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= That I said would not do, and s 1 f flesh at | *; and 4 By having th 1 
and so the man turned rather — чете беа - — пау, t түт ublic at large, withou A ту that t рт ela: nd, the propagation of we eeds, 
that I уаз sadly | deficient i а чие 6 this I said to try As — remedial measures daria say Же ‹ Ámong во visible places where the Potato сгор had 
him and - dp нб to put in а | these the rinary surgeon stands first." bi. ed aie po is totally — I think I àm, and 
plo ob of Y Windsor aa d — way we went to the I thought t the same, but Агаш HAVN x вееп * doctors! | the of the land on which I grew the Potatoes 
plot, апй my man made the h ы, and then dropp о fu lly displayed by eminent “veterinary irem [1 And here let me thank your correspondent 
single Bean into each hole, when I stoppe ed him aga surgeons of late, I fear that some of those early pre- |“ в” for the matter and п manner of his letter, which 
saying, “ Drop in 6, 8, or 10, or more into ка мда то аз | judices indulged in by me and other Irishmen have ad | armers of Ireland if our 
you do o Wheat," when the poor man thought worse | воте just grounds for their origin, nor has this lect local their wont on such occasions, have 
of my intellect than he did before, and so all ^ «apo of Professor Gamgee done much to гето ou | the matter transferred to their columns. 
do was б call him offto some other employm rther say—* The only society which is likely to help| Flat Island ,—In reference to the Flat Island 
т g of course would have been vain with ph v: а | the unfortunate men who are suff by the liability | guano me d in your Notices to Correspondents, 
9-busl y of their live stock to disease is a ual insurance | allow me to state t ave seen Melbourne. Its 
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e then I have invented and made a drill, by | company for bearing one another's burden. In as far|appearance is something more like lumps of chalk in 
whia Гр pet seed exactly as I like, thick үлү: сты | aS Жый ал is concerned I tbink [оо are up right,| dry mud than anything else, and it is obtained for the 
and last year I һай a little Wheat, Barley, and Oats ery much fear the кырр y of such n organi- Melbourne market from a small island called MA 
put in by it in single ет end tho Wheskaril gener, ано in Ireland Ihave mea reasons for indulgi ag in Island, o or ‚ Flat Island, lying somewhere near the e 
though 1 have had better, averaged from 1500 this fear, which it would not become 
fold, and were as thiek in the ground as rad vers in you r pages ; however vadis is one which I cannot | in vast perire It has no smell whatever of аш опа, 
a» ; but the Oats were wonderful, the admiration of avoid giving. * 80 ome time ago a friend of mine became | As the тегин guano sells at Melbourne freely at 
si Sho saw them. the agent in Ireland for a cattle insurance company, 157. 10s. poi Жы Statement se eg nghe ud ds and i = 
d t advice bett he Peruvian can e reconciled wi 
tri pue "Y wd r fi : тер бау m Hs inspectors. This I gave him, and to Pol tlie project, truth ifs we suppose that аб 5I. Бир ег tom, i T å ss od 
at his request, agreed to be the ins for a large 
orld why d ШТ ем y ig =ч за rede district tin my ova neighbourhood, bnt a a little das. y Steam Ploughing аё Carshalton.—In your Gazette of 
10, PE E Whest ti dee епсе іп that unenviable capacity soon convinced me of|last week I find a mistake has occu urred with regard to 
r4 dew in but it a hole, any one wil show dnd E M the impossibility (on my part at least) of preventing. Ms pete очор ue the ban done by the 
\ ‚ы * : th si 
t i овен philosophical jcal friends ; and i ЕЕ resigned | the job and let it rd into ah er Made, and Бер see me з singular even in in T T of nd Оле 
fell t nticipate item $. stands 
favour me, also, with his p raph, I will place it the tds я il d Th onl bill h 
арад есапѕе there was y against wages, oi and repairs. ec nas 
ЭШ ЁТ he irl "y N X: d em м6, bal e тали check doni fraud. E doni T Bat 1 а l 
e A n eo dae "i e may be, and I am sure can be, quite the reverse or 2s. а "p шш making t ү. gis up x ‚Ба, 
with a well sese] DE in preventing the sale of Hem o ‚ per acre. James oodcote, 
that they had not opened their eyes to the t some- 2. [TH Ii a еа E 
дн ж Mon m . Wilkins, Parsonage, Wix, Man- disease ч mM И. be once ба. himen. hod, эй Fé B Pnp core арф ^ m aie 1 
ningtree, Jan Б i р d a 
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benefit, if I Aluüghty Creator "intended some kinds of animals to 
ots classes in узете and, as alread y said, I am | prey upon others, and those others to be preyed upon, 
f Mr. Ganly takes рр. the matter and receives |so that the earth done as and a just 
em; bu 
ihe tegere Xu s 
The Ketton got —Ã An е Б breeder in-|it to, he will set an Pase for all Ireland аб least, | amusement, and in his folly and ignorance, destroys the 
sinuakodin a letter to Sir John Sinclair, in "int е * Farmers? | and ie worth the consideration of England also. | balance, and їп England it is altogether destroyed. 
