32-1849.] 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



ZjofhL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, 

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 'LS^Mter or personaUy) 8 " the Principal, at the College, 



OVAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, CIREN 

 hi! Barf BAT HURST. 



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TJURBIDGE and HEALY, 130, FJee't-street, respc 



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PERUVIAN AND BOLIVIAN GUANO ON SALE 

 __ ANTONY GIiTbsT/d SONS? LONDON ; 



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 GIBBS, BRIGHT, £,* S)!f LIvISpSoL and BRTSTO 



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She Agricultural ©ajettr* 



SATURDA Y , A UG UST 11, 1849. 



Th"t TINGS foe the ? wo fom/jwin ■ U i ! KS. 



Wk may congratulate our readers on their pros- 

 _" ■•"" K:N f ., T H.ui^t ever seen in this country. 

 JJ«e never was a better promise, and though the 



°*nis and stackyards with as much food for man 

 em J," ^ast as they ever held before. They are 

 snffi • eU0Ugh now > as the reports on another page 

 GrST y Sh ° W ' the stock of Wheat on hand in 

 Ireland m 1S certaml y uncler an average, and in 

 « n ^„ 0,1 r correspondents report " none," "none," 

 it fcj\ Th . e harvest, too, is generally later than 

 thttmfca'o lfc wiU have ^g 1111 verv generally 

 Wee? , 6 South of England in the course of next 

 •naddif t0 the re P orts from Ireland > which are 

 terfe „t iv 1 ? to our n sual statement of harvest pros- 

 ^ this season, we have to regret that there has 

 to thgj me to arrange them correctly, according 

 WhMd C ° U f nties; but there is one from the neigh- 

 * ot almost every important money order 



^ I 'the island, and tnev are thus pretty evenly 

 **S\ZF? \he whole surface of the country. It 

 tobff^^orytofind that there is verv little 

 ^•ard and still less to be seen of the Potato 



•^tj^fSSSLt ' that the crop is 



J^tTS an assemblage of agriculturists met to 



their produce, other traders 

 act more carefully, more industriously, more 

 energetically, and more skilfully in the prosecution of 

 their business. How would he be received ? Let 



can be conceived— let him really believe that in thus 



probability is that l.t \\ .. . 1 nevertheless be held to 



careless and unskilful, and do not know their own 

 business (no such thing was either intended or 

 expressed)— require the full tale of bricks from them 



destroyed (he would see that he h; 



the general question <>i auri.'ul 

 ubjectof Free-trade a'-.m. win 



house referred to -Mr. I.e. 



Norwich Mr. YVode- 

 »'s pamphlet on High 

 tanning, and, quoting a passage relating to the 

 practice of letting farms by tender to the highest 

 bidder, he exclaimed—" God forbid that this should 



approximation to it.'"' Now this is a favourite, but 

 we submit a mistaken sentiment. It is certainly 

 most desirable, and for no one more than for the 



as we said last week, this subject has another side, 



There are many to whom this advice is mere 

 mockery: all these propose. 1 improvements, however 

 profitable, involve considerable first cost, and the 

 means of many in this respect are already fully 

 engaged. Now we do not pretend to offer advice 

 to individuals in the prosecution of their private 



■will- 



[ ■ rhap.s Mem ! nn-ran ;-V — but let them he.* 

 truth for once— food will be had cheaper i 

 thing be possible, and labourers must r< 

 employment : look at the history of any othe 



active art, and say if these things are not ] 



i be. We have no doubt that I 



ithstanding, and that they v 



le average than they are at present ; but 



-oducers of food who cannot in their pr 

 .1 a loss of price— who are u 

 / ner-evMiy V> tint -mi of pr. 



do not get out of the way. 



s means permit, and can only just live at pi 

 prices, if he believes that ptices are to fall, is 1 

 in duty to himself to retire from a position in \ 



„ subject is no 



; and he may curse *:. 

 brought the thing to such a pass, but that wi] 

 not help him, and he may depend upon it that i 

 come, those only will be saved wh 

 ■ M bestir " 



the great scale by the average of 

 feeling and opinions which have 

 multitude of separate bargains betv 



is the result of i 

 happy result b 



cry other trade as well ; and it 



. nee to instincts 



implanted and are guided to this 



• One who knows that we are 



prosperity of one another. Let it 



lid any one try to fix the idea of personal 

 i on either party to a purely business 

 >n — why should the idea of landlord and 

 j " protector and protected " be so dear ? 

 f is that there is room enough for neigh- 

 indness between different classes and indi- 

 A-ith which to strengthen the bonds of 

 lag it to have any special 



in conducting the ordinary affairs of 



whether in agricultui 



a truth we believe to 

 mce and rent of land 

 it is to this point, as 



of the agricultural body, so long as an excessive 

 competition for land prevails. Farming differs from 

 other trades in this, that while they can increase 



...i.thu 1 within the il-ii !,: t< of our island— it 

 can be intensified but not extended : and competi- 



of their position. It is no si 

 rung that has befall- - '.- *§pcatoml pi 



'ered hardship and < (utmgh odeiable mm 



trade and protection ttragg] 



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will will meet with extra- 

 the influence of needy 

 offer of 1 ■ 



ir S2 



increased returns in farming. 



in the mean;:; tne expecta- 



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i : i- also well, as may 



be hereafter enlarged upon, that n- 1 



cannot for ifM »ith those to 



whom alone our expectations of an inq 



and who have skill to 



