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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 



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niai-^eiauu for Uiem, lie woul-i tuidiio wain ui grower*. 

 It was, he Ibooght, of little purpose to tell farmers of 

 the quantity grown and the price it ought to fetch.— 

 M. Clauaen replied, that it was both simple and easy 

 to prepar. the Flax for the npindle, and lie would 

 undertake to fur h persons properly instructed who 

 would direct the farmers how to proceed. Ihere was 

 one house at Bradford, that of Mawrs. Quitzow, 

 Sehleeinger, and Co , Flax-spinners, dyers, and mer- 

 chants, whoee only fear was that enough Flax would 

 not he grown for their use ; and they were, he believed, 

 ready to give 4/. per ton for Flax of fair quality.— 

 Profeeaor Way observed that the present system of 

 preparing Flax only applied to ex ing markets. M. 

 CI* 1 method, as he understood it, had the merit of 



opening new and extensive markets for this article ; and 

 there was one important point in the new plan— that 

 there would in future be no distinction of Flax into fine 

 or coarse qualities. The farmer, too, under the new 

 aystem, would not be obliged to pull his Flax, as under 

 the system hitherto in uee, before it was ripe, in order 

 te secure a higher price for his fibre ; but, on the con- 

 trary, it will not be necessary to pull it until the seed 

 and stalk were fully ripe. The farmer would thus ob 

 tain a larger proportion of fibre in proportion to the 

 bulk, and a heavier crop of seed. He understood the 

 quality of fibre in the new process not to be so «en- 

 tially of importance as under the former plan, and that 

 farmers may break the Flax to reduce its bulk. The 

 new material would be intermediate between linen and 

 eetton ; leas valuable than the one, but more valuable 



than tin 4 other. 



Mr. Shelley then rose to propoee a vote of thanks to 



M. Clauseen for the favour he had done them in hi 

 attendance on the occasion, and the information he had 

 laid before the Council. 11 heartily wished him success 

 in the practical development of hisdiecovery, and hoped 

 that the farmers would reap the benefit of it, and obtain 

 a fair remuneration for their produce. 



Mr. Mik-H, M . P., seconded the motion. Kind, indeed, 

 it had been of M. Claussen to come before them that 

 day, before ho had completely secured his patent, to 

 give them tfa earliest notification of the agricultural 

 bearing of his rcecarchcfc He trusted that the result 

 would provo as good for himself as for the fanners, 

 •-hose interests he had then advocated. 

 The Chairman then put the vote, which was carried 

 Unanimously. He was sure they all felt deeply obliged 

 to the Chevalier Clauseen for the favour he had done 

 them. 



iW. .natives, had the slightest power, under the strin- 

 gent conditions of the royal charter of its incorporation, 

 to infringe its neutrality in this respect ; on the contrary, 

 if it could be proved that they did so, it would be the 

 duty of her Majesty's Attorney-General, ex officio, to 

 take steps for depriving the Society of its chartered pri- 

 vileges. The condition in the charter to which his Lrrace 

 particularly alluded, was the following :— 



" And know ye further, that in granting this our Royal 

 Charter to the said Royal Agricultural Society of England we 

 do hereby declare it to he our lull and entire will and pleasure 

 that we extend our Royal protection to its national objects, 

 under the condition, that a principle of it, constitution , •hall be 

 the total exclusion of all questions at its meetings , or in its 

 proceedings, of a political tendency, or having reference to 

 meaiureilending, erto be brought forward in enher of our 

 Houses ©/Parliament ; which no resolution, bye-law, r her 

 enactment of the said body politic and corporate shall ^on 

 any account or pretence whatever be at any time allowed 

 to infringe." „ _ , _ , , 



The Duke of Richmond concluded by observin 



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that 

 should unfortunately the Society ever endanger its con- 

 stitution by any deviation from this salutary restriction, 

 and thus prive itself of the united energy it now derived 

 from the union of all parties in the patriotic object ot 

 promoting the practical agriculture of the country, he 

 would be the first man to quit its ranks. On the con- 

 trary, believing, as he did, that the Society had been, 

 and would continue to be, of the greatest national im- 

 portance in developing the resources of the kingdom 

 and promoting the common interest of all who were 

 connected in any relation with the cultivation of the 

 soil, he should give to it, on all occasions, his warmest 

 and steadiest support. 



