Avovsr 13, 1859.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 681 
1 evan ai Davies at A tho. M arish has in it about 3000 broils of the old se nd as to the more sc 
GOOD FARMING IN ESSEX. B 7 t still deadlier RM of modern eR. d 
I NATA vr been so much interested and pleased with my | centre. Until the last 10 or 12 y „as our interest to-day is mainly centred on our 
friend Mr. H. Davis's account of the farming operation: the hands of the p 8 who to| told me that the Trish soil, anie s ps you will allow me for a very short 
at pokes that I cannot resist the inclination it has average growth of Whea on it was about 32 or | time to occupy the sort of vantage-eround which these 
ited in m to give you an accoun t also of some |33 IL from 2 to 24 bush ls of seed. The farm is | annual — Am of the Royal Agricultural Society 
doings in my parish of Wix. about the size of the one at Aynho, and 10 or 12 years | present to us, and glance at one or two of the leading 
Some of your present readers will probably recollect | since it was let to the present tenant, he former rly featu ures of the prospect we may thns take in of the 
the sharp controversies I — I" x held re had. been a gar 255 at an enormously high renh ds f - country. Now, i ing into 
some anonymous correspondents on the subject of] 19. an acre higher y paris 
farming, I e that the modern practice was far a rse, all the €— and others yo E gardener in ded. in the first year when those returns were 
— i E e M to be wa e. 8 was insane, and di gn his speedy r But M collected, in n Ta SA * ago- amoun 
vantages English farmers now have over those of] standing his 
other nations, they having more capital, better workmen, — has IL — 2 Ke 7 any tect farmer in ‘his elapsed —in the. » "1855 — they ‘had i 
and far better implements, better roads and better | county in the same time and from the same quantity | 5,882,152 acres, being an increase in those | 
markets, on I may add, a better climate than most, | of land. 643,000 acres, or at a rate id 12 per cent. in 11 years. 
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farming and farmers were now all perfect, use--and | foul g he did w | result in the mart kinds “2 pe re 8 he p — 
this was the burden of their arguments—in some few free it from all weeds, and so effectually he ad this have given thos 
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One gentleman I recollect of this kind being like the de fe sn ths so ditor 2 seen; he io which T have referred — have 
rest, as I suj — he would be, asha med of his name, | keeps also a great deal of stock; and to crown all he peg is * not less than 565,000 ncres, or 17 per 
te dba r from a parish near the renowned city of | sows thin his seod for Wheat, being about 1 bushel an | cent. of whole amount. The green crops have 
Covent ry, “into which it will be remembered I pre- acre, and I have 1 and confirm d ti The live stock 
eipitately, awe him. ing what he hosel states, namely, that one year with in Treland, ) which was valued in 1841 at 19,375,000. is 
This pink of a farmer and champicn of his class in another, ifn every year, his Wheat cr now in the " t year at 34,616,000 With 
reply tom ms —— and his other rope are “equally as t rms, the farms under 5 acres in 
o: complete cultivation, and above all rational great; aie an inquiry in tl ted t T In 1858, instead of 310,000 
ng, replied that he had sown his land twice, miller told me, that his Wheats always fetch the they - —— to 83,000. he farms above 80 
pytting on 44 bushels in the two — ut got no highest market price ther n 1841 were 48,000, and in 1858 they have 
uce, not even fit for fowls, and then he innocently — Last Thu nreda I we - over his farm just as the — to upwards of 1 „000. Now, the absorption 
e an innocent as he cer! ainly was—asked me what| Wheat fields were being cut, and I state Jithout fear d small don, d 1 know vell is EN, some in 
would have been his produce if he had sown less! I) of refutation oed Ss eyer ‘also his Wheat crops will | thi thers it i upon 
recall to gos 2 3 of the stand: still race of | ayo rage 6 e of very fine Wheat, indeed, a ste ep in tales ance ; bu t it is a fact, The application of 
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made of, for xi will 3 ecollected he had backers ig 2 ained, . of his Wheat was put i p with manufactures, We the factories draw to themselves 
amoun ing almost to a uanti ed, the labour — 2 s formerly expended — 
But within “the Jt ios or three years another nd the crops of which are od Lini] looms, J take is to be ccording to the inevitab 
ent rose nst - in the columns of the mples er before saw, and nd am I that rs we may think of it, surely 
Mark Lane Repre jee BUE so like his compeers was the d ibb “ey EX will be 6 qua acre, that I|it is our duty to watch all such tendencies, an 
bstituted t I myself mire 2 e at the at our measures to them. Among other improve- 
of the jealous goddess eos drowsy-headed servant re ti 15 p» market on a day to be named, ment s in our country, I believe progress has been 
This man wrote plansibly, and to gain credit except for Talavera, at that quantity. And all! remarkable than in the - sa so ‘of the 
to what he stated, said he had examined my bit of crops, roots and all, are equally as good as his Wheats, —— classes, subject is now iate 
pides and learned from some persons he met with on and the roots, ans el, disi. — Potatoes, the last consideration of the Imperial beg, a a bill | having 
road, „that my — of my doin ngs were all Th e seen not disease d Saya been en bro -— in on the r by an excellent gen- 
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— mind, 1 state that my bit of glebe as he! as it would * — xy to have a root of each in any ville. I — that the subject has largely engaged the 
show dhe it cons S oe ts of $4 T A 1 nts, pet garden. My se — also manages his stock, | attention of another gentleman from the is bo d 
is artic! nere e never whom I me the happiness of seein at this boar r 
w a rood of it; I would not pete have made this of hic » - FUR 33 EB — eU his Naper, I find iu t Ro yal 
Statement had he handsomely shown wherein he dis- not | a quart of the — is Wasted, and hence, without d Agricultural Society of Ireland, „Which is particalarly 
y farming practices and appended e where phi id, is mi — | gnati fied b to take the le ad 
hat he 8 not sku lked under bi d ru yo rops announces it 
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nothing but ebat was within 1 farmer's reach, we are now assem 
pu "nés za want of means it was not within every inmates have falle! 