Magazine," 1814, pom Mr. Colling had crossed some of T Carroll, Kilgreany Lodge, Clonegal. | Hen ce we are over-run w with rats, and mi ісе, а and sparrows, 
his Stock with kyloes, рез that if he had not done so, merican Stone Breaker.—Cau any of your ty i 
т — wonld have sold for some thousand pounds readers give information of стт in workin [a 1 
Mr. Oolling undoubtedly puréhased annua к a model of which was in the | d dem mice s dio э though the latter are of some we 
many Iv бено kyloes, and t t he could proc Exhibition, L^ apparently did its work so well. R. d I would d troy sparrows also. The d No. 
which he used as nurses br his ym calves, but "the Neville Grenville. Аз would 'I pem in Sparrow Clubs? the 
of such ] otato Disease and the means of Averting it.—l em 4 
Y eans int ded for breeding. Тһе first bulls of | have seen pata much pleasure your Leader мн * B," | destroy sparrows, or sanction their being ym and 
Рр thank any опе w i es 
there is for 
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I have beard that Mr. Colling bought one of as first- | of averting 4 if no new feature f hundreds that I am most unwillingly supporting in my 
named bulls — which was de epas tured in the lanes character presents, itself, In ранно 4и си of the views garden, pig- styes, yard Te rem this I should do because 
contiguous to Great Burdon and Haughton-le- Skerme)|of “B,” I wil give you a short note on some of my | the kestrels and hawks мени des cog e and 
of a neighbouring farmer. Ben ‚ the last -named 1 bu П, atest experiments. In October last year I selected hence изен аге поз, prb they are not e 
some Potatoes considerably diseased, and planted them | doing infinitely more injury than n good. But 1o 
Stainton, and had а good assortment of cattle, and was | in the garden аб Cranmore House, but without any |serious, an you be serious if you can; МААН І 
called Benjamin Ord, an uncle of my — Lad father | manure beyond what was unexhausted in the ground ps tell you what all this fuss about “sparrow murder ” 
accompanied 1 ad Co d when he purc To | after the previous Cabbage and Carrot сора and my |із about; and what it is? Because the ows eat 
his, anonymously == e Dartin т to whom I sold the farm, had the earlies t, Dr. Bree But do they eat cater- 
Терт рч we add the following from a correspondent : еме. ks best crop of the ie! а the loca ai ity. On p Шав? No, they do not, and а е буто of a 
Old Mr. Westall, who is now living in ека tells | coming here the latter end of March І had everything | naturalist knows, and this E ve proved 
Hu ; Mr. Robert Colling, | to do—no б Карл having ena made t Magi rar of times. А sparrow Уй у аш андис 
and Mr. Westall's father attended Houghton-le.Skerme | Rememberin ng the old practices of my g бмк in | rather than touch a са запі this I stake my 
Church, and that оп the Sunday previous to Good producing early Potatoes, with some р» | tation in proving to the satisfaction of every man 
Friday Mr. W.s father and Robert ling, having | adopted the same, on what is libellously te иту е | who сап understand what a proof is; and hence 
previously agreed to buy Hubback for their joint use, >| “lazy bed ? sys stem. B ut, u unlike « B," I did pok рөн | ho house of snow which the Doctor has erected is completely 
asked the breeder, on their return from church, what d at aid ou melted a way. But, sparrows аге notorious thieves, as 
5. would take for him, and was told 107. „They offered RE wide, leavin; i t, and though 
aW w о 
beds, 2} fee ng an ma о 
1 foot between: eus m, to afford ed a few are very же, yet the numbers are now unbea 
БА tons of well- rotted pute Eas ле ҮЗ еа | able and they must be d dimin p» —murder indes ! 
