33—1850.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 523 
I do not believe the science of invention is he iy Let request the e company not only of sien agricul- ag to vindicate what he terms “ the admixture of 
understood by the generality of ays —perhaps it | turist, but of the — as, in the course of ex- the solicitor’s and the land- -agent’s business” by his own 
is not designated a science at all; but considered as a amination, I may interro rrogate; it being understood that | E= and his knowledge of that of others, stating that 
gift or talent, And so it is an innate talent but this | the ultimate aim of the investigation is to find out, and | j he imself makes no charge for law, and that his expe- 
is the very reason why a person who is born with a point out, “ what is the —— impediment that forbids } perience of both parties has shown him “ that u- 
natural talent should possess or chalk out certain rules the banns between the — ag and the plough- | cation of the lawyer has for the most part better fitted 
and laws for the guidance of his judgment ; the imagi- | share.” C. B., Heacham, ‘Wor rfolk. him for 1 the landlord in that position in which 
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requires not only restraint but government; a fertile Hom e Correspondence. * whether, bere as he does re admixture 
imagination is like the light troops to an army—it goes Feeding — Mr. Geo. —— *. — to have a of the two professions in his own ease, as a solicitor, he 
forth to discover the enemy or difficulty, but as soon as Jewish horror of swine—t there is no profit,“ he says, | is prepared to — that such * band s in my case, as 
it has discovered its office ends; and the’ battle must | “ from keeping such quantities of disgusting pigs.” |a land-agent, would be tolerated? Probably his know- 
solid phalanx i ; N — 
judgment; in other words, as soon as a pe by his | gusting” in these animals, This dislike may depend | knowledge of law and its uncertainties touching 
a assumed gifted imagination has made a discove ery— | upon how they are managed, and the kind of breed, edueation, although that of the lawyer is what the world 
f instead of flying to the ag we and chisel, he should sit | I will admit that a farmer may keep too many to be | calls liberal, the practice of doing everything from pre- 
down, and with those rules before him which he has profitable ; but this, again, depends upon management, | cedents tends very materially to limit that —- 
eliminated from and noted out of the book of a past and whether they are a profit or loss. I have about 4 practical acquirements and o which must be 
pire ed science, pm should well consider the subject, | and soon ope to have more. We have generally more or less needed in the successful Management of 
| for the purpose ie eliciting the conditions upon which | found them profitable, and our Wheat crops yearly in- estates. Had “ N. P.” favoured us by particularisi 
* r issue to the event must depend. This is erease by their agency, To fatten every pig born what that position is in which a landlord ought to — 
ten to be obtained by discovering what are the dis- upon the premises is certainly not a wise system, with a tenant, we might probably have better under. 
i — ishing characteristics of the means he is about to nor to make baconers of all of them. Porkers of stood how the education of the lawyer is preferable. 
' employ. some, a few for bacon, some sold off as shoots a Let it not, however be supposed that I would detract 
Now let me show the application of such a rule quarter old is the best plan. Selling the prime corn from the qualifications of N. P.“ in the sli 
F this to the important subject about to be brought —— and fattening upon the tailing of Barley, Peas, and degree; on the con , rather desire to afford him 
considerat cage the readers of the Agrioutura Beans is the more economical process. Besides, they | an opportunity, by the exercise of his twofold talents, of 
Gazette, Suppose I wished to add steam power are raised by the aid of Swedes, Mangold Wurzel, conferring a very great benefit on the landed and agri- 
agricultural mechanical opera ting? My eod; 3 Tares, and also by a run out upon Clover or Grass, | cultural interest. The ad and e. of 
be first to find out what were the charac e prin- and this I find is a most economical method of keeping | farm leases and — are confessedly most inap- 
ciples of the elements I was about to call i — action, them. We reckoned all the pigs fattened this last year propriate to the m re approved systems of hasan 
because, like the chemis mist, I should expect known | when corn was cheap yielded 20s. a sack for all corn | now partially adopted, and daily becoming more 
elements to develope their inherent properties. consumed, when the market price for Barley was 12s, | A ents binding a tenant, as most of them at present 
