THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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with on land in Shropshire, that had been peat-pared and 
burned, and the ashes spread. 
ar H. oe wpers (Cork), Letters on Rural Affaire. 
r. C. M Wit LICH, Annua al Supplement to his Tithe 
Mar, 15, 
ee f 
— price of these pipes varies, at present, from 125, 
er thousand feet, according to the tery or 
eter ecom position and circumstances of a 
—Mr. David read ost polomis Report, pre 
h was appo 
eRe 
a 8 the 
ommittee whi nted at the l 
cultural Journal, American Agriculturist, 
Cultivator, Reports of the “seg aa Society of 
Cae and the arious per iodical Papers ‘presented 
The Cousa KEETE their thanks “to be returned to to 
Albany Mee 
ast Mon ne 
ining” has hit therto been ut very 
z the | 
c 
eting of a Club : 
of tt ough- drai 
r 
benefits arising from it o 
eye mmittee is of opinion that the i oval k 
tk expense, mai h aver: 
RE, | double- ee for labourers, 
ae Palli 
communications and | | presents. 
e 
Mr. S SHA 
of 3-8ths of an inch 
Ww 
Council a model (o: 
built the est tate 
on "ol 
iser, of Comragh, Co. Waterfo rd, in Ireland 
with the prices 
by him presented to the Society for Jm mp oving the price oe tiles and pipes 13 in 
ing Cl It was intended to mago; is 30s. per thousand, RT 
n what manner a numerous family | sand ; while, it appears from informatii 
Mr. | may be ap merrel dee ed. the Committee that, with a proper tile-yard, having 
i bing oe ncil man eo ree over the Easter Recess | kiln, sheds, and tile and pipe-machin 
st We dnesday in Apr the most approved prineiple, these article 
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LUBS. mit 
Cardif.—On Thisday orinn a Pablic Meeting of 
landed proprietors and tenant- farmers of this distric ot or 
held 
Hall, C 
T. D. sition forwarded to the bine of the Farmers’ Club, 
pur 
for the 
rate. mittee 
ystem of 
rs thereof may desire t o have dra 
ected i avet ktat in such a lo 
onaered most convenient to those dis 
1 
J.P ee 
E | Mr. Ea oud, “that the committee named by | th 
the ech in the chair. | 
sum 
mittee 
eB t e 
y the x 
to 
pra 
who would give direction ial assi 
ance in the execution of the work to such p artiga 
Mr Dod s, to ti Smi ‘5 + ety and to a cg 
tary of the Royal Agricultura Pees: Mr. Fothergill’s 
letter contained an estim of t 
ing best t adapted for the wet soils in this count: = l 
Committee strongly recommends the Deanston, or fr 
ns were 
ao igas Ac . 
opinion of Dr. Royle, pA oie A Akeeddais "pakong tile- machine 
pane Lic 
iden 
faes 
PSP 
nufacturing draining-tiles 
the ser which ants contain 11,000 tiles, cost £105 0 0 
quent drain s; ystem, &c, Various resolution: 
passed, resulting in the formation of a Co 
manvfacturing tiles 
The kiln, which will hold about 12,000 — cog z o o| North Walsham.—At the late monthly mee ting of 
ast-iron mill 0 0| this Association, the subject for discussion was, 
x 40 0 0| Advantages or Disadvantages of Growing Flax, to the 
niai r gee i L folk F . Brown 
———— _| good or bad crop for the farmer, and depended 
255 12 6 | siderably upon the managem The lan 
S | The cost of making tiles averaged about 12s. per 1000. | was intended should be ploughed in the autu 
e flats cost exactly half, or 6s. per 1000. Mr. F. | should be well pulverised before t 
added—‘‘ When the clay is pone favourable, a ‘the | which > = =A k in Maro! 
