INS 
aati. Ti The presence th there 
—— of plants are at 
Fagot and the ab 
si 
mat 
ledge of Grasses, 
ance with what is > - Aris 5 do it, P a de- 
sideratum of no small value to farmers in gener eral. 
RY AND P PROSPECTS OF bugie pes 
fore 
well | a 
rit qus hardly be the case, as it might have "vn if b 
and mutton were at 4d. a instead of 7d. and "rg 
and had wool been at 18s. or 20s. the stone pm of 
| 36s., as we a hea it rim or instead of 
it is now ; nay be of some consequence E y you 
E 
lie 
carts putting manure into these rows, 
| followed by nepos m of ploughs covering eal m 
and then com ril to put in the seed, and 
— — 10 o in the 
| most p 
5 5 
me 
ow of one p 
a 
= his next ear clip of Peine 200-8 ones 
nd 300 s 
to be paid within a A ") hi 
- | hour 
the tim 
ur or two = he ge ips; 
e it was exposed t un, and it might 
mH 
he 2 a ee 
iven to farmers’ clubs and Pine Fant pace societies. The 
passages are ex racted from 3e speech 2 
which we "em deliv ered at a recent meeting of t 
Hexham Farmers’ Clu 
a 
ts you there are 
more favourable as to the 2n p donde for the pro- 
that W 
«I shall turn "back the thoughts of those who are ld 
S hiing i century, and direct your atten- 
tion to the great ch — which have taken place, which 
he farmer co e blamed pray niig -a eng ci- 
e farmers from the imputation of slow- 
eb * Peste 1 s 
LI x. I-J 
the moment remuneration was shown, the moment it 
countries | gether 
fora week. If you compare the e proba xen 
and cheapness of management of the one with those 
to buy their — = mutton as they do , Bow, the 
farmer put the 
to produce that miens is sufficient, for 
recollect, I d lare t the time I sp o of, vii t it 
duetion of Wheat than our own; Wheat is an the sues you will find that allthe hard work, all "A 
article which can be transferred from one part of the| poor hoeing, all the parsimony em oan nd which 
worl or one — of the e to another, and is of is all a an has to employ i 
mall! alue, but that no one not at all adequate to the system, tl and 
can injure or ither in beef or — o or | the skilful operations of -— establishments. Ih 
the growth dea We have pastures for sum had thro ugh gs hands a good many farms of different 
feed h nd fi ast three years, when I have 
all [ea to make up we supply ‘when the summer | had a small farm 00 a year or less to let, I have 
food fails; and we hav e opportunity, if we have been obliged to he same rent, or perhaps less: 
the judgment, the skill, is the liberality to do it, to| than before; but, when I have had a large farm of 
raise beef and mutton beyond any other country on the | 5007. , I have been able to realise a great advance: 
face of the globe. It is very astonish ning k to the | of rent d, if I have had a farm of 10007. or 12002. 
statistics of France and of thi try, and to see th year, then I have had 25 or 30 per cent. advance. I 
3 difference 2 iu amount that is pro- do not say I rejoice in this, but it forces itself on my 
uced in butchers’ meat here; and there is this to bservation. The only liking I have mall 
solo So he 852K. of it "that there is now such a i that it affords a kind of stepping-stone to the in- 
scription of m 2175 = de dustrious labourer to advance himself in society. I 
hardl yb utdon "this country. | have seen instances of this, and I have been very glad 
I think i bas ruled rather as much Bo “high a x SW heat to encourage it; but, whether we look to individual 
for some time past. Since I he national go ood, I must give my vote for 
f 
it was EI the case that the fabouzin 
a considerable size, ‘where there is abundan at 
antry were able to indulge thomas a pm tl I 
butchers t at home. The father of a uni id known, I ] ll t! fi 1 1 
had attained an age when it was fancied they wen be thought ciel very well off if f he could fee d o vantageous, lt ke that d f lal v] nich is 
‘matured and brought ta market they were taken up | two pigs, xceedingly tial to tl 1 
n't do in “the present day. | cow ; OW see the butcher's shop in every Feu all na ire sand 5 it is our reme 
of wool every year from | vill d tl g joints of 
t to be two or three at every cottage | door as you go along the road. Such and. It will po dpt rd to turn your 
fed. But what is the t way of living, and I am tt ost de sirable that. we 
now? On high ground you see that they are taken a you will all rejoice with me in thinking that it is so. ld prod hi y 
were at those imes; on ave taken place in theim prr market rig x that eid ch will at tl 
n hardl y LE a sheep is allowed | provement and i inerease of the quantity of be most remunerative. w there is a way of 
ld. We should — vv. butchers’ ieat which we are now able to pon Wheat as productive and remunerative ; 
i 3 Sheep are ae to market at l4 or our farmers to market, has not a gui e commutatio: 
A r months id. and you are deriving from sheep of that Frigg Nota place in corn ?—because the very thine eines — various other things, but it is proved to be 
eas much wool as you derived fro p one gives a stimulant to the other. fallacious for computing tbe prosperity of a 
ir longer, and occupied your ground more | You pres your lands that you may rear farmer. ve es many popia inveighing 
m th y itis with cattle; and 8 crops, and you guano, bone Price aep the low market price o sd Wheat at the present moment, 
secre ing the greatest amount of produ d every d of combination which Ho ae Tias dnce gre d But there is 
hether in idu or mutton, I of you will hold me out i 
ce, | an 
|the quantity. The quantity increased in that respect 
or goes t 
s again to increase the manure in JR f oldyard. 
