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— f . . , ati with taste for fi d a 
or the win Lrepia’s le:— cations a e for farming, an zeal for 
crossed | and ridged up "rid ge va re 2 The following is Baron LrrnIG's reply :— its improvement which almost amounted to enthu. 
HowAkD also declared tha P » July 10, 1863. |siasm. The Cl ub. meetings were held in Ayr 
advoc by Mr. Burrm ba p h abr rape —I should hardly have made up my mind to | market devs and d oF xil 
backs: the benefitsof the action of t jr SUM Mei to your letter of June 23, were it not outst e Clubs at present. .The deep drainers of the CI 
ir in destroying weeds and the still greater | | man ich that his wa x nU 
and air in destroy h aah envision E Xi en were in a small minority at first, but they gradually 
berefits arising from the thoroug 1 ^ necessarily exercise a cer viai ain ín uence over otters | gained ground, though several years elapsed before the 
soil are entirely lost ; e furth arge farms | Your article on “The Exhaustion of Vegetable Mould” | 5. feet drains were generally acknowledged to be too 
jt would be most unwise to postpone or work to caused i me the greatest ioe ark ent ; ere am — shallow: e Government grant for draining in 1846 
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so Jate 9 period as Mr. SMITH recomme 
March to be the best m for —— | cultiva- 
i ts rast 
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ow, in the present time and | pave a great impulse to agricultural improvement, 
und 
Cee eB | have E state of mh mpi ne is id eet for any one to express Draining became gener eral, and, er the superin- 
e to be found i in that } paper. 
tendence of the y the pipes were 
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° | coun n is yea a increasing, it is f the greatest im- was made—the sc e stis put too far apart; instead 
portance that agrieulturists should take the right wr of Tr to 20 feet, on heavy land, they were widened to 
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as Mr. H 
.” He then quotes a letter written in 185 58, that they should choose that one which will make it| 39 feet. A eat extent of lant 3n Aoii im UE 
in which he had declared chs for , October, and Lii ia for them to satisfy tha wants of the increasing |]itț eta utn utm af Fyne two years in 
thei 
little ter 
mber ede e fed, se Food. od. g from their fields an in- | Grass, , Rushes spring up as formerly. With the exten- 
tion. pears to us z : Pasta DO pv seri ies of laborious investi- | sion of drainage, guano and dissolved bones came 
of the subject is concerned, Mr. B 8 iiri was | ga Mrd on i die onditions which govern the rud of plants | into general use, and farmers were enabled to grow 
satisfaetory and conclusive ; and had it not been for | and animals, c ootesioaed; me in the year 1840 t employ in | good green crops. zs large proportion of the newly- 
of a concluding remark, wherein he le rained land, when it was levelled, and pulveri 
: be charge Mess Romano with untruth- |the last 23 years ars I the very ut- for "the first time, bad something of the vigour of 
n a “he nasil ight eft un-| most of my power, to make the neers intimately | virgin soil. The produce of the Cereals was reatly 
: Th ion ie wever, of ris. cag with po S laws which g the pro- | increased, and E fortunately hs Uto 1o 
noticed, 1 d 3 TR a Sil mi duction of food for men and dts ieri which he | depend too much upon rowing good pi with 
MC unacer : sf bove -aceórdin x must kn now, if he has any wish to improve his farm |]icht manures, they too bet leak sight of the fact that a 
: 8 Y | management. portionate amount of well fed stock must be kep 
remain, and Messrs. Howar c " | oropot e 
called our attention to Ux fact that d course of That in giving my studies this direction, I was not | if the AT of the a is to be maintained. The 
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action is ** t recommen ed ? mue impe lled by a desire for vain honours, or in order to| heavier land is now growing less Grass, which is a 
more by the practice than by the writings of its gain the iae hes the agriculturists, will, I think, be relay | buró indication of reduced condition. Many 
advocate, and that it was to the Woolston practice clear to say that I am one of the six farms of rather heavy th 
f leaving stubbles untouched until after foreign Bas a o f the Academy of France, foreign they did before ue were drained, and the stiffest 
eat sowing, sometimes even te as December, | member of the Royal Society, PE well as, ura t ex- | clays keep fewer. The evil has been greatly a ated 
