THE SO RICUDTURAL SALETTE 
249 
ad 
er, not only from the alm 
f H i it from other countries, but 
inposil “J the high price of iron, which is s kept up 
Saati prat detriment of Se pe cul- 
i s, that land in France is ill- 
ft 
T 
ine 
they a. to pay. The ae fe erred 
all their transactions are in tant cas E and not many 
years ago they did not ev T aao gold. I perfectly | 
r a farmer, a perfec ranger t i me, stopping 
me $ see in a country meg o as knew gold 
a few 
and 
sown. E7 reapi 5 
w gold coins he had met received in 
ill-cl a oe 
fester cadiaturtica, amids 
sesh of hich they destroy by robbing them 
very 
serious Toppings as, to their value, 
is only establishmen 
pewnbroker’ shop, too intricate and nat in “ts 
orking to e of any real vault. As to the gra 
it exists nat 
aoe paper, not a sou of it has yet been applied, or I 
verily believe even asked for. The fae t is, that the 
doubt 
+h 
ey 
, but 
Zags; one- assume too absolutely the guidance of progress, 
of their nu pat natel is the prevalent and general ount of f bul iio on treasure hidden in Hance brid ix in | they only turn , fancying they go 
Sach, unfor wn in Franco—ay d to this state must be hi meh places. The sin gularly successful loa and a accomplis h a long Jou ey, wie in 
agricultur ORLAT, in the production emperor, vn miy they onl i oe a rin othing is left 
we fatal influence over the | ina ow da ays, and from t the lower classes, 20 times the | t n the co; trary, if anythin 
ity of t i t pri birok n it is immediately 
self guilty of partiality nd injustice lamentable fact. And yet ‘there cannot be any doubt | ae and put down. Tho result is, that so much ie. 
y that in the idst of that degeneracy | t m the French peasantry lies the ee of the pon ndence is placed upon Governmen nt ini itia tive, that, 
pots, significant symptoms of evival, countr mg As a body, y» they ¢ are sound and st unch; thei he 
bid us hope for a rapid improvem late ociety, no common interest can arise 
e 
system of centralisation has abandoned ok ; ; but their 
i onour: the same 
e ia the peaceful an soothing s cones stamp as those of the paerd of our p Pore 
"i es, seeking that di modern societies—those of the early Romans, who 
Torace 2 ge of e happiest odes. handled, with pak past natural transition, the 
o wrough’ 
oon jaca) necessities and wants, and that i ndiv idu al 
eo when the action of society is unfettered, and seen 
pe enden t, lies dorma nt and inactive, because a a univ rsal 
mt 
eeping S: PON Ee 
t Eng no sympathy, but for which they 
= a a host nm eling, have passively wit the 
bs ties of the Paris worl 
Be i tastes, and quietly settled in their 
the saci of the > gi ne 
nate posterity let slip from their feeble grasp. The 
Fren try are patient, sparing, religious, and 
robust sons, „and a thousand Euro 
h thei 
rope: 
r generous blood, have errana 
im aaaea and aan esp-r 
and careless 2g ns ce. 
All this show of vital 3 is 
therefore a ne: 
, the result jE a temporary galva: 
he he State cease to interfere, and all this 
Prilliant activity will vanish, and the poor agricultur: 
w. 
of France will appear what it really is, an ine a, 
r ere retaining Sor k of life. And how can it be 
otherwise? It bears P boge: incubus of a t property 
tax 20 Y per ce All 
amounting to 
the raw mater: ee 
e advanceme nt of agricultural pro- ow t vra CESSA: ts operations are saddled 
of t in nfluence, the ee die an $ ie Once get edge of pro- | with a heavy i tae uty, wi it to a a few iron- 
their minh, eee the savings w. gress their traditions; a a lean o i on masters and Tian E Enia who fatten m this ex- 
peT. aa. en pes tes to realise ment kindle their hard and mis rable with a | clusive Pat. partial protection. = — tofa Ae navi- 
ution of 1 thei eir gatio on es ats wg 
t , that period | hom object of a monopoly which renders its use 
favitement, b st a put re expectations and | the po of their suing let a itele a more capital impossibility, although a porian of the sams 
mouldering but n ee oe checked improve | their | land ; let thei eir common s be divided or | remitted for agricultural purposes, yet, the formalities 
tn, but since the establishie ent i ; let | to go Scones and the expense of rendering it unfit for 
es cattle be improved “by the infusion of any other use, are such, that it would be hens to pay 
aa once more returned to the fie My and fete er soe P let pank of c muh introduce into their | the full price of the see: A esata haaa 
f iy Bat ben. at the RE French, society of the trading ha abits mbrous dealing; let | ments cannot be obtained, except at a ru 
most extinct in Paris; th e and value _ money, which Sı ch, then, „are the e stumbling-blocks Shik 2 a rational 
ere Sh sprang, up a society es onied men, | deri 
y to-day, ruined to-morrow, who } ht | let — isre m, sui ted to their wants and re- private enterprise and institutions ought — to be en- 
th very constitution of their social ka those | quiremen’ mile eee urst open the stolid crust of bli 
less and loose principles which operate with an im- | that enslaves ony and the French nation will rise gradual ly withdrawn. For the experience “of ‘history, 
jon upon the raising up and the downfall of gre eat a nd oth, fo ul from inherent and intrinsic worth particularly i in 1 England, convinces us that, me less the 
ie of their fortunes. lt isa well} and s hich i interferes wit epend- 
popu ulat ation, the moral stuff y 
es hands every 20 years 
ly, French landed proprietors as ac 
age cpa fall 
the 
great nd glorious communities are fo wren 
o The hi s in e, owing e abso! we 
sway 0 of ae “government, which Uys hs ~<a the: 
on that ry 
the land is utterly lost. 
