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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Jvsz 7, 1862, 
worked. publicly, "where the farmers themselves will be best 
able to judge them. Wiliam Smith. 
Exeter, there were nine - competitors, and the "work |. 
don e was of a very high í — b Бла ы : the first 
and gratitude for his long and ardu 
behalf, and x is satisfaetory to know 
nous US services į 
w that asa in ita 
This gives a comparison of c field of heavy land 
lminst 
eE 
entitled to take part in the p 
E 
Barley referred to by W. е Саа with hors 
cultiv „Та 1 now able il 
аара 
appearance S ү, сгорв, and that the eye of eve гу 
— s mne well a 
fine dee p gr тееп, while all the 
iud Ж gos " this € tells you and every pr m" al 
farmer enough. William Smith) p? olston, May 2 
Zor t8. 
Жыт AL AGRICULTURAL OF 
Іх uence of the mo Шу КЕЎ of the 
Council bin held г day pud than usual in the week, 
the official report has not reached us 
е м-н MEETING. 
Barn or ENGLAND SocrgTY's 
was em li. тў а close on Friday last. AER a 
er the e qaem circum. 
е 
than many were 
isposed to an iiie: and the 
falling off in the hari Say as compared with those at 
though amounting to 6007. and upwards, was 
uch p ^ unfavourabl 
to the fact that 
к 
edd. the Wells Meeting o 
West. of England. Society has been a Mar of | 
г), w 
| pres it) “ 
who on qm pieds pede was pic оаа а high h 
commendation. As roof of the general ie nefit 
likely to result from i a institution of thes prizes 
4CCUullve body 
AYR IRE.—À meeting of the Dire 
las t wok; {о receive the report of te jad ы: 
judges rv 
16 may be vies that there were 
Hostes - n, Dorset, and Somerset, and nen is 
plac t yea 
what steps should be taken in regard to ? and 
f tho trials taking 
e sh 
Mr. Bell of Ead t lini 
4 
m g ow yard, y 
be witnessed by all who take an interest in it. 
T 1 ed for dairv cows, and in- 
e Cheddar district, were 
very to; o» the prizes for, cheese 
were divided between the counties of Бойе апі 
Dorset, the successful makers in both cases pursuing 
the same * Cheddar ? system. 
At the Annual Meeting o 
er, 
Mr. = Walro 4 
г. 
4 Юг. Вгеп& апа 
маси s of Comeil to "supp ly the e of r 
ANQUET took place on Thursday evening, 
-— 
e 
nor the presidency of T. D. Acland, e —— 
e yea € was su T a tine а Portm 
the ci ivil power, the "Bishop of the diocese as repre- 
The стл ЙН commenced by reading th 
à e 
the Trial of Fowler's Steam Cultivating Мас ыш ы 
The ju pe -4 ene в at Ayr Show on the 29th А, 
were me ed by the ommitteg. of Manage 
the trial of | T 
and they ha 
b steam e ali 
the public, the judges g not think it I 
е Ayrshire 
Ле Home F, 
жо most a ES 
nder a Wheat cro yw 
given to 
enter int * 
Association 
e 
ее by xg Ed. 
d 
The 
з the stiffest clay they were set on edge. 
20 
Cante erbury Meeting of ihe Roya al: A vbt however, as 6 acres, 1 rood, and 20 poles, iu 10 h Whon 
(Lord Portman) as reptepenting the military power." blot ughing was resumed on е other slde of 
bor the show of implements mhi noo endi tm & the Dean of Wells, e: к сс the тее slices were laid i ompaet and 
it has been a Pat eh keine e success. | W. W. Addington. Бе Right vo Sir W. G. H 
is the more remarkable, inasmuch as it might | M.P., Des М. Lopes d Ser enm r, Sir i We soil pe Fern Umm hs. pis Ае 
x ibt have been sup Ses the thoughts el Sir J. К. way, Sir J. D and an анкету arcely her enough state for breaking up with this powerful 
€ S а T atm "Exhibition тош be large number of рені members of the Society, RT xí operatien: лав «асса 
engrossed by t nternat xhibion а is done with the balance zn h, fi 
pice а and the approaching a of the Royal | denying zealous workers in the West of En gland. $5 ed ТЕ sedis асай бар 6000077 Бүз bi а ated 
xen Society at Batte: sis Lc oss how: For the Бес we have no space, more wee чау | in ш or in favourable times during winter, for green 
A ЖУ ihe ыру among ч pe ain class of ex-|as the remarks by Lord Portman upon the show of|*'7 i 
hibitors, on account the abolition of the prize | Cereals in the А: Феод, bim хра will be found үе judges ean giro а most -— ve e es 
stem, so advantageous in a commercial point|in another part of our columns, but the following | seems to be completely under the control of the setis, 
of view do the great houses consider it to be repre- — by the President (Mr. Acland) iu respond- | and. altogether little Mn t remm e A desir 
kd Bes R queer D» that in|ing t health, possess considerable interest as espace Tae price: ote M M pion ding 
g apparatus, sich as was ration at Craigie, 
the import mplements the show at | showing the progressive steps by which he has become | is 8251. A 10-ћогѕе setis 780 Itis ái їпргов ible that the 
Wells bes qnas Аата ps the ues the Society has | so prominently identified with the revival and progress | plough may be impro d, although it ma m difficult to 
ever had of the Society. Не (Mr. Acland) had the deepest | 8028986 M ith, longor and midon ех pen 
The working of implements in the field commenced | conviction tbat the farmers of England should hav VIAE di 
о евна with HORSE Provams, о 
10 e and it was continued on Wednesday, with | 
paired at 
ipe smithy, а the кош боша be set to make a d 
cording to the desire 
ы satisfaction to an unusually pe rge number of 
spectat, ors, Howards? plough icu admirable wo: ork and cH not de epen A ing on chari ty; led other 
but Hornsby & Co., Ransome & ud, " they might ee like all ы cases 
Sim к лк a ебе xw no mean a diee rted ке tm Ae of the charity of their ancestors, 
by the pi, id 3f the new comer peer with his|the form of noble educational institutions. Secondly, 
clever paring plough, had been more ura y repre-|the farmer wanted Tin. well marked out at home for 
nted, ld have no doubt s er in the TM up his studies and habits of inquiry. The 
es ion o o! Нау e section of the visito: to be obtained was to qualify him to be an 
Farmers essent; practical men, ко will at any intelligent man, and nob a mere mechanical drudge. 
