THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Sre renner 4, 4 
tageous preliminary | before the roots are ‘given as fi matter Ie rapes | gold. In Class Ti eraa 
J. C. M., in Mortows aan of rgo A gr k ma e aa = x medals, and one silver medal. In "Chaat tite keny 
d to the my implement is the eae 4452, in money, a and 18 bronze medals 
th saw teeth are now contrasting the we: ai points ne mine with the partes 2 wine, 48/. in money, with five b; Tu Cay 
s of his own, his oprah that he has porai the V., Poultry, there are 20 fi Rts hte 
medals als, and second prize fred Prizes, 
with al medals for 2 ant 
food. are pa of good feeling and 
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ie opinio I am not go in o enter 
food, Bentall and Wood being 
to all the details, a object © of whi pet a $0. palpably D 
facturers of the oe in uivert attention m from the real, fs re ee Aen man ities, A eose a sive, aaa i 
pe oat Mr. William: wit o > agamst Ms als—an | inviti 
Ten farm e bought new sets of my | ng premio = erly, and end 
Seplaments since ror Chester Meeting. Mr. « had gi eed, mle 
» for ng on famh to have had a i ne have| In the Implemental Department We find that 
: $ : whe r hich the h 
ka rming the justice >% my com- ab the “ best steam engine and ma the hig 9 Crs 
that the trials at Chester were n! not corn for market? tink a 
pent i | highest 204. for the “best reaping machi and t ma 
ms’ o dra Sri both seee of the Ber tak 
pea point at issue, I will not add another word, but nts not included in the sections for wi 
ow for Mr. Fowler. William Smith, Woolston, | may lie exhibited as aie and will 
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Farming Life New Engla 
an article i bly « Atlantic Grontiy 
F: Life in nN England, w. 
of a very W t 
article, notwithstanding that the polis which a HERON 
appears tous to bed in too deep colours. e fol- 
lowin, i 
fine answer to the question—Is Ag Iture nece: ho 
a routine profession ?] “Were we to say that had facet 
constituted the hum d that routine will tire | = ortetien. 
isgust it, we should say in effect that he never 
ded ang! a to be one of routine. Nature EETING OF Ph Hom HLAND AND AGRICULIU 
we done all she can t up e. While the | SOCIETY AT ABER: Ea .—At this eny, siage | tion 3, Subsoi 
earth swings round ite orbit once a year, and turns on in the history of "the Sanh gather ing of. 1858. 
—while — mer ro flows | labours journ nalists of its notabilities s will be. c a 
twice ce daily. and ¢ the seasons come and go i tation, grays! easy, hav hat has yet | mould- boards ads ted fi sc 
every atom changes its macy > every pra atom than what has actually been done. Some time |5 5l., 17 o B rae we be 
every m ment. Influences are e tossed into these skeleton must elapse before out ey the confusion now. reigning ip rem. wep 
cycles of motion and event which start a myriad of | in nearly all EE we can eliminate some po! 
currents, and break up the whole surface of life of Tae = Sere = pages for the quiet porusa a 
and being into. heal confusion. There are never | Of our This we hope, however, to do 
thful 
two days alike. ehe motherly sky never gives birth to ne 
twin clouds. The weather shakes its bundle of mys- It t seems almost trite to say that “ this meeting will | gx 
eries in onr pk We prophesy rain upon the be admittedly Ha most successful of any ye et held;” | Section 14, H 
morrow, a wake with a bar of arc anligl d so steady has b 
coverlet. e foretell a har , and, before it is i: faa of the 
‘ous Arg we 
0 t of 1857, as e 
did the Show of 1856. Such, aet is likely to be 
t the case for many years et to come; it would 
hazard hic 
u u ny one to fix a peri da 
shoot their arrows toward the zenith, and flout the > Society each i sowing oi, Rei mi] Tani a 
` F c dent with that of agricu! ale 8 and Section 25, 5, Dibbling ipe oscars 
ich i 
reason ‘the most } ‘Or: 
This is God? for 5 Š ess in which the Society t nra mightily aid. 
