650 
THE aad srt rt atl si GAZETTE. 
Eo orci 27, 1856. 
. fo rro 
} £ 4} } 
Pad pe 
hich almost exclusively o oceupie 
ox. however, Lg larg 
white Wheats grow: ame soil, 
rather in the same ne locality, for the sat by asian 
amelioratin miloane ces is quite altered, 
come oe u ange of 
Wheat can 
at large crops o now be grown 
where but precarious crops of a much coarser sort | the se 
were t ag rule. 
pe with sorts of plants with breeds of 
miali they patinai stand still at any one given 
point We may get a cross of either that will 
give us us just what we want, but t if we co nstan ntly 
he ws 
er erop or fine red = 
ra | 
climate, soli 
= x : n lane 
thus ome h mixin a the manure and soil 
of soil 
"I hold and manage a farm here o 
account ; “i manage four or five others i in this oct fo for 
f these 
sarah of 
By 
m 
| inasmuch as it pons a mixes the soil and manure, 
pulverise: ground evenly for the reception of 
4th. Tha t the machine is simple, strong, easily 
managed, and can be worked by two horses with ease. 
except pr a me aie and strange to say that 
aa gh the police know me well, ork Su é they fanas 
a are few who could and ihe willingly w ani 
ase them reliable information, cher one of them 
ards my own pale or 
ome If, Ss we have skill and ge to 
n the sow Tees of our breed of animals, 
idere 
mA pl 
e their po si ition or treatment, or we 
a er via thus b 
ith > 
the 
soe agricultu rs on the "glo be but certainly the ne 
y n Her Bri 
a those others I am managing. f Lam told they could 
btain th formation through th 
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS ie IRELAND | oe ee eee n to th ton a ile 
to be attached to the were I even to give er redit to the police for possessin: ing 
Peon correct sgreat, annieGes of all countries | the necessary education to qualify them for pe = 
e | generally, but of suc sags ries as are purely agri-| undertaking. But when I know that not one o 
tural or nearly so more expecially, will plead my | poli icemen, nor any other of the many policemen I re 
zene on ogy for now attempting to trespass Te% “ee 
ad 
on your pages, 
and on the attenti few 
elers ” —_ 
T pos 
on the statistics of Ire land, a coun 
met in any part of Ireland since “ 
i 1 Ire 
a: 
try perhaps 
nie Majesty’s dominions. If any of 
vaunted prase to be in reality g mockery, a ene 
sion and a snare?” A 
WwW 
false Arca ager get different qualiti With your re readers Joubt the Roe’ par of parue, pA potaining ibe ee aisil was the reverse of opportune, 
plants ther ee possible, a gee “Yiability t tisti eed but glan back for e thes ai io og been sought 
aac. out of any peculiarity than with) over the blished I oping a arious kinds to a great 
animals. row so e the aee a iro neces- Britain and Ireland for the last six months, pa if I nt had bee: f which oras arera of the 
, and we venture to suggest to thos who are t H see those of all ‘shades of polities si had pa m T Jet go r rag A ay Fo mis so 
in i in; em a erations polemi Paddy he aere 1 reside there were nearly 
differing fe mrga Siepirð. I OT, Kell s Budget of Fun ? in Dublin, stuffed — or less ps oe Flax wn since the middle of June last,* 
All forms we now mee t with are but parti all Y with our statistics why | before which those who sowed it had no idea of being 
aa and possess should the ey ar be considered so when our popular ina = on o ‘urnips, nay even of 
the f bat all f ad Gona to| io? und leading the van on many impor- ~~ itself. Some who had Oats growing then appa- 
te beetle T range Me sah adaptations to | tant oc ar t more especially on such occasions as | rently healthy opr the land on which they were 
rious requir We v e to recoml-| the grea cotit ng our Agricultural I e appearance of the crops turn 
varieties, | Society of “Trol and Tatly held at Athlone, when his | out to be, irran ai Turn urnips on the same land. These 
= ‘tons varieties Se estates but from | a tl argely in figures which the majority | are fac 
ies. beyo ve _we believe, sya tly appeal to|of those hear hin and many of those who n fous pronouncing an utter RIES of the 
igi peci new varieties, an eas read hi ed to be ‘tas true as gospel?” | accuracy of this scheme, I wish it to be particularly 
d seedsmen S d follow aot mple y it He said, “I wish however not to deal in general-| understood that w man — ore hig th u o 
not be possible bs by gai to the original rand ities on a subject of this sort. vive my infor-| the importance g agricultural statistics ac- 
natural sources of all o rieties, w we shall obtai mation fi the very valuable returns collected by the curately erii nit or as nearly so as circumstance 
pets tica ‘itself, anid caer whl T eo ry of this Kay ountry ; and t is is a matter in | y will admit, but which aidie can be do ne by such a 
ic + + 1 +} h 
ikay to yield a r and healthy produc e? 
At a lat 
e meeting of the Imperial Agnon urai) he 
art over your pr roud Aapo in England.” t 
Exealleney further | said, “ T hese returns. l l 
Socie France, M. P 
nd ge it aoe to the 
bod 
| organised staff in her "Majesty’s dominions for the 
duties which they shave learned to per erfo orm, are e not the 
men to 
ety of 
he considered Guano from one of the Wes 
ple. they | 
6 J 
aaa =) 3 | 
what 
India islan 
= M. yen was found to consist of the Palen 
ances :— 
pote oe in 
4 tains dta 
Total me 
added that tis guano 5 aes ‘ai no 
tne rls then wat belonged jo ts ‘et a: 
Sy aeaa ut ae 
verised, which would cost 10 franes per 1000 kilos. 
