GiS c THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [DECEMBER 6, 1856. 
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plant delights will be disturbed. By the: two jormer the bankers on the last day of the month just ende Ted was! Class XI. Devon Cows.—10l, Mr. A. Umbers, Weston Hall, 
hoeings the 65 500. Mr. Barke er, a s Chairm an, also read the report Leamington. Devon Heifers.—101., Mr. A. Umbe 
still there are always plenty of weeds in spring of Class XIIL Long-Horn Cows or Heifers. pat 
this last hoeing is chiefly to reak the crast. so Prizes ror Essays.—Mr. riria ig Chairman, of | Holborow, Knoc ockdown, near Tetbury, Glo: ocestershire. 
open the channels of the soil, allowing the air and the Journal Committee, reported the following Cee Cross-bred Oxen.—10/., Mr. J. Naylor, Leighton 
dews to penetrate. Now these three hoe — come | awards :— Class XV ool. 
er, but 
XV. Fat Co iis ary Mr. J? Faulkner, Bretby Farm, 
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the expense 18 not in proportion to the. benefit sitet "the Prine s sor ne the best Essay on the dif diferent Glass 3 = II. Se ote Oxen or Steers.—101,, eo of Beaufort. 
derived by the crop, but | Zs bap now of no hand-hoe, ex- mechanical medes of deepening the staple soil, in order Pers VIII. Welsh Oxen or Steers—10/., Colonel Pennant, 
spe eak of, br ch oe = give it the full ie of gare influence. — 
the work as I should -A to see it don pee te kek eat Sin Tor the ara Bah a ries Class XXI. Three fat Leices' Wethers under 22 months.— 
generally s king, i for the Poets of Labourers’ Cottages, a ak e special 102., Mr. ae Smith, "Riseboroughy near Kirbymoorside, Aarra 
d i ? Class XXII. Three fat Leicester Wet! ae 
work well, and as he often treads o on Ae weeds aftes reference to domestic c Sivota ede 10l., Marquis of Exeter, K.G. 
VETERINARY Lecrures.—Mr. Raym mond Barker and Cins nrk k. a Tane birn Wethers, under 22 months. 
_— os rs. Sara! est, etchington. 
Mr. ET ia the Chain pth Shearer of the Class XXV. Three fat Southdown Wethers, under 22 months 
nance and ought up a joint- old.—102., Lord Walsingham. 
report, ek was referred to sti onthly council in| Class XXVI. Three fat Southdown Weathers, under 34 
February ingham. 
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dews, is again closed up. My of a hoe is, 
that a man should have it — acu his control, so t 
be al i do's to aides mgt act] Ti h SALISBURY Meetinc.—Mr. Cavendish, Vice-Chairman aa n e Pi y- 
o so, or l inc inches ; and T ex-|of the General Salisbury Committee, reported t the| Class XXV III. Fat Sh ropabjio Wethers, under 34 months,— 
poe a by ea and à ne By apse eth be yiana to | recommendation that the Gantry È Mr. Henry Smith, jun, Saton padoe, sae ths.—102., 
oe up a single plant, an A! should no Cl TX XIX. Fat bred Wethers under 22 months.— 
P E ND off = Heo that the ni should should be held in the week commencing. Mon nday, the | yy ran Keep, Wollaston, N Northamptonshire. 
wonder i 20th of July. This recommendation was adopted by| Class XXX. Fat cross-bn ed Wethers under 34 months.—10/,, 
buitu opak and mellow, and ab I the ee 
le oe me! oa = ion ove i i t eie ould | the council. Mr. H. Thornley, Marston Hall, near Birmingham 
able to hoe one fieret Such a hoe I trust I| Prizes ror IMPLEMENTS AND STOCK. —On the motion 
have invented, and if any one wishes i see it he can } of Mr. Fisher Hobbs the of 
do so at 223 Stand, one Show, where he will see | 4} Prize Sh 
other original inventi igma. 
Large and Small Potatoes as Sets.— With respect to 
mie ta large Po tatoes close in the drills, and giving 
the row. sd I bgi give 
PIGS 
Somme XXXI. Three fat Pigs of. one litter, under 10 months. 
i T. G. B. Morland, Chilton, Abingdon. 
S XXXIIL Three fa! t Pigs of one litter, under 15 months. 
ae prio nce Albert. 
