will never 
There is 
_ To the most superficial observer it is eviden 
458 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, | Jury 20, 
the insurance of cattle, &e. The principles by which the principles of insurance in general, and their adapta- practice in the several departments of rural = 
the iosurance 7 human lives is conducted tion to cattle in particular. Nor do I anticipate in this movement less advantage % 
ways 
work ie de and Ee peed if applied to cattle. 
ntial 
saleulations are made, 
being a-contingent circumstance, but 
i the — a the probabilities connec eting | 
t with ins uced from statistics furnished 
the most — and prolonged observations, the 
3 of which is generally termed the doctrin 
f chanees. 
Suren Hy 
E the + essential el 
necessity, be few 
binik pen ; and I believe, that in the ä 
towns very fe: are allowed to d 
ma to * as soon as 
an 
re leme mis here 
\dverted to are wanting: Although it is the fact 
t a few. cattle vill die a 5 death, it is not neces- 8 
the — —— of | 
anies are intended tostan 
r social economy that a 
balance-wheel does to the working of machinery. Th 
are only ays in which a balance-wheel is use 
ful to machinery—first, where the motive power does 
not exert a unifo eof second t 
work to be done does not ut a unifi of 
resis In ines where the motive power con- 
stant! i same de of force, and 
the ce to be overcome is of ihe same character, 
the balance is useless—it is injurious; a balance there- 
fore is not a generator of foree—it merely mulates ; 
that pent by the motive power in its 
— * but must in all cases be min A 5 5 
ith the bal Insurances 
ions of power (of a certain — fitted. to pien and 
pc or u ure on society 
—the 
— or the 
ces 
insurances are like the balance, subject 
to loss of power — friction — — of managemen 
therefore 
discrimination. There are only $ two circumstances 
which cattle insurance can be b ene, the first is 
where epidemical EN . their arance, and 
tion Aa prinei les in 
from those applied to 
carcase of the h 
he will, in — be allowed to die a natural death. 
is granted 
It is ted that many 4 are destroyed; but this 
rarely takes place so long as the value of r apani e 
whic be extracted from the animal exce an 
mey 
o not h 
8 740 
d the 
N S roly of litle bee | 
m in oecur- 
ing. 
it as my opinion ttle in 
this country are not ut subject to epidemical —— z 
and mereg pi ptn doin 
not en 
poor tanding they py be us regulation re- | 
revision. A horse, by accident, r * get his le 
til] this horse would n and therefore the 
d 
und to pay for 3 wilfully y destroyed, ta char. 
insurance companies havin 
Seottis 
hat pyel Tho meh my heart is 
ning now so vi 
unt of disease ph gst cattle 
Mokaover, most of . Penis, 
eir ori 
the premiums are necessarily 
to have 
taltishes p 
seen what the peace establish- 
the 
ment are. A Practical Farmer, in 
. 
rs, the f asa I regret that 
but ‘itll amongst them 
every paris 
ired, can be run up a — 
every 4 1 squire 
of his tenantry at h 
tunity * — occurred of hiring the Methodist chapel 
(at it is p to o as a reading- 
and to supply it with agricultural and local papers an 
gazin It is thought that this will be the 
means of ti h moral good, of affordi 
instruction and amusement to those who have a li 
e leisure ti command, It is antici 
that the farmers will derive mu 
* plan w 
the n 
harvest has been gathered give us the 
ual res 
his first 1. h he would greatly oblige one of 15 
advisers. T. 
eties. 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY OF ENGR AND. 
