Till \<;iil( 11 LTURAL GAZETTI 



[Jan. 27, 



effected (without 1 



I my hurdles " payed' 



with builin* cual- Highland Society 



, called Prince Albert's breed 

 erland, and "the old Scotch 1 



Nay, I M nSTKS 



silver Dorkings will turn out to be Z 



ock of this breed with five toet 



1 poultry fancier sent somerf 



loultry show in 1848, to comj! 



was told they were B0U0" 



for the same beautiful br J 



■ 





a .-M.jile <>{ greys. Other synonymes 



under other breed ; and the old-establ 



a hen. Yet and Scotland, is really 



k.-u up an; London, and the Bolton 



uy one else, so that though there may be many names there will be 



try are well but few breeds. The Spanish, Malay, speckled Dorking, 



o ; '„.,♦ 1,.. , »*<>„* o„>v,™.;tv .,nh aa t.w, 1 propose, there 



sion about breeds 



-.';■" •:!:::; 



be no longer any doubt 



Is in books, and the names men fixed on would 

 ;ess of time find their way into our farm-houses 

 ttages. If this proposal is adopted, perhaps you 

 1 so good as to receive a few sub> 





ilike it being steeped before they work it. Cordage 

 d canvas m ay be steeped six hours. Should the 



rids ,,f -up person wtm operates get wet with it he 



l,t ''. ' "'"-'• ''■■ w "- < ■'- '■■•■'«. was steeped'three 



which vegetable and animal physiology illustrat 

 ch other in the produmon mid devel, piuerit of v* 

 ■'ties.* " Hence," says Dr. Lindley, in an article < 



wis, but of aiding in the eluddationof the 



:trines of breeding, many of your readers 



gladly make some effort, I propose that 



meeting of the Royal Agri- 



y at Norwich, and send speedily to some 



thorough- bred 



t of poultry fanciers, e 



i lr. - 



My. Were a suitable place a 



rthy author of « Ornamental 

 ' the plan. Living on the spot, 

 with the subject, no one is so 



'land'set "Vh™ 1 ? 9 P ' aCeS ' the e ^ s c °uld be 



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I do not mean touv th,* ;^;A„ 7v . , ' such withstanding, sound and unbroken, the 



little gold dSiveVf;. ; *• 2* »".» the sih, r , ■ of two winters. *What the expense of *• 



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«**. «.« *. Pro „„.*"i Baa £ ; : a- Aftiia wa st "rti 



Home Correspondence. 



Expenses of the Agricultural Society. — I o 



iai statement of the Royal Ag 



Society of England that the expenditure of the 



ight doubtless to consider it as » 

 of 1000 farmers can safely and 

 perhaps comfortably eat a cold dinner together, but as 

 this great fact has already cost the Society some 60001 

 or 7000/. in establishing, it ought, I think, considering 

 d the necessities of agriculture, 

 e method of feeding in future. 



ind English Farming.— I am very glad to 

 farmer " has undertaken the 

 the Lothian men, in the matter of straw 

 w* tar-cord and Bean-stalks, for it shows me 

 that I might have staid at home and found fault, without 

 oing so far off to correct an old-fashioned error. 

 Vm respect to the thatching, I would observe, that 

 equal durability, at no greatly increased expense, can 

 e ensured by tar-cord or hazel-rod bindings and 

 neatly raked thatch, then the superiority of the appear- 

 ance of this over the loose straw and numberless ropes 

 d decide as to the desirable- 

 For, after all, " appear- 



: to be slovenly ii 

 judjes *?" Vh^eTeSVvl 



