1859.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE € AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 821 
leasing manufactory assured E West of England S r the} The followin is a reference t rogress 
ae n bs . that none of {s can d sy Manu factures, and Com- inelosure :— s CEN "a 
bat still y ee: ving that this is the proper answer, n 25 25 x TIME atthe It is to deeper cultivation and the improvemen so A " nta: 
wit t. h 8 "D lands that we have now to look for the extension o 
produce. The earliest records of substantial 3 date 
NS ‘h Devon 1 meeting at Barn Sis tied from the earliest period of the reign of George the Third 
E m The passing o of more tban 3000 bills of incre li a 
of 60 years is a pu. — rapidly the cultivation of new 
nd proceeded in that . A committee of the House of 
acres. We havein d Analysis of the Occupations 
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of the People" a complete record of the progress of inclosure 
fine, reall tatel k i i ve ope from the commencement of the present century to the year 
he sta a or m Thi 3 1840, viz.— 
= : rel u ad raise = wind,” and I hope m ESI. infact f sal al From 1800 to 1810 E. a .. 1,657,980 acres 
M aga A and again on any tus depen Meere irablep i| From 1810 to 1820 141080 „ 
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may ach that is irreplacea enble s but I still hold that few | Nicholson, Agricultural Engineer of Newark; Total il 
a : oftheprini Tova denlorsand manufacturers has enobtained. 1 
hedgerow trees ar ing in of the. fossedl, ia gains Thus, during the first 20 inc osures amounted to 
: may remain bini t doin, ial MS. M upwards o of three millions. of ‘acres. But whi hile these 20 years 
15: these y g B present to our view the phenomeno! of i — peel it 
harm, even 0 arable fa 2 Let every man think een be stated that this took place ‘ander the stimulant of the 
of cutting timber i ee hi t "bo S u T. T as f highest range = pey Pus ever es pere ae ot 
has made Y l t m cut oo amine. At the close of the war in e ave price o! 
up his urs s s de nr. heat bad been during the preceding 15 years 848. 9 qr., 
and during the succeeding five years it was 78s. 4d. From 
oim 
hood hood with the “ yearly profits derived from the des of 
tion of the fac e of our beautiful country.” Serung 1 be e 
= which I cannot agree is a proper | show ivili ion o must, in order to - ran 6d £ 
melo — . are his — as to e «d of i i dar 1820 to 189) only reached 340,380 acres, Aud gredvally 
the e by pointing to nearly every am melioration of . iduy i * WT : y 
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the 40 we have an addition of three 
s 
with. agriculture, causes not 
acing or kely t n t 
re Me N he need not be in any ws en d lib y ? 
alarm as to the degradation of our à Ac ed ottery, glass, m. work, wood work, in their ment, gives the following figures :— 
. eee, MEM ME N et prg for gpi sures since the ME LÀ rus — 809 
Exchange EH . 1697 
Partitions, &c. n ic sé „ 261 
Total 
Of this number 316 have tak: en » placent in the —- year. 
Acreage of N 
Ditto 
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in the way he speaks of. Let him take a trip this 
summer and Judge for himself. I ae sure he will not 
de di disappointed in what he sees. Sener. 
Sotietles. 
281,949 
i ditto in progress .. = 8,687 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL | or ENGLAND rner and ot! | eminent artists, h as few have an oppor- Total 20 
3 the Duke of tunity of eee LH be opened tothe public in a manner round numbers h alf a million of ac ese returns 
or 
rod adi a period of five years, which were in inelu judea in in the last 
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" Frxaxces.—Mr. eme nd Barker, Chairman of the | hibition will open o TY Rg Ee Aer) and last for the week. | decennial period from 18:0 to 1840, but. I have no power of 
` t d t hav ^ 
3 e laid before the Council the IE te a eod Deis cibo the 16th April. d, and | sepurating t Them. It is estimated tliat there are still 15, are 
i acres of waste » nds etis of pcg Sera ment, 6,000, o! 
Moni Report on the — of the Society, from of MEN m ay be had o Hr eppitcation to Mr. George Down, | nich would make arable land, and the remained improved 
ihi vs it appeare 4 "that t current hal $n thè — — y — XM igh oe nd Mana Thomas Dyke Ac- . 
* un., irman of t ts an tures Committee, 
"hands of the ban 1 a: 22067. Sprydoncote, Exeter, 8 Mr. Smith concluded with a review of our progres 
1 az Mr. T ia ce ars eee of the Journal in drainage, farm buildings, rotation of pea green 
made the following repo cropping, Jabour, and the application 
1. The Co , 
Implement report should be sold at 2s. 6d. each vies im of steam-power. 
2. That W i on Potatoes by Dr. Lang, ordered to be Lon April —The Tess of Agri ulture.— 
P ger Dai duced so as to be published at a Mr. R. "Smith, of oath aia Seal a er on this 
3. — Beth Sp E SML on on J Horse- -shoeing is subject, from which we extract the following passages 
e EACH 2 
5000 
Reviebos. 
