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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [JANUARY 16, age 
and , which in its explosion may convulse a district, 
més need of land drainage, by which mes — Fey i will you receive its ample, unlimited, this dall Bu. pion principle of money- making RI 
was particularly pn Sir Robert proceede Capital must be concentrated by employing it upon a less | are now discussing either enrich or convulse the world, 
"Hh Farming" o mean the act of iq ing from | amount of surface. Let the 200-acres arate confine himself 
any given land the pimsi possible ia of gag cen of | to 150. The 150-acres n Ww jon — M - syi good 
which it may be palis by any or Whatever r means, through ra will basai pay, w y be ebie 
the inv estm ment of capital in any or whatever for rm. No ws o a and a deed into ruin, 
t E A commence to farm 100 acres with a capital al Education. Longmans 
— X farm of 50 acres Gan "A s eme equal to a per acre ; Arai this era he may obtain 
the rent i * xe ATO rofit, m r less, according to his capacity for managing | To this ms Ta named last week, we m 
Debi it tao n e rates  .. P. nd., NEN & more, 
1 oe 4 se that instead of 100 acres he were prea 
— this i M capital over a surface of 600 acres, equal to 1L per Mr. Constable, the Principal of t Royal Apri 
£150 acre, would he not, even in the prsent day, be called a fool? | tural College, pao collected in it "i in € 
1, equal to 67. per head cost all, ec a A ps very same plan carried’ or m od 1^ al} lectures to i ral courses delivered last, pe. 
ES our Cumberland farms, in a greater or less : : 
View t uus see eer not the question, “ But where is the money to e fom P^ M Institut à LI te tay — 
Ren I3. . £100 too faithfully confirm this view? Gen Moni. peto your | that they. foris a satisfactory answer questi 
Rate : My digo oos fe re er eh i^ surface and thus increase the power and profit of your capital. | —What i souud agricultural. education? In by 
Cattle man zi i be . 49 By this me s you nm m out p s in rents, rates, an own prelim ary K the adva 
Manure at 3i. ( h h t) v. ^35 labour, amou apital saved you can expend in f stud o ell etu aud of t Piae : 
manure ta bs applied 1 to your ym surface from which you | Of study ing abstracy science, ol 
£300 will derive much more profit Hen n fro r pr qu e gere i ns, and o 7 he then mer tion ": 
amount E aru api! AV 3 rent and rates : 1 States m 
Produce 50 cattle grazed, equal to 6l. per head cost, gt es little profit, but s ad Peli expended in manure agricultural student ; an odestly, anf 
In these [es examples I have so arranged them as to make 
the cost per hea 
x i evert to our examples | of pn ncy in agrieultural education whieh the 
result will be found very different. In the first yen dM cn omma of the welot ua revert o P olati gnmagy 
the money paid out has left the farmer's pocket for len The first exs le that of di -trot f: 
in the second example half the expenditure is hod they in his t je DLE a sspe Saber 1a zn et Let i& be borne in mind that we do not at thi 
"—— min 
1 , or, if you like it better, Gay in. his. farm, Nowe for who takes his 50 acres of Grass land. He manures not, s 
exam: oe sake, let me assume that fr soe farmer clears wy oo the prot me rages his disheartened 
after paying e t ji hi d 
fret cane Ve ET eun ee Mere of 99) as his at A acres, e Spirit by duin dove d ae in fault bu ssa f: his Pyrite 
= land no esr than he eae z " 
a pro! . off this same 50 rede an pw eave , p th 
tices dalled tahoe thn he fonnd Fem. - io 1 this poor farmer's brow; the overseer for Tuer upon the 
20s, per aer fit, but in i only 
cost in the 
first man has paid 61. per head for the grazing of 25 cline, available capital kki pay for a good manuring to his] nd; t 
perly be called 
16 per cent. on his outlay Ls rent, rates, and labour, vier the s additional vem of "his Mn Farmi 
^ e were 
ofit to and w 
EOM a aduetion on rent was ‘the only s way left of [rte various ab; minute applications of. this principle, as the prac- 
sal 
d on the cattle equal in each case, reci a 
lh Wath ‘canes 
azing, an d bel has land in very superior con- of cattle, as Pre » doubling bis percentage on the rent, rate, 
The E adopted in. in the - example and labour outlay. 
at is called a mer Seco is. 
