THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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Lothian farms consist of from 200 to 500 Scotch acres.' 

 Nor from the farmers being more economical am 

 parsimonious, "they are men of super 

 few of them without a handsome phaeton, and exceptinj 

 for a month at seed time, have company at home or din 

 out three times a week." Nor from the labourers beinj 

 worse paid, " actual wages as high as in England, 10^ 

 " In short, thi 

 northerns assert, that with no better BO . 



vantage, they ^ 

 English farmer 



Why; 



s where ah r I 

 s to be reconciled ? Therefore my question is, 





e or drill system, two- 



land, Berwick hi 

 mucn nigner I 

 Bhire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, 

 practices are much alike ; tht 

 horse ploughs, thorough drai 



its, I find the 

 labourers are equally good, that is, do an equal quantity 

 of work per day at an equal cost. It is I confess a 

 complete paradox to me, which I should much like to 

 have explained. W. 



The Poor.— The fearful pestilence which haB been 

 making such havoc in our country clearly points out 

 which our poorer neighbours have 



e cleanliness might be 



'°f 



the noxious vapours during sleep, by way o 

 ment after a day's toil? Is it justice to o 

 shape or other always exists ! Is it chai 

 neighbourly to receive high rent for houses 



; drainage, and to encourag 



roying the health of 

 i, being their all, for 



The gaol returns show tl 

 trace their first transgre 



Ithas thattf alfowin 



nee to the degraded state of th 



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keep this subject before the public, and howeve 

 s influence an anonymous writer mav have. I mus 



.llect tl 



V tl ? li 



h. If 



at the 

 itely appeared i 



) Messrs. Huxta 

 nd there was so goodly a number of West Cumberland 

 irmers ready to advocate their hitl.erl 

 laims, to stand amongst the improving 

 Ingland ; and from my knowledge of tl 

 larming in the neighbourhood of Saint 1 

 the gentlemen who met at the < 



of competition. In one point, 



. . . 

 which they prof< 



g. I would inquire of Mr. Hodgson, 

 i farm is drained and subsoiled ? What 

 his farm is under green crop ? How r 



BJBl H< 



r hen he a 

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hool. Let Mr. Hodgson oiler to eomj 

 professed bigwigs of the south or north, 

 have no fear of him, whether the competition be fo 

 p growing, for stock feeding, or for the genera 

 management of his farm. I am glad to see quie 



apt to demand al 





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ious. Th< 



ig generation d< 

 t of conduct. It 



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K.3\nr^r;;e^ , =e 



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union, and appropriated to the wants of ■ 



men There can be little doubt a Bche, -, 



would, in the course of a few years, reduce the rates to 



InSSStTnn i ' uragement of 



S??nt?„ i ^rties to be 



^ the necessaTy^ Thtdly^a SS^St* 



rtineneeofboya 



imberland has any title 

 i paternity. It is so easily constructed, that any 

 eside joiner can make one ; nay so simple is it, that 

 ighbour of mine made a temporary one of his 

 swered on his soil as well as the 

 already had on his farm ; and 

 fective are they for all the purposes of clod-crushing, 

 farmers are laying aside their Crosskills to adopt 

 They are made by cartwrighti 

 40*., according to their size a 

 ood employed. Perhaps the be 

 Vv this size, two, three or fo 

 and the weight" applied. For ordinary land,' 

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proceed. Should the land^be 'one mass "of ' 

 clods, he further increases the weight, by ad 

 Btones. The implement is made of two or thi 



each other, to make the frame 6 feet wide. 

 being about 8 inches deep, and 

 "> receive the, . 



so broad as to overlap each othi 



md along each of these angles, the whole lene 



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and thicknelt 8 Sten'T" "i 



■' wood will allow -this ,D ^ ick > »«£ 

 was'refe^red toeomVthne BbS^^ ifS 

 " VmVnt, _ Some 12 "" "^ 



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to have its defects ^oTLScv ? I ,J onldb «glii 

 impression is that as far as a cornet Mj ° n 

 cejtable to English occupiers on '. 

 seems tolerably correct/ The only obtS ^ < 

 it is in the poorer lands, where (and es De S -J* * 

 strong and wet) I am disposed to thX * 7 / T8 7 

 proportionate difference in rental vaW liT 19 

 than is usually done, from the much great? *** 



Elthtrreen thrpo?n U r erj "^ ° f 6 ° S - ** 5 





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A K 

 Al 







C/Ar.-Wu. 411* 

 l mild and pleisut 



of an Ame; 

 identally 



; in No. 23 of your Paper 



is somewhat singular, both in its principle, 



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3, may perhaps interest some other of job 



in four minutes ; probably a ■ 

 have brought the butter in less time. This mp. 

 derful effect was produced by one of the most sinj^e 

 ihurning machines that we have ever seen. It cobmh 

 >f a square box, having a hollow perpend.cular ah.. 

 nth two hollow arms or tubes at the lower end. ™ 



breakfast by any f. 



he'viarroundf While the c 



'""» ides foil wing. The board next the drawii 



.loped high up to the top of tU frar.,, 



1 e soil from dragg.ng. I annex a rude sketel 



ninwtering a good ,, it may be a Ian 



the rod and spoil the child"' 1 i . '■< rstand the abov 



. B. C, Cockermouih, Sept. 27, 1849. 



correspondents can communicat 

 or furnish a sketch. Unless the 

 arms are covered with some subi 



mitting the air to 



;,;.;, 



T! i - 

 tune, and preservation 



less of the milk, are 



Show of Horses at Norwich.--; 

 [ cannot but express my opmi 

 pondent « Veritas" that the decu 



tones exhibited a] 



ittfJ 



*£% 



eons, who, though frequi 

 stand the treatmentof di 

 bred a horse i 



r piv/. U 

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