788 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, j 
long carried on in the United East-Lothian Agricul- | for the additional employment found them « on the land ma; man, FLS, FGS. i 
coral pened a a gri and the general improvement of the Y has Hors ia the Boral Ag Agri » &e., Professor of . 
Since 1835 the agricultural mind has participated | secured thane more constant employment an higher cultural = 
in the general advance of knowledge, and there is| wages. An Davis, 3, Frederick’s Place, Old Jeng ay litti ft aes 
not much chance of a second atte’ empt 2 improving | London, Oct. 20. chapter z their natat Ai 
the Wheat plant meeting with opposition in a public Tae ee structure and arran enait Jaee 
body. The — might not be igh and obvious on Reviews x agricultura ral value ii iE pi S z 
priy : i a 
expected ‘to sch would produce resalte on every Rhymes from the Loom. By Jeptha | More land a Fenk ihe mite meng 
or arse A ania a eee mec sadly ed cla ae me s ew giard. yielding any other Hiat or indeng ram than a 
tershire. Pp. 32, price 6d. Judd & Glass, New together—and yet while we have tok nf R 
des ost Corre saen ence. 2s _Bond Street, London. o Be | one a 1T Eo. other sorts pe 
o; igricu ou riter of these verses is and other 
aware “a the o P Minister of E Agriculture and a bare aao. seldom is the cultivation of the Geese he, boy 
Commerce has put following ini g question’ | He has a family a sight Children, pa "of who om are To icised ? The last number of the eiel 
to English agticalturists viz. :— still wholly Sopena upon him. When constantly at | Y0urnal lieved that serial of Sraa 
r the blew ie of land an oted hi ags Sa ot Suck he earns 9s. a week as a hand-loo tp ane de but | ; ginning: ths cultural works of 
grain has gen incre or diminished since the abolition of | he has not always vot and is very far from being e management of o 
E Toa ae O a always well enough to take it, and then he writes brar subject a there has not Relat os, wre bes 
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whether the actual produce may not have n increased | 
wer hate now a 
in a simple style honni pra m 
oii H neglected subject, and we ibe a i will have an exis. 
or fallen? Hasti ‘kin EEE SE a 4 napana ongir lend (Lk tea neig eeoa KOS aE pean ora alpnny € pa i "The following “ee ceases ustrati a 
Pastime been the influeno imme on the ai ee ee “a paint abe a kind d eighoa Buckman’s treatment of his subject: eny i : 
And as your readers may like to see the answers to having lent him the sum nay for their publication. ae ne: iy ee . : 
sgn of an an asthe wat and land ag agent, _ expressing y Spn deichead t T T yr tay efi Tounl die af coop AANA intel 
100M not s truly as E wh eres for few of 
refer to ‘the objects or the incidents of country | end of their growth, viz 
em x for the reproduction 
for i insertion i in the Gazette But I red pion them iif, and yet it is the ~~ title that pe adag can sree Ah their s spec ies 3 and it many of them their donta d 
yed for an indefinite 
by g ustıfy this reference to them ; i an indefinite period 
the first inst gh sim toa ost In down d|plain that we are haga ing for them the notice : thus o 
farmers, still there w ee fee am elie relief wroteon rather of the benevolent than of the critical. There Reseda odorata (Mignonett) t 
at that om period i in tbh =e “ser whack would | are amongst them lines and verses which would | its flower-buds, grow for ears, and assume 
—- a cheaper supply of = and who calculated | pass muster among the productions of a finer inspi- | form of a woody grit eii Boeven, on 
new resources being opened them under the | ration and a better education than Jeptha Young yere uae r being allo wed to Sg 
eon ba on for lpskiaysecrrenrionie which would be forced upon | can boast, but it is rather to the errs sity than n October, 1849, I plant ed a patch of Whats 
them ; and now that 10 years have passed, and farmin the quality of his authorship we uld he! ere allude. | one of my erpin plots of 5 yards square; ths] 
ich tl 8 | He is indeed himself modest y and t down during the the summer of; 
spa trade could not have anticipated, the value of | car careful in his very first page to pei ee ra — eon ti d the » er Bip fer became a tls 
tof s:—| dè 
eT Bat in sy err y what has been its rs there are I have no doubt, had died in Ne mean time. Oats and ? 
effect we must not overlook the assistance that legis- oe ily my friends pons = them out, sim pi quite died out. 
