6 



1851.1 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 



SOCIETY. 



YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL 

 Prize Sheets of this Societj for Stock, Implements, E»sayp, 

 fcc, **• now r *ady f and may be had free on application to 

 If. if. Milbcin, Secretary, Sowerby, Thirak, Yorkshire. 



EW SKINLESS CHEVALIER BARLEY.— This 



is far superior to any other Skinless Barley, both in the 



size of the grain and malting properties. It is also very pro- 



dnctite, and altogether the most profitable sort of Barley to 



cultivate. Messrs. Sutton intend to send specimens to the 



Great Exhibition. Sample? may be had by post, on applica- 



ion enclosing two penny stamps^ Cash price, 55. per peck. 



Quantities, not less than two pecks, will be sent, carriage free, 



as other Seeds enumerated in Messrs. Sutton's Advertisement, 



at last page of Gardeners' Chronicle, of January 25. 



Address, John Sction and Sons, Seed Growers, Reading, 



Berks. 



MANURE DEPOT. 

 TO FARMERS, AGRICULTURISTS. &c. &c. 



GH. FOLEY, Essex Wharf, Lea Bridge, Middle- 

 • sex, Agent, by appointment, to the Irish Amelioration 

 Society, for the sale of IRISH PEAT CHARCOAL, an excel- 

 lent fertilizer, and when mixed with night-soil or sewage 

 matter renders both inoffensive and retains all their fertilizing: 

 properties, and producing, combined, a very valuable Manure, 

 at a remarkably low cost ; capable of being conveyed in sacks 

 or otherwise. Price of the Charcoal, in its pure state, 605. per 

 ton ; mixed with Night-soil, 455. per ton, sacks included. 



All needful particulars will be given upon application at the 

 above address. 



IRON GATES, HURDLES, &c. 



THOMAS PERRY AND SONS, 

 252, OXFORD-STREET (near HYDE-PARK). 

 And Highfields Wrought and Cast-'ron Works, Biliton, 

 Staffordshire, Manufacturers of every description of 

 Park Entrance, Carriage and Field Gates, Wickets, &c. ; 

 Plain and Ornamental Fencing and Palisading ; 

 Ox, Cattle, Sheep and other Hurdles ; 

 Tree Guards, Garden Seats, Hay Racks, Wheelbarrows ; 



Land and Garden Roller*, Stable Fittings, «fcc. dec. 

 The works being situated in the centre of the Staffordshire 

 Iron district, Thomas Perrt and Sons are enabled to execute 

 promptly orders to any extent with the greatest facility, of the 

 best quality, and most moderate terms. A great variety of the 

 above aiticles always kept in Stock at the London Warehouse, 

 and at the Works. Drawings and prices may be obtained on 

 application, or furnished free by post. 



MEW LAPSTONE KIDNEY POTATO.— This 



-*-^ Potato is of first-rate quality, Jind has been highly spoken 

 of by Dr. Lindley in the Gardeners 1 Chronicle, and aUo by every 

 one that has grown it. It is a most abundant bearer, and the 

 best in quality of any Potato grown, and keeps good up to May 

 or June. They are of good size, and have been grown on warp 

 land near the banks of the Trent, and therefore wiil be a good 

 change for any other soil. 



New Lactone Kidney Potatoes, in sacks of 2 c wt., at 16$., 



sacks included. 

 Prince Regent, ditto, ditto, 10s. 

 Early Shaws, ditto, ditto, 9s. 



Early orders accompanied by remittances will receive 

 prompt attention. 



. William Stent, Nursery and Seedsman, Stockwith. Gains- 

 borou gh, Lin col nshire. 



'PIIE'rEGISTERKiTroSE GIRDLE-LABEL^ 



-1- A Rose Grower (having found, by long experience, the 

 present method of securing Standard Plants by wires of any 

 kind, and cord or rope of whatever description, to be highly 

 injurious to the bark, and otherwise detrimental to the growth 

 of the plant, besides being clumsy, troublesome, and in- 

 effectual), has the pleasure of submitting to Amateurs and the 

 Public a new Invention which he has recently introduced, for 

 the more efficient and neat fastening of Roses and other 

 Standard Plants to their Stakes. 