inging In Smaa M with this satisfa UNEO the 
ces, | Society’s Shows, it may be interesting to 
"| whilst in 1847, in which year the PROW Sii ere in 
$ ies, | Aberdeen, t s onl Be this year 2 
oi ut these circumstances need | hast amount to 802, number t Glasgow last year | Section 3 
ison the i e bein 8 ag: This has referenco to tte Implemental De- i 
polished pavement of his ¢ell. He has his life among | PaT ntry. The total number of entries of all 
e most b =y $ a i as ses, including Ra nr and stock, was in the year è 
teresting facts of science. emistr otany, | above no ted 950; this year the mgto stands at } fo 
a ai ntomology, and a stry, geology, » related o e 2476; hat t of f Glasgow last year peing 2036. Amongst Fa oe 
optar tslenoos what ia i int gor nt ing but a cts OW äs Tian ieve there are twenty- 
experiments, inv — st and = all of | &ig pah s, Fowler's s m plough, 10 reapin iie i 
Sa, What is a farm ratory where the | ™ machines. s for horse, and 17 for Abe strut for hand 
— and interesting scientific problems are | gen a 
pow Do. 
St tock department the prizes are as follows :— sone * = Marae pi 
irea? experimental, that momen aalo: e ceases, Short. pra 837. to be, distributed i in six first ta, or Sean 49, Ti 
and that field — a, ae The m pulsive 42]. in second class prizes; six bronze medals for the | 3!., 2 | exhibitors, Section 
things under attractive, = or in- | thi izes; Wi er a Kreg 
vested E aie eres. All, therefore, that a of the best bull; the classes in this section being as 
farmer has to do, to break up traditional routine of | follows: 1, best bull calved before 1st January, 1856 ; 
bour, i nuary, 1856; 3, 
not enga ind has ty 0: 
and the ass are kings in the world, and we are but classes and priz pre ecedin Ayrshi 
younger brothers in the royal ee So we say to five frst, ont mà third class sine ` 58l. for the pow 
far ling att first 291. for second, a bronze medals for | pre 
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to ass priz i 
_ Steam Cultivation.—So illi es for TÅR os tated for the breeder of the best bull. 
m high skirmishing 0 order , to strive to riia attention | Extra tyak cr are nine medium gold medals for 
S the real point at issue T to the steam cultivator, | best, ni e silver for second’ best, and nine bronze | ness, pre 
and as Mr. Fowler has gained a temporary success by | ™ medals IOE third best. These comprise the de = with fi 
an unfair entry, Mr. Williams must try his hand at a ments or sections of Class I. of the open a program: 
isquotation, a ea becom a pilai ing. Mr. For Class II., Horses, there is 1347. o be given in iino ex 
y e “ He has assumed to | first class, and econd s prizes; bronze 
mself a position w Shi ch ae is not entitled to, viz., that medals being given for the third class; a silver medal 
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has been at all ful in tiling a eee 
as been at all successful in tilling the soil by aes In Class III., Sheep (Leicester and — there is 
power.” If I had said so I should not have been far from 367. in four first, 187. in second, and bronze medals for 
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the truth, as I fully proved last year. Bat it so‘ hap: thi l h n ois 
r p- | third $ ass prizes, thè a in this class being— Drainage, 
peie that I pu urposely avoided saying so. Here are my 1. best tup,1 not morethan four shear; 2, best Dinmont, Sree r 
ke) a h oad gus pe t pon. kof five ewes, not more than or cu 
who has continuously used steam power in ‘tilling Sarabat: t pen five shearling ewes o 
ag who can show a whole farm aaa ted by | gimmers. In ' Black-faced Tt is 302. for four first 
= A snail this is an indisputal truth. I class, 18%: for second, dals = third class 
° ok —— n’t answer the Setition himself. | prizes. In Sonthdowns there is 36/. in four first, 
there Sed other mi ade ie he will supply | in second, and bronze medals i dio tied ane prizes; 
the 
this 
name and address sew = the being = in the Leicester. 
y+ samme . tha clearly | In the paesa any her er than Leicester, t 
erence between ‘al en ‘and iain aes prize of 10. for the tary more than four- 
talking — ye s. While Mr. Williams was | shear, a second of 57. for t — seco od ‘bes „and a bronze Bare 
ali- the: differen ¢ Farmers’ Club, I did it. Thisis | medal z = noes best; one 8l. prize for the best pen Robert VE ; 
jarwi p between us on this point, r of five ore ‘han four- shear; 4/. for the “wk Pas | 
nious way to vend stich. in his own original and inges | seeond “stig for the third bes me Aten Re ne ng Machi | 
éd -hòn the bugbear which he himself We find thus i in i: Class a "Cattle, 4 418/. in money ene y wri 
a | EE N E EA A dals. 13 ‘silver medals, el poe Farm 
