638 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [JULY 2, 1864, 
aa : oot fairly look for wa: on the poses af Seite 
aay tatio and becom ming M to dein | TA : E the lower part of the stack before it receives lay such lands down to Grass; : for the purposes of ingre 
| SA s ste,’ Du however. dur e wholà superincumbent weight. In the stack we | stock keeping. W. S. "ms 
state of things had Eri a rn tA change + aud insert vertically a sack filled with straw, and gradually | — One-roomed Cottages and Labourers’ House Rents, 
so wide had the interval become between th Satine raise ib as the stack rises, the object being to! Owi y being brought up in houses oniy o m 
and his labourers that it was almost impossible à fbr any cheer ae escape of heat from the heavily com- high, "vith only 1 "ri 
of the latter to rise from the lower to the higher rank mould or Pat ig Ba k e bi "i ce edes any | not a sufficient number » joists in ‘some of f them to 
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here were nowadays ver i ü ^ 
Erak A * nM pM y a IA Sudewoured, to med are a great safeguard against firing. In large to read with interest iio discussions on labourers’ 
maintain the o ola la inten but i general it o | stacks we put two or more chimneys. s is pe in | houses, The faet that labourers cannot pay a high 
s A dyin g every stage to protect m hay as uth a s poss sible| enongh rental for a good house is palmed upon the 
rom i "n or d ed re i s n 
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am ER a tendency Ta fr ES farms tobe putting. We Alat hoó ou at any weeds froin our "Glove ver | many people wonder at Lord Imerston’s pinikit 
farmer was raised hy aiv his servant P H Me la e spring, an when those shih have escaped the | popularity. The explanation is found in the fact that 
s. He was a | hoes show their heads in the Clover, women pull them | his extensive and varied aig,” is Hid with 
d h ff é headland. non sense. E. Romsey 
and. n itid with him as members of Lis family ence | 0 i 
3 peration only costs from ls. to 2s. per acre, and pays |! 
the servants lived dee apart fro m the farmer, They | admirably in the growing and after Gop. Hradieating va dd quite true that Mr. Dutton and myself have bitil 
were stowed away in out-houses, with the liberty, | weeds and thus preventing their seeding is always a kn LI erica for the labourers” or our 
perhaps, of lounging ‘by the itchen fire. They " "i pang 39.2 respeetive properties, but I have heard it said by man shoe 
then te a e crop we intend to grow is| these buildings are altogether too expensive, "i rA 
bove E a St vig re bar whan their dai y work was and thon hune compelled a sit tae to its dinner with | not ‘pay, and hat ig people bes io aor en tee 
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ovt. ey ý y ong and hungry competitors. | 5. fündaténtal 6 i build good fa m-house for à 
" anamer ang ciata aracter, and were | almost entirely drm. Peas Jor the London Market. Higgs = have farm. panera dor “ihe poe ick E 
rom reading o looked u 
hat at 44 | looke part of the appurten: 
selves, They had scarcely any means of rational enter: | | miles from London I compete with the xoá gardener ju nt “any of tho 
téinmient, and MESES aiiigalle Weta G to 102 atak of e derer sential to the land. How can thé land be well 
br coal desires. ‘The bothy system had bee Pens, It is ‘ges for the poor a our neighbourhood, obliged to ffoi "bros oF fout E eid pon get at ele 
oudly and vehemently dennniisad of late years; but affordi women md Page Mira vut] OE in üiBtdHes home again? Tt 18 mh 
