386 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
course of s is prevalent:—1 Wheat, 2 value of house arrangements in which provision is | in ane ble no means of sec) 
Turnips, 3 “Wheat = ve rley, 4 Grass, é Oats, | ade for separate sleeping. apartments. ‘The | | aes o mg e 
6 Beans or Pota But this is greatly | Directors of the ‘ Association for promoting | i af "a kh a 
modified on farms i re Potato culture is the | SEE ore in the Dwellings and Domesti Con- [s ae by as ei, as a dition s fg, Ea 
most important because the most fitabl t of | dit gricultural Labourers in Scotland pie | cou $3 o! pyn p a euler a 
farm management: Potatoes are then taken after | | insosidthen which beyond all doubt has done much | ap = ae Ta l help the asin 
Turnips and followed by Wheat, Beans, Wheat, | good in this Spenn of social proaza sas ede ouseho fae war ee we 
Grass, and Oats; thus converting = —_ into as a sine ar 4 non salh ss a pia: of thre anti af tultitude of 
one of seven years’ duration. r years’ | sleeping living s the least accom- | or rly put away, which 
«course of Norfolk with its mo odificatio rey and the sedated that ought t o ‘be aired se age ta proper 
ily.’ 
) woul 
66 sneha about in the Cottage of 
six years’ course of East Lothian with ats. modi fica- | rcp | les l 
i 
| is the “sculle a marked 
oar ” abies tes “tl is exten- | ihe, washing operations of the 
country. But ti 1l [sion of “ithe bacon in the cottage | the inconveniences of washing d 
In Glouce Aer the Cotswold ae, | of a labourer, no one, we oe at all by even so small a place as 
Wheat is follow = by Oats, med bn by Turnips, | al alive to the importa ge ofa bservance of|a As to I 
these by Barley and seeds. In the Fen ‘ist ra norte: doubt that | ate int 
eed w 
ss ire Gute a are ypu hg Wheat, = that it the hovel, as illustrated in in our first figure, p. 318, acest the 1 ey 
s seeds and Clover to be bro ken ml The abseno e of it brings about a _ 
Wheat wo gergi by Beans, after which another |t that the least accommodation which ought | to be discomfort, whioh hinge other Bans. 
crop o is taken and followed by iven is thatillustrated on th o lea 
g the h AE the 
Colbesed, shoe atta a seven pete aioe a gu one metre: to co miet pa 
We have not mentioned the word “ bare fallow ” Fo serva . 
yet in the course of these rotations, but if you go rs Be an Resuming our practical Suggestive 
upon the clay lands of the country you will find E J (Ses slestahen, ae we show in fig, 5* another 
them still frequently subject to this manage- TS R ‘oon HRE e 
ment. A bare fallow isthe commencement of a y 2 
mong those pr 
of the country he specifies th res of Essex—1 Fallow, 
2 Wheat, 3 Beans, 4 Whea arpa 6 ie 
7 The fa an Sarg 
2 eat, 3 Barley, 4 Seige 5 Oats, ts, 6 ans, 
7 Seah In thi he se succession corn 
accra of the “privy,” 
rative fallow in March and A before p said 
sown, and the Clover seed is always a better plant wii now to give plans of stru- 
after Barley and on arecently stirred so an ; j ose specificially designed, we showin 
after winter Wheat. A hea y application of dun Fra, 5. g. e pu of a aiti single 
is spread over the Oat stubble, which is left to be page, where a small bed-room secures some- | come drawn to the e scale as in fig, 1, 
ale into the groun by the autumnal and thing of privacy. It must however suffice here to is the. live , with window J, Ibis 
Winter rains, and the land is found to turn u very the axiom in ety science that ‘tas the eet through a porch f, the outer door being at d, 
mellow and rich in January and February, when, erae ent a so the people; ” that where the | On the ‘npn = this “ porch entrance,” we venture to 
after being some time exposed to the action of the aa aa is such as to i interpose obstacles to | give some remarks which we have elsewhere 
frost, it is sown with Beans. The Beans are gene- | the o of decency, n © Thi f 
rally, wi thi a a heavy and | looked for, ey any a teh of hope, “of the — importance to the working man’s cottage It is essen- 
leave the land in a good state or Wheat or Oats. |ties and moralities of social life. Where tial that he should economise as much as possible inall 
ag = are indeed nu ne ain ak ods of taking | doubt exists in the ginis ose poaierin his domestic arrangements. This ‘he oem 
im succession, but in place of any detailed | this question of the intimacy existing between |the matter of fuel in winter time, ea 
fisstipiben of them we willadd a mere enumera- | physical degradation and moral de ravity, let | living room is entered at once from the external 
f = p 4 sphere. We have no doubt that if all the houses in 
tion of some o “thse which haye obtained an | them apply the test, not often used but powerful > porches, or, what 
ka some of our emo ring towns or, 
extensive adopti anian in resolvin — ee social difficulties, | is the sa e thing in effect, inner doors, a ida H 
1. 2, 3, 4. d we act un milar circumstances saving e the pen in fuel would be the res 
à - E Akene i aasan discomfort ad personal incon- ' We do not write abouta ‘point of indiff ie 
o Whea Wheat Wheat on which ws have no practical i 
2 Turnips | Turni Bernt Turnips Turnips we haye made it our business to know per- 
8 | Barley Barley and Wheat Barley W mally the inconveniences from 
- FP ocho Barley ae iG k this arrangement f doors opening toa liring 
; Grass ri ES i 
4 | oe š Clover Grass : i ar 
E se ie 7 
8 
- Fallow 
3 Beans ired, i 
4 Wheat ttt ees of r vihat 
5 to —— the ee ee ait 
Eca take place where the door. opens to 
% Bar exter sani ere. Other i 
Y sai se from the want of a porch or wint 
8 When Patios maae is the want 
oe —= Gomedi privhgy ee ee 
12, man, resulti ein e 
1 +-_—___ dulged in xy the working classes of kef 
| doors of their Iring, om 
Pins ane weather. In 
- turing districts it is quite imposible mt 
6 to witness many 
a. eae i M i : ; on in the interior of the cottage 
No. 1. ‘The Norfolk rotation ee venience P?” eae fancy ourselves deprived o pi ea 3 past them.” This privacy would be sat 
» z Dos sometimes | ,, 9. Scottish lands | all the: enjoy, and we we may form some | and all the advantages of the open door by Ma 
» “8. Bo. Do. » 10. Fast uothian (Potato | nom of the he seal pos ites’ we should occupy. Iti is — with side. on 6. sai " 
,» 4. Northumberland course | < rap : oom 
” 5 oe : Foes do, ee “ign Davis (tor ee of privation while surrounded me with doors A and 27 windows h mtt z 
ae 3 Cotswold district ad ete SOT to bia f habits of order and |° in the room & & ; the pager. e t i 
a gE “‘tidiness,” it is folly to talat heir sieaas in ee door r; slop-stone e e privy” at oe È 
ou ‘tat article (p. 318) we endeavoured to | the hovela of the poor, where there is a complete | siote dlnest.¢ inal the cad-of pacha 
show am improvements—a ainable at compar- absenee of all those conveniences by which alone eisa 
aniden all expense Alt tbo otai this tidiness is assisted. 
out so as If one part of the axiom 
to hovels ome o ' ; ; i 
o aii ; 
: GRI 
everything We had h 
be for- |} 
e have often 
i at the 
es of the fam 
