91845. _THE _ AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 139 
1 Dra —I 5s etd 
eep his horses at t home, inage. you a the following a account of the | bandry which, judging from the old inclosures left, was was 
yery purpose he Dips quire.—A Gen man expenses of draining 9 acres of land, w 
bere ær TS apa ofi iron, ground ma pewter; tnd well] ca: plo yin ier Pai eight A a “orale iy proba bly usual when my land was held of the crown on 
wetted, so asto be half iñ solution, strewed over your arable. , The hi ighest part of the field i is in the | ber of men called 
heap, is perhaps the cheapest anime r n fixer eH eaten Tue e easiest way ee supporting rohan my 
ammonia y u can bu = if you use it, you must keep Peseta There are five princip pal dvains into which | diers was ‘letting them, at quit-rents, by copies of the 
your pigs from rooting and working amongst it. the riia ones are ured, they ing 27 feet apart from Kate s Cou è Roll, enough land for each man’s culti- 
The Plough.—I take the moon tg of ae one | each other, none less pones hes deep e ma terial va Thi system continued till Cromwell pulled 
MS point to yo correspondent’ * M. S.,’ phan ire has not | —flint, broken a TA or roa oads; d put in clear] oe es land from military ser- 
l been touched upon, _ which I thi nk, sI can | deep, over which, i oirean was laid Heath, pr rh sore vice, ioe whi many small holdings have been Be 
forma conjectun e pasaig articles Crich I |4 miles off at 25s. per 100 bu ndles s(a waggon leads the into w large ones Shere, instea ad of nine per: 
have carefully a. t. doesnot ches ey por ai meant other 2 acres had Bea he so fury 
to treat of. is-this:—In all works whic 164 yds. flint, delivered and broke, at 3s, 6a. eryd. £28140 |as one man is kept all ¢ 
have read, and in all ploughing that I have seen, the rameter Heath, a 104. ; pasen 16s. sd: 7 3 6 8 `| though it p se ker ll 4 ‘ee round 100 seren 
practice i pe ec ended an panei of placing Team labour 3 be 4 However, my principal yr has kept, ever since 1834, 
the furrow: at an inclination, the favourite fori Labourers’ wages “ag 8g men on every 100 ac A ayy he rents of me, and is 
being 45°, ipeta on` the best: sòils in this first to pay his rent.— Jf. A. Gilbert. 
(Kent), where a totally different system is ado ted, 1 ad £92 95 teaming Cattle Food, 2i ‘felt ee pues in the 
ae carefully enforced. The system I sted of is. that expense is heavy, at which many will be surprised, | experiments you have noticed in Ciada. eh 
of turning the furrow-slice completely ov I have | as I have nats of land which has been drained for only | the steaming of food for be an atbers noticed in 
made inquiry on this matter, both from the most expe- ote the sek oe pr doubt effectua lly, as eeu another part of the G e a discussion which a 
ien | als =| comparing neighbour who has drained | place last week at the Hadleigh Farmers’ Club, on 
alt this Wanti: with half circular tiles and flats, Root -crop. Two of the wenn of that Club are in eg 
1) ee ‘is nme a superior to pre which ii L } and both red 
| recommended, more especially 
because: it vocipleelyd 
and 
1 have eps $+ flints to til 
appea 
E. and destroys all weeds, 
land. 
a farming, 
s well as 
a fiéld that was desned n 
with tiles oriko are 
| called l horseshoe), 17 y 
satisfied that a pr ractice ie useful. 
of eo who has continued it for 5 yea 
class of fa ene r ges deal which i is very goo 
refore, (tho 
I thin 
t the more. educated and wealthy 
od. ea 
di 
been en up, which iwére ori, 
=d. 
ts on Pa 
Em not epa: iep 
enough bale the surface P. 
