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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Ocr. 18, 
yet remains to be done, but that the | 
only that much 
r “he firs tbe gged t o direct attention iss fg following | 
best imp 
the Rombiag N which will enable them to rieg a 
rin First, with respect to the gen ral effects of | 
B becomes warm 
pinga kA 
ficient and economical manner, | 
a 
icultural im- 
la 
nd a 
springing up of pe miet eee ef 
tile kiln upon x Sere he site ied | 
He 
3 Payer 
ing, as it does encouragement 
to produce 
- | ean gro 
- —cattle thrive better, 
w Bar eh ey pe "Wheat ace oe pele = before 
ti 
in the m 
they cast their bre 
arch of improvement ; — was i pe 
aaa ‘Population afforded an rey 
he rn of their money; and that 
ay upon pe watery i 
and have b etter food d—the 
eeply fl 
he subject, and y were iti in a, 
ing eee and reduction of price. W 
ı the Lope poate v4 a farmer at this 
it of im 
ement, ana ge es 
f improve Aem not be of fra alga to him Few 
ae for further improvement ; a great and impo 
n short, unless you drain m land 
i se pi do for you is nef little value. 
does draining beg A thes esults about? W 
r in wee s0 
pen a - od it may appear, m 
we aa e mode in which panies 
iHi 
FE 
to regret havin; 
merally in use amongst the € “Old 
ge I have the „highest 
wape g 
F S 
there 
o me nota | 
-|d 
n | sink where it falls 
t | he og pais sit siea until he had ri 
and a my a 
themselv 
to 
1 
ers, , who vik their wives and familia would Sn able t to 
re, first, the surface of the ay is mot washed as 
at it gives 
After having received thanks for his able Pernt Mr. 
Elliot read a sta atement, which, he obse rved, scarcely 
Ata soil, on every spot it falls, ahah 
thy for rain brings down a quantity of fertilising 
matter ; and, second] ate n Ray enable the rain to sink 
way 
t and partly 
dry. As a a the principal pme Aae on his 
farm n had pan effe oed by drainage. 
LA eee en Se eee ee ee ee ee Ge Raa 
where i it falls s,tit ca with 3 and washes a 
respect for ri Gaai of r. Playfair, but, at 
iod, iculture appena to me to 
in imal ra a ee 
an ‘more 
echan ics 
soi 
plant. Hence the pant Nery draini ing, a and the 
the subsoil-plough, which Mr. Smith has so long gacie 
Aage 
_ Mr. aay ty of Hard, e, said—In the county of 
Hoye that | there were 180, 000 
à weotnetineg duty, 
z, ra = iby” 1 + b 
A AnD 
which fi ully 
duction ; the stock he ie s, and the implement he 
ploys, are the means by sult 
> be attained, age the he great yer ome of the 
n, and still is, ther departm 
dard of e haa mol Ae sere , your aian 
wee ” iren he has shown, by figures, 1 tha t at Shrews- 
efore they could we pray 
pe aaea 0 
re 
120,000 acres of a 
quiring drainage. ing the expense 
from 51. l5s. to` op per acre, a opio F raS b007. 
for this to be 
be ners second class farmer.” » be his 
yal 
pee Awe “classes ;”” the <4 * nobleme en and gent 
si mate ; pe that this was the best 
great 
= as a 
wor ought 
an encouragement, t that the improvement 
was followed by an of the 
collect: 
of pou cli- 
1 lardgrave since 1837 :—40,000 roods, 
of 19 ject ta.l the rood. 
RODUCE OF THE OAT CROP ON THE FARM :— 
.4 times the seed. 
ee 
D D D AHR MH o 
eta) cal WUD MOAR 
8th 
BARLEY CROP : 
Ist year, se, aoe theseed—(asmall | 
q y y ece of the best land.) < 
after one. 3 
H ose 
peeh fod ed eat po 
at det atte te 
do, 
Mr. Elliot said, one > part a his farm was a mioon | 
+h 
agricu ultural population. _ 
> 
E? 4 Si 7 
Te the cae t 
apar 
be 16 million Foods of paia a ired, t 
£ whial 
class, as as regards the a 
Society ceases to act t favour or affection, 
of premiums, and os doe the | of 
y 1000 men for 10 years ; as „the 
hi N 4h 
a be alm 
worthless ; its value indeed " 
There were 91 acres of a a op Pits, in which Waie, 
ilies grew, he covere! 
Heather, Rushes, and Whin “ape had speni p 6002. on 
Ethet frst year Year 
7, 000 ) members 
See 
to unite cordially 
d tenant 
pauperism would 
Messrs. Jonas Webb, Elmans, 
k, p Avie ish, and A plooty 
award 
withou 
d ‘Sithoogh ih forfeit the pare koia of its 
successfu 
his was 
1 candida 
aa n and ni eigen tenant a 
aes march of a: 
ached en, bayer 
the first prizes. Tt aota pe r allowed a at all 
mals of be i eeu table; 
no id idie e raon, = mere pres of epia imagination: with- 
ment ; like it was 
des. The Guction pe im 
babis Origi i 
partie og before the meeting, 
at sala: should drain- 
s [age not Ta applied ? In the first ; place, it was his de- 
it a mp be done, and even enriching | ac 
emplo cy 
40 acres ai it produced 3500 bushels of Oat 
the crop was rather better Palalall 
land, eae = 
h 18 o the 
3 
Oats to the acre. 
feet above the sea level. 
