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|. Fesrvary 5, 1859.] THE coc a ad kc GAZETTE. 103 
| most inadequate to the wants of a family, Y I believe | tiously acted apon, would be ast ! 1 f numbe er, and in some charities nearly extinct. The 
| $s also impolitic as regards the emp ploy rer; for it is un-| munity. We hav all our 1 du o fu oth | cl also engaged our serious attention ; they 
|^ reasonable to expect tl the borders | in public a and in priv ate. The wo rg ce p bir — were very heavy, and in neluded mole catchi ing, sparrow 
1 n can be possessed of strength, energy, and that. minute portion of it with which we are — cate — besides all footw ways and bridges, "s 
| spiri work, o y co nnected, should be the better for our living | steeple was always under repair, and I believe much 
| ean be brought up in health and vigour in it ; live in vain, or l holly for | money fictitiously expended upon it. "The rates 
| As m. example of the — of such ourselves. W ell, to become a goo d member of society (a | had been collected eight years without — 
i was found not many yea en a near being a good member of soc iety), accoun for. What would our burch- rate , aboli- 
| relative op hee ag who has large sums — his 1 I set about — myself; I became a teacher in tionists say to this? b aes we set 
in superi tending works of “land improvement,” was | our aca — — and was as superintendent of | these matters, and w adually e — them, and in a 
brought into communication th parties in the another for mar I € — interest in music, way that works sati sfüctorily up to e nis time. 1 often 
N southern counties who complained of want of employ-|and in Pun m icm — zational — I | wonder w hat our zealous young reformers would have 
ment mong their peasantry, whicl led | managed a large Friendly Society “(this I have done for | | done in those days; those were real reforms in arochial 
to his offering to give work to 1000 them, if they | upwards of 40 years). 2 time rolled at Noth ame greatly | affairs; now I reckor n them only .gleaners in the rı e 
€ = by: eir way to this county - with t 7 for interested in other The days of ploughing field. = this was not done wi 
whic 5 Sis, unkin was thus that I sought to make . 
—.— at piece-w' work, according to their ista and 
matters. 
matches and Lord stacks were — known; the only u 
— we had of encouraging the and the — | 
s by frequent, “inspections ; some ev 
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— tho ough 
it served to | 
1 
a plication. 
j A Benevolent ia Teas a party of m 
th ey 
with m 
very object I and some of my young friends had in pd ei 
It was tue invariable custom — | 
W che ther 
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The vil was this: thing to attai 
ther could reac 
They were 
be so wanting in 
coul 
men of the country gain 
and ended by their disappearing gradu ually 
and disappointment. 
wh however low the rate of wag 
some counties, the price of labour is ea ually teas 
With men so ill-fed, and children reared 
physically an 
5 — a set ^ dier but proved to 
method and i n power that few adt 
he 
A 
I have many men in mye 
county 
It is therefore to be qnestioned |t 
f may be in| 
y mo 
ployment t, and at wages by no means the highest i in the 
best attain How ever, i ico was nothing Tike qui about 
— Saterday to leave their — work, so that it. I recollect v very well borrowing of Mr. Thom: 
This soon led | Peele a num aber of Ev: 
s of te agricultural newspaper 
greatly inte rested i in reading 
ee and W in 
meh armers Journal, 
years back. J was 
— Holkham 2 
. 
aiia men —— 
stroll round the tse o or * 
ight furro the 
1 n be egan t 
dk finishing their — at «t The uch mice Herp ome ; amba 
cularly — tidal Sundays, bem bmi diu — 
dia were Long Sut — was at this 
time rin ha — boliday; & — it wi 
g men of more stren ngth than | 
nd many such — | 
me 
in 
passed on, 
an 4 count iy success which 
Some old men have only 10s. a 3 11s. ae cay Men 
for the year, with a house and garden free of 
while 
m 
by the 
atte —— the Hotham ES e LE and the 
a e | Holkha of a 
to put an end to this disgraceful course, for as | | 
notorious that if a young man was known * be hg os 
xpi an 
ever ywhe ere, and it w 
f this district, he have 
as mes likely that the “ants 
t in 
rent, Los. 14s. 6d. * r week ; suy 3 Who M ne 
the year round; 
always stood prominen 
* their 
0 
sentiment is expressed by the elegant Mrs. 
latd ger at tl tings q tl improvement likely t 
ment, open to the public, are fuo d to! eting, an r Treclect | country, . lut e without a corks of their o 
185. to 20s. a week. E aem a m, air thane emo vi with | as a plo ughboy 3 ae the “arrangements got up r | In the meantime I paid great att ntion to the introduc- 
1 and ener; e the support of meat — — Well, things could not go on so. A ating tion into this distri new varieties of grain, seeds, 
as ell T nd PE can "afford to use it. I have was got up at Sutton, called awi h—that is, | Turnips, Mangels, Cabbages, Kohl-rabi, Chicory, Carrots, 
Den it stated that the regiment of North berland ploughman could draw the straightest fu | Lu , and Sainfoin; and a a time the whol 
Militia occup; andin, und than any other ived a copper teakettie, or uiry, and now you hear 
u 
TOW e. 
pr) was aroused to in 
s 
of 
“sorts br everywhere, and everybody getting them. 