Cl: ass XXXIII. Fat Pig over 15 months old.—10/., Mr. R. H. 
p Watson, Bolton Park, Wigton, Cumberland. 
cil of Thursday, the 11th of Decembe PRIZES FOR BREEDING nan 
way TE s “te, om ee stated by “J. T a GHING.—The Comnell E ceived fi the| Class XXXIV. Pigs of a Large Breed. Pen of five Pigs of 
z ovember 29. It with my genera report of a trial of Mr. Fowler's one litter, exceeding three and not exceeding oe months old.— 
= tillage better oe planting ae at equal dis- K an os Ante by steam-pow The President di- | 1° Mr. J. Smith, Henley-in-Arden, aig anager ae 
* a i ve Pigs 0! 
way. But regards the | rected a Special Council to be summoned for the e h prt ig pana ig A 
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ferred to the Implement Cane, and a “Speci ial Live- 
Stock Committee then named, with a request that | the ey 
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SU- | one litter, ing three and met e ing six months old.— 
adran of exposure to the "direct Pe soy of the sun, | ing week, when their report on of machiner, ry 107, iter, exceeding th dsor Castl pare mae % 
ranen they would obtain either Mira puras competing for the So reek s prize o of “S000 “for = 
distances betw een the steam-cultivator that shall in the efficient mann 
on of air; this I consider most eseential as | turn over the soil, and be an econo mine y substitute for jee eg 1¢0-AGRI eh TURAL oF Urs TEN the annual 
a more continuous supply of fresh aerial food | the plough or the spade,’ may delib as rend, 
to the leaves he plants, In rows at narrow distances, | consideration. > th e o followng fenet were made b; Andee of 
and more so in broadcast ire es more or less stag- e Noto was given that the vacancy in the some he Boii it was fair and vail when I they 
nation of air must occur, and the plants be thus | Council alr es by the lamented decease of Mr. me n like the present, that they should 
compelled to re-imbibe the excrementitious matters Woodward, would be filled up by election at the rent ae “feeling that while other societies, having 
SoepSidr monthly meeting in Februar greater show and parade, 
fused li # of the sun eii as effectual to the de- OMMUNICATIONS were received from Mr. Pain, Mayor | °f nS ort from the great body of the community, the 
composition of {carbonic acid as the direct one, I do not | of Salisbury, on the subject of Prizes for Hampshire | 5 f a society of that a whose objects 
know that it may not be advisable to give” the lines of Down She ep 5 from the Board of Agriculture of Lower | ¥&T° , not of less importance than others but even of 
on the establishment of an Agricultural So- ae eater she pi bei , somparatively, “neglected. It 
miths i ica, & 
of — of _ and south, I have never paan whole p 
z nts that he would ask them to adopt 
e D o EE RE the me i that e had Ae propose to saa but merely 
them the greater distance from row to row, from the | from the Pizot de F ste mat | that they should endeavour to induce those who were 
small leaf and manner of growth of the plant, that it is his works relating to the c capabiliti ies of the soil and |*® deeply interested fully to appreciate the importance 
f his | ° Chemico-Agricultural Soci 
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r. Knowles, a copy 0 
Pocket rapes one a from Mr, Brown, a copy of other departments, a be nd wel w are tad dally tonde m 
his Farm ook: along with various other | Mer Copan Uy o 
works connected with a are tees 
Sin rea iad nih eae ssn he Cote ordered ir ua cow | e mupport whch thy eeived sapped wih i 
ppan ledgmen c ly 
ir. Goodif. “he Council adjourned to their weekly meting at = SM ea ile fa ts maici 
Š 12 o’clock on Wednesday, ot 10th of December, open 1 had h but p? te 
| to all Members of the Societ: ee mene germ there een but a moderate ex- 
wider dropping as he, in his practice, found. IfI do 
not mind I will ado it i ‘a to some s — heer 
tent, say half an acre, in the g summer. 
