3 o-1849.]_ 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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^plfa of the Agricultural Society'. No doubt the 



ftehto during the present week will swell the subscrip- 

 £rSt of the Society, aud multiply its visitors, but it is 



E^Mricultural topics, and indeed professional matters 

 j w ykind, occupy but a very incidental and second- 

 ed position in the mind ; and it is hardly possible for 



^wek's proceedings. 



Her Majesty arrived in Kingstown harbour on Sand 

 frt ^g amid the roar and the glitter of t 

 got boisterous and brilliant welcome which te 

 of tkooiands of her most excitable subjects could co 



JUce of a multitude, silent till her first step 

 £ Irish soil when the air was made to ring with shouts 



Ctmen of the squadron. The Queen entered Dublin 

 jbout 11 A-M.j and her progress through its principal 



i .. .aix-park. His Royal Highness Prince Albert is 



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hive seen at any other show of the national Society of 

 England ; but, on the other hand, supposing him to 

 depend on the ordinary means alone which this Society 



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NewtownmounuKv *tl h ' gh mtellectual qualifications for which 



FAT STOCK. 



Sthrff7r C «r!!!i'u.!![{! d ? , a « < *"» Hw,,rd ' Lusi ' B '» Ibri ««»; 







education and refinement to study, to enjoy and finally 



« more of this merit due than to Mr. Hoekyna. We 

 aV f. °° £*!*? ^reS^^^f^S" 1 ^^ 





• upon agricultural topics than i 



it performance ii 



MjtotLfbre'ed ™ ""^ appeL "- ~ T "-' 

 force. The exhibition of sheep waTnrither 'sVnu- 



As regards the show of implements, we must say that 

 there was little novelty to observe, and not the quality 

 which the high standard of English shows had accus- 

 tomed us to. There was a large number of 

 and well made implements of Scottish inal 



should not have been seen. If that sort of thing | 

 down among people, and tempts purchasers her* '' 



was one steam-engine in the yard, and Mr. Robinsor 

 Lisburn, besides the merit of that, had the credi 



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There was a ! churn. Mr. Grey, of Uddingstone,near Glasgc 

 numerous and creditable exhibition of pigs ; the horses I * Ttaraij the invention we 



•«» not so good a show as we expected. The A , N r:h \V a :, s . Ehe 



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leighbours. The 



I certainly is both it 

 i reader. There was a vei 



^ show of poultry, comprising splendid spe 

 «the Dorkiug, Malay, and Spanish, and other 

 »«gh we understand there was a falling off froux „» 



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&*? J™| Society. The judges were Messrs. Torr, 



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^j[» id .3j U ear5^ t ^ onna,1 S ht ' Bray J Devon Ueifer > 











id invf oraTes^other ' 

 English Publishers 



Georgics, the sententious farming-truths of Cato, the 

 man-and-nature-seeking History of Pliny, and THE 

 FARMS of Tnmellius Scrofa, challenged each other in 

 i all were in turn the best 

 of their respective „u: :. U ,;h i s, agriculture is mlto- 

 II a History; almo*t, if n«>t OjSlfc 

 Literature. Arthur Young's ' Tours ' may have been 



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} banquet took place last night in the Rotunda, 

 the presidency of the Duke of Leinster ""' 



y^E^rii: 



Bouverie-street, London. 

 If elegance of composition, originali 

 and a thorough knowledge of his mo 



merely laborious art, involving the 



iows tool-mark*. Daring 



He, for th. 



; ba.-k with such nice judgment on ' turn- 

 ;he end of the furrow, to Balu 

 e « gatheriug ' and ' casting ' that the Earth 

 Fore our Lease commenced upon it. It may 



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 * His effort has been, not to amplify a bare subject,, 

 ited if, instead of preteuding to have satisfied a. 



Miscellaneous. 



t practised, and experienced the benefits arising 

 in, autumn fallowing of stubbles intended for green 



iveraal iu this part of Norfolk, 1 tak. the 



ertyot suggesting to j 

 : subject before yonr a| 



smoval of the corn crop 



e land, the soil should be well i 



stirred, to the depth required to eradicate the weeds, 

 by ■ scarifying/' « grubbing," or "skeleton. 



