1162 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULIVEAL GAZETTE, 
[DECEMBFR 3, 1£64, 
estate in 
years ago 
iquid 
mui, reviv vifying force, ind "enables "them to c cont 
are e Subjected after being committed to the ear! 
* M. B 
rth. be 
N has met w ith his reward in seeing his 
fi el ds 
aud. each a he were never dreamt of u 
P nag des agri 
the m ost 
nder the ordinary 
pui e without a very great expense in 
ostly manures at preseut known to sci ence. 
ien an 
| drainage, that the 
h the 
either have stated _ that 500 million francs are 
; bat t M. Boutin’ 3^ inen of this prisa 2 and 2 
expenditure, ‘as by his proses he 
- beg without resorting to the ord 
The met ots adopted i 
and much- state is 
in. 
best ; but M. | ne 
mposed of powerful relents 
i forms aro the grain a thin covering of quite 
peculiar nature, 
far 
of the crops 
ry wel sn ent the| 
2 2000 per 
foe e 
| are not rore ur 
fate of Ir lix 
| Qi tlle YEARS' WORK IN IRELAND. 
y perhaps be usefulto give some account of 
25 years ME in the management and improvement 
b he — 
mu 
t paying 
settlers from England and Scotland 
short that hopelessness is as nu 
as ever, Went 
t has 
throw some — on woe occ 
able a judgm e what 
„en ages to cw) degree ot truth there is 
The 
acie 
in 
is te fl pico da consisted of Teia 2000 sores but has 
a urchase to 
idue 
was hear 
ts vii 
The joris pictures ‘hate 
ys and it has been doubt 
any vá im Basin in the condition of - 
arem the iei has taken place. 
di : 
wer m 10 to 1 
atbonifen erous slate formation. The 
| Surface is Mucio with pene rounded hills, 
————— 
the system that had formerly answered would no 
longer do 
I think the direct effect of the break down of the 
be ign in Ireland, foe arem on the Potato 
very m 
ted whether 
It h 
even for outlay o rack stem previo 
bi 
hou: 
actually been done on 
way f 
the abort and his family p mki eMe 
x by 
me ^r ” both ai ha this ri le id for 
> th 
It mself fed on Potatos by the far rmer, 
bei 
whilst at rk reer RA farmer hoe igot his labour 
d by pu . It|anda manured field for corn the foll ing year with- 
y io agents Ld Rint hly | out money y ont of pocket, * whilst the" he Bo got all 
ty visit in two ir ee of | the chief necessaries of ae life in exchange his 
the for 
"5 also without mon 
It asy to see the pm 
a i 
t of the Potato failure 
he | upon ame 
indis spen nsable, 
d 
6 stay 
= ost his ina and manured field, whi lst the 
niin rei kien 
r the sowi " RE 300 or Es gs e The soilon e hillsis s gen erally | social state w: more in ft ming became more of a 
f z : ther rock not far he requiring outla: money at least to some 
one "gs ppc tat ig zA zt oti ine akin bed t but j in quality a fair Turnip loam. | —_ , and 5o dairy E Stock f M I increased, 
the subject, aud: the fo llo owing is stated to have | The | bottoms and sometimes sides of’ the hills are we t] again. b needing less of such outlay than tillage. This 
inquiry :— 
been the result of thei È aig deep 
“The aoil offered us M. Bovrrn, and chosen by tke | fair dusty: 
iine. was of a sandy nature, and was situated at | km, guy, goo 
ce called P 
iud E nd. 
but very little of it could b 
a lan d. elim 
On 
. The 
the whole it - Ae of |y 
ate is, Que. of the in rear operated pei double pes: i pe 
It was known | wette 
m "The. iom 
ithou 
manure, M. Boutin that the 
ged w 
Wheat should be sown on cua nd in the condition i in| 
mA with s 
e crop 
which it then was, and t| 
substances Pene 
n 
song rw] ia eatment (farming it can hardly bo | fa 
t| called) pursued formerly, was paring 
uch manure as 
"Thi is manure 
ment emigra 
rs, who had 
| dor oubly ‘severe. 
ced to buy meal 
and burning for | 
there was applied to | 
was gy earth dénin 
with su m 
g laid on it aint the | 
knowledge of the Commission. One portio! 
