m 12, 1859.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL a 
pl "T 
about 10007. on plougf 
It is an 8 which 
t vell 
YT es for the — of our la heu d pro- | 
, f vias ith all the uie iret | 
vA t wish them , mu uch Success thís 
— a us spending & i 
found with these cottages, and as I hope t 
| by 9.4, is large 
ead to further discussion on the subject, 
ribe them. Th 
dm b 1 out a very suc Sea one The 
parties w who form the co 
James Johns 
d eld — Leithen 
ock ; David Stew: e En; or Stewarthall ; 
wn a number of enterpri prune including 
er a eeu arthall, who all a 
of t 
fresh a 
sculie 
w 
e| _ LOND 
this subject 
—— 
lal Drai 
J. A. C 
8 py Lond 
wa Mr. 
Sutton, from nivis ‘the. following are extracts :— 
The 
subject of a —-— or trunk drainage ge * to have 
n asl vds wen. years, and we have had com- 
n the — movement 
h 
for p hing — 
it for his unw d exertions on this occasion." 
Correspondence 
a Hampshire Dum Ewe 
Lamb until | 
Lamb i a June or Ju ly ?—Mr. Bond in | 
useful am — before e the London Farmers’ 
5d. per week, . 8d. per 
f her 
annu charging E ned at cost Phe pes ng à 
— rn the - is apta than this, I shou ld 
ndents’ estimates, 
d be about 
| toni points 
far 
.|their pro h 
n s custom we so quie 
iini of their raring 1 at nnelh. But if we hav 
mt 9 suffer ed from ere floods, which a — 
n, however, pon us more disas- 
— y than ever, — sbe overflow of some 
streams, the injuriously high level of others, and the 
inefficien structed condition of thousan 
rooks, d ter- o s intersecting the sur 
which nally startle the publie 
- a river happens to break loose and sweep away 
perty. The natur wi these evils, to which 
e submit, will appear 
course of my paper. will just say here that 
mie wh kind of * inundation seems threatening to 
he | mes itself felt by the farmer more heavily 2 bets 
| ed bread-corn: and I 
ean the abundance of low-prie 
en | bring the Subject of river reform before you, because I 
The seulley -— the pant — were 
bac k o M rar 
— re 
ning-roo rance 
*h + +h se the 
— 
o dining soem was on your 1 the . ix the right, 
Anon. 
E 
efe bin — Feedi 
docet Journal, vols. 10, 12, and nr) shows tthe weekly | 
cost of fattening a Hampshire Dow to be— 
. d | 
8 lbs. oilcake, at 144. pe 0 10 
7 Ibs. A at T ja w. 0 34 
genet rn per 1121s. ; or 84 44 
0 43 
1 61 
4.3 205 ni 
Societies. 
AL ee iae OF ENGLAND 
: Feb. 9.— The Rev. L. Vernon Har- | * 
arses Secretary of -— United Service 
0 d 
p^ ates A e sheep md | 
in during the three “song ti at 
Is this miht. Would rot meh wwe 
the same locality, sent to England by Captain 2 
R. N., of H. M. surveying € Herald.—The Royal 
Agricultural Societ: Belgium announced a seco 
trial of reapers, to be instituted in ys — 1 — 
us Aim 
ety, a 
— for ey Vy i 
Gibbs & Co., the 
offered to pes it at the > ee of the Council iet 
the condition that it should have a "fair trial." 
es — 
scavengers on a are large consu 
1 many aeres Mr. Bond vii be kind 2 pape yee tow 
of p nnually by the 
. Sr ‘lamba, and pr p the rent and 
M. Carl Loeffler 
he — of poultry i in Germany, and 
Acton, a wn À of ber Eng lish Bread Book; » and 
55 2 the la An 
à sheep having 1 ‘Ib. of cake per day consumed | 
produc: 2 denm 100 ewes would | 
On this calcu- 
s 
nor are poor ferie Breeding 
them for the Mie would dn more corn than 
selling them as Mr. Bond's paper having | 2 
in hw “publications I have also distributed 
2 ca * to an — of the ge 
A er Wages. 
