THE AflRTCULTURAL GAZETTE. 



o place, bat a peasant I 



cotUuM^ie finds himself in worse condition than) ?i!r)Ter 



when he went away, in the hope of bettering himself, i gw*,jP 



but when men have health, strength, and inclination to j Battert 



them an opportm: . iSSSlI *■"•? 



* Mi ■■ . -Mr. C ;v .[.;- I! • 



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_ t l.» as L'-nl Hill has done, fa/con. ,,; ; 



;; ^*J ; Tobacco CuLXOM.-The Dukj 





I guineas per Irish acre, which is equal to 181 w 

 l guineas per English acre, where the land is prepaid 

 - horse-labour. But in the county of Wexford, *£„ 

 e spade has been employed, the expense of pU^, 

 eparation, and labour, is estimated at 50/. per Iri2 

 re, or 30/. per English. It therefore follow* £ 



tiich is the price of tobacco of ordinary or middta? 

 lality imported from America. But, at theame^? 

 higher rate of remuneration is required for the Iruh 



Miscellaneous Communications.— The Earl of Yu. 

 hough transmitted, on the part of Mr. Culverhwa, 



mure by caustic alkali instead of acid.-Mr. Mij«fc 

 presented a sample of Australian Wheat, on the pirtof 

 Lady Franklin ; and a supply of Potatoes, on the part i 

 Lieut. Simpkinson, R.N. Mr. Majendie st&tedjhit the 

 Potatoes were grown at 

 Land, and were 



i River, Van Dietnea'i 



Camoys, E 



G. C. Agai 



Burke, Colonel Challoner", Mr. E. Collingwood, Rev. J. 



Cooke. Mr. \\ . Dennison, Mr. Dyer, Mr. Fuller, M.P., 



'• isherHohbs, Mr. 



Malcolm, Mr. C. E. Overman, Mr. Parkins, Professor 



Swell, Mr. Robert Smith, Mr. Spencer Stanhope, and 



Sir Robert Jacob Buxton, Bart., of Shadwel!-park, 



Thetford, Norfolk ; and John Tanquerav, E«q of Hen- 



r, elected Governor^ of the Society. 



The following new members were elected : 



much larger sum per acre might be realised. The ex- 



plants requiring principally to be kept clear from 

 weeds, by repeated hoeing during the summer, affording 



have no hesitation in asserting that it is not an exhaust- 

 additional help being only necessary at plantii 

 gathering time. As an illustration of this part 

 _-ive an extract from a letter, pu 

 by an Irish gentleman, in 1830, who had cultiva 



treidin^o^hors 1 "".' ^ndy? siltyfw F«3^ 'ffifrf 

 Sten requiresTeat f ffto^ ]£«£«£** ^^ 



