;^IS49.) 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



SS"*'*'^ „ Ifif an acre per annum. Foi 

 iS'XSod the lighter and less expensive 

 «»-^ ffl ^C have been introduced ; a change 

 &P ?talf effected a saving of 3 s. or 4a. an acre 

 *^rf£ougbi"g. The ground is now better 

 •"S.T -A.wir of horses than it was with four, 

 J-"*-** "^ .Stlv with six. New harrows, scarifiers, 

 ^•fS have been invented, by which the 

 k* ^£Ti« made much ^ ^j^- 7 ^"/*® 

 -^V^/lXdimuUheV Drills have been per 



£L < Kj« bperfect tillage of the day, and the 



tWbaato be made in sowing broadcast, i 



..,:..,.. - . . . .: •• 



toidi haw been extended and so improved, that 



JSTwita the better formed carts and waggons now 



HTthe load of the past century is but a half carriage 



rffeueeatto. This week I delivered, a distance 



Bhels of Beans and 64 bushels ol 



S£w««f 2* tons, with only two horses. ] 



MBaon if faff would, 78 years ago, have drawn this 



fed oT«r ftaeime ground. Threshing machines have 



w. hv»bi into use that are found to be economical 



Sb^ormd in preventing of waste. These and 



'stztiiiaz bj the larger fertility which the progress ol 



uriealraril improvement and the betl 



£ fan nve conferred. It is, therefore, not by a 



petition will be seen to be changed for the worse. 



I coit anv mention of those matters that have latterly 

 ids within every day reach of the farmer, and added 



Uiea by him only occasionally and as luxuries, for he 

 with other classes. But I hope to 



. Hewitt Davis, 3, Frederick's- place, Old 



MST, HTHES, RATES, WAGES, &c, IN 1685. 



«"%ia«sr °o a a e; a - nd an ° ther caic . uiati °. D » ° n 



J «*Iw from the trek? E^hom Mr! Vala'uky 



SL& M ( Sn8Ut i ,0ri ^ states that there were in 

 Zjr a 'f«t Period 880,000 families of the common 

 mLLil ^ above 20 mU6 * therefore have 



re engaged in agri- 

 3 800,000 men. 



... 

 ^^ and efli!!!'? ate , d lhe whole income of the 



--, 480,1 

 ly 544,000/. It is 



and'v.Ws 



Haw ** <aje-third f 3^ 6 - The P°P ul »tion was 



oi W h at it now is. The mini- 



■£<i >Cand I* "'aoney, was one-half of 



^^>^Un2 n ffia b d ! r t efore h ^y »pp- 



'rViVo 00 ' tbe y could hardly 



H^^£aS ian<1 ' at ' d " 



>..„' „ 



Beggars Dave 



population was the sa 

 beggars in the present 

 They certainly do not 



ay would be about 2,850,0( 

 11 ThaUheTh! 



the laws passed fo 



sturdy beggar " should be whipped for the first offence 

 have his right ear cropped for the Bee 

 hanged for the third. By statute 1 Ed war. i 

 a vagabond was to be branded on the shoulder, ad- 

 judged a slave to any one who should demand him, to 

 be fed on bread, water, and refuse meat, and beaten 

 and chained if he would not work. In 1572 it was 

 enacted that " all persons whole and taighty in body, 

 * * * loitering and refusing to work for such rea- 

 sonable wage as is commonly given," should " for the 

 first offence be grievously whipped, and burned through 

 the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the com- 

 pass of an inch about ;" for the second, be deemed 

 felons, and for the third suffer death, without benefit of 

 clergy. By statute 39 ot Elizabeth, c. 3 and 4, every 

 able-bodied person refusing to work for the ordinary 





'2Ei- 



2 subject ought i 

 Cyclopaedia of Political Knowledge. 



720), masons earned at Greenwich 2s. 6d. a day, they 

 *e now paid 5s. 3d. ; bricklayers obtained 2s, 6d , they 

 n 4s. 10c*. The average price of Wheat was 50s. 



Barley, and Oats. 



to obtain' Wheat, lived upon Rye, Ba 



H..ar 



, stockings, all the produce of tropical 

 ines, and machinery, were dearer ; bed- 

 ng were dearer, and less serviceable too. 

 This being the case, our ancestors surely were worse 

 off in the good old times than we are now. Why, then, 

 are these called the f good old times \ " Mr. Macaulay 

 ' to explain this, and illustrates his meaning 



at was to be done ? There w« 6 

 i imported. The Coffee planters 



resolved to profit by the same ; they managed to keep 

 the grakle within bounds, and they well knew that he 



right, By preserving a juste milieu doctrine between 

 the two, they were enabled to grow Coffee. Now I 

 apprehend the farmers in the present day a: 

 the same position as the Coffee planters of M 

 There has been for some time a system prad 

 iighbourhood of poisoning birds by wh< 



s abominable practice, 

 lony e " ' 



; I had almost 



i beauty and harmony of 1: 



reither wH?I attempt 



a the proved and fatal error of the Coffee 

 Madagascar, if they permit the grub and the 



•Jt/T' 



West Somersetshire Farm ( 



being mown." Now, 



for the last 32 years, 



different 



y practice to 



season do you put on your sheep ? 2d. How long do 

 you keep them on it ? 3d. Do the sheep eat the whole 

 or how do you dispose of their refuse ! 

 4th. How many years successively have you fed your 

 Samtfoin with sheep ? My reasons for asking these 

 questions are, that I have, from experi 



>etween Christmas and August, when the after* 



,k up, and in which I wish to destroy the Saiht- 



As I am very desirous of recommending the 



growth of Saintfoin, and as my opinion is frequently 



asked respecting it by those who have had less expe- 



ld be particularly obb'ged by 



I Yonnn, Milrertm, Somerset, April 10. 



:■-•■.. 



-Essays on Land Drainage," 



Drainage," p. 66, for an account of 



■ 



m so bold as this. I will pr 



explanation by ft short statement made 



pon Natural History upon the very be 



Many years ago, the Coffee plants in tl 



Madagascar were attacked by the grakle, ■ 



b« Africi 

 feeder, but having 



T. e ;,r, 





i their larveo having 



entirely of peroxide of iron and silica. So many 

 sJgie secrete silica, that it does not seem to 



Ij from the decay of these plants, however 

 'extrane 

 entering them. Stra 



plants. But still, i 



ao foreign matters entangled 

 [ by llr.'ParteBTp.To, were really compote 