Inf — Allot 
nd y ses nothing ; niist the AN 
his uré heap, believing it m 
injurious to the ca Héle, and fitted only to re- feed. his 
crops. In the Waker aaie ou have noticed, the cattle 
ti ws it opow 
if sè: ttention. "The 
f practice influences the renererien now ee 
your orings ondent, is the change that 
‘oy me form 
iti is lie that, it the ee 
rd ni 
itself. e the same, 
the length of the mou ld: -boai 
t se Ahang 
nner-in which this point 
P 
and an irae: - the plough | 1 
nen er to turn 
p s 
much co n Sir James Grabam’s opener on | 
reported iw the Gardeners’ Chro- | t 
of our patio or 1,500,000 
ceiving parochial come t t since 
nog than 200, 000, 000/.; one-fou 
the 10th o 
nicle, th re 
yi igen to te rach more of the steamed foa 
of the i Bar U one of the parties to whom I hay 
aad asses aa Fe er he has always considered the 
revers o be the ca 
| gee 
the clipes} of t 
rates,’”’ I hope state the result of 
bead the usual figit; 
This increases the length, and 
i hase 
his neighbourhood bere 1816, be- 
cause they point to the cause of thi 
o yos 
observations in t 
sy t this 
be only ec 
an ated loss; rare in my fe thet be more effi- | 
üs it is a double loss. Iam extremely anxious 4 
ein what is the ean opinio n on 
ause-it is one which affe 
WR 
SETTE ang 
os 
_ Of the stiff clay lands in the Weald, which are treated 
tly. further, if the practice of that district 
al, the settling of the point would be- 
t still, For in that case ould 
whole farming community, that rra P 
-same 
qually ian oer it is an ai d 
e | my bailiff sow aed Sane 
$ pe liv. cin 
distress fro want of work, I 
advertised this fae with the abito pecan and ing 
t the usual rent, and the 300 acres of arable land 
m only ar an acre,'on miar Fras 7 oa tse) cultivate 
‘by the spade ‘only—half ai nnually 
should keep 100 to fat. 
rn n 
findi he much sao the great Belgium Carrots, Hippisley,, phos rn H. 
ny bailiff sowed 4 * ibj in | Miles, Esq., M.P. ; A. Ogilvie, mes J. Parkes, Esq.; 
roe Si of which I subjoi 
| profiting or not es or practice of steamin 
ed an To ies. 
ROYAL ETEEN os ve SOCIETY or ENGLAND: 
ral 
e of things, and | beth before this question cin be considered s I 
consequently, in e degree, ther | an allotment system as its soent with benefit to all forme on ton of Turnips which weighed 
pmt of the instrament. “Por i the kaik of the beam, classes in England. To show that I am nota theorist,|70 Ibs. after it was steamed, was considered to have 
&e., be ine tom espo ondi. ing enlargement I must téll you that when I succeeded d to the m ati gained shout at 18" Ibs. tA H PS Agr a ae 
i quantity which measure ashels cre steamed, 
ranae the me here s spoken of is “necessarily. head Jet for oe than fair interest on the cost of the was supposed t to have become con rrip hee tTM 
 Gatried óniát an expense of ‘increased weight, and ‘the great farm-house with three barns, each 100 feet long, sa ls. If you will suggest the terms under which a 
Kentish plough is s seldom drawn by less than trO and other fúitablo buildings, Paes Twas at the cost | course of experiments on this question ‘ny be tried, I 
horses. If the work be more efficient Yvan ba me, it of kee seping in antl nay that in that thinly-peopled | make no doubt that others, besides the ze vo entlemen 
enhe rn worth while t to submit to this eased rish thi e rates a ia "ths pound,”and that whom T have alluded, will be very glad 3 aere 
of drau g better farm in the next parish, 
mended elsewhere 
| “4 some incontrovertible results, whether cay are ee 9 
od 
ng foo 
cattle.—J. S. Hen 
Y Counc. 
bi 
in H inate) on Wednesday last, the, 
an 
Febru nary; present: P. Pusey, Esq., M.P., in 
Cesa arker, ip ener. vasba; Sego Doai 
` Ohe Pase ny ate 
Dickson; A. E 
Esq. MP. W. 
