Marcu 8, 1856.] 
THE 
ee ARE ALS ene tokens 
The wildest parts of the Highlands enablesd 
porbaps situated i in Keri anq this, with Aberdeen, is| of w ; these mic croseopic hope to ook disco urageme “face 
ked a bar st the Low d cou ies ; parts of pady | ova, ene ao Spores of rr may “float in _ the air, and eae ‘7 act, if I am ap so ‘oui ut raid of it as I 
barton ut wh ould way k I ought hs rah h s because, with the everlasting 
a diff-re Bas, poe 2 ih it is said that the small — of pigs and other animals, pea grossly fed èr | exception ofm my o my a ti © 
tenants in n the H Highlands do not understand English n ea induce | have not v rified that prior fe and tenacity » wich 
difficulty in filling up the forms, the | a state of th d used to hear of, but, on the e contrary, € very id 
same may is said o many renting above 20l., or ev these ova, whic d by th fl acco! mane 
1002. But no oa Eria would arise, all above 47, ee as this ozoon is “esiniealy designated a difficult practice have generally 1 met ‘with a freedom 
pay poor-rates, and should be included, here is; A closer attention to ass subject may s 
another point which consent all diagrams of nena that English pigs are not less subj this affecti has led me to 
(like that at p. 90) erroneous, There are no than Irish. I may er mention that it is a gene- | watch with a wider interest its ioraa a develope- 
maps of the country, and the extent of parishes a and rally received opinion among rents 9 n these i ment hrig at the coun 
estates is not known in many instances ; we y Ee Pars sec antimony, turpentine, have „Yet in doing this, and looking back upon, its past 
off in that respect than Englishmen can im ae ted to for the extirpation of ‘pea ones I y 
point out these things that the s blunders may not dighed beneficial result. Z. Murphy, Queen’s College, the alloded to, of the ie, has appeared in some ` 
be mitted when English statistics are regularly | Cork. egree to Jay it op what is ev 
collected, mi that the present statistics may e 7é.—In your notice of my clinker |p 
s, as seems to be the case at p. 91. 
haat Cr rop of 1855.—So much discussion has taken 
ise in regard to the yield of the „last year’s Whe: at 
Clinker Man 
manure, in the epee of the Peoceettinns of the Royal 
gricultural Society at a mee held F 
ve eee of this substance 
sub 
may not be altogether u unworthy of a place in your 
aii There can be e no doubt, that i in this ane 
nd for at lands 
have cyielded the | least, and the worst and inferior soils 
he most ; and for this reason, that ii heav. = 
1 d th d 
rops on 
d, an e moderate on the 
er soils s up ; but even with thi avenge 
the pro oduce i is aly much be ; 
ly good tiller of the soil, anxious 
o show an example to my worse informed and duller 
peared 
as mero basis of my manure i 
coal, and a Ary ite with 
penile of ag di it is, is, in fact, the mere hernan 
mat tter of coals. In: a short time the chemical ana lysis 
alia L. A. Ritterbandt, M.D. 
Societies. 
rnips, Oat with Clover, mown twice, and fo 
lowed with Wheat—inetend of te foolish plan of fallow, 
Wheat, Oats — - llow ag ad infinitum. This 
opines, whieh j is ording t ae absurd agreem 
with the la: ptori, Hasla i in satiety like 16 ai at 
Wheat on an average of seven years, whilst my produce 
is as under :— 
ROY RICULTURAL OF ENGLAND. 
LY ‘Consert, March 5.—Cotonet CHALLONER, 
ONTH 
Trustee in the 
Fin el Challoner reported from the 
ee, that the current cash- Primi in 
ue 
no pai Sar in faet, as 
state, no boar no minis ster, 
Mrs. Gam “no nothing.” So entirely 
unnoted 
pm BAY, 
and Ra ad <i is its progress, by the state 
for ‘the public, or by the public on its own account, that 
the forgotten facts of its history during ‘the presen 
century alone, and lay them succinctly under the eye, I I 
of which the particulars would seem to form a more 
novel or eventful hist tory, 0 
55” * 
dt ‘aa of 
6: Hand s of oe bankers (including the 
ps cab was ape 481. 
