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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



*%£,&& ever office gave, or than office can ever give." 

 *>*1 much for mere experience. It may suffice for 

 JFL beKeve in the stationary tendency of society, 

 S« most leave them to it. Most of us, however, 

 Jjpay for ^^^^^^^^J^J 1 '^ 



2£!le material from among the experiences of science. 

 •JSTone should do something to increase the store of 

 iSedge accumulated by his ancestors ; else the 



Sttoat performs its share of labour, little appre- 

 Sfoe that it is a necessary part of the wonderful 

 3T 5 We could enter more deeply into this subject, 

 tot tfaue failing we must postpone this part of our subject 

 r«marking that the soil contains inexhaustible 

 ijBols, " which when properly appreciated and em- 

 Ipd," says Sir Humphrey Davy, "will tend to in- 

 JEe'onr wealth, our population, and our physical 

 (HBgth." As a nation we possess advantages in me- 

 ga other. That energy of character and vastness of 



irking and a learned people, may a 



d a learned peo] 

 its, beyond all fe 





IRELAND. 

 There has been some discussion of la 



a Wind, and perhaps the observations of 



■Bui acquaintance with Ireland, and even 1 

 ■quaintance with it is confined to a rapid ti 

 firming general conclusions from too limite 

 an of facts, and against thinking that wl 

 (ton or several districts is true of all. Cc 



a iky do in England, and in the same respects. Thi 

 «wh of perpetual recurrence, e. g., in your Paper < 

 Sept 1, Mr. H. Davis says that « Neither the turbi 



Umhnl settlement among them." Mr. Davis k 

 to some parts of Ireland are turbulent, and i 

 tan this that the wild and distiv 



u once, that the people of this district are very quiet, 

 ad by no means turbulent ; and it is a mere fiction 

 fat MJ stranger taking a farm here would be in any 

 *»* danger than at home. The same is true of the 

 y Sir R. Peel 



rhere. There is no fear, t 

 eing overlooked by any c 

 ike land. 

 In my opinion, the chi 



such places. The 



f drawback to an English 

 eptions), the want of farm 

 leeded for bringing round 



really fence. The cheap 



mate. If high, or d 

 id want of hea 

 ■ poor and ui 



rthere 111 ^ 6 8eem8 ^ 

 ) thinking of taking land ir 



are ; but, if you are in a hurry, the railways will take 

 you from London to Dublin and back, allowing you 6, 

 15, or 20 days in Ireland, for 42s. ; travelling in Ireland 



Lord Clarendon's i 



stating the object, would procure one to s 



cure from the clerk the Poor-law valuation o 

 The clergyman of the parish can generally g 



is to be let, and get a disin- 

 a capabilities are. (If unable 



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cheapness of rent will not be satisfied, where di 

 is made. Even as to outlay in buildings, i 

 landlords, who have not the money to spent 



lually out o 



JrEament last spring, of Englishmen lately settled in ; ing themselves to a state of things wholly different froi 

 fajo,are not yet forgotten. Tipperary, Roscommon, that they have been accustomed to, and i therefore d 

 i *, are not urge them to come over. Scotchmen are muc 



:-:.;<: 



i these times, provided a fair 



s of living a 



;]_•!: h t n-'.'ii 



s some command of capital) whi 

 ome, though undoubtedly both 



But for any English farmer that has the mater 

 him. I believe there are chances of success here 

 I of capital) which h 



than food could not successfully compete 

 with the lower wages, lower taxes, and other advan- 

 tages possessed by foreign countries if they were clogged 

 and fettered as i3 the agricultural interest of this 



better security for the expense of fitting up his ma- 

 chinery than a yearly tenancy, that his landlord ex- 

 he kept one 

 floor for his own use and profit, and that he insisted on 



rands' worth of the manu- 





selves in a position to exp< 



their judgment, experience, and increasing knowledge 



of Englishmen will en- 

 od, equally with other 



S. B. G. 



Box-feeding.— having for some time past read with 

 great interest much on the subject of box-feeding, in 



and preserving manure, so as to prevent the ammonia 

 from evaporat in ('est method 



that I can suggest, which plan I have adopted for more 



the floor of my pigsties, and cow-boxes, and horse- 

 stables, excavated. 1 foot deep, then filled in the same 

 with anything I could procure at hand, such as road 

 scrapings, clay, or subsoil from the land, leaving the 

 soil behind, or any rubbish that is not fit for any other 



fortnight, as convenient, for this job can be done in 



the boxes and I ready to put 



se ; it depends upon the quality of the soil 



ci 



Home Correspondence 



by some of your' 