» copies (cost) .. — .- x 10 ^0 of agricu ulture from tbe earliest times. more | Results of an Experiment on the Half-time : nay i r, f 
pesi (oo 08 39 16 10 | detailed treatment of the SEHE commenced pn the Education in Rural Dist 
Onhand1700 — Profit .. +. 6 6 10 dake of Ve Agricultural Society of Englan 5 EAR d 8 C. Paget, Esq. MP. 
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WAR — Lord Chairman of the General lough? s pamphlet publishes a paper read at the Liverpool 
Warwick Committee, — the Couneil Ki crit f meeting of the N of W vae The fol- 
factory progress made in the preparations for the foreign trade for ds | lowing is the most of it; we have we carry 
Society’s — enis pmo ng, to be held at War- with portable manures from uet E author's aati vr caving ^ cried 
wick in the week commencing Monday the 11th of July. | foreign birds? Who had tho ou ht her 
* Fisher Hobbs brought forward the | Substance to a soluble & food. f InNovember, 1854, I determi aber mà play cg boys 
motion, o ich he had given notice at the last to de k hith » y four, 
3 monthly meeting, to rescind the D e 5t each boy spe his day at ai an 
of May last year, in reference i on gs under school . ae other, so that I should always 
which a dinner should take place in A ed at t the paper? 8 have four on the € four at school. d 
county meetings of the Society, in order that ? might agricultu 5 5155 mor d Mes- inconvenience in this rrangement ; when the boys’ 
be enabled to submit to the Council a plan by which | senger, and, other jour rnals now dev the | clothes were wet and dirty, from their morning's work, 
they were * for school. I therefore cha 
the dinner in his opinion might be — jK — causo of agriculture? nged my 
ce of 5 Lat the boys now work on alternate days. 
5 ulti full r. Smith -— reviewed the history of the London 
discussion then ensued on this subject, in ich the whole | Farmers’ Club 
bearings of the question, founded on past experience, | The happy formation of this — ont E — — June, Sue at 
3 5 3 . once announced a new era in the annals of our agriculture, 
t Mc ish iv te Fisher * inasmuch as Mr. Baker, of Writtle, was invited at the outset | ° 
tion to his motion, the | to introduce the subject of ad Artificial Manures,” for the free 
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Council uo —— whe it was found that the Council by a | discussion of the members. Since that period this 8288 8 T pirit; and I have no difficulty in 
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ered to their l of topic has been discussed 10 different times, and there hav 
eir resolution of last year, been up to this date no less than 110 subjects discesa Ly he 
ting t ture. esti 
Serle that there should be no diner at the | of “Tenant Right ” has been Before the bonas 0 times; 
Warwick Meeting, aud which stands as follow: the agricultu 1 rice —.— Myr pas seven times; and 
per loss of his son's 
pies too great a sacrifice, 
willing to for oneal ‘the ount to secure to 
> -~ “That, in future if any dinner ner be held at the cow e draining and root crops f The important sub- wg o yan T does not 
EN. under the patronage of the Society, the entire manage- jects of geology, diseases of cattlo, . statistics, agri- 
ment sl De vested in p e Local Committee: but cultural marem ry, waste lands, food of cattle, farm leases, 
A me shall have the option and power "of reservin and ect pbs a v the e breaking-up of Grass land, carts and 
hs — uch a number of tickets as it shall think fit; waggons, deep cultivation, the influence of science, the rota- 
4 is Society shall 1 the chairman, and sup- e — id ar inp A A RO, a 3 ra peg Bret 
i the list of t ts, e farmer's so ve also shari e atten- 
hs Piy the is ° d» but shall have no other liability tion of the Glad. This is a result which may be written pod 
3 (e. the broad pages of our "ddatory, b n the book of agricultural 
— s from Can Pil i] : 
JS T eem Croydon, "Guildford d Tielgnte on on The following is a short history of the extension of 
our resources as to manures :— 
Liebig gave the greatest scientific stimulus agriculture by 
f vitriol or other acids 2 rendor the 8 
in a district co 
rising K ent and Surre TI n Ing 0 
! Jon Committee w was appointed, consistin: A r Ray- 
; mond Barker, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, the Son W. 
witha re MP, Mr. . Fish er Ho bbs, a and Mr. Milward, 
and report on their suitableness or otherwise for the 
a me ode ety, ME the next monthly council. 
is prese a copy of his new serinl 
work pst in France, on the en lts and progress ot li ne, 
Ariel tural armed o th in Adr? 
of € 
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AND West or ENGLAND.— Mr. Acland has enon by reducing hem to a a fine powd 
te the following letter to the raat n of the sad it i gat Dee A. EE 
of 
topi been simultaneous with that of y gu M 
"The facts that H. R. H. the Prince Consort has become a 8 utilisation. 
