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n 2 1000 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, = 
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THE VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL LABOUR— Continued. 
COUNTIES Ri Be oie ae ae. | Kopa "RUER th Ge ie i RE. 
a _———— | —_—_—— | —__— —$$$_—______ 
Oana | os Ts, 5s to 7s | 10s to 14s 6d to 7d | 1sto1s4d 4s* 5s* 13s* 20sto 50s} lor2 |S. Ra 
KILDARE Paes s i fe rig 2s 4s 6d* 6s* 16s* 3 2° |W. Nen, Athy 
IMERICK bas eae is. 2 ost 8s% 18s" utott | 1,20r8 |3, Kenny, Limerick 
os 3 .. S 78 5s* s 2 i CONNOR, Foyne: 
TIPPERARY . dito Ssi wo 0a op A y aie A * 9 ates yet g pi 5 py Piss Clonm : 
KILKENNY | T8 1 baad ios sd a5 2s 9d 4s 2l 2 H. Mı RD, New Ros: 
ch a : a noe 6d 2s 9a s lls 45s Linpsay, Kilkenny 
ERRY s : 0 oe Me oe 5 3I lor2 side N K 
oe > 6st 7st6 ras 98 2 12s 6d ae 3s 3s 6d 8s to 10s 38s 2 E, ama FRE 
ai “") gat a s 2s Ta oa 2s 6d 28 8s to 128 528 2 |D. CUNNINGHA 
ei pai h 55g ioa A Z sA 2: noor N — Munster 
6357 88 5s 6497 15s 6d :: 3s 3s 6d 10s oF a° A} pee Geman are 
7s 6d to S56] 7s 6d¥6 63% 12s 6d ; 2s 6d 2s 6d gs | dos ee “Brave So mA A 
t h anA AO a Sa ea ei 
H 1 Per annum with free house. 24 With food and 6 quarts of beer or cider a day. + Cottage, garden, and malt, and 2l. fo: 
ig 2 With b board and lodging. 25 With cottage free, coals hauled, hels of Sear eee piece-work, grup Ri ir sme inthe year. 
ouse free. 
4 food and the keep of 3 or 4 sheep. mae win) beer and 6d. fi q f delivered 
5 LE a a we i bolls of peel house, í P and light, free. s pned he uart of pes a day. aes And 2 B 0 . 6d. ae lei toe for naling. 
6 With a week, i ouse ani er en free, Potato ground free, beer, and With 2 “bushels of malt and 2 lbs. of H 
7 And their sh double wages in harvest. 4 |. 3 sae 
8 in grain, co ws’ keep, &c. 29 5 quarts of beer a day. 5 andilat Widen —the harvest ral 
9 Per annum, v th 1050 lbs. of ‘Oatmeal, 896 lbs. of Potatoes, 30 With ee pet certain times. with 10 pecks of cat and 1 ston Fi senarally conte IIR: 
coals carted, 4 weeks of food at harvest, hor use free. 31 With 2 rts of beer a day and 20s. extra at harvest. 52 And 50s. at harvest. bidet 
io With perquisites worth 3s., and 6d. a day extra in harvest 32 With he age and garden worth 2s. 6d., and cider daily 5 Teer sion carting and 1l. at h: 
with a few presents at Christm: worth with 20s. in Perea 8s. 6d. a week. É Double wages in ie t and 2 
11 With 2 bushels of Wheat, 2 2 bushels of Barley, 80 stones of | 3 3 quarts of cider daily and 20s. extra in harvest. inane site y aaria, ioeie i 2 quarts Mod, Fe daily. PORN 
otatoes, house free, and coals carted. 34 4s. of cider a week carriage of rri ll. for herve and eae ls. Jan tb 
A the fn moa and die p of 3 or 4 ewes and 3 or 4 hoggs. a a 2 quarts o of f eider, team, beer at haymaking, and Wheat st 5s. a E 
nd 56 A 
um with food and cottage. 37 And 12 tarts of cider per annu AA | for aiaa = ee: Seeaginths, aba 16, 5 OER 
is i Wi oottago, and and coals carted, and keep of sheep or cow. se oe ttage, garden, and cider, and “Potato ground, with 4s. 57 With para 
58 
* Bebe pa: with moal, a With cider and ground equal to 2s. md Lambi Dr AeA 3 shen 
per x! 4 With portae: se epu aa ai ll. Bsc 60 House free, ans “tack wie 2 uarts of milk dail, 
20 ti pa 41 Cottage an r or ale, and 3/. Laa shearing, and 61 With house and keep of 2 owes nd av ay also 7 for 
# ee he ae tt he thatehin ; mare and foal. 
= Wins pin! oe Ber a ak And a gallon of 6 With house and Grass 
o wue pi wes pees y. 43 With cottage ee garden free, and 4 bushels of malt, and | ® Or 6s. and two meals daily. 
