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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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Bees er 8, 1856. 
off with the shovel, krios the Potatoes in little 
mounds—the field was r, worn pe and 
personally I I believe him 
to be a man of ed character, otl otherwise he could not 
e holds. nt gered may qualify 
acres, poo! 
stubble, hilly and inferior land, yet it was one of th 
On 
I have, however, had as g good crops in drills | from cut 
sets, h 
the same kind of ground | him 
h 
as a more hos. 
hos- 
xi ated nee Fst their 
jor aip jolly, fa r sort vo 
—Mr, Mechi, in returning ‘thanks, ery i 
friend. 
the course ph time to ascertain t ic 
statisties of Ireland more approximately exervcty but 
ultural 
d their 
kind favours ? The conclusion he came to ‘was that 
use for sets 
yee J 4} a 3 , 
custom to the Potat 
for the table e either whole, or cut rit on size pernila, n 
smal 
uon 
eyan very l ones; very rarely a 
marketable Potatoes now cut for sets, and the opinion 
the country is t pr a 
sets are equally st 
ductive with the But the use of th 
small sets is, I think, Objectionable, p er = dete 
Tioration. It cannot fail to have observ: en 
Ay 
a large proportion of the Potato 
a much greater num f all 
toes ers ; some in whic! mall 
M.P., President, in the chair. 
should t be i is no business of oe though I am not one | they though it that he y had 
of those who believe that“ to be. When he ms frm or two 
is no man’s business,” for a p to th hat, as a man of business, he 
is the business of all. Edward Bera asks foe nt was right ate proper—that was, to „begin to 
House, Newtownbarry. spend money upon them, and to alter their unimproved 
condit At that time there was a ce of 
ee opini ha vements should He 
Sorirties. li the farmers of England, 
ROYA AGRICULTURAL OF ENGLAN 
MontHiy Covtic cit, Nov. 5.—Mr. Evelyn ‘Dente, 
at least many a the farmers of Suffo lk tought, ten or 
where und, 
some again rome e a large number of small ones with 
very few large ones. Thus in the e aggregate the amoun 
of small sets ; produced from these inferior plants gre: atly | 
t the next meeting were 
Finances.—Mr. Raymond Barker, inima Gk the 
Finance Committee, reported that the 
ce in the hands of the bankers was 1 0270. 
submitted to the members the usual quarterly bine 
AH 
In planting these small Potatoes, we pst: oa great 
extent the eh tees of apiri parents. oai wt r 
produces like, der ordi 
of a very large proportion ‘of 
these small Potten à and this deterioration m 
the soil. It ma; ay | 
amt: of some of the eyes, eet 
that t the farming of Suffolk was not so bad, and thst 
the grec k ngla: ad y was not so fe after “al, and 
that there t so very much to learn as he had 
pointed Sits 3 but they must recollect this—that ev 
year they goivg on in their population by 
ompound multiplication, which seemed to be such a 
favourite employment with Englis » and sat = 
sheets quite clear that that Pic me ulati 
crit z income and expenditure, and of assets and i x rođuetion, m 
Hover. —Mr. Raymond Barker, as chairman of tl t 
ouse Committee, also pests =e Sg: aga a ihe unless they ey invested in the soil, on "the part = 
repairs in the course of bei uring t landlord and tenant, a very much larger poser o 
in the ho ae AG the Sofiet pa capital and intelligence. Had it not n for their 
L TABLE: i c 
ATIST. —Mr. Thompson, Chairman of 
the Touria, Committee Sepo rted the recommendation 
of that Committee t Sa 
been at the itham agri 
st Bright, Esq., of Hale, for the 
manner in which he had placed his statistical 
the editors of the Journal—a 
later sh 
ust think a arises chiefly from degenera: sets 5 
accordance afr our experience in all 
Hay Ber animal productions. Indeed, I so fully | 
oncur with the advocates of selection of seed 
bat I have often proposed in Potato tillage t to _plant 
EE 
recommendation which the bm il at once cordially | ™ 
adopted, and passed an unanimous resolution to that 
effect. 
_ Prize Essay. —Mr. Thompson reported 
out to select for sets those that are eminen tly. produe- 
tive of good large Potatoes, but par ge disappointments 
+ sae prevented my carrying out my views. J. M. 
also from 
that the | Judges of Essays had 
made the following eam ion 
grt cultural St 
you onthe subject of of o our r y ‘statistics I. si ia 
commotion” which the publication | 
of the ey eran nero! The fact of my having 
has thrown some light amongst 
some come wio patie fark oas a subject they now et to be| h 
the great number 
better illuminated ; 
whiah Titk 
of 
ceived from it aiidas oiite 
of Ireland in sustentation ot the objections I had but | m 
naa 
To Tomas F. Jamizson, of ‘Ellon A NOH 
the Prize of Forry SovEREIGNS for his Being the 
Chemical Results pore induced in ool cibiegil 
Soil by Atmospheric action 
RIALS OF Reapers AND Sram ProvcH.—On the 
motion of Mr. Brandreth ee seconded by Mr. 
