T. GENET S 
DECEMBER 19, 1363.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 1213 
word for the labourers. 16 was quite obvious that the I cannot agree with lette of us, if we survive, will bear the 
1 f t d t Jerem a p: pa pen of | papers complaining that our diy is tired of r ts, and | scars wh юв to "the end of our days. Foreign ' cattle ! ' 
agri lt y we cannot grow the same weight as амы: ; in this | What, Sir, ttl 
edueati пасы пе — the average crops of roots are better | Їп co ing here did we not undergo enough to give us 
sed. It in this view of t ne matter, and | than they we dicis of the lungs, гона of the feet, — ses of 
desiring to promote the interests of agriculture, that Although there were perhap ood individual | the mouth, diseases in every part? If Mr. Gamgee 
са should, as far | specimens of our breeds of сме the T art of this | had been with us, ва like us to the fair, made to 
century as no е number 00 ШОЛАНЫ. is vastly stand like us through the day, nd, treated as we were 
articularly Short- horns. "When I began | at Dublin, in the steamboat, on the mountain side аб 
1 Holyhead, soil in the tendis веке to Market & Har- 
class 
as as his influence went, aid in promoting the education 
of thel pase ше i pe do what d could 
im in character and feeliug. Even as a matter of mere | негедир them. in 1836, the late Lo rds Ducie апі 
тона this was important, because the 
ofa more skilled character than formerly. Thevalue | only persons besides my self э» kept a pure aer bull | Dutchman or EY outlandish foreigner had ever set 
of of the 1 labourer did not now this county; now we have them in almost every | foot in a t Br itain Р And wha! = our masters 
strength of his limbs and sinews as upon the > know- ame P. Th ad sufferings, and 
ledge he could bring to bear in trt: is| Under the circumstances one is sometimes disap- | t ats the losses 
operations. Taking a Sighet view, however, he would ОК: СХ бн ан brought to our markets and he) 
the fair mpro ved. This, ho proceeds | & 
fin ding p nd 
nd they say, 
owever, MEA they would hav paid half as 
e ought to be b 
higher classes to imbue the labourer with just , їп {0 m us ав 
Mo as well as with knowledge beneficial to him i in | never teri g ket at all for our maltreatment has caused из {о beas we аге, 
bises праба n, and to e cate the t ki 1 And yet, after all, they аА т we ef this drove have 
kach. a wa t they edd perfo nust be Асти; ог а во, ав by the impro diee been fortunate, for if w ei e over ав most 
Anties md fulfil jm "position i -— as read er | in feeding, our farmers brin, ов out their sheep at rir r|of us Irish bullocks are, tae леле might have 
beings here and her e he should | old, E" as much as they formerly did a d all the way from Irela epe — 
have the са earty pe e rre M "uh " dies in | years old. his the cn day to Leicester me there made the 
Mr ас best thanks "Ms. Morton for his very К Leicester sheep are little improved, probably not | з arke 
excellent paper ood a s they were 20 years since: bu tin .Cotsw olds| had one nd of food or of water 
lik e the F since they left the shores of their own dear 
m. Su i 
ikewi 
OTSWOLD FARMING. have. been mirri improved by judicious crossing with 
HavixG made no memoranda as to dates b ше breed fk 
last 20 years, my сри е ве ithin 6 & ars, and are becoming more | шаг «d are аве with small farmers round about, 
E ore AE hii tulo place tor | popular erad year, а — ре та 80. Баана | * whose Want of capital make them willing to take in 
county, Draining Was f undoubtedly a first x rt | Bovly, er gto on, Cirenoere eife: ud Ay pp oe сеи ttle cash, there to recover 
advantage of 
driven at once to 2m panic or er for sale there to 
КОРОЧЕ draining ce eviden € the late Mr. g^ 
Smith, of Deanston, patote the "Parliamentary "Com- CATTLE TRAFFIC. a for Yo first € - the 
mittee rr ed to i agrieul.| _ Тносен І am but a poor, lean, and now diseased | 188 to eigo ts s hom where i in a few days 
tural depression, n, in, I belie eve, 1836 or And; before this Irish bullock, I am sure that you, wi ith your usual ERE E ту b foreign cattle Mr. Gamgee would 
iod the 
say 