Nd h n 
utlay ry to mer. 
il bain me Hey cheerfully pay an intem » pon. which | profess to point on out S rà m = principle bf, on which 
would pos Negteble 
will be repaid by the second everybody, immedia iately reduced his holding to one h 
enriches and blesses the repre 
e th 
on that account all the more trustworthily, the kin 
that it is the ] 
prom his belief, satisfies 
for exacting too t; the ia for wasteful 
nd it. In the second example he expenditure of county rates, sey meg pw the sweat of 
Lov nd charging him with too much poor rate, both of which 
the Lae cas ly 105. onfidently certain he could have laid out much 
d hi i 
a | afte o years’ course. Ther royal road 
ihe at and we should be poer to have foul | 
h aie 
i paid ^ ff ‘all Fy one Had this man, instead of finding fault with every ma Ari pa 
manure also. Practicaily, ould have found himself in possession suddenly of sufiient 
cond, man have oniy cost him gj, | doubling its us production, carrying his previous number stay with us capable of managing a farm 
"good fa 
e by saving the iia itorial expenses on 25 acres he 
"high farmer. The Meg Siei ng the profit of 50 acres, besides pores | receiving ‘ack 
ng 
P 
these principles into practice each man must le 
himself, may A s ire HM in a p ter «i 
ex 
oo hi 2 beca h tn Tt has sede gn ten thi or nor idee "y 
i: d vnd Mx gn p^ me omit oor "m ot us man’s pow of observ: sia may 
ae 
ould m like ud the ran n my aubje pie mit me, to go o and detail i the 
opa er "m gaining tical NM ~ Mg evi arate farm, Vm a of soil, 
rais ent, rate, | and every s; of e eultiv ation adopte ted by 
fe 
Laid 
mpossibility to the other | all profitable farming, bus e based, Ilea 
dos MORTUUM to th cerea es -s mi ih ye lege system it is not possible thi 
nt wo enp, the|eachs X. precum Meurs niae cii o stu t into the a f ob ning this 
fth of; of amy "statement embodying an e rry E ts on Some ant case, and directed by his own practical intelli- knowledge for himself; neither the length 
generally e sessed too high a value for the land, It is much to be regretted, that merely to name High | course, nor the circumstances under which stu 
but eg fi ade is oa bebe ae rent; or, in other | Farming is sufficien Aul. a laugh, not to rw ft LA feeling red placed (diligent students of diffionlt sciences), willal 
words, tha e average of farmers do not know and there- pietre as thoug igh Farming init on y 
fore do carry out orrectly the true principle of profit | fools, o east cnccked tnr k rtm for the eme pe ge — Xe of that constant and close attention to eg 
making in their cultivation his Iam convinced | turists. Has it never entered your dos that you are all which alone enables any one to cu te land 
of theland. T 
is the true explanation of the apparent difficulty. It is a dan-| more or less open to the doubtful smile bestowed on High 
pe and too prevalent, idea thai T. As Farmers? 
the land, but the capital 
that tudent does his duty who does not spe 
invested in the land, aided yt Permit me say that yo High Farm! ad X 
Pun n pakun; wt dois given Ln-cupb-ouil. prea, AS vel though E soom to 1 bs it eas very long ours c on the farm, observing the o 
DAMM eM that the or the fork yields the rent. | ago, “Gout “Rot E some here ep nd m details which he is ex| 
Land ean be + as à machine through which th the Seoaeiber te when thet cheng) kyin of farmin; mbrkesd te the acquire roduce afterwards in exami 
TRA pe Mines is capital, whieh, worked with judgment, will —— ng an Oat or Bigg crop, year after year off “the same a 
out goods yielding a profit. ut manure, until that fend soni prada n more WDR quite sensible that however udi fedi e 
In selecting Grass land to exemplify my meaning, I have que. ; after which it was left to cover itsel with its is worked, we can never hope to make in 
FA i LA, yet ether abled me to P. an example in the M re i. “io be it Boe) a ie sei neglected sati i it course, a previously uninstructed y: xil ,a He 
i rable farms are governed by exactly the sam thought ntly refresh! th i a ry reason to believe 
Jaw ; but my examples. would bnvé-bédoina Mrs Mnie hen Sw? ime, we have every reason eliev: 
: and intricate, Re g= much poU x > man in that day an so ach him that afte r another two years’ 
à Neither do I wish it to be su bea epe d 1 am doing now; suppose him to have|^ 
po sed that the outlay and return on the examples gi U e TA rS t 
or ei, Oty bj. the exact sums either of expenditure day, ! the adoption A the beri 
het Sen "idle tet yt rq A ge u manuring land 
t 
In concluding 
me Bligh Tran eh the nation at large, b m" ibis bo bo — what 8 
or na a ge, because it | impossible thin ay ractice and 
Bho bes a maximum of human food at the chea est rate. It | done immensely more 
rmers ; would t. 