qu oi r a day and fuel hauled. 1s. per 10 quarters of corn deliv ered, 6 Or“ 3s., 5s., and board and lodging, 3s. 1d.” ! 
: Home Correspondence weight on any plot may be due to the fewness of the roots. | becoming scare we hw s2d his belief that this would not 
Trial of different Manures in Grass Field id at Wimbel- If Tt think it necessary I repeat the weighing at another | be ri peng they be por Arie farm. a as Ene A 
don) Englefield. —Six lots of 1 acre each. No.1, 4 cwt. of part of a we ld :— eed ay pe tee fe ee ce ber pot a ke be 
o 
bone dust, 4cwt. of salt; 2,4 cwt. of guano, 4 a salt ; LE 1.—Mangel Wurzel, Orange Globe. thought the Dorchester Candlemas hiring fair was Egied cares, 
3, 4ewt. of superphosphate, 4 cwt. of salt; 4, 8 cwt. of 2 He knew, on good authority, that there were a certain dass Of 
i salt; 5, 2 cwt. 0, Get: rphosphate, $| sla | & 3 2 yearly mye gy ae ct appy ge they Mg g 
PEN : HEEG y = get a r plac me farmer, fair, 
Bee a is fee x bre dust, : cwt. of guano, b |a Dee EE] a A ge - te “ ri 26 labourers, and if so that number must have left 
zs Feb. 16, r . 1, 3, and 4 are 2 |4|3 |esj28|88 2S ES] 2 3 ir places. Candlemas, too, the worst time that they 
nearly equal, 4, if any diference, best—more bottom A |“/|48 |gbeg EEPE i Soe cheng oe n E at pet oE 
` o è 3 S04 SD ? was mosi onvenient. e never a 
aon so until mowing time. Th * Fela |: x e a omt at : pes 
a deci rence in favour of No. 2 hich iiti aad Š 2 a par ning at the Candlemas fair in his life. Mr Fowler had not 
. Q m e i 
up to Erig ‘iin There is no difference apparently iach: owt owt. the crime of the count 3 “He wae proud to say that if hey 
in Sand 6. All the manures were sown Jan. 28, 1859. | pii | td pbt ba re pa aik Ot Apre a lise vane aa prorat estrsns<* 
Sage on the t 
al of Seales gga in “Engle Deer Park. | Ha is i tg FA , Hì by | their labourers were volerably w x ell of, Teose wy gat Lbies to 
ione oh.. 0, 1, 4 owt. af E B? RI T N RNT tovar aap Ae aid there would be mo: as rime ow 
iy pae pene? of salty; | Ha [20,4 | 18 |. |211 35. PRA Mr. G. Harding remar ied on ET effect 
St E TAAL meth sri of salt; 4, 8 cwt. of Sp pe TE ee which the cnconragcmens of emigration had upon the 
superp te, 2 cwt. of gua — : — away the best fi 
E omt. O ERS O E Ot. OF ions dist, 2 owt. of HSN, -$| 4] g 2|2 go aes tnd be found, aded that the v 
5 cwt, of salt, Feb, 16,1859: No perceptible difference s laž Slas | 2 |s Ẹ | the land itself depended upon the supply of hands 
in either most fed by deer Feb. 24 : a ERE FAEERE 3 A aTa ) t to work it, and these they could not expect 
No. 4 lool jess best Other two meadows tried with A |s ae ERE 2$ 3 SS é 2 [ithon ie a ea accommodation. It was thus 
2 cwt. of guano, 5 owt. of superpliospliate an nd ! 5 ewt. of we ee bee E Ekm E s Seeks ea pa policy 4 p ndlord to lessen the number of 
salt; one acre, of guano, 5 cwt. ’ of bone dust, “| a| ™ = Ž S Pease 
and 5 ewt. of Bn “The appearance was in fav f setae: © magi mt ofa wages he aayan tagos 
r uano. bones. and salt March 16. 1859. and still so when la 3 a8 
cattle were turned in to Grass at M 16.03 
an. 29, 1859. J. He En g 
The Errors of A : 
: gricultural .—Will you 
allow me to call the attention of £ those of of or reader 
make experiments e effect 
of different manures upon Mangel W y | Swed 
error h appears to erally 
P verlooked, and which I think ee T from 
Dn e value of. many experiments. The far 