The REGISTERED ROSE GIRDLE now offered to the 

 Public, besides the advantage of being well adapted for a neat 

 and permanent Label to the plant which it secures, will greatly 

 diminish the time and trouble attending the mode hitherto 

 pursued in the tying of Standard Plants to their stakes. The 

 utility of this invention, while combining twoimportant objects 

 (till now very imperfectly attained), cannot but entitle it, from 

 Chose who wish a neat and permanent Label as well as an 

 efficient fastener for their Standard Plants, to an additional 

 claim. It is neat as it is efficacious, and as cheap as it is 

 us ef ul. 



Extbact from " Florist's Directory."— " We consider it 

 one of the most useful articles that have been invented— it 

 forms a permanent Label as well as an unerring fastening and 

 we shall be disappointed if it is not generally used for Roses 

 and Standard Cytisuses. We shall adopt it for everything we 

 can apply it to in the garden." 



Sold, wholesale and retail, by William Hamilton, Seedsman 

 and Florist, lfi6, Cheapside, London ; and to be had of all 

 Nursery and Seedsmen, and may be seen at the Office of this 

 Paper. Price Is. 6<J, per dozen. 





 

 







THE LONDON MANURE COMPANY beg to 

 offer, as under, CORN MANURE, most valuable for 

 spring dressing— Concentrated Urate, Superphosphate of Lime, 

 Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate of Ammonia, Fishery and Agricul- 

 tural Salts, Gypsum, Fossil Bones, Sulphuric Acid, and every 

 other Artificial Manure ; als > a constant supply of English 

 and Foreign Linsee1-cake. Peruvian Guano, guaranteed the 

 genuine importation of Messrs. A. Gibbs and Sons, 91. 10*. per 

 ton, or 9/. 5s. in quantities of 5 tons and upwards. 



Edward Purser, Secretary. 

 40, Bridge-str eet, Blackfriars, London. 



MANURES. — The following Manures are manu- 

 factured at Mr. La web's Factory, Deptford Creek : 



Clover Manure, per ton £11 



Turnip Manure, do 7 



Superphosphate of Lime 7 



Sulphuric Acid and Coprolites 5 



Office, 69, King William-street, City, London. 

 N.B. Peruvian Guano, guaranteed to contain 16 per cent, of 

 Ammonia, 91. 155. per ton ; and for 5 tons or more, dl. 10s, per 

 ton. in dock. Sulphate of Ammonia, <fcc. 



RTIFICIAL ; MANURES. — PRIVATE IN- 

 STRUCTIONS in Chemical Analysis and the most ap- 

 proved methods of making Artificial Manures are given by 

 J. C. Nesbit, F.C.S., F.G.S., at the Laboratories, Scientific 

 School, 38, Xennington-lane, London. 



Analyses of Soils, Manures, Minerals, &c, performed as 

 usual, on moderate terms. 



GUANO AND OTHER MANURES.— Peruvian 

 Guano of the finest quality ; Superphosphate of Lime ; 

 Gypsum ; Salt ; Nitrate of Soda ; Moffat's Patent Concentrated 

 City Sewage Manure, and all others of known value. — Apply to 

 Mark Fotherqill, 204, Upper Thame * -street, London . 



PURE WATLR raised to any height from a small 

 stream, where a fall can be obtained, by FREEMAN ROE 

 and HANSON'S IMPROVED RAM; less waste, by two-thirds, 

 than those ordinarily in use. Portable Steam Engines for Agri- 

 cultural purposes, Threshing Machines, Deep- well Pumps, 

 Water-wheels, Baths, Hot-water Apparatus, and Fountains. 

 Towns supplied with Gas or Water. Drawings and Estimates 

 made.— Freeman Roe and Hanson, Hydraulic and Gas Engi- 

 neers : Office, 70. Strand, London. 



OTEPHENSON and Co., 61, Gracechurch-street, 



^ London, and 17, New Park-street, Southwark, Inventors 

 and Manufacturers of the Improved CONICAL and DOUBLE 

 CYLINDRICAL BOILERS, respectfully solicit the attention of 

 scientific Horticulturists to their much improved method of 

 applying the Tank System to Pineries, Propagating Houses, 

 <fec, by which atmospheric heat as well as bottom-heat is 

 secured to any required degree, without the aid of pipes or flues. 

