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thy 
i SA A 
P withr 
lte mevenatve, and we have 
since wi 
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f roots in a day. My cattle are | fostering encouragement of these societies, Taking the 
eat 4 momen <8 I fat very gh there fore I cannot TRISH enchant | two chief items we find :— 
pare Shor h information on that point. Nor do I milk Sox eeks mmunication wiped in the | Cattle. Sheep. 
give Jou am the stock I ke cep there are in-calf cows sotardi of this Tokia al giving a sad account of the 1841 1,363,116 2,106, 189 
ey h done milking, and young stock; the position and hopes of Irish agriculture. After a =| 1859 3,810,136 3,588,356 
1b J-basl e agencies that have been in déin 15947, 
former are having ff dail the it ]l | operation in “Ireland f the status of the 
5 o quite as we p for Pirna 1e sta 
2 bashels of oye chast sole a ee little straw. To | agric eek aig pe riter invents one that mus st | Now A 1 or to > suppose that th the he stock 
when they had so y hay able dnd of Irelan ear snide the establishment of the Agri- 
as ld growing heifers I give 1 bushel roots and | have appe to + mind as the most tangible an | cafenzal Society improved by the infusion of better 
4 straw to the yearlings I give a little m eal in | slough i means of mai nising the Irish farmer from the O aR f B per cent., which would add to 
‘ aki. 6 I givel = of | slough of suppose 
ition. e cow I am fatting, < 8 P e national wealth of the Aty about a n aiok 
acep addition to those kept ie a a re state. ] I 4 he A ses ogee pitied by of friend is “to gripes storing annually. Let no man, poe efore, while advo- 
sider by this new $ system I can d brovath of ue land such simply | catir > work well when confined to 
the number of aini on the sane ee ci be conducted ‘example farms bigs shall s eak at once to Sne in re own imagination, but would "taint as a mornin, 
. I should be very gi o does before a bright sun, condemn institutio 
pa Seale if I could do so, bu l g tio most. sensitive, of their concerns, their whi ich have ‘been productive of so n much good to heeled: 
quantity r and the only crit «1 have to go| po pt a } 80 
is the bush baske tuc E A ye pul pin zy stem | the ary, we j régar ard t hem wi ith extreme ‘fav vour, | and ‘men like “g. » yol do wA to weigh well t 
one of thè gre griculture of late times. after havin had ample experience of their beneficial e pass now over his wR! 
Mix the roots with the chaf am the floor eee ion | working. But A AA Irish farmers of the present | 4, aa naa who brought agrio cultural 
after they are pulped. Pray ask me more question "| day “ pique themselves upon their Ueda’ wit, and | intaia to the door of many an Trish farmer. 
me T Bint Deaton AA have Tittle. mee for Ps opini e ge f Trel 
Mr. John Searby, Pri works we e new 
imite bpian 4 given to the value of the ‘system light from the example far ers would not dissi- | farms which he ely “propor "s no etry rt: 
of pulping so entirely agrees with my P “7 an is bad in the Tei sh system of farm | could reason itself into the conclu usion that the 
I can with confidence recommend it. The ag te ~ a all | manag It is proposed to have “one at least agricultural education i the 2088 1 q 
hat can be desired for its purpose ; the in “th ne | of ihade” peN i each parish, the size to be regu -| 1 those farms not to speak at 
incr production of beef, &c., by, iring bless 3 costly lated by th at of the av a extent of farms in the x Shs have D 
food, is more em: ig be in labour, b d, to be placed under the management of | those schools in the c elementary pri 14 
having you G: sn me agg ar r „attended. | _ The | the most cogil of t the ‘cal farmers,” one aay a ith “ but little ti any pe age es 
advantages of pu ping or stall-f has hast wile! ication has been to show that the 
saving of oil-eake—of being e enabled to commence giving may | seem ss wi a on first reflection, but in reality it | me agre Bs eat he makes to the agency of agricul- 
roots when you house your x air of impracticability on the ears Of) tural pee in Ireland is no exponent of the real 
the year instead of towards the sprir tl who have thoroughly exami ined the re eal causes | facts of the 
pig oF roots witho mg blos Hoone that I ake this opportunity, too, of urging upon the 
Last year my beasts, with © of oil-cake E hea per agriculture. If there Tive in every parish (of whi Legislature pe to crown w ge success these societies 
diem, gave equally satisfactory results as as to seid h, there are 2532) i in Ireland farmers enlightened Bea the hi sh land question must led. And in making 
pe ges "head th yr oa pl rf: Me 3 1 to conduct e aml farms, there must exist some deep- remark Fe disclaim all rrara with thiose who 
Shenae ee e aed Mangel, | seated cause of her 5 en os av Wiad political capital out of this question. The 
tall-fed catt 10 to 14 pay tened agri- | “relation of landlord and tenantin d” is, to use the 
hay, 
for consuming Swa quantities of cake, ah fmre 
ike per aa the necessity fo 
ubstitute = = at) ‘pp 
thus saved may, in my opinion, be 
Store- —_ under the 
m of 
i panii both he 
mix the roots and cut niiata immediately after the 
roots 
are pulped, Kai give by mixture to the cattle 
before foumnantatio on ta kes ee his Jf our pra estice 
e mixturi 
now, but in 
to fer erment, when some of ‘the en cows refased it, though 
ibe the condition of the Irish farmer, the sadist | 
in Ire’ 
words of her late Attorney-General, “ seifeetly indefi- 
Those supposed of 
culturists ‘will sile ee a slowly fftence the mee 
hes. And their | nable.” There is little foundation for the mistrust with 
of agriculture in their respective 
advice will be sure to én mmand a res 
ree implicitly followed when regarded 
ity than byt bet ae 
"9 ote th ntry gr 
Ai by a moderate and piad ed measure, the 
ace confidence in "n Aian ae 
a the Agricultural 
ers o. 