> umn culture, subsoil ploughing, hollow- 
| drai MEO on 2 5 latter subjeet permit me to state that 
first pamphlet ever printed 
s by Mr. Sw 
ý i 
veral friends. This was rim 
d by se first effort i 
s keptit up for some yenti with | : wrote and p ned the 
ny T t Lon 
aide 
ploughing matches 
. Barbaul It d ew off from Sutto on ma refrac c- g Sutton (this was . I also under- 
pee d more 2 elim — — eep doy a breed o Pire famed and heavy- 
E 1 i parties were thus divided, the worst —— xor i sheep ens te use ot t neighbourhood. it 
Men will pore ae on 8s. a sont for ibil of Lang Velten Fair subsided. It is — 4 a oue orderly was in this that 2 de in my small 
pum a ily., If sucha synte lasts, the meeting—in „ a pa of a ial, pleasant capacity tc to be N “afl m n of busi I now come 
: t ay D c John reps assemb! a of tacitus the fodinis nition a this int 
Di ilston, No gratulation—a m ofa useful vd wherein I have been ud. n ct more in a "public 
— a hi Er great rd bes d dh r and —.— capacity. I have € that Long "Sutton will never be 
ni ut tha TIR bebindhan rovements ; consequent 
E LIFE OF AN ENGLISH FARMER. in reason and moderation, to enj Sutton the s rabo f an 5 Society ame 
TESTIMONIAL to the personal w h and public market was soon ge ds time ST plished, a the fair | talked over, — at m qo ing time came, and it is 
his MOL — t "ar r order of things one of the many good things which have emanated 
z Sut — neighbours to Mr. John Clarke, of | prevailed; a deci ied pisei n the ch 8 of our from this Aab ape for the benefit of the neigh- 
^ u! acp “a gg nd we take from the population was to be noticed, owing, I believe, to the | bourhood. It was at a me f this association he 
2 ^h the Mar press the following | many pu eetings held—such as bible, eatioawry, on 22 23d 1 37 (22 years next Monday), that the 
E 4 mca e —.— from his reply on the tract meetings, and others, aided extended and Long Sutton ee iety was mooted. 
“The on i " larke said :— efficient religious teaching in the pulpit and Sunday following Friday, February sà was fixed for holding 
E: Lo nes of a life like mine cannot be very inte- schools. 5 it was by giving my ved — 1 eut all the meeting for establishing t he society and drawi 
ER any remarkable features worth your | these mov yaar t I endeavoured to beco: ood | up the rules, and by * urnment to the 17th, when 
ids zi 1 e as born where Inow live: “TI till the member of socie they were finally carried, and the society established 
^ yi ore 3 sg opan it may, id Dod inap-| But I 8 to fit myself for becoming a good upon its present basis. operations, however, fi 
may tend t courage e | parishioner—that is, I goo vd gh wherein * could ju the inst enh n estricted to the parishes of Long 
Sutto 
my + eri either to 
— Re I I say, to y young | the mana i 
: gement of parochial business, or in correcting | but in.the followin; ear it was extended to its present 
ads ; LIP sata in mind, we do pt pt all p poses t e any of the abuses or irregularities that bu 5 or may, in in boundary. W. Ske * p hee appoin E 
T4 ho em "I mentally or physically ; | the course of tin have ari When mmen nced | and myself 8 s remium list co 
Eau ever, by indus try | and care improve both ; | busin * v — for stock, and rewards for labourers; and this 
r was m: ined with varied su to the 
eum hes iuo can ad. vigour and hardihood era EA 7 5 at ths ne Lape sid ren meeting of 1844, when the prizes for itok were 
ig gem y s ic € and manual labour. e parish ocior oec ide to 1107; bailey nti e sud course of year an amal- 
thee balers p young men yc com- constables, at handsome levies 5. a. At thi s gamation was ted with a similar society formed 
: r er more - — seq time i 155 had rly ti "T over and over- | at Holbeach, which p In 1839 we emi 130 
i ire- | seers; for it was only requisite for the pauper to|members. In 1841 Mr. Skelton was electe 
M ees . and freely tell you it a magistrate and make oath that he was deditio, ad of the society, and m welk t treasurer as well as secr 
Wy sd teal aa YE rode 728 te the foolish. idea at once to receive a eremptory or ief, and it | In 1843, the first eles were offered for mowing 
Well in the word d dis I should do t to — — he which speedily d . effect of pem n down all "i ; 
ey ‘ore might enjoy myself. | were consequently very high for r e dices against t . In 1844, the first 
bed caue imm effort could not take | this it was customary to pay the — of a great many | offered for hollow desinis ning. 1847, the 
Ter s went on | enormous burt en (6s. to 7. the “soe fe e e eti ddl 
= $. pound). wW i c 
"m d i | however, attended to duties | us set about its reduction, and y unhappy dissen- | first educational prizes were given. 
Meran hk hard on my father’s | sions w We il; t rid of the assistant- | plough was i 
Tika ay eng ug ; and for | overseers, the cottage rents, and by establishing | collection of implem: 
fols. Ta T proportion of ‘the corn, | a system of labour either on the : s or otherwise, | steam- 
f the farm took my part ; | materially 8 E relief pce ntly the 
Wor as I believ 
1 
success ; 
alent is o i$ ale 8 eben — persevering | w 
he finest talents ts in are ratin 
was the taking? there - highway a) des 
pt 
— e 
— ve e 
was soon more to the ul Iun capa dim 
provided, the ee 