 S. and Co. have also to state that at the request of numerous 

 friends they are now making their Boilers of Iron, as well as 

 Copper, by which the cost is reduced. These Boilers, which 

 are now so well known, scarcely require description, but to 

 those who have not seen them in operation, prospectuses will 

 be forwarded, as well as reference of the highest authority ; or 

 they may be seen at most of the Nobility's seats and principal 

 Nurseries throughout the kingdom. 



S. and Co. beg to inform the Trade that at their Manufact >ry, 

 17, New Park-street, every article required for the construction 

 of Horticultural Buildings, as well as for heating them, maj 

 be obtained upon the most advantageous terms. 



Conservatories, <fcc, of Iron or Wood, erected upon the most 

 ornamental designs. Balconies, Palisading, Field and Garden 

 Fences, Wire- work, &c. 



| cyder a piece pet annum 

 the labourers'* 



" tenants little above 



•" ploughs of the most clumsy make 

 drawn by six bullocks, all in a line*—" drains filled' 

 not with tiles or stones, but with two feet long 

 stubble, left in harvest, and now cut for the purpose" 

 — "farm buildings formed of wood, and thatched and 

 spread reel-ral over a given surface in the most 

 admired state of confusion and disorder" — "the 

 farmers left almost entirely to provide houses and 

 steadings to themselves." What will the gentlemen 

 of Suffolk say to being spoken of as €i the poor, 

 struggling, crazy tenants, of that comparatively rich 

 and accessible county f Mr. Cowie concludes thus : 



u We have not provoked this contest. We are not 

 our own trumpeters. If it so happens that a stranger, 

 previously acquainted with English farming, in passing 

 through Scotland, finds science in combination with 

 practice the rule with us, and the exception among our 

 neighbours — if he here finds threshing-mills as common 





Eht Ogttcitltttral (Bajette 



SA TURD A Y, FEBR UAR Y 8, 1851. 



MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. 



WinriESDAT, Feb. 12-Agricultural Society of England. 



Thubsdat, — 13— Agricu'tural Imp. Soc. of Ireland. 



Widhmdat, — 19 -Agricultural Society of Kn gland. 



THUH8DAI, — 20— Agricultural Imp. Soc. of Ireland. 





A good deal of angry feeling has lately been ex- 

 cited in Scotland by "Mr. Pusey's speech at the 

 annual meeting of the London Farmers' Club, and 



>me extent, found expression in our own 

 The condemnation of Scottish egotism 

 which that speech pronounced— the superiority which 

 it claimed for English farming — the wager on that 

 point which it proposed— all of them, no doubt, in 



columns. 





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are 



the best natured spirit, before a social meeting of 

 " have been seriously discussed, and 



sorely felt in the North. And many critiques have 

 appeared of the unfortunate harangue, to which so 

 wide a publicity has been given. To two of them 

 only shall we refer at present— that of Mr. Russell 

 (Fifeshire), published in a late Number of the 

 Agricultural Gazette; and that of Mr. Cowie 

 (Kincardineshire), published in the Scotsman, of 

 Jan. 22. The former shifts, we think with justice, 

 all the blame which Mr. Pusey would attach to 

 Scottish egotism— upon the extravagance of English 

 praise. We hardly know where to look for evidence 

 of Scottish egotism, though we have heard enough 

 of it no doubt. With one exception, all the written 

 testimonies of Scottish agricultural superiority that at 

 present occur to us are by English authors, and on 

 them must rest the weight of Mr. Pusey's blame. 

 The exception alluded to is the published speech, 

 delivered at an agricultural meeting, on Monday, the 

 13th of January, by the gentleman already named — 

 Mr. Cowie, of Haulkerton Mains, Kincardineshire. 

