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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE A AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[DECEMBER 22, 1860. 
| make a bonfire of them.” nee has 
our notice n which a farm 
prej 
breast, or feet. They are noted rather for their 
tendency to gas es for fast feeding Rip | 
have od though not 
Abbot of -Canterbury—the ‘Village Blacksmith—Mau ud 
L Dinner—The Combat— 
They goo ug coarse coat. judice. | ‘Won’t, c wt, and Mans ugh— 
st y oh ready S ale, either to wai wings, nc with a certain number of skeleti carts | ‘he May Queen—The Cataract of Lodore—Christmas 
feeders, or to be sent into B Mr. Hannam’s, | Storms and Sunshine—The Search after h— 
counties in this trade. The ten ndency to growth con- | under his directions. ew years, waggon a William Meg ei A i on Roast Pig—The 
stitutes the chief value. A well bred, full- oe waggon was added as his occupation increased, Enfield Ritle and t ld Brown Bess—Black and 
Berkshire sow is marked by a certain ease and state- | any additional one-horse carts he required were built | White frendine ten am Bede—The Siege of 
liness of mov p in the gammon, which is the model of the old dung cart. This ma Calais—Th eath of Marmion—Eugene Aram—The 
ed well to the hock ; lengthy in kips with — deemed retrogression, but the fact can only be Destruction of Sennacherib—The Genius—Some- — 
a long nose when ith s other breeds counted for on practical grounds, It nig bee “if thing on a Delicate Subject—The Guests at the Red 
e variations of m nare reasons is one f th ore | Lion—The Derby Blues and the Valiant Tailor— 
the drawbacks to breeding pigs. It has been said, when | the distance to the stack yard short, or if k rn | Brighton, Tunbridge Weils, and Bath in The 
pigs are dear sell all off; when cheap, i po ‘breeding were on d in the field, Rite might pa but vith Three Warnings—The Turne pem ichard — 
SOWS, as rn of the marke t is sure t The | lon tances we should the eye | 1I—William Tell—Betsy Brown—The V; 
pigs fed to 10 or 12 score lbs. are reo for | ty local | A w: ‘oe gon is obviously mete sate B is ad hath 
dealers, who pay at the scale beac Bet freely. The | to say at of the dislike of the Berkshire ibaa | 
ure of pi ompared | with the to the - n was fully di scusse ed at 
1 
R 
et Boy—Try 
art, | | | Again— The ve shfal Man—Th he Sh aula Teast ittis 
Chari 
Ts ee iest Time—T Heart’s 
Hen 
riously 
shire farmer— 
e farmer offered to repeat it; he purposes « on a farm.” This was carried by 
would iakin aot do it now. The ae aor majority.* 
practice of feedin; 
very small styes with scarcely any 
h Jadar af 2 
4 
SATURDAY ruis 
THE REV. J. 
very name of rye night. stagger Ti 
—_ mee is brii in the Arc ¢ Regio ms — 
I 
The tame setjnired to be loud and distinct, so that 
all g0 uld he: ear without effo rt. „ The e vo ice pitche d hi; gh 
ect of pigs 
in favou of the cu Seat Running the 
wa mat harvest i x Saree yet sete ual and a droukennes. wee Pe poe = + 
and it i ted whe eT ood si = 
ight is the dr a of th „and 
tained is real gain 5 rae of co Seen nds 
the ditare the pig has to travel, the state of the 
Orne. yn nied or moist condition of the grain, and 
the 
ceed night, the workman a his wee k's 
h Spor oF 
and so h 
ploren —We roceed to consider the | 
question ey “bleiene: Tn aint papon we ye sis eaten W right 
use 
“wot town, |~ 
ms no othin ng a amiss, “bat veal 
oo favourites. One 
of the 
up 
In musi 
Far 
oO 
25 
at most . 
working people, 
windows; so tha 
the 
From this mien the bills were eagerly 
precious reasur h 
treasure to e ma 
g bo ok ! L 
that there i is scarcely any i implemen 
excepted. lst. Pl oughs ; Mavor erst of. the Norfolk 5 | 
ind other Song inns cast iron shares, &c., as of rec 
ntroduct . It has been sai id tha at men have e plowed 5! spè ney. hitii 
| reckoning for the week's jor eiT is it if he 
ot reel Gee midnight to his trembling wife 
fe 
best wah of plough and ship is not yet o Meteocatned. | 
So it is still. The al ve soy wooden — l | — aipat itiiho 
I 
£ 
f k 
t any other in dirty a oon comes et question, | EESE such a Saturday night, epn sa e oa te men, of well known frequenters of the public house — 
onght land to be ploughed pak. ee OA z a well-| ekan probably sleeps till Enit PN Senna over | Who never missed one of I heard 
drained soil eve y? tear of Daisaeaticiinn: r—perhaps Rak hielt- for agra orar of men beginning to put into the penny bank, ani 
the wooden ence more than its ce cha- | 2 ‘ st ar nds Sunday evening. where he. spent | Setting clothes to go erga and I heard that the 
racter first 1 ts disuse; Howard’s ploughs are Sainte i There 3 thi g E TAE Soe publicans Selly Cea that all their best f 
gmaliy ac td haan ‘ploughs of local makers com bs ail this, but there are cites Si too, to, of the s canteen "N m 
are much used. tural ploughi vatches h dal GE at tormakest a parents WRIS to ae n wrens wo guy e up, à = p 
alll askana- aise “tae war ai apank if he can, for the working men on Saturday | We Should r Mana atts: that t they fa fal ly v valued S 
gives us representations of pressers, skims, dri The ‘women on that evening are, or ought to the onpoekinity rot spending an evening of rational — 
ey ch obey-cnthitigy penip s = sae ta a be, cleaning and swilling, vandal their houses in such | ¢’joyment. 