The inquiry is—Agricultural machinery and the to 14s. per sack, Beans and Peas 155. per — * The | do, to cultivate his — in one rotation of cropping, 
method of applying steam as the motive power thereto, | quantity of valuable manure was ver ry great, but I F although it Pem different — and qualities 
The first characteristic I remark is, that the increased | cannot put a price upon this, as the value is not tangible | of land, are too absurd to be much longer continued, 
application of machinery calls more human beings into | as to paying rent, The erops raised from this — May we > lie hope to see, in the pages of the 
employment ; * I note down as ye 32 surpass all others, whether applied to cereal crops Agri i eas 
inery in general. I next p o roots of all kinds. Pray do not abuse our best 1 „agreements from the pen of „ N. P.” which shall 
inquire into the peculiar properties of the. power sought | Mr. Wilki 2 = ch — = e poor find them equally be brief and comprehensive, and in all essential respects 
to be introduced ; in our case this is steam power, | profitable. T. F, adapted to the requirements of the times. Let them 
What are its distinguishing cha — — Ist, that Judging of Im —.— — Das the decisions | be suited, for instance, to the most approved modes of 
it produces a maximum amount of effect bya minimum | of — at public — are at all times liable to eropping on three distinct formations—the magnesian 
expenditure of power; 2dly, that it produces a maxi- criticis y the public, I have no hesitation in | limestone, the re sandstone, and the stronger clay soils 
mum amount of profit by the expenditure of a mini- — out what I consider an egregious error = the | of the coal and other districts, This done, an oceasional 
rti n your colu 
* olu Iñ section 67, for the best a — for — the | draining, and subsoiling, fold and artificial manures, 
thought in a few words, has sa id). “it refuses to nt Nga ends of drain pipes, there were tw competitors ; the | surveying, levelling, and setting out of water meadows 
which 2 5 e premi ex. irrigati n i j b 
y the is 
b allowed to explain it more fully for our mutual — hibited two years previously, but it w. as rejected on ac- | much to be said and done), with the application of town 
tion, implies that man has acquired a certain knowledge | count of its being an infringement of an existing — Sewage, would, I am sure, afford as much pleasure and 
2 of what this 1 ean accomplish, which (as I said which was very proper. Now I want to know w upon 2 to the readers of the Agricultural Gazette 
> 5 a * „ * himself A 
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f poser; so that when a man sees an | favour this 3 ; if this — an —— t Allow me, in n conclusion, and in confirmation of at least 
ou instrueti Lee e 
perception is instantly informed that the power is contained in the — by the So — fir “fer agency "whieh come within the scope of your 
wasting itself as clearly and plainly as though the their guidance. It there distinetly states that prac etical “‘illiberal and unfounded” remarks; the one, where 
e. iscerns t e result of thi ili i 
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of proceeding is the production of a minimum amount | ingenuity; and “due — will in all eases be given | read nor write; the o where the agent of a large 
of 8 by the application of a maximum amount of to economy, both as regards the price of the implement property, capable of great improvement, is a most 
and thence deduces that the ee emd and the saving of labour effected by it.” Keeping | respectable solicitor, and has repeatedly told me that he 
ra —— characteristic is, that the peculiar | these instructions in view, I should be glad to know knows nothing about land, and that lawyers have no 
Property of steam power is when uced to double what eae utility or economy of labour is to be | business to be land-agents. J. H. Charnock, 
or treble the eme a of hands called bary action by any | gained by the use a: this apparatus? The pipes, after| The Cow. Parsnip (Heracleum 1 
manufacture, whether it be a cotton or a lucifer match — made by the ma are placed upon Your correspondent “ Scotia,” who inquires toe the 
Now as characteristic is of —— the shelves until Aa are somewhat dried; they are w Parsnip, may find a very — — Paper on n the 
— to the mite sete but to the nation | then taken to the apparatus, which must be firmly | subject in the “ Journal * ker Pratique for 
at 2 Td to call your particular attention to it fixed to a table or something similar, where they are March, 1847. It is founded 
because it will be ead to all, that if aes could cut by it, not in quantities but individually, and only | addressed by an Mr. ‘Taunton, to M. V. 