Miscellaneous Communications.— Mr. Graham, of 

 Dalby-terrace, Islington, communicated a paper on what 

 he conceived to be errors in some of the present 

 modes of farming in England, and the plan of a farm 

 homestead. - Dr. Calvert laid before the Council a paper, 

 accompanied by statistical details, on the loss sustained 

 by the grower of corn and the producer of animal food, 

 by the indirect means through which it reached the 

 consumer through the baker and the butcher as 

 iC middle-men."— Mr. Dalgairns, President of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of Guernsey, on measures taken in 

 that island for the production of silk, by the formation 

 of a model farm and the establishment of a labora- 

 tory ; many hundred Mulberry trees having been 

 planted last spring, several thousand cocoons pro- 

 duced, and the raw material sold to so great an 

 advantage, as to render the growing of silk a sub- 

 ject worthy, in Mr. Dalgairns' opinion, of the 



attention of English cultivators.— Mr. Law, of Urmston 



(heir co? ration, but of course they 

 out any inference being drawn from such reception that 

 tb** Council held themselves responsible in any degree 

 for the opinions exproaed by M. Clauawn. He thought 

 t his duty, as their chairman, to repeat this caution. 

 On that day fortnight, namely on Wednesday, the 26th 

 of February, at noon, M. Claussen had consented to 



E attend, for the purpose of detailing, after the eom- 

 >n of his specifications, the details connected with 

 •w process. Mr. Beale Browne would probably on 

 the same day bring forward the statement, of which he 



bad givtn notice, * his I0115 experience in the cultivation 

 *of Flax. 



A Wekkly Cornea was held at the Society's House, 

 in IIan< ir-square, on Wednesday last, the 19th of 



February : present, his Grace the Duke of Richmond, 

 KG., President, in the chair, Sir Charles Lemon, Bart , 

 Mr, Sir John V B. Johnstone, Bart. M.B., Mr. Ray- 

 mond Barker, Mr. Burke, Mr. D. Burton, jun., Dr. 

 Calvert, Mr. W. Clavering, Mr. Gadesden, Mr. Leveson 

 (o>wer, Mr. Jacson, Mr. Majendie, Mr. C. E. Overman, 

 Mr v S.nford (Ninehead-court), Professor Se well, Pro- 

 fessor Simond*, Mr. StansfieU, M.P., Mr. R. Thompson, 

 Prqfcasor Way, and Mr. Wilson (Stowlangtoft) . 

 The following new members were elected ; 



Erie, the Hon. Sir William, Kot, one of her Majesty's JuoVes 

 of the Court of Queen's Bench, Park Crescent, Regent's 

 Park, and Bram»not Orange, Hampshire. 



TOyar, William Hawker, Coker Court, Yeovil, Somersetshire. 



"Goone Charles, War.ey Lodge. Brentwood, Essex. 



Peacocke, Warren, Tanhum, Dorkiog, Surrey. 



Garrad, Abraham, Colchester, Essex. 



Collins, George B., Se. Colomb, Cornwall. 



Chtrleswortb, John Barff. IJ8, New Bond-street, London. 



The names of 4 candidates for election at the next 

 meeting were then read. 



Phosphorite.— The President made an interesting 

 statement to the meeting on the subject of native phos- 

 phate of lime, and the probability of its occurrence 

 Among the metaphoric masses in this country. His 

 fJrace had been in communication with Sir Roderick 

 Murchison and Professor Daubeny on this subject, 

 which might prove one of great importance to the prac- 

 tical farmers of the United Kingdom, should the mineral 

 phosphorite, containing as it did so large an amount of 

 bone-earth, be either obtained from abroad at a mo- 

 derate cost, or be found occurring in our own islands. 

 The council, at the suggestion of the President, directed 

 the secretary to make such inquiries for the information 

 of the members, m reference to this mineral, as might 

 lead to farther researches for the discovery of its 

 occurrence, # 



Political Neutrality. -Mr. Dawson, of Osgodby 

 Hall, near Selby, addressed a letter to the Council, com- 

 plaining, as a member of the Society, of political bias in 

 the proceedings of the Council. The President expressed 

 his regret that any individual should suppose it possible, 

 constituted as the Society was, and engaged as it had now 

 so long been m the promotion of practical agriculture, 



Neither the individual who for the year presided, as his 

 teace then did, orer the body, nor the Council, as its 



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expressing his wish, that Buch of the member* of the TnipStT 5 

 Committee as were in town, should take an early opportunity 1 ! i 

 waiting upon Lord Seymour, at the office of Woods and Fore«t 

 and of ascertaining from his lordship the conditions requirS 

 by that department, in reference to a site chosen at Hamnr 



na Forest, 

 squired 



Court, Bushy Park, or Kew, the localities which LoWjd? 11 



had her Majesty's command to place at the din™.*!?! 



Lodge, presented ears of Cobbett's and Keene's varieties 

 of Indian Corn, grown near Manchester. — Mr. Aplin, of 

 Combe St. Nicholas, called the attention of the Council 

 to the complaints made in Dorsetshire and Somerset- 

 shire, that the horned sheep of those counties, being a 

 distinct breed, and unqualified to compete with the 

 Southdowns, had not had a distinct class for fair com- 

 petition at the Society's Shows. The Council referred 

 this letter to the special Council in Dec. 1851, when the 

 prizes of the next year will be taken into consideration. 

