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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



[Sept. 



part of (lie «M us of the 



reverse ; but at the same time, we may observe, 



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I j i . A man who toiled from 

 early morn to late night, descending by means of 

 a ladder into a deep 



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light be 



contented 



t one possessed of s* 



irccs, mieht, provided with a steam-engine and 

 , now and then, throwing a few 



might, provided i 



than the other three could do in five days. 

 It is in this, then, that our hope for Kg 



of our agriculturists still in the position of the water 



i and ladder ; and but few 



indeed have reached the point of excellence in prac- 



' " he steam-engine 



ire of perfection b 



L onwards,' 



reflective, when they look into the busy world 

 around them. And can the cultivators of the soil 

 hope to succeed without advancing also % If we 

 turn to the ancient writers on agriculture, we shall 

 have no difficulty in concluding that tlv 

 of the art were better known and acted upon by 

 many of its professors in different countries, even 

 before the Christian era, than they are now by a 



majority of the farmers of the United 

 Kingdom. 



>Liire then to be the only thing devoid of 



irefatheas crept 

 : s in the frail canoe? Is 



in manufacti 

 might have been reason fc 

 of great and i 

 eorrespondiiij 

 even yet been 



this alone, of all things 

 in agriculture had been 

 the spinning-jenny and 



doubt of the possibility 

 s now ; but as the period 

 of the distaff has hardly 

 o be behind the times by 



they possess, we shall hear less of the despondent 



and almost despairing tone which has lately been 



so common. The feeling which promj 



of a stout heart to a bird 



place of that which throws the sword after the 



scabbard. 



Let landlords then, and tenants too, unite together 

 to that place 

 which, we fe- ! ,:;ned one day 



to occupy. Let them, instead of allowing their 

 Whole attention and energies to be <{■■ 

 the spectacle of shiploads of foreign corn, reflect 

 ■ be, but is not 

 manufactured from the elementary, and in that 

 state valueless, substances, upon which they operate, 

 is a direct loss to themselves and the country i 



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and Mr. Hope's letter, 

 are eminently suggestive 

 course of improvement 



" one good crop begets a 

 Mr. Cairo's pamphL 

 which we lately publish 

 of the direction which tne cour 

 must take with both tenant a 



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the Royal assent, and the principle of 

 mistake not, was first brought into pal 

 this Paper,* puts it in the power of the 



: hands be otherwise tied up, to afford to 

 their tenants those drainage works which are the 



3 who intend to take ad- 

 of the new Drainage Act 

 r, we shall take an early 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 





: who entertain peculiar v 

 I educating the people, and w 

 s perhaps with n 



pinge upon agriculture so frequenYlVanTM-.i 



by other writers, that it is now tinW^^^ 



The few instances that occur of a nmf™* . . 

 - supplied by a peculiar gift fKSS** 

 ary and acquired knowledge by habits rf^J^ 



t and information of the persons em^u.JZ^ 



w can he do so with any certainty, since helm 

 —a laws by which the materials he desires to ernnta 

 are governed. A good workman must know thenTrf 

 each tool that he uses ; such knowledge ecooomi- 

 strength and saves money. If the farmer a Tknon* 

 on this economy of strength, let him learn. The tin 

 has come when he must seize upon all available fltativ 

 materials that will help to bear the weight of hb2 



that which will eventually become practice, and whs ■ 

 practice but that which was formerly theory * The r. 



theory ; the manuring of land was once theory ; (hail- 

 ing also was esteemed a theory. Each was laughed tt 



cestors, or at whatever resembles such suspicions no* 

 like than now ! Are not geology, che- 

 mistry, botany still as theories to many a farmer; and 

 to be cunning in the handling of a sheep, the age of a 

 horse, the breed of a beast, and to be acquainted «■ 



By far too great a stress is'laid upon experience, 

 Its sense, with the class of men who now occupy on 

 is too confined. By it they mean a practical 



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f the entire details of farm ir 

 aingt( 



i: is « 



t of all ability. But we all H* 



s Mr. Hume remarks), has mb 

 " y the dunces of every age, 



so industriously propagated by 



W,'its elements, are acquired by *f*%£ 

 .-such training, therefore, expei 



kill is not to be acquired. . ■ 



a" says the celebrated ftrf. • 



> to be formed for the ™ e ^%£jhg*e 



LSd tTrdyTnhnitaSn, «*»^ 

 3 which experience has «WJ«» fl{ &. 



{$&& 



the fact that people must be educated for the agricul- 1 human sciences, a science wiu»» -— ^ p *-~ 

 torsi profession. In what, do yon ask ? j Sorely in those | and invigorate the understanding w* a0tt p,*c* 

 branches of learning that bear in any degree towards kinds of learning put together ; out tol^***!, 



the profession. That < 



qualify a man for new ana *™™° tQat they ajW" 

 which is, in my opinion, one tf tnen a^^ ^^ 

 '' tL S Tnd C e rstanding *"£+** 

 , g put together ; but « ^er*^ 



B hapP ily born, %^U^1 

 ae Proper wii. ^f^ * pJJ 

 rery largely into u» ffi(je & »~ 



ana mere is no *■»"£*- t oo much »»»- ^ 



suSnl of e b«S.S f not to be *"*£%£;*" 

 than the forms in which it fa ®J*Ji thereto* PjjS 

 are adapted to ^^^toW **' " 