| neh age Halts believes to be tolerably homogeneous, and 
ivides i plots, one for each of the different 
manures, om Batol 
3 
| ee the se gt sendy for EAG ng the produce of each bts 
plot is weighed, and whatever se he finds in each | 31-38 to ipti 
f we beyond = A the plot which ma fio manure is | cH other, being separated ty on y 7 or 8 yards, pro- we lergym give a subscription for pecs = 
set down as the manure applied to it, and in | duce 18. sri ie ms and it 1 tons te "Gai, weights nearly g replied, “If you will let me select the men T readily 
ay pied hat | in i as thie womber oF pive my subscription, but here you are sen nding away the beet | 
wh ures, that is assumed be bes ais por roots. These tables, ex- | best parent stock, leaving behind the lazy, the drunkard, an 
has been a appli to the most productive plot ted p large tables of experiments made last year, | the im cile.” Although a cottage under the miserable yee 
Hoa. tacit assumption that if all the plots show, I thir nk, tha t we must not assume that two plots he had been speaking of would come to about 3l. 18s. à year, 
i ak : Cama E ented in the yet aara peel yon ov to the tenant he did not 
Im ey sho rec 
cle wo s pes n the same on every plot. This me way, will PF 9 same result; but that we | farmer would be ready rto to give Bi. yer ti he spi ea ia 
lieve, would be by no means always the case, at pean repeat some of the ezperinnis by the side ‘of many good cottages as he w anted. He also thought that the 
6 dacdivided -by those wath whic, they ar to be compar E PE tae ent EA ihould nara the contol of the cottages for his labourers 
3 would be | found to vary stance, if plo to 7 a scat with six dif. to enable him to op him than having yee cottage. 
o ferent. manures, ad a com) ith accommodation. s z 
Fin 1 with each other and 1 n. "i ; , sii 
Me pe Pye tle. hoy case on my own farm, I with No. 1, which has no ure, apo No. 8, 
i years the following plan :—I “ak have no manure, and if the result on No. 8 is the same 
X ; os PO pees ‘in dr manures under a| 25° No. 1, a considerable amount iri ence may 
On ha t fe ba in sucha condition that they be placed on the series if, on the 
X Eoo ri tain common corn drill. The drill other hand, they vary much, a ments must be | 
| ee tah wide, “and has -o — so that a | oked upon with a proportion t until they | 
contains m Baii je 5 yards ta My | are con nfirmed by subsequent portlet J. P., Staf- | 
i oan plots consist of a me Rod aiid raced fynwood, Maresfield. 
he pon lying Side by side. When hei: a niore ee [h 
tlian 
ur. Plots I repeat an experimen ment by or cous Societies | when they got rtie ritr in t! 
e way Of a ° | back streets of a to Aad are reali tid yee were 
ny ae: in the quality of the land; As nea posse 1s rey little ot to a farmer 
pa Rigs a the whole lena of the fi rity oi BLAND : pue a “Dorsetshire Labourers. Mr. G. Summers said as to reper hie thought it would be 
choose a place wh a the plant i ays biv | Mr. H. okés ped that after the able fnanner in bottar if they y had 1 more sche 
eral N e former greater influence over th $ å hi i 
regain in n New gee yikes = - ri A "wecenation y uiae to had treated = rola i pa Be Wi be 1), | thought s great r Ferer i e boys; and he also : 
a ti men’ vening classes, wh 
which nip catenin to jud i Rar of Hohn de ico be removed. from idleness and evil spea 
a diminution corroborated the statement as to young able-bodied men | should have good cottages, 
