In the teeth of all those ei Date ch in many eases hal beon ne evil was naps pe RS | to the fact 
but too m: ase he (Mr. Bennett) was of opinion th: A 4 4 n asking labour- 
af he labourers, "here kil: ally ——— E Hh petting e heard their reply. 
a t | He had heard of 18 
t enc: toes 
of a ce í x à k t, ow wing ig lin anit 
That the establishment o i ormous evil. Another y 4 A overa sandy souk but it h = ly to its 
not have the en! er free m ICNS feared th ri itra. 
admit: Thei ipro of w 
phy: 
md nothing benefici 
s rest; that. reek was essential i 
carri n su 
ire rural lation ; for 
that ifa tika DOIN but tho mallat, portion of pro 
that he had something he could call his own, hey gave him a or that thol 
= pia tha attached him more or less to the common | ces: pe: ully. he 
eal of his r. S. Sidney (Peckham) wens oe siouna ishon with: = 
e ard ¢ to 
Mr. Alde n Me chi went very much with Mr. had  eaddubesdly made very great progre | ample = to the e res 
aat in ie Gono ; but ase) ere were some | first agitated by the “oa Southey, _ he — gla that f 
poin which he differed from him evening to find gentlemen representing different 4 a pete was pe ey 
He sis ght that every farm ould, it possible, have alof the country concurring in a few leading om tothe ae that al alee i 
beg he penk k of SA for the labels employed upon ciples :— pr 
also of opinion that the cottages should invariably the manufacturers than pis 
have attached to them such a portion ot labourer | In the first place, all the gentlemen who had spoken =o depend at all times on the ch g 
could conveniently cultivate, He s gin Me. Trethewy | agreed that it visa good thing for the labourer to have a piece | “hy 
leased 
was a where he might convert the spare capital and labour of him- | Spooner that he had altered his 
that an ieee an acre, or ; uite | of land where he might amuse himself in the evening, an r. G, Summers was pl 
ough. The self and his family ; and secondly, that it was important that mineral phosphate beca °, 
C 
fidence in the man f 
i other point on which he was glad to find general agree- sa 2 baki y, 
a oie: gis era exten Pod e ae at ment was this—that the working of the allotment system turer. Did the xist i hag 
possible, and took care that there was very little land attached | Should not be chained down by a number of regulations. In Ke ee Phosphate 
to them. It w: l you cóuld only e a certa the original plans of allotment, the labourer was treated 
would 
orne -in and told where he might go, and what he might do; so the the. neo be sad <i smite tt 
Sare Siria agrioulkatal goer maw heland enc ch a manner thought with Dr. Pea sh 
labourers, He did not agree with Mr. Bennett as to clay land | from any other labourer, and n bali i to think for himself. | when applied. to 
us to those who chose to Ehrat jt, | He agreed with Mr. Trethewy “tha improvement which 
t faith in an honest clay ; nor did eet taken place in the Seay of the la ouring poor was 
reover, ‘it| US 
e: a tion 
waa very dirin had bon castiod stit the soil op wa often find the price of the labourer’s tea and sugar and other leading | which he had jus cial and which 
found to be more useful and enduring than soils of a differ od Boke of cae by the: eatin og his the cost of to find Mr. Smee did not intend to oppose, 
bev io] A een improved partly by e reauction made m e COS’ had from Dorset Chronicle. 
r. J. A Williams (Baydon, Hungerford), said = arisen for his labour on public works, and partly rally 
subject on the card had, in his opinion, a very close | emigration. 
: ee 
He agreed with ate: Trethewy that a roodof land was the BLANDFORD : October 23. — On the influence eof Nitr 
sould sts quantity, th that either er landowners or occupiers | gen a E J Vegetation on. 
should ever ol wing to cultivate. Masters, | After a lecture on the subject b Mr. W. C. Spoone: o Lecture delivered by. 
