293 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Marcu 81, 1969 
challenged—that markets for engagin ng servants were lawful, | blish a applets, iaa held a great many meetings in | wish to offer, and it was this, that he béliew lieved maico 
n pe jd were necessary, they ald not set them aside Errol-on the servants went to the hiring markets not for th MANY OF tha, 
rely b se certain pacer ld anne grew out of them, or ubjec re-engaged, but for the sake of Seeing their frie eke Of bag 
leat found cor unmistakeable manifes: =a a = m ors occasion oe His lordship tried ev pt he could to induce ploughmen | had so little opportunity of seeing in the co ds whom they 
For e his friend Profe: as or Balfou è that» at | to register; he established a register, ee iE > a im ae lectures | and for the sake of a holiday, and for the pe ah -i of the yea” 
the Universit y this winter there had basn some inconveniences delivered, and did everything in his mote the | Many of these servants who went to the hirin eof Teer eating? 
experienced from a bi - erings, and the one = success of the experiment, but not a Saw, "ploughman could | intended to continue in their Service, and. nie iy kets realy 
other evils of a more serious kind ya ch aro aaa u got i ca yogis: He believed Lord Kinnaird was blamed for | markets because they expected that. da VELy vw, 
ae hould 
from the crowdin: a = ith ryb y olidays, ; 
young persons; but would any n for oment a usly the sees Sonar upon himself, he believed, from the best of | sorry to see hiring markets discontinued Bey 
pro to set aside such an ins titul Uon ely bec: they | motives, that gem plo tie eit might not st ee to say poe upon them m Ore as a holiday than as £ me se vel 
d not bring such a body of people to; ether w hon Certain word as to thè farmers having any oe er not ne jap ie and their abe aim should be to ri 
inconvenioncon ? He tho odit , there — “4 , that the go matter. It struck him (Mr. nek tha ains h good sense had | to prevent misconduc g not to deers ea 
eat deal deeper. before they si aly propose oe e sum oes By been aparon: at that meeting EnA nd that the | the ot opportunities nad of seeing t Aa cit Servants gf 
kra n the ground of certain png ee interfere with.an arrange- | ploughm ould resist anythin EER in the slape of a combina- | having:® day’s U a heir friends ay 
ment ‘which manifestly suited the convenience of the parties tion Sarat heir jast ia Ee dema that they 
concerned. should rather try toi evethe in katsi e best way they 
could thas an try to put ‘them down. 
Sir Thomas Gladstone, of Fasque, must say that he Reviews, 
| cogenc yi of some of ae Aas: aero 
of the present system 
ee Iba be esate ore te toti t oe ‘establi nian a | Practical Essays for the Inpres 
een sta Of Farming, By 
e were two parties to this barghin, and | ay of. oDtähir ete hendube ae good nature that Hewitt Davis, nin N ad i re (raters Play a 
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Mr. Scot Skirving, Campton, said he had listened 
with great regret to the opinions just expressed, seeing 
that Mr. Wilson’s opinion must carry with it consider- 
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that they must get both parties to consent, before they cou nh ent generally in men induced people to give what he Mh 1 Jev ig Si 
poser markets: No Rap hart r. Skirving) a cai gee aw was inper j nll fies chi Ato eters, but what’ roy were in truth Lae oe RR 
n gae es =? Ne mus: od vps th false ch: drabterer Why, that was a very sad account of the Seoul 
order to prover ge borgal ne 2 the consent or ts ne wis nese was c n i e the | reas he had “generally farmed between and 3009 
require na ney Da O GO, in oraer to a y wi z ý 
PARE a E EEN a ai soe er not to go. He limited sooner it was putan sod ta; iho better. Emm an canain cf acr “de Si # 7 ei , We presume, say that fo 