the Bath m Asir of En ped m. iens ural Societ 
para 
tive rai 
ions in = A gps wages, and 0 
dd ter and workman. J. G., 
ement Society.— reful 
ppg gy oo C ane ty,- —Having ca ly | 
mu signe: 
rs Clover leas are not likely to * "this ep 
lambs and fattening — 
e same 
38 | equitable terms; keeping in view the health: 
tage of 
tribu 
Far cram SEWERAGE.—Mr. G. Rochfort Cl arke, 
of Chesterton Lodge, oe Oxfordshire, transmitted | a; 
| = following d 
I wish to b ring. 
ewerage, wing obs of the Council of the 
Royal A dtm, Boalar.. "The —.— has alread 
their — ; ; but, considering that — — 
user d all sewerage into brooks and riv gree fee 
vesci — — is, at ms ‘same time, oo 
te! all parts o rapidly in 
emptyin, 
to water, on 
and for 
ug] 
mptying cesspoo! 
h liquid and solid — with a view 
'urposes. or the best method of dis 
agri 
conve i 
gre nog 
e labour 
sed 9 mutu: 
towards th 
exp p sense of the im 
the subject to € it related, and his assurance hat 
many of the vital energies of breeding stock wi 
n 
om I think that there are many objections to be 
injured b; 
1 to Feb, 16. 
t which are now so urgently needed by 
means of pro 
soil. When prices rule low, our 
the We of the 
only resource lies either i in a diminished e xpenditure 
ora greater produce, or indeed in both. At present, 
the a ral ie is d hi toward 
meeting the difficulty, by reducing steam tillage to a 
farmer is left to fight the battle of the 
| single-handed, the * Ae promises to be his 
ablest weapon, But ter subsoil drainage 
as one of the surest 5 * against a rainy day;“ 
and here c omes in the duty of the landed proprietor 
its after - results of de eep tillage and high 
y opening an . outfall for any 
A 
amount of dra vite n unlooked for high range 
of prices has been only postponing the fulfilment of 
several great helps which the landowners and the legis- 
latu ure can bi cogent give to the “ unprotected” farmer. 
such as Agricultural — a Tenant- Right Law, 
com's "i "Transfer of | La nd, alteration of the Law of Settle- 
and 
o on, thi g 
the lea mportant anc Simeon You see I connect 
T subject —— legislation, and after briefly adverting 
the fact: se, I propose to consider the 
ds cessity for Parliamentary interference, and to offer 
my views of the way in which that assistance may be 
tirely —Captain Childers. favoured the Council with s an offer Secun. empty: 
d m he could | land (all but 
— ons, on the subject Bor 
of | Professor Simonds, in recommending that this com- 8 and its connected rivers 
| 8 — be referred to the Journal e 
mit portance 
conferred. To convey an idea of the extensiveness of 
the 38 I ur be a little geographi ical. 
"og a og island passes off to sea in a generally 
h t the 
den ET 
rivers, iip e 
the W. 
g broad meadows thro) 
A. he sluggish 1 Was eea the Sues, Nene, Welland, 
Ban mare of - — eys parts o 
Rata ll el rshire, m ptonshire, 
Leer Miror nen Huntingdonshire — eee, Battal 
rre ar ed The Tham ts feeders extend inland into 
ing oie 
erkshire, pom hire, besides 
ux frin ed with 
,» 
tour, M Crou Blackwater, Colne, " 
— Tees, Wear, Tyne and Tweed; — including’ an innu- 
erable succession uA. Le arm r less importance, 
ese, with an 
eod may psu flowed at intera eth — 5 "Nile 
and Jordan 7 it is certain that ee h fres! 
ay ncli 
great outfall works have been executed on the 
Dee, gu y Neve ce e saec agi xo 
coast 
the 
d Dom er the 