xpected an h "3 pay; J £ i 44 
pcs niatan Maa var me wi Deere a | of Southampton, he drew attention to maphlet he Now Vetere E 
pa 
for the master, it must be classed under the abuses of the | that had been lately published, and which is entitled 
believed, Ste few fi Ti F i per 
ty be 
add greatly to the comforts of the poor phosphate of lime in an insoluble form was valueless. | the abi ility of the teachi 
a aS are heat of his Veterinary College, a and hi 
m. He ved, however, that a rood was not more than | « A. ts for Farm S 
a labourer could and convenient! à 4 å ane eae aa 
quantity would occupy his time sefih He keane th Timed phate,” in which he thought there was k on 
ms jad object ed the i of Wh t on the mes He = followin; ph: “We on 
nd, that it mig injurious : a Apai en 
however, be remembered that thi were instances 
which the labourer could not employ a rood of te md prodtably ne tgely 7 ze ‘Blandford market, u T Ey 
unless ha was pinin te i produ a portion e it with cereal When r-o. rag of a osphate in a “insoluble f at 
crops. To say that he sho pre neg nothing but Potatoes on speaking e greensand oi that | veterina ractition 
a rood of land was to say, in e ae he poem f llow thi r T i 
ea a whith prevailed im” in ea until o. ears ago, | © sental abundance of coprolites and that yields good | re ferred to b 
It was of course possible tha bai mi 4 “by tl the pro- of T t indicat 
duction of such an article as Whos be tempted to turn rogue, aiivailinte of lime is of little or no valu o—he pointed decis jo j 
and to increase his stock by robbing his employer ; but he did | out to the farmers that it proved the incorrectness of that there n 
not think they ought to stand in the way of the agricultural chemists—the: av) rted that th $ 1 Stent r 
‘labourer by we foe that he must of i y f ing asserted “that the mineral Institution to perform we 
i } 
pass 
wi hi 
a man of in ae p economy oe ce a argument, forgot that the plants at Farnham had 
his rent, while he might keep the other for the conemaeplbas of Loe 3000 times as great a bulk and ae a the soil as is | depen d upon | then aciut a 
his family. Many years ago he himself allotted 7 acres of a pp the paa wa t 
Spn bioti fre occupied sees l boisa : that land lal he action of the ge acid th pat oti oe 
Ou pas oi wore aa ain water is charged o ta would, maea | pana wih == — 
oil, and ur ed; and in the second place some of it, instead | & rotation, prepare more than would be required for a | we hav 
Pie E: ~ = card Se Si ip etapa rani sto crop of pee but what would be the effect on a few | live pi rd thie aati 
half “a rile four th pounds, as supplied in our manures during ve or six esta blished one. 
cants for it, and that appeared to sehr ear short ce ? Mineral phosphate is not pe it 
he distance was not material. He had only on more arsit: ieg ton unless dissolved by acid, but we pay 7/. per ton For eod $ temper, enthusiasm, abi y 
ar nn e a a os os some Be rag it in the snitnnfapizived: superphosphate.” Mr.S _ sn te cess. The fo rs 
one of the abuses of the allopayart ayetan. that tit some remembered aving said much in favour of mineral account of the : 
That-wos poor Sapas ~ a Sabbath $ working on their land. AA ee in an insoluble form, but th ae that 
one of the greatest abuses that he could con- | perha 
ceive, and he thought that wherever it existed the owner of p 1 ec t siin heer an m bee es 
the soil mode ut hi t h a practice, and com I impress on his hearer the 
laborers to abstain ftom cultivation on the Sabbath, | importan ae wing ni he well knew to be a great 
source for phosp oes r. Spooner concluded oe if | 1300 pract 
a Rl Sat Pet, Rete fund in the] anes phosphate was not aed im making commercial ind, i concor 
histo ory of agriculture than the assemblin ng o ofa umber tim EE ine mon mas ine very short Pa oe 
brought from tl 
might impr ssh hy and ght he region where the fat, 
ish ee £ paie keeran z beers one cp ea of the animals were burnt as fuel it would 
into operktion with gunk taser gle ieee Phe Nn tend to tothe same nv He could = — with the Hig m 
‘it was attended with very results on the whole, and with author as to the v. e of ammonia rnip manure, | minist 
very little evil. He had see rried out on land which had periment hich he } ad in stituted _ ended in | civil ve 
not been considered worth pai, orn he had seen that land | an increase of weig here an ammoniacal dressing | informed 
brought into a state of im; tf i ~ f w se wl 
my, STA have att attained under a broader pan iaae e eian ~m been applied in e to iêrpeigbos = ate of lime. | veterinary 
da 
dì people thus raised from a condition of degra. | Mr. Spooner agreed with the author of the pranan army veterin: 
D, misery, to one of sobriety, comfort and | that soluble phosphate alone would carry the plant |35 
morality. improvement was owing, hi ught, ina t| th i 
to the a vo ted wr Poa cag «ag cinplozed easan oild bo te ry me be = we a h al F 
truth, which they had proba learntin their child, ou e result ; but how expensive to use such a 
3 zo Sei hinds same kar e misebief still for idle hands to superphosphate! We m caléulate the expense | But let us take 
generally be found thar the cag A pay before we use a ee e: such a soluble form. It | to avoi 
at we who were nearly always occupied in ip ld be an advantage ——— to i 
ae ranner., Jt was a mistake to suppose that the | the superphosphate more mics pe mo he vers 
Beet es oe wn eth owl ~ Fg = z s ordinary day day’s | to make the first few ne soluble “than it does what epi with 184ve a rface, wbich i 
eee a ligth was te te oasa on a andr see epee | soluble f lim ee Atea ted | when consider to may tart Og 
‘Be Mina E EE ce ig noaa [on by tho natural slont and would become sabe | forming, province, WA pa ai 
a ani meal, v3 Sage ona hi is ompi eer ih ihe by the time it was required by the plant. "Then w Denma: rk, a and S eurface 905 ¥ veterinary © 
Ta about half an hour renov aaa A i strength, and be z go to the expense of dissolving more of the il Aga 313 8 am ils 
were, it ust be ihonga h od boem sooupied all day. There phosphate than is now done ? o 71 square m mer 
be admitted, tw or three serious evils co Mr. H. Richards wished especially to draw attention | valeti rinary surgeon 
