36 THE GARDENERS: CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
which pays best. Last year I consumed on 170 acres | ment of live stock, There is not an Mpeet of weather, we the landowner the first bargain of t the Tong ` 
7007. worth of cake, corn, &c., purchased of myself and þang erh fe, so far as the live stock of the farm are|in whic ch agriculture, like ever ar: busines, 
others. The manure from these pruna must, con RIS which 3 have not habitually witnessed, sista, MS will need them all wh n taking your 
according to Mr. Lawes's valu: ation, be great value ; | realised, and studied. That of which instances and | when making your purchases mu sales, and’ espe 
bu l analysis, we know by the striking cases may be observed by you is foreseen or | when dealing with yor labourers, 
ue wt that this is the — wa no to 3 promon, recognised by me in its first beginnings almost as if by t is, in in this last relation, more than y 
and t re is no manu cheap o good as bnt ong familiarity with the details of my | where else, that your ability of this kind w 
wi Deme. made manure. cupation, beginning, too, with the mind of a child | itself—in aig your labourers—in gettin 
It i 1 to are but still it i A w which m harc lly any other impression on it to weaken | man and putting him in the right p 
a great truth, that this x n is half manured i — M with which its early knowledge is relations with them afterwards so that l 
and the consequence of taking aka and not putting re d, giv , almost unconsciously, and without | between the servic E. an ignorant, ill- tus 
d the e poe x a ‘ap a ion suc st | body of a. ‘and ia t of active, intelligent gy, 
po piis but ur not diminish the  unescapeable | exercise, those intimations of fitness or of unfitness, of labourers | may b | in your favour, Even mec 
expense the contrary it enhances their per | quiy al nd co ndition, , Whe ther of soil or crop, or animal, 
centage, ‘and gradually impoverishes the tenan gl of our business of course abis es T their This has been aoe X 
It is all very well to say—where is the money toco Ma | depen nds.” Mr. —— was perfectly correct; it is an|trated | within t the ded few weeks, in in 
pk ee lh » sasi much land, and I now see before | immense im tage to an s to t yt Ew h degree of pro sio 
mea o lost most of his money on 50 acres, but follower of any other occupation, to learn th t ecup nt q ability exis 
now, keeping thee same amou unt of stock on 10 acres, he | tion young ; and the reason is that the e which he| You know the Mis. Jonas We ebb had 
l paying his way. thus acquires grow naturally with him, aud is thus] unparalleled success as a breedér of South tna : 
perien ce - m me that the more meat og perfectly acquired than it can be in ry other m: to him perhaps ton ra Rigdon of S 
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corn and we Ad you mudo of necessity grow. The io tlemen :—It is impossible for you to accept too | almost always first in any general competition ame 
first question I ask of an a jd SAT US how | T n Or too confidently, the assertion that a Southdown breeders, Mr. Ri inden almost always 
many pyunda d Lord Walsi i petition between these t 
i = ng pi Webb is no longer with us and the competiti 
e dai iy practice ofthe farm—in | now is between Mr. Rigden and Lor alsing 
mus of this precious a and | other e d n ical skill, is essential to your pro- kien The lat 
m Pie rm and not o5 e of it to go otherwise | fessional su r 8 oh 
than on the lan And all t thi Sg as I kave said, is only to be acquired by | Mr, Rigden’s shepherd, on the other iat has b 
It is erben how a keen man of business | close per gk observation.—There is a story, I see, late disabled b illness, Under 
will improve "- walectad | land hos will cover it in dry | going the d of the papers just EN about Bewicke, | these two breeders met at Wovecsler the other di 
weather with sheep or other nimals eating cake, corn, the celebrated naturalist and a No was asked Lo rd Walsingham took all the prize: es! 
hay, &e., that was not desiit on the farm, mal it was that'his engravings oF bir tl 
os a farmyard ora foldyard of the land. The results truer to nature than those of other men. , He replied : [on the skill and good will of his onec 
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ule carries "ss - ips Liebig’ 's great theory, that the | men at the birds Meer ‘sketching them.” The late | of the moony also of so conducting business as toby 
emptiness of e ust be repaired by the Hd d Ducie used to say, “A yo ung man "wi never be a | good terms with your servants, and with e every di 
fuiness of fepinishnen "The miserably small supply | farmer unless he ar enjoy to sit for two hours on a | class with alos you are in business relations, 
of stock which I s n poor heavy lands qmi mardie Fei a biz a sheep.” Bewicke ane Lord Ducie} For this second 
indicates prominently "the disease and its remedy. | wer on this subject; and every other|to professional success, as well as for that e pe 
J. J. Mechi, Dec. 30. sensible m m" will agree with them. It is only by cox skill, the on ly schoo ont Spe. to you is s acbual experia 
ya’. It mus ake io obviously a sound proposition that | and c fal observation that skill, whether as a far 
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iate m because there is no way of obtaining | careful o oberiat the ie s we vell as the irc ene come to learn. He can, of course, acquire the ith 
such go: ond or e cheap manure as by feeding stock. I don't | which you will need as arge farm, w en gence which is to direct him in his operations, bit 
the food for the stock is to come from. It | | con: kapan variety of soil, uidet vigorous managem oper aes p e be 
is certainly only robbing Peter to pay Paul, to tal Ns o he this kind which any o in actual experience. may, therefore, be} 
from one field on the farm to produce manure ur most usefu ul opportunities of | erst, in order to supplement what the Agricul 
