bon THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [SEPTEMBER 3, 1864, 
His} 23 belonging to his Grace the Du ke of Drvon-| Mustard may be with the probability of 
firm exhibited MT NA * pom MT A work in | SHIRE, ui Holker Hall, North Lancashire, on the |a ws worth iwing mgt the frost shall eut ig 
* fields of grain which had not been edi n 9th ; 52, the entire herd, belonging to J. WoRSEY, 
nor mei," but were intersected with surface| Esq., at Lower Clopton, near Stratford-on-Avon, 
drains, some n them nearly 2 feet in depth, and | on the ei fee the entire herd, belonging to G. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION, 
concealed by the crops. In the first field no pre- | F. Hew sq., at Hainton Hall, near |frhe following primiim week addressed: to the Editor of 
caution was taken to keep out the crowd, whith Mais, Linoolashite, on 21st; 33, the the Times. 
trampled down everything before it, Of course, | property o vIES, Esq., at Mt Old U have powerfully enforced and illustrated a 
no judgment was g^ ge were then| Hall, Knutsfo rd, Cheshire, on the 23d; 68, the y l l 
n whi entire herd, belongin ng to M N oe at | addressed to the Ormskirk ar ay heer Society. Ge 
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py machines to grief, when they broke | Mr. THOMAS CHAPMAN, a 
bounde. À favoured exhi itor, however, ad not} Oakham and Stamford, on the 29th. Here are a em. PE and Cual Chee Progress, 
only been admitted from the inning, but had | about 250 pure-bred cattle, whose average price ioultu , 3 J s 2 for 
n allowed to reconnoitre and pract se in the| will fairly represent the existing market value Teo ng, just in proportion as à man is properly ed forth. 
field before the trial. à : of good : ("n S mi A AA "e = for his 5 profession ond $4 oa abled to inves Bean ta 
This year 0 e sa Dai, * | it with And, aceordingly, it see i 
for steam ploughs 3 M dw of our|SrRAFFORD announces that the tribes from out S ed socie aa sol LM 
leading makers was tempted to — for the kn they are erry contain some of the} more usefully than in endeavouring to promote a sound 
former; ‘‘ of course," says Mr. Lson, ''he|oldest, the purest, and the best blood in i publie opinia on agricultural education on the one 
was only second—a poal Makes. sing placed ie and have for many years been famous for | hand, and on the relations of landlord and tenant on 
m. As for the t| producing- animals of great ex xoellence and real; the o e 
boss pi edet nm magit, At although t the’ crops reasons : e specimens here offered will be found| Are ware, however, that we Pai a National 
were man was not| to h ae sustained the reputation of these | Agric albural | Society incorporated b y Royal Chatter for 
reai tribes not only their pedigrees but the animals | the very purpose (among others) of promoting agricul. 
* Last w k,” he says, “the East Lothian Ace il thamsalvat will bear the strictest scrutiny, — as startled 
had s competition of reaping machines. My firm| with the exception of two heifer ca Me fro t of its Cl tha 
took the prize for a self-acting or sheafing | ‘‘ Countess of Barrington," and Cleopatra 2d » E naaf adii ay dischar 7 eee dio : 
reaper, but the prize for ‘the best reaper in the|the Catalogue inate all the Diales of these | this parti 2 whi h it th oe V ae ord - 
"a particular w hic’ en a 
field’ was given to a manual | delivery reaper made | families now at t Hol r Hall. RAFFORD'S to commas 
on the spot, which that os eservo diim shall be | t hich ought to be taken for * the improves 
occasion in 1861, but had not become famous ont | placed upon them men of ‘the Sinis of t who depend y 
of East Lothian — the interval, All the| We add "that at Mr. WonsEY's sale, two bulls, | cul of the land for ther pfe —that beii 
most celebrated Scotch makers Yemen in both reo ona e$ STANDARD, % property of J. C. mme i^ the e - = the 7th emm ob 
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bal blow remarks of less eeneral intereat account, t filet front thè Orr rd bens 1, of a | discussion, it appe ars, is this :—Th TM in diet 
the number of new reapers which the Banbury | recent visit to the Beddington vated meadows, | P3 by ita Charter io. tabe Wehen, T ard 
firm have this St started, and so forth. Butthe|near Croydon, which were deso SOUL ETE bonny know what measares to t x my has Hl thi 
allegations, however. whieh w e have quoted above eae ts d. ne. It appears that. a hot dr 
as to the ü vouritsm sh hoe p idal makers, d^ 4| suco er fayoumble te Miselort vegetable fore appointed LE committee to advise it, but this com. 
