December 29, 1860. } 
supervisi sion and reve of the whole drainage 
and water use of the cou 
What! nee ms the eb 
sive weight aa distinctiveness of a 
ll we 
sae abolish the Bedford Ponet. co fiporamot 
drainage 
tical i improver, shall we | 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
1159 
and ia ge fallow. The Swedish Swedish Turnip, Has 
; learn how judicious crossing the weight i and val 
Ti Now om | 
é lan rnip aw, and Wear N 
keeping pr partied of the Mange heh properly stored, | 
We 
ernment man agement’ an er 
the ae vati = si fora ngel is increasing yearly. 
know which a crop of Trifolium incar- 
iat was fea sanity ye es, manured, ina 
: E and the Mangel seed dibbled iù. The cro 
baga,” recent introduction ; Mangel i 
sheatctoMed! We believe it was not introduc at a i kindly tillage. 
as crop till ms 1815, and then experimentally; aet to the tract of G land to ti 
ndeed its great value has mip al a pare in the Vale, we may learn how care 
gdi rally ears, if so of the Spe oa hiin to win the padka p the 
Smithfield w the dai ps 
eaten ba rie met the semen, Rea 
Thes an lik DEN 
= aintains and 
airy produce. 
e to De. found by the 
he words of Philip 
i aita what is done by 
P wi 
the foremost of them, they will the 
a bo 
basins, vey, report, proceed to execute works | n was estimated at 18 tons per acre. Miadi mselves write such 
till eve: ere ‘‘the oked is made straight,” | to the ah be has been remarked, tha tif to clear the ok of agricultural improvement as never was 
and ‘every valley” as it were ‘‘ exalted,” and so | Barley gr | elsewhere, int legible aed ts with good 
with a strong despotic hand rendering England, | the whole cro ° being consumed, the Swe England.” Let 
despite its weeping sky, a la hat engineers and rot gt Phaeton ents rede with yo, tre foil i. nr r Pate se pply P 
h 
ce. pas gem vie Aga ines sel prt: feot t? will rot. gpd is an impatience oft the diteltie tom So pegs in notes loud and strong, as from the 
Nos seamed ydraulically ‘dl spf te put f7 or 4 eather, which has led some token of the inheritance of the ancient House of 
ha good friend, not quite so rapidly as that; but rye the Mangel ities entirely pub the 8 Swede. hie Up one gone to his rest, may it wake up red 
t some great general legislative measure is Again, the breed of sheep pa age roved ; Eo ocr energies of their West Saxon blood to ne 
require ed, , owing to the failure of the „Lo veal Act sagt: Kap éraéded the Wilt 
s | Down and Half-bred has rept fhe Notts, | whi 
to meet the cases demanding redress, you have n bled Half-bred, in the Vale. The pte [T he pede tele pene apr Bie e series descriptive 
| sl I spoken | of Berkshire agriculture. We unde 
n! Mav 
ai for a aiy breed of this stock. 
Nothing is 
yl 
” | improvement 
£ called the Newbury sort, bred 
ti 
now 
t 
from a district ill- | 
The Pigs are cle 
| Berkshires. more ao loan those whos 
| remembrance pn them bac ears, than the 
t of the horned sina Fi Ri rbd kine 
on the wastes of the 
often seen, where the Short-hovs is 
ane “passed away 
forest, were too 
found. 
y little of artificial manures, we hold that the | 
f 
rstand that the 
several parts are to be collected and published by the 
Fran ev. J. C. Clutterbuck in eon t form, 
A DAY AT BEDFORD. 
Harvest being over, and a day’s relaxation promising 
to be acceptable, we were glad to take a three-hours’ 
ride on the North-Wes' 
5 
ploughs and plough-making 
We especially noticed two such farms—one on the 
ed r a dairy fat The most striking 
+i igs 
anctio ose and 
piattinal Sodies, and providing bewilde fed idet 
drainers wi D che ap and tad short cut throug gh 
the annoyanc ff inter vening owners and t 
in the increase of sheep st tock on 
ae Ef 
Some yai since, when fosst RAAY 
PA E orks, for it is these we refer to, 
catter ed abo ut i in diffe: ere ent directions, workshio) op af 
etc me greet introduction of “the Swede and 
and exigencies of the business demanded, _ Consequently, 
es draining where it has’ been done, inclosure 
of c mon field, and the in nvestment of capital 
ld 
a meagre outline of the details a aa go 
ise 
nor measure = 
pressing ecesitien, extending over avery g 
system of looking for the red oi — o the year's 
crop. 
411 
cture. However, it is ard and the 
visitor with his admission order in a few jitte i 
at his tastes most lead him toi in i te present beauti- 
bce pine vperintendenee; we cae stated our 
iy. examination being that of a sight-seer rather 
than i that of a critic or ahaa the few n otes we have 
ned, T, 
poli A pev 
area 
perme 
seems a very quiet Stanly p eine , for on arriving theré 
RE u of inundatione ie in’ re or ‘call bodies have too long ‘allowed the vicious Sore of yori 10 at Fae you might almost hay e fired a gun up 
ust asse zí once; and it sing e High Street, without ris jury to any one. 
