. 
` mistics, has pngevitedly 
many, both o 
rogramme iw 
tothe breeds of Scotland, and of the most Tberal pipes of 14 and 2 inches bor ak w object at Alder. |t 
nergy. The French Government, in to say that there is every prospect of such a repre- 
e this puis z eT sentation of the different a A am country as 
- 
athering, have res isda highly cre oe 
separate classes for al ‘other om of animals n not | wie epaiei cattle 
rat tus, and to give Pinte n great onda ‘sd nang er 
i Ea i t grea! ated “diffieulty with Gal pth specimen 
uke of Sna] 
and farmers, 
at i Highland cattle. Cheviots 
A uld be sent from | ger and from the south of 
mi ight pe 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
se Aber deen would be A tha 
[Marcu 29, 1856, 
placed however where Pe act with one- 
half their oe ciency ! 
The object. 
il ada ean be ie ma nced, and any one who has seen 
on land or roads the effect of s springs, or even of 
mere stagnant collections of rain-water in the soil, 
ering may be obtained vr 9, Pall Mall East, i Sealand black-fa ced shee ep from ae: Perth- 
or of Mr, Baanpreta Grpns, Half M oon Stree of Lanark. _ The: only other breed was Ayrshire: i 
Piccadilly, g d principally for assistanc 
į those who resent, He saw Keien 
| belong ging to Aas, Renfrewshire, and Dumbar- 
Sapp” districts—a ill fa: med for = purity and excel- 
been read a with interest by Jone and he did trust, after the 
ashy’ 
Tue letter at page 138, on ÅGRICULTURAL STA- 
of that 
knows that there must be at least 3 feet deep 3 
e best authority* declares 
Py t“ it is pet nati pris Chicks really supports the 
o | Weight of traffic ; that while it is preserved in a dry 
state any weight without sinking, and 
that i s fact carry the road the 
carriages also; that this native soil must first 
be made quite dry and covering impenetrable 
to rai — be ee er it to preserve 
it in ori os ains 
f thos who anxio k for pe explanation which had been "offered, that they would 
results e a general statisti cal inquiry a and of thos 
who depr any such “ pips danged if ip ivato full exhibition of it, the more espec ially as he 
and sa] airs, We we differ from | informed, on high fibs that it was precisely that 
our corri a G = es os for t glish aw most like ely to command high prices in the French 
A oma Society or against the Highland Society. | m | arket,”” 
om him in believing that th h| Now all th lil and life 
epyan and the iaire me have prese nted | —the habit of pana bead sat Pay fist ‘and strict sho 
sub 
the contrast o; attention to. order, tule, end etique 
} n 1 
r. Hosxyns dwells. | 
sked 
us surface,” 
ga fnit, On the other hand we have in n a 
ion of estimates at second-ha nd; pursuing undoubtedly an important and a 
while in the latter case, from all that we can hear, | fruitfol course of ac 
there has been a singular unanimity exhibited in tion, however, tha 
~ | resist the weight of field-pieoes _ passing over them. 
Iti s plain drew up the 
n that those who AEE isa 
plan i ve 
whose Seta can be served by the proceeding 
will be thos ose who after doi oing the work po- = 
ave the large 
se wiere meetings for agricultural tension held latterly 
f 
rness iss a ay. aoe a at soe bogey arrangement o lhe 
simpl e been of Arts, i d of eo the auspices of the 
tion needed or performed in alee to the po esol “Royal “Agdoultral Society of England? Why isthe 
of the re commit ee in charge of English ee to the Paris 
The great objection which “S independant body e ae 
iyi » 
in his prre ais the Lords’ Committee on this | country. The 
ed to. me in eet it watiiee, the in a it exerts, and the mF 
d Why h 
ciet ty or Arts Seth daa agriculture 
i 
ther e no one in the House of Commons 
ica aw the attention of Government to this monic 
We have to announce the sale, on Thursday next, 
of the pa e herd of pesebeet short-horn cattle, 
the property of Sir Caarn NI OnTLEY, | baronet 
Mr. Srrarrorp has mn rr dispose of 
heifers, 27 bulls and ball pre 
culturists, and command hi 
and calves 
They will undoubtedly Saat a large g gathetipg of 
ri- lt ghp 
a| 26" 
THE PRICE OF MANURES. 
