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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTI 





)THER MANl 





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QEORGE NEIGHBOUR and SON respectfully 



POMES ASD 



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JL^OYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 



> GUANO ON SA 



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TOLIAJJ JOSEPH MYERS and CO., LIVERPOOL 

 CFBBS, BRIGHT, and CO., LIVERPOOL and BRTSTO 



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B l SSa A nd D th HEALY res P ectful . lv inf orm 

 PWritoMtet»ke the wanning of Hothouses, &c, upon their 

 Wfljtaof Hot Water Apparatus. They refer to the 

 SSi^ P ^ M ' where **"* have erec *ed most ex. 



S Regent's-park. 



Sun works, 



ISLEWORTH.— The follow 



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Efte agricultural ©ajette, 



SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1849. 



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'•^J^.'Bal c ™l°. r ^?? d ««ted upon them 



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well as the subjects, of hu: 



aicnaSS 

 great periods : the first embracing abou 

 centuries, which may be called the .E'.rporting 

 period, the second occupying about one centi 

 vhich may be ihost significantly described as 

 Bounty ' period, (expressing as that word does 

 lixir by which it was sought to keep alive the dy 

 system) and the third extending from the latter part 

 of the eighteenth century to the present time, which 

 may be properly designated as the /^porting p 

 Wars, political events, and occasional years of i 

 dinary deficiency or fruitfulness have had 

 ansient effect at particular epochs throughout each 



these effects have been no greater than those pro- 

 duced by the larger and smaller waves that m 



ocean. Gradually but steadily, from being f 

 exporter, this country has become a great importer. 

 Again and again has the old story of the Danish 

 King been re-enacted ; the puny chair of the legi 

 lator has been planted at the water's edge, and tl 

 vain mandate given to the tide, ' So far shalt th< 

 come and no further ! ' and again and again have the 

 legislator and his chair been driven back anc 

 pelled to take up a new position to find the 



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culiariy visible in the history of the Corn-trade. 

 »cted its efforts, and ever in vain. The seasons 



it. There was notl 



ndignation wh: 



revranccofthclaw 

 3 who bought up the 



year only to sell it 

 st indignation, erring 



tnrougn ignorance,— the sai m 



\ good judge, and a good man, Sir Matthew 



;, to condemn to death hundreds of poor inno- 



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he instrumei.r thi* ■ 

 popular belief of the day, \\ 



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 tence of the law a, ..;.-- t. ■ ! o.,\ullers and Re- 



lilarly regarded, 

 l of the middle ages, 



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ition, one by bringing 



le other by increasing, with the aid of Science, 

 which is already inclosed." 



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land into cultivation 



ing people has 



!8 exercised a stimulating effect upon Inclosure, 

 when a succeeding cycle of good harvests has 

 rred, temporary depression of price has been the 

 iral result of a larger produce from a larger 



pressed upon afresh, and another series of Inclosure- 



of each suc- 

 ceeding generation. In the reign of George I., only 



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• first I 



314) the number of 

 e often years ar nounl 



'Umber passed was up •• 



it even and regular as is the course of those 



, progressive changes by which an exporting 



and immediate object, ope 

 al safety-valve which 'relieves a glut and pre- 



Smratjj Lorn becoming Famine. We smile 



off the absurd Legislation-wc 

 s that an 'Act i 



of Seasons and Cycl 

 except the natural or 

 attempt it without m 

 We resume the epi 

 in a former number, t 

 Importation and Ex] 



uarter granted on all Wheat exported, and other 

 celebrated Bounty Act. The markets, 



Se? f °and°./br\ 



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11 & 12Wm.III., c. 1.(1699.) Bounty Act Suspended. 

 11 & 12 Wm. III., c. 20. (1700.) All duties and 

 undage on Exportation abolished. 

 [The improved harvests, at the commencement of 

 s century, now began to bring the Bounty Act into 



ik place, and in spite of the exportation of 31 millions 

 quarters of corn (on which upwards of six mil- 

 ls sterling was paid in ' Bounties ' from the public 

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 from56j. 6rf. Ea I. The average 



of the half century ending in 1765 was only 35*. a 



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' ie exhibited at the falling markets, and a 

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5 Geo. II. (1732.) An act for preventing the sup- 

 sed fraudulent introduction of foreign corn. Justices 

 Quarter Sessions to make enquiry and presentment 

 •on oath of the common market prices. The average* 



suspended. The laws against Forestallers and Regraters 

 ' . be strictly enforced. 



[ The cycle of productive harvests had turned. From 

 there had been only one deficient season. 

 For the next 20 years they were very frequent. J 



