Max 21, 1864.1 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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: 1t is covered with earth, and although I sowed | 
seeds upon it oon struggled for an pene on 
ch as n the d uth 
high; 
at Jen 
| ento o it occasionally, and the result is an abundant supply 
of " eculent and —9 Grasses. e ra eens 
might t thus be made etna for conveying se 
ey - tap the passing 
side of | 
which took place after the delivery of Mr. 
lecture. 
ies Sir ble KER » M.P, Rev. 
endary BRERETON had. die to “the idale. 
ds s publio ti eru lately established in Suffolk and in | 
nshire— 
VOELCKER said, that having been P takes 
arii in the gie ce of arian, hee 
interest in their welfi are, he wished to 
f the 
be regarded as almost 
a pre n! inferforene Because they were wel able to 
educ. heir own sons, and w ssumed to be well educated 
ihomsei vea. 
ery separation, however, of that portion of the 
Birra classes from consideration necessarily 
reduced the question to the education of the poorer 
class of farmers, who, Professor iin lecker said, must be 
the special subject "— 
d apply the 
engine, 
es. hse — our 
absu ma ewage, 
vdly e erroneous in 
5 
as 
that if rie sewaged Grass. wn carry four times 
ge onl 
many animals as the un 
increase of 
age, 
Mont sitting, "wir take evidence on this question, 
E also that they will get 
the cost of M Sen sewage to the c kw 
areas ai polis an ig wns. I hav 
said Es. a s 4f na eti in diamet: 
Katrine to vue 
ng t 
per 
mething to obtain 
The comparison, 
me to be 
never forget the value of 
r only; i ire 4l. 
me 
good things, it will 
have a much gr value. 7. p Mechi, Tiptree, 
May 17. 
Preservin ng Roots.—Considering it of much import- 
ance to have our roots fresh and succulent Jate in the 
season, as mine are at this periods iw spe 
rience on this a Tt i is 
a nk 
. They ver | 
n the s stic del 
—the 
chock, show 
Ee jolinan ras Nothing will do 
than sf} Barley straw, not loosely a po reed 
n the clamp, but id straight as thatch. 
m. additional cost 
s, 
Toots 
ar 
oo? 
m 
and 
fr fom. tig 
We then cover it w a 
ploughed up me the clamp, leaving some PUT holes 
It i » Man l| 
- | be deri 
pies ed with ker. 
a difficulty in commanding the attention "^ the students 
be | Bar 
be 
ee of 
| Edward Kerris 
In the establi; i ent of schools, then, he would guard th 
her pum the great rock upo n many establish 
ents had split, namely, the attaching of far to the 
ools. H convinced that the aar: AR] educa ation Ripa 
uM be a 
schoo 
bene; as in 
us anything like a Pot eer education could v given 45 any 
asid in — vel home to 
establishment esp Dec cially set for 
the pen 
r, they would be sure to 
he [o 
number of lads iio together, 
do. M. perd they 
do anything but what they dus to 
could pt under perfect rol ; 
bit that peti sink va done on Was farm. 
Th practically pecunia $e e ed 
of young men instruction class tow. 
welljthat there'should be establishments br the "ves s dt zenia: 
men and anded [proprietors, hee ien qe a an e be 
ent kind of 
ribe erimental 
farming.” 
nstructed in t 
ay a su 
ant-fai xper' rien 
of finding proper schools pe their i instraction, "t 
Ex aloud be in such scbools to give eneral 
A ee d ri. to hi 
vid 
hi 
taught in general schools, and n addition he the elements 
of ent A science, especially - chemistry, woul w en 
occupied — "e =? ue iu d uch 
better agri PE besten ever of 
the Rotko ofa mere history, than the. lad ES was instructed 
with special referenc m rn he elements 
ofa apap branch of dence uch a: n Y or botany. 