and {then breaking them up with the combined angie of all the poc deed fact, th the I woni by a succession of wet, late seasons in the west c 
ridging and subsoil {plough that their strictures | beg you not to lose sight of the fact, tha P ya ke Me o cq. four cb ge rera P RE 
e i i oor on stiff land, an e 
referred. st publie should be misled on. | edis with ANE but E notyithatanding tee 1 el te D nt SM iere GEHT almos equall oor Sor 
this subject, they had written a cer dani letter empere soils hav equally p 
a, ii : | done Now, when n has obtained the good | crops in the following years. With better seasons 
b « imes, commencing with a s full recognition | pe at 1 of € so mot ddiagalched individuals of all | we may hope for a return of prosperity ; but théré ds 
Meis a att bat cose ae elses eon les, as nition of what he has done in i es something Tike a settled conviction that a change of 
cult way than that whic e had recom- this i is certainly the Penes fame it is possible for system is required for much of the land that 
to possess, and you may grant that, for vigere de lies above the Wheat-growing districts. Tu 
of 
| applause of a thoroughly ignorant crowd, as that oí of oo much. cropping there is a want 
Some months ago an article in the Times l the cows, and the —— et 
value of Vegetable Mould, and the dependens of to him. You may suppose too, that when this man | ment of rapid nd has to be learned. the best 
our eontinued fertilit its mainten i of the lower districts good 
- suis htly, he does it not for their individual sakes, but in grown ; ; but in these also, though in a Met ees 
ity ne 
prc ae eal of attention. That communi- | ‘tig 
cation ae Nit n by our occasional correspondent, Order to wa 
ard off future dearth a ad i imminent 
Mr. Picasa Alar, of Ee Hill, Errol, | anne which threaten society at After Besides: fosteiüig A spirit o of pee 
ne was more 
.B. And we understand 
astonis hed th an n self at the Ratios of what 
and dissemi- 
uggle of 23 years, I have succe ceded i hte Germany € information at its meetings, the St, Quivox 
| an nee in getting those simple natural laws ' Oldb 46 
was originally w written ius poasit etter to a "bird eu Iture. The success obtained in Saxony, Prussia, | of harvest, meetings were held ub which the practice 
| arti in qu stion was referred to by Pro | Austria, and Bavaria by gua ont my principles in | was to prosei from farm to farm and see what the 
fessor DAUBENY in a lecture recently delivered by, the right way, have once aud for ever completely set | members were doing. Much good was done in this 
M rud the Oxford Farmers’ ^ to which aside the forme er theory Ln asserted this point there way, The prospect of 50 many critical eyes made 
publication was given in this Journal; and it Ms 12D m8 fare eee llel d 
| mentioned that this letter in ome "Times had | | exists not the slightest dissidence. You en ima-| sreen crops and pas with ide, s, fences, 
| “elicited from Baro EBIG a reply in which, | & gine the a pete s hag your Times ar tice p pro- | and farm roads in i x order. X. in in addition te 
. under a al sense of the whit done to society duced upon I see by it that you endeavour to |tho members, the meetings were attended by intelli- 
. by the dissemination of such e , he á | uphold and Fries iet te dee eory which long ago has gent farmers from other parts of the county, who could 
| a (di a moral de) lar been eiae! set AN " the most positive facts | not fail to profit by such inspections, and carry the 
| noral de ingueney the “revival of | im. ience contradicting opinions |; id le. N 
an hypothesis, which h influence of the Club over a wider circle, or were 
| ]ong Bibshined en e m i e been so which] I never - had. D ed S that article, that you | there wanting men of e The 
| dés Be bil ly "e bone has not have read n orks, or, if je hav e done 50, | late Professors Johnston and Shier, and more recently 
i p E ar EBIG d that you did 1 Professor Anderson, rattenited those pleasant meetings, 
ind eed É m she bi à 
eed left it within Professor DAvBENY’s ju calamity when m pm yourself are Of and sowed a little seed as pny offered on soil 
my doctrines ; men who, if peck see nly give [d where it was likely to fructify. The meetings of the 
selves s aeguninted with | Club have been ten 
PR year 
ply them, would become warm supporte thew. And,| Tp, 1835 the Highland and Agricu We Society of 
it | farther, I consider it a sin against t God. id humanity, Scotland had a very sapis show z Ayr, and the 
g | When such men in questions that so intimately concer p | Aye hir ire Agrionltural b arg ite g from it full 
the future of the human T in so flippant a ae like rva fro n bran of 
n instituted 
Ay 
i mber, 18 d eer. 
