of the 
Our respectful 
advan 
2.—1845.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
25 
LOUCESTERSHIRE ASSOCIATION ror THE lease for a eh ae ntly long term of years he | Thomas, than whom a better landlord, or kinder- 
ENCOURA GEMENT of AORICULTURT, ARTS, MANU- | farmer—if he be a man of skill and sufficient e capita, | hearted man never lived, offered, u wai Bye pe 
Sigh hati i woven mn, 1986,<0880-Pekurest, both of which, as SMe Staaplien arr eind bn are he rng leases for twenty-one yea uch of 
o the Manufacturer who shall offer for sale within six ential to the ss of “ a Ey: of | his tenants on those Cl ght choose 
gq Gloucester, or within 25 miles of the same place) sorieultiiral im provement; i both pr eg fy for them, and sie set mi ight ae em fit to 
if adjoining to a ilw or navigab! river or canal, ualifications } vill PI ? 4 
the largest number RAINING TILES at the| 4 ions, he wi Inas eral himself of | be intrasted with them. Thin of the incipal 
lowest price. The quantity P F ices than rege ey hs the security he enjoys, in order to invest his money | orkat on those estates ge and obtained 
“gs e R ionlae apil? toMr. A. "G Jones, |12 those improvements of the land which , though | leases—the only test of fitness applied to the appli- 
a honeeater, Secretary to the above Associati unquestionably the most profitable of any in the long- | cant being their having paid up their rents. The 
are nevertheless somewhat dilatory in repayment. | leases have been granted about 14 yea went 
P z ít v ï oe ett t the diency of granting leases admits of | over the estate in September last with my relative 
Cie Agric ura Lr AZ £, practical and histori roof. Compare Norfo a a who ha 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1845. 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. 
Jan 
THURSDAY, 
T 
d 
S; ¥, Jan ul 
fI 
FARMERS’ CLUBS. —Jan. 17—Debenham, 
e to pce 
entirely arable, while the last-named are pasture. 
j $ mr f pi benefits aoe are derivable Pion 
great part of Scotland, on the one side, wher 
ave long been ary, with midland, southern, well and eq 
and western England, on the other 
customary. is singular hor, in a degree un- 
accountable for on any ground of difference in soil 
or climate, first-named districts are almost | ¢ 
pope of m 
rice ee tis m the y 
e intelligent Bch swiss ac- 
vith the e pr 
metye Ag and that E ni som 
ani 
only two individuals out of 
lave 
0 
<o 2 of land, so far as the nation is concerned—in the | the security and advantages age them by their 
well-conducted system of letting to labourers portions | amount of food the produce ; and, as affecting the | leases. As to 11 out of the 13, they and their land 
0 land of such a sizeas t ay be able to cultivate various agricultural classes in the nation, there is a|have remained alike, as it ay in statu quo; t 
well in their leisure hours. The usefulness of ‘Tur great difference between them too : the former, as has | idea of improvement never for one moment appears 
ALLOTMENT Sysrem, as it is called—its usefulness already been shown in these columns, yields food,|to have entered into their minds me of those 
to the labourer, and onsequence to all the rofit, and employment bundance ; the latter, all | men—the greatest part of them—had not the neces- 
classes immediately dependent on Agriculture, is no | three but scarcely. And were it not that there are | sar vom set material improvements— 
longer mere matter of opinion, it is matter of fact md many instances scattered up and down in both the they were n ; some few were in better 
history. The p ee The Labourer’s Friend, “| districts, which are apparently opposed to the idea, | circu mitina, and 1 bet tter results might have been 
monthly periodical published in London, contain | we might be tempted to Fi bery the condition of | ex pan os were, however, two individuals, 
detailed accounts ny a parish benefited by the} the latter as ult o tual distrust betwee wine as e without offence to name, 
te of the system; our own columns are also | landlord and tenant, while that f the former repre- | who had the good ro, to set to work at once 
