616 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL MES [JULY 19, 1862, 
for mer prizes bes ys dries | getting the ште, to „the free › soils—so as to produce i the best — Again, dnr g rdt rce, the 666 
S foc кь : ANO old ; and E 9d supplies is a matter of immense Port of uel 
going to Mr. айу! СА his dy y flly Fil «ан directed to prove that our work is very costly, Upwards of 3,000,000 tons weight of corn were i 
The Clydesdales w тре d vely | por em last year, and ust have employed that о 
Lim pA of cart dew in von M Hide if deir “faults | with the 1 azy gridiron work, pping. i 
d be eradicated by careful selection and their and never so cheap in reality How severely jue I | average voyage, this would occupy for the whole 
ood qualities retained, not allowing any light | felt the reproof Pun. ad science has rece ceived, when I one-fourth of oor foreign-goin Ships. А qu узе 
cased, irritable, or lon g legged з mare to bed P aske e of you if the reason yh. the | thus vitally affecting the supply of f. 
to the stud on any rib) but by using guch stallions | inspectors hav iso e in ha ving fi xed finar ncial arrangem ments ү the country, 
as the four best in the Show, with deep-bodied, Aaoi mo n fixed "que has not been to t mercantile marine: ou p 
egged mares, whose circular ribs are never to be seen, | the ше make their oikcalatione and fill up their | to be treated as a fA cep s e p ght 
з унет in full work ог with lusty foals by their side. stereo pa råa You uttered a pue satire on the | What had been done nt? ть 
W. C. 8. ое of our ti те simplicity of Chancellor of the Du chy af. е indi; "ез d 
к ur minds, asked this question, A f the county police ma 
most economica mac inery for collectin 
ў n the um ris ууну Ље Cireulars had been sent b the Home 54 ih. 
employ of the General Land Drainage Company, to een AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. various counties, and the result was that 30 ме 
Mr. Bailey Denton, the INE engineer, with a memorial n Frid ; ч 1 ler the notice of favourable to the collection, but only 16 approved Te 
in of his kind and |* М the police. Mons i. one нена по opinion as to ^d 
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their high estimation of his abilities," the following remarks| Мв. CarmD said he was desirous of calling the atten- à 
were made by Mr. Denton on this subject :—] | tion of the House to this raids before the close of the and two adjourned it altogether 
ARE say there are many at this table who will | Session саа 4 it at | The majority y s disapproved of the employment of 
— that only a few years back the free pd of present in n the unfavourable ftl th the police. But Has is really no advantage in selecting 
the country were drained и the same system as the | The nued cold and wet pem nis fail to be | that may: for the service must be paid for, whoever 
“йз the saturated gravels and sands were dra ined. prejudicial. to the. crops, though „ће һор ей tha t no perform s it. КА; had not a doubt that either the 
хе wider in e intervals узын or the Inland Revenue, could doit 
чесе S but t hey were drained оп the same system &8 | ђе repaired b by a few weeks of sunshine and h eat. His| Wi ith the Seam at their command, and at a cost not 
to depth the PEM М challenge the information from several of the largest Corn-growers exceeding 20,0007. A sum which, for such an object, 
experience. f this. toon amd it ,is eadin ng e but it had ШАП proved in in a great country like this, was really unwothy of con. 
p what i they | England that a season characterised by cold weather sideration, As the acreage was the only fact that could 
have learnt in the srera of their paripa there can be | was an unfavourable one for Wheat, ‚Тїз questio be ascertained, the inquiry s sho uld be limited to that, 
any greater folly than in treating the free soils of our g arvest in each year, 
veh n za same e as the clays of our hills. The e of the country upon foreign food. Since 7184 ля No Act of Parliament was E an order of 
can doubt, require the aeration of very weh one-fourth of«our population, on the average, that House, m MM made for the necessary ех. 