her field on the farm. To increase fe st iih professional biirati pe (dependent however for Colle ege can | communicate, that you should se 
uid be the object on poor we should feed our | efficiency, like all the others, altogether on your own 
animals with something that m ion ea on th al determination to make use of it) is that afforded by the | either o 
is must be done in of poor farms, | daily routine of farm operations on so large a scale, s 
we know that such Wh wilt Hoe taney, ny | carried on directly under your observation t worth wil 
especially in their unimproved condition, support s ext to sais skill, I wou rank business tact remember that while the skill Vieh. you may 
much stock as fertile soils. d ability elsewhere, will confer on you only the 
niente E: proi a n iu to quired only by experience. | good farm labourer, this pe" ability, , in addi 
| a Ad frag, ike those of every business, are | it, will edi xe you t fa good I 
Mox edm voe AND SKILL. as well as in the field—they | mana ee ssful and influential 1, because in 
I mavs, in the first place, to remind you that what ability. Mri judgment in your dealings | gent agricultariat, ‘needs something more than 
ever leas 3m lsak or Lors you anb have this practical | wae other fied; whether r your servants or your neigh- | And this is the - rd point to which I have to 
skill in order to succeed in agriculture or in any othe However skilful in the management - — your paten tion: he meds a liberal and 
er eral officer and the agriculturist alike 
their professi 
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before taking a farm on your ow! n 
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and ‘crops, in the management of a flock of | educatio: 3| 
a herd, a man may be, he needs sufficient vhi As ‘a ve mentioned this last. of the three- 
€ k too strongly on | ness in deiling with his equals as well as ability to | especi as I have referred to a 
this men Mn oe eae of Tena ee as one— | direct his inferiors, before he can a full success in altogether different rank and style of 
ts of course doing of a series of Operations | farming. Dos this dem ese r common sense as | occur to you that I am advocating scientific 
in în the. right way, nd “the ability t ae do things in the | it is md rather because it is c i t 
ight way is jus vor we call skill. An intelligent | because 
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Wi comitanaly | ossessed, is required in every | places u in a highe er soci ial rank. That o 
man is not € Py n agricu : relation which you wilt farmerss estat Irem eater, Facit wh d ill undery; 
intelligence es agriculture within its scope. He | after rel ting the story w e just told you, | not the ground on which I have any special 
must Nue dis shi without which his agricultural ^ the young landlord aod the practical farmer, to | recommen id it. , Unless. it be professionally s 
oe useless, pete he can take a farm who consulting me bón. the agricultural | I] 
any * f su | education. et: a son, we afterwards conversed on this 
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this skill to be wed? There is her here, again, gentlemen I vce sa 
bservation and practic Sni with m And I told him of one whose career, | knowl ledge of all the sciences fa of malter «i 
cannot be learned from the description of it. It sitet | tétin titta in gre eat ability as a odi had led him | advantage to $6 in your pro 
Ln see hae pode ein - be i Ma E Esaias viee in various public offices, and in How can it be otherw; pd Ya 
erein mmense advan iet" Sinis nim | taby ifferent countries, ur Mes still a young mau, | field is n 
whose tastes impel hi ith only the advan e 
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e, I believe, » general | natural truths determined by the geologis 
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from the University, who had | that of the y isi ge 
Pert aen Sure the position tt « dvd) seinen | Es we IE mau Med is es heen ea bi; eae and Sen may be oe tos as existing 
—and, among other occupations, had adopted that of | fiel 
agriculturis s ng round his land one morning | was, “I 
with a neighbour of long ell proved 2 is the (uus antipodes a he t you have been t 
iy aen. as a istened | me before?" He as entirely mis 
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o such thing These advantages of practical si iid | the doctrines of the chemiat oF the botanist | 
“of h his companion’s discourse, he at | are bramer hnt om a ain were Tu A UE trit 
one another. They ma But i octi 
h, M as | both possessed by PRE e individual. zh x s i z RT yee : f 
3 : : They must be | chemist, the geologist and botanist à 
that score, my dear fe "x pa th GEN ieee dee to the oe attainment of much more numerous and more ys d 
Kivi w "ma y ar Te » was d You agricul ltural su u may in your own pers th n hich m 
will.” The one was he Bonos; and em the skill of ti the Behr 1 1 those on which many a practi 
abou "Vs sheph ra d what 
the cowman, with that citer! Tatellige d e dede uf € Maks confidence. ji 
had. t : hi adh te 
spent al : life the fields, and yet 
‘neither moc s odesty Hah e Mesh à th ong Vien on the very fi 
ia "seit he s E y the quibu 1 in business relations, which a 
larger d alton ite m 
ar Š we answer of the other. | more general ag agricu ure i ug oa 
Mr. — did mo f fish his He n y. E. I qve been white " zire yon in the market rm and else E. pe it ha edis is of sein = Hiper 
| : ave said, o amon: A 
plants and animals, woastaatly riding and walking on ‘ee red ron pn bee 1 Arg of the other, it is im-|] er the Fle 6^ 
the soil which supports them both sin d ot y 
possib! t too unreservedly and too |isits val fac 
since I ean remember T have nd to do pede en cnn tle assertion that temper, tact, si on common | pics no berase dh zi TS oe the bs ulia 
tillage of tho land, lanl the cultivation of crops the (business D DA rt,) are essential to pro- | of them interfering with the lesson taught by 
ill need tht all l in striking | sci c 
manage- | fessio; onal success, You 