time rather i trust their € than their са: His M d " d referr e nm" > ШОН, апа 
e hay-tedders, t mod быжу 1 represented, | 
were not set to work, rz - C NUI it rien to | 
impossible: this was a А regret with many, аз | 
eal of interest pu Gaid with 1 Egg sees to 
Howard's double action machine, which was b 
at the Leeds meeti 
+ ш 
TO! ght | t trade; and w 
ed to th 
Lea whatever share 
тезе 80 са t what Шеу һай that dy AS was 
due to ed у that about fourteen ngo he 
was turned of P. ата met P 
e was in conversation With nm ip 
f the Royal hes 
n 
, he told him that if he could r 
зе fore him, he 
, В 
Hel lard, o field tey 
did са work, though Cranston’s s (Wood) was decidedly | i 
the Acl s bound t 
At me he A эе ot farming E Ж 
was = that he began to understand what 
d 
machine carried off the e palm for heavy work, Picksle ey 
& Sims’ mower had unfortunately two de es — broken, 
and was therefore upable to sho ow its m 
an portit public 
| tw Te years hard at it, and he say that 
feature of the meeting, took place ina field of 
a plot of lan Min, ch, though large enough to ўн: 
different sy 
O acres, 
the |t 
aving 
consideration, "there i is no 
e unanimous 
arded in favour of Fowler's а 59 and small ploughs, 
his E and digeer, ы hich h: 
of а p would be | th 
ered 
ety 20s. insted of rtl 
asd qv ing an к adüitional hee admission to the Exhi- 
t the Journal, which we owe to 
са- | bition for every additional ir dim ibed. [The High Ug 
Sher iff: How m cribed. [The ws lord Bg lint 
vctangular oed-furr of tbe 
Miho following estimate may be given as an approximation to 
the cost of steam ploughing in the West of par 
per 
day. 
gineman ý . ES .£) 50 
Ploughman б ВА p MUST 
Anchor man ve ^ e MES a 
Two porter б елаве 
artage of wa .. . oM d t 
Oil and cotton me . 08 14 
Coal, 10 ewt. 050 
nterest on purc! ney, Зэр 
рет аппиш, Da ur X wear at n be P ? 
1447. Mei 81» Ален mong, say, 120 wako 
days, in jsi opora 
per о" 140 
Total cost per Way 2219/56. 
ES the rate of ploughing г. Ойт, асгев, 1 rood, and 
es рег day—the coat is t| етн шү 
en divalent to 9s. 134. per улг ы, 
used о; d AIME days, oH p the еп ti oe the ар, T pid 
other work when it is not requ 
Due. ше does not 
n 
u 
; but if deep S arae n уге 
reased effic зей of 
Бы her. Ъ to thi 
ese few remarks the judges beg leave na e 
now! 
the 
t tho in 
Ayr, May 5, М hich 
E ММ also read the ihe olov M à 
had e ded геа Mr. Gairdner, E 
vem ns, 
т ich was equally the th im to x P the Journal. The a abe irecto 
admiration and arcem Howard's windlass was| Editor of it was ре but he would say that the on, Tuesday, È З t TIC 
ut from а fact that the | соп A of the Journal was now marked by great | promotion of the stoam ploug! grubber, tivation of 
pesce te `of the Bedford house rather dis- | intelligence and M industry, and that it was pour npe р to promote — vier d 
osed to on their three- бао balanee plo ough -— better managed than it is at present. me. e А7, PT shall KELET ot pointing out what 
make the Tätte peaga of this speech E to 36 d ly perhaps, the real ing. 1 бай 
Saltos) than on their usual cultivator, a report was intelligible to the general reader, it should be similar es "being applied to битая Де 
lded = ht years y mplity my v Уеа by con far s оров 
the legal ши of Messrs. Howard to an invention or | charged p 49 б лч of RUNE ue Ses в rotati on, prior ander Ber oae proved essem. Let u$. 
adaptation which he claims as bis own. Тһе ** Wool- | Journal, editis its pages during A tt with | the farm to be 1 
stone system" (Smith's), was represented b bridge | many papers of great value -— ime. dnd of Piet. IGAT SHIFT ROTATION. " 
of Bristol, and Brown and Мау of Devizes; and тапу | which have been reprint eim orm, Mr, | Afr ep 
Of the most "eal farmers z е county look cland was also the author of de Prize PY: A the Mode from еше, 4 
witha very favourab Ads on what they termed the | Farming of Somersetshire, which — the — 
tenant farmers Journal of the Royal A, 1 vol. xi. 50 * Санав 
6 the shoeing онь, first started at Dorchester, His — to the jl of President of r^ Westof| -s x 
since kept up by the liberality of Mr. Miles of! England Society was a wellemerited mark of respecti 180 
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