chomel-Adam bought in April 1855 a pro en 
ieee oo me of Areas Pte cir n market, what- Norverrbe, I beg to be —- disclaim inal | aapgne set: Mer: It — of about 112 acres of 
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