ееш фаш. and a parallel system ог as nearly | subsisted on foreign corn. in the last three years | penses. He w: a loss to me who really were the 
parallel as the undulations of the soil and the irre- | this- proportion had been pura increasing, and | opponents of the ше, „Не believed that much of 
gularity he Don еш. аш to make that|within the last harvest year probably not less than one- | ће former opposition to it on the part of certain 
E iier uniform, e descend from е | half the population of this kingdom were fed оп im- |farmers had died out, and the great body of. them ш was 
nto the free sil T think every one here will say | ported corn. This was UE the result of very defi- | not against it 
the шы that have prevailed for the former are totally | cient harvests, bu. t partly also, he believed, it arose Ireland and Seotland, and in several English. counties 
inapplicable. YOM а еа у of iei he great piere were not against it, for the Hous 
І think we have proved by our operations throughout | | The high price of labour, and. the increasing value of at Lords had already pas rale M on the subject, 
d England—I believe І may say every county in Engla li red is opinion, | He wo venture to ай opinion which he 
without exception—that in the free soils it is our “duty in A. uding to еза the ext dE SE. la tin n corn, and | believed would have the erii. weight with both иш 
first to consider em NO ed the Pai! and | to increase of pasture. Such а change would be | House and the country. It was that of the lame 
then to apply the est deep drains that will draw "E fectly Jegitimate and proper, x3 would be produc- | Prince Consort. In July, бо аз Wires FI E 
Sd water out of viator test- holas, making those | tiye t псопуепіепсе, if we had any means of|lInternational Statistical Congress, the Prince in hi 
est-holes the index to the apenas of our work, and | knowing wi ns уен» у 5 extent pg which 16 was | opening address refe erred. to o agricultural statisties i к 
зис ncreasing the e po of dra vibe t aking po mk: u words E f Irelan 
curd which will a n the wii п the test- ар ight be Palenia one farmer | proved by his success in. ining these Eris а 
па Шап ner to md that the land is FIF ently | found it his in! е е Jay one- ph of his corn land | comparatively kn: eu nse, and by the voluntary 
ined. think we shall all agree that a i clays the үр Grass, the bility would v that the same cir- | assistance of the landowners and cultivators, as well as 
test-h an index. We have tried to | cumstances might pres AL others. Now, one-fourth d fs ium of all e that the мо 
drain уи pere by te st-holes, an ex c min mis are the | of the corn crop of t * kingdoms "might be taken at Xs grow undless ss, that it could not be done without 
ecessary observations o enable u o draw safe deduc- | 10,000,000 E ве А defici vast, without injuri ng individu: ali interests, 
don Ed Км attempt has Dc a җе flue dde enly a out warn wou Md sits erery We brian ope he anden a Шш considering its im- 
ч in free soils; the deeper the drain, the | market, Pr SEM. all edid operation ll questions affecting the food 
o more certain will be the effect on the "test- extent, Ls believed, we were at present experiencing of the e people, this i inqu y will not only be extended to 
шев, and the judgme ent t of the foreman i is requir red 1 the effects of such a change. The deliveries A dec ed and Scotland but also ex the continent? gene 
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object ect aimed at, which is, the response of tl t | ks of thi t} i 50 t . He trusted that. such an opinion would have its full 
the test-holes to the influence of the drains, It is true | Jess than the average of preceding yeu and he № 
ek: M do what is des in the free soils, while care 1800 and 1861 were, no doubt, зА detis but. S ib i noble Viscount whether the Government would 
ne are requisite in e езш T Ca not help believin g tha t so а dec take thi is T up urs € roc Sed 
tug. that money governs the аш in the SORT year, was partly by a plan for obta of t 
judgment the drainage of T soil. E сана Án inii | diminution of the breadth Sow. d us various crops in qued ritain. 
clay lands too much; the greater the number of Now under each crop would | Sir G. Gnzv said he was far from being disposed to deny the 
you put into clays, the better i is the vip d but give tim mely warning of any serious change. It was advantages to be derived from a system of agricultural 
* thus far sha de and no | important to pus Bh the principal sources of our еса i ES. 