Allen Ransom e 
e 
machines ari steam plough ‘a "Boxted Lodge, for the 
RE with which he had supplied his horses and 
r thei eir working, and for the general co curelly 
e Lord-Lieute- 
reply to the letters I have recei j AANS 
d to do so privately to some, and w: 
not : troubled had I not 
Sopian bas 15, 1856, containing. ben date | 
r ~ 56, ini ph or two 
which I think it notice. He says, “ Your E 
moia is aware the information given to the |z 
is altoge kwa voluntar, tary ; and I feel assured oo 
it it will fy R pleasure to saa ee to learn, as I | 
beg me t E in my | 
to cm ira it is noo nt gratilyin 
as I 
to the good feeling and pe. te of all ranks saan ey 
Mr. Donnelly, it wil 
rime MEETING IN SURR REY,—Mr. A 
hairman of a 
owing memorial on t! 
eee 
Hoge e inted b by a public meeting held in the 
memorialise the Equo of. the 
of only o 
3 | hor 
As 
he | them, however, sive it 
esu] 
<i yee of a 
hey were aware Aren mae were eB kinds of these 
ploughs now in use: one was Aes Mr. tees which 
orked Meni ve re rope, a f them 
ight “haw in tabaci. ee 
might —— n that = oie also 
using we but that gentleman s 
3 or 
Rela it: should be u un pderbtood 4 not li imited 
4 acres, but were 20, 30, or re a size, unt he 
had no difficulty in that respec and with his 
mmon ine he was working ri ste plough 
satisfactorily. ‘Then there was Mr dell’s engine, as 
at the Royal Agricultural Show a elm 
alking about like a Mammoth, and whic 
A 
d work which th eported in the 
Ag gricultural Gazette by a careful teens = oop two days’ 
close ex: amination. It was stated od w ploughs 
che th at a cost 
Ae 
T 
, and 
10s. what with horses pans cost Tbs. 9 and see 
find that if if ey es tv d got m-horse they 
require = p Se so kind on pi but ak “ make hay 
when the shone, m _ Hesaw Mr. Boyde ell a day a 
urrey,” and we are re Eeer ard i 
found ich 1 
| ee facility of henge and. "teaiiey 
| eee ot ee ie 
ard of H 
mt show 
000 
y e that it w: ould be Dote dg y ir 250, 
people to prof by the ow at Reigate than for 100,000 to be 
collected a mye ms wince ey r Mai or any other place not 
col any railways as 
" SRT Crus. Gibbs 
—Mr. to 
minded those Members of ‘the Society that i intended t to 
p! he civic procession ol an mp Po ved 
untry- -made food, they considered roth should Hen 
ager iculture 
turn to Mr. Boydell, he had no he 
sitation i 
r the receipt of 
that th Segre 3g 
Saturday, the 8th araki 
CountstcatioNs were received from the Foreign 
Office 
r, 
a gun without being move it,but 12 being put 
on, they at last managed to get it up hill ; whilst 
, | Boydell’s engine took the gun (w ich weighed 10 tons 
d itself 12) up the hill, and what was still more 
difficult down th l too. Besides which he was im- 
formed it one over rough ground and deep 
ravi Bae i manner. He menti 
e | England 
presented, through 
Mecklenburg ; š overnment of Norway 
these circumstances because he thought they aa 
worth ‘consideration. _He believed that as was 
0, that the Gov: 
had forbidden Kean importation of Horned h from 
and Scotland into that kingdom. 
the President, a Pape the 
Aërationof Land. Mr. ‘Warriner, ofi 38, F insbury Souro, 
an engine of th 
also ere long 
d 
of a new and cheap so 
The Council adjourned te to pien hiat monthly meeting 
on the 3d of Dece; 
Farmers’ Clubs. 
Woopprincs.—Mr. M y 
to a 
object to pay 2s d 
than m resent, and n% 
ploughed 2 or 3 inches deeper = p oydelt tld bim 
5 
ing, | a smail seknowiedgment of of “hace w useful and hospitable 
gatherings w hich have for many years 
And 
t 
ntor’s benefit. Let them 
—— | ecm = oa er upon such inventione 5 f 
High | rather let them adopt = as soon pt Een 
in cope M e rer tion they fad giv vi tie that 
icul- | h ae 5 
> evening, would not be, long peee- he should be dis- 