which, by their position, <i Sales ety eee bee iO like many other societies its success is mainly attri- 
ATTH its us t i x : : 
pondenee, Whisk? wil s to yey this wi , promote.—I have the honour, &c. . Y. LIEBIG. Vois 5 tbe services of an ástivo aidid. eficient iiti 
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indicating e H 
dan personal feeling of the great German farii s i es iai till 1851, and since 
ay ager S the reception of 2 doctrines as RSHIRE AGRICULTURE. d tie any in Ayr. Th ere can be no doubt 
chemist by the agriculturists in ax GREAT part of the rere of prosa isof a heavy | that the efforts of the Aiton have had : a a consider- 
this country, 
Mr. Matrrew wrote as follows 
Duar S SIR,—In the 
-oma aa Show 
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. tobe dei informed that you are i expected | ohori ight s soils in in 
and the mois coast | abl. 
: fit for "Tornip et ropping unless it be iy ed. | —a breed of cattle which is justly rising in prison! 
evious to the introduction of thorough draining the | throu ughout sod one for dairy e Well bred 
growth of Turnips on anything like an ge ock i s beco mon all o ver the heirs and 
the poro i ar the s he 
arser 
| coast, to river side olms, and to trap, sandstone, and] etorta of the Association - in 1 this roin have been 
yl e 
than 
t | therefore suitable, as regards climate, for the gr growth | not before they have served a good It is mar- 
vital chemi g purpose. 
egent la - a I oe of ae a omes dE oan aee eat line, ved vellous how much may be done in a few years when a 
i years i ne ; R 
* vin en i y e-grass t of im Cis excited, ood breedi 
asa in ides of Gowrie, call Gitar seeds p sown vis “the gettin 2 op: of | co xcd latrodaoed into a " Josality where brandy avery 
ie io ^e. a pana Being yr tp Aer Ul-|hay was generally taken ; and the land lay 
follow referen, a yd owing. ` (Then Ti two, three, g m a E The introduction of the Cheddar mode of cheese- 
m 1830 to 1840 the draining generally was too | maki pae its extension throughout the south-west of 
par ont my friend, who without shallow. to be very effective ; but a considerable extent Scotland M odé of the successes which has been 
ere foll orwarded it to the Times | of Jand was drained by the late Duke of Portland and | ac ed by an any provincial meng Scotland was far 
republisher 9 Put a note reperaiee eR other proprietors who foliowed his spirited example. behind the best dairy co counties of England in regard to 
oe re Rep EU TADE SEE perd c, irt 
Qu may indeed regard it a breach of 2 € pradas niet nig ‘Been to intelligent t wo farms, but there aoe ce Eha d, 
T am, re z mos! proved son to be/them from 18 to 24 inches dee E ode uivox j able in English markets. Dissatisfi peer ae state of 
Yo 8 bedi e rmers' Club was instituted in Eu chiet pee. t the Highland | Society from time to ffered 
A our o d servant, he influence of the late Mr. or the best imitation of Cheshire, rider or 
. ‘RICK MATTHEW. * country gentleman, who Pes eboloty bees COPI e cheese. Nogreatsuccessatt ttended theseattempts, 
