812 
addressed to him on the 29th * 3 last — 
the 2 of the Orphanage establishment, n 
bik ** Nov. 29, 185 
“Dear Sm, —I am — 4 1 ate to inform you that “thie 
. nage have — hon an Potatoes, and that 
are all en y symptom of the disease, 
I believe is due entirely t to “the 2 yy as almost 
All the crops in s neighbourhood were ess struck 
e or les 
‘with the blight o ni m meag — —— ar plants remained green toe 
untouched. e 20 t gr 
ound which pe 
a very poo: 5 —.— — so poor, that the 
. coupler vak — that nothing would make that land 
produce Potatoes, We plan perd in it Regents and Forty-folds, 
with — 8 cwt. of ted fish per acre, and without 
other 8 
with Potatoes a m 
of which I will apply the fish; 725 ast th 
„1 intend putting 10 or 12 ewt. 
much heavier, and the Potatoes larger. I had 
mene to Me some et me largest ee amongst 
a 
po 25 an extraordinary crop next year, and I shall astonish 
my neighbours even more than they have already been.“ 
Mr. Bethell pio fread the Council with specimens 
of the Potatoes ich mer of ener 
— of | — e size, being found on boiling to 
fishy 
ANIMAL ipa E Manure.~-Mr. R. 
Mark-lane, one of the Governors of the Society, favoured 
the anann with specimens ass 
aside as useless ; but being 
to possess powe: — l manuring properti 
the attention of the So — rin 
ing well dried 
is about to be — largely into this country, on 
ma bitant price 
Peruvian guano. This manure has been analysed by Pro- 
ay, and by emacher, 
1 as might be expected, to contain a l 
— matter. It has been applied with 
grat e e Turnip erops and — 4 ds 
Eoi $ — at Bromley Hill, in 
VENTILATION. amen = Sy i Basar of W -= 
D 
appearance. 
be of excellent quality, without the slightest taint of 5 
fla vo r 
M. GILLIES, of Co 
t| The 
a of the 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Hudson of ae ae Mr. Shaw of 
London, Mr. Shelley, Mr. Robert Smith, Mr. Turner 
of Barton and Mr. 30 onas Webb. 
Council decided on the details and classification 
newt for . year, of which 
the following 1 represe 
summarily the 
Dec. 21, 
all who had the pleasure of being present at it, and 
4 known by N reper to all others interested in 
* who w re from various causes unavoidably 
trier Those Say: hower ver, * were 
that occasion 7 aaa be i 
Paar Oyal 
city; an expr i 
aa 3 2215 Brought forward £1165 | disinterestedness and genuine hospitality. e mayor 
Herefords 118 1 sheep * 170 and corporation, and the local mmittee, anticipa 
et RA — 0 75 i at Ee glaa } 170 by their prompt and judicious measures wish of 
Channel Islands breed. 40 C 85 the Society during the Preparations for the meeting. 
‘ aonr brasā gei . 40 a . 8 À the non 2 it. Sir Thomas Acland at 
Scotch horned ca eep best adapted toa illerton, an urner at Barton, each gave a kind 
Scotch polled cattle’. 45 mount strict (ex- 5 . 11 : 
Welsh, Trish, N other 40 dee bee i and friendly enen to the Me abers, and submitted 
pur re bre } Pigs 8 . 130 to their inspection their respective Water and Catch 
Hor 270 —— adows, which ated a livel i 1 in all who 
21185 41770 witnessed the principal way Companies, 
The Council decided Nee no Foy stock ’’ should 8 Pag he conveyed th 8 on io ne 
be allowed to be shown next y hey also agr the implements at half the ordinary rates Mem- 
that the fake and n of the Show should be bers: wi ebted to Prof. S ds a Sible 
ken into consideration at the = Council in Lecture on the Diseases of the Liver in Domesticated 
February next. Ani ssrs. Tuxford, of Boston, and Messrs, 
a Barrett and Co., of Reading, kindly placed at the dis- 
A Special Council was held on Friday, the 13th of | posal of the ards and A ges their respective 
December ; pr His Grace the Duke ICHMOND, | steam- o kd for driving the hinery under trial in 
K.G., President, in the chair; Lord Camoys, Mr. Ray- | the Show. The a ome Airai to all these re- 
mond Barker; Mr. Brandreth, Colonel ene and spective —— at the time their por acknowledg- 
ofessor Sewell. The report to be made by the | ments for the en services they ndered 
uneil to the rpe Gokai Meeting of the Society, | the Society by their cordial co-op om. Exe 
was arranged and agreed to was also distinguished by a still further im- 
provement introduced into ynamometrical testing 
ERAL MnkTING.— The N ein General ‘ie of the agricultural machinery, by which results, o 
of “the Society was held at the Society’s 
over-square, on Saturday last, the lathof December. 
His Grace the Duke of RICHMOND, K.G., President, in 
the chair. 