here and there across a field to cut om the wate er, often | will permit me to tell that great doctor of my cloven- | ,, Pray, sir, let px gee and all men see "om tru 
very shallow, and never of any real use. The expense r ot a race, John Gamgee, а few things which he seems though faint description of what I and my 
of. this fonts was der fing divided Акы еп меня о know, > for І henr t s he is taking а wrong turn, brethren were made to undergo, and tel ee that i in 
{1 $ erei f will do us no good, nor that pea d of bah ЕЛЕ our hatches were 
wul c add much t ves wn M utation. As I have open, but t n bad we r the batches have to be 
lf ding +1 id r, I am an Irish bullock, o of а гоу e of 140, closed. ner D Ema sir, to x g 
f Mr. Smith, dnm Li rd Lord Bathurst, othe г day the con- 
represented to him the advantage I thought would ion АА Fair. At the КА m were e strong |* po, коз de 500 living things, eip heep, 
d himself if some arrangement | and in good health, sound in lung and limbs; e and pigs, but which on reac chi ing its port here yielded 
could be made pa carrying out the thorough drainage | though people called us lean store 
м his estate. Не at once сл ined the subject, and | been well fed, and for growing cattle we were in and I shall remain with the 
>d to be аб the whole expense of draining all Jan рве, ne Alas, what а change is to = ares ао, your servant for етет, Rory 
кин by his tenants on their piyi im 6 per cent. | seen In this short ti me we, who w О’ Moo- - M Pastures, Market Harboroug 
for the outlay. This arrangement was speedily ht д е ГЕ — Black Hole affair t Calentta, 
followed by other landlords, uo ree facilitated by Т (vs have Maa so inflamed that we can bard dy тке т qm me ad ы: ring. the hold of o 
the advances of money for the p y Government, | breathe, others' tongues are зо sore we cannot eat, and steamboat to ? Was 
that now there i ее, чейн, deck so distended by fetid matter that wo cannot | cattle ? Times. 
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land in this part of the county. : ini and TA re truly lean. ee have x soft and 
The advantage of draining to t ее but а ays ago, standing ce ndm vá Home Correspondence. 
much according to the чачу o of the lend. I hav ong way, ы if there had "Mela the еген | Swedes and Rape.—On my arrival here about а 
some laud not improved more than 10 per cent., E sd fixed them t Now, , Si ir, т duel that M month from Scotland, I was struck with a report 
other wiran i ха alue m latter con- | Gamgee has been w f my | of a trial held at thejcounty Cavan quarter ions, as 
sisting o dem land on the fo: ¿tle in all ier p the country are suffering in | reported in the Farmers! Gazette of the 7th ult., and 
wh are aware, is б аз ИЙИ Ой to | the e way, and that he says it is because pu being much astonished at the evidence adduced, and 
hich, 
water as T rogat clay, but viam аа ооа | "оин cattle have been brought here, which come | ће results of that trial, and also sharing in 
- drains iege and the poor sand i: rted in with diseases and give them to us. Pray let me be opinion of Lord Cloncurry and others, that Swede 
and rd on this subject. It stands to reason that | Turnip seed could not produce. Rape-like plants, I 
fter drainage, I consider the introduction of super- | we bullocks know more than even Mr. Gamgee|determined t i i 
phobie. "em ber artificial manures п тешен about the way we catch diseases, I am sure i 
advantage. We before applied · 16а nd 20 bushels bone- | that he will be glad to learn what we can tell. Well, | counties. ie first farms which isited were 
iit d n acre а 21. to E e by n, we were bought in Ballinasloe Fair, carried those of Mr. Anderson, on His Grace the Duke of 
icati of sulphuric iL. rendering the bones | thence in railway trucks, а distance o en 80 miles, | Leinster's property in the county of Kildare, 
soluble, this береп is reduced to 155. ог 208, реу асге, | lto D Dublin. in t Í —- on 
Steam threshing was the exception in this neighbour- ero. food and withou at water, after long A eani id of modern husbandry, and well worthy of being placed 
hood only 10 years since; now it is the Fale: You Whe ached |in the rien ranks of g ing either in Scot. 
