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of plants are attached. The presence — 
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ntimate aequ 
3 they do it, is a de- 
e to farmers in general. 
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ORY AND PROSPECTS M — 
HIS 
PLYMOUTH SEED COMPANY’S COLLEC- 
1 a [^ v occasionally 
iven 1 m = serieltural socicties. The 
xtracted from the speech to 
Dang meeting of the 
pllo passages are 
hich we refer, gig at a 
a Farmers’ Club. 
lexh 
“ E P back the thoughts of those who are old | can injur nutton or 
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h myse elf to recollect what things were, about | in the growth of wool. _ We have por te summer | had thro ugh my hands a 
is century, and direct atten- | feed ; 3 
on to the great changes which have taken place, which | all know, to make up the suppl yw the summer | had a small — of 1 
blamed for not having antici- food fails; and 5 have the nin ag if w we hene i 
what would have been the use of the judgment, the skill, and the liberality to do it, to than before; 
to suc amazi ing extent as | raise beef and mu beyond any other e ountry on th 1 
been increased unless there were people to feed, face e e globe. It is very astonishing f rent; and, 
d statisties of France and of me country, Pl to seet a year, then I have 
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ne the moment the impulse was given, 
the moment remuneration was shown, the moment it 
ent or one part of the co 
it will hardly be the case, as it might t have been if beef Psi EM pei. NBG . 8 
and mutton were at 4d. a lb. instead of 7d. and 8d., Nat ion. They ren Re excellent — W^ d qualities, 
Sa had wool been at 18s. or 30s. | stone 4 of sine m and may be deemed economical in the truest 
36s., as we have had it formerly, or instead of 42s. as Jo, T. Complete Collection, ES fick ient 1 
it is now; for, it may be of some consequence for you, No. 2. Complete Collection for „„ råen, . 
know, and some consolation to those who have much No. 3. e e Collection i in stall small Garden, 15 11. 5s. 
to sell, that I know of one person who has No. 4. ud vm — ttis gen oa — 
for his next year's clip of between 200 and 300 stones "m ree, 
sas E o be p id within a ee of his No. 1.100 Packet Lange iron bg unm 
clipping it Ithi 0.9.—50 „ "m e 5 
Il tod : No. 3.—25 „ AEN 
Whea other grain, tho E e and n eum Freight and Carria 3 LUN 
not so 8 but when I have drawn your er All orders for Seeds above 1. forw: dat free to any Stations 
tion to the low price of Wheat and to the high | viween Plymouth and Paddington. All orders 2 above 2l., free 
comparative price o -— mea yn " be that unfortunately rain came, and he w as Tai "oli alto- 
this lesson meets y gether for a week. If you compare the probable success 
more favourable as t soil pla ono “for t a — and cheapness of management of tlie one with those of 
duction of Wheat idol our own; that Wheat is an | the other, you will find that all the hard work, all t 
article which can be transferred from one of the the parsimony employed—and which 
untry to a 
ae! qun 
s alla a poor man | has toe employ upon a small farm—is 
the arrangem ent, and 
noth 
. as compared with its value, te bs a 
the skilfal e of larger establishments. 
ood many farms of different 
nd for the 
ast e m when I wn 
rear o let. 
the 
ount that is o. 
duced in is this to co 
sole you 
that it will 
) buy their ams wod mutton . „as they do now, the 
is 
hardly x eaten in this c on reda or my own part 
I think it has ruled rather as much too dign ^ Wheat 
o] tt +. th 
E that Which i is sufficient for them. Von v 
mh say, at the time he geile of, when 
U goi ina 
£ +} 
has ruled too 
clu. aio, of it, "hat there is now 1 a i 
iption of food 
had 25 or 30 per cent. advance. I 
do not say I rejoice in this, ‘but it forces itself on my 
The only liking I have for a small farm 
ta a kind o! 
dustrious labo: 1 8 
ave seen signee of this, and I have — very glad 
to encou but, whether we A to — 
int t Min ood, ve my vote for 
rth t gi 
consi piderablo size, deo there is Ar 
: K to indulge — m with 
jery m 
attain ed an age when it was fancied they might be 
ug butchers’ The father of a family | k 
thought himself very well off if he could feed zone or 
capital t to employ all the improv ements and implements 
| NT YD f lal 14549 
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£ 9 
43074 
and brought to market ee were taken up | two pigs, and exceedingly tl d l t 
Now, that won't do in the present day. | cow; but you now see the butcher’ shop in „every Under all prog n ud itis our meras 
e had then a scanty fleece of wid every year fr lage, gj duty to try to culti 
the sheep got to be two or three | at every cottage d I TO: Such | cultivat land E: will be dest to turn your 
d. But what i e fact | is the diff way 0 of living, and I am tention to t] that it ost des sir = te we 
round you see that they are taken a you will all rejoice ` with me in thinking that it is ld prod y 
sooner that they were at those times; low have taken place in the in im- "ibn market Hag ill 
that a sheep is allowed | provement and in the increase of the 2 uantity of be most remunerative, I kub ds re is a way of 
We should — es butchers meat which we are no eigen g upon Wheat as productive rene 
eep are brought to ma arket at our farmers to market, has iot esponding | it has been fixe to guide the commutation of 
e increase taken place in corn Kasse the very thing |t tithes "E various other things, but it is proved to be a 
erived from sheep tha rip € rer, one gives a stimulant fallacious ground for computing prosperity of a 
wo years longer, and occupied your anti more anure your lands that u - rear|farmer. I have heard many people inveighing agai 
e way i th cattle; and en ioia: and you bone 2 the low market price of Wheat at the present moment, 
e greatest a produce, and every kind of combination whic d pn 4 7 a sd thrive?’ But there is 
n, I be t you oe ea tity. The q - increased in ‘that respect a fallacy in this, of do will hold me out in 
ani ^id 8 or | goes again to i nerease manure in your foldy ard. — 5 that, notwithstanding t e very low prices, the 
es in t 
Y 
from the first — of its birth, 
acquired 
u nave nada in 
that E 
u very much better. 