Mr. Hupson, pe sin ha read the following report 
from the Coun 
7 
Council have a ied mic Satisfaction of reporting 
progress made by the Society in the 
ul objects. The 
attainment of its practical an 
anes r a its members at — present time differs b 
ly 18 from its amount at the date of the last general 
eting, 174 name ing b move d 
otherwise from the list, while 156 new me 
during the same p 
x neil a name illustrious from its 
for the * ＋ of — — and ind a hype 9 with the Royal Family of England, 
the fresh air to entrance in one direction, and _ oe = tion as borne by a Prince 
— dy Bs t y so many virtues as his 1 ore oe rir * 
pass ambridge „too, fa 1 an 
Farm-Accounts.—Mr. Hupson, of Castleacre, pre- 
sented to the Council a printed form of accounts he had 
yed for many years with 
results ; and which admitted of being separated, 
ed leaf by leaf to the various parias sapa 
im 
to uncil a copy of his new work, 
An Improved System of Farm Book- 
M 
The Council ordered their best thanks for the favour | 
of these communications. 
1 of Alderley, transmitte 
Lord org * by direction 
of Viscount P. almerston, for th h 
tted, 
the information of the 
jesty’s Co 
Book z containin roved short-horned 
g pedigrees of im 
illustrated by 11 original lithozraphie portraits 
lebrated animals of that breed. 
me adds “itt 
— of them, they 
ociety, and his Participation i in on 8 of its 
country meetin 
The Couneil . to report emaa: y ＋ state of 
the Finances of the Society; and to subm 
bers the Half. yearly Balance- sheet o 
count, e Special er of 
c value 
n the eve — publication, will 
Council believe, sustain t 
ssor, and still further r evince to 
the high privilege its 
with 
Pusey, w n his capacity o 
ron hag efie cts that — 
elaboration of matter for its Pages, which results in so 
Mago a 8 of data immediate 3 
n given cases, and for — ot advancemen 8 
agricultural ‘remark Books,“ it is true, as 
usey himself 
they will make men think, and show where to learn it. 
our farmers will inquire what is done by the foremost 
will themselves write such a bock of 
3 trial. 
the = of the Exeter 
now ps on the ta 
e 
he high character } 
to the Society 
marks, “will not teach farming; “but,” * in 
ociety broad page of 
best practice, whether obtained from the pages of the jects, 
in n legible characters, with * straight nisi on the 
England. d e Council trust that the 
ol Vs 
hitherto-neglected lands 
will be thus transferred to the 
vinnie | of the ne and lead 2 results alike satisfactory to 
The Council are . 
__| all parties connected with 
vap to find, thet of athe Journals sent to the Mem 
by post, amounting in n r to nearly 30,000 
= cg case has be en made known to them i in which a 
og po ard apa e 
Hz. | the anian of shee mauling having been wi 
g the highest credit on the establish- 
. 7o: M tiaa coun 
The Council haye only to refer to the 
ing of the 
regard this this fact as both important to the Society and 
postal esta 
ion, 2 to 
ey | merston 
co 
Country Meet- 
i far at —.— of Exeter in July | dan 
r 
sions, were obtaine 
plements enabled themselves to judge 
er and ir ma — by simple in- 
spection of the m chanical renege of results, 
Colon el Challoner, 1 the Seni 
on that o „ has 
ural 
anything further were 
occurrence, for the pa t time in the rec 
Society, o of the receipts being equal to, or 1 
paym na t of, a Coun y Meeting, independ- 
ently * the Prizes awa on the ean . the Exe- 
— ing a 23 of 960. 28. 9d. in favour of the Society. 
uncil, agreeably with the Bye-laws of the So- 
cates ‘prepared,-cn Thursday last, a pias of the Prizes 
for B competition next 
year. This list having sopies of it are 
ble for the en tion of the 
The Council have appointed a Special Committee to 
take ints ‘consideration the alioko question of nominating, 
selecting,. and appointing the Dean for the Coun 
Meetings, with a request that they will favour the 
them on ode mea e 
aa of = two bodies, namely, the application of 
rinary science to the diseases of cattle, sheep, and 
'the result of 
ro: 
rinary Inspector of the Society, has 
rence of several im mongst 
the stock of mem t oof t try. 
These reports, when fully rm s 7 by further results 
of direct ex eeding and treatment of 
the animals, placed in the hands of tke Journal 
chica 
— the —ů — to the So- 
ciety hs contin to prose interesting re- 
search the on ical — — of plants and 
e results of which are 
— of agricultural use. 
the course of publication in the Journal of the 
Professor Way has also favoured the Society 
last General Meeting with a Lecture on the 
eee Character of Water as connected with its 
ltural 5 
The Council id decided, since the last General 
— to give Prizes for Essays on the following „i 
p $o bo sent in by the Ito of March next :— fo 
Farming of § of . opami 
management of Horses 
Diseases of Cattle after 
£50 75 
50 
in Agricultaral Uhemistry . 10 
The Council have been favoured . Viscount Pal- 
with important communications on the subject 
of the mee of cy mei and the Duke 
im 
ee alte 
feelin 
1 
“MM? 