‘prota by i high "M might not be | à madman, or a doubtful friend, and would they not have asked 
SE pater bre minute d m him as now is done es where is the money to — from ?" 
ven above ended as High Farming, » t ence wi i 
us how t to observe, he may pta bs 
ness on v» ber] aceount with a tolerable 
eropping and 
as now adopte ted. | by ces very TOR of 
hey yA then have treated bis advice as that of 
EE 
now sum- | Their q "us pt hee ve y answered, for you have found 
ro^ rent for his land. It is the best for | farmer in the county, would look down with e ntempt upon 
ed gives him the or, and man who might recommend or adopt that ancient x 
Sanri, y to bis meg with the least possible drudgery to me j vet you, epa m Bale day, treat, with a pitying smile, | many are, to creep into fortable homes, closing 
himsel: e advice to farm et me remind you again that yo i m. 
Hinh ligh Farming” only ultimately, increases | all, the worst as well as the best, farm high, agai m ow and eyes to the ignorance and evil beyo 
pese Gan tee 
a 
bitterly condemn. Th you are all Hig! ers com- t 
* High Farm forces from the land the greates! t possiblé| pared to your ancestors, yet you are fi very lif honour 
Seow on food which its rly sappi zh be ae e o. This This | A iot i ing | — deine it judged c 6 sibus wi ate ne ing MEE. ee 
iberal heu . Iti i 
amount of strength and richn kn of assimilating, | |if possible, to this ‘acy that Ù noA Me Sg a reg From Mr. Morton's lecture on the 
un men of the various manures mia n bed omposition | Now, what have I advised you to do? Not to alter or change | the successful farmer, we have already Pm v 
the requirements rach plan oe = cropping i ied. = — 2 to introduce | extract (p. 36). It commences with somewhat ú 
E. Engar Sipa ge ute at of t thy Powers 4 | you to obtain peara i fresh n.n eios eci "WESS contrast to the; passage just quoted with ve 
Eee ia mean igh Farming,” mmn ave tá advised you to oes giro an entirely new "Peel of cedi ing lecture ends :— 
tne about t that resul! animals requiring management an Ro ly different fi voit the kno 
proceed to show “where th e money is to come | your previous habits and he obra qr! Lus ‘me rely AM the emen, yi a "eh h pe^ em turn 5 
fro ‘poi ont t6 you os to gota greater produes Li ieh agriculturists 
Degrees cet bat wi ana Profit, have profitable accou: unt” 
Jn answering and explaining this this question, do not for shown fou the unalterable laws this can i 
a moment suppose I am about to show show oc suis hidden plished, and that the adoption of 
hoard of ready-coined 
REY EC and — » and the Eo fegiivd rof qe 
Ste s sovereigns from which richest. It requires li mt en any change in Fag praet cal i nstruction in agricultural eda aera 
wants, or that I am about to show adi fe ing; it only requi ies you to advance ue Eum Pi vols sor Chureh's introductory lecture, whi 
x road to wealth, Man was told in | ife e woe n M -: the bre eer of your land. | ceeds it, rses with great fulness of illu 
ing, In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou | to give T aeo aca pel ard Ean owe to b3 requisite on scientific and applied chemistry, on org 
o this we must all submi whether we | § Carlisle Doshels of 3 Wheat, then the advice A rer in | organic try. And able the lect, 
obeying y this univarsal and tary | tbis paper urges E him not to be satisfied with 8 bushels, but to | to point out the ing of his teachings om 
assist more : il 1 fi 
power to render it Produce greater, weight aod ei in capital per aere to | practice er, let n f 
ane ipede am about to offer, 
object of all 
arm 
pat m esed that it virtually that ancient system, which i 3000] 
pied aig ew. s de- G , Which you all with € y sont so 
ve no spare capital 
ie teaches | ska ta PI ci a 
"d es i 
shape or in whatever character that capit. ipe ere A you must pit wit Peppa N, carry 
aer 
h wi i 
ler TAL to think they have no spare | 4¢re more capital at once, thus Sie farnish you with 8L an 
And it proceeds to discuss the value o 
te een 
“The grand aim of the agriculturist 
o | largest quantity md the best quality | or f ? 
anim istent 
y 
w ; either by means of more manure, a 1 
some and more or trench pl , or by some 
Re ea is the | $ia ind ing, c Aa ome means hee to enrich 
thus saving th 
“Hi gh h Farming.” I answer, if it | and expense of cultivation, which phe kon nter e 
is better than a Si the 34 acres given'up. This expenditure saved from the 
Steen there is little AS in | #4 acres, with the recovered capital of 31. per acre, would enabi, 
eo “venir for kindn you to cultivate and manage the remaining 66 a Tr sd. M ooqua 
high and. | er s aa pata er liberal 
sg erum ca Short one, but so also is the prin- 
dn; It is the 
ip ALIM suo td i» 
