348 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Aenm 9, 1864 
neighbours at his n home and at theirs. , And | There | are r e wanes letter a number of very | Mr. Stiles Rich was, I gather from his papes EE 
journeyings, co meuiltshions labours in behalf of He says :— | of great shrewdness, humour, and observation, Y. 
— needing help or else requiring guidance and | «qt is not -= that are gp — is greatest numb rja cleyer seen among them, in which “Mr J 
» are perpe tually menti oned. | Almost everybody, | of acres who have always ost s and what is still | Ploughshare ” has to answe r before the Court E 
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and worse, “they eu. oper those | ‘that have ‘ess. eral i rm znd | | charge 4 tM, Community- at Larga that h his 
| will e eternal b. X3 arde ‘in his duty. Jack of course gets off with 
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and ian of the peccet eed of persons, both Ménenis are shackled with covenants -- n their leases sot tb: pare | 
Squires and tenant farmers, whose names belonging to = ay bur: piod eme: bnc pans. # oS ee oan n 
this gr trict I have known all my days. landlord - steward, "mot. to be able to do what he knows to be | wants of Mr. Community-at- Large, I pres not pilus 
mith was a resolute, confident, and altogether | a real imp o the estate he occupies. For it is not | action for malicious prosecution would have 
ipie character, with not only a warm heart for a | the parin 8 and | pridie that injures the soil, but the ill use | the latter. ng s e 
friend, but with powers of fight and opposition too 9 | na former lottar SEES ER uy moda XH shown | vations on threshing by m r hand; on the 
— the a cane of the Gaa was — E and an ignorant Ch Ta thinks that as he has = id out a deal of | rela tion between the live and den weight of shag: 
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describe so his peer to distant | t h Ps gene [attempt to introduce a fiber of Scotch 
e burnt i On the "poetry ; the adi he should | oblige the | Ch tenani 
counties, to Ha nts, dieu Nottingham, Somerset, &c. Exc t when he breaks ieee of la wd top d burn for | the property of a late Earl of Suffolk—the ts on 
In his letters he declares his want of educati ion, and | Rm Shed: ary t Aa na Grass soeds—and 1 ei » pa | tenants being displaced by Scottish farmers, by whom 
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s lar a n heart for a man’s proved, 
as a farmer particularly lament it. Yet there is | | life, o p^ to the d of time. On the contrary, by sowing too | bet rre S0; years, so it is rr 
ped dier enough that he was a remarkably well | often, la ands will become like a tired Dres you may whip and |p x os ce ile an A LA they were BÉ 
educated man. His Journals, with their copious daily | spur, but will not be able to get him on; but give him rest, iiia left their anis hi v e relet to 
entri s : " ngli A^ and the rd Will recgret his ngur ib io on ap vall as ever. | mhi. was 50 y o Tagine 
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never guilty of falsé spellin never un tical, | been lost by breaking up old land without beni ing. The | Mr. Stiles ek. 24 succeeded by his nephew th 
nor even slipshod and careless in his style. He | reason is plain, if NEA „will but think; for the earth is late 6 E. W. Rich of Didmarton, and amon 
t " ia] | mother to the sward, and if. Ass land be fi PO broke Pw Tu | are siat that t Vv the: 
à ‘plows bue ict ard mixing with the arth will e | Pap ^ g at inheri 
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whether ru is en g the society of his friends, E ors 1 Turniped and (Covered, and h stil ars | hel known to many gentlemen present, and it hari] 
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— with an impracticable neighbour, describing | | m he oe on to talk of the Georgics of Virgil. | wt e with him, to refer to hi icultwi 
iy iti his nal and professional ta acter. I have al 
ding—he spe aj: “Ther normen posi in, the Georgies than in all ud | heard of him from my father $e ds x 
es just as a first-rate sort of fellow would feel | bred to a country life, otherwise hé could not have known rn | leadin ng and characteristic farm 
and express his feelings at the present day. I read | so well I never could road «single page in nt other book | the Cotswold country; and 
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as | po dod in th ting geent of lando, 1 cibi. - 
Hie ed in the management of lands, snd enerally said | : : 
t r to be an improvement. Al o zpensive 1 improve: | for my personal instruction, I remember very well the 
mouth, and to a mansion he had seen which was ments will defeat themselv ves, tiniee 3b be draining of lands; | fr! y reception, e weal agri 
* more like the work of a God than of E man," qn Pien people fen wondered tha our gron throw away their | information which : ee from him. 
