-1849.] 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



fTHE LONDON MANURE COMPANY beg to 





pERUVlAN AND BOLIVIAN GUANO ON SALE, 



*»P CO., 61, Grac^rch 



G-- 

 TOl 3, 4c. 



■_>AlNTs— LlVtlH A> ■ 



JRie ^griotitural <Bu$zttt< 



SATURDAY, JANUARYS, 1849. 



But why, in the 



name of all that 



s familiar to 



man, should such a< 



in agriculture, tha 



ecause it has 











the Art— or 





v, that a practical and clever 





ished chemist, eac 









ervice of the 



Farmer, is to be considered under cont 



ract to afford 



a perpetual living: illustration of the wt 



thing profit 



of every principle he 



broaches, or ever 



y suggestion 



he offers to the ju 





rers ; and in 















Does not every pr 

 tailed economy of 





hat the de- 







profit depends, is a 







to be acquired by lo 



g usage and expe 





ther art or trade i And 



big that others know'it too, pretend 



Kg the deceptive cry of ' Shew your 



alance-sheet,' he really believes that the farm 



s Trade, and Farming a mere employment of 

 isure time and capital — can really afford an ade- 

 tate test or a fair one, of every principle which a 

 ientific education on the one hand, or a shrewd 



wer of illustration, on the' other, may enable the 



issessor to submit to our judgment and experiment. 



Nobody believes it : the demandant of the 



' beli re it He knows 



i, on the contrary, and has a pretty 



;;,- 



and he would work it to 



acknowledged fact. It is either a mis 

 covered attack, at once unfair, and it 

 > any useful purpose. 



Mr. Mi. 



; farmed SOO acres for an 

 ' years is specially angered with 



gipgjg 





ay well begin to feel 1 

 guninamiirandThe 



yet probably to reach 

 . That " Science of the 

 it has been truly called, 



id of playful 'prac- 

 been exchanged, 



before the earnest disputant 



No sooner however is this perceived, thai 

 party, *' mild as the zephyr," steps in to 

 straight and put a short and simple end tot 



Poor Mr. Mechi ! You must pull down and re- 



: .-. . : -■ ■'-. . . • . - ■;- 



I But your 

 est got upon more dangerous ground 



■ into a man- 

 tr«p, able to catch even 'a Farmer of 20 years' 



id you but let go the spring and held 

 him there. He asks one quel 



■ dreamt of, 

 as it would -eei)!, by the writer. W 



n re, quoth he, has derived 

 its birth from Tiptree Hall? 



Were the biography of agriculture a little better 

 known than it is by* those who ought to be most 

 Fa ni iai with it, we should have been spared the 

 blushing of our very Turnip-tops, and not for the 





aming to us m • 



ural Invention, Introduction, o 



ye* not half sufficiently 



others' theorh - e, for his own. 



we 



known list of names— Fitzhebbert, Groshede, 



So the plot thickens: and so it has ever done 



iiv 



iTLir,. 15I.YTHL, W i st.. n.T.avnshend, Fletcher, 



from time out of mind, upon every Bub 



Ivn 



wan, Cavendish, Lettsom, Richaedson, Tull, 





I'H 



ncle, Menzies, Harte, Young, Marshall, 



and the well-being ol man I c li, confident even 



tta 



UK, and others of more recent date, and living 









and though capable of e\i< 





ioiv the multiform images of Harr-.w, Scarifier, 





i':. 



1. linrsehoe. Clod-crusher, Threshing and 



v I: ' 





nou in- Machines, and the vegctaHe forms of 



Turnip, Clover. ' - Uve-.rass, 



Lucerne, Sainifoin— te 



biographical reminiscences they suggest, the soli- 

 Do they not, on the contrary, each a separate 

 e unfoW that is enough to give any farmer bred 