Such being the case, er xem freight of the article 
ld be more than its market value. It th 
the infi i with 
alacrity and ee. will.’ 4 There is no doubt ui that 
insofar as“ the 
| concerned much m “alncity and goodwill” may have been | 
R, 
ng the destruction of weeds ha “the 
oadsides, for which they machi now — 
time, rete little else to do. , Query ould | not an act 
ont pi enforein 
o much Lang try operation ? ? I think it would, dee 
manifested. ltl 
goodwill ”and the absence of all ex aggeration on ‘their 
parts, what pr oportion of the gentry of Ireland is | 
sufficiently 
think a o that | until such an act be e their 
tho backed by 
pair surveyors, Poor-law guardians, aes juries, the 
| celebrated Registrar- ston re Dar oes! nay the 
of Poli Lord uP eutenant 
Miske the least anaes can be placed ? Not one in| 
20, except in s0 far as farm stock nice is con- 
ho 
| could not ak their = ears 
information, calculated to giv: 
Not one in a hundr 
so qualified, bow many of them 
give “the Neenivot 
ith any degree of 
ey 
wou 
could not met not fe considered as a guano, bet 
al applicability. 
A MACHINE for digging Potatoes Boy been eA, 
that. © sees vo pies will”? so boasted 
| ? Not ousan 
jese of my c eym sa and no man regre 
nce of | that feeling more than I do, peg oh i with 
P pain I y the 
| Jate Gerald Griffin. “The peasantry of pa bo 
in su aon Scotlan 
ove 
aire sae to which, ae 
its efficiency, it i s right that the. po of our 
rs sho uld rawn. The i inve entor is a Mr. 
eports ee were 
with the laws by which they 
watch their operation in every 
guilt i elh rer 
obtains commisera zi? eir 
mere spirit} of op on 
governed, and 
instance with a alee eye. 
naturally argno, 
regard from the 
by application at = Albert Model F. arm, Glasnevin, 
where his implement underwent its last 
public ‘critic We understand thai 
tial 
ing 
e weight 
to a set of ae forks 
furrow slice 
the 
eane? 
which oF consider vhioatly. 
in the south of I 
as aes attempts to peepee 
Edward Carroll, Cranem 
| himself, will be as fu tile 
arrei diei statisties. 
w | House, Newtonbarry. 
a meee pp A telco QUESTIONS. 
N, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
"(Cone ed from p.6 635) 
eee os PROGRE 
1. State the pret ipal additio; of late al to the 
eb ie es our EEGUNA 1 implem 
bai 
ing corn, 
ck and drain tile sate reaping. machines and 
eam 
levers lougis, diggi horse rakes He lever harrows, 
pulping m his es for Hse Epe, manure drill, and 
t not pR am horse ; and there have 
ts we à suc pelata in agate “ail our farm im 
ments, such as horse hoe oes, harrow, wheel, | and clod- 
There is scarcely a 
where the very c 
the 
simplicity, and all the inimitable subtleness of evasion | 
TE 
+ at l 4 3 YW 
— contain over the ane of the ground on 
at “tow 
“the spirit of Machiaveli iuto ecstasies.” 
aar ssure 
ustice 
tia same peasantry in regard to the prea 
tatistics Sop for by the Irish police as if the sa same 
2. Same those nn the cultivation of which has been either 
introduced or very largely increased during the past few 
years. 
Mangel tobe igs h grown to some extent 30 or 
"1 uch increased i in eulture. Italian 
oa and i jargely in in 
wehthin tie last few pooch Trifolium incarnatum is 
of recent introduction, but the culture of all fallow 
crops has much i nereased. 
. What is the most important improvement now generally 
" adopted in the management and cultivation especially of 
clay soils? 
The old system of managing clay land was Wheat, 
o eee Oats, Beans, ae Tae: fallow, and so on 5 
oduced large ly i 
the P wing 
them up in tig ar ‘where ‘ee were einat ya 
| Te erry alt” or a » “ Molly M‘Guire,” not alon 
into this 
as been 
Griffin alludes, ak a Ka 
tre of Ireland, for they believe 
or by the police i is for noes 
ry thi ng but “ their advan tage 5” nor is their 
south of Ireland,” to which 
east, west, n north, and cen 
the information sought fe 
and eve 
pacatis aieh success ; Ps ave been introduced 
with fit; Mangel "Wurzel has been introd 
instead of bare fallow, and has on g ipa as 
Ko hl Rabi and Ca! abbage have likewise bee 
screen, posited compactly on the 
surface for the 
The judges appointed to determine the merits of | ;, 
the leoslenent reported— 
os patent Potato digger worked ter | 
an implement ement which can be generally use 
Te would obser same tow. as a oe 
Il occasions, with ve | rare hajga touching land, 
its valuations, and management, but none more keenly 
than in the very statistics now under consi i 
But supposing that the gentry and t people possessed 
he 
d | all the necessary qualifications i in them 
d all the 
PP 
esired v willingness 
: A aiana a oaa ar owes t 
koen des being pan 
y a ‘otato 
eatnemineir a pulveriser soil, | i 
up t the soil in the air, casting 
—— 
aid they fake Be Becher: steps to obtain it? No, 
Piatek al arate rer er banag dbe Asens oer 
en ayh I have seen 
\aud on various parts 
4. Describe Mr, Smith’s (of Lois Weedon) system of cultivating 
Wheat, mapa sisto ihe ” principias on which his experience of 
fr. Smit Wheat ly half his 
Mr. Smi pervs = ‘grow on only 
land, that is, in alternate strips of aa ta gapi coe sets 
ety et ‘t6th Not ia rai 
the season a5 
pent of Mahomet,” 
ee barrels of Oats as 14 stones 
u is th 
The have no dou whatever they wil im 
of Flax growing this locality 
