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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND''AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Decemper 15, 1860, 
as ottage | directions in which agriculturists both at home and 
that you might build good aS pat, a|abroad may exert shemeetyap as rival competitors at 
rovide the next world’s fair. 
result of a pretty large experience 
builden pretty large 
laid level with our road, an 
ata with the acinar of 1 the co 
mple modification of the w 
n 
d not get the 
u 
out of their habits, and they preferred the the history of progress in times gone Sen. a to con- 
off: the tramways to be used in the o streta of China 
sider 
needs assistance at the present time, 
bid she of huddling together in fewer rooms to 
y had 
The _history of |to dra: 
may then be made 
w our produce to the markets Br Seine back 
manure to ms farms without necessitating the cost 
a3 oo the farm or in town and un ee 
sary e 
which the ot accus' me : history 
ROWNE made almost the on ly practical | o¢ civilisation and progress in general. The history of 
suggestion s that were offered in furtherance of the | civilisation is the hi story of the steps taken to dev 
object contemplate e piui ang and these | lop the resources of Sae 
were to pa: n by the piece, seeing, howeve’ In England we may date our start in the race of 
that the work contracted was t ghly done, | progress from the formation of our coach roads, |u 
o ise you demoralised the man; and (2) to | throughout the length and breadth of the land, The 
give every opportunity to the intelligent young | Romans well knew the value of 
l ” 
wW. ng to Sai want of good roads, there w 
In 1763, just t 100 nto 
tion 
our steam power, as will necesitate ce 
extension prs our tramway system through every 
town and village in the kingd 
nung eet that started once a mon 
14 days in each journey. | 
rses were employed to sk oo 
e between the smaller towns; as the r ap ads e im- | 
d carts 
only to til? 
their land m more effectively and | advantageously, but 
ft 
also to bring the products o 
greater r expediency and economy, If the Erhibitiag of 
9 4 AA ink 
hi 
o Serres defene prove a. waggons came into 
e circumstances of t | 
who was declar in comparison with f 
, to a "bette ae aa more intelftient, | | perty, a wise gov 
can Poss benefit upon a a iiakion in j 
eii it wit th good Toads, can: als, and railways, for 
mapes 
ful, a nd as well 
Mr. Sioni Cilike that While proud x show | 
that the farmers of " Englan and will have eget 
mae e to be thankful =e m ooanophian with the se 
fair 
and 
cond 
they had for ti the 
it |r rid’s in this 
Exhibition of beat notmitetanding it developed the 
| powers s of the ing m: and did much to attract 
à E Hy 
the foreigner our manufactories and thei remote districts, and bring Pyae distant markets 
within ach stan ch on i 
= pide Sa ahaa WP: Rate? the, 
Kent, December, 1860. 
e and a 
Sicily, Ta 
rtugal, 
the resou: 
th 
Por y, in 
e- | England, EA lade ange our roads and used ‘them | uninter arene Bis 
f mo 
ar tada 
ontinues, night and day, almost 
stream clas carried bg 
water mene the last ‘three weeks than 
efor £ Scotl tland. 
H 
Rainfall 
e | the transit of 
parentage duce, eagle als wore ‘developed ; ; hy 5 os tiuo pad gai iF 
sor 
lof the s aqueous vapour in the south-e 
age 
a ind is warm- 
in; the Grass and Turnips sil i growing, 
hea’ 
een oO; 
of who: 
ri were found t rb so ransit from | ing ita 
m,a goa ca haay eM graded condition point to poi t iat pe were made to |the latter an excellent crop; but Wheat looks rather 
` Bi 8 8 enable them to compete with mail coaches. and fast | unfavourably, the slug is at work, and in glay soils 
in: ce on the condition of a generation who ns; but circumstances and the nature of the goods oe in me level Carse of Gowrie, from the in- 
never read and rare] ve the home locality, |, be | panraye were R the drainage the water is standing half 
than it could have in cases where these and other | 2295 miles of canal were PERRERA and opened in| way up t , ridge in many places. Trusting to the 
Gerkening and disturbing causes are in operation. | Eoman between the years 1760 and 1803 ; conse- | drainage s old a d w — had not 
A warne ple h fall of water having 
quently w: 
s pened. Fro 
occurred for sere years back, the Locking op of the 
orses pipe- -drains had not RA notice ed, and no’ er 
4! 