•Pauses fired, as is just possible might be the case 

 ^farmed in Essex, within 20 miles of the spot 

 other of your correspondents, Mr. Doran, thinks 

 a I J! 8 j° me 8ecret charge upon the tenant's industry 

 "Mind which will surely be his ruin. I can assure 

 ZJ**™ is nothing of the kind. Tithes are com- 

 mand paid by the landlord. On all lettings, since 

 ~™stauley's Act, 1833, they are necessarily included 

 *«s bee !*" The ni S nest poor-rate levied in Ireland 



fa2J o in the p° und > but this haa been in ver y 



•J***/ 6*. or 7*. has been the amount in the year 



JJ^ m the distressed districts ; in some parishes, 



<lu. 7^' onl >' - *• amount the good crops against the bad ones, and gives 



J£ Paid is charged to the landlord and deducted on according to what experience has shown to be tl . 



£~* «ie rent. I nee d hardly ask what the rates bable average produce. If a landlord could engage 



j® the south of England, or whether any part is ' that the weather over his land 



spondents, that farming,' o 

 differs from all other manuf 

 the uncertainty of our climate. Now, it appears t< 



i clear he would readily 



jZ r*> during the lease. County rates fw I he weather, therefore, is as m 



melnde way rates) are from Is. to 2s. in the ' an item calculated upon in the manufacture of food 

 » toJ* ■*• wh <% Paid by the tenant. Now, | bad debts and other casualties are calculated in 

 *3 ' h£ ' your own observation is that these are manufacture and sale of other articles. Competitio: 

 8^ £*} enormous ! My view has long been both cases mainly decides the amount of profit 



e landlords of England fit up 



>est advantage, charging their tenants a rent ac- 

 ror.liiuly, or let the tenants fit up such machinery 

 themselves, upon the security of a lease long enough to 

 enable them to get back the capital thus expended. 

 Let the landlords give up the timber and hedgerows so 

 tuable cultivation, and the game, those 

 <>iten rob the 

 tenant of no small portion of the fruits of his toil. On 

 the other hand, let the tenants adopt those principles of 

 trade upon which the general manufactures of our 



clayey nature 





* meu« ? f ey are hi S h ' ^lively to tne ski11 

 *«hau5 7 the tenants ; but positively as to the 

 *> • ol "ft *• land m better hands > ^ te the con - 

 ^■eL2?i ^^ ™reased P™*uce of which the 

 <*» ft* ble *** Proper farming, and at a moderate 

 fc^'ii, t j* Ve had direct proof in my own experience. 



any reason why 



■ uld be 



c^rdanc7w15i**tharprlncTple, viz., the employe 

 capital, industry, and skill proportioned to the 

 and extent of the business, with ample seem 



amount of capital and skill ei 



course ventilated, as any I ever saw, and the cattle, 

 whether feeding, breeding, stores, or milking, all do and 

 M d. My cow calved last 

 April, has been kept in the box as above ever since, and 

 gives quite as much milk now, or more, as she did at the 

 first ; she has been kept on Cabbages, Vetches, steamed 

 Potatoes, and now the under leaves of Mangold WurzaV 

 all of which make the richest milk and butter (on the 



Sch means the cream is all thrown up at 



t of profit. But once. There is not a drop of urine to be Been running 



seasons affording from the boxes, any of them ; the compost, when taken 



be out, is o... ' be ready for it» 



1 with the sun, is of 



