740 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Aveusr 11, 1860 | 
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| and foreign countri 1776, said he had seen four men ina | run for sheep was comp: aratively valueless 
Societies. field hoeing Turnips m Treiand, Sock it gave him as much up by the plough, the soil was hinge: i Ba : 
Lope “beh if he had seen four ripen Now, we nA layer of 2 interposing a mo 1 fa thin 
i divina of that era ; but still it is very essential to , g a moorish retentive n 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF IRELAND AT CORK.—At ice aot that the growth of Turnips and of other green crops does | and a shallow surface of a mossy ch: subsoil, 
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the recent agricultural meeting here a Lord | not seem to be increasing as much as it ought. In 1859 there | varieties of soil, when thoroug’ iy mixe +hese 
z k n sfs were 22,000 fewer acres of Turnips and 3000 of Mangels than in < and lim 
Lieutenant thi ltural statistics of 3 roduce for aareral ears excellent c 
rente spo. e on is e a pon. L. a the preceding year. Vetches; Cabbage, and Carrots showed a p oy = a xcellent crops of Oa 
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Ireland. Agriculture in Ireland is the most important | proportionate dimination. Now, this was but scant provision n urnips. The crop of Oats I witnessed last 
of all subjects connected with her material pros- | for the very cold and unf Sera winter and l spring $ rough | season was in a fie ne on this moor, e yield would 
i which we have just passed ; an think it cann e too much 2s $ 
y. iculture employs, = by ars from the inculcated on all who have the interests of Irish agriculture noh ve nese rs o mashes per imperial acre, The 
sus of the year 1851, more than 53 per cent. of the | ang of Irish stock at heart, to pay due attention to the en- | produce o his farm has also greatly incre L 
whole population; while those occupied i nd | couragement of Turni d green crops; for I fear it will be | Previous to the occupancy t 
oc pi n trade a a ent pe an propa s rs aa : i he 
i taining them- | found when the annual returns of the egistrar-General shall | maintained only ‘a regular stock 
Ee, Pome, of, Sect spe» par pnd t } have been made = that serious loss will have been sustai ie y 8 : 700 Chevio 
z | in those particulars. ne o ish crop “an ee be ich w. Chevi intai r 
may mentioned however tha s proportion 18 | at one time considered the staple of Teens ine its stock of as many Cheviot sheep, besides half 
diminished, and that the number represented in 1851 | old pre-eminence, it being a eee tied erop in iind; Leicesters ; produces Turnips which fatten 30 h 
by 53 per cent. stood igh in 1841 as 64 per | Potatoes poss ding sn econd d plao adel ig" cpt OA w that cattle, and seten, o of sheo 
cent, But i re i mall an tle. 
Cork, in which we ae met together, I am happy aries ios fro om 700 Š K esi 
4D nae ee you that it is not one branc f | find that there is rea: gs eoira batato the Thmabitants A this cael ‘eld w: as cropped with Tarain and sown out with . 
industry or one kind of element which should en- | large a and i ippo Aiar “county apon the Gpe iisk of the | Grasses for perm anent „pastu are, without a cereal crop ; 
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grons mitad — ano onterprisa, of an, Kero ng increase in th nty Cork of 100,000 acres of ee at 8 Notwithstanding } 
quick-wi race Our bu toe owever to-nig is food cropa o = 
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nk kind or another. The corn crops have | undergone groat i im provements. ring 
x à meal 4 crops and nerean by bows TO abo on the green ont hare of = pre ent ea sale Son 
produce aa country m pen main y upon creased Sri above 70, acres. Horses and "sheep have lo 
position, and climate ; nob but that the law of the io nien teal ye I call your ZR ia S Teina the, ah fone aicid} ex t roads ave been ang to => sre 
market, as well as the law of the seasons, will have a | stock for Ireland c : 
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the late lamented Lord Macaulay speaks of the un- | butter exported as short a ties Bank “ad 18M 
rivalled beauty of the scenery in the neighbouring | 253,000, in 1858 they Rote to S „000, or pearly Faoubie. 
county of Kerry. He says, in his history — “ The and the exported butter amounts in annual value to about a 
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meet ith reference to the general concerns of Ireland, I impro ved. 