G 
; the wake of time, and fade from view ; 3 and 
any ig while presenting facts surely as instructive 
occupy the attention 
1952, 2 bushels per aire, weight 6 ms preparatory siap pam had taken for the trial of Colonel | for reflection or foresight as could occu 
1853, Warrington’s manure offered in competition for the | of ha ponon o or the statesman. 
ioi y 30 ” ” » 63 ” Cora prize. He also stated that ote competitors| Befo; i pe any serene? to its more recent 
2) 6t d put in claims for | that prize. ` The Council elm ‘ogress, t seems desirable o premise some y statement 
Making an average "of 27 osdede, per aere, weighing | mein this report, d t had 
rather more than 62 Ibs. per bushel. 1 d | o form a judgment of the ` 
1 is ye clay resting on a strong blue clay full of cia one ag know the Bhi stature. For this 
large stones at about from the surface, whi “Honus Carrie AND SHEEP Prizes. —Mr. Miles, | purpose I mus ony! Ores Pon e ground familiar, pro- 
surface when I took it in hand might have 4 or 5 inches | | M.P. A ateak from the Foreign Prize Committee the | bably, to many a my 
of tolerable soil on. a ploughing a little eve following schedule, which was unanimous! In eed hardly pe Sig yo the fact that „this country, 
ime I have ~ got id of the yellow clay, and can Bike of any pure re foreign race, | 
turn up | inches of soil, off which I can get Six Prizes, amounting to ++ £105 | annually was, less than a century | ago, ma. a Hrer 
m 12 to 20 ‘hi “of Turnips per acre in a favourable | Cows, of any pure ‘foreign race, Peen arig ace expor! ter of com t other countries ; 
ason. This , which wasa m fficult one to Four Prizes, + amounting to Se peek ae later ‘in the last century than ear persed = 
produce any Tnrnips at all from such soil, I have from Two Pr rizes, amounting to s ai s T a | wea t ’ Augueille), 
12 to 15 tons of Swedes and 18 tons of white Norfolk sed: foreign and any other race. 1 T 
he only extra manure -I ‘use is 2 tons of Stanh Two Prizes amor nting to ‘ et l iip Nang oy shee! Tages 
lime per acre spread on the Clover land before itis Two E Tepe pes to “i e 20 ye ars ela psing between 1773 and 1793 
ploughed down for Wheat, a h mad Ewes crossed : foreign and any “other race. were the turning point of our history in this respect, a 
super pe ate of lime per acre for the Turnip crop ; Two Prizes, amounting to 15 sort of pivot period, when exports and imports nearly 
the cos the lime i is about 10s. per ton, and tha t of} The final a arrangements of ‘the Foreign prize ht alaaa other, under almost nominal duties t 
th 1 per acr. Mr. Miles and Lord Fev ie ee pl a nes ™ A slow but steady inclosure of 
for fcur years’ cropping. 16 single horse | rte of sham. The e entry of Foreign stock, as in the case Tod ariaa iaki 
good dung per acre for the Tarnips, which are sown on | English stock, must be e before the Ist of Jun £ ceg RE i ] of ag Pa 
ff. Old Slop wae ee Ihe CHELMSFORD rrie Mr. Fisher Hobbs having however, computation or 
Aleohol rom Mangel Wurzel. ta d ill the openi a the et: century. L 
Beetroot, and that “alcohol can be made from Mangel J July 3 next, i was patik by the Council to meet / 20 years cp price of Wheat averaged with great steadi- 
Wurzel,” I Mr. n Hoskyns at that ness about 45s, per re p money of that day, 
ocourrediia n my farm, which may confirm the alcoholic meire an early date, for E P parak of deciding pe when rents were from s. per acre, which after- 
pepe of Mangel Wurzel, aie the latte: may ot a of land fe required for the trial of implem wards rose to from 30s. pa vig Thus in the Ee, 
ish the solution of | eg Pete mea now ieee, the price of a bushel of Wheat was 
Twice in he lat 1 on Sp ures. — The Council decided on the th y 
1 i rad second, | follo arrangements for the spring lectures to be severe pressure der ci 
sent a fortnight” ago, eight rater pork from a| delivered before the members of the Society at the | stances o pha nae seas iy It would be difficult 
seizur wt ch had all the symptoms i Ware on the} weekly m es ouncil. o adduce a more striking evidence of the fall in the 
henge or determination - of Tio to the head—gid- v , April 9, noon—Prof. Simonds, on the dis- | price of food as compared with aik 
diness, blindness, EA convulsion, resulting after prs saree y rasani ieate animals from the change that has since taken place. 