 This gentleman draws a picture of English farming 

 from the reports of the Times commissioners, and 

 from personal observation, " obtained, not while 

 perched up on a dickey, driving two in hand, but 

 while travelling on foot, with knapsack on back, 



as roads and bridges, and among them as rare as earth- 

 quakes and water-kelpies— if he finds us draining and 

 manuring well, and they in general doing neither — and 

 if he chooses to go and publish what lie has seen — and 

 if, instead of benefiting by such information (like their 

 leader, Mr. Pusey), their blood gets up, the spirit of 

 jealousy is roused among them, because they are not our 

 match ; the misfortune and fault rest not with us. We 

 have made no invidious comparisons, nor boasted of our 

 superiority ; but when assailed (as we have been by 

 Mr. Pusey and others, and the laurels wt have gained 

 attempted to be snatched from our brow) we are not 

 the men to stand silently by and shrink from the combat. 

 We envy what Nature has bestowed in her rich pro- 

 fusion on our neighbours — their good climate — their 

 rich soil ; but we wish them joy of what art they profess 

 — of their wooden and thatched houses, their 40-feet 

 wide hedgerows, and their stubble drains — and finally, 

 to show our good-will towards them, we hope to see the 

 day when, with the superior ^natural advantages they 

 possess, they may soon shoot as far ahead of us as they 

 are at present in the rear." 



Mr. Cowie may disclaim what he pleases; but 

 our readers will no doubt agree with us in thinking 

 that he can blow a pretty good blast with his trum- 

 pet, notwithstanding his disclaimer. It is the unfor- 

 tunate result of the speech which Mr. Russell has 

 criticised that it raises such a spirit as that which 

 Mr. Cowie appears to us to have exhibited. It 

 w r ould be easy to reply in terms similar to those 

 which he has used — to take up the missed counties, 

 or even large portions of those which he has blamed, 

 and to point to districts, as large as any in Scotland, 

 where the land is farmed as well, by men as able — 

 and w r here all this prosperity cannot be attributed 

 to " the number of Scotch bailiffs who have emi- 

 grated into England and carried their system with 

 them " — a circumstance which satisfactorily explains 

 to Mr. Cowie whatever exceptions exist, to that 

 general rule of mismanagement, carelessness, and 

 poverty which he asserts English agriculture to 

 present ! 



But it is very desirable that this contest between 

 Scottish and English agriculture should cease. The 

 terms should altogether drop. Each country con- 

 tains developed within it many styles of farming, 

 and in each every style exhibits many a grade of 

 quality. The better plan would be to compare con- 

 trasted districts, whether in England or Scotland, 

 simply with the desire for instruction, and if there 

 be any noticeable difference in the results which 

 they respectively display, to enquire for the cause in 

 an unprejudiced manner. In this way the results 

 of climate, of soil, of peculiarity of relationship 

 between landlord and tenant, of an educated peasan- 

 try, and, if you will, even of national character, may 

 be eliminated with some probability of accuracy. 

 But if under the influence of temper such conclu- 



arrived 



•viz. 



that the excellence of Scottish farming is a merely 

 local phenomenon attributable to extraordinary 

 fertility, or as Mr. Cowie asserts, namely, that in 

 England Nature has been extraordinarily kind, and 

 man extraordinarily idle — that the soils of Essex 

 would be a good top-dressing for those of Kincardine- 

 shire !— or that descriptions locally true may not be 

 generally false — then the more closely we confine 

 our attention to our own doings, and the less we 

 look on those of our neighbour, the better. This, 

 however, is an absurd determination, for it is pos- 

 sible to look outside our form, and even to overstep 

 the boundaries of our country, without either jealousy 

 or temper, and to return home again laden with, 

 useful information. 



We believe that much [misconception has hitherto 

 prevailed among many English landowners regard- 

 ing the universal excellence of Scottish farming; 



retails 



and we believe that a great misconception 



and working his way through." He finds evidence 

 of English inferiority so soon as he arrives at 

 Carlisle, in the neighbourhood of which " dung is so 

 little valued, that it can frequently be got for 

 nothing." He travels through Devon, Dorset, 

 Sussex, Surrey, Essex, Gloucestershire, Oxford and 



Suffolk, and he finds in the different districts he „ , _. 



visits, " working-people drinking 3 hogsheads of j soon have a reaction just as violent of the latter 



ngJish 



among Scottish farmers j „ 



superiority of soil and climate. Mr. Pusey's speech 

 represents the reaction of the former extravagance ; 

 and a few more such as Mr. Cowie's, and we should 



