HE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



TMay lu 



™ and employment for an equivalent of 500, on 1000 acres 



expectation of alti- j of j and> even though the diet be so superior to what 



! the poor and unconvict Irish would be too happy to 



■-A [ will endeavour to show that he may not 



svstem ..f minting , only do this, but that he may obtain a very large sur- 



v'nders the tenant's plus in:- ruble him to carry 



• shortness of dura- the benevolence of his discipline beyond the period of 



i need not occupy the time of Mr. Pearson, or that 



lal growth, there appears 

 t a continuous fallow will, 



v;:-v„,7: 





> crops have grown and 



feed each other. 



provement lias been a 

 party support has be. 



and how frequently 



the tenantry of Britain, and, as a naturc 



- 



waxing stronger. 



We have cited the present condition of agriculture 



ing of the lease system ; ahuses, errors, absurdities 

 in practice, there may still be in that system, but, 



h I based my plan of p 



space has been allowed ; I have myself continually 

 found Potatoes produce as heavy crops in rows three 



that a drilled crop of Turnips is superior to a broadcast 

 one. Indeed it is only in our knowledge of the great 



drilled that we are deficient ; we have had much discus- 

 culture of grain is an Upas tree, in the contemplation 



being as worthy of their regard as that of any legumi- 



. Ul for the extirpation of weeds. I 

 have found Barley sown in rows 2£ feet apart more 



• of ;n. i 





;ave a time higher figure to the acre th 

 hat were only at half that distance ; they y 

 " ' sh. (52 lbs. to the bush, 



t in highly manured and well 



compartments. 



For this purpose, and for the lodging of manure 

 heaps, and other uses of the compartments, I propose 

 to divide the farm into parallelograms 360 yards wide, 

 intersected by strips 8 yards wide ; to these strips the 

 manure may be brought, as made, from the ( 

 houses in hand trucks, and from thence wheel 

 barrows when required upon the compartment! 

 ig distance being half the width c 

 r i 80 yards ; the grain and the 



similar way on the strips, and from them convey 

 the hand trucks to the stack-yard and the cattle-hi 

 or the store-yards. The larm is 1000 acres : i pr 



roads!" fenced &c " " 



MTl s may d e | ade *° ""^ «£*?&* 



, Cabbages, and Rape, 



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P c«S" 



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Cop. 



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B< *Di°tto Rfe 



Rape 

 Early Willing- 



well assurea tliat it will prove uuuei w^- > — ^^ 

 left the 75 acres of Rape to be spread o vermin ^ 

 months in case of deficiencies, and the /o ^ ^ 



isumption of 150 11 



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Jr. Pearson; this, at id. a pound, ^'^"jeshtf 



the neighbourhod 

 ThekbouTofour* 

 Taking the prod 



use of a prison farm esiau . 

 le of consuO"* 



three-fourths of a full crop under ortiinar^ ^ ^, 

 I am confident I do not take »t at too^n ^^.j 

 TS^^utZtl of Wheat andVe aef*J f * 



254 acres of Wheat and 201 acres I 

 082 quarters of Wheat, and 764 q 

 Rye. The surplus value of produce i 



fntnre^erlwilUnterinto.-, 