—There 
Sri 
Exeter, July 17. is a very obvious diminu- 
tion in the number of 1 exhibited, when the 
* show is com with those of York and Nor- 
he 14 9 a the former meeting, and 
the 145 of the latter, are here reduced to 118; and the 
horses ate a ; 25 beer se rage n x of impl also, exhibited by each, 
carriers, stage-coa N ors, & e latter em- Home Corres is not 80 great nd t fference, it must á 
kai . much more destructive of animal life, 2 oye Having jr —— travelled through feeed i is greatly to the advantage of itho ise 
tue mntey n — note, ing. For as it is, there are upwards of 40 ploughs in 
panies ought to aoa their o though ss a: — the view is not sa —— I send the yard, a dozen subsoil e 90 a iling 
ah ‘three adjoining counties, my notes, which you are at liberty to use if you think fit. es, 8. manure distributors, mor 
. a local ae A- steam-engines, two dozen threshing machines, 4 
) eir i nd corn-cr' 
first net should be to put themselves in N of Whest. Barley; e Grass. Potatoes. oy as . 2 14 Turn i utters, 7 oi sis 
tatistics of the rates of mortality Tas bil Good, a bre „ 29 carts and waggons, II draining-tile ma- 
amo rses that circumstances will admit Exeter .. } iste. | Jate, | = 000d. V. good. chines, and numerous sets of drain ng tools, 19 sets of 
For this purpose I would enga the co-operation of | Taunton |... 8 Do. | V. good. Do. Good. harrows, ge dozen cultivators or searifiers, two dozen 
schoolmasters of parishes, an resident factors on Gloucester Do. Do. Moderate. Mode- Do. horse-hoe: esides numbers . a rakes, horse 
estates, this ene to be co- extensive with the Tewkesbury Do. Do. T Moderate. Seed dibblers, cider mills, hand d re dis- 
area of the company’s o ions. Each of nts.| Worcest Do. Mode-. Do. D ode rate. tributors ymaking machi bruisers, 
so employed to be furnished with a number of schedules | Tate, d steams g appara not to speak of Barley hum- 
perly constructed, so as each farmer in the respective | Droitwich...... 5 Do. Do. mellers, barrows, Bean splitters, bedsteads, ¢b 
Ocalities might record for each of the five preceding rd : presses, churns, dail rushers — railways, 
y umber of cattle, sh and horses kept— | Birmingham | Good. | Good. Good. Do. Moderate. fire engin ks, garden chairs gates, han 
the number of deaths in the different classes of animals ——— „V good.) Do Do. Do. Do. harness, horse power, hurd] ngles, models, pumps, 
e diseases supposed or real ich the animals | ™Fapsten_...V.good.| Do. V. gd. | Do. — = pie ety Sitters tate hole 1 2 spade 5 
died, with the ages at which death took place—and the But 5 Wheat or Barley in ear from Totness to Bir- akas troughs, repetable washers, wateriag machn 
reeds of cattle and hors ture of work th gham ; from Blisworth to Thrapston Wheat in ea weighing m wheels, whipple-trees, and 60 or 70 
horses were employed about—also the breeds of sheep, | and crops ve . d apparently not very well ear dee „n eapable of be "E classified among 
with the nature of bie walk, &e * mes to farmed S 5 — 3 much draining required ing. Ponie no lack -= 
be concealed if requested. Reports be given in by in y n Bristol and Birmingham, rials > from — to select either their r purchases, if 
a fixed date, and : emali A Slowed the agente — — tae airing — fallow, land apparently lightly | are ess transaction of their visit, oF 
eir ices. ery fr — rena A that | stocked by sheep por cattle ; much lan preparation mna of W —— if they are merely desirous, of 
returns procured c on ihe above plan would be correct, for ae ay but n ny Tarnips yet safe; hedg owing prese te of agricultural 
as regar e mortality of cattle ; stil iey would —— and 19 and in laces smothered with | And in either case the much the better for ab- 
near — — to the truth, and from them ta timber; ve rn stacks, indeed. aie North | sence of that overwhe ming arti 
bite s once be constructed, indieating rates of pre- of Gloucester i 1 d by frost. R. L. O at Norwich, helped to .confuse them. 
um which, being computed and deduced from statis- ural dam eng AR i e very favourable notice my The prizes offered by the Society take in th vile 
tical facts, m be intrinsically valuable and suited for phlet on e Establishm ent of ‘Adult Schools in ran f agricultural machines ; “implements of culti- 
practical purposes. I of opinion that the | Agricultural —— your Paper induces i 10 ime, ap 
mutual plan of insurance is best adapted for the low to forward you the enclosed prospectus, The ; 
animals. It would tend to kee up the interest of th ject, if not entirely simi i its nature, 
co in the Soeiety’s operations, and by adopting | that of introdue g a higher standard of knowledge in 
the system of division of profits, there would still be, as country districts. ur able paper will form a 
it were, a link the one year with the other. | leading aoe in ope institute, and will be most useful 
The amount of money overpaid by any member could | and attractiv w ve a village horticultural 
be returned individual members, or carried | poniai, to ptt a nearly all the farmers belong. But carts and 
forward as part payment of premiums for the year fol- why do I request you to insert this prospectus 
lowin I ha thus endeavoured to show the of «Men besides the actual N of the A 
the present insuranees, and suggest plans for the future. | I eee | err = uc manate from the | an 
cause is he attention = oe publie I project. . rga — 88 on friendly 
ares some of your numerou e up the — N 8 t to gromble at “he times, but to com- 25 are 
ect in earnest. I shall e ARA arks on | pare experience and to devise methods for improved | these 
