12 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. (JANUARY 2, 1864, 
which blends it in outline less and less| which he would describe under the title ‘reserve ge imperial measure, ‘the best form of Farm 
form of Farm. 
aitingelkable from those that A E Te it. | capital,’ reement? may be finally decided on, js some 
reis one class to which s more than Was teful at first sight, to the eye that sees waste | solution iori a ing 
thing of mere artificial erare o the |in a park of deer, a gallery of costly paintings, and | English landow piers Leases to tenants s who 
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e iiki in, a a veritable portion “of the w each condition of life above the lowest, re that | than they can do it themselves, and breaking 
itself. No fashion can change it, or the duh it retains in possession — ong ight be | the land mithout breaking down upon it: 
it brings; im no after-thought or resolution ean parted with for n value. But, have | ing g labourers’ cottages ith s e bed 
redeem it. To him the aia of the past yearisa | said, the whole question as it stands in "England, | | profit, like, den human dwellings, i did fitted wi 
routine that every year must in its most important | may be classed as an anomaly. An patent M aere E prev se the bees still set. 
features present alike. The march of invention | wanting to complete, or even add to t, it lies in | dive together as before,and letting th 
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rate the beaten road that those before have|be persuaded of, that the defect, we might almost | ; ; ; i 
travelled, no Electric Telegraph shorten the] process d decay of leases in Englis po ed lies | was built for, and inducing a Royal Agricultural 
or hasten the accomplishment, and the, end. _AS it | less - the do oor of those Wag might give than of Pur ty to take a rea aei er in that "bran eh of 
th s pra e 
and that, exaclly because the seasons are [en Bat imer subjects that have arobi up for special, Ay the Institution that hs tried many 
cientifio 
selves its partners and co-agents, and it ‘‘is in ym eated discussion during the past year, and | one in its behoof, with good effect: of persuading 
league beis the vary stones of the field.” len "at _upon their faces, refusing to m com- | model example farms to set a modest example 
rtant. Oo|of paying rent, and keeping out of * 
g D enti ate of the ag A de beyond what | that is familiar with the noble history US tri- learning how to make nagn. ay, when mest 
olution of bum Ear ust bring, of|umphs o team- — ean look withou stuff, are selling at extravagant 
uniformity and sameness ? The ae rare not a few|sense of pain nfal surprise and incredulity at the prices ; and e examining the principle of layi 
ho do thus think of “the Farmer’ y eallitig, and | present aspect of steam-cultivation? Is it real; | nothing out upon it, because it yields spontaneous 
Bon the shallow judgment of app YA would, | or spurious? Isit a fact? ora fallacy? If it be crops without the cost of ploughing or sowing, a 
and often or ere want- |a act, and steam- eültivation in its intended and es the gre reatest returns for the least expense; 
ing the semblance of gro ad for a opinion so | ultimate form really exists; then it is clearly the m ly, 
superficial. Yet nothing "A be more derogatory. | inventor of the Steel-rope who is entitled to the Journals from the charnel-house o f dry carcases 
rmer has to wor m roe with | discovery, and true master of the situation. Are and dead bones, into the heeirfol daylight of 
Nature: and all who know an g of her, know | we prepared to admit this? Is the future Earth to | current topics of agricultural life and ots ad 
th at while her - is inflexi imn "Uniform ity, her | be really subdued by steel ropes? For, as to a | events; and when 
life is incessant wn y. At once faithful, ” and | framed multiple of the plough at one end of the | culturists to buy them ; and to re 
capricious, she mer r may be doubted; yet she | tether, and a steam engine at the other, a child at | Perhaps, to some, our pro 
never can be lea | a Christmas pantomime ng t ugh at pps heavy, for th 
a f, who a 
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land, at the same M ike Matri mony, it is And who, idi can explain - phenomenon, a reavefal and a pem observer, it is ME ght d 
the conjunction (often disjunctive enough!) of aes un ique in economie science, of an undis- | DO trifling significance that the most ancient of al 
two forces, acting and re for good or evil on tones A a cruel deficiency of Tabira Cot- | arts should even to this our day present the great 
each other, —M re,—an at it will not ‘pay’ to build them ? | est number d rds d ice Mir of problem: 
uotien OF nee patie € an other, an appeal not to your | those who abou on “it, anaccomplis 
And, Na to say, e fact has doi a goo est ac a sense, but to your charity | 
deal overlooked in the E cussions we have ity for ihe 4 zr down on M secret law is operating a recent meeting of the Faversham 