 — Mr, Cothani suggested, that a heavier fine ought to 

 be levied on those exhibitors of implements at the 

 Society's Shows, who bespoke a greater amount of 

 space and shedding than they actually occupied at the 

 me of the Show. This suggestion will be referred to 

 the Council in August next, when the conditions for the 

 show of implements next year would be decided upon. 

 Sir John Conroy called the attention of the Council to a 

 simple apparatus, by which sacks, filled with heavy 

 substances, may be lifted by a man on his own back, 

 without the assistance usually required of two other 

 men. — M. von Bliicher transmitted a copy of his papers 

 on fertilising the surface of land. — The Council ordered 

 their usual thanks for the favour of these respective 

 communications. The Council granted leave for the 

 exhibition to the members, at the next weekly meeting, of 

 a new gutta percha pump for liquid manure. 



A Special Council washeldon Thursday last, the 20th 

 of February, for deciding on the site of the show-yard, 

 &c, and the regulations connected with the Society's 

 country meeting of 1851 ; present, his Grace the Duke 

 of Richmond, K.G., President, in the chair, Lord South- 

 ampton, Hon. R. H. Clive, M.P., Sir Charles Lemon, 

 Bart, M.P., Mr. Braraston, M.P., Mr. Brandreth 

 (Houghton House), Colonel Challoner, Mr. Druce, Mr 

 Foley, M.P., Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. Grantham, Mr 

 Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Kinder, Mr. Sanford (Ninehead 

 Court), Professor Sewell, Mr. Shaw (London), Mr. Vil- 

 hers Shelley, Mr. Stansfield, M.P., Mr. C. Hampden 

 i umer, and Mr. Jonas Webb. 



The President having detailed to the Council the 

 various steps he had taken, agreeably with their request, 

 in reference to a suitable site for the Society's show of 

 breeding stock this year, and the communications into 

 which he had entered with several members of her Ma- 

 jesty's Government on the subject, proceeded to read to 

 the members the correspondence which had taken place 

 between himself and those distinguished individuals. 

 His Grace then desired Colonel Challoner to lay before 

 the meeting the report of the Inspection Committee. 

 lne Secretary then received from Colonel Challoner 

 and at his request, read to the Council the following 

 report : — ° 



REPORT OF THE INSPECTION OF SITES' COMMITTEE 



oiitv^h t CE T . HE D S£* V UCI3M0ND ' a9 ^aidant of the Sol 

 ciety, having placed himself 111 communication with Lord John 



Russe , and Lord Seymour, agreeably with the request of the 



Council, at their last monthly meeting, transmitted to the 



wh£h h fy a 6 Wu* i" 1 th t 1Uth irmant ' *• correspondence 

 which ibu 1 Grace had had with those noblemen, in reference to 



the site of the cattle show in 1851 ; hi. Grace, at the same Ume 



4. 



Russell had her Majesty's commana to piace at tbe disposal^; 

 the Society, for the selection of the site in q-iestioa. His GraA. 

 further requested, that after such interview with Lord Seymon? 

 the whole Inspection Committee should be summoned to rUu 

 such locality, as might appear, under all circumstances, to h! 

 most eligible for the purposes of the Society ; in order that th*. 

 might be prepared to report the result of their inspection to th* 

 Special Council, for deciding on the site, to be held on Tntm! 

 day, the 20th instant. 



Accordingly, Colonel Challoner, Mr. Villiers Shelley, andlfr 

 Brandreth Gibbs, waited, by appointment, on Lord Seymour* 

 on Saturday last ; and they had the satisfaction to find, thai 

 every disposition was felt by his lordship to promote the objecti 

 of the Society, and that the office of Woods and Forests would 

 endeavour to agree to whatever conditions the Council might 

 think it desirable to propose, for the consent and confirmation 

 of that department ; his lordship suggesting, that the Com 

 mittee should, in the first instance, inspect a site of ground in" 

 Bushy Park, which he thought, in every respect, admirably 

 adapted for the purposes of the show. 



In consequence of this suggeetion, the members of the I n . 

 spection Committee were summoned to mee<. in Bushy Park" 

 on Tuesday last, the 18th instant, when Colonel Challoner 

 Mr. Jonas, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, and Mr. Brandreth Gibbs' 

 Members of the Committee; Mr. Hudson, Secretary of the 

 Society: Mr. Manning, Contractor of Works to the Society 

 and Mr. Stovin, General Manager of Traffic to the South! 