never see the „Ва il, and very rarely horse labour | Dublin late at night ' we were ə driven some her „to land or England, and therefore ‚ло care ог un 
loyed, and i i 
oam 
э о J 
system, y ti ud than I can. supplied with food Гапа even with water. The next day | is on {һе verf xh this veh exceedingly x dme 
went since, the йг system for | | we were pnt into the hold. of a steamboat, Mr. Tis told me that a amy =? his c 
Turnips was tyi i means келег лон the little га us to Holyhead. We overheard the men on board say | was grown is didis raised by him! selected 
who has only an acre or two t o plant, borrows hi hat d passage we were having; but our suffer- нна оће, I foun 
m Ш drill. И notwithstanding, were horrible. We ba d an е field various plants having = ау: of shott 
pam -horse carts a ^ more general and so hot, so poisoned by being inhaled | Cabbage or Rape; these plants are not reg TJ 
mense in own in number of furia usce 6 th ie | and o aga in, that ihe men only 
who came down at | distributed т over the fie gi occur 
роону o of structure Үү Ж 2 period of which | Holyhead t bo sling us could remain but a few minutes at | certain patches of it, indicating clearly to my лод 
Iwr elk |a and had to work by relays; yet we, whose lungs | that the porting in the crop is not from the seed, 
tl | ge: as qe require pure air, had t nen |From these farms I drove to Carlow an thence 
Js our Farmers! LN І dare say you are aware it was | 16 for hours. When we were got out we could T | through the ён ies of Wexford and Mee! ; in the 
from it that our College started into existence; this see each other, or even the lampa whi тъй. -— n | latter nty I examined the Turn a large 
Club was formed and attended almost exclusively b; ied for the steam rose from o dui Чүү фе highest state “ст malormation Pa ы "Md thero I 
tena жиндене The late Mr. Е. J. Brown. brought | c s, and the rain, which was pouring B per emt rre rmatiot tbe 
forward Ње subject of the advantages for | у= and bound from our burning skins as it did from | developed na very marked dete. The field, а. 
a SININE PAra E О, ely taken up | the big hot funnel on the boat's deck. Неге our Wt. vu (oii f usual wi ЕЕЕ 
by the farmers, but so much time was occupied by = masters, who would, if only for their own sakes, һауе | one end of the field and about half way down there was 
és Eilu tm ef nt of the College "that none was left for | taken care of us, could do no more ET жс not а ic Turnip to be seen, but at the other end, 
other objects, x Me mountain side, where, hot aud w e | and extendiag for several hundred yards, and embracing 
The late Mr. R. J. В te a report of the rise welay during a night uncovered, to be be опей portions of many drills, the crop was studded over with 
and progress of the College, which I dare say you have E "be P of the cold wind and rain. After a night these sporting pla А 
са if not, and уоп think it will Бе апу use to you, І nk e were again put intor T trucks, which | fibrous roots like small trees, and large tops resembling 
try to get uA сору. brought us to tha place. the way we spent long, | overgrown . Pi 1 A eto = led to 
"t should have before —— Баб in this neigh- long hours, ugh dy nd night, with , the sie ee arp in the Turnip seed did 
bourhood the substituti B „ли всагїйег for the ы without бар Зад , d exist i -— E 
lough has been гы saving expense with zs ery we pe d, but so perience Бо 
рх dew Lt I old c ec +: Lb Plong h S M zx T at вал so narrow that our M die Mii dI ue il now, ie erop referred to 
twice for Barley, and four times for Turnips; n these lendi had to be some а thrust асс the upper | which Чы йе soed гэр г xr fari 
crops are often grown s with only ( one plough, mad, we do | raile, others fi огсей u эро r neighbours’ ba backs—in| was informed that zi 
nam g o trained that we wonder we | selected d r^ «d io e W te узине 
ha! 
i not 
the headlands, where they were often e ved|can now carry them right again. At times, when the | seeded, во tha 
from the injury of overploughing by the extra гү train stopped or hen т je. were thrown this way, Une Melee i у з “ыа, gans d drei cot геч i 
they got. | then that, having all our limbs wrenched, and o urskinsso I our — - 