show us 
+: 
preii ate | that, unless one good man of a two-roomed 
ero, he cannot be expected to 
IRN ga 
| there window they w pestered t o giv e them 
enses of the 24 entertainments amounted 
1502., 1 
ing 
mittee of working men tl mey he 
ares and people shown tò their seats, and order kept, for 
all these nights. The moral results were far more satis- 
ih 
factory than the pecuniary one. T heard, from working 
The only objection which was worth refuting, because 
are BA nae us people, was tha at ours was not ‘the i 
to ya ac ak spon of bent a ~_ 
Sg gh Rave gen the former used i e loca 
who travel for “hire e, the Tatter still 
m power is general, the jets of stea 
and a of smoke arising from stack-yar fpe 
n it. 
es devoted myself in my own sphere of work 
For and 1 18! 
every Saturday night we it in a large hall, y sieni 
o 9. 
they -alied “Saturday night. My reply was that f: 
b 
nek 
ouse way, W scores was thi ly aieri 
and that after all I did not see that our ic a 
reading differed so widely from the open piano an 
conversation of the. drawing-room. Others said fae" a 
he ne mag raad hiirte sy bg shiro hout eg country, and literary entertainment, lasting from 7.30 3 
obtained a. hes pgm’ an the perfection of his The ċh m admission was.Jd. and 2d; wi h afew 
k i 
e seats nicbt after |, 
Te 
here 
was no means of testing this, but I do not believe they 
n for a glass i beer ;. 
Takak a re of 
and congenial company, I re that 
arp st as they w chur 
Our entertainment poe after. this fashion—an over- 
reed ba: 
to excess. I believe, too, that they would say the 
«| ture by a brass o; g 
Fok co prepared for ices ch heerfa lly, ee only some li 
sowing with a prodori 
of suc cess in the of 
crop, and instances he 
ka al tivation have come under 
notice. Fowler's plough has been lately Introduced 
on the Flem: = n at Mia nA The ti 
bably at Sand. team cultiv: K wir Po Gat) 
as si irosking f or Heed 
mR 
F 
nar We oF the choirs in 
notice Taba Mr. Hannam, of Burcott, di m 
re only by the river Gorith the aid of he wire- pei 
years : , 
theri and rolled a field in which Potatoes were 
steam alone. The requent | } 
the reason for relin- 
en 
“tere ape 
=e some patent of the img 
song; then, ES a 
solo on on the piano— contentedly to a 
en solo airy an hor long) then a second reading 
other , band, glee—a third 
cards organised—and the strong period of haart 
over. 
Of course entertai agama on as large a —_ 
an 
h 
But I think that heft of t 
) well = introduced even in the village school room. 
el ited w ith a few of the sini 
"doctor, or railway clerk, or 
a strong counter attrac- 
schoo ink a 
tion to the Bieeanecite of the ale-house might be 
Even d uring this summer GE any summer we have 
b nd 
_ We gene erally had a 
ng, was the secret sata 
oc we engaged hra a 5 and once 
San conjuror, but we still kept our readings i 
mea gram The r ri 
rilling is much saved afew 
etical ; pathetic 
, were most appreciated. The 
h as 
to cake th in erhi ~ p i 
ki pret of ‘lewd humour, suc 
re 
corn—as phe’ as for yield bgt 
symptoms of their 
uments eet failed ta peta the 
ers to adopt a cleat s0 „highly rec O EE 
sulted in favour of cart: Much less ess are hey 
af oven o ne URA given ü them in the 2nd Part 
ve Jo 
da Agricul urnal, “ th 
ki while they can, cannot 
Subjects ead Duberly Doubtington—Paper o 
Probability "of French Tnvasion— The E iare, Scholar | 
—The House Fairies—John Bul ange ng 
Poems—How Poll Paid the Rent Kin ing Joh 
< Published Record of the Transactions of the Oxford 
Farmers’ Club, established 1849. 
A 
TAER if they 
had) 
n 
men 
and t the Sat 
I have found t 
were delighted to come to t similar 
meetings, which oe held in a tiae "ad private 
ading-room., the ale-house benches are not 
seems no ren cause De 
ot be carried on in 
people w to carry on my series of 
tainments even in summer, but I was afrai 
and boop i x sero that the audience should 
= be pardoned for such an Seming 
on of 
ye 
t en 
EAPN rit 
Mee 
minds, Above 
