THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



rlaUidown." One faro 



»o powerful a remembrancer to them wher-her they were doing 



^mj! ' lie wm sure^the' TouldT ' rud'eot meafar 

 .^'for™" 18 ° n ttle avera .8 e profitable ; he did not say tli 



*2£j m T we look at lar s e farmsin Great 



^oo J™* 11 , ma of hundreds of acres, with the 

 "^Lothi. • „ the be 6t cultivated districts, such 

 * C;C; S / 0t r land ' for «"»Pta.or the counties 

 **fcrm.irfrt ' Lmco K and Norfolk, and only 

 7* We h„ ^ ««»atie3, we shall find that even 

 ^^r1o r l? a » s »lw»y8 fully cultivated; and 

 fr**t£oJT ° f 8kill » of enterprise, or capital, 

 l&^CiSTJu *** "holly unproductive. This 



G, or 10, or 20 acres, the great expense of a team, and 

 In some parts 

 ■"*" land, though very rarely, but in many parts of 

 itinent, and especially in Switzerland, the small 

 s use their milch- cows for work, thus getting a 



jur to six hours a day without injury to her 



quipments, and cost of the teams. The saving o 

 xpense is a great affair ; and this is accomplis.be 

 mall holdings where cows are kept, which paj 

 xpense of their keeping by their labour and their 

 r where, as in many cases, the whole cultivate - 

 lerformea by human instead of brute labour-by the 

 pade instead of the plough. I believe, therefore, it will 

 >e found, that in a fair comparison, the small farms are 

 n fact more productive than the large ones ; that they 

 ire managed at less comparative expense, and, in pro- 

 nay be said of the beneficial moral influences of such a 

 system. Of all the influences which operate to promote 







public. A beginning has already been made in thia 



advocated by the late enterprising and public spirited 

 _',— a man who worked, and suffered, and 



j public good. 



Newcastle, is the solid portion of the 



This effect is const 



feeling of inde- 



, and especially 



property in house or land. 



is constantly seen in the labouring classes 



„ French. They are extremely ambitious of 



getting a piece of land ; and perhaps too much so, after 

 once coming into possession, of extending their posses- 

 This stimulates them to industry, and induces 

 rigid economy. The " " 

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whose possessions are fixed, and not transferable from 

 sutute^he strongest pledge of their loyalty and patriot- 

 ism. The more property is divided, the more equally 

 it is held, or rather, that it should be attainable by all 

 on equal conditions, the greater security is there for t; 

 rights of property ; the more are concerned in t 

 preservation of the public peace.^ ^^j?"^** 



and a ho'lder in fee-simple of some portion of the s 

 .irivates. There is, then ' 



ore enlightened and scientific farmers themselves : 



solid refuse is alone carried off, and being found 



not to produce the results expected, a good deal of 



nld fain hope 



i for itself a very enviable i 



Bad Pasture Land.— In travelling into the north 

 »m Birmingham, there are to be seen whole districts 

 it may fairly come i 



scarcely a single field to 



nth, that there is 



Much, no doubt, might be done by draining and s 

 > of manure ; yet the land in general lies 



ploughed, and then ill laid down, it has become so 

 adhesive and inert, that the manure would scarcely 

 penetrate below, and much of it would be lost. The 

 only way of making a thorough renovation of it would 

 be to break it up, and after its being first thorough 

 drained, to stir it well and deeply with the plough ; to 

 have a large mass of manure both of a stimulating and 

 enriching quality incorporated in the very heart of the 

 necessary to have it restored 



of the French peasantry cannot be doubted 

 European Agriculture. 



- to be made by Mr. Cansdell, at 



Calendar of Operations. 



6&?e"efcrXs aVloTfwt » J™ h «^» j^^ ^ mm li 



exceeding in quality anu quantity buy "«"""» -"- 



very heavy-land 

 just grown on one acre a good crop of coru *uu 

 upwards of 20 tons of Pumpkins, on which two heifers 

 have been fattened with decided advantage over two 

 others put up at the same time on Mangold Wurzel, 

 and a large quantity fed out to pigs and cows has been 

 eaten bv them with an eagerness that showed they were 

 a natural and agreeable food. Mr. Cansdell states thai 

 the growth of the joint crops, if kept free from weeds 

 entirely prevents the necessity of a clean or long a ow 

 and that in any ordinary season a good wneat cru^ 

 ^TownsS ^.-Instead of a subscription toMp th( 



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the Tyne ! So far from its being true that the fluid 

 could not be profitably thus employed on the helds 

 capable of being reached by a few hundred eet of hose 



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to prove that it can be conveyed profitably to very 



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Notices to Correspondents. 





