THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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Ji <*#**^g • not of the branches only, but of 



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**2nJVj| » baVsort or produce, I graft it 



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:ver''L.'6 

 se can assert that my expe 

 i both in England and Sc 



; for I have laboured as h 

 is any man could have don 



of every grade, sharing 



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*"**J diw to these advantages. I have had a long 

 up*** with the labouring poor in some of tin 

 ■ai cittitn in Scotland, and have mark 

 »*nld independence that once reigned amongs 

 3m XoijTohratary poor-law was needed, for it wa 

 « ■ » &p»ce not to support an aged or infirn 

 *kithu feeling. B. B., Worksop. 



*«? rf the causes that have operated to bring the 



ZTv' a \ iD the totaii y unlette"red." m Now 

 the mere ability to read and 



,,7 ™ mass of our rural population, 

 "probability, be fewer. 

 > fad. The kind of education formerly 

 Prevalent m Scotland, which tended to 



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nviting to idleness 

 rampant pauperism has been super- 

 B 0us sympathy, which has exagger- 



^iJT ao»™ w «wuon or sheer ieno] 

 5S? IK' 6 ; the8e acti °S and g re 

 V^^^ai 1 no moT ^ restraint 

 ^f "^ttlos "? JJJ B,al Propensities, and 



> wi* miiie8 folw n !k m "' rria § e9 are contr; 



,ny other collateral ones connected, that have aggra- 



the old poor-law, and a morbid sort of mistaken and 

 discriminating charity. These I only name, and 

 ure you I write not this in a hard-hearted feeling for 

 * poor, who, however degraded, vicious, or ignorant, 

 s objects of the deepest compassion. Your corre- 

 >ndent, the " Scotch Farmer," justly attributes the 

 Deriority of the Scottish labourer of former days to 

 1 being imbued with the principles of the Holy Scrip- 

 ts. I quite agree with him in this. Quercus, Epsom. 



siderable part of the 



eyes and lungs of the a 



Barley, to be made into malt for the use of cattle, 



it to be made on auy farm, or any place \\1 



a kiln, upon giving — hours' . 



it is put upon the kiln, that they ma;, 



lile the process is going on. 4. Under a 

 fcy, no malt except Barley malt, to be used 



Ettar kind of i 

 mises. Such t 



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;. nearly. Now I humbly M. 



an 7 quarts of the fluid, 



jy possibly b 

 f of dung, th; 





t be much better than the pou 



bandry to put a greater proportion of the straw into the 

 mouths of the cattle, accompanied with roots, and daily 

 ture, made with the dung and 



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!*of many farmers to the state < I 



pose to make ricner manure an u remove i» num « c 

 beasts, and eat more straw. Hantoniensis. 



Malt Duty Free as Food.— The subjoined is a pro- 



for feeding and fattening 



except Barley-malt, upon their pre- 

 sure would cause a large increase 



□g that description of land in much. 

 r more frequently growing Wheat. 



Implements for Small Farmers — In the Gazette of 



ociety, Sir C. Lemon, Bart., 

 ie propriety of offering suit- 



gh of the greatest excellence 



March 3d" 



called attentic 



cupiers of small holdings. As a small, tb< 

 :ehold farmer, I am able to speak pointedly 



t there is no chanc 



for feeding and fattening purposes t 

 , which there is no hope of obtainin 

 sfow, admitting that the total repei 



At first sight it may appear that the growers ot interior 

 or damaged Barley will still be unable to C 

 their cro S p with advantage for feeding or 1 , 

 poses ; but not so ; for 5 pecks of Oat malt, or 1 bushel 

 bushels o7coar8e°ly 8 ground or bruised Barley, with suf- 

 ficient water, and kept at from 120° to 150° of heat, will 

 iV time to thai 

 h the wort and grains are in a mash tub 

 just previous to drawing off the wort when brewing 

 « trouble and expense, certainly not more 



process. Although tl 







iter of this has not tried 1 

 effecTor pulse malt in sweetening Barley in the ms 

 \ there can be no doubt whatever but the diast, 

 pulse malt will act on the starch of the Barley, 

 neasif Barley malt was made use of, and to 1 

 " " he can speak from exper 



all the beer used on the farm for the h 

 bushel of malt to 



in brewing all tl 



i of 4 bushels 



could be afforded them before. Thereiore, .. auy 4u*» 

 of Barley was thus treated with Oat or pulse malt, a, 

 then given to cattle, mixed with cut chaff, it won 



use of the duty-free malt in brewing, as there is now 

 farmers making their own malt secretly ; it is nev 

 done, the danger of detection is too great. Plan, $0. 



more. Two 



■ Wheat, Oats, Barley, the other 



for Beaus and Peas. This excellent little machine ia of 



the simplest possible, though of the most improved 



■it all likely to get out of repair. Price, 



on, 3 miles from Alcester, 



7 miles from Evesham, Worcestershire. 4. A duff- 



engine, in my own opinion superior to Cornea', as 



oeing equally efficient and far less elaborate. .Trice, 



tting, Smithfield, Birmingham. 5. For 



1-horse harrows, Howard's, of Bedford. 6. A 2-horse 



I -y myself, somewhat on the 



model of the one figured in the 5th volume of the 



• the Highland and Agricuit.: 



I prefer to 

 Hannam's admirable cart, as simpler, and, I think, 

 r, his costing 16/. (?), mine from 10/. 

 to 12/. new. Got up, however, ^"j^" ^JJ 

 ,.., sides, an ash pole slit down, 

 &c.f and well gas-tarred, 6/. or 8/. All these are of 

 eminently simple make ; they are very neat * JPFJ^ 

 cost' ^l %■ :,':iy, en riink 3 . 



exhibit too much of what we famihar!y term kmck- 

 knackerie. I wish I could persuade them to study 



, that touching any impl' 



only enquiry really nee 

 foftlieir man^™" 



isf'^Wha 



it the price of a fashionable drill is, in thousands of 

 lances, a half year's income. The changing tunes 

 1 will lessen the number of agricultural amateurs, 

 1 enforce upon the farming world an unwilling 



M^ n thaton every account lowness of charge seema 

 wirable ; and I am sure that in the long run the 

 echanic would find it his interest to abandon all mere 

 jvelties, and to construct the really necessary imple- 

 ents at a third and in some instances at a half less 

 oney than he at present charges. In conclusion, 1 

 mil believe that he can do this and yet live by h* 

 isiness ; but to do it, he must take as hia mot to the 



am 1 should add, induced to make these few remarks, 



