316 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [May 18, 
the heart or purse strings against the call of real; of cropping too—so small a pattern in so large a carpet | a numerous Aee peaga auditory were present on 
distress anà misfortune ; but I do maintain the indis- | —makes one very far from wishing that English farming | the We e, until next week, our report 
iminate di ing of alms is most mischievous. In- may be ever like it in all respects, at least. But West- of this e lecture, and the interesting discussion a whi 
i those who are well acquainted with the | phalia is more mesh A ran ge of distant hills on | ensued on its delivery. 
‘habits of trampers would soon convince the kind hearted | either side giv frame to the picture, which is 
of the impositions practised upon them, deceit gloried | drearily deficient i in “the then. The colour of the soil is Farm Memoranda. 
in, when the culprits are carousing at night, and re- that of the new red-sandstone, The culture has the IMPORTANT Denice ders ae, AT Rurronv.— 
counting their suecess, and the manner of wee the same style of high finish that you see in Belgium; but This di -= Sp our readers are aware, co 
unwary. I must confess, at one period, to have been the implements! they hardly deserve the name. In immense tracts of low land, bordering on the river 
deceived as much as anybody, but — lately 2 one place I — I saw at least twenty little wooden | Ribble, and ang a great extent incapable of cultivation, 
the trouble to look = ton Hoa whose stories appeared | ploughs at work, near and distant, drawn each by a in e : ation. To brin 
to be most lamentable, my eyes have been opened to the | sing/e bullock, with a boy guiding by the single handle. into operation an effective system of drainage on such 
folly of 2 away money 3 y beggars, | The wonder is how such work is accomplish y such | land, has, during the last two years, been a favourite 
which might more advan t on hard- tools. The Rye-crop is the great favorite here, and no | object with Sir Thomas Hesketh ; but previous to more 
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exercising their authority, and compelling obedience | is eaten in Scotland, and brown bread in England. It pr art — the Sep 0 e the feet, 5 or 6 months 
on the part of their children ; indeed they appear almost | is baked in enormous loaves—a yard long—and being | out of n Mere = A me given to a very 
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quite e to guovide th them with bread in after life. a half-sweet half-acid flavour, which the German rleton, Burscough, N and North Meols), 
What erime and misery might be —ͤ— by attend- palate does rejoice in, most unfeignedly. It is which is constantly during the winter season, and also 
ing to the © ene duties of father and mother, which | darker colored than gingerbread: and indeed if you | occasionally in the summer, covered with water. Its 
are so neglected ! Falcon. can fancy a jolly 8 of the latter with heavy extent is about 5120 statute acres, to which there are 
Potatoes.—I1t would be most interesting to farmers | brown bread with the bra 3 the bargain, the whole | four 5 viz, Sir Thomas N the Earl of 
and gardeners if some scientific persons would 3 gone a little sour, you haved not a very dis tant notion of | Derby, Char s Scarisbrie ick, Esq., a . A. L. Keck, 
tain the analysis of Potatoes under various circum- this far-famed ‘Pum arora which you will be Esq. Up to rd present time there i is no recollection of 
stances : Ist, when thoroughly ripe and fresh from the | pleased to masticate respectfully, and keep a due con- this land having been under cultivation, in consequence 
soil, after drying two or three days; 2dly, after having | trol over the nerves of your face, if you regard popu- of the continual inundations to which it has been subject. 
been allowed to heat in a bury ; 3dly, when they have | larity or the credit of aman of taste. They recommend | Upwards of 20 years ago the drainage of Martin Mere 
sprouted half-an-inch in the spring, previous to planting ; | you to ate wih it, as a sandwich, between slices of | was 5 ated by Mr. Miller, * surveyor, of thi 
Athly, the same description of Potato kept under cover | ‘ com es who drew up a report to the several landed pro- 
during the winter, and turned frequently, to prevent as, Tike 1 iti poh od t things’ it is aptto make the waist- | prietors, n suggestions for effecting the object ; 
th growing and heating. The last will probably | coat sit a little 8 tably if indulged in too freely but owing chiefly to the want of unanimity on the 
prove the best seed, and produce the cleanest and most | aż first! Like all ancient and well esta emg ice oe of the proprietors, no practical improvement was 
abundant crop, if planted early. I before mentioned alities, it is a deli sire subject, however, to joke attempted, and the land was permitted to lead its 
having planted my crop of Potatoes, in 1849, before the and 1 merely throw — — ut for the — ofi those customary amphibious life, until Mr. Boosie, the present 
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winter not a one amongst them. In 1848 I rem rye-bread’ arity chance to meet with the sort | draining that portion of the Mere belonging to Sir 
lost half my crop, pursuing the old system of placing | of thanks encountered by ‘hake who interfere between | Thomas, who was still unable to obtain the cordial con. 