r in ni : I have now brought these personal ref. to the 
Š ET S “agriculture a part of th leasure—it wo ield them . p erences 
the “grandest sight in the world." One sees him | satisfaction than all the "gels o -— for besides health to the | present oes nd I I doubt not that to you, long 
perpetually in a room full of friends with the most body, it gives pleasure to the mind. If at any time whilst I d with tl 
hospitable spread and hearty talk with which he he in business I could not tell what to Cx ith myself by | jin - district, I have not been drawing an T EE 
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enteri em. And withal, on one or two , my horse, and all went well; and it was ten to one before 1| meten picture, but that the un style and 
occasions you read, from month to month, and week to had rode a miie but I rose toasong. I say if gentlemen would chisrae aracter of man exists in many ins CUR Tana 
week, entries showing the rise, growth, and at length | one Er my would Enos b z their estates a me EE an indeed, "upon these hills at present, To this I can to some 
e happy E extent bear personal testimony. And it is doubtless 
" = > none are m py and healthy than those that one templat Pp y. f : 
His anger Sometimes broke out unrestrainedly, and I the Penati. o fate for it Taree adds cheerfulne M und to this personal character and professional ability of 
come on one v on the iMi entry. ‘This | Sobor A to the mind, which many of those in high life are ia vt aae farmer of the district, far more than to the 
day kicked 1 a and gave him two ps.” atural circumstances of soil or clima 
journal is a genuine of country| Well, , gentlemen, though I fear I am occupying too general agricultural progress irs I have now to show 
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life. His « da ratifies at dene snd [Panoh zok with this account of Mr. Smith, I that eee tnessed has bee: 
a spor journeyings to and fro—then | am "vU wur agree with me that he deserves a 
again, as he gets on in life, his poet -— - the | Y fuller biography if we could get at it. | 
ate, 1 - characters and the deaths of frie He! Mr. Smith is succeeded in these papers by Mr, Stiles 
gifts of venison, Pines, einn old | Rich, the uncle of the late Mr. Rich of Didmarton. Hom ¢, Correspondan 
wine 4 good living generally, and latterly | And the mantle of the one seems to have fallen very | The Summer of nin —I much wish that I and the 
he comes -—]À Pen "x rend rt other | bigis eem hes sorti The late y we Stiles Rich was | Ga rdeners' Chronicle stood on better ae tab s, and that 
i castor oil, pills, and so fort at length | in the habit of recor ing accurately the bees the Ag ted my 
ee e Throughout all, his — for the | nd produce of his farm. From 1 1774 down S eudlavours-tocaieciaen fe LEN sei 
y and for m service, and for the Bible, | present time, t t 1 character of tl 
are all pleasantly characteristic. I read ma an entry of Pd cem ute Onta Peas, and other corn, of cows l deni ms. anthems ; u and Sir 
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‘I don't find the word Slight in any part of the | senior, peish, “and labourer, pe ae deese an d I i ther be di 
M but the words blast and wildet coor in one or don Hag dg igh a ordei ecole tot in d "Y -— res 48. M wii ia ad even wil 
two places, from which I think the blight in corn is. | Risto ira yw "To ‘the ns which | the aid of dv: telegraph ; add that ang man mast 
rather mismanagement on the Aci of the farmer than | they teach us nyg iw] prog of res ed on the | mad who would alter his business arr 
MET barir oar | Cotswolds I shall immediately refer. It is to the |the op pertica vh aecount "ot any speci 
may be pk of his biblical | personal character of the men whom I call as wituesses | predictio of the general character of a comi ing we 
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etie cee | Li think illustrate the ori m eid now referring. But I hes addressed myself in a special manner 
individuality of the man. His letters still xmas Seral | ave in these n: a ee of the early diffi- | the mercantile pone contre in the 