rough all 
CA beans 
Il have little or 
pead 
no influ uence ; those that are honest a1 are 
The m 
ourgeoisie or trading ¢ clas ass, are 
h inde 
and i industrial aeria. the more 
hey prosper, and the firmer is the base upon which 
thee structure is built. 
Home Corresponden 
Thin Seeding. Although this th nti is eis time to 
time mooted, a many ins 
rotten to the core they have no religious c reed ni 
results 
„still iti is a fact. that the re mr 
at ok TAN 
prineiple. 
powers of heise: thou ughts and actions, the rankest in 
—. so wap in them the ae sh appetites of 
| hum 
induced me = ote poses shy but tis which 
and the riches acquire 
‘the rural population | 
only 
ein my 
as preserved those pan virtues o 
which has been s so Tropen v in its results, that the 
um of the Journal 
induce siheri fo mak 
S trial Of me I age se at > 
+ day my 
l be the universal prac 
manone thes Gea of the rere race, 
But, In „ma; nay be asked, „has the French government 
to ‘sow all Seg crops at yt fo a aga amine 
of agricul ture ; there is a lar; rge and influential staff o 
pc agit inapeotors ie are innumerable ) govern 
model „coll 
t crop up to last-year used to be sown 
at the rate of T bushel of seed per acre, 
12 inches s apart and horse-hoed. — In 
ment cultural 
tahli 
e peasantry, 
example, the only a argument that 
r understan 
farmers cannot be said to exist in 
nor 
ine py carita, they 
little holdi 
PS, ge 
oe ae ee by: means sl 5 galvanic pile upon a 
o 
eir at a life, to 
aoe ia; the corpse will stand erect, open ie eyes, 
of | m dli 
(Smith’s) had 
culty when using the E Ty ead 
reserving 
ave | Sudden s jerk or agitation o of the frame 
even been some called ama d int ation er We y 
have heard of a vote of ri l ster! ing for š ce ints to remedy which, in sowing the crop of 
age; there is a bak of crédi it foncier very large sums | 1857, I allowed an interval of 15 inches bewoon en each 
of ~— a eek te the consolidated funds on age ‘which had the desired effect, giving the hoes space 
ee urces in liberal pri zes and en courage- work without caning, in in naei with the rows of 
sw ig The yield was 40 ie which is in thi 
inucne ii peiaek agriculture, and gi salt considered a good cro was eq 
nay p impetus to its progress. 
ae superior to many \ who sowed double the quantit Si 
seed 
AWEN e all cyt of—and some of my audience, 
perha pie seen—a 
+h 
e is pme in communication with the sews mal 
movement, ai ut Atin are ri 
system but the at sa 
of seed it well e the attention of farmers, but 
when the horse-hoe s hand-hoe, it 
is more a matter of i 
expeditious 
and so 
seldom met with. Iti is, we are 
* 
hin the sphere ove its arms and legs; its livic ps will quiver as if incline t, mor 
Sap in a com- | they were going to sess z 
n France, and | has been iar are the corpse lives; but nly | whose interest i is invested i in the cultivation of the soil 
mbition, have hitherto | interrupt the myste: current from the pile, pny the | than to f the tem. T believe 
n their minds | lustre of t the Sa will “vanish, the “arm will fall inert ; that many errors in close connection with this subject 
the jaw 
J 
eir | 
on of the 
n the v “ae ath mposition, In ike manner the 
French Government props up a show aer 
activity, a show a Aer in nies F ee 
inte: the surface. Who a are 
n that neglect Neen farmers pay to 
he study of “vegetable physiology. I hear it = but 
iversally argued that roots of 
y medium size, weight 
for weight, are more penes than larger ones; that it 
is an advan ntage to feed Clover ' off in the autumn with 
shee eep, 
those as ‘exhibit at EAD sh hows ?—they are only a few 
amateur fancy farmers, and the specimens they exhibit 
equal, to sow Wheat in the last week in preference to 
the first week in October—for —. that Wheat 
fe aig ag 
iy. 
are by no means a sample of the 
agriculture of este districts. 
The farmers, with very 
in the first in winter the 
week would 
strength it —— in autumn, the seed ita in the 
last week retains its undeveloped Strength an 
i Vet Pona glimme: P ode ern inkara de 
vas ac er | 
theory the when 
"The schools have aim productive of very | tage of the last over the first week in ober for 
little e good, + farms er pater ager lamentable | sowing Wheat. That these a icies, which can only 
ee instances of | exist with a want of inform: is self apparent, 
fa is Ma 
as not pay, and | 
still the indications are well 
wet y of consideration 
