8 On teaching the lower Classes of the “People to write. 
PRIZE PIGS. 
et ee 
192 
Mr. Jonn Road’s 
months old ‘black and 
white Berkshire Sow Pig, fed on skimmed 
milk and four bushels of barley meal 
Mr. John Hassard’s 11 months old white half 
bred China and Suffoik Pig, fed on 3lb. of 
barley-meal and 2lb. of potatoes daily, with 
“skimmed milk, for the last three months - 
The Sinithfield club have recently ofter- 
ed fifteen prizes, amounting to 210 gui- 
neas, to be adjudged at their next show, 
Dec. the 15th, viz. for large oxen which 
have worked two years at least, and eaten 
no corn, five prizes, for as many distinct 
breeds, each of twenty guineas ; for oxen 
which need not have worked, but must 
be fed without corn or oil-cake, three 
prizes amounting to 40 guineas: for fat 
cows that have borne three calves at 
the least 10 guineas; for long woolled- 
wether sheep, one and two years old, two 
prizes of 10 guineas each ; for short 
woolled wether sheep, Gne and two years 
old, two prizes of 10 guineas each ; and 
for pigs, under two, and under one year 
old, two prizes of ten guineas each. ‘The 
particulars of these prizes, with print- 
ed forms of the certificates, required, 
witheach animal to entitle it to be shown, 
may be had of Mr.Mitchel, No. 7, Cloth- 
Fair, near Smithfield-Market. 
It may be acceptable tosome of your 
readers to be informed, that the Smith- 
field club consists at present 
members, including most of the noble 
and distinguished patrons of agriculture, 
and the rural arts in the British domi- 
nions, the number of which is rapidly 
increasing: his grace the Duke of Bed- 
ford is the president ; Sir John Seabright 
and Sir John Warmington are the stew- 
ards.. ‘The meetings are usually held. at 
Freemason’s Tavern for transacting. busi- 
ness ; the subscription is one guinea per 
annum, and the number is unlimited. 
The great object this club has in view, is 
to excite emulation and competition 
among breeders and graziers, for ascer- 
taining! and adopting those breeds of ani- 
mals, which will attain early and _per- 
fect maturity, with the least quantities 
of food, to the exclusion of coarse. and 
unprofitable animals, objects in which 
themselves and the public are alike in- 
terested. Yours, &c. 
J. Farey, Secretary, 
Westminster, Jan. 16th, 1809. 
“ 
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of 225. 
(Pork &} Loose , Feet, jalood, jEntrails}| Weight 
Read.} Fat. &e. | Alive. 
Ib. } lb, | Ib. | Ib.-f db. lb. 
Hit WOE ode St) Al eee 
296 ¢ 29 2.) $2.) 2G sae 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
‘SIR, 
USTLY indignant as your correspon= 
dent Mr. Cumberland seems to be 
on the subject of his letter, which was 
published in your Magazine for July last, 
it appears to me that there is another sub- 
ject incidentally hinted atin that letter of 
lasting and infinite importance to man- 
kind: and, I think, in its consequences, 
more to be deprecated than that of 
which Mr. C. complains. The subject 
to which I allude, is the design of 
many persons in this country of teach- 
ing the lower classes of the community te 
read, but noé to wnte. The only plau- 
sible argument that I have heard in de-: 
feuce of such an iliberal mode of educa- 
tion is, that by teaching the lower classes of — 
the community to write, you push up out 
of iis sphere, a greater portion of the budy 
politic ihan there is room for it, in a given 
situation, to contain; and, consequently 
egnorance is preferuble to knowledge, wm 
this instance at least. As, trom my sphere 
of observation, there seems to be great 
reason to apprehend, that. the opmion is 
gaining ground, andasit has been recom~ _ 
meaded from high authority to restrain 
the negroes from writing, in order %o 
make a partition wall between them and 
the whites; who knows, but that this 
same partition wall, this insurmountable 
barrier, might not find advocates suffi- 
cient to set it up on this side the Atlan- 
tic; and, that, at some future period, 
the night of ignorance might not once 
more lay its ebon wand on the human 
mind. 
The subject is, Sir, I am persuaded, 
of great moment, and I trust that your 
Ingenious correspondents will favor the 
public with a lance or two, in order to. 
accomplish the destruction of the many- 
headed hydra. i 
Yours, &e; * > : 
Jas. JENNINGS. 
Huntshill, Dec. 4th,1808. | 
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