(138 
THE scab npc. nih POTI 
[Marcu 1, 1856. _ 
We. announced last | 
fiha Fehihii 
character VU 
in future years, but for the satin na any prek 
at that = show | 
sail 0 open on the 23d of Ma l 
that live stock and implements for exhibition will 
be conveyed from the fronti iers at the cost of the 
arka reading, an nd s o 
house, and in pe aot A pe 
ther ere is need of s uch establis 
; sgricuitaral statistics? 
we have seen, was met, so far connie 
(commerce could not feed in millions of 
adhe anara othing to give in . 
importation ort steadily bee 
| even this, as 
could meet it 
n the sel 
"Assuredly not. I dee! 
ere long, 
prospectus 
before April 9th. Any intending exhibitor must 
send before that date to any ere consul i in i this 
a declaration, of which 
Boa jika 
with an ample tepine 
institution ig, as 
glad to forward its establishm 
may be had on application to pax neal. 
ed on Ma 
Att the same time 
llth 
making known the inte ntion of it. 
h h of the country—the most me Sr a 
yearly A truest record of 
the J erpa nt ques- 
oskyns thr rows no 
3d, and trie 
which it was originally established, and there are 
maay: members already amply s ia sfied with what it 
does in the publication of its m onthly ag agric ultur ral 
opinion furt! San than a vague expre: 
(P. 561) that “ one of a first aorta yes the Royal 
directed to the estal 
discussions, Pu nera no 
rani the rate of 
eddin 
t a expense o 
Intending T should immediately appiy to 
the nearest are consular agent for the pamphlet 
ority, containing all the information 
that the prizes a live stock 
ny 200. the list 
an i nstitu tio: s a matter in which 
that the proper work of the 
aa Scare ee is that of mutual infor- 
mation and instru 
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. 
leading mip in ear paper of the 9th inst. 
| directed ignnin awe from the pen ¢ of the 
instr 
ment 
such | 
tem “of Siatistienl 1e 
ha! comi! 
— began to fall pan ily on the 
eas: 
plis Sonthdowns, aid other breeds—for tes) of 
large br ade small breeds 
for impleme 
agrı 
hat would gn nee been the progress 0 
tings been occupied, with a con 
J 
p NP REN TP of rar bor ral Statistics ad resume ? had i 
We add + fe a =e age which has already | most mentee of the Society ye on ot i| directors and official staff been burdened with the 
appeared in n the manufacture of their volume, i. ¢., turn o Mr. sages (ea and detailed alent of such a 
sugar and ols spirit fr Beet oot, i system? Instead of the happy and harmonious co- 
Shi that subject from the Coun E Gourcy, with The i impression it is cll to produce is a peration of men of — w e „hag been 
which pen favoured = Mr. s AIRD. t rise at seeing a naturally “dull the cause of uch success and uch use- 
writer is ne alifi re give an opin the | subject dilated u er) 53 pages in his usual| fulness, which has placed the Society. pi site 
subject, as as a better ‘knowledge papaning style, and ate ted by illustrations drawn | head of the agricultural “science and practice” of 
of arapen agr sel or is moies able to form a wide circle of observation and comparison o | the world l 
a experience. t mr suppose that many, if any, members of the Royal | angry debates, ing of members ie 
ohn > Mental Wurz l, not- ig cries quired t ‘a ra a that the party divisions. Ne i Ins been as ad z reete 
want of agricult statistics, t nt o it will be better that we shou 
cerina its more abundant | produce, is not geome even a p ne able of e Talpa’s’ quoted 
equal to the Silesian Beet in its "profitable yield of ea 
The letter is as follow: 
_ “Tn answer to yor questions concerning the dis- 
tillation from Beetroot, let me sa: 
* 
toa 
wW: 
argumen’ 
Baiont 
x for his _ purpose. 
But I that his ill 
a great while longer, sailing, to 
simile, over the ocean on our cir months’ voyage 
without taking an exact inventory * of our provi 
(with a latent conviction t 
vided wot and will yet » han that the sda of our 
E Pey sho ld Pisti a task which ne 
didn’t vie a Fika 
pró- 
Fra: 
are w ones ad se up con- 
tinually all over France. A considerable number of 
our manufactories of Beetroot had commen 
te 
ced | lon: 
tage to be derived, specially by agriculturists, from | have 
w are supposed to 
Sa a atu ani 
I have 
vé is no 
ember both of the | 
ge 
| such a E are equally convincing. 
| sphere aoe ty 
ng been, (where 
prae 
distill instead of makin, ng sS T, especially at the 
time the Beetroot alcohols were selling as 
igh as 200 francs the hectolitre. Now that they 
only sell at 100 francs, or about that price, there 
are pea orm Sear r manufactories which aie 
returned to lace ss alcohol ; and | it is 
aid 
myer 
Royal Bat and eevee Societies, seers a co nt 
cultivation of _ > an 
| 
re venti returns, 
Ja rtrd Levoca 
in 1854 (though the oto quantity was but 2,817 
ociety has not only not 
Te blam e absence of a national s, eee ate 
fo agente: statisties, s but it has been e in avoidini 
| what would have bee; to and es 
haps ae oe ev 
| Mr. H 
that when alcoho 1 fall s be 
mes large vran will not ke able 
is thought th 
residues fom. — illation become v 
able ia feedin tle, and thus are ‘ie 
acing siihcoree of a highly: ~~ character, 
a greater fa the 
But 
fit- 
wners will be able to bea ll in 
iieo of alcohol than that meuntiond above. 
