1 — 1849.] 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



MESSRS. STRETTON, HAY WARD and Co, I 



^IS^^^^^^l-ier^ 



-•HE LONDON MANURE COMPANY beg 







PERUVIAN AND BOLIVIAN GUANO ON SALE, 



SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1849. 



i hat. all men, in all ages, have shewn the sar 

 proneness to exaggerate the importance of their ov 

 epoch, is a remark of which each annahsi in tr; 

 both ancient and mod. rn, L. > a h iitt. .1 tii. luui 

 truth. , n ord*, t« ^.jw. -a,. «.. u^ gf j 



tion r 



f the most tangled n 



aze that thread whose 







vely our o 





Let 





been the 





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during the past year 



-what ar 



its prospects 





er perhaps has the qu 



stion beer 







nd fair consideration 





outside 



the immediate pale o 



E the subj 





imperatively requisite to 





' 



and to 



the understanding o 



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•er. On th. 











lark , 



pon a year of moderate, and la 



tterl'y of low, 





upon a year throughout wh 



ch the field 



, 1- .,i 



cms of the Farmer ha 



ve had to 





f May, the lighter and 

 in the south, caught 



ith the exception of a fine fortnight in November, 

 !ie seed-time indefinitely postponed by constant 

 rins throughout the latter part of the year. Add 

 3 this an enormous influx of foreign corn, increased 

 y political causes, to a degree of which we have 



ield whose deficiency is a general and growing out- 

 ry, and the immediate prospect of an ingress of the 

 )reign producer to our market, without even the 



lese elements of complaint together, and you have 

 t once the melancholy view— the north side aspect 

 -of the subject ; a view which, it must be owned, 

 )me minds do naturally delight to take : and it is 

 ght they should: for to any impartial observer it 

 evident that the balance of Truth and Fairness is 

 reserved not so much by the impartiality or liberal 



!,"; , 



• 



ter to vindicate a 

 1 excepted appli 



,,wi a 1 fte -ii y J eai ,' the ' ; " l,niai:si - "" ' 



i 



™ ---ere per '- 



i colours of 'a foreground 

 " pr , admonished by repeti 



met 

 md splendid super! 



e year ' last pas 

 one, are annually dressed m u, 



""""id, and the philosophi 



if^r P s^ 8an 



Perha y^ caDul ary, at the moment of utmost nee 



eforavl 1 1 ' w ' U1 'M ilvssl 



, , w rule, until the vantage-ground nf n f+ c 



knowledge shall 



anv otb^' • , , d efies comparison orcontras 

 huni^n So? 110 ' ° f «** l ™^» the history 



Lett,-] 



e recommended. 



■t ;V, .; 



;ed by : 





■•'lid ad-; 



dented durat 



|he rage and roar ( ♦w 6 v -" Jli '' lll ' u "< 



K!rk-otaat 

 •fe even? 1 " tCd Pr ° b! ' '■ 



• / 





..fdl\ 



*? Perform and /ooVto ■ 



■■allowable 

 ofS 6Ct * hat Particular tom>7nX'"- V n l \^ uv 

 ^ew, whenrp «- Q " dX \ l P c ' to choose that pom 

 06 * e ma 7 ^ace through all theinvohi 



necessary i 



; one view;, v 



To shorten our task, 

 upon the weather and 

 we are by very trade ai 

 is no class of men who, in reality, have a deeper c 



more experienced reliance on that inscrutable br; 

 perfect Wisdom which " giv< 



active to an • , n ionth un . 



precedented at the close i 



proved foreign demand, and more settled and en- 

 couraging tidings abroad, v.ith a share market of 

 recovered health and tone wn'n t s tl0 ng Bank — 

 with the increasing evidence of a most & ■ 

 from the last harvest, and a seed-time 

 a poor prospect of th.' next— with evt ry element of 

 market, and many of a dear one — What 



The answer. nd. "Foreign 



Q m February" 



loubt : but let 



us look a little i D d of October, 



—in which a million of quart 



rs of foreign grain were 



■:, ! 



to flinch,— the foreign supplies have been generally 



bonded ; and " the ides of ' 



February are not yet 



come. The Market is ill the 



sticable malady, which 





has puzzled all the doctors i 





Apprehension. 



Bonded corn, v 

 at a nominal duty! Why th 



o be entered presently 



s is the old story— the 



shade of Banquo come back a 



^ain! Will it "never 



be laid i' the earth V For 



th no duty at all, and 



with October, five of them w 



the rest under a very low ,11. 





evTbeen proplSeTortre^ 



foreign corn than had 

 nt of by the most des- 







u ess throughout 



but no sooner does the 



dreaded '1st of February 1849 



come looming withina 



three months' view, than every Miller, every Baker 



stops his transactions, buys 





scale, from hand to mouth ; 



own go the prices ac- 



i ■ i. -'. — the needy seller 



down they then go lower still 



duty goes up, the Importer 



1 ond, looking h 



ields to the fall, and 





ird for F^bJuaryT— 

 ere is on sale, for no 



no one can sell what little t 



me will buy— till Fibruaiy : even the most expe- 



elf-reliance, and — gives way at last, to the 

 -e of numbers not argument's, and postpones 



uta 

 i upon the earth 



■ field.- 



pression upon this topic, — much, unquestio 

 on the laws by which even the winds them 

 are governed ;- the farm 



had too sure experience of the oxltr, and resulting 



• 



me serious complaint of that which he knows to 

 it once unchangeable, and impossible to change 



not so with human locislation. Here we have 

 of handy work to deal with, of which Time, the 

 nd faithful critic, is n< * always the approver, 

 lever perhaps did the bungling operation of 

 i laws, and the defect of legislative foresight. 



an undue stress upon the question of 

 jed not to be told that many other 

 nine the profit upon an article, besides 



that perception of cause and effect 

 •n-dealer or factor could have fore- 

 edied, the price of an article is forced 



id, r the importa 



I, the'Cora m 



was comparatively fin 

 now? With Trade : 



alone, though not high, 

 1 healthy. What ails it 

 ery branch revived and 



abroad : the Baltic ports c 



for profit on export 



i the spring the Floi 





ose at any rate the account of Corn for Gold with 



• before mentioned causes 



' present and future deficiency at home present to 



ill amount of legislative foresight would 







ire under an apprehei 

 i present fact of twic 

 •e studied its phenon 















the tune is close at hand 



aders will find 





We must cn'ess the 











return; from five of the 