t I va par x à d 9d. p ael c d ed ant x iz = exhausted physically, but that their 
cohdemna could not but see that when moli Mta odded. The thin | ceder Vs ; 
part that the farmer does not get from them h hey" 
ow erly Terihted they 1 yes hs the farm servants being | P Nn per ddeordin üg as Wy arë late | the Wages he pays, Therefore 1 consider that, in providing 
gu e of wholesome restpunt, z "n va. "The bihes and barre ods wake capital i a Mtm with dogòminonatton 2r tp numiti Fy on 
and idea ia in d aM We. On the other hand, th o Al. i, peri cre. The! and fivate hi qe in, d 11 fuos itm Ard foes to the tengut bo a 
‘h y i e x . x 1 rm, 
"sa, ee pabting lads away into lofts and such like "Y hu tly set free for fri nips or Dee It is | let to a goo ood te hant" uam pner 
t ere they were left to their own devices, remite, that taken after sewaged Italian Rye-| Lo rd Palmerston’s los. uH are borne out byi iaith 
Mori he ia opportunity of TUM their minds, | grass, the cr op is always most abundant, with n ly | on * Time of Ploughmen,” in Morton's peo 
is u SUCHE m ecreation, an nd kie full | a weni 0 seen. The cost of the Pea as oe manae for 1864, page 2 oT. 1 hir 
sires, 
xr i ^ d : y thou, er = 
s 4 S:— axim that *knowledge is power," and that * igno 
As to the feeing-markets, no one who knew anythin king per sack (12 pecks) pur i 0a, 0598 » Ihn a | 
about them could deny that they were new ani vith Garrigo Ad MS hs t e A UE E! eee e 2 T pes bio i. eer he 
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eee edge s effects, Ae Dunlop, M.P. Mal OS xar E — their statem to sige a total disregard of "he pro- 
dal r from m frlend with regard to t tioties of Giviliecd life. A married couple with à 
gra E t which ir daectid ee: taking place re The growers get 2s. per bag, and if they sell s ai v. large family of 
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system Desting, or is likely to disappear; Now; 
Kel own observat experience leads me to say The salesien in town furnish the empty sacks without | 80 he would be found denouncing such e 
it ià quite the contraty. The thore minute and additional Charge. The farmer carts the Peas to the | barous practice, forced upoü the people by farme aud 
r stem of farming adopted, in order to | station. It is not unusual to see mint ro a hundre ed | their wives who have the accomplishments f ladies — 
work Te to a profit, the tore likely is the system of | Women and children picking in a 6-acre field. P and gentlemen. Instead of denouncing such a custom, — 
small farms t6 to diminish. The arable | picking season enipties the Mw! Sen md atta this graduale of wm a after serving an — 
farms in Scotland and the north of My 16 or 20 | to e _ old and young. J. J. Mechi, June apprenticeship as mud student,” a t afterwards 
ab p mueh greater in extent hey wer a "u^. Hd i Year of à Crop » po | BE i mn mod the «Boo k of t Farm," an 
ery — a tendency eg b that “a second cat ng-room m & hind’s 
to i lnovenst My hon, friend is quite mistake hat rin we. rm . £2 Bs. 6d, pat se is an vt gary appen age to i ity. it al never 
point ; and I think if he would obtain. information on b s terr of seed ‘Gown in previous ropot corn) 018 0 | be tised as stich. Wheti in a "peusnid story it will be 
lati e conclusioti ape BR ci n guano, at 14s, 512 0 |eonverted into a sleeping room, and when on the 
at which he will arrive be different from "iat which he $ mis of PERN d 9 1 ? ground floor into a meal or Pot store, beside! 