* Alcohol c et be made from Mangel Wu as 
well as from Globes and other varieties of Beet- 
Toot, 2 saa from Carrots ; bnt these roots do not give 
n the Aya disti res, ‘where | 
means ne? 
quarters 
ti was the means o ofg giving a considerable breton to 
born. ete commere 
0) 
me wnward movement of prices, 
i A Hockyni'a reference (p. 57) t 
sellers” who were a to sell ayia in : 1846, 
i e subsequent high prices, will be 
le from these snubbe: ja individuals, 
the Jo W the 
e was 
did not then know 
promoted, landlords, and the 
turist’s share of Parliament, 
—the first bai then drun k 
bling, the las 
any oi ene e 
ones this year, sold at 85s.; you the men 
balances at their bankari; are zetting but 65s.’ y 
not think many of them would “9 
its 
sire for a tural statistics. 
ha at the sori impartially, and 
little distance, I do not judge that much if ye “blamo 
Hoskyns that t Kiho ascertained foe 
Silesian 
rer the distilleries, “therefore, rm 
ered 
194eR 
s justly = 
appears that an experimen ntal trial was made in 11 
of England and Wales in the year 1854, a. 
Beetroot is alone 
ionian of a distiller, pen 
eged t 
Is, 3$ per c 
f alcohol; but it is ali h 
hat yn 
white 
which gives, accordin ng to 
MO: à together and employing them in masses.” 
in accordance with his own maxim of ‘ ‘gathering fi 
It may | be 
£ Wt 
of the assistant Poor-law en and 
office 
manag 
8 leagues from Lille, as 
alcohol is drawn from 
ems o corn can also be distilled cut 
at the time the ear a shooting but it is maintained | 
that the Sorgho of China has begun t o be distilled 
uring the last few | m 
years in 
Nepal share your opinion that there is very goo 
ra 
British 
od hus- 
ge portion of Great paan. but 
wii 0 not to fo a xample 
of the n north ers Ger- 
in 
or for dist tillatio 
agin 
but 
as = of 
> whi h certainly are trouble- 
a a 
es a large ‘isullery 
give us an estimate of the cro 
e + 
be 
the baer of roots for conversion into | * 
Hemp an 
a week at 50s. 3 that i in June following it was a 102s. 1 
cers, an agency 
105 
but I know that the monthly averages giv e 60s. 7d. 
as the price in omen 1846, mises arc of 14s. 4d. 
the na of the parochial mind, iewing 
meas of success arrived at, I think it is really mor 
iret 
in the three m August ; while 92s. 10d. is the 
asin Several of the commissioners, it is tru 
led soo wis and black looks which thei 
average for Jens pris aa another rise of 30s. 3d. 
other six months! Will a neta of our statistics 
r than No vember ? 2 
dare say very 
n 
s schedule torn 
to the nation’s weal the stead ie p 
l ma 
than 
N e, which gradually, but an too abru 
consump we also sufficed to draw from 
most corn of the earth supplies whieh reduced the 
pily, a 
e very utter- sioners been 
un 
H 
5H 
BS 
zie 
Be 
-o 
i=) 
E 
Pa 
a 
a 
> 
H 
3 
Ee 
© 
n 
o 
| 
or 
> 
E 
E 
oe Pa Vas a3 
where 
nearly 
intouse. ‘Trade—and the provisioning of anation either 
from } home sources or by importation | is the greatest of | peri 
writing 
ey would i thought little of such 
repulse which Mr. Hall Maxwell, taught 
he line, would cr 
eas, getting pA 
t dvance of elerkly c om- 
g and comparing the information 
P 
} il 
hil 
yw ny 0 of 
one or two of the commissioners 
“ “ Red Tapiets” will be 
psi 
— guesses if 
mork A result of a wide-spread intereommuni- 
and on 
arrived at by others is most an: 
raging. I find that Sir Jobn Walsham’s success io ra 
“many, 
~~ 
ake 
od 
suecessfu 
In that a a 
not k aye ia Sasi er 
it acts, and gene erally prom ptly and 
The case of 1846 was an piam: oae 
there was tio 
N, 4 
the kingdom, is almost r energion, 
eturn,” he writes, “has been made o 
This yoma falls age ort wlr. — e few 
the ce 
yr aeres 
E 1281,27 of the 
m their 
Lake or Central Farmers’ Club 
pag wg an 
Tue 
depart 
extend it its of As, 
Š 
= F 
or rather to 
ain millions of ‘the roan ‘oft the British 
n mas ze been pera for, 
a 
US a mere 
727 acres belong probably to wort 
