364 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [May 24, 1856. 
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aaa with a eanacoul wit c certain Lova 
auimais with a generous and varied diet, and protection against | meetings ot the Society in other parts of the kingdom. , € chie fly f y for the summer season, into ce Lowland 
Tiaia © taffed. wi changes of The. AT hawaii Seer The entry of agricultural per S and machinery is | counties, have had their attention ‘forcibly ‘directed to 
member of Council, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, for sending to the large beyond precedent; and as a great ogy ty these la rs 
in some lambs the subjects of this disease, which enabled | these, instead of lying inactive, as hitherto, in the | on the farms where the y have heir temporary resi- 
en Segre ar gaua rane! Koorts ep Benoni Sede) g| Yard, will be at o ordinary work ‘au uring cer iam hours | | dence. It has been fond that, ai speaking, thag 
otherwise have done. Besides lambs, young cattle have like- of tke show, they will catia a new and instructive | | Sehnat ae on has be een an inferior, sometimes of a 
bee age hd = from = a pa — like seppero ature in the exhibition, The Council have been in- wi teh ennon n many rean oath doubtless, 
oi ent, but somewhat modified to suit the aced, made praise 
altered state of things, were found equally efficient with them wo t! a prt sioner Pe ‘rte ao lodge 
The worms Which habit this part of fhe organisin belong to the imp ement manufacturers who exhibited last | these poor Highlanders as comfortably’as possible ; but 
the aria. They exhaust the strength of the animal | year at "arise to apportion their prizes and trials | still om a oe. te m ost part, only bothies to offer 
they attack by drawing largely upon the secretions furnished by |in the implement department over three years | the othie a very bad _description—consi st- 
the mucous Daina oe Do Tepate Bad jomend oe hate oa cme | instead of melodig them all in single successive y ry 
m impediment to the free entrance of air into the Iu fi The implements for prizes and trials have accordingly manner, paoor Kittle furniture, and few à o means 
and thus frequently destroy the animal from asphyxia, or in less | been divided into classes for this three years’ tion | of ordinary comfort. Generally fou 
saumbers interfere with neces: h s of the in its 
passage through these organs, T are both oviparous and : ; 
clas r 
under the following heads:—l. ad rt gore | fe wig see even so many as 10 or 12 E * ahi ee 
i 4 2. are foun nd c rowded at night | into one poor 
and 
hed a ge 
the parent worm, others are only brought to perfection | Implements and mac inery for the cultivati 
after the ejection of the ova. Further s iS emer < their | harvesting of crops. 3. Implements and machinery for there be no elderly woman among them to vate orm the 
rvesting of crop: p 
development, and the changes which their ova undergo | the jpre . f fi k d ttle t, these young wor 
fi Sando: paration of crops for market and ca men 
Anai a lana EAAS tot Age. nem 3 ofthe wo nae Those under the first of these heads will form m the pee lave uch exposed to the influence of evil co mpany, and 
prevent the frequency of their attack. and trial implements for the Chelmsford ting, e formation of improper habits. It is but just to say 
Catcarzous Coscretions.—So many instances of the loss of | addition to the special prizes of 500/. for the b beat steam these girls, as a class, have hitherto conducted 
the aT Stee Shy aa deo Serle aparia So tence cultivator, prizes for reaping machines, and pti s for | poh with Aaa E propriety ; but Dy poai 
Experience has Shown eet got ad E bhes eep are kept too much na ew and miscellaneous implements. The live Ti ck | (exposure to _demoralising pee thei Be: 
riirii diet, and allowed but a limited range, a perverti poria of the exhibition will i ttl 
pa wah ed on ee ae rp 3 afore ng which sheep belonging to foreigners, and re abroad. For greatly diminished.” 
