10-1849.] 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



153 



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i JfSOm t«2™STK! o^nLga freqt^ 



LONDON MANURE COMPANY beg 



HYDRAULIC ENGINES, WATER RAMS, < 

 on Improved Principles ; Engines worked by Steatr 



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C Nni.\ 



P^ANDCEME.N F.-TestunomaUr. o ived in, 



B2^. GE k ™ HEALY,® 30, FjSLtreet, respect- 

 Houses. T ^ y a "*° e d £ n d to th «^ ° f w ? rmi " g Orchidea 



H5^ R SitOfls A t L AND agrX 



«B» ^>^nd S.i n * a n™ bb « W - ah hers o/all u P .e. for Joints 



pATENT ALK This unpromising 





SeSct 





URB1DGE and HEAJLY'fc 



"pfctreet, London. 



1* «"ElS 



WDRUMMOND N & P SONS^Agricultural Musi 

 N.B. All parcels of Seeds above 21. value (with the ex'ce 



THOMAS WHALLEY begs to 'state that 

 ANNUAL PRICED LIST OF AGRICULTURAL SEE 





Ettt agricultural @a?cttc< 



SA T UliDA Y, MAR CH 10, 1 849. 



We now shall 



iary details, as \ 

 n the field. Th 



of practical 



."to adduce is that of Mr. Hamilton, 

 item Donegal 

 called the Glenties, where he has had difl 

 some respects greater th 

 other proprietor has grappled) of an appalling nature 



Mr. Hamilton succeeded to his estate under 



imagine, 30 years ago. 1 1 - 



had spent enormous sums in contesting the repre- 

 sentation of the county in Parliament, instead of 

 emulously striving to improve their estates. The 

 present proprietor set himself earnestly to work to 



and to relieve himself if he could from the accu- 

 mulated evils which had fallen upon bu 

 Instead of leading a useless life of foal 

 high class society to which he had hen.: 

 of admission, and leaving his property no better than 

 he found it, he determined to devote all the fresh- 



his matured manhood — to I 



ig the multitudes of human 

 warm there. He possesses property 



!,-r the Pour Act) in Ire- 

 land, li contains between 43,000 and 44,000 in- 



: 

 " town belongs to Mr. Hamiiton. 



s property, which is inland, in the midst of 

 ains, has no advantage of market communi- 

 , being 15 miles from the nearest markettown, 



moory and boggy valleys amongst mountain*, 

 ■ , 

 when Mr. Haw the obstacles 



presented under the rundale system, so that 20 

 tenants have had their respective patches of Pota- 

 toes or Oats in a field of 2 or 3 acres, where the 



ut as the allotrr. 



ugrt tptv; 



man Mh.> was venturous en 



portion during that year de 



part of the benefit. Thus hud the stupiditj of 

 :-ietors bound their tenantry m tetters 



which precluded all chances of improvement, by 



idle paitner in a common lease the 



ting upon a full share of the portion of 



red by his industrious co-partner. A 



strange and absurd system which (as may appear 



in the sequel ot our observations) has had its 



duced and app the view us 



which atlords no advantages 

 riotic resident landlord who 

 >ans in supporting his own 

 him with a lull share of what 

 ely the moral and pecuniary 



in his plan of altering it, but by a com- 

 f Steady perseverance and kirn ne.-s, m 

 jxcellent agent aided him, i- 

 Every man's cottage was on his own 



the fields of every .man's holding lay 



ing on with spirit wh 

 ; desolation to the o 



>oked to him for support. 



This partu ular property in reality belongs ti 



provements which ^ 

 1 Boat 



eers, an excellent judge of land 

 bilities, who went over the whole pre 

 Hamilton in the Donegal and Glei 



vation, and < 



The engineer recommended, in a detail* 



an advance of 46,000/. upon the pioperty. as i ertain 



ce ample returns, and the chief- <>t the < ej .tit- 

 approved a loan of 34,000/. The specifica- 



prepared for the e 

 ere fully 



up the improvements, and cultivate tl 

 mproved land, so as to make it repay 

 h would be requisite to rent 

 average outlay of about 10/. 