=e} great 
esult i is 
this Carse there is 
c — eao n and stone between Stockton and 
‘to their horror ! —they would be chargeable if they | Darlington, wid we Facto used in place of h 
Phe bated the he abolishment of of statute te fai and other | for traction. In 15 years from that date, viz. in 1840, 
in 
England | declivity i in 2100 yar 
which aa at le 
zs the. ditches are not t deeper 
T Ea LE 
than y Philanthropist, ul ey al the same 
ht 1 floods. 
lways 
nA Aih: amounted to no less than 50i 
vided some an arn eifi which has meaw extended to 10, re one 
onsequence is that there is a 
the most remote corners of our inlaid’ iy i 
ae labourer would equally enjoy. 
tl The c 
E deposition of KE the pipes, which eventit closes 
r. WALTON contended that the labon means, Our citie: es are „bein ng u undermin ed and tunnel- 
fien. oppressed by his scouraged th 
în Rapes ident ‘bearing as a eL Teapot that "| eir ever Sera born be ie and the improved 
wages mpshire w week, in York, | and ext indus = oulhan and. aro 
shir ter” ere 9s, E seg ’ meals of | development so puaa as to PET aa in ‘their turn 
food, ‘beef Tine times a da ay and _yet increased facilities for bringing etd produits with | fi 
‘ou will say, 
I do not aschlogt such a continued hs ge or 
rain since the autumn of 1799. But then the 
a n in the 
that labour in Yorkshi 
in Hampsbire; a and in OSW e ttle d nestion how | what has all this to do with a saiia Baek the 2 
e condition of the labou de i was to be improved Exhibition of 1862? If you will bear wi e I|tear the sheaves asunder. By ca hold o 74 
he protested against the system of paying labourers | Will endeavour to poi in what ~~ ‘the sheaf you could have Palle’ the wal “sank K alter i, 
alike, notwithstanding their various merits, and | Exhibition of 1862 is, or may be, oe pubes, Well necing Æ k 
he declared, ami ment the only connected with this development of 2 site around the E sing ricks, 
5 tt 3 | System. In 1851, p ae to the oe machine a LF hig had fallen out of the ends of the sheaves.. 
eter Wages. | we had ex! xhibi ted our wondering eyes This excessive continuance of rain was followed next 
ise of the Scottish agricultural „and now in 1860 t 1800) b ptp met on drought, and 
And another gentle- 25,000 of 5 engines e: d on our farms. The | effects of the drought were even more disastrous 
es hinged n the | | pr malts em which ‘agriculbnriste ee pri he by year the sprout and rot. e eccessive erops wi 
tha were rying to solve į is how bine’ may empoy the ] that me ts rose in t a mee — of 1 
glad to find was utterly denied by the members thei p r quarter; Oatmeal, 3s. 9 eck of Si 1b. 5. 
hi at uproar to p ket, n other "grain in aie iekoes f fllowe 
i ith l f life 
i and many ents operations but still Tt ‘think we do 
It is 
Ireland some 13 years ago. ee "that t 
ng will sf 12 followed by x 
+ not half use our e 
besa. 8 dry summer. F M., Carse of Gowrie, 
a eae n Societies. 
in | BOW and 1862. Successors to Boydell will, [am sure, not we 
evil agate EE, anting. Mr. Halkett will doubtless try D 
had so well pointed | tion of and tenin, anè ings € a —— yr 5 a 
paring even at the pres to combine some modi. |, There w ao anisa a ae. annual meeting 
ting of English farmers, dwindling | fication of th he old hang band endless paling with the | held on Wed nesday ast: terms 
of the discussion, owing | agricultural locomotive. ‘is this all we want? I f eal Powe, who was in the chair, referred in noni 
w e Sho | think not. We may fail to apiy ur engines on the | 9} great regret tp the death of the Dake | ae Bic hi 
4 P.M., has thus hat f sats re let us apply em we ae doing asa eeting ; of i Cent Fit, as 
condition o ng lish labourer most e DOWER 5° Diu 760 -RS alse CARNO SESE it i i e : y es fa deal 
den BO eS A PE ¥ e PFA pre i 2, waggons, end L y $ wee ural condition of a good 
y s de thet nating. aT that we use engines upon them, an nd Peay: Ri Pph EE T of the Decas Tas 
jd raw our produ nae eee ‘ieee our farms into the | ™ ea nad tis me 
‘THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1ge2, Pakets of onr Apocrita tbig ote REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
gove Leia rails unless we employ tractio The Council have to report that-the Society consists at the 
I READ your announcement in the lea eading article of | for roads. not a modication of  Baysel present time of— 
last Saturday’ s A pon nS Gazette with 1 where rails do Life Governors, 
pleasure, pa sige sdlighted 4 2 learn that the Exhibi_| oe, upon our ¢ be roads Pad Pye mes hd 
tion of 1862 with forthwith „No Is riot, ho pees r, come for our road 3651 ‘Annual Members, and 
doubt the gri in aid iy a “town tramways on our | 18 iPr os Members, 
the Exhibition of spe for | common roads ng Bes existing railways and our Making i the list, 
nothing more than the |smaller towns? Such a work d not necessitate es ea k RE rae have shared with the 
machine, that alone is a legacy 1 engineering skill, nor does it admit of long bills cad Counei their sense et en gpm fret ron dd 
value of which cannot be | engineers‘or “ac they w ve begun | decease of the D: Richmond, one of pags A 
Exhibition of anon One of any self-bearing Snide vil ss a7 AOSE chona tie phe memory of ono evinced 9 
of è in the st et, is all that is required to be n the oftars of the Society. 