take place in all sheep without reference to sex, but they | the purpose o making; entries for foreign pera a We quote further to show how the other evil of 
of more consequence in the male animal, arising from the | during: the approaching Great International Show at which the pamphlet complains is connected with the 
fact that the urethral canal, much diminished in size, passes | Paris, une, the Counciljhave ex- same causes as have produced the bothy system :— 
tive organ, and the deposit accumulating therein blocks up rind tended the date of entry in their case from the Ist to | “Tt may be asked by those not well acquainted with 
passage and leads to inflammation and often rupture of the the | 12th of that month, our richer ee Lewin why it is nece to 
of the urine. Pre’ i the i t al i 
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short a space of time; the repeated exhibition of some mild Farmers’ Clubs. f 9 
aperient medicine, and also the use of mineral acids in a diluted Wir RAL.— Weight hts and pi mttaer d ty of houses in the purely rural parts 
throwi any 8 
IR eeting of | P 
a rane Lays A ms 1+ egress mea composed of tie ein = AEEA w was referred to a sul b-committee to| | of the 
untry. The syst 
carbonates with heer the ploha nsider what gai can now be tak n towards the | eee iat one, which began about a century ago, has 
Fie TA isk ING Taon or aay om this re 1 ht | led o the pes gee Ed numerous farm-steadings and 
ig doye g s its car ained a Sarina agricultural 
aera gsi ning fo Hind that through th the C caer wats and, to this end, to communicate ‘with, „and population; The ney a ndlords in keeping the 
Society, g men whose scientific Seecaton is base umber of houses on thei peng at the minimum, 
rine of | and of individuals possessing influence in the markets ism, poaching, and 
laren out Wetieprinsipies they are no less practical in their | for such produce. other evils, has also tended ro > Foduce the rural popula- 
every-day proceedings than those individuals who profess to The committee ———e ues considered the subject referri The itn gat 
Pp is fi h f r 
as he 
and such it hopes it has ina <u be codi d ee kingdom—and having given their earnest attention to ag report | arate ioe bc th ere is a confessed scarci ae thes 
g. of the committee 5 apnea by the House of Commons oe nodation ; ; and the farmers are compelled to 
Signed * Tomas Cator, Chairman. “To inquire into the present practices of selling or he f shift: urers 
( ) k Te ta all f di United Kingdom”—and having de tind into the Beanies d > fni kA Ser ese ith 
remarked, cases of disease | prevailing, and their etme ten that eet evils of ‘the sufficient numbers, and then to furnis sahede 
e of the rich 
Aera 
ition. 
e great evil resulting directly from sa piers ot 
things so ghtancede MERY felt by the hinds pon 
sits mportant counties—must apenas 
urely it > only to be described i in n order 
Bli 
i parts neh ti kingdom (in mee: pey 
Ss > * : of e order to their 
He thought that in addressing farmers plain English | y the Jeeiimate ection of of Sade) a; are a depetred ta prea 
oar t be given as well as words heterogene- their p tility, i Soin ees or eae Pumice ros Yh are bof our agricultural labourers. int tae 
ously compounded from oa Greek poo erential quoted for each locality y being v SS e Dorghsh districts of East me, sd a 
that h 3 Devon fioc! » A5 | increased precisely in proportion as the commercial hire, and itis believed o! some other anties, 
oe sree his arapi had malere pE Tali wih every other in the kingdom 1s promoted, P iy | si hief at ; and 
loss amoun cent. from a sort of con- | the ent communication ; and, hen > “natural 
ges pema greater than a were Whe} re] oad on the e pop pee pay a kept a a Mpv in 
sumption. he Sioa bo a latter end of Sep- patiamantary ecuymittee of 180% uadare peiiitlg gree y ETH | level, the hinds o ona und by the farmer to 
ser S animal's sneezing and wasting away, but | year cone i aia fi 
i , as soon | have or less frustrated every attempt hitherto made 4 round, or at least uring the summer season. This is 
athe w. vafi weather chme. The heads of the sheep enforce, by law, an uniformity of practice in this respect, are dis | pop bondag syst m? 