eet Tae = ‘and | Weries that wore circ ated, and he found that they were ast Pa coe this d arge PRA Fo in the manage, 
sinks mz paren unanimous in condemning the feeing market system. He | Ment o estates, in the reg: age and permanen 
TANNA RRAN ERI doot that Tha hy cone Phe es might be allowed as an individual. to state what his own | ment of landed propert Pa ae alin. A g 
2 © about, and that practice had been for some time, and which he had found to | batiatitty and owners. il ik of an ppm 
` fy ‘consent a bet work well. He had adopted the plan suggested by one | “al th kn owiii d fi 
cree akg ct smidige Fer that gentleman of abstaining from attending the feeing market, and | SUTely wor th z ir E pro is advic 
h n ene ba ios sora Sen ier, and labourer | CDg2eing the — privately, — he found no difficulty He has bee 
Aos Beart 4 p wha It wi —_—- as privately engaging the | qa ‘cultural pamphlet essays as we ell ai 
should do as he would be done by. And = c first thing that | oo ants onl: KAG abit rwppärnily v akal tre y' 
the owner in East Lothian should do rovide fit’ and sup premon tt tion Xs a x tori itary they W ae fo parag . columns of agricultural newspaper 
— Eaei ae ey re toe n to Een for adhe | Te medy: ould be most averse to offer himself in the most | prd ted all these literary fragmen > 
rence to one of he tp penen vous and degrading systems, im the light o of opposing, the labourer, or’ of — fiv ve shilli ans volur oe pari- il side 
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— Ps tae acquainted with that system, pim doigh t state that his labour, to which'he had a oltre “undoubted Sight. a was 
Hat with ohesinels rooms He wai at have a lange family, ‘and | PY Cone ern and legitimate means that they were to | dictated by experience and intelligence. ie 
might have the greatest difficulty to preserve the decen' neies c of | chango a all systems, if it was desirable to ci ch Be 2 then whet er | passage relates to crops which will undoubi 
ife; and what di Sen coming season than 
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raga anya RRE 5 be Bs pons inadequate that he That made at these hiring markets, andi it was te ‘the absence of on one 
glad to fly from his cottage to try and get another. Then he = ig d ea arties fe = roy k oor vrs aa brought to ssh 
thought his: fellow farmers in East Lothian. ought always, | > qmimbl bes oan t shes t, regis wees system 
where they could, to allow their labourers to keep a cow, as | ™ pia the 4 ht that, A Le a ers omestic servants ; “© Winter Fo a rr 
that would remove another cause of improviderice. Ifa proper th o tipugnt tiat; Ithu courus sie eos an means of | ses th, 
house were given to the agricultural labourer and no foreign the ote eagle ry, Veo po should debe equally applicable to te | our seasons, t e grea bdi eoms in the 
——— sm Taros him, —— Eo an om to to thie hie | the class of agricultural labourers;. Si? ‘Thomas concluded by | 224 in the: fall a snow and'rain of our 
pa eading the answer given to the seventh qurg Ki the com- | uncertainty of what may be the nae 
the | cat ak 
>| ciently given in Mr. Davis’s words, and hay! 
ently realised by many of his readers d <i 
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practi he had p hi > iia? | 
aoe, cd he hadi ow twe wun mis mas at the funerals of | mittee by ee ee cardini me) miis 3 Bp ae aie as to | 
who had all their lives worked om the same: farm: | “fect that t y wip see of issipation ; extrem 
Nobody talked totHith asto whether they Pooti leave or not, that they promoted the - pagen ‘changeableness Ha Sov g so | 
and there'was no mode wee ange; but when death or a complained of; and that the T A Piae E = x | 
domo: Peasod: aust a — he did require a: new n the habits of the opie that it 
shepherd, he put an ohipa Er the local paper; ahd he |© complete or rt eat: Eholition—the. “only Taaie. mh ie fi or 15° weeks. 