has expressed. I have not found that hitherto in| Irrigation, Pr essi it a bbe st of 9s, for asi d y be put into it. fire will never be 
Seotland amohg the farmers or farm labourers there coals, gas of 100 tons . ? 116 0 | kindled in it, and it will become damp and old. It 
has been a tendenéy to change shown at the end of six eg EON ince oi lis 212 6 [on en the labourer is a fi esident, holding 
months. I have had men with me for upwards of ao labor p^ s on live Stock; i & o |directly under the landlord, that he will furnish h 
20 years, and I believe if ty hon. friend will make “ui. | second room on the ground floor comfortably, a a warmly 
occasional fires.” To dojustice to the subject it woul” 
irrelevant a 
inquiry amongst the large farm n any part 
Xx i I have just tticastired and weighed ovr second ur require a Lesen dile nove D rro 
boration of my statement. The truth is, that n a «sad x. bec Ay acre, equal to 24 tons of h for publication: d prietor or 
e — and 4 days. It would farmer charging perai. r4 jus ips taking moniy 
Scots hive foot pnr beet d I have vue it a week | out of one pocket and putting x3 
emain | longer. The first acting v ve ovér 12 tons per acre, | Lord Palmerston states :— f 
niter iti 
lend pum — are € glad to f 
with good mas I take that to be n" poner Ji ) eae e 
experience of Scotland with regard to this matter. ö Permanent Past recent | th i ccommo delis 
Possessing an extensive know] aval y ate de Bac dite Chronicle j p = you do not | rather than from any i idea that it is to repay the we 
; : pass in theery. np has lately been raised for laying me of the erection. n 
more » class of mien than the married — rass,” * and you therein 8 state your reasons. Iti tows n, which aré built, pme let at a pr pur 
servants in that country, and any proposal that w E bep of the tortie 
tend to sever the oönuèstion which now exists betw may "possibly h appen just as you have managed yoür | I Lt; this subject or comment Ta p 
that class of men and their eniployers, by giving spe |land in pasture, a reaction may take place in pon price | reply to the récent Heip bout educations 
power as my hon. fri quapiane to enact, of dismissin| g of corn, althoug h I by no means thi ink it probable. Ata practical ] kno wledge of ioe i in “ one-roo: te 
vee be h Wehly obje dme itr ne ci T. that me - lish hatever si mi y b o longer | pelled to “sit up with th th erpe” in the even t ofa ‘eat 
nion objecti e En da ~ , wha it may be, m | 
o: ru hth es as part of : voten "n M: ch influence on prices, and that the | My father died on a a Monday wera md d ti is bly 
no 
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alite wages, ahd s to ^ fir 
it would be t le ot qh Bi rede v be p" i served 28 bread | h Ldbg within a few feet of the 
very inonvenient both to the farmer and Doe. Tet s0; yi it cannot be denied the English flowing T hursday. The man who sueat Sia 
i as well say at once ** so much the father es resided iti T us house till May be 
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these observations as man, knowi nd endeavour to ada; fe position to meet msequences of a 
d eps ur good ase ‘thin tter wnt his room are humiliating s — the habits of people s0 
: state viz, t does not ma b 
deal on the subject, tnd T hope my hon, friend TUI weed | cop tà te th mbi will have chen d. | citetüimitaneed are regarded he ehtonio «t 
rere de Bom session, Mr. Caird, MP. | Very well, then; let him look qe fact fairly in E ue like it. Mr. Chambe: of Glenarm tot, Ate ia dd 
face, and ask himself, how ^ he to meet it ? T suppose | meeting of the Architectural. da ie b v pe 
cepe I shall iot be consid ered Fr pened fa stating that |a aqu uestion of mere expense, bt e voee od, elit 
rues erto a n directed to the prejudioes of the rural pepsin must be stu eg 
n Correspondent | a great oney and à deal of scie Pat 
Clover Hay, lian 
Iam asked by a Scottish Correspondent how we make | to 
our Clover hay. Pep 9359 ree is probably quite wi tibia. "A s hs based hië € i ad 
— coor s, if fine; on the third | calculations arable land being eultivated with horae, Sha his DEDE, Buch of 1 a houses 
niunt M for two S power, 1 believe ; and that with 40. per in Peebleshire, Each of Mr. Chambers Tek Mr 
nd — be thought of in the heavy lands of | is merely 4 one-room house with d p qot 
ior hi ou will ai cT os i pg i the 
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om orrespondence and a ~ Lo 
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, with or without Ita Jd. e-Grass. or. Mech trate weg Jeerpensennt — e an - T Publisher A eet 4 
tj pe a . Chambers vol 
sein shall be oi Me some | i e » 
a. rt lena wal ja pde: Haymabing, cin a late number of eroi 
n vasiventages so some observations on errem 
to diminish the cost by = “Mech w which 3o ngt quie ethics t ra irst 
cultivation, ai ay nce M, a of. dir hey, of ect, aa if giv sotical farm by the 
worth while, in Ponies sda of | it is is eo momentary ponte through js driéd, 
sand dearness ofall kinds of stock, to teasing ou arning machine that the cut Grass à 