Ix your impression of Saturday last I observe two 
ject was simply the impossibility of arme e | one examination, and 
sa rate information on the subject. ant farı in other ways spaigit nEn in behalf of agricultural | “ Geo.. Summers,” the other “S.” In both ot “these 
are not magpie to give, khen extent of “he ir ion e ben The Highland Society resolved at the Ne te is taken to the data which in Bis BN n 
Siili» an they do wW, e manner meeting last W ay to apply for a supple-| the las r t Joum Serpe arr = —_ fener yr y 
landlords are not ister for the pai at land kept | mentary charter, enablin itt in behalf of T have wya ee ‘Mi engrana e aano AAA > 
= waste for gree It might interesting to kno ltural education. hy d never hear this sastinting tte manures may be htoat Jess daN 
how much land is thus unoccupied, but the interest | subject of agricultural education mooted ses ie respective ingre- 
attaching to such information would depend upon rs an and object—direct as well 2 indirect— | 4; 7 i i 
č “ K [Pe dients ; the other, that in quoting the wholesale cash 
its social rather than on its agricultural bearin ieee Society of Englan Let our e e 
which the > y; ng prices and omitti ng tl 
ich alone are the proper object of the inquiry. e 
Butit is on o correspondent’s ar of the throw i mit as 
ish aR Baper st that we wish princi- for 
bind it to AER from that 
le 
much energy into every useful 
be foremost in every place 
; depend 
and its funded property ; 
hat it is nisya — PN ng estimate as aas its opportunities as its income, 
ll 
© 
Q 
T 
Q 
lsg 
F 
Sh 
nclusions, for the divergence between ‘coi ‘might 
ily a ‘tiated yf os different sae in which 
uch mai urally viewed through the me- 
and myo 
and u. 
ral statistics. But 
tati the 
hy vias: 
attempted drainage o: Fike c cam 
ap 
“4 The 
able as "Tegan Sco vase involved i in the oficial Be ien Sias 
ALL Maxwer LL was 
s from | his iape: ise for whic 
pera tions of measure—drew a bill the t 
t in the letter | he fora, to; ai aster as 
t the 
| tially correct, he finds, so far as 
ss yon hai 
apart and 18 inches deep, while the pipes employe 
are to be 3.inehes in diam eter. We need fot ‘ ay 
ans 0 tiot the Pea are mio 
LE of ay 
-of its charter, » with a m affect 
Po allies o the O 
the Q 
he drainage 
aS 
= 
oO 
> 
= 
ty has most pee ain bth. 
prs ae" energetic re advocacy 
eference to measures and proceed- 
lange and the interval between the rows 
mall. 
Tan ih the oe of the jaaa may be 
rogress 
saril te sS 
or need we say that drains half a yard deep are 
and |n | not oi ulated to drai 
usein! houses or of roads, or wit 
a habit 
find in 
a day— —the pi pes to be la Bathe ateurdly t 
unneces- | supp 
nthe land either as the site of K4 
re framed 
differen and y or vane’ Sibly ae "different 
conditions fi ofthe manure market ; setting aside, I say, 
these tances, Mr. Summers will not, 1. think, 
r the- 
3 
the legitimate ern of the aire maker, and 
fess that I should have, been exceedingly r ing 10 
“And this brings me to notice ao other correspond- 
which for the reason just given I eot- 
ge engineers AV 
ial on the He superintended the drainage of 
hi vel sad ii Park—the object bei ing ae lay. a ary Pi r 
amp le- | public enjoyment—and t this 
S | sider peculiarly unjust. -“ S.” is evidently a 
ony The fallacy of this 
—,, 
turer of manures, pe as such he me wits 
e prices is different manures 
making no allowance for the p: 
beei: 
y or f your read 
ter—a public meeting is immediately called | shot i h th th n, which 1 will i iatel: t A 
at which the Secretary of the Society ex explains the |]ess, and yet we have twice the number o tthe rein o tof f manures’ is ealeulated — 
le affair tothe farme 
ers present, and he is able' drains and four times their individual niin 