a few hours eath’ The = appearance on WEDNESDAY, April —Pro t Way, on jo progressof| With the year 1793 this period terminated, and, with 
pear the e phbnal was a usion of lymph chemical science at "odie ‘an abroad, in reference to the war, began also a succession of deficient harvests. 
on the brain, All the body and inside of the i May ite- Piot Way's second tec o account had been kept of the progress of inclosure 
food of “4 ‘animals had pide 1 Wurzel, 
boiled for several hours with some Barley-mesl The 
omer ee were cut in slices and boiled in a large iron 
eauldro 
Could sigs distillation have taken place in tet proc 
Gorse.—I should recommend the drills for Gorse to be 
3 or 4 feet apart. Cut the whole pe at once, or ap 
THE 
T Di NG THE LAST 
WEDNESD 
‘tay och June 1 8.— Prof. Ean s third sien a 
il then paren to their Weekly Keene 
The Coun: 
on the 12th of Mare! 
SOCIETY OF ARTS. 
meeting of an Society on Wednes- 
. Prince Alb rt, the | 
| Soci uring the century ; 
Commons which sat in a 1797 computed the total 
at about four milli 
rom the panandes z t of the present century, 
down to this time, we oe a ariane Kend a of the 
progress of inclosure, of corn imported, 
of prices, , and, in som e measure, of the rent of land ; 
ich we give ca hy was read by Mr. 
PROGRESS OF. ren AGRICUL- 
Yera 
mer est E eA communia 
er of the minor pr experien 
grow an annual crop, ¢ t half each year, bat 3 not in 
“Diff 
A very acu 
life _ left behind hi hi the remark that n coped i 
cult as those which are of every- | 
of common 
| point to which our spo (using the term in its 
national or territorial sense) had arrived at the period. 
| which forms the starting point of our present ing ing 
decennary consort ghey nds as 
—Froi to 1810, the f of land enclosed was METAG 
acres, "the i increase of the mainion org Stee bichon 1,506,687, 
nd the pre eg a rted 6,009,468 
In the decade, from 1810 to 1820, the tn tolani wai 
Tae itin 
alternate rows, I Cane state what ground will be pin interest freq ng ame the further apn to Bd A EEE 5 DE 
required for cows; but at a very rough gu guess, I Should | property. 5 | heat imported 4,585,78: i ae 
say half be very strong sensation of this truth came over my | rans du years, while 1 erste 
the winter, if the Gorse i is two seasons’ growth. Gorse on being honoured by the — Sia n Pew tine age dod ee ee Plough, the tbe her crn ee 
will not grow to be of any use under ZE It ite a of z a Sobiet? to undertake a paper on t cent pro- | adva so during s mong wn re eee oo eld me 
ree open situation, Any nurseryman will supply the iculture as one of its evenin, y seri for | #mount, measured at le eee a 
Seed Wy. D. Fox. ims discussion. ‘There is no is no no branch of our ing op eed Gsi), the wp tae pris = Wheat given by Poser Tren 
© Measles” in Pi sath ear we must i fi th ted it d if it 84s. 9d. a quarter, fell to an average of 78s. 4d, for the last five i 
reply which you w ind as to obtain to my | were not that the most difficult iant aaa the st die- | E eR IET : 
inquiry (see page 108), that but mo E oier oa olay toons ot tok land, iy cones ae pe ime 
exists on boxe: curiously interesting if not oe my own n soil, I — never have had the eoa to highest prices prices of food ever known, except in very early recorded 
subject, A single pa 4 worm, as is well known, ma; r that deep interest in the topic cases of famine, in this country, It would seem oe 