d I sow T believed it cost th great Agricultural Soci 
ina I so was what is locally c: called Kissing ng- AM CATTLE little to reward exhibitors of implements, and it was 
land, a red Wheat with white chaff. The field was Tue Midland Counties Gatang = ie this ear both an economical and an extremely useful appro- 
gown about the middle of December Berry and | a week y ion 1 si ich they 
three bus! hels and one pec of seed to statute acre. | those of the Smithfield fie may not clash. has | that purpose, but they found enormous sums ap ied to 
he improvement of stock w, 
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of three cwt. to the acre, and imke in along with | whi ich will d ki SE: question a the great utility of improved breeds of 
dete. Tho crop did well siā frre ‘hot’ ‘Ae Afi es whic „will no oubt a in Baker Street, and cattle. They knew that they tended to economise 
bi The specimen I send will show you that it Spar, the food. They knew Ng le bs same quantity of food 
not appear stunted or ill fed. I do not — aie new section for Welsh Cattle has been this year lied ood race of animals would 
prsne thick sowing, b q y of prodee» a greater return Éa in feeding an inferior 
so different from Farmer Newlght’s, that the (ie ut it of not less importance that 
and my crop was Fae f theshow. pe eh ford usual t | food noata be produced i in erm abundance, and in 
sont way too thick. Te co orn ee prize at sts ow oe ord swore ire, vergence | | the 3 the purpose of sustain- 
Hale show held here in the bourhood on the bods we st and st? igen) to it first-class | ing the Hundreds of pounds a year of premiums 
lith of September last, so 20 T will leave you to form your | animals, The Dev ne were ually good class, | Were cried i in rewarding the breeder who had length- 
own conclusions, 
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be 1 standard. | ned, by a few inches, the hough of an ox, or r T 
observed in locality, time of sowing, nature of ewreaene degree, a littl cir ireular or rotund develop- 
alit Sa > iie Sis ret hoger “however, beng rage’ by Mr. red, and was, E 
and o The best divi fee the an ore of some musele which was admi 
the ground was fine and well harrowed. meget 3 Gaw bon e that E pigi which is more al that an ubt, useful. But the observation he made was, 
horp, Harnworth, Warrington. [Whai he oi paa pega. that prizes for eei stock a 4, 
aape airera vei > METNE offered, » very excellent class of — better in ality and fashion were largely rewarded, a Pi 
e aT peper A g all the | probably | small s um was considered od enough bod oe be Revd 
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and my own, on the na i oranini of Tatia WE ten may say th Pot FE at gies AoE dhie ii e did peak for th 
The evidence in regard to Leguminous plants | the whale nearly equal, viz., cattle, 109 ; | purpose o depreciating svt apr ret hy for the p 
: curiously conflicting, but prepon: derates against their | sh 107 son 465 and ee of pigs, 112 ean ae of induc lpia to believe that the e per Br 
aes coger aid, I oe esteem 3 fewer than 1 A good show f roots was exhibited, their society wer vel t leas im portan pees! 
a vour if any of your correspondents would | and the poul that they were en itled to some little Othe ‘beyond 
give in your Paper or send me any evidence showing | was as damri fiat = ‘of ‘the fev Qink i. 7! that which had peen doled out je- them. The e resolution 
either that Leguminous crops, when grown close toge-| The following i is the award of pre ee | which he asked the meeting to adopt was ás follows :— 
they may invariably be grown, clas together without FAT CATTLE. Pen rea ty faery bane 
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any chance of deterioration. 7 Class I. Hereford Oxen.—102, Mr. J. Phillips, Ardington, | been conspicuously successful in the improvement of stock and 
Charles Darwin, Down, ps, gt en to the 
Bromley, Kent, ? 2 "Gi se ies ss of Laplacsenss, aaa annin, ea noe en ciples which 
ass ere teers.—10., Lord Hatherton, Teddesley | diffusion of the knowledge of the fundam 
vern i pr 
Societies Clase III. Hereford Cows—101, Mr. E. Herbert, Powick, Wor- objecta; the funds hitherto s supplied by qa Pried sprata 
pa cestershire. found inadequate, and t ety is again 
a pie Orakot CEt Tae E eet Lay S aaa hae mamos inthe 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF ENG ass V. Shorthorn Oxen——10l, with Gold Medal, Mr. R. | list ma prida avna 
: Dec. 3.—Mr. cna Dumson, Stratton, Swindon. to say that it was not a the ground 
f these beauties 
m Class Short hors = Coan —1C/., Mr. R. Stratton. society. It was reall a matter of iia gain. + 
5 aa te Heifers.—10/,, Mr. J. Armstrong, | was a sespesanle yasa the farmer could prosecute his 
ag Devon Oxen or Steers.—10J., H.R.H. Prince Albert. labours with advantage he had n 
X. Devon Steers.—10/., Earl of Leicester. grounds which grew best. 