m buta 2 me, | bodied males t hav 
1 . on Ms farm. Bat 1 said, to do justice to the s os Meme e in favour of employi sins | missioners for EE int h 
land, i insure good crops whereve er required, it and deeply |** and hands for c fol 221 cultivation, bu but sire AL ye 2 » 1 eeu 5 al E . t 
T * ear ima e number of persons out o: 
222 pe scratched Tes as it girl m Wilkins, Re Rectory, Wiz, diem Is y "s "uk = tn peres during 30 weeks of the year, or 
r 4 inc ; : alf t Mu as gene ns 
a P de ding on them 2i Meer n ird of 
in good heart and thorough working order; and above [The flaming se the remaris on tida saent — Lord- * n all th wak. 
added, ye this all — Seed would be of no avail, I Lieutenant at the late annual meeting of the Irish | houses in ns only 37, 000 nine with m 14,000 
d, to make of a good crop, must be me ev, Doas c "T | persons ; receiving € out- door relief. Mendicancy is nearly 
y eded. rightly assum a ges a doubled. 
This, Mr. Edi itor, w. qeu and it brought in finding m yself a again among the Pus ihe r ur the last element to which 1 will refer in this 
down upon my devoted bend much severe castigation, flourishing — vigorous rami be 9 Si boo uen. mtrast is crime. seek, gentlemen, to 
T freely forgive resentation, — pe by ihi t; bu ut | ha ad the privile ge o of bei g prese at a “exhibition den ny that our ears nre sometimes s our 
f: my enemies, an is t shocked, by the occurre f f 
das isa little more wisdom in their brain-cases, that past renown and of thelr sinning didus. sd with agrarian ou trage, deepeving potes tate ie 
hey are giv ing up their cherished ae and in | all th darkest dinde zx guilt; but looking at the general 
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of Ee n i d of taste tss ng operat ions. ien 14 i to "rete to those oi Ton t their familia are at A ihe gei! is oe remarkab ble of late 
4 ic x ject oj ars as it In this b 
letter, which I must not spin out too and from their having 1 — ee myself, enabled b y El eds vue is jul 3 year t dar aed i rid 
3 us ipe pe Bark 2 T — mr eontinnons m 1 roken residence to keep their atten- madla light. gm m ni of reverting outro tragos 
es less; lar] ecks, ion directed to the tran ex di the society, will be 
Ours but I shall reduce th tity of Oats thus qualified to speak w with ven and ee thority id pe am us 1 E 
Duoni — Bus Wheat four years in an occasion. like the present. rmit myse self to of the kind j in England. Now, 5 d period ot the 
— „ averaging an acre from 2 pecks say in pot for the exhibition appears) last 10 years. Te outrages reported | in Ireland in 
seed, or 176 bushels in ears from 2 bushels of to me to have been this year most happily chose 1848 were 14,000; in 1858 tl sunk 
Seod. The eropa wore threded by z machine in the field | Under these umbrageous iu whi x hay 5 om 
| the presence S eee tue sceptical | clust: iy, within of 
MOF Barley fone I had fie | close to an aai town, — — bat Mg name 
quarters | ancient origin—Dundalgan—the old fort of Dal, 
—— the shelter dws uu te qr, and | which, as far back as as the year 1001, x 
icine reaped we d of th eee m Ih have now | surrounding district 
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! „are the finest I ev bur utt loodsh Y much, I would. 5 
- beholder; the dibbled were too thick, and com 8 f TE nem the gigantic” curie u e of this Mad. ‘This Taa 
| * much à w being dark and brittle, anniversaries of the sige month 155 
mtual provocation and bitterness—wi 
80 ask my readers rie calmness and — —than ever had 
. &ecompany me mentally to a farm in my parish, & As —— squares of e. been the case before. And if I may have appeared to 
: account of which I give as a sequel to that of my friend | gratifying and deligh Simple to the barbarous! some to have been too minute in p summing up the 
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