instructi ve o; the san ne subject; and we hall be sents the ha consequences of mutual confidence. | to put their land into conditi tion. The names of 
ter f our ri —— directed = the case of arable lands held on lease, is there| those tenants are "Mr. eesto ’ 
of national good ; we shall not on e side invest of capital in| and Mr. Jones, of Park near Beeston 
af be i to ee publication to “the gress euliivatiom in a manner, in fact, in which it is| Castle, both near Tarp Their process of im- 
aag arguments =r irate Ce: with which c mediately convertible? and is not this ob-| provement consisted in draining in dressin 
pondents may fav viously the of confidence which is | heavily with bones. ined extensively, an 
It is tru Saat that i some instances the ma inspired by a hold in law upon t the land? and on the | they manured ak bones at an expense altogether of 
System has failed f its usual result ; but w er, is mA security tha ill e injured | from 107. to 122. per acre. Mr. Bird's leasehold con- 
eal ee secure by that Bath rouas of | sists s of two fate one of about 330 acres, the other 
h capital to so large an amou case I heard Mr. Bir rm, that 
uch instant ces than from | of pasture lands again, which ar erarely, Piste held pore luced by management upon 
e n lease, the far es (w e he n he was first 
1 pe Behe condition be accounted for ves by | marri ied, was wy is late “tithe placed, = oy on 
Sa n e distrus i arly the whole of whi ch he expen l. per 
one a n in 74 ba to break en 2A were granted, should cro f his term, tat where 
S the 
exha aust i 
nae yE does not the mode in Rhi T 
in 
vested—in live estock, which i may 
Lat + 
his Boks made about 25 or 30 ewt. of cheese 
per annum, he (M r, ae rd) made npwards of 4 tons, 
s as m Sr orses and 
appear « as 
be d 
want of toutidence on the part of the farme er, by 
whi ch he is necessarily afiected, under a system 
fore maintaine s of rvs “Bird's 
young cattle, unproductive of nl ash 
Other por 
ides the oe acres farm, ae nee im- 
nage ould a 
Allotment ae of any shar 
Ri 
pri ges insuchi instances 
Drv any of our oe overlook Mr. Maughan’s 
per on ‘Tue DIENCY. oF AGRICULTURAL 
which ty published in the = emite 
? It is possible 
matter—nearly dbk the 
s laid before them 
Owners in ‘chat 
of the Tece 
= ied i in i 
eri 
The ing to a tenant, by a legal 
Now, just compare, in a | 
relative economy or pro: 
[peel and he has been repaid, a id, 
be i3 de egree that is satisfactory to him and hp which 
eid 
aie 
fita ee of these “tro. modes of M far 
H > epia 
So 
e part 
tenant; pm sabes that of his distrust, plea 
i capita invested in 
a 
ite as 
the 
i) 
w useful and productive, in a national point o | 
view, is capital so invested ! Again, that which i isin- | 
0 per | ment similar to that of Mr. 
case of M less 
is about 200 acres. He ado wl a course 
d o e 
f| very interesting, ia connection with the subject of 
leas eea the names an nd addresses 
azi Mr. Jon 
airy 
observed, p 
are ibis | 
This seriou: 
different portions of this ¢ 
mo; ] 
ountry, as 
an m weal, is 
E 
sates | 
z Fatsia of the lease as a means of agricultur. sye im- - | where a to 
provement. 
rove 
cases of th the San 
ally induce the iraa | 
s capial i it agricultural improve- 
reap the entire benefit for 
ow meg” more perfectly and em 
“the lease!” Look a 
upon the lando. 
his selection of | 
rid of hi 
ants, 
raise the standard of 
the secon w and, as as goo 
uence, would insure van 
Todas ‘athe influence of a 
ied ieres 
in ts 
of 
n the matter may, wif ai please, take occasion to 
wy them and their farm 
Mr. Maugha n justly adds, e ig case proves how 
tte well as individual point 
of view, would be the effect of gating leases to 
| wellseleeted Sean ot how — ely necessary it 
‘pier under a of leasing, to constrain the 
es and the ie to move on or out of the 
. 
geet 
is an instance of <8 barney” of the 
0 i 
ose WhO 
re 
we can egg of many « cases 
it offered, 
e 
wo aughan, in his paper 
n this ‘akgect, has adduced a most brize: case, 
proving € the useles of the leas the 
f 
majority of ins eng der s 
We extract the following :—“ The Beeston Castle | 1 
and Peckforton estates, of about 
Cheshir 
-| grounds ‘for apprehent that he would, 
into possession, bear hard a his 
Mavens s Pı 
e again i 
