ae eee acre eee 
Mar 10, 1856.] 
and dissemination of f the knowledge o of home and foreign 
events and discoveries bearing on agriculture. He would 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
abundance among our metropolitan n and provincial land | lan 
valuators ae sop eee inspectors, be commissioned | 
schemes, and of other like measures, hick are now 
prAna mening! them into disi 
when they ue 00 large r div rersified for 8 “single 
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lon unsuitable purchases. And the very facilities 
this general marketing affords for introducing both 
| cattle and implements of superior classes to a district 
where, from havi: ving been seldom seen before they will 
ent — re a management t of a subordinat te board 
the enclos ommissioners, who are pie need to |“ 
Patliament, rape: in nde a few ener. 
phosphatie and other 
whole extent. 
eir aid in each county or division | 
 Consei il des 
ini ? call to th 
farmers, should be looked upon with 
favour. An asebe ol farmer will not 
-E 
i bu t nei either will he lose sight | of any = 
finally, stak I have iot even "glanced at ae pA use 
functi 
o public confiden nee in “rr 
y 
8 | had practised it al the ny dee of his tee 
f t is of ho arm manageme: 
we of a attention Ni 
if it is once ori 
will. quiet ‘aio aa saa sperat ement, as if he 
ons which could be exercised b cia al, 
1e would control and tects an pol Hoon 
inquiry fateli 4 pre a at intervals of 5 or 10 y 
w il 
t 
information, as sI shali a afterwards sho, Sena is rachis 
the 
could be publis 
only census or | the gee year's tion ; the purposes of an early 
| estimate had bee aieaay i accom plished. 
believe that this system ould work well and 
smoothly, as it would enlist in its favour the 
mt as enero a 
time proving remunerative to the joint 
tenant, that Iw 
to Pa collected by resent pro oposed. | and feelings of the farming class, who have some right 
hater of l 
eave this suggesti 
with some persons, and it _may be safely affirmed that 
ion of a A min g 
apt hen Se and It advocacy, of otk I 
ie” oe e. 
> 5 
more eee of influence eek I possess or aspire to, 
as I believe its vein be good, 
T we world on w it af uy pigs days ;” 
ion " under r penalti ties to give yas vers to quest ions 
which they may without much tch of im Socios 
suppose will, under the proposed pamm of employ 
h accounts, end- 
less con “hem on and coarse pr are sure to be 
the ee in home farming. 
Iti vious, therefore, that an accurate system of 
disclosure ; : while landowners, who in relation to the 
Farmers iposaraly » are notorious tse ecters of e 
State as they 
upon to give information which, as r have kie 
pointed o a resl 
they will but seldom require to be exercised if any 
management is shown by the officials charged with th 
inquiry; but I think that the agency throug 
it is proposed to work the measure is very objectionable 
ch ord of the 
3 intelligent farmers ot ‘Seotland whom you so mu 
ng in 
F 
rural state of our coun try. 
en the 
would be a pity ifa 
proprietor failed to set his 
this resp ect. There is no neces ‘for adopting a com- 
ch 
asi volui wpe 
ng through of a 
e getting rusty on this oaths 
Apt 
officials should be entrusted w the organiza ation 
of their organ 
% you may judge from Fike strong rA of — 
pl y of book entries, but that it should be 
sufficiently elaborate to admit of the figures being 
from time to time no 
. ‘Siting that i a proprietor 
us just got possession ofa farm he intends to cultivate 
TT 
f] 
3 
ged 
< 
a 
-a 
© 
a 
is insulting. As a national measure the propos we 
inquiry is very í defective. A national ha: espa of bg 
ay 
tish Li mee It is not well that cause ed 
e: 
which I have Deea given my ‘humble taiko. 8. 
1856, 
It should give a vi 
try; while iai à as proposed 
May 2 2, 
gene Rea apat, ma a 
an pa ome of ge agricultural statistics of 
rope: mber of April 
they Tor gaat complete than 
those proposed for England, than those collected in 
; take Prussia as an example—there are six 
ich he 
ae stan a mang he tharos has eet Paty 
own interests in eds e ou 
Bra ge for peh or cro 
the stocking _ is _to be determi 
Foren wayne tenant and him- 
self, he will be very ¢ 
up unde 
a | 3, re ceo three will cover 
a Suiweted with the farm, and will afford 
of a | checki: ing t the other subsidiary acccunts in detail as wel 
ae i 
ould be most suitable for keeping the whole accounts 
in a satisfactory state. 
In a previous letter I stated that there should be two 
pomy “he ndings in the books, or aeres better two 
ut mirik each o the se heads or ‘separate ledger 
mean ee shoal a numerous sub-headings. The 
ougbt to include—1, cash 
ings; 34, irrigating and engin 
roads and eaten $6; ; and 7 
1g will 
“proposed 
sys rl. so aaa that no notice 
should be wah of them? Wood re 
e 
at themsely ves 
the epeapant is to be ‘both landlord and tenant, appz p 
an 
Tw En Root Our OT 
workmen. 