further," it will n t pa T put in dra чү eyond a| supplies.. Last year North America gave us three- Mock within füs er in It might, at the same time, be 
certain number, ik there you stop. eighths; Russia, one-eighth; Turkey and Egypt, one- | more prudent to confine the returns in the pee instance to 
You may say we did not come up P to London to hear a | eighth ; or five-eighths in all were thus drawn from | tbe amount of ground on which corn was ch returns, 
lecture upon drainage; but, whenI а Се M : dud distant sources of supply. Тһе remainder was got from | put this еван ноа on, [eem боа diminished by 
greatest difficulty I E to contend w 8 | the nearer ' parts of Euro ope; but, as the large propor- | the evidence which had been furnished through the courts at 
that there is reaso at фт Y у Е I Sus important that early | quarter, sessions showing that there was no indisposition 00 
will —: "Ву. r de to this one t point of | notice of our probable requirements should. be had. | the part of the owners of land to ee mn ved, some 
practice. “What is the meaning of | Mo; oreover, we might have formidable micis in bird i S n e on the part of the farmi rs. The 
Occasional drain nage Та М kh, ав, EX Tp, рју the world’s corn-markot, France, which im 1858 and result of the inquiries which had beon addressed 
means appropriate drai r cir nees w. 1859 gave us about one-fifth o PES foreign supply, | ©Ё quarter sessions on the subject wi T 
the кшш system does t rightly apply. imported last year сы of 5, о, 000 qrs. of Wheat w ече Ae cured ma vn "3 e cy ot ihe 
Ia nu in this de 1862, if there is any v. and flour metuens enira, араа to incur m 
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special in “occasional drainage ;" if, in point of fact, t ali bo с al expense necessary Жы pere "in of 
there is WM thing different in ocasional drainage to solely affonling tho the. i euis i. i vod ghe p. ud n of он statistics ETT 
parallel drainage, саи in the Now when I fully as much interested in ондай, reliable informa- | the first instance be m аргу: 
вау say that I believe it is the ı то st impo rtant thing | tion as any class, for they had the earliest command of e ыссы сы 
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think 1 am cd of foo Ba [s over- | vender yr horses, we hould 2 zt com 
een to the subject, altho dh you have come up to e: every betont na quee cl like this eos now | by the we re у паро weg ad y грей m 
London to see the Exhibition and have a dinner here, | so largely subsisted on foreign corn, Té ah moat dition as ness, colour, pu 1 
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whether there is reason not in what I say, and in — We paid for foreign cor AE Jur eal Laus that А per quarter is given Or allowed r lighter 
"hat we all iei. бап уоп, шу friends, who|sum of 35,000,001. l. sterling, and this ya 15,000, „ | natural weight of the grain is 1 Ib. heavier Отыз ` 
represent a collected experience superior to апу in DE in any one year before But if we per imperial el than the “buyer and 
Englan extended our calculations pisc ivl of the cost | would consider as strict justice boier ashel ; but 
You have done me the favour to say that I direct | of foreign corn and provisions for 1860, 1861, and 1862 | seller, when the Oats are above 39/. Ld applied t0 
your act I ho : may deserve | (calculating the remainder of the present year in the | the principle does not hold good when 
such praise, and, as you said so much, I feel I | same ratio as it had hitherto maintained), and compared | foreign Oats common Tartars, man: 
should not deserve the y reptili that. уоп are kind |it with that of 1857, 1858, а and 1 1859, ме should find | only about 35 to 37 lb. рег kae 
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118, 000, 0007. vender fo! ог 
Шы ба! E to io пон the Sens hien | in the ita. So үк ттан еп ыы ng in the last foreign or common чуу; Oats o lb. per 
Ше баада y occasional deep drains and | three years no ot less than. Yu 000, l {or | 20s. uarter, and yet foreign 
Со. of cand гет uniform parallel drainage? 16 | fo каснат ү, api Пу sold fi 3s. or 
indeed a thankless work to find, as we often YA that | to do. Agricultural statistics would not prevent this, | бз: or 75. less than we ки" 
after ант ош best, judgment in "redu ucing the number | but ees would give us timely warning of what was Ho be understood tha 
of drains while increasing their depth—I refer, of! comin relative value of Scotch e Tartar 