were found after death to contain two grubs in the aga edr iA coupe tie PrOpRIcIy or Ores Oe pre on | ‘When the hind has a son or a daughter of his 0 own who 
PP to be decisively in favour of a change. And, conceiving that the | can work the ‘ oe work, x He peta’ some! es feel 
ef hi most direct and certain method of promoting the formation of | the arrangement to be ntage ; bar ‘tt yom 
The Co Counel i adja over the Derby-day to their such een will Rat Ls = discussion of the veli-Soers facts | hild: ot fell k. feel it to be 
rmine orma: ut: zs p 
- up n them, ig es, to you the following questions caged aes at drudgery, snd pre i > 2 logo yment. 
it not, in your — esirable, and especially so in view of t one or other of them i neon and ee iged to turn 
On Tiursday the half-yearly general meeting of the | the more ready and rapid communication and greater cages ml bee out toa hated kind of sng = frequently happens that 
pil 
Sey ves ad SE Dry which we shall give in transit of Jate year reflected between he mas ap ad at e hind who a = nant whose children are all 
full next week, nearly concerned, to procure uniformity in the weights and ese has to relied into his house as 
present neigh 85 life ai cathe 139 annual ve rs, | measures used for the sale of agricultural produce in the United | ¢ bondager.’ This i inmate, genera rson of but an 
839 life members, 3896 annual, and 20 honorary | Kingdom? 2. Is weight, or is tardy seb are practi- | inferior grade, a spy, OF a 
` = cable, deeme ‘ou the more acct i ss 
than the pecker | 7 are 4979 members, or 97 more | regards emitia produce, irae ec pa aea noa plague in his small h and among his young 
number a revious anniversary, The family. And further, pe he, receives from the enya 
z bee | as the wages of his Seg a sat: trequontly does not pay 
n A 
asi the New Three macys Leds rbd ad | Acbicws. | the expenses to which he is put. He has often to give 
a1 a ent, Stock, an between 52, and 72. a half-year for such a substitute, who 
the cash balance in hands of the bankers is| A Plea for our Hi itang and other Agricul tural aniy earns fe fra 10d. an ls. a-day, while, from wet 
36571. Professor ist of the| Labourers ; or the mee and si ge System in East | weather and other causes, there is not a little broken 
t Lothian and N lackwood and | ti s he has to give 
Edinb: has, 
w 
urg ‘bo the f board, 
Tuis is the manifesto of a committee in Edinburgh for | washing, it is no wonder that the poor hind ad can often 
the peee of the condition of the Hi ghlanders. say, im in bitterne: rness of A spe that besides all two in the half 
J P 
Y E E PE i as: +} m 
ts, who At harvest ine, year out of poket 
leave their homes for work in the soutb, and whose| The results of e system are s stated to be—a feeling 
2 | pro per accommodation and pitro while in the} of bardship and sary il eee in the minds of the 
a Ge paree into, the | hinds who are thus —a system of constant re- 
Liebig’and Mr. E hecat seldom remain long 
appal Indeed, as | movals farm shoes who 
Lawes bave had a effect of ‘alle th e ienei of es e pamphit n aR ge” Bei of ap othies.” or houses mas the pe system pr prevails— —and ar tendency to exten- 
in s produ 
scientific men n to the ORAR LETER p agriculture, h unmarried farm-servants are lodged to; ogether, on, which in the same way 1 ced. 
applica! f those Len one <The Dandaka eika may be regarded asa type 0? 
oi point of view. food, and other necessary d lomestic eparations, have | sign of the depressing influences h the hinds, 
m bers of the "society ¢ > been alee well exposed in various parts of the| and the agricultural population several ar ve in many 
> advantage privileges relating to yses | country. districts long been exposed. B s of that + a 
the artificial manures, as they can only thus | obtain hich the subject forced itself ipon their families are injured or kept down in various wa; 
ecurity ; fraud and adulteration. The those whose immediate bj ect was of | Bon hired into their houses are, as as been alk 
| another od is more fully related in the follow vog shown, infringements upon their domestic a5 
© | paragraph :— liberty. Their sons and daughters, sent out to eis 
be “A number of ag sore in bomen E interested | work often against their their inclination, or brought home 
i f the Highland labourers who Jertake that heavy ro B and 
| annually induced by oi of work to immigrate, 7 duced to a j 
fiiisse anneres- == 