seed was i ium 
8t 
in of a sub-commission, | Grass seeds o 
of seed prepare —E in "the 2s mes way icu 45 till some sor 
ped in M. Bourne's arn weresown, Some por-| again. It m 
— were covered w ith s and some were such a course, 
bushels of V 
crop— md bushels w 
u kno 
t of s 
table manure, 
as carried on no manure was used with the seed 
oil with M. BovrIN's solution 
pon quantity of dung as a sta hor 
the few cattle ke pt made, M sometimes wit 
"n 
or Oore "hate TT cage sown, 
kin was 
may easily be judged 
Very lit tle stock could 
eat per acre were Au, UK. 
b more 
D 
orse or E tio 
to grow XE ontinue w. 
formed, 
what hor ps b" of 
be o 
a gen pace eee T iie Lene 
tnroughoat the country now set in. No one, either 
1 | landlord or tenant, felt any confidence in the future, 
fre see what "we the best course to follow. 
h i Eros better eni aupers reduction of rents o ants of a plough land would run off by night to a 
decided that the parts sown with TIN’S seed | the estate h Pid redi med arrears si etic distance with atosk ps, | the landlord to 
be the others, even where | lated. There was never an — at money | reco the possession of the land e could by 
r n the 15th September would be Eo dos aud it id Wo constant | ejectment, perhaps 12 — "eg die and with a 
following, after the whole of the Whea een tion and di fficulty to the dnttsnd; M the|heavy arr of rates upon a common 
reaped and threshed, the produce was measured and tétgnük were most of tlie bee: Vai uble, All this ying among the tenan en? he nett s and 
com ared, when it was pe roved that the plots sown with | was before the Potato ae of. re ould soon have the land all to themselves.” 
pared vik x UTIN’s solu-| It was at last resolved to v^: pev ak of improve- i N 
tion were more 
further test. 
with pe result emi satisfactory to the inventor. 
A com 
productive t than any of the others. Asa 
, 
due, on 
ve niently 
ng i han tenan 
f his “solution without manure ; that each year | he has | 
rorem, and their fai 
nd that he has even raised many Wheat crops in 
Why have we heard nothing of this wonderful 
the Government Com- | 
It was 
be 
All ‘this had been 
th 
me to ees on 
€ wo o 
if any one 
the sicher 
ace between e of land and sh ^ dti 
similar trea Even greater differences 
le, arising from no 
ped seemed hardly to 
among them, 
urnips, 
a famine cam 
rigorously insisted on about three 
d e pr 
hree 
ieved to 2 be incorrigible, were ejected d 
divided am 
rms 
sort. The porii of small quantities oF core ad 
and a Scote' 
og bag ack 
to work to $ ien how to 
ere offered fc 
"mr wis Suid. 
hill 
out by personal influence and 
| the end of five years the 
— and the rent was re 
done by t 
e year from En ped Ae = this time circumstance: 
ed 
need hardly be added n 
were better ot ea they had ever been |w 
M 
To lay out ota at 
such a time on improvements and doubtful P: 
was felt z be rx em 
-|be wanted before long for actual subsistence. 
pa i ibeoquh that time of wretehedness will e 
forget 
fell 
among the bette jd under these circumstances, i mpos- 
sible to Tut any land thus given up at the | forinet 
rent. Yet if relet for less, it woul still 
per trouble among the re 
ve pate yrs to 
zes o! nece 
and a 
the first victims, 
or three visits a 
| ma any i men taking up considerable 
fter spending. largely on them for a few 
Thi 
i then 
e, with 
^m. rae A iere, epg sed = experience ‘= ‘the growth ‘and use of Clover and | v 
aliments 
aia 
viously existing. By that time we |t 
had got into "eet, k timen Pres that the first failure of 
to affect the tenants. Even in the | wret 
t failure ii ncs there was oe like distress 
of them again, Of course 
neral ae hes ‘other way: 
with re e skill and 
the co te ote 
onte aa opinion o 
upon stock, and saying, '' be 
le food. 
much better than their neighbours ; but when the | 
MI Ue ft thee kast summer of 184 
seed, prospect of 
still further failures, it became clear that | 
to be chy It was coe pb over e tho ide 