Kentish plou gh, though étal cen as heavy, is | his report :-— wet of last winter pre- “EL Parkin ns, Esq.; E.W.W. Pendarves, Esq.;M. P., 
Mitte jy the best sade ally its ole eeu | vente the best pie iey dar the Downs from 2 F: Pym, Esq.; Prof. Sewell; lyf Shaw, Esq.; S. Solly} 
An Original Subs criber, paring their stiff one for pens owe Car eed before +; S.-R. Solly, Esq.; T. Tweed, Esq.; and G: 
Ei. h Fea he —I have bee ome considerable | the succeeding continued dry w = oe the ae at ea a a pe 
Onvertin ailding tite what the Sco seed from ve; crate 2 badak the chalk soil abs hm i! e following new Me 
tm iy sha and Sara atta iA d for i a rain which n hils ags j » bw Seah ble to sow of | Denston, William Stephens vani Lodge; Shrewsbury: 
rses WS 5 e of keeping, according | White py on Birling, Git woon the eners of March ward Togas Henry The e Lodge, Chirk, Denbighshire 
fare: preferable to close ho and the middle of Apri il, which got root to the dry | Oswell, Thomas S Ellesmere, Salop. 
lated from this plan, finding it rare to | weather, “ry ciation into bulbs with the e irst r t rains, — Macdonald, Bg rere 7 eh ha o . 
s 80 amicably disposed as that | of ~— Harig — eight. This dante | Groon AO eee vii M jaat dar 
over the other. | keep ito ae the ich wo weg accordi > aunt have | Steedman, Edward, High Erca!, Wellington, Salop 
de of a red shed 12 feet | been sold-in here, to be r G., Gordon Castle, Fochabars, N.B. 
t doorway, into an open yard about a - fatted at t Birlin ne, ihe Carr other farm | Kemp oes neg mone tore a Hereford 
for fad horse or cow (more room I could and a these Stee ep being found the Denston, Stephen, Stanwardine Hall, Er ERE Salop. 
a 
8, 
0 expense of ck 
e, E ‘hana my men we or ck gnin for thi 
à els are pie referred in | 
fat so far as 
reek them | 
havin ng the Jand well dug, two spits deep, one eit un er 
th 
e 
only pen 
Det it “Hailsham et ovary 7 anuary 22d, I am tempted.to 
beg the favour of your pri: ee oe to Sener 
farmers on the chalk soil to tr est 
Robert, hipit Ellesmere, Salop 
Whitchurch, ; Salop 
Car y, Som 
mers, J. Be Holywell Cottage, St. Alban? 35 sats. 
The names of 22 candidates for election at the next 
meeting ard then read. 
EprpEMIc AMONG CATTLE. — The DUKE of Rici: 
the Aaw with a 14 ee long, eo A 
fu mee don eae 
n the subject of the Epidemic among Cattle’ 0 the 
Contin nent, adie = pi t pose As the Board of Trade, related 
ety. _ These papers 
Y 
Bi Wigs Farm, on Beachy Hea 
letters the Ear 
. a week, or upwards of 702. annually, which i 
equal to the rent of 351 acres of sheep- walk, as let by 
me and others, at 4s. an acre—this J. Harris has fo 
the last two years and a half i A W somtott his 
A 
na a little book, printed in Yorkshire, E- on ae | 
toc 
munication and exten niio 
of Customs to ză their oa. vari 
fully to examine any cattle imported into this country, 
pe 5 the event of their ir appea a ring tö be infected with 
| any disorder, not to:permit them’ to e landed se ae 
etek and report as to their soundness by so 
mpetent person, and to report forthwith the niaii 
l Seihisas to their Bo ri ” while in Austria an nd other 
parts ¢ of the Continen , the 
family of nine on ve acres: of the sa 
e 
| patch from B 
| ee PER em er 
The followin f pa 
aron po Sn de Gras F Be 
oa i 6th zi J taac las 
Pf 
med Pes 
l = _ poster =“ the. ee sant of a 
riren 
Marva inl 
at itself successively s 
Jyp and Lower Austria, in Bohemia, 