double or treble the numbe f human beings one end at a time; they have then to be replaced on | morin, an eminent French agriculturist, In some parts 
beyond what 8 see calls = ee action—the ques- | the shelves, so that fi eae the — that they issue forth of the Continent the value of the Heracleum as green 
tion of ae © pauperism is involved, This is a matter | from the machine us ing them until they are food has long been known. Several varieties of it grow 
— the agric Wen the Statesman, and 2 for the kilns, — ey are 3 Medica not less than five | in great abundance in the best pasture land of the Alps, 
the philanthro r six times, I am — that one man cannot cut and the Swiss use it largely as food for their cows, 
A cautious —— having noted down these dis- — than 1000 or 1500 pe day. Taking these eireum- highly prizing it for its milk producing — Should 
tinguis c isties, would then proceed with into cons sideration, coupled w with the quan mantity this opinion be well founded, then the size of ti 9 
the solution of the problem by calling his given inven- | that must when g grown in a congenial soil, its abundant and — 
tive faculties into action, for the purpose of priii of ner that no practical utility nor — — stantial foliage, the rapidity roduction when 
cal combination, whieh, being — pleted, | bour is to be gained, rather the reverse, I believe that it out before it has seeded (some say that it will bear as 
by the Keren 
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employs the dies 80 as to produce the greatest amount Law Agents and Land Agents is the heading of the pnt plant 8 be equal to n per — Wallig, 
i tend he hum i late | [W a y 
is wrong, and that if he proce machine Aor | mences by saying “Iam a lawyer, and one also en- — 
flourish n or a time, but would then die, because an im- trusted by 3 with the ere of their Sotieties. 
acteristic condition was unfulfilled. A estates.” Its pur t is to show t the remarks in gimt ee SOCIETY OF E NGLAND, 
dent — never passes a point of difficulty until your Leader of the oh ult., eondemmitory of the em- A WEREIT Coonor. was held at the Society's House, 
fe shall h have fished out the cause and remedied it; it r of lawyers and incompetent parties as land- in Hano — on the 10th of J uly 5 
V. P., in 
may require the meditation of months, yet he knows agen Fea) 75 eral and unfounded. When present, Mr. Tos. Raymond BARKER 
full well that the conditions involved being left — prices ** agricultut al produce were such that little skill chair, Hon, R. H. Clive, M. P., Hon. G. C. Agar, Sir 
filled, his invention would be imperfect, and have but a on the part of tenants, and still less of practical ability | Thos, Dyke Acland, Bt., M. P., Sir Montague Cholme- 
transient existence * stewards, sufficed for the realisation and eollection of ley, Bt., Sir Robert Price, Bt., M.P., Mr. Baines, Mr. 
With these characteristics of machinery in general, | rents, the qualifications of either for their respective Burke, Mr. Cail, Dr. Calvert, Mr. W. G. Cavendis 
and of steam power in cular, inscribed on strips duties were comparatively of no moment; but under the M. P., Mr. Clavering, Mr. Layton Cooke, Mr. Dyer, 
of paper, which we will call “test papers,” because | altered circumstances of the present day the capabilities Mr. Miles, M. P., Mr. Milward, Mr. Ralph Neville, 
l same offi that the li 0 i tial th i F. 
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— LA the present mechanical prác- | merchant of Leeds hope to compete with his west of IIr. Shaw, of London, General Shubrick, Prof. Simond 
of farming, shall find the mechanism divided pes gee rival hort the "e approved appliances | and . Spencer Stanhope. 
into owo parts—that cow is in use at the homestead, | and skilful superintendence, the _— = The following new members were elected : 
i and that emplo ad in the We will . with the. fora reign corn OF ea ne) | Birre, award, Mont Ve idiots, Devon 
de a farm o a nd, m a steam- the application of those improved means which Trench, Henry , Cangortzpark, Roserea, King’s County 
: — weed 5 are now at his command. Your correspondent at- Pasmore, James, High-etreet; Exeter 
