202 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE,  [Fmervanr 27, tee, | 
prizes—490/. in in all. He has shown every year at good blood and quality as any herd that can be PL ANT IMPROVEMENT. | 
ES York d Agricultural rade meetings, | named. 
ry year—607/. in all. He has g 
“Uist. dm in pues "e the rth Lancashir — Wr are glad to hear of the success of the at ta oe -- in such a, selection i toknoy | 
Agricultural Meetin 1357. ‘the ong Agri- Steam Plough Company at Wakefield. A pim which shows a tendency towards what wi pe | 
eultural Impro aint Society’ 8 metings, 1 of 2250/, has ETN arat n 1l shares; and after | want, If the object is to retain the characteri 
Paris, 1057. it re dq ld, and 110 P lumine g- | paying 1352, . 4d. in pies: during the past the original sample, all deviation from them mus ; 
ham. He cups, de din two year, and dis lls. 4d. in rod repairs, ees the selection be avoided; if mere productiveness by 
ch xm Bub c Vitus 1001, and 120 pares tian management charges, there remains a balance on | the object, as it was in the pu of the Pedigree Nur. 
also 26 gold m pes ls, with more t 100 of silver|the year's receipts of 2867. 5s. Od. “available fe à sery Wheat, it can be most quickly attained by gix 
and of e well as other me rs dividend. A dividend of 1% per cent. Poo accord- for that solely, and I humbly vane that oa 
This extraciinary career is no doubt owing to | ingly been declared, leaving 165/. 7s. 9d. in hand, facts show that I have been not altogether 
gment and the skill displayed by Mr. of which 1002, will be e put aside as the “frst instal- | — oanp rte ewa — 
d mployer. There has been no ment ier the formation of a reserve fund to Produce] Weight 
extravagant outlay c of money in costly posent no | prov vide for the replacement of capital, mr vi meet | United Kingdom. ed Pe d 
following in the wake of great names adop- RM. liabilities, and 6 aa 8. x eS pM i 
tion of “fashionable” strains of d but a|go to the purchase of a new rope, 
thoroughly independent course, guided by a natural will no doubt be needed during the next Rait year; Ro ed 
gift and insight of the kind required, as great,| When so a, iti local companies of a similar kind | west |freland 1862 
probably, as has ar. possessed by any one since starting, it isa m — mt Lj ved ey a irn South |Devonshire | 1863 
AKEWELL'S e upshot has been to some | ance that 30 good an efo n your Journal of the 26th of Dec me a m 
extent already stated; NS final utterance will be them, as es thus pene fg forth dua. fruit at reports, headed “St. Austell’s Farmers’ Club,” it 
made next month, n prices rivalling any in| Wakefield. Mr. Cray, the Secretary of the Wake- | said :—“ We have this year tried Hallett's Wheat and 
the histo: of the eg Be breed, will no doubt Lem Company, has beh applied to for information | zh dibbling process, and found it answered wil; 
bere à rom Whitchurch, Shrewsbury, Leominster, and | al einen labour was high we found at harvest them 
rext few weeks we hope to call Nottingham, est paved other places, and the ving of 20 per cent. ; that 
p a , Sep on of his balance sheet will no doubt soon | unity of seed put and the vial per acre, as con- 
their origin but related now by the employment of "increase their number. red with our former means of putting.” ‘There is no 
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e to the Sockburn Short-horns, and to the|since a handsome ir timonial was presented sas an 
ther of them, probably the atm —— of which i er or BUCKMA ik "pt students of the | _« The English Wheat Halle j. [w^ bao] came, 
any exact account exists. She nine of her| Royal Agricu ltaral “Gol We have much | produced when drilled 29 bushels per acre; and when 