i- | quantity made much doubt, be nil have required, the | sidered w r tim w the seed, a 
u 
ri- 
Cardit? ‘Farmers’ Club cannot 
sry 
a up aia 5 
a fai nd h 
preferred yë rill EN atng it in as D deet a 
possible, and lightly harrowing or bushing iki 
The dri 
We have done a great dealt im PE way, and have made | þe 3 inches apart, and the ie woul 
arl a own pipes. We have put in bean of 100, 3000 | as spring corn. The pulling time commence 
oi bx June. Our machine is Clayton’s. It is iets latter part of July, and it should be drawn,when 
any size ze die ja ii jin inches. TES The sizes not — 10s. an acre, and the roots ees 
-are 3 ie d level, or there would be ‘a great wa 
hey are all made 13 inches ill it 
ong. PS e expense of making the three | to remove it. As to the samples now present ol 
palier sizes is is 9s.6d., and 12s. per 1000 respec- | table, one was drawn the year before last, ae had pro 
M Tee every reason to believe our | duced 5 coo mbs sper acre of seed, of good quality, 
ose very well, but stil 
omb, and the Flax he now he 
pipes 
I would give ae 
purp 
slic to the socket fo hve ii Sed 
I thi nk sol ps 
ur pip es could be a k Ta per 1000. 
which 
his hand was that which iiad been prodno fro Li 
per stone. He had soli 
was ate a ton and a half of st 
| Mr. Ped nto Consul ting Engineer 
tural Society, or Kigi which 
low ing :— —“ Itm alnibs 
Royal Agricul- 
letter S extract the ee 
t needless to ‘Sta ate th at o 
of it. 
per acre, ire enibe. There was another 
from Mr. Daniels, whom pN was glad to see fe here to 
it 
plain his experience w with 
d he bad been offer 
d, = onduits 2 be laid, the cost of that an be — i pre Ml wa aot F 
dr: rinage on in a great measu e depend ; an con} | Peas. —' asked Mr. B i 
pay at no one, pacar ang in be rt ig effectin a of an 
om plete agricultural pre at the | nt day, cout me 7 fa parole H ts and show! 
‘Ow 
see inspection of the differ toi 
he profits ance ?—Mr. Brown refu 
soils— 
each other at which dr; rains SA, act, 
l effect. If such a datum 
the ej judgment would te requisite as regards the 
| determination rs this important part of the probl 
janina he ~ too, is abe a 
tre immediately [i 
in a clear bal 
am: 
01 given t 
exper ience ; ieee as no one had done so, h 
jection to place the result of his experience, es! a 
Ww be jé 
ent. 
| stablished ‘aes, increased depth pe enai of drains Wein 
e | place — uch fur sami art than a shallower is being | 
| arises the y of dee ep drainage, for the cost 
Ri Pyan 
When ia 
chant, aa neither a buyer nor seller. 
s that ‘et 
propose T o — w Flax he was anxiou 
should 
a diminution proportionate bps that of the number of 
e ariel AMM 
“advantage to th 
antage to had 
vi 
three years’ ” experience, during which time he 
or excavating ani an 
in the ri 
drains laid in th 
V 
d filling i 
atio of their de epin. I Ic ary cite i instances of 
e same estate, varying in dis 
30 to 80, and even to 100 feet „yami p AA a h 
are ap report to make. His 1a jaa was a i 
but that he attributed to his own ignorance ; 3 “ine es a 
l, yet all eria equall; = 
lie ing their respective s = eel ors i = T 7 
| eret. 4 
siderable erases of ie: d: 
Britain ia hereafter, be execut 
per: h at sa 
stile th at a very con- 
rainage now going on in 
ted over again, from the 
rie 
me Tipae too near the 
pipes EN 
„Of c 
surface. 
anent level of the sub- fi 
newspapers, and sa had all hear: d ee before, wb 
it bong i io own, he h of 9/. an 
the field—it 
le did no st say on all soils Flax 
ofa s 
rtainty o! 
and every 
; heh ad sown an acre 
used in agricultural ee The 
been the and 30 
Sipeiaes ejiis 71. 2s., but- the crop was 
consequence of the season, that he had, after s 