periodi — subjee po what me. the Highway Bian it was moved that the use o 
d fi Ae laten latent. urce,— | locomotive e ike public highways is dan 
it will undoubtedly oem A te “anid = Deed hidde en near the very nome ty this absurd | i 
the Tenant: but it ar ant | cross-pointing of the hands upon the dial? t ome mm to prohibit their use wi 
to keep t the farm, nor Ton es. Aim. Again, what pen, or brain shall fathom the that district, ü appeared in the course of the 
that curious Runnin -noose, called a ier. eie in the 1 e | cussion | Steam traction engines are iin 
yearly holding, with a * understanding’ agricultural Education? Sing, O| used in Ke M “Mea srs, AYELING & PORT 
often fits into the motile’ of the composite problem Musei CS airefal wrath poured out, like any- 
Rochester haying made upwards of 100 of ‘the 
we have named, with all the flexile handiness | thing but oil, midnight or diurnal, at the Royal | Man eek 
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of a e, where the Curb does sometimes | Agricultural College of Cirencester, 'and the ma n meeting to protest against the suicidal course pro 
mischief. A shake of the head, or even a ‘play-| distinguished souls untimely sent to Hades, sed to be adopted, and on a division the m e 
ful' kick now and then is as nothing compared that fierce ET and the tender interest was vee lost—a very large mney vul 
with that S eiae rear up on the hind | » thereanent of anoth al A m ural e - agai 
that threatening ‘ vertical movement’ which sug- | the plenitude of its féteriiy eno fo the educa 
gests so strikingly Shakti Dat emphatically of the Farmer, one of = ex ressed ote for —— The of Gorse as winter food EF 
— : forward action; a very noted indi- | which it took its Charte nd, last not least, dairy cattle = “Beh lately discussed in 
cator of the tight curb, and the hard unsympa- | look at the recent letters ` in the Times imploring | colu umns of the Times newspaper e write 
thisin haid. anybod t a few acres of it enable; him nearly tù 
Perhaps this is one of those * Anomalies of agri- | ? abont ras-farmiig, now that free trade in Corn ; i 
dispense with hay, and thus to keep a much large 
culture,’ of which it would not be dificult to |is just beginning to wn m in, and that Rents Sted of cattle vds same extent of. land. es 
furnish a whole catalogue, while we must here cannot be paid by Wheat alone:—and, if more | sta : i 
be content with taking but a sketch. It may than this be wanted, look at the Replies! or 5 Ibs, vof Swede 
be, mai je that light floating .buoy-like| If th the aD tory of Agric MÀ the only | are good daily allowance e à thers med. 
henomeno: * yearly età ng is moored xs hat mains unwritten, should b i 
opez in English soil hart those are aware whose | erloualy sumi nh nd, by that com: ise man, the | and eid the ae rnin oy of the plant, Twenff 
» througho Tx the links that ‘inte lligent Wen Zealander,’ the poor year 1863 | lbs. of seed sown per aere will yield a crop in tht 
cutie: its elastic surface play - eiae solid jn ust defunct will je in € As Ere autumn and vet of the following year. 
anchorage beneath. Looked at as a self. ' coming time as the year tery | shoots are cut in a 4 inat 
fact, with an eye privileged by the crowsfoot | and ey are ‘sg and oi 
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es, tions which me ean answer or maidens | at one operation b h 
n as the bol wand? large meetings held, and resolutions VE Britt, of | es have a 
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it may perhaps Messrs. BARRETT & E 
and expression of a whole system of cause and moved; by which nothing is met, and stothing | iiado on gor Rendin 
effect, of a certain existing condition = constitu- | finally resolved; an almo mpled g nfóri 
tion of ru life. Ex distingui: rom el harvest unaccompanied by profit, and followed bv | machine for Gorse h used i i A 
1 - rate of 8, and | best mode of cultivating the plant is said to 
thi my | aioe cent. ! > would i T rows sown 20 inches apart, every alternate 
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“ment p fruitless tet 3 one would b it | much more ee it in a page, v m p EOS Er E 
Lease or 
a Toun rm vr years w bring | suecessor to discuss and disentangle. Let uslook| us from the Times 
Lm a epum Scotland it notoriously upon the very grappling with them as a signal of IE € the economy of steam cultivati 
nes bly in some eases a greater Men: Hope is the privilege of youth ; eke lston stent —— it 
Economist om be M i RE politcal on see! have remained M eic all the SUL d "Ms. M LWARD as din 
hrew, n a|plagues had been o o torture ivati = : : 
resid t English ownership wealthy Mmm to | with new cares the practical tt or met Wo ate by di power i and ud 
; T à í erg 
t by a long lease, be pm " with re n Piles Bee ee mon that the| broken up by the amie a in Nerenbe ^ 
ther by uropean Con- |soon after h i 
Ren of reigning agrieultural anioros or some i pus caper 