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Le consists. In another column a reference is It will be remembered that some time pu than it was ete -— pere commenced, 
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the 16th generation from Old Sockburn, was general expression by students and others of the | here are unde in were 6 ; > - neighbours 
bought a calf in 1852, by Mr. WETHERELL,who had | esteem in which the whole of the former staff of opposite ph bushels per acre argest ear pro- 
obtained her grandam Blanche 5th through Mr, | that Institution is held by them. Dr. VOELCKER | duced 113 grains. The iret siti of ears on one 
Maw, of Tetley, from Kirklevington, We shali| has a handsome piece of plate, Professor Brown a stool was 
see next month what value Mr. CursmAw's genius | valuable microscope, and Professor CoLEMAN a| „MR. Surne takes o s gi of pec dai 
has i in | gold watch and chain bearing suitable inori | of Mr. Alderman Mechi as if in his 
impressed upon a family, now second to none in | £ and chain bearing suitable E it EWS E cdam cem ma Prud ed 
the herd, EUR qunm from a Blanche which | The Professors in E fae eli issued the | 
having been parted with by Mr. Bares, was = | following joint note to the subscriber sodube & letter M^ Which Do uM "I fal aM 
doubt not "ouside 1 by "hind to stand in the sa » ei p ru | honourable justico to ‘the importance ME 
Ik as Kis sion: y Dra R Smr.—As we ‘were unable to meat you ry im qa which I am engaged ; and on the mere * a subse 
d take this opportunity of returning you our cordial thanks fi ht quent visit to me here, after having car MS 
A second family, including five members, is| the Tandsonie Tth OHN We have received... 16-3 peculiarly | through the whole subject with me, and see 
nded from Venilia, bought a calf in 1849 |f? tifying as a mark of your esteem, and approval of oUr | tical proofs of the improvement effected in peter 
at Sir C. TEMPEST’S sale herself ow! de d A reminded of the ha ears at Cirencester, and of the | cereals by selection, he did m — honour, and from 
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generation from CHARLES fri I de 
i COLLINGS many friends we made there. In conclusion, we heartily re- | such a man emit an hon to say upon leaving 
] "echo th Pr io. qi a pòrt tunities may occut for | me, “T oall you the Jonas Webb of Grain.” Such is 
A third family, iaai? eight of We are, Dear Sir, Yours very faithfully, the testimony ofa highly honourable man who hespealy 
** Booth? blood is descended from Pearly austus Vorroxer. | at heart “the improvement of agricultural plants, 
bought in 1852 of Mr. Jonn Boorn, herself ^ 3x AMES BUCKMAN, | ig one of the best friends that agriculture has had. 
: : M be Asta I fear that I have already intruded too long upon 
great granddaugher of Bracelet by Priam (2452), JoHN COLEMAN. but h ill b ith me while I 
twin sister to Necklace, Mr. Joun Boorn's two your Spaco, but, WAS: you wis -PAT Ld 
place side 2t um extracts from Mr. Shirref!'s lei 
S 862, and that of f Feb. 6, 1864, 
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A fourth f family, including fiye members, is | Mes: FowrER n& Go. bs of Lede upon - corre- | Mr. pouce a Sep. 6,1862. | Mr. Shirreg’s Letter, Fd. 6188s 
ded from Jiradadine, nd from the spondence between Messrs. HOWARD, of Bedford, | “Mr. Hallett's Wheat crops | tt What is really the sort of 
pd herd, purchased o grieul- (at Brighton) had evidently | Wheat which s - ri 
ural Society, it i is right a their replys addressed periods of the season, but all | Brighton and sold by Mr. 