show this. I hare two of his letters to Major e which Mr, Rich e; tered—an account of the general term Mark Lane—from them, I know, I have 
Ogilvie. In one he recomm mmends his fri friend to ado ti changes of PaA um adopted, from dairying to | obtained a hearing, and I have the full and unalterable 
&ix-fiel. ie sheep. (both a breeding flo ck and a dry flo ock), Ther re | purpose to con vince bg Ys ony and sane 
M au ed ing. Heisaya := les consequent on “the gog; (brain dis ) y D 
Grass-land is broken up in the com | Egles" (brain disease) among | my ex mge im mn g a sum aire sh 
ae u the ion being & vegetable, maid itor : M | his aoe ilas trations of the genuine honesty die ER it sh shall not be unreasonable in them to alter their 
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producing fermentation, which throws | played in the "t in which at a great personal loss - | business arrangements in the slightest particular, 
Em out of se eva dor e c Er SOR dm got rid of his disease s xe ck—illustrations, | consequence pr eG i a principles., 
"e Ben file to endet reel d boos 0 of the E confidence, and asit proved, the trustworthy | what other design could I write on the coming summe 
T vegetable part is destroyed by fire |” confid with which he turned "for advice to his | weather at all, always referring as I do, to its pr 
t ds th Special advice given E two puede friends, Mr. | Brooks of Wils sby s and Mr. effects on the crops ? Ire refer yon back for oomi i 
M Sobel Es s a Higham. g forecasts 0! harvests 
‘the man and the rs, Three at least of tows enman 
* Never farm st too great an expense; but sitdown aud déunt| displays’ both the character of 
cost, for nothing can be an improvement unless [ym s character of the tenant farmers of mae erse manner 
D V improw , that day in this fem remarkable, and each i oatures 
share ot understasdinp, efi D mone to makes m regie qoem neighbourhood. He says that when he first e. erem allude to 1860, dne 1863, wn the oe fi ot 
than all the high-flying notions in agriculture. In servan isi and | On the farm he was advised by Mr. Cornelius Rob h actly ch forecast—and its 
Taa mi dene fg gre ta j therfore have always | ry, least was & curious incidence, i each were Sa 
Teun arta which he did for seven years or better. But when T lucky hit. What is there at this moment. to show be 
“The thing is to fa = found himeelf so awkwardly placed by his shop) ian least probability that the coming s m 
icing ths amd d edam sof your setate fo boars posible, qi he “made the best observations in his p loa early, hast Rage: or that many crops ma 
you can. I believe it mpossible to make ME s pod different methods of farming, ET then found that ‘the | x probably rather come. short of an. ANH y pe 
farmer, for that tyrant “prejudica ean hase P kien im Food | 6-field systera which was practised by Mr. John Smith r, om the operation of the idin 
breast. Yes! and I will undertake to make iners | before y "0s las ast yent, 1 the land it 
before I can mend one bad one." T" — os c BET princip she spring 9 quee apn e] ; 
: for his trouble than any other; and Seaia be ti ial de nd the seeding committed to 
cet, Sats send ator in my powanion was |i al sre te Seid eriam for 23 pene iint | wht na cet a 
eee years later. Itis a lar illustration then, he had vd as Pkt jus found any other method to Li m not pet ^g certainly think tha 
c NEN. Hebel and quaint Mor poor Co ill be too drys and T think also, that 
per m The pook of progres” which I shall by and by | again, you LAM be. justi 
| elev Hie a learned man who was a good farmor, and, quote from the experience of this farm e "pir "another lucky. hit If 
I ime scholay is the time for eiae vile b in the ha sepe of its fertility under the six-course Ru allow at the came log. that my luck 
ine, and it: eed system, for it has been ever since maintained upon this | than yours, It is quit e that I can mas 
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stata | les sevo cropping of the ire or even of the four- | not really ascertain from them 
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