assoc beitet with the landocrac the country, as | Irish aa will never plac 
suggeste “G? when he anv “the great reliable | supported and directed by the lord of t we ao 
o | Machinery for carrying out the plan must jes provided | given a a measure—and we 
the landed proprietors under t ervision | Pers ome Lega alike the niare of Jandlord 
ani —s ance dine ene agents and powan S any a farm now r slo perg maeti 
ti po lab e worthy of the 
igricu 
e than those proposed sg “G mit i 
a Share in th eir administratio on. Gazette of the 8th Octob 
In a subsequent scanuchies ion the same writer uses 
s of the apre to support his 
ess of Irish agriculture. 
ave had too large 
WwW hives AL ct ing ur fault- 
finding spirit, but as a simple matter of fact. There is | the agriculture statistic 
the Agricultural Im provement Soviet eland | gloomy view o iiaii re.“ We 
without a solit tenant hosed with a | find,” he says, “a progressive e in the breadt 
place in its Council of fifty. “We oe a f Turnips and Mangel Wurżel 1 
the mem f a cae al are ngly esti- | to 1 This is surely no indication that tillage is 
mable; many of them è artala of the veciv bined im proving, nor is itso m ra return of the breadth of 
school, and all are certainly m en of the highest social land under cer tee y has diminished 
erika ertheless it is not a symptom of healthy from res in 1519 2,052,200 in tia Wi 
ea 
Nev 
— a find that a x the intelligent and aflu = a returns aie cr 
mers rop w 
J think, however, 
before fermentation kes it o the eat like it 
better, and t ixture 
when fres 
a i state have a voice in whi ch notoriously requires Bust 
Seton and n 
pae ultural Societies et Englan ow, Bi is seems strange t Da the ‘writer should not 
and a 
he pop pular element a thougb perhaps n of dates in 
bond fide giie wi Tela ait Sy $ select s same date før 
W e 
e used cisterns for the 
‘the floor only. We consi side 
d he done would have 
i om 
465,497 acres in 1859. If the aphorism enuncia 
gey particle of the straw is eaten when blended with c 
the pulped roots, Pang of being trampled under the 
feet as before. perhaps t the. i ai saving con- 
“aed Se tine phe A ed are 
a 
tiing wi 
thrown u aah the nae t we used 
pulping” machine. The stra ang ited with ite 
Dalped roots i is Sige! re. a pol means of preventing 
ei 
‘And we augur that th arms of which our by E re E per orces used in 
friend writes so 5 ctintastiely ST prove miri e Keta Ken 
obnoxious and abortive. on mer to the arie her ng Fun: is mtelbgent  bopnh w 
ocieties of as aeeoa motives which | , ve 
e feel 
m 
ages. Nor @ agree with “G.” in the 
assertion that the establishment of leisy societies has be true 
ith “little +f ar any g good.” Such a state- crop. at under "the ae cumstances 
Li 
Scouring ; for 
self-interest is evidenc 
had 
naa n 
RE $ 
fectly ac poriva vua tlie history of Irish agriculture Average price per barrel 
in y Area under Wheat of 280 ibs. for Years 
eni 
and a 
_ these pe affect the taste of the butter as Tarni a for the last 10 years, ag well as with the hig hly credit- & in Treland. 
J can scarcely say what advantage we gain in the | able cattle ee recently held in that Gittatee: reland j nded Ist of November. 
quality of our batter by using pulped food Lea of | of to- day pos s numerous herds of Short-horns, and 
sliced. WE Rice fer gel y, however, that o g flo a of Leicester, Southdown, and other 
getting pul: roots this winter, and that iptay breeds of sheep, quite on a par with those of 
: Havi sr butter “is singularly good, without any didstiben able | England and Scotland. It is true that they are gene- | 
Upon the hie I reng the pulping | rally i in the hands of the of the country ; 
AM aitte implement; by it you certai ay | it is equally true that first-class sires are hired out to 
e the Turnip T oF digest on, and. with, | the tenants at a moderate charge, and that the character 
i eke mouths are tender and | of the live | stock of Ireland has undergone a wonderful | 
org paratively k this isan i since the est i of the Royal} 
| Aglare Tipiy ement Society. Nor “ine pie t 
wt mit in s unknown eae Pts ne . 
t The feedin: eattle ret aa Treland who are excluded from ni 
pulped Turnips. in year earlings :— | in the i e Agricultural Society. ind breadth 
: ips, fre 14 Ibs ot | Barnes, of A ty, has a of the true Booth 
sttaw, 1 Ib. of Linseed cake, and 1 feed of hay | stamp; Mr. Christy, of ae Union, Adare; Mr. 
bags of Eliso, of Lough beet ae and ot! hers having & to fia 
e, To = 
of Turnips, with chopped avy iewi 3 ita selves and the country. agri ural Society and angels. 
ds of hay per consider the | the Royal Dublin Society are justly entitled to o our 1853 39,377 S88 
P Wedo PAn Tiie economy of | commendation for hiavitig T ope a 1854 329,170 21,351 
do not is im e to raves 22,339 
cattle: TOA ae pa teen te ap the county: ¢ through the In 1859 the area under = wigdl bor boon ee 