an Aie Teinipal Md in I uem eg no | " us, sho so appear in the lead eem of TE remarkable for Hallett ? By his lu gercr 
bers, descend m | of the i i Lawetle. TEN ^ pa ongih'of car und ete ee of [Numan NRI DTE 
P cro’ or so genuine that | been improv 
> ows a a celebra d cow bred by Mr.| “We ue stated that Messrs, Jorn | after a careful examination I pevontion: into W d 
Warp on RoszRT COLLINGS' farm at Barmpton, | FOWLER Er Co. ‘the cause of the controversy’ | cond only detect two or three | been pleased to call Big 
Le She was bought by Mr. Warson, of rir asla and Messrs. Easton & AMOS. | teing dece - il aagiones st pP or no ER 
gham, from Mr. WrrHERELL. We sha — v stated — ne Mu Daum in appearance, I failed to dis- | blance to true Numa. que 
another week give her descendants so far as the irte Messrs. Easton & It oe it pe em a ee Saft wii 
à ected on the | set, with a 
can be traced. They have almost always made | is not, niie Ew who are ‘enti iy i fi: "eno Wheat plant, and believe that | stands on the n 
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es. Ten ave upwards of 1007, at i his Pedigree variety is identical | acute angie we 
pyeregea Up i e Mr. FOWLER, in assuming that we referred to with the eom a Nerury Wheat while the ear of Hallet d 
e i the 
at Earl Dvcrz's sale in 53; four averaged 66l. 3s.| — ** The name of the firm of the country, rather wide peb pd ote 
; we did allude to we are | cream-coloured, acute 
ifia e a n) in '52, and other | prepared e 8 e Council institute an | eM lie 7 T 
uoted inquiry into the relations of "the C - h an acutene* 
Mr. Easrwoop paid 130 guineas for mE neers with the implement manufacturers. = | Spei: riri ie er of which 
one of her secaktars, i A a Master Burterrty| ‘In our last letter to Messrs. Easton & AMOS| he complains, goes on to = ^ ie differen 
sold for = 1200 guin p ome is agi we put this case:—' Suppose, for instance, we | between the Pedigree and com all thst 
was the andson of t siya d his brother, | recommend the pumps of Messrs. GWYNNE, and | which he on the 6th Septemb er, “Ts ta 
Royal iterfly, is in the nb. p month. | Mr. FowLER recommends your pumps, would not | polite decision for which 2 is remarkable, p 
Another daughter of Vei iid Rose, Princess the circumstance, however disposed you might ides tical. Surely M r. Shirreff cannot expe d 
Royal, fetched 230 guineas at Mr. Watson’s sale,|be to be uninfluenced, fend to place us at a|be regarded as an authority y upon a subject upon 
bought by Earl Ail h er puxr oes | disadvantage ?? he can so wri pich rel 
were — at the Tortworth sale by Mr. GREN-| Now, although Mr. Fowrer denies having had Mr. Shirreff ‘does not write in a "od howeftf 
FELL, of l'aplow Court, and purchased agile by | any business transactions with Messrs, Easton & | entitles him to notice at my hands. ^ such abe 
Colone) TowxzLEx at Mr. "s sale a few| AMOS, we are sure he will not attempt to deny |j; pmo es 23 ^ Dot to 
Froth = Treue them. oe xe» Lom | that a large number of steam pumps, to be worked cm of osten Speer fr wi "coup tti, and 15^ 
er t|by his engines, have been sent abroa Messrs, | in vain isi 
Rasen and others, the prier ‘of gr "Townsley! EASTON & Amos through his ig erent oe ie " oed te Meer oo of my my advert 
families, including all the Butterfly ** We much regret that Mr. Fowrzn, evidently die Paties Wheat, for to the growers Aw 
cena | through misapprehension, should — E it a ds at the dict mis inel br M 
ere in this ave 1861, T 
versy is with — with him; our contro- so d these eie words d : 
v with Consulting eers, who, w a er wants a Yu 1 
py a false position the fact of their | Turnip, his instinct “eo Min to pins centre i 
being —— a and dealers in | the same with animals, hore 
ich | make them rivals of —but the moment ho approaches Ti Rapt rd 
NT the competing Arm past xal the principle which he 
mem vá the i Agit | -Nan farmers should | be — age 
smi ha above all it bee Malt DM A een age Anat od 
things it is necessary that | ¢ E likely to suit their purpose 
in office should be above suspicion,” my Wheat is the only Wheat that C? 
