THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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^-i^r^^7Tn URSDAT ' JULY 1 

 S AND W^TOCK^PRIZES^ 



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PLOTOHS. 



■ r*« c !t LI ™ TOC K PRIZES. 





SOUTHDOWN SHEEP. 



LONO-WOOLLED SHEEP. 



8Tfie agricultural ©ajcttc* 



SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1849. 



. C. Pears. 



f i'ill-uN 11 



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, M.P., wishes to introduce a s 

 MKJNS founded upon Industr 

 vould probably be reduced by 



, the enormous outlay required for 



if prison palaces upon the cellular s 



j avoided ; while 1 



diet ai " 



£„!:■ 



lary conditions oi ewu establishment shall have 



been complied with, namely, the raising on each 



1000 acres respectively, an amount of bread, meat. 



,1 Potatoes, sufficient for the sustenance 



of 1000 prisoners and 100 officers. 



The one, it is proposed to establish upon 1000 

 acres of land in Hampshire ; and the otJ 

 few miles of London, Liverpool, Manchester, " 

 other populous city, where, by the application 

 greater quanl ' ' amount 



be profitably employed (after supplying 



garden produce, which would brin 

 cash return. In the Essex Forests 

 of London, there are many thousa 

 suitable for these purposes, whicl 

 Forest, are unproductive in the ban 

 At Wanstead, also, there are 150 



do not produce a rent of 2*. ft*, per 



,in to land ot 



the same qrata] u of man > has 



been well drained and cultivated, and was recently 



sold at upwards of 100/. per acre. # 



Now it is not to the subject of prison discipii 



readers, though in this, beside its importance in I 

 i of every/ — 



immediately interested through the county ex 



1. 1. :,m-. and m. lihm, ,u ly lessen the cost of crime to 



to the details of a scheme by which Mr. Pearson's 

 s may be developed that we must now confine 



r. Pearson has issued a circular to the members 



ejected to the 



London Farmers' Club, from which, indeed, 

 e extracted the above enunciation of his plan, 

 it he asks for information on " the productive 

 powers of 1000 acres of land, when subjec ' 

 highest possible cultivation, by means of t 



an establishment of 1100 persons, combined 

 an amount of active vigorous labour, equal in 

 tty (if capable of being profitably employed) 

 *' ary agrkttltti 



working 10 In 

 time, of expai 





daily supply 

 (as far as the whole number of prisoners 

 it) and as the exigencies of farming opera- 

 the state of the season may require— hav- 

 ing reference, howe\ 



whole e year°so r far as 



produce yearly required for the use of th< 



ijfiOO stones of- 



meat, 700 tons of Potatoes, and 360 quarters of Oats. 



Let us, therefore, suppose the case of 1000 acres 



firet improved by drainage 



sated on a rotation able to 



meet these wai tity of Wheat 



would be yielded by 260, and the above quantity of 



f about 72 acres ; the whole gra i i 



spying 332 acres, or about one-third of the 



The fofl it is believed, 



r the requirements of produce, though 



t those of labour, even considering tL 



aracti r which, in the case of pris< ners, it is likely 



exhibit.* The rotation is one of six years : 



L. 166 acres of Wheat : Btubble dug and sown with Rye. 





166 acres of Tares < 



f Mangold Wurzel. 

 Wheat.and72acre 



5 of Carrots and Parsnips. 



:, as they are t 

 i of the 1 



hazardous a crop for < 



1. Now, as regards the produce ot tne Janet tnus 

 laid out : The Wheat and Oats needed are provided 



- 

 per acre of Wfi re of Oats— 



tie following will probably 





» » Ti 



„ „ MangoK 



Total green 



ips at 20 



vegetable food to convert into meat. The expe- 

 rience of one winter some years ago, with a con- 

 siderable flock of sheep folded over 30 acres of 

 common and Swedish Turnips, led to flu 

 that 1 lb. of meat is made during the consumption 

 ■ lbs. of green food. If this be generally 

 5,000 tons of green food should produce 

 100 tons of meat : this is equal to 16,000 stones, 

 nearly the amount that Mr. Peah> 



■ it would thus appear, after 

 the wants of the establishment shall have been satis- 

 fied • we have put the produce as high as even 

 spade labour have put the 



produce of meat from vegetable food quite as high 



; 



supposed, under si 

 land, and a less t 

 the grain th 



growth of green crops: 

 which is extremely unlikely at first, may t 



improve the 



ill by and bye supply all 



n lately more 



very much sm . 

 repeated ci 



enclosure may be 



hat of a free man. 

 i more thorough and 



ase the produce of the land, as to 

 iployment that is required ; or, what 



j: ^-lty, a larger 