neral impression that they need not work quite 
hard when their att tag is a Jan ded proprietor | na 
is a 
r that thi 
plemen 
vo to chee a there should be accounts u 
g heads : — green: crops inclu 
+, 
e ten 
own n exertions for a  Wclibood, 
in des t di 
rnips, and KON eo feeding crops ; 
nding— (1) Wheat, (2) Barley; D Onis D ts, Cl) 
rich th 
And I fea 
nnate fferently towards the 
A 
wil 
Canadian Seat or digging in “Australian gold mines, 
He who criticises and censures the f others 
should be ready with a plan of his¢ own. Mine Soild be 
very ampe Let a central a er pk , say the minister 
of agric , be charged with the issuing, receiving, 
and tabula tg Me schedules required, no local officer 
n nce or therewith ; this 
would ite a iat peyini obo spe disclosure of 
farmers’ doings. pen freee to hold a d of th 
who are in poorer circumstances, is not 
may actually exist to some 
| comprising-(1) oad K) Peas. In thii way. ‘every 
| kind of stock, crop, &e.,] ale spe. account for itself 3 
confined to wor 
sihett in “the bind Py a well-m 
farm 
eaning g 
rmer big i his really being sensible of the fact 
Man is so much a creature of c ire pank and his 
i uen ¢ fe iation that | 
p 
Q 
£. 
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5 
a 
a 
All this may appear aminan w it is in 
pentier of great AN i Let me just trace 
r the day, or 
A 
may t ns 
oa zery, small en t that 
d in, but as it is the pine 
e number of the sa rg ve, being but 
formation of such a ame 
tself that I point to, its small- 
t rainy the 
tion that, tati rin 
good « eiictitadtarioas oy" can afford to let poorer porinis 
pipa with him have favourable bargains 
now and t 
| it belongs. oa cattle araka to be fattened are are 
bought from the outgoing tenant at a fixed price, and 
the tion i noticed 
If the des ot to be paid at 
stand as some larger sum 
settled for, t then ti the te -keeper ros por tn the m 
in whioh h he “should “fill, ‘up g“ 
$ — chr of these under 
peda with agricultural pursuits. Isi it nota fact that 
regular j post the 
amount to the erni of f the ret bem to the debit of 
Tal E 
Paan But tif payment is 
oun entered 
many i bord His 
many let, Fund to sot 
us the total acreage of = 
vijia ro S eagp re whether 
r growing, or to weg 
Aleta up by him with the acreage seis cach < denom 
of crops, and with the live s stock he 
thos casks who prs, or "rai pha, round 
inot every opin and gentleman’s Zn. in the 
United Kingdom? No wonder that hom 
ge 
the piso “sid i 
ledger | to the debit of the 
game for 
No hinged that an 
A PUY: E 
nees, 
harpaess, in sot 
inary aed "uaa ms, is essentiall 
landlords intended for a cereal crop ain be debited em 
Wheat, Barley, or Oats, as- the case may be, and 
by the payiiont i When- 
P 
da T h 
pare an nd circulat imadni pd A 
bette "the os be! apne; x iad by the Ist of Jul 
moderate am of diligence aer enable the de epart- 
e minister to Pe 8 
vali species of er 
commercial operations, this 
publication at so early 2 : date would be very valuable, 
r of a hom Ee fe espon- | some sther one wust be eredited to-balance with it 
Then few instances in wbich a | The Feeding Stock padre seta to cash for 
aen tenant “relinqui ing a farm abou t to be the price o a and when these are 
illingly y | fattened deint its turn becomes bted 
advantage of the latter. Id be | to Feeding Stock for tos pei It isin this | manner that 
bead first to agree toa gt ges aig gaye h lld 
of 
ock to be assigned. Butit may be Feohi even in 
ch a case that the proprietor should look to his } own 
interests in 
it is impossible to to check the various accounts from time 
to time with y degree of accuracy. 
© following may be taken as a full set of books for 
may | be ye live stock and | implem hich thougl 
and the exten 
correspondence which: your own and | worth 
: Daybook, into which every buying or selling 
folly recorded 
ded co: hi 
other journals deyoipata lo. serena, ataire affairs hold with | farmi rine Better ay in that instance to Tet T A, _Memorandum-book, not intended for money 
indivi eee in w] you give o | the ed t but wo a, Pet of ene i 4 
the world so Teka bate meye e ingathering | by brivo; the portion of it usually recognised as Hic ea ia a irelider desir 
of the harvest, would lead to the p a of an z ie avani public sale. _ Indeed in most cases a 4 Journal, in k k descripti of 
pose of p pasaet n ko k omiksi arhede k beoth narenearia iea it 
directing the currency of the mar! cs weeks | stock it anew His steward can in that case | entry can be m any jnas s 
TE no iE ok months earlier than any estimate co d safely pogin the kind of horses most suitable Te the — has been journalized in the pages of this book, a 
tho henf eeding and dairy stòck that arë y et pe Baar seated transaction be a or a credit one, it 
official e may, un under the circumstances, largest t app here in detail, the creditor always balan- 
be sivantagotsly ly. deferred till December, when the which in“the ci ta ill best the end h 
minds of farmers will be fully decided as to what the|view. It may cost more money a. peat 4, A Ledger large en om ad ail the tenancy 
actual result is from three or four mon month of threshing, market to procure rcoommey Sask tan purchase | accounts for at least a couple o 
should it then be fermer Let some men of 'it from the away-going sonra but then if the manage- | ae A geste nesa inw! Mich reli extent an a yearly 
ergy and practical k ets a bata in ake E s judicious there is no throwing away of means f cropping 
of every field will be stated in a : 