a fallac; acy in in this 
mt that, notwithstanding ua: very low prices, the 
X991 
^ 
nd then a ey s — 
conditio 
now pretty vell understood, 
up to 
the knees, and you would have seen a proportionate 
amount of heads of corn scattered among it, and whi ch. | p 
pt munera Vet» Yd very much better 
„of reaping your corn a h „form ears did- The 
d when I first k w this county the actual hich 
you might have gone "into the fields ini nto “the sats is making. Es t again, if you the 
stubbles, where it would have taken you almost u cries prices that the for 
ris T 
| both x. and mutton, I 285d not recomm you to 
ursue the rearing of beef and mutton, buk a more espe- 
and it is 
rom their birth forward t 
orward to the 
~ an Iam glad to see now that from one end 
ally the enla rg ement of your : flocks of sheep to the 
t ecause this. 
£f 
the Tyne to the ms r you hardly see a field 
I do believe is the great object we must look to here- 
ft the stapl dity of our farms." : 
due while you have the m 
the end of the sheep's life 
r again seeing at a very disastro 
regard | this 
ot, 3 de des last 20 years, 
miryas 
“If w 
epa n 
wool is maintaining, 
eultivation of that 
carcase at | 
eof wool. It 
ECT 
pS beatin! he efforts we can use 
fall f für pen of supplying t thon with food. It is on this 
ground that I think that you must eee iic 
siderable extent if you arth en that the 
culture should go on. It is co consistent with theory € : 
farm of considerable 
see as regular a system as 
oy | Sule AER sent to jaké the 
ia an other |o 
i my neig , as I said bac 
ips in the fields in heaps, so that the Therefore the q nure is n b only increased, 
at come will not e the sheep — in your e ings bal Non | reveal it he pur- 
i hungry day—they have always fresh food to go to. of those foreign and adventitious manures which Home Corresponden 
Samir = is that we fin d we have it in our power had so great ect in producing your root Liebig on veces pem, i Tr ane i a pes 
d those uce to you what all of the following transla! tion a letter receive 
amp jon the peopl: but get we do not find that we 3 had e g know is so | Professor von Liebig :—] TEIR E E 
is overdone, for when at presen tal le—that i: "buie" meat s Lei deg I should unich, Jan. : 
n the head of stock, I would just turn yo e Me or D étdck. "There |, Prep acodit . Que NN 
i 1 Bs pays aey aaf r ture; 
prices which beef and mutton: have main- | is a friend of mine h ere to w j the | are being translated Dr. Blyth of Cork, who has by this 
period, as compared with other articles last 20 years on mim midje, and Is happy to say I | time nearly co them. Since last week I have been 
uce. When I first farming, | have no cause to change my S uie and E is this—that | lecturing IG — am — . 
ay was for a man to select a That pes ot the wealth and success of a farmer may be pretty well — the nightsoil and similar re sidues produced in 
Which was best ‘suited for Turnips. That por- | cale ulated by the amount of his eep k. Sheep | large cities: This necessity w in the event. 
g m ooo with the golden hoof, that |of a war with America, when. "the apt lies "y guano would 
* was not so much as might have been, I am sorry to they enrich where they go, and that is true. They not 7 arb otia 
ay, because we recollect Kc quantities that were 8 es Alla the ns masten but the soil. Their manure has | duction of corn and on should be so dependent 2 
* . Stubble of the fi qd. ith it is distri -— = ure. cr X heads wen the t 
through E S is and in ina way very different, from that 1 —— e, 
3 is left in patches y cattle; $e i 85 is — are Free bene — apris eic energie 
de mutton, p ly as crem are- e urine alone: 
; E It is 
cult, perhaps impossible, at this moment to convince 
CR D ua pane bep Letters on 
5 as well as to all » like yourself, take an 
in PP 
44 pin pes in a growing and healthy 
state during the winter months has been one 
Beans or Peas ( possible), one of Linseed, which I 
- | prefer it contains all the oil, one Barley, 
and one Wh ixed and ground up together. 
be equal to any artificial 
UMEN o from he e 
