May  t,  1893.] 
THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
72 1 
VARIOUS  AGRICULTURAL  NOTES 
Pearl  Fisheries. — A Company  has  been  regis- 
tered by  J.  M.  Mitchell,  110,  Cannon-street,  E.C., 
with  a capital  of  £1,200  in  £10  shaies.  Object, 
to  explore  and  examine  certain  mines  and  pearl 
and  shell  fisheries  in  West  Afrioa. — Financial  News, 
March  27. 
Advance  Amazonia! — Brazilian  politics  acid 
Brazilian  Finance  have  of  late  attracted  consider- 
able attention  in  various  quarters.  Some  writers 
take  a very  gloomy  view  of  the  national  prospects/ 
Fortunately,— says  the  India-Rubber  Journal, — the 
rubber  provinces  are  a long  way  off  the  capital, 
with  its  intrigues  and  cabals.  Amazonia  possesses 
in  itself  vast  resources,  great  powers  and  oppor- 
tunities for  development,  and  a more  general  spirit 
of  individual  and  mercantile  enterprise  than  many 
would  suppose  p ssible  in  these  tropical  regions. 
Whatever  revolutionary  changes,  or  whatever  pro- 
cesses of  disintegration  Brazil  may  yet  have  to 
experience,  the  provinces  of  the  Amazon  valley 
have  undoubtedly  a great  fulure  before  them.  In 
spite  of  the  assertions  of  pessimists,  the  sources 
of  supply  are  practically  inexhaustible,  and  on  the 
other  hand  customers  from  Europe  and  America 
are  always  waiting  with  gold  in  their  hands  ready 
to  purchase  all  the  rubber  that  can  be  produced. 
The  Largest  Farm  in  England. — The  Apethorpe 
farms,  near  Wansford,  in  Northamptonshire, 
tenanted  by  Mr.  Andrew  Montagu,  contains  4350 
acres,  of  which  2250  acres  are  arable,  and  1800 
acres  pasture.  Some  ninety-four  men  ar.d  boys  are 
employed  in  winter,  and  about  double  this  number 
of  people  in  harvest.  There  are  ten  sets  of  farm 
buildiDgs,  with  steam  chaffing  and  corn  grinding 
machinery.  An  8-h.p.  traction  engine,  by  Fowler 
& Go.,  and  a threBbing  machine,  by  Clayton  & 
Go,,  are  regularly  employed  from  Ootober  to  June 
also  about  nine-months  of  the  year  a double  set 
of  Fowler’s  16-h.p.  compound  engines  and  cultivat- 
ing taokle.  The  live  stock  ooDsists  of  about  300 
sheep,  500  cattle,  95  horses,  and  350  pig3.  The 
labour  is  supplied  from  the  adjoining  villages,  and 
the  work  is  principally  done  by  piecework,  even  to 
cutting  with  sheaf  binders  and  reapers  in  harvest. 
The  oost  per  acre  for  labour  alone  runs  from  15s. 
to  16s.  6d.  per  acre  on  the  4350  acres.— N.  B. 
Agriculturist. 
Farming  to  Pay. — An  animated  discussion 
is  going  on  concerning  the  true  cause  of  the  existing 
agricultural  depression  and  the  proper  remedies 
for  restoring  that  great  industry  to  a flourishing 
condition.  Everybody  imagines  himself  capable  of 
teaching  the  British  farmer  how  to  conduct  his 
business  profitably.  He  is  contrasted — very  rnuoh 
to  his  disadvantage — with  bis  agricultural  ancestors 
who  worked  so  hard,  lived  so  frugally  and 
accumulated  so  muoh  money.  We  ( Sala’s  Journal 
would  point  out  that  the  indictment  of  extravagsnoe 
and  the  habit  of  referring  to  the  good  old  time 
when  things  were  so  different,  is  of  no  recent  growth. 
Here  is  a cutting— very  cutting— from  the  Times 
about  seventy  years  ago 
Farmers  in  1772. 
Man  to  the  plough ; 
Wife  to  the  cow ; 
Girl  to  the  sow ; 
Boy  to  the  mow; 
And  J’Our  rents  will  be  netted. 
In  1822. 
Man'  tally-ho  ; 
Miss  piano; 
Wife  silk  and  satin ; 
Boy  Greek  and  Latin  ; 
And  jfon’U  all  be  gazetted. 
Technical  Education  in  Malta. — Amongst 
the  many  important  improvements  which  Dr.  A. 
A.  Caruana  has  introduced  into  the  department 
of  Education  since  he  has  been  placed  as  its  head, 
says  the  Malta  Standard, — a new  Technical  School 
— has  been  started  under  the  superintendence  of  Mr. 
Cardona,  where  young  men  are  taught  the  art  of 
carpentering,  oarving,  plastering,  modelling  and 
other  useful  works.  This  is  a Btep  in  the  right 
way.  Some  time  must  elapse  before  we  will  see 
the  fruits  of  this  school,  but,  as  Dr.  Garuana  has 
taken  the  thing  bodily  by  the  hand,  the  time  is 
not  far  off  when  we  shall  see  our  young  men 
competing  and  holding  their  own  in  the  industrial 
race  with  other  nations.  This  will  also  be  a great 
boon  to  our  commerce,  for  it  will  open  a vast  field 
to  cur  young  men,  and  instead  of  seeing  numbers 
of  them  with  strength,  sinews  and  muscles,  standing 
idle  and  loitering  about  the  streets,  we  shall  see 
them  engaged  in  useful  and  profitable  employment ; 
moreover,  instead  of  spending  their  money  abroad 
the  people  will  be  able  to  purohase  the  same 
objeots  at  a lower  price,  and  with  less  trouble  at 
home,  and  thus  the  money  will  be  circulated  in 
Malta  among  the  Maltese. 
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