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assertion, that “Mr. Allen’s tour will not di~ 
ninish the demand,” for we had no idea that 
my movements of ours would be likely to 
.ffect the price of such stock in England. 
We saw the above pigs, or stock of the 
?ame kind, at the Royal Agricultural Show 
in Liverpool, and also at the Yorkshire 
county show ; and very beautiful they were, 
but not equal, as a farmer’s hog, to the Berk¬ 
shire. We also saw most of the other stock 
Mr. Hannam mentions, but suspect he is mis¬ 
taken in saying that Mr. Webb had let a 
South Down ram, to the Duke of Richmond, 
for 100 gs. We spent some little time at 
Goodwood, the seat of the Duke, and had 
this been so, should have doubtless learned 
the fact. We presume it must have been 
the Duke of Newcastle that paid the hundred 
guineas.—See our Tour in England, No. 4, 
published in our last. 
Tour in England. No. 5. 
Great Show of the Yorkshire Agricultu¬ 
ral Society. —The annual meeting and show 
of the Agricultural Society for Yorkshire was 
appointed for the 4th of August, and as we 
were informed that it would be nearly as well 
worth seeing as that of the Royal Society at 
Liverpool, we made our arrangements to at¬ 
tend. London is the great centre of the 
circle of all things in Great Britian ; from 
it, to every point, whether north, east, south, 
or west, is down ; to it, from every point of 
the kingdom, is up ; it was the pivot of all 
our movements, our point d’appmjer , and one 
could no more think of making an arrange¬ 
ment in the country, except from hence, than 
he would of sailing to the moon from any 
other place than this our poor mundane 
sphere. We accordingly took our departure 
once more from this mighty Babylon of the 
world. 
For the accommodation of that part of the 
public that cares for nothing but getting 
from one point to another in the quickest 
possible time we have an eminent idea of 
railroads ; but when one is traveling to see 
an interesting country, or take his pleasure, 
they become a regular bore, longer than one 
of their own dark infernal tunnels, and we 
have at times almost made up our minds with 
the renowned Mr. Tony Weller “that the 
rail is unconstitootional, and an inwaser o’ 
privileges—and as to the ingein—a nasty, 
wheezin’, croaking, gasping, puffin’, bustin’ 
monster, always out o’ breath, with a shiny 
green and gold back, like an unpleasant 
breth in a gas magnifier j—and the sensiblest 
thing it does, is, ven ther’s somethin’ in the 
vay, it sets up that ere frightful scream, vich 
seems to say, ‘Now, here’s two hundred 
and forty passengers in the wery greatest 
hextremity o’ danger, and here’s their two 
hundred and forty screams in vun.’ ” 
In one respect the fields of England pre 
sent rather an unsightly aspect, from the cir¬ 
cumstance that previous to underdraining 
being much known or practised, of their hav¬ 
ing been thrown up into beds or lands of 
about one rod wide, crowning high in the 
centre, and leaving a kind of open ditch be¬ 
tween, to carry off the surplus waters. 
These beds are of the whole length of the 
fields, winding and tortuous in shape, and all 
following the same lines, give an unpleasant 
monotony to the landscape. Except when 
set to grass in meadows, where they do not 
wish to break them up, as fast as underdrain¬ 
ing is introduced now, these lands are gra¬ 
dually getting levelled down by the plow, 
which greatly improves the appearance of 
the face of the country. 
We noticed that most of the hay was put 
up in long ricks, and the grain in conical 
stacks, all carefully thatched on the top to 
keep out the weather. The grain stacks 
generally stood on four smooth chiseled py¬ 
ramidal shaped stone blocks about two feet 
high, with a broad stone cap, which prevents 
the rats obtaining access to them; and if 
stones are not convenient to be had for 
this purpose, pillars of brick about two 
feet square, with a coping, supplied their 
place ; but the smooth face of the stone is 
much to be preferred for this purpose. The 
advantages of stacking grain are here con¬ 
sidered fivefold. 1. It saves the expense of 
barn room. 2. The danger of being de¬ 
stroyed by lightning. 3. It can be reaped and 
gathered three days sooner, which is of great 
importance to the husbandman in this wet 
and changeable climate. 4. Vermin cannot 
injure it. 5. It produces a plumper finer 
sample. These are important considerations, 
and we recommend them for experiment, to 
the attention of our own extensive grain 
growers in the southern and western states. 
Derbyshire is the most picturesque part 
of England; it abounds with high broken 
hills crowned with precipices, brawling 
streams, and deep vallies, but notwithstand¬ 
ing these, the land is mostly under a> high 
state of cultivation. In its fences it remind¬ 
ed us to some extent of portions of New 
England, nearly all the estates being enclos¬ 
ed by strong thick walls of cut stone hand¬ 
somely laid up five or six feet high, the di- 