fourteen shepherds apply ging within a fortnight, when, he impro wing: the: present system being the adoption of'a'syatem | 1) +i tinio on housed food; a 
wrote employers and found their cl is registration, z es ry á i 
modeof ing servants was to itbelmown thathe wanted |. My. Wilson—Allow me’ one anges of Upin like this winter has since occurred; 3 
ond. o way to get a servant, and when they had My Fomarke have: beon held ap strong; b I beg weather to greatly distress the less thoug 
got them, ie they jane said to them, ‘I do not approve of these t ll Sir Th a st at ti "4 7 for his stock. J always had in min € 
markets; you shall have two holidays, but I make a bargain | o call Si ieee nooner tation ase Se t awe d I stained th tl 
that ee ‘niust not stand reat re p in the aoe a day, till you | that I was warranted in assuming, from the terms used bs ie aie a . zn 
get so-cold'that you must get halfdrunk at night.” -And if | in these queries, that one was a serious peepee to | took me by surprise men 
Sar What few eee the Whole matter wou ~ a be | abolish. the. markets: os word “abolish”? was used Swedes rotted in January, and the | 
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imply “Hire in private.” eee a ee once and ae now, that a * abolish,” Se fn SAA H yed by the severe 
Tee Harvey, Whitinghaw Mains begged to give his the known use, Bi ae something stronger than a be eines es: 
adhesion to Mr. Wilson’ gradual =e rsedure by social arrangements. g Ty 
‘ been 
S to the hiring markets, they could not make a change | Pie that dais wás obim oth 1 and April I had nothing to give my 
piou the fiaa deo be Ei, sio Bi Bee of laksa, ; and, i Mr. Wi ils Ayay d, : oa of, ite but-hay, and was daily: forced ti 
over the country. was the worst thing that the Highland | less importance to those es sind l enit their only | Seeds and Tares, lon 
mmodity. bite to 
Mr. Hope, Fentonbarns,.said: An: e who went Had- 
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ts there ted, and experienced He thought they must all feel very much indisposed to 
the diffieulties in getting good men, see 1 say that the market interfere with the. last class of. persons to whom he had 
was not a 
to get them. He did not mean to say ti referred ; ieee e same. time he O go pathised with 
labour, as.a commodity, ought. not to pee to the ar St | j ire who thought that there were great e evil and He did not 
antago; but the people who bought must also see that. they |% any one who had taken part in - discussion 
bought it properly. 
e thought the proper wa; to do was to | dented the existence’ of 
the men. before the hiring mar! ee AEE A time; biring markets: There 
they would get pis nty 2 oo time it was known. Pana and. there were’ evils from combination: H 
They should just reselve ear the markets. Sane Sem ai em tn defended y Sranane e teed E groun: mag oem 
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Mr. Aitchison, of Sica pisk entirely from pa a te: him: (Mr. "Milne. Homne) tt e an Cppietniiy em 
hs Wilson and Mr. Harvey, and agreed with. Mr. | afioraad for combination by eeting together 
SRE raha neni an un erstanding that th 
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core severe seasons, they have tack to 
ordinary years heir superior nu 
2: the facts brought before them that da and the certainty — is rg she 
that no. etcetera “ware employed without | them. I beli re ig no 
Servants went away, 
came tis men in the e market, peated ig, (Ts 
en went De did ae | tne 
eir work. dif ma tho 
pny ja k down at it 0 De the rde #1 Bont iene agp 
in the pga té alter the do of hiring in “the Had- ves planted on sri s Bo inches square e iñ 
dington-distri | Skirv The sedd should b 
The farmers as a body wished to chi th k Buas axa erage in March, 
month of’ March, but the. fae eorracta’ loki? apem = d bushes from the "ie pes 28, 
eset on the part of the farmers against oan em. 
ray from a | we 
; a wane Ae forte one a poner = pags 
The m men or young woe "e their fumes to instance, on. 
in any 
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to’ them; fre to ES aan abolish t them 
feeling ‘of ho oe betw 
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coffec-housgs. But there was another view which he would “Agricultural Society ; anda C 