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and s spread on | hang the rogues. . G. Wilkins, Wiæ Parsonage, 
and whilst was being done, Robert Goling ha the t 1863. 
gone у p — house and waited for h and at 1 foot in every other way asund hey : 
as Mr. Ws fa er Бањ w vit vli covered m with the spade and shovel, PT ona| Sortíittíts. 
| larger scale with the earth ploughed in the furrows | : ; 
-— — as had been — ibn Sn вет [3 ir {о and vers over the tubers. When they were well ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF ENGLAND. 
те suppose it over d I had at the rate of 2€ 9с. Тете | MoxrHLY Couxcu: nesday, February 4.— 
Robert went to ny AME E Ri аер Во ate, and the same d ue (15s)| Present: Viscount Eversley, President, in the chair; 
Robert, and die es him, and Bs Sind ponere E UH мез oi fbar i portable Eart Catheart, Earl Powis, Lord Berners, Lord Fever- 
i: cows to мерени him to Charles | manures, over the beds b s | ain, Lord Trede egar, - NR Hon. y. 
Colling for 20%, and and they bad бы М W. mya ей; which ed а Cavendish, M.P., Hon. А. 
bull, and not dri charged, but Fraa өр up wha stavar silen ол ich the crop was а onald, Mr. Raymond prod "Mr. Вано, Colonel 
cow his father sent Charles demanded 67, The above dig, which was by the middle of July, just ^ Challoner, Mr. Dent, M.P., Mr ce, Mr. Exall, Mr. 
are the periere Mr. LIS related $ is T about | three idem after being planted. Тһе disease made | Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Majo 
two years ago, and as as his v I believe|its appearance on the sta lks—the crop then nearly | Hood, Mr. Holland, M.P., Mr. Jonas, Mr. Lawes, Mr. 
it is true. W. ais matured—in the last week in August, when I had ihe Lawr r. Milward, Mr. Pain, Mr. д 
Diseased Stock in Ireland. — Being one of those who, Mu with the qm of one short bed which I left | Sanday, М, % rri , Mr. Thompson, M.P. Mr. 
at the ec of REM patrick, had supplied | for experiment, dug and pitted in very narrow and | Torr, Mr. Burch Western , 
of the materials which | very edel ы Г. up with dry earth and а | Mr. Frere, Lee Simonds, Professor Voelcker. 
formed the Mrd ie of his late lecture before a | sod the green ide up on the top of| тр ғ 
meeting of Royal Dublin and its visitors, T E Ж E^ ques the wet entering there, and 
with i pee then till 1 could scarcely discover a 
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Frida ау Mr. Ws father went to this church, and Wes. 
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Meal uber ї of the four f Asbmore, John, Leg eros 
tion, and tne apparent conclusions he had arrived at, ur oed Dalmahoys, Pinkeyes, and Scotehdons. Тһе | Baker, Jobn, Hockley, leigh, Eeset a Street, 4 
Still I would be far from censuring his lecture without | produce varying from 61 to 9 tons to the UL MA hard, Woli T орма Str 
ing to th з Е Clare Park, 
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inthe background relative to the cure as well asthe he pre- periment I have tried at the beginning of each month | Bornford, Benja 
vention of tior diseases pet Imust hat in | since the general crops were dug out. Тһе disease in 
аз far as his. lecture might ini ce ше, I have little the tubers had made some oer by the lst of| Brown, Вер; 
. hopes of much н» wo re by that | Oct iier and нц ever since till now, when fe Brown, Richard, Ci 
_ lecture beyond what may be derived from Mr. Ganley's | is scarcely a sound tuber in viai ded тени ining. Озрену T 
late ене , Rape, Italian Rye-grass, Early 
а seeding, by dibbling, ribbing, or otherwise, 