would ino she sabes Z ax es of re real | lives—so-called Leta ne ‘Jucus anon, socal Ths aiian: even, had a tly} w 
floodi: torto H thonghy there es Borea of this evil. “Me » which we expect to in in most 
But the river eee a estates managed by | places, at that hour; and w policemen are needed 
few place ached, ‘dnl have st robs ack ee my th nip parse we can only say that, it was not our lot to see æ 
wheels that are no lon etre ig: eath a | lawyer, buildi a PAE tome ich] OF t , either then, or on the fi ; 
i ; ii ee Ont TAPRE oe which | gay. Whence comes this nt of quietude 
railway viaduct, and with t up navigtione | is ny with farmé which no one cares to repair, farms | pe Have the fimur editti päřilegés wiih 
mnow so excessively imoti, whilst tolling | clustered in villages and distant from the land, main | puafora ything to do with it? This point 
perhaps oné barge per wee ae it stages lags outs blocked by almost useless mill-dams, other | wo Jeave re fe "eetenadt hy — The river Ouse 
across the country ip goods which might ily outfalls neglected, timbe: owed eia wn, bearing its bosom 
the rail, A Jp r the relief of mi nor cases | shr ded till they have no he tn 9 up the a few with t AY dogg sit tocratic bearing, as” 
be easily obta’ = Pioi ib i ey rg a + site din pst saig practical well at boats | and parges for pleasure or — A 
part of the PARAE interest oan. alone carry orm $ MOE DF which Arining Chat ri etree hn i jin ith peia on telling all the outs 
the larger aud more momentary measure, I. A, C. | Gre ery Op S thike whe carey it t out, ar venture to take and ins of its history, spans th e stream, which is here? 
not unlike the Avon at Stratford. But these oer me 
THE aig pagers OF BERKSHIRE, 
THE REV. J. C. CLUTTERBU sic OF noire WITTENHAM. 
ae Siete from “£5 diy 
experi 
of improvement. onfidently turn to the yeomen | 
and tenant farmers of. Borkshire @ nd recognise in foe 
peor Tes oh el Knowled ge, and s 
„Tae VALE.— 
iin, h 
ficient guides in t i thie 
fot pulverising the ‘soil, of which the clod d ‘lass t 
a 
the various aid widely differing dis- 
tricts of this y. We also acce pt the lessons to'| 
ng “The e of o inter 
me ip Pasty, “is the safest soti 
ch their locality is associated, or its’ 
are not unmia adfal of the 
p for the 
g Bet 
na whi 
antieiit ¥ re aie or ruins, they 
1) 
éalled heal beetles, pronounced hile ng heal being 
y, cover the grain when sown ; a tts or and other | 
n rollers, fs carifiers, broa: 
=] 
S 
i 
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4 
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5 
a 
nom 
fo} 
a: 
ia 
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& 
uy 
Kh 
a 
o 
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n a sq 
a lever to raise t 
farming of the amateur. We venture respectfully to |`} 
ceria on asking ip What is most worth seeing here- 
of 
refer to e ott Hi sien iti that vee farms | iy 
at Windso h thei ently culti- | 
pari on 
ways va P Si nh subject of “the| 
BRITAN 
Messrs. James and Frederi É How l iao di 
ã just across the Midland Railway, on the 
n Road; and it is from the bridge over oe line 
| the E decidedly the sae general view of the establish- 
Figen we believe, by a e Berkshire 0 or E Oxfordshire | realm, who led, not by idle ty, y a wish for | ment may be had, e the six span rol. “of the 
eable implement. It has | practical information, eatin: t ee them. at the | buildin g with ‘their numberless glass tiles or Pgh ee 
é ae ite 6 of these a ing i orest the landlords and residents on their property | ® and the utifully variegated arrangem 
und in Mavor’s report. | are the improvers, as ho tin a district | brick pace en the stone ainin swig alg 
pp his aight have been the perfect- | in which a naturally ste resents a picturesquely be seen to advantage. e tall and symm 
ing a implements, which were sadly checked by | diversified surface. The ch 's abundant | trical chimney is almost a landmark in Pant 
the agricultural note ‘of 1830 which in parts of this | instruction tothe bredder of Akeep, whether at Okash oF district. The entrance lodge and archway, as w 
county absolutely drove many 7 sai Fe apg BN old Hayward’s farm, by those who have won the high |as the buildings and: offices, are allim modern Italian 
threshing W to PA ines, out of use eg peo: honours | conferred by th e Roy al Agricult vet Society, | Style. ing th the lodge across a large 
it is dient t rsuade the fia ntelligence, | 81% ed yard are the Works, where hundreds of clang», 
a if occas requi ire. and capital to carry out the gone the breeder Hi ing hammers send their oe wits ugh the 
iiielided! "parishes. were frequent at the date of | begun, in all i that is porters a o carry out sheep air; for as Longfellow says of a far quieter scene, 
favor’ report ek in, me ~~ Ba pang tr it night, 
is 6th were è uninelosed, 2-6ths partly inclosed, 3-6ths| Descending to the Vale we find examples of the same | von oes hedt bin eit his heavy daigo; 
nelose ed ; e not aware that the ere are six parishes | roid ena pe rvading the richer soils, ign rege is Wit! ed beat aud slow, `, 
a the productive f the Like a sexton ringing the bean bell 
p dg most s yielaiig. aroga for eges t E ere: 
ed The r rotation of crops h ll soe Fah! we flowing bore her in the closest | On the le riage drive sweeps up sn ces, 
different : on ae Privat land, , Beans Hey, sy system f pa We glance a the sheep cotes of | an nd the ay “house, or private £ we ion, on 
seeds, fallow eg er sil Wheat, fall the lighter soils, pposit The o = on gh > 
Turuips, e great erein ihre the ‘monster demand of evo “ASW we base hand if: not ‘thous Pious s an Parowe 
Seems to be ‘the growing more green and root crops, | on towards the confines oft ce county t quite re 
