4 5 what in t 
; his part of the m is — blind, that | for sowing. From the yt a of the last three years, 
bined great capital, agricultural knowledge, and care 
funds would be applied 
the T of 
no grain in it; in fact, I not find o And as = te can now fairly say, that excellent crops of Flax | fulness, as a rantee that the 
he subject of Whe E will you excuse my gi e grown from dee which has been saved in this | judiciously, he — well for tinies 
result of an ee dal which I have acai country by the Cou rtrai method, from the growth of | culture in this respec —Ssir pa 
foncluded? On the 16th of July, 1844, I planted four | fore phe stat j è 
Fins of Red Wheat in a pes ; in Au gust, I divided the | een confirmed them in this opinion, they circulated ex- | was connected with all the pra dese Sa rr aren in 
nto the number 19. Jn Se again we ips tensively, fall aiins 3 page ig ever, Flax Tai, and he believed that it had been correcetl 
making 31, and in Nov. I made another a | farmer to save a portion a his crop in this way, and | asce ertain ed, that t from the me ier alone the quantity 
division, and he ad 90 nee All but one or tw d, { thus secure for the following year fresh per y to the Thames w ould, i n 24 hou rs, fill 
md in Sept., 1845, they produced 1 seed; and by this means, ensure a good crop, a and 6 feet ca 
By this method it w ould would manure ea 3000 acres of land an inch deep. 
y of which were blind a. betiere owing 
free fro om any fear of fr aud. 
ly 
e ears on man 
mildew) ; ther: were two o pints of grain No ow, when they saw shi hips go ing out for ' a he 
g Pe Z.5 a X FUCKERS the numbe oF g would ‘produ d were not 
cup-f full I: koned ther 23,64 d nya pie of ry, wasting those su ek alee 
rod lfi I hardly know en would thus suffice, and a saving be effe sed to ‘ie lated to “produce greater ah to the Mand ge yH 
any great practical w use could be made re this won- untry of from ‘150 ,000/. to 160, 000/. an nually, t proren kg which ore, “ye 
ful power of ion, but, at any rat I ax-seed, besides the ve ery important | cross the Eve Ades f Saffro Walden, 
e means of speedily Saalai ga ny rare yes or cot- advantage es of bei : 
sta of t comparatively nal pe ight, with 
made 
rs pien thereby tover a conan ee: space of 
ing rendered almost ar erato of 
ore ee a tent 
to contribute materia pg fh Josan ds 
a very sm 
ound fro 
ld ten to the transplanting, hiding ke — George | 
Tha fall that 
the use of spurious or bad fat 
, Catton Par os tetas m 
E A ea land as a Flax- -growing country. “ Her ¢ limate and Re s. 
AIRNE soil have already been proved to be equal to any “for On the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands. 
ce ae nou rishing its gr rowth — her hi ard working, but indigent Comprehending the Natural and fjetore His- 
FLA PROVEMENT SOCIETY. tory o — and Varieties ; the Description of the 
Rae i Anniversary a this Sipaisi lat es held, of em ploy ment which its prepa ration afforda rap Propert ge Ex ternal Form ; and E S on 
Epor: for the year was oe onl make the cities for inter-communication, which ow being} the Principles pr Prattic eof Bree eding. „By Day 
) owing extracts from it :—* las r the statistics | Wor! rked | out, would greatly facilitate the transport case Low, Esq 
of Flax grasa in Ireland, showed va nerease of 50 whi , but University fa Eainbagh &e, piang haven, 
x cent. yn in the st J of the RRF re bilities fi haat. epen Green, and Lon ngm 
It ai ficult t correct | be slowly, I velope It would not then be Proressor Low has 
of Tike deficiency ‘of this year’s ons ; but, from | too much to expect “tha a a. reso of the | un nder fresh TERT ming another to the a 
ermation which has been derived from the best | linen trade would result an t the cture of r already enriched its 
„it be ka at about one-fourth less than | linen might stand i ay on same pela tion to mn nd that litera wa re. 
year, say about 28,000 tons. Although there has | the manufacture of cotton has done to Amy with The pre ich m 
us a siderable deficit the quantity, the this important difference, that whereas, in ook la pr one is better qa ified to write. The: pple iers a 
ue of the crop, being greatly enhanced by the scarcity | C4S¢, ‘milion are expen nde d i n for reign countr f British domestic animals has long en- 
uce, both here and on the Continent, is about | raw it us to} ggi the attention of its a o his exertions t 
to that of last year. At 457. per ton, average, tk i ‘former these millions would be expended | { f Edi ent seri 
44 was estimated at 1,782,495/. C Testing | st ho Aig a produce of Irish- soil, tl bj h which it 
e all qualities of Flax 21. per | Irish hand wealth and industry a happiness cultural museum is adorned. The results, | given in 
ee entire amoun 
pr 
+ 
and pE (Sarai theland.”. 