What ed was a good vd oretion ^n the "Qetherts of 
natura’ and in its ree Sears: uld be re 
vided i fn These ie "This very useful additi. 
to the ey plan of favtenotiód : but boh ike providing 
pe edm of giving what was usually called practical instr 
me mg farm he was vane — would in the end turn o hes 
and — à enditure of money upon the 
of the i ins titution. 
essor CoLEMAN, with regard to the edupatiop to 
from having € classes M a farm 
Professo f thane was 
and m Slag the instruction sufficiently personal to 
value. 
p 
If Mtis in g depended so much 
fit the 
xp? of a d em! 
where the. condition v alotti 
But th x much useful general information avaiable 
for fotdre development "i m ce to special 
thereby Vase Hor he uia depu: 
s dd d on 
ubjec BEA Ua agric atte that had 
"ee presented considerable a diclis partiy SRE 
out of a sort of a mbit itself, and 
ac 
fai et before the Bay of T E di M EMT is 
e kno t losse 
the mos 
ont t the air, Jod. AA J. Mechi, May 1 16. dn the cmi Keep 
Betts, 
RAL OF ENGLAND. 
; rite Siscotion, — i following is anabridge- 
discussion upon Agricultural Education 
farming h: 
paratively, Soot ded appl, se ma Mex grin 
Reed he remind them of 
decay of the iere tan] gem et ote WwW. Hloskyns) d pa) 
restet ik, inasm as it bad reduced the of farm: 
meh 20 & she re tenan d DA n 
her person's re qu which involved very different consi 
derations, and did not go to th Ju = rovement i 
the countr, rather ntity 
whole o how n qua 
land should be treated P^ a manner the iby pei to ne 
person n held it and during the pr he Held it. pos the 
ttem: mepted. to be appli icd 
question of education, if a 
a 
=f of som 
nu amber life 
ix- 
were the — icular productions of the 
great 
the same time that much information might not be | th 
goria by students from ns OE of the farm, he could not eac 
—_ that the | abo. 
nflue education being brough bea: them 
individually ; » and n. bem S] ‘practic of agriculture— 
5 — ation from abs: "clock E eon 
ing « ntl 6 o'cloc ight | i a the a tenia ot the 
was so MI detrimental to the din. “of ag poser 
faculties AM ng f inder of the EN Unless, indeed, a 
portion of LS t of the day w cut and carved o out, 
nd bediacely devoted r^ the pd caa iri of intellectual, culture 
e kind, the mpt to put books in the Toni 
hands of persons Ie r^ been the who ie day “ae 
farm,a pro tion, or an estate, was do futilo; hey Lk 
therefore, in their deliberations in and even 
at a ‘moment, address themselves ru this a Dot PRAE ware 
the pi which i could bring educational influences 
schools, which had b 
Bera p sie Sioned that morning, chest 
was another important matter for the committe = ies 
consider, viz, how to bring to bear upon the 
ife of the poorer class of farmers, and poëtica tiy 
their sons, through the we E this Society, the most 
powerful educational influe 
inen, ter the eh of am peo ussions took 
place res vie the rnal, ich found some 
favour e ‘that of ayi iei the e publication intos smaller poe 
per} so that it should be m ailable e for proton hom 
oe 
e discu 
with little difficulty, 
'voke and e: intelligence, in reference 
m Ln 4 whioh it was re eure When he 
Sas bie IREE E he 
g 
bared a ting aberi of the j 
WM the amount of the price y produce: x TM What 
r the north of 
England? and a number of other 
agricu sta! 
ns, Austrians, Picagne, cna, and 
ike—to all he anh Me 2. ed to return the uen 
o me ascertaining what the 
ral produce of the Mmi: = so irri w 
y 
z 
an and his eading as uld to the ques- 
the ehem produce oy Sier countries ? 