particular the reference to the ‘ East Lothian | growth, even ha the soil is soaked with sewage | fail ndic dvisable ; 
nobleman,” anghit h be immediately replied to m men The tendency of the Italian Rye-grass P. | handing in ite its m i “duties = ie gent ou 
pes hrow up its seed-stem is irresistible under such | it recommends that ed be offered as a fee 
T Jost interesting account, however, we have | circumstances and the e great first Amet of 13|for an opinion on he subject, "wit any gout 
seen the harvest field | o or 14 ns per acre. X IS wr Pn j 
is that of the at Midville, near Boston, | of. Nn: - April, d May, has this year been | what to do? iced 
Lincolnshire. wipertaterite d by the Ben onington | | — by cuttings of not more tan Pj T "6 € The mea — to be me ken seem so plai T need 
Labourers’ Friend Society. Think of a Labourers’ Jul August. them so urgent that more good "vill ;be done, as I 
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Friend Society getting up a competition amon gw 0 specul e on a ia Sead of of im Aon rere ve, by a rdlenalon of them here and now than by- 
+h h would M d gentlemen avg E Minn on the low-lyi ing lan Kis such ni emi the e profa al 1 judgm - <i 
say per rene ears apo d qe d a dry hot district as the counties of and a 
extended use of agrioultural m 4 Ress = | ene generally are in mids summer, must mm Pain La p ox id ^ noth by by the gona 
und that employment for the boir € "Md this yis nished efficiency of their manure at that! class schools? P and ot oeat lanal ieia hav 
ereby be diminished? The Bennington La-|sea been both wil iy prota as everybody knows, b 
med Friend Society know well that the Hi is to some extent a counter balance to this| annual University examinations and by those of th 
aae an is interested above all things in the | deficie ney of power of sewage water, however, to | Society of Arts, ese examinations have applied bot 
establi ment and prosecution of vigorous and | find thatit has this year proved rem duet abl efficient | tein and spur, with the best effort on both th 
successful agriculture, The stea m engine and the| at Bed ddington in ‘growing Mangel Wu mt An | direction and the rate of progress. And like the corre 
steam plough—the reaper and the mower and the | attempt had been made there on the 17th or 18th |^P?ndimg official examinations of our ur 
thresher—are pa vigorous management, and | of s - Tom up some Grass land, but the land | 
it is where vigorous management prevails that | w too hard; and on the 20th, when we 
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wages are highest, and working people are best off, | vdd is rit the Jian severe, md ira ore eiie came 
: : E ing ever ini 
I uA MM ds, AR Pun „meeting at | water, which had b een ork ver it simply to | be don bran Bid might 2 
MuR a £c ou mee incentive of any |s soften it, Tmmedialsiy dern the Grass land |an association e Royal Agricultural E 
aamnint of it pens 
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Six : a udi eing laid together we an inner TOR unmoved, | the part of the examining bodies to establish Be 
à eapers le their appearanee upon the| Mangel Wurzel seeds were dibbled on these | colleges or schools. ‘These have multiplied as personal 
gronn four of which were Sou hows and n upturned sods, [and when the ground was dry, enterprise or public spirit has been aroused by the 
of them single-horse machines, Each had an sewage has at intervals been let in upon the a j 9 : 
and a-half of Wheat allotted to it to v and the the | standing and soaking in the furrows. The con-|* M institutions, Education has been guided 
time iad with, even rag ishmen: by the programme of the examinations which are tò 
vt utl sequence is that there pee en when we were over "the baat have been stimt 
fs with ey nh the two | land th 2 other day, an — promising young it, std both tonehers end students ssl 
wif sin - orse machines. The te dollowing pa angels, full ri growth and without lated by uh QM üistinetions, prizes, and Toe 
dex e SBX & qii HER perve aet NS have never seen iu thing like so Jl rema ord cede d 
31 fe and ps Bönarss “kee | good a p. CC NA cc as i Scmething liko this: is; needed for pr a 
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5 ate ce (sh re og d ia —— It is well to call attention to the various Mer ed na pe is concerned, the majority of 
2 horses and 1 man, 48 mi t E alive) | expedients whi ch have been and no doubt will be | you at present taught simply bY 
L ] m es; BURGESS & KEY'S immediately adopted for shortening the period Experience on on the „farm at home; probably A. 
1 ive stock wi i i 
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coming winte b de o | ability or pi residence for à y: 
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ni The s Stone Turnip has no doubt been sown e skill on which professiona 
largely upon pur pus ed stubbles, and the rains depen ends; but they are suffering from the 
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largely sown than usual, and may yet be sown— | nd distinctions given them to award, ought 
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the moistened unmoved stubble—and it will yield —€— pend angat m they eR ya 
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oe September list of Short- of shortening the period of winter feeding by Thar is a Royal Msc Deters nt NE. 
s 3 : the! y aioa - ear. k eedi kee eep. ril have been | for mple, incorporated like the Biogal Agrical 2 
y planted than hitherto — and T Society by a Royal Charter. One would think 