Whig. 
work, of the researches agag id to p aR gE 
of these paintings exhibit to us the mber of 
distinet varieties of cattle and seep w ich 
aye ae prs culti- 
armers” Clubs. | ppose that 
Sarrron W N: Drair 13tl ] 3 
eting f this Society, Me. ket said— Ai ach of their ‘reeds the most AEA for the dis- 
| 
3 
ted: a 
"p, r 
d _ tried it ; two 
“Flex seed for sow- 
g takes place, that 
p A extr remely deficient _ in quantity, but. that a very 
eign 
Rasa crop of seed was not |p 
} 
he ade h |e 
purchased one of the tile machines for 25/., which he | 
e: 
tr d hence the importance 
of. works, like the present, which shall evable sgh: bed 
ut up at a brick Rare ee told = tenant t if I 
work with it it would be advantage to him ; ; he did | 
the many existing varie ties, is best suited to the cir- 
pipes, 
ti. SEEE ag out good 
e price of all kinds of sowing F lax-seed rose at once 
a E high average ; and urged by fears of the 
f the seed, and of there not being enough for 
r ed, a 
aa 
iB 
eighbourhood, and since then he changed it fi 
h 
three yeas a a published 
coloured 
lithographic pri 
sacha t o make three a pra He ha a tried them 
hey pci 
a 
hi mself, and. he found t that t 
ession, or some © 
ae 
} 
three-qu arters, in fields which, were of a grave rally |t 
of 
ich precluded ma ja 
ing it, large ‘rend of “land, ese oe Fis ax, 
Ing 
re sown with Samoy unpr rineipled individuals, 
ree profi ts, 
5 
yaa: porous nature, and pe had made Ast land per- | 
fectly agend; a nd he had no cs ose the produce of the | 
Met „He thought it was 
a the hope of RP in 
d, by making up Sa, “inferior, erushing seed, 
ages, similar to those wg tere ch good seed is im- 
d, and imposing it on the ket as genuine Riga 
wing F lax-seed, of the importation o of 18 44. Unfortu- 
horse, ox, sheep, and hog, 
The present volume tari 
ie us onai 
veral b: d varieties ‘chat 
in | s poss 
breeds of, the 
by pea atk notices. 
the occasional woodeu' 
by engeavi ings ; ‘the s 
+ as, 
"Pressed to each of r> 
e for makin g 
are yfi g 
the tiles. His practice eats had been to find 
tiles for the ten: pant if he would pay for eg 7 BEEE 
ha ud a lways found them ready to up to 
Ur this inferior 
armers, before your committee, or 
vas and dog, are remarks on the natural his. 
animals to which they 3 eae at to the 
interest, 
pa sheep, 
tory of the 
bargain for both cos 
of the f 
see were aware 0 z pani existence or e oft the 
aud, lng informed of this nefarious 
stem > they publicly o offered a reward for such further 
=e to the exposure of the 
form: 
he liabili 
on the classification of | the animal eti “severally, 
m „and on the prin 
nda zoo 
the maxim yas I 
keep his land clean, dry, an 
heart ; he had carried out drain or to 
some aT r this year he been Pri vate at- 
ples and practice of breeding. 
One r present notice of this volume must be confined to 
a — of i it whic ht reats of the 0x, and we cannot do 
had 
of great importance to light la 
hey also took the opinion of 
1 two 
names and some 
the loss which ‘they ‘tater from such fraud ; 
5 opinion they had published widely and circulated. 
the 1 
distincti ay a a re breeds which he has 
in ín sulphure s acid. It was a very simp le t ; if they 
oad, a panic arose among the parapet and, to a 
extent, stopped the further s 
he aoa 
He 
T thant 
casks, and sunk them in Pe end and dese: 
en added t 
bed. 
1. The Wild or White Forest Breed, derived fro 
ce which fo ormerly inhabi poin ina state ele liberty, 
t Remains of this 
about : hoa hel ek of 
lphur acid, ‘and w with this he had S ‘Swede and parti- 
would vegetate, or, that it 
race have been preserv ved 
t individuals, where the an 
of it 
g 
were ea = plough it up, and occupy the land 
À anga — Three farmers who had thus 
lied i 
3: 
ae were enabled to 
and get a crop of winter r Tares fal a erop of Turnips 
of their wild cond ndition. Tn other ey 
reared in a sinio of cleanin: A — 
bits 
24s. ‘an acre ; he had a quantity of bones KeA, m 
htl ith it now 5 
c grown from 
weigh the roduced against the Tarsila s 
Turnips weet prod es need 
paargi and essential characters of the co 
pea varieties. 
The Zetland Breed, of Scandinavian origin, in- 
| baiting the remote islands of that name, ; and spreading 
farm- 
to say that, oecupyin og 
anure.— ramsto 
si of much shallower stap 
than tha tof his friend, Mr. Pym, he 
he had PESE Gd 
ery much the result. 
all In 
: a | Tare, 
ompari ing t E with Turnips p n E altr 
for a ae guano had been used, rs was perhaps 
mall be nef fit in favo ur of guano ; but the resu ult of 
but fatten age a i d are valued by the consumers. 
The females excel the 
cattle of the Highlands in the 
a. of Bags ing milk, 
Breeds o 
£ the dansis of Scotland, s; pag 
us tracts of 
{ 
ing p the primary moun 
an whioh was upw. 
h individual, for the produce of 2 Riga 
, | mised the farmer 
t | great ae 
from Mr. Pym 
He could not 
especially as he had heard 
fit to agriculture, 
advantages of the system. 
the practical 
help observing t that amongst the various | Hi 
speculating world, there see be some which pro- 
med to 
considerable benefit. He had wit 
e fo = of a soci iety eo! consist- 
. ing of men of conc capital, 
a attention has been drawn 
j, of m 
aral knowledge, w 
mate agrieultn 
e desirableness of psd 
of them of consum: 
; puna te p © present year , that your scence ne 
dence of the value of home-sav 
; and 
ed, | away, 
ast | Miles, and Smith of 
and san ying | it to agricultural puposes. H 
happy eo to bserye among og supporters o of 
| society the es of Baring, Samuel Loyd Jones, Wm. 
Deanston; and when he saw com- 
* 
e was 
the 
exceeding ir 
ail ke it, akg agi 
e. dd have dark 
a blac 
"4, (the Welsh Breeds, some 
or 