 Western Railway Company, were met by Mr. Wilson, Clerk of 

 the Works under the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, 

 and conducted over the ground. Having made an accurate 

 survey of that por ion of the park to which Lord Seymour, after 

 his own personal inspection, bad directed their atrentiou; and 

 having taken into consideration its bearings in relation to the 

 convenience of the public, the facilities it afforded to the coq. 

 tractor, and the supply of water for the cat le, the Committee 

 agreed to the following recommendations to the Council: 



I. That the open area in Bushy Park, bounded on the north 

 by the public footpath, on the south a.id east by the running 

 blank wall of the Queen's Paddocks, and on the west by the 

 Lime trees, being a firm level turf on sandy loam, and con. 

 veniently situated for the supply of water from the adjoining 

 stream and ponds, the access of the contractor during the pro- 

 gress of the works, and the admission, at several entrances, 

 of the public during the time of the show, whether arriving at 

 either tne Kingston or Hampton Railway Station, comprises! 

 space of ground admirably adapted for the purposes of the 

 Society, from which to select a particular site for the show. 

 yard, when the size of the yard required shall be known after 

 the entries have been completed. 



II. That leave should be requested— 



1. To erect a pump for raising the water from the stream or 

 ponds above the level of the show-yard, for ihe purpose 

 of having it conducted by water-proof tubing, or other. 

 wise, into the yard. 



2. To allow the Society's contractor to convey his materials 

 for the erection of the yard through the Hampton- Wick 

 double carriage gates, near the Clapper Stile. 



3. To make at the Society's expense a direct entrance from 

 the Stud-gates in the turnpike-road between Hampton. 

 court Park and Bushy Park) through, the wall of No. 

 15 Paddock into BuBhy Park, immediately opposite to 

 the contemplated site for the show-) ard. 

 To be afforded facilities of free ingress, egress, and 

 occupation grantea on all former occasions to the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England by the great municipal 

 corporations throughout the kingdom. 



III. That His Grace the Duke of Richmond be requested, as 

 the President of the Society, to enter into further couimunica. 

 tion with Lord Seymour, as Chief Commissione of her Majesty 

 Woods and Forests, iu reference to these recommendations, 



(Siguedj C. B. Challoner. 



W. Pisufca Hobbs. 

 B. T. B a a. M>K£Tfl Gibbs. 



On the motion of Mr, Brandreth, seconded by Mr. 

 Kinder, this report was unanimously adopted by the 



Council. 



On the motion of Colonel Challoner, seconded bj 

 Mr. Fisher Hobbs, a vote of thanks was passed unani- 

 mously to Lord Seymour, for the plans of Bushy Park, 

 presented by his Lordship to the Society for the use of 

 the Council. Colonel Challoner took that opportunity 

 of explaining these plans to the Council ; and of remark- 

 ing, that the site in question was adapted in every 

 respect to the purposes of the Society, being situated 

 within a short distance from the three Kailway Stations 

 of Kingston, Hampton, and Twickenham, by which the 

 show would be fed by visitors from every part of toa 

 country : in fact, that had the Society had the choice 01 

 the whole kingdom, a more advantageous site could not 

 possibly have been found. 



The report of the general Middlesex Committee was 



read and adopted. 



The Council then agreed to resolutions having refer- 

 ence to the following points : — . . 



1. That at the Hampton Court Meeting of the Society, ■ 

 1851, there shall be a Pavilion dinner ior 25UU persons, m 

 Wednesday, the 16th of July. , te 



2. That Saturday, the 17ih of May, shall be the last W» 

 receiving entries of stock tor the Show. . ^ 



3. That the week commencing Monday, the 14th of J^' 

 the week of the Show. ^ 



4. That stock may be admitted into the yard at 8 a.m. oti 

 Friday previous to the Show week ; but must all be iu tne J 

 by 4 p.m. on the Saturday. 



5. That the judges make their awards on the Monday. 



6. That on the Monday evening, atter tne judges ti»w t 

 pleted their award*, the public may be admitted at n • \ 

 person ; and governors of tne Society, and memOers ot 00 

 at '2a. 6(i. each. 



7. That the days of public show be— - 

 (I) Tuesday, at 5*. ) p fi . the moT mN® 

 (?) Wednesday, at 2s. 6d. [ F '°™ ! t m 

 V) Thursday, at Is. ) Suu9et ' u „ hftfelB 



8. That on the Thursday the sheep hurdles shall n* 

 extra upper bar screwed into them, for the P ur ^ „J[ic; 

 tecting the auimals from injurious hauddu^ bj the P ^ 

 and that a notice be put up on that day interdicts 

 attempts to haudle the sheep. B unwed* 



9. 1 hat at 9 p.m., on Thursday, the stock may be alio* 

 leave the yard. 



The Council then agreed to the regulations ot 

 prize sheet, referring the details consequent on ^ 

 resolutions to the decision and arrangement 01 

 general Middlesex committee. x f jj 



The Council stands adjourned to Wednesday ^ 

 12 o'clock, when the Chev. Claussen will exp** 1 

 process for the preparation of British cotton. 