the Potatoes in heaps, and setting them late. Falcon. a man and his wife. Great fears are entertained for | currence of the other landed proprietors. The portion 
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crop, or some other cause, I do not think either the seems to have already begun to do so, at the ports. first instance, two catch-water drains (about three and 
land or the Turnips are injured by allowing the Tur-| The greatest breadth of Sees at, and the most forward, | two miles in length respectively) have been formed to 
nips to remain in the ground during the months of I have seen, is in the mmediate el of | bri ng the surface-water from the higher grounds to a 
winter, or as long as they are in a dormant state. Until Magdeburg, a remarkably rich snein considered the | sluice which discharges itself into the river Ribble at | 
sigus of vegetation ear aged neither waste themselves | best corn-land in Germany. The El ere carries Crossens. From the lower lands, however, in the 
nor injure the land. On the contrary, with a little its produce down to Hamb — is et r hard at interior of the Mere, the water could not be drained by 
earthing up, to — off severe frost, I -think they pre- work in grinding it, for the river is full of water-mills | this nba (the level being quite as low as oe oe 
serve their juices and freshness better in the soil than ai —- that is, a couple of — — with | the r 
in any heap in which they may be stored. To return, an immense wheel between them, which above and | means o which we shallexplain. 2 prineipal and se 
after this short digression, I proceed to 8 — below the bridge at Magdeburg saat io stream pay | collateral drains — been construeted to che “the 
mode of taking Turnips out of the ground, toll in passing at a pretty handsome rate. Besides bF one terminus or 3 vied the south side of 
women — or <a according aha the 8 of — fela) Wheat-grinding, there are two ae manu- the Mere, the wate 22 in its course a fall to the 
the T 9 e common hoe factories there, well wo: ing: and why the reservoir of about 6 feet. At this terminus or reser- 
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thus deprived of their leaves and tops, a ploughman crushed? instead, by the imposition of a h Hall in- | of lifting the water is as follows:—To the engine is 
— ‚———— plongh (without its | creased pg very rep N the ‘ied of go a 3 an immense water-wheel, 30 feet diameter, 
— a go along e drills and with a slight furrow an end to it. But why should this be? If a trade| with 40 scoops or buckets around the circumference. 
— r . sides, which at the same grows u ah taneously, and healthily, in a country, on | These buckets, when the whee is revolving at its 
E ida si g 4 tap roots. In the what possible principle of economy can it be desirable to | ordinary speed, lift up and discharge into the sluice 
. da 15 5 = after the Turnips are turned | destroy it, in order to purchase the same article, less 45 tons of water per minute, or upwards of 
over by if the ugh, the earth about the base of the cheaply, from a distance? Is this Free-trade or Pro- gallons of water in 12 hou el “The water thus dis- 
Turnips, weather be „ will become dry also. tection? It seems to have the evil attributed to charged into the sluice has a of 4 miles to run 
by a pair of horses, is then | both without the good of either. “On account of the into the cylinders at Crossens, through which it pass 
wed with a Revenue,“ is the on can But what into the river. It is calculated that the total quantity 
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ration, or at most another double strike with the harrows, trade. For in this country there is not evi is no less than 25,000 millions of gallons, of which the 
shakes the earth from the Turnips, Next a few women | of the ‘ 5 iyii. 3 portion of land belonging to Sir Thomas Hesketh will 
go along the field, and throw the Turnips into carts, in But Magdeburg is quite 1 Forbidden Fruits: receive about 250 million gallons annually, and all 
3 are 1 to the homestead, and stored * ae of its staple crops i s Chicory, which is cul- | will have to be pumped away by the machinery ae 
Turnips „ g manner a large field of tivated to a great extent, upon its beautiful soil. That have described. To prevent the water, after 2 te 
* at wwe g ae carted to the farm steading er herb that has the witcheraft of making Coffee | raised into the sluice, hore and again overflowing 
sin -= The chi 5 time, and at comparatively | twice as good and twice as wholesome, and, by so doing, land, an embankment 4} feet in height, an and “A 
— 4 — 9 lef point to be attended to is, a ng senari d instead of mang its ro of three miles long, has been raised along the ™ 2 
— 3 1 id y when the weather | since, how r good as a component, it is no t good as a Of the sluice. Of the 800 acres of land which wile 
to eau are dry. uld any one still wish, however, — ‘to any palate. I could not help thinking as be brought into cultivation by the drainage a 
the present plan of gee and tailing Aa effected, a large pr . has hitherto .f vil M 
is ur rt that separates Magdeburg from Berlin, tha a scanty her orest Grasses. i 
may be saved by ager a — 3 now ae old e meat ye arg have another oe ie future ve fitted for all etl og of crops, some of it — 
from the — m iy th aaah and ter the Turnips stand of modern warfare in behalf ‘of. Free Gaava riy fertile oil, particularly adapted for afford and the 
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2 ws. A Turnip Grower,| Nothing can exceed the contrast between the Bruns- vicinity have long been famous, and it is mp of | 
April wick and the Berlin side of the Elbe. The country | less to say that the cultivation of so large a.” ease | 
from a few miles out of Magdeburg, to Potzdam, is like | hitherto lost and useless land will | considerably p - 
ene. the sea-shore, without a sea, Here and there a lake the eet of the labouring classes in that © on 
BERLIN, Ar. TE è indeed : but all the rest a pale bleak driftin d:|bourhood. The salubrity of the district must 
pleased — ay Ue se: oy the farming line has and if one wondered before, where mouths ae a improved by the — g so large a body of stagnare 
that part of Westphalin } t of general appearance as | found for all the produce, one wonders afterwards, for | Water, exhalations from which are too often 3 z5 
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a soil and cultivation are far | f 1 the half aiiin hs of Berli “td Sn paru ietors to tate th irited example 
are pleasant AiR ti ar | for the half-million ue s of Berlin ! which stands, like | proprietors imi e spiri d 
P Eng than Belgium. Tt is | Tadmor of old, a city of palaces, in a desert. C. W. H. Thomas Hesketh, 5000 acres of good land on 
o describe, in Belgium. white S] Sotieties. so desira . © 
Mile seve to mix with the aghe n ROYAL AGRICULTURAL 3 — OF ENGLAND, | were extended also to the Formby district, pt 
ar y ‘S|  Proressor War, at the uest of the Council, re- — of land under cultivation in West The 
latter sė less 5 at the 
makes a great part of the y as cold and 
of Soils in reference to e f the improved value year 
unpleasant to the eye as it is strange. och 9 — Society in Hanotar square, ou Wetnesday bas hee low rate of 10s. per acre, would be 57607, Per 