Mr. Stew ant, of Hillside,said he quite agreed with Mr 
Elliot as to se = pe t no wet land should b 
ted that he will be roused to pon a T ‘the tee 
eet a prize. There are but few. 
hich loral societies = a affo a 
Goa £ com ea 
the lists, but, as I stated i in myi former letter, a | national 
8 
Y; situation were 
Land near 
wherever or whatever they might 
ay Sa should be thrown 
| They m might be laid out in pre ei 
t be; or aa ed. Still, Sean > thought there w. 
a x cultivation. | county a limit gi epen nding upon the paito of F soil -a 
rained, and | climate, beyond which, he confessed, | a not think 
well limed, but without PE anr ‘they could not 
remain under the plough with advantage. In the 
second place, it was difficult to say where the soil and 
such as to render draining inexpedient. 
sdvicable to carry drainage ; 
ae e sea, and exposed to the full i 
the win hould sooner cease to be cultivated than 
upon him while paying muc 
from having the charge of la: tates. He 
that there were about 20,000 of those 80, 
. Elliott, which pn not pay the p 
expense of. 6l. or 7. per a 
d, 
debarre: 
rule, on a 
comprehensive seale. mountain 
this improvement ; and much a 
a better soil, which could not be ‘profitably 
i : ndent has made out his case | pla = 
against the Society, and proved the absurdities of their | po } very thin poor cape 
practice, as he asserts, your re will be the best ee pret ire of the opare ; and land near the Hee e would aean g ge, Tg moor, with a wet bottom, 
jadges. The first step towards sound improvement is a | pay better tada cultivation than other land more | retentive as the other. For instance, there we 
correct app: prehension of those points i in whi ch we are favourably p ced by n ature ; and he believed “that farm: the lower district of the county 
areg ie E ag Scat 4 nt, rented at = oe 
ind; and whilst so much yet | t ugh whe that alone would pass. “There were | from 40 to 45 acres of dry arable land ; in 
oe >i ae net no > Dalat of “classes” either | thus, it would Te e very diffe: rent circumstances in | ing was necessary to ps xtent krear» 
and in tenant must judge sufficient wet lan o form a rotation ; but he 
| a on those who fairly win the prize. No ean for himself on this point. There was a wide field i do rons of it being ai profitable to drain the 
an at once be ae but I am still ‘of opinion that the = : there were 10, opr acres of ground in har | m er, if of the poor het oe he d bed, A 
oss very little above mi 
ts are wrong in principle, and would be a change 
for "the worse. 
Ages Agri 
offered by = 
th ine petiole of fair 
and ten ds to 
icultural Piei is pa 
lay, 
in place of, as at 
presen Ei engen ring fog vapour, pee nie 
ro- | pestilential Pia of rust and mildew over the sur- 
rounding fiel lds. There were, also, nooks and 
state, a fair retu 
and extensive tracts „with a retentive subsoil, which 
t the 
raris to more 
n 
ricultural comm e ither issensions where 
union alone is stren r attempt = Tiy t 
who labour in their d Member 
of the Royal Agricultural A 
ott 
HIGHLAND AND AGRICU ee SOCIETY. 
Meerine at Dumrries.—A public breakfast took 
wi on ae a rE the N Oct., Sir WLan JARDINE 
for, in their es a state, he was quite confident that 
the e: of labour and manure was thrown awa y 
as iali gases © 
racter w: 
could not refrain from telling oo, that the t time was 
me and slated teat ar subject for diseussion was 
Furrow-draining—what soils, pranela and the limits 
to its Prot Joe most perag 
OHNsSTON addressed 
the meeting upon the objects 
mistry Associatio: mer on the 
were using to disseminate im paeas 
then stated that in 
Deanston, had under- | 
discussion; but to 
AES» to the f 
not afford to look idly on; the San woul 
netted with railways, and hey must A up with the 
spirit of the age. They must recollect that, where two 
run a race, if one stands still ihe must ‘all raga = 
the present 
d soon be 
oing ; 3 pes could | was 
aa 
re than 
farms, even with a 
i wo! 
xb 
soon ob 
before the omens of dra! see 
the landlord set to work, it 
P i And, he 
im 
would fa 
if the improvements o 
adopted, that would pler 
to Mr. Smith, of 
Deanston, e a aa oe Aa the: ; 
do. He (Mr. Elliot) was not one of those who 
Tosa 
uld | landlord, 
6l. or 7i per act oe 
nineteen Year pe 
should pay half the ex at lea 