had oft ti re ho suffered from low prices speak of 
the pepe s P foreign corn that was imported into the — H 
and they did so ziden tly without any knowledge what 
ar tA e under the circ 
altho gh the hey w re topics 
saat dress ere qo, He thought something might be 
done by the Society in this res; une through the medium of the 
ibutio ons to the Journal, 
E 
disseminated a: 
M E would px reach the agricultural hom d thus 
rially assist in developing the intelligence oft the farming 
at partly from the nat the class to ch it was eatis Most. cordially did he hope that success would attend 
s i d ah a great mista ke to | thro row the zoey app em m regard t ii doris expresion « grins ral | the labours of the bouizuittee of t ts e Society. 
let them m waiting fh Th ucation" mig education| The Chairman, Lord FzvERsHAM, returned the 
g for cart ing. e earth Prete dried | i us , > 
Sid falls from them oii a second ha andling. They ought | Ms Brereton je] ers or the t sons two class cise es which er a of the meeting to PA Holland, to whom, he 
ve pal x had at once thrown into the cart, and con- Sessa. Wah. Sad ele Sig A sia a y $ k T mesa p not mr for e: 
eyed to the clamp. I look upon this as most important, | speci Di ti f i e | lecture, but for having sed a comm) of the 
the earth attached to the r g retained. Every quaition merely peli oot U dr Doer tho E Cn b the | Couneil of the Royal Agricultural Society to consider 
Toot Rs be, in our southern or eastern counties, n er. he should then agree that education ought to e | the important question of education, and observed that 
pulled up and clamped or placed in unds for | 5”) mo € ot s 2 pen E — reby be better | he could not entertain a doubt that important results 
is | apply his knowledge. Hie knowledge aud Afterwards have to | would ensue through the instrumentalit hat com- 
ge and his prac 
wha more lytical and intelligent in ev way, and more te e, for one, should be extremely gratified if 
he Mol yA “the ned of froz of Takai "Y am E ee uel any ad 2 p M than | they felt it their du y to recommend some gene 
Purchase roots in this Ldelibod rhood to 2 WOO ede Alle he up to it by an education of a practical plan upon the. subject, eA also considered it 
pene the price i E osii ing special character. But the question brought before the cont & akan 
y 20s. per ton; surely at that Committee of the Royal icult iet; expedient to propose e prx offered 
Price they are worth preserving. I Observ as to-day | quest estion Mr. Hoan. pray inten ded—was rather | by the poe, for the m t of the pupils 
EY angel bulbs taken from the clamp ad the ESTY A estion Bow far edu ge might | educated at the proposed : 
heavy jv. ne to the —_ om bulb being x juicy, ge to agriculturi urists as a í Cass. Now embodied a Mr. inire observe reponderance of - 
; i e : not o 
months since, P, as when tal en E than six very n ry con mee Pact pne — ys - oe poa Poel etas as d: MS. against giving 
friend of mine having a very fine pis eis pec er in the new or existing 
piece of white * how could they classily a r ono head a body of men dm m * 
tede nips which he wished to preserve for | ing he occupler of 30, 40, up to schoo! e education of the agricul 
Man Pulled them, and placed the bulbs touching ho might be the owner of 2000 or 3000 acres, where He s glad, however, to see the special educa- 
each other, with the tops on, ona ure close to the was "biüutly farming himself without the peretas f | tion of ists as ible ; and 
: d. The Turnips the Grass, the | 94» pect ye —— Mos tag og rye etd that | he thought, without attaching farms to the schools or 
Turn; Protected the bulb in the severe frost, and his be ex rely futile, because the body to which the legislation | COlleg uch a s E. a mig a certain 
"PS remained available, Th , upied a - would apply would require a hundred or more different modes | extent be imparted. ry farmer now-a-days found 
when cked. It is mis creas tw would apply to the rich man who | himself obliged to Prid a little in science, and 
your clam P RIEN A PAS ein DDut. it was most painful to witn «nda oe of capital 
onm ignorance in 
1. E. Dow elements o 
d 
& 
scientific matter: 
the | more seca] ri fais “of education for the agricultural 