d. Th ierefore 
of reaping your corn 
Bre an animal losin 
ng for one month, it t 
month to make it 
d hen Pat kne deciso 
teron of th 
At t 
e into the fields . into bd 
d rs er is making. But E, oed if you turn to the 
remunerating P. ier. the is receiving 
both beef and mutton, I need not recommend E 5 
pursue the rearing of " beef and mutton, 
0 à they ey are in- 
2 in, iege esto losing one bv And wá 
the practice o of my neighbour 
' ng their Turnips in $e die lds in Ry so that m 
de: ill not make the sheep have 
: hey have always "fresh food to go to. 
ES m is that we find we have it in our pow wer 
supp yt & 
esting. Iam glad to see now that from one end 
- | ciall y the enlargement of your 3 flocks of sheep to » the 
n + ad 
m e 
the Tyne to the 88 Jou hardly see a ed 
which, as I said befor 
Therefore the guantity of manure is not only increased 
n your foldyards, but you increase it also by the pur- 
chise of those 3 and adventitious escis which 
hav un so gree Fe effect in . ne 
een of the people; but aes we dio Tap find that 
overdone, for when I 
m the head of a I would MI 
int prices beef and mutton have main- 
à for a — eru as compared X € articles 
am sorry to 
quantities e were lost 
uj a stubble- 
that portion of fallow —— 
o at present, pro 
last 20 years on the subject, and I am happy to say I 
chan 
have no cause to 
they enrich where they go, an 
Sea ee Ft s but the 
us quality, and 
throughout the Tandi 2 a T ve 
ich is left in pa 
this also, that while To ne the — pro 
s life as 
valuable at the end of the 
give n you, year after year, the Rosen vitii ie 
and is. in the progress of the manu- 
w 
facture o of this country, I think — have no reason to 
E in my lectures on theoretical and 
b my opinion, and it is this—that 
ei wealth and success of a farm 
p | cease. ——— — ends u 
most unnatural that, 
I do believe is the great object we must look : 
" the stapl lity of our farms 
| Home 9 onden 
2 8 25 vem hs t 
a letter reveived’ from 
Oiessor von 
„Munich, Jan. 9. 
“Pray accept my best thanks for your continued interest. 
agricult 
of Cork, who has mi ae 
ted by Dr. BI 
ince last week I have been 
being transla 
‘time ie hy ge ent them. 
lecturing wage; and I 
— ME Engl the pro- 
and meat s honid e so dependent on the 
The heads of even the most 
urned by a t 
n or 
pu — perhaps impossible, at 
I have 
iff 
Ee 5 : hae jus publibed dnd de alf feel most 
t with now, er again seeing at a very disastrous price." After | Ch: 5 yourself, : 
or perhaps, in many cases, enumerating the e which seg tom en place in | Bratefal ws the welt ert denda Ae any assistance — "us 
produce of corm. was —— may be propagating this great truth. n 
nearly one-half of the pan of qu ds we contemplate thei increase of the population in 
en with regard country as 360,000 a year, we see that, unless 
e h is maintaining, wars or 3 all the efforts we can use will a N ON un 5 d e ea ie, 
peg terete for the cultivation of that peta nat of supplying them with It is on this | and crispness; keeps in perfection longer than Seer 
y gives you at ground that I think that must have farms of con- | 15. per 
ou an annual ska of voee = i iy extent if x intend that th the progress of agri- x Low EE en per A ced 
truly with. ture should go on. It is consistent with that || varieties! for 25. "free :—Seymours Golden Perfection, 
the ean. thrive |i should: be so, because on a farm of consi ymours Golden Beechwood, Marshal. Pelissier, 
it frei d ined of Wheat at 40s. and below it. | extent, where all the arrangements are regular, and the || Netted tian Gree Bibs us — "t Uere et A ance 
one of our d the other Eron conducted with skill and good manage- || Gantalou pey Groe Groen etat Sir Gore Ouseley’s, Holme Hall. 
— d gould be ruined 2 price | ent, bande needful for each kind of PETURION GOURD, 1s. pe 
Windies are ch hav —.— If you go to the farm of a man who has eight or Sood Establishment, P Queen Street, Hull. 
depend upon. is ou see as regular a system as in any other 
on some small farms of cold ; ; you see ploughs sent to make the drill rows, 