lation has in the meantime given to farmers. In this ee wake Doae isidora i ey Mia yo: e enson has a io that not 
we have had the reform of the Poor Laws Think what the to il a ing in due season a ten oon th to 
ht into working which in the first instance pro- Belden an ‘the Jew, bade sie: 2 life of plants; it is u 
a consi le saving, and has since given a lik. ‘of : 
better non, oe to e labourer, and relieved a aie poe eBags si Spr n adai 
ts: i y pauper. who receiving is The show plainly enough the occupation oi 
‘parish relief was indifferent to work, and an thei hm they also show him to be a man of con- 
to all others. Also there has been | siderable general ipteltignoa. But they are for the 
X $ > e ing the most part a ot gjon rhymes, often indeed on 
po Seren 80 owner, has done | with the | points in oontra theology; and even when on 
objection to aeae ich was a. the tithe | natural occu a Ea woe that, favourable, 
owner’s right to a share in the ofthe | occupies the mind. the Potato disease, like the fimp 
land ; and at the same time the enclosures of open miracle in Egypt, is discoursed of as “the finger of 
eae has opened distant markets and brought mi ag ee t0 | om 
g. of the P 
improved practice piae to the Le of the e arer wend point, out fon proximate: cangen OE: tay bo Koata 
the Public Mo oney Drainage Act, and the several Ai “Scorch’d by the lightning’s vivid ray, 
of Parliament for the p Senn ys money by po Stripp’d by the with ildew bare; 
vate companies for the drainage, inclosing, building, Pari by the sultry boams of day, 
roađ-making, and other permanent improvements Or blighted td the Tros g” By some iti is thought 
of estates have given seven or eight millions to be ex- | e give e specimen of ‘his wers, taken re ones in estimation, merely from from 
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pended on settled and mort; estates, which ei a dbectiptites. in anes of the scene from Rod t they 
without this assistance must have remained un horongh Hill. He is describing the woollen manufac- resort i eae the fa ty ot ting 
improved. But in reply to these questions: ighbourhood use 0 my geri ae 
1. There is no question that the breadth of land in “The wool is brought from foreign parts, ever the case, e careful change o 
cultivation increased since the abolition of —— ireen mht nme ed course of time. The Talan ge Ai 
protecting duties. In this period a great extent of iene i nes Peat Ge i'd, and pull and though it is perhaps not so 
common and d has enclosed, and, as agri- Oird, scribbled, carded, pcb; poh yer =a pti somo: districts, yer R 
ean has gegen the larger returns from tillage, ‘And then ’tis warped and sized. re tation for an repeated se 
of roots and artificial ures alter- i up in e rotation for ofttimes 
nately with corn, has led to the breaking np and con- and softer threads of larger tae ine one Rz eine ey < 
version in of most of the A Fill up th 
the same time the avı erage produce of arable has Then burl’ Giana Merh y d and weighed, and racked, a peer fe ‘tears and it in vsti 
been largely increased through the improvements in oes a rahe an and pressed, and packed, of the followin 
p and ise = 1957 larger, ropt of, Wheat The last kagaz his pamphlet, a = a of th 
were grown were k ; 6 quarter 4 x a2 At 
acre were not a eg sn much as 8 he technical terms in describing the =a Phleu 
even -9 were said to have been grown in works, may be taken for his own onli ita ph :— “4, D 
parts of Kent, a return which is still though 3 ng Sor akan pane Ee 
Wi t 'H ’ and f Slaie’ : 
. m available for y ‘ Weights’ are dow: wv 
the growth of roots and winter Death took my al rise Shue My plots 
Paes But that t coul A 
which former ky ka make in arable, la: Or life ser my “eho on the ce A ml peg =e 
i, 5 s r’s’ , 
fallow one year in four. ‘Ai same time the soil ios When like met he m heb as servations upo 
made more friable he cost ivation has a ths : of interest in 
been considera ly diminished. . The f th 4 unded across the gulph of Time, all ¢ them 
: of the re And fled to an Imm me. is year, 1 4 had 
peal of the Corn Laws has been to enforce oust These are the composition of Pons who learned to | scythe in July, at which we a 
stn Jan pornos ana tenants. Landlords ve been read by self. -denying efforts raph edits his ‘ae tae present it is rapidly dying out as 
shoo! 
and have been improving their land an were barely sufficient for his 
a feet wee CCE DOAS, a and buildings and indeed been his life-long histor nga e has ag ever| “ 
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on mee higher cultivation, a better agen: has often plunged him far below that level. The sale 
t roduction of improved and | of his little book will help him through the winter, | 
aC 7 ae en oe no doubt br aetna in this way pire and we hope this notice of himself aay igi it. 
‘same time that cultivation has been carried on at less ex o a ilng oet s pedir: aan SA i Sand 
mse. ee may have | gi. Jeptha Young, ar maai 
4 Stonehouse, “Glo ucestershire. An ra m than 3 and 4, w. 
enable be Jet to post his pig to the of 
his ent free of cost to himself. 
The Ne RR Meadow and Pasture 
Grasses, with an account of their econ, Poe 
Agricultural Indications, pp.73. By James Buck- 