the most beautiful tract in the British isles. The | fool] that I am m justified = speaking to you, upon the| No. was let to the Precnt tenant in 1853, and 
indeed whole, in tones of congratulation and hopéfa ness. The i 
sia ote and rain rhe ue est a bring up from | number ur Tee relieved D y the poor pss in Irelar 
a boundless t on the rare se when the san | I do ume D aran absolute measure ne the eae atin of this area, coon Was consid st 
ld ut I do e it as etty ge, although it produce 
ta “hs se 5 sel dom. foams om - holly destit aE the number of | fai crops. The present tenant has alread 
yrtle loves the soil, the tus thrives ettor persons relieved in 2 tesa fori nly 1 öf | © Bly arated m whole farm, and added 3' bel = 
n England dag, oa m 44 | its cultivated a a nt med reclaimed portion 1 
ent. In Scotland 4 per cent. The ex nditare likewise been else ri limed by the present tenar 
icher purp ple, t the varnish of | the Holly and Ivy is more es or the relief of the poor i a Englan naoi By, e hole and is produci uxuriant crops. The cer 
88y, ani ulation is ead. In Scotl: ‘and it is 4s, In| crops it Produs eg a were, on the whole, t 
or a brighter green. 7 err ‘of mbistuspioperste > e | Popnlat Tale Ag: Then, with respect to those mud bulkiest I saw in any distric "canon while 
a wider fr an a in e t W p T cabins which were formerly the great opprobrium of | Of its fields of Turnips (ot crop 7): 
fairy Killarney, eat of the land of! the country, and which e imperial ac e soil 
f the ocean eat Watton otk 
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demnation of all travellers, and also the regret of all | matter, mixed with alsy, and is of better anal y th 
; ae ear, draws towards mde it ‘he western sea scantiited: tohmbibents-whio- mourned over a | that of any of the other farms which I have enumerat 
ee mele pra thus urged T state of things which they were not e ebiet: at Al ali |The increase of the. stock a and Produce of the fu 
Y» perami * a has on events at once, to relieve—the mud Pina of Ireland. | Noe. re with its j it tenani s sf thi § 
certs i b s è amounted in 1841, not 20 years ago, to 491,000 0.6, e wig ry of this farm entered uon 
oy Tippee Mel au Ps ‘hai b d eat i in| tbe mee mate e now diminished to 125,000. The number of an improving lease 847. mi then a onl 
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oh in thea ready to condense the vapour pins aut mewhat increased in the last and present | the lowest pa arts of the one and the pastoral land rose 
mes: om y $ ces a| Years, and the are frequently drawn now from ` somewhat abruptly fi 600 to nearly 1300 feet 
init Ere ri hat sk nk eh find in th superior class in life to those eo formed o bulk o ing the present lease one half of the ¥ 
Si te dhs. oA diti ies a e | former emigrations. They now often comprise ma has been reclaimed and enclosed. From the nature 
ure—a a. getare frequ aatiy-of ions bost A gP the soil, fons different va ot ae improvements were 
well educated, and me as d in a less crowded com- necessarily very xpensive, as sne lar ge, 
eof ti hevoràl Speci ies of i whi ch q aay it in the munity a better. asitiens for their industry and a more | tained not only i 
- TEXT adequate demand for their natur: and acquired ot hand. Tacne plentiful See bale be seg ies 
A such hilly intelligence. But I conceive that this is not a symptom, | 9 Sache ing was 
Panis Stn sands ia in. “He Hence D ay with whatever immediate and local jal it by go 
ditions of erg ge oe th = ered, ty | may be attended, at which, viewed at aire , we ought |a remunerative to the tenant, as the farm sor 
tock ck dor Tad: and iha tee ce a Segre to rep ine. The success of. those who go wil prove ring ver very large returns from its varied products. 
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‘re e mmending beneath other skies, and also to those tha aling to | and 1850 pastoral; since that period tho arable area ht 
this source of supply. Corn, you all know, de be | their native soil an na their acon med homes, ages been extended to 500 acres, and if the tenant continues 
sees onar Conny: Seige Lene: Brest | in Treland incline to loo) This ost hopeful | improving at his E ipes villa, he w a 
gles een se It is not so] and sign of the bo they re gen = tensive farm ponderate. The im peor 
aang are a ae d asak im paa and * frequently now rd as ae effected by th aur and ton | 
of f more souti Seiat | three times as mu ach as hat they were when ` ase of „Im ht go on ina a similar strain to No.20, 
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en- | extended, and isi 7; | described Teh tell of the produce of No. 1 br 
be and we can gather ec oficial. returns, os eh been recently So ETA of the stock of of ind be 
ip id and charges of indeco sade the ope No. ee 
wn doors, that improv! i 
increasing RA we IBE Jakop ma. Ai agban takin sabede io 10 having beet 
do not oe ya d gentle t supplanted by the richest = most luxuriant pasture 
reverse. | there are no ‘this i c o (of excellent Turnips having been grown last yest 
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whole surface of Ireland is devoted to pasture. Now, it | do tell all the ill-wishers to the country’s d | farm of 600 ayes contiguous with those, upon 
s that with this immense amount of your capi x all the disturbers of the Sosia peace, that we s, 
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inkai orc 724.) of the be iii pea m equal pr fool 
having been annually expen aded on arti the 
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it was, with the exception of a few small fiel nase eye 
all pastoral, and contained upwards of 1000 acres of | haye ates wane conte 6 ee on the 
very: hoe motho har pole whether mixed Heaths and Grasses. During the occupancy | Resources of Reclaimable Land. Effingham Wiles 
mach rain, To show bow difkenit |Of the present tenant nearly 400 acres have been re- | | Royal Exchange. 
a may | claimed and enclosed. The greater portion of the soil 
m on the farm was, previous to its eing brought under : — 
i wet and stony, therefore a large expenditure š ients. i 
was incurred in reclaiming it. The land is chiefly Notices to Correspon of a tx 
a received five ears k 
for moorish character, and asd in its natural state only eh oor eet a E OT Barley; but have sas 
inferior One part of the farm is especially | _ tunately misaia tho inguiry relating to oni. gd here OF 
ee worthy of of notice. This was, before being reclaimed, a | IMPLEMENT Awanps AT FoTo ments mem Pomfret. For the bat 
„ covered with the coarsest Grasses, and asaj application of Steam power to the cultivation of the soll 
