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fortable cottage as indispensable as they now consider a mud hovel. Above 

 all, teach them to think ; that is, teach them to look to the future : give 

 them more wishes and wants, more expectations and hopes, and those of a 

 higher nature ; then they will marry less, and then the population, dimi- 

 nished in number, will obtain higher wages, and become more respectable 

 and comfortable. What ought to be done, while the raising of the Irish 

 character (for that must precede raising its condition) is carrying into effect, 

 we do not pretend to say ; but this we repeat, the plan of the Emigration 

 Committee will end, if carried into execution, not in a permanent cure, 

 not even in a partial and temporary cure, but in encouraging and aggravating 

 the disease. 



Farming Society. — Why has not Loudon regarded the Farming Society 

 of Ireland, a Society which, since its institution, has given an augmented 

 impulse to our national industry ? Why has he failed to ornament his 

 pages with the brilliant and truly patriotic names allied to the interests of 

 the country ? When he descanted on absenteeism, why did he not pane- 

 gyrise the brightest ornaments of our resident nobility, who are connected 

 with the Farming Society of the country? Unpardonable and egregious 

 omission! {Review of Loudon's Encyc. of Agr. in the Irish Farmer's 

 Journal of December 10. 1827.) 



The Farming Society. — Whilst nature is doing so much for Irish 

 agriculture, man is doing nothing to advance the fundamental know- 

 ledge of it as a science, or to stimulate its perfect practice as a national 

 benefit. The Parliament grant has been withdrawn, and, it is believed, 

 justly, from the Farming Society. The Irish Farmer's Journal has been dis- 

 continued, with a debt due to the concern of upwards of 2,000/. ; and a plan 

 for establishing a small experimental farm in the vicinity of Dublin has also 

 fallen dead-born. The fact is, there is no public spirit to raise and sustain 

 any useful institution of the kind; and, when legislative aid established the 

 Farming Society on a basis to all appearance lasting and firm, it was 

 crumbled away in private jobbing and corrupt patronage, so unprincipled 

 and notorious, that, although the writer of this is as staunch a friend to the 

 agriculture of his country as any Irishman can be, he would nevertheless 

 regard the renewal of the Parliament grant, under the former management, 

 as a measure worse than useless, and as tending to abstract money from the 

 public coffers, to form the means of aggrandising^ those who perform no 

 service in return. {Brit. Farm.. Mag., Aug. 1827 ) * 



Art. III. Horticultural Society and Garden. 



Aug. 7th. — Read. An account of a fumigating apparatus, by Mr. John 

 Read of Bridge-House Place, Southwark. A cylindrical box is added to a 

 pair of bellows {fig. 63.), which may be used either for fumigating, or 



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