The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-03-06 00:00:00

Ign culiurt.

THE NEW MAIL BOATS FOR HOLYHEAD.

The
deign
and
erection
of
orthowyteritaa, Britannia
nTrubristloh.
6111.17111.tielis so agailtrikiii-
hßur tmiga Bridge
work whirl. not
onlyiisarkaedgigthaentcuic nieniugienneeeenirinigent tolf"tha-lr"1„;
epoch in this country, when everything Was to be aa,...
subordinate to the economy of tisue in our means-7(
SEWERAGE AND PREJVDICE.
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(From the .ityricilitural Garage.)
"I.adthuatct wail seoctuhreedrs,
Hine ea, ti
amicultural effusiona ; Ina I IiJVC not been usidtentive
It is some time since 1 troublot you with one of toy tenntetru.Ablieco,3l.o......ndt. ii.c.Stii.oinqi Quick
to what has been going on in the agricultural world. 1 tu" (41'-u but too little regarded. The Finale:4'
think we are making a little. though very stow, pro- bridge w-iii erected at a coat of some Mums) 4.;
bridge.r.6"ti
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wi wi 5u.1,13, ?":,' it,': :Ikerl.r: is
art'llui reseo:ftu3 0
06' liar.* ao.t.ri!klhesi
isl'elw. :d delay
°llu overcameel hllalinn.
t;Wa nalty.luwl::-
;tress in farming improvements. My eidecuied Hercu•
U.S moat stupendous engineering
lean, undaunted, persevering, anal never-flagging friend,
tirLaibb4iie,
sowf
.s..Tir.cy
Mr. Alderman Meelii, 1 perceive has been at the City of
uriarrnrinieyt-.hahagyferobmeenoitieor,lugigots:
London Farmers' Club. and. La the leader, putting forth
gigantic strength to drag a very olotinate and unwilling
Wain after him into the sewers of the great inetrupolia,
carrying
ht.::
or the great Babylon, As Cohbelt used to cal it. Now,
on man who hits a mind to think with, can fore nionient
twilltoeffinr"ullutors I:curePantasdshiatare illicibliTheimiti.e
trwloohnnic:donumibliaal-ii.-i
deny hut the principle for which. the worthy and lisle-
.Nhoi.rtil.o.l.:es..tueriniarklas :wide: Company, with the City
of--
skill and money could accomplish, and -04.
fatigable alderman was contending is a aouipl and valu-
able one; but lie was hooked to a wagon loadiaili6u..p, neermg
an example. To crows these straits in two minntei
to the clouds with that heaviest of all known subatancea
called prejudice, and his cattle though aleek and well ,
fe.l and in line condition, were all more or leas I'
and so there the auperpowlerahle load remaincd no. •
telit..thiturgl,orseatrawiot.h.ouhri:htiLliiiilefrealinteter:soiteaniboatit in er cr•
bedded to the axle:tr.:ea iii tool. and th,re it is likely to
remain, until some mac/ inert, rc pow,rful than any. "., of course, nut to be thought of, and thtu tie
thing now known shall lie ahle to act it going. -We read ' Menai-bridge principle, as we may call it, was pul
ed
of the weight of tl.e metals, gold and elatinutit for ex- i to its utmost in order to secure the fastest seagoia,
ample, but half a score of Barclay and Perkin's drays steamers in the world. - The time for further progres;
Mama would de along with a wagon 1,,.,de lof these and in these latter has again arrived, and another step .4
make nothing of it; but substitute the gold Roil piatis advance is about to be taken which will place on ths
num for the article known by tin, term prejudice, and Holyhead statism such boats as it is confidently ezpct
all the horses and machinery in the universe would nut will surplus, both in speed and power, any which haas
lie abl .to set it moving. %sin and hopeless+ ti, refure Yet been etAvealtted• Some Wee May be formed of their
were the labours of the worthy alderman at the City of capacity when we state that the tour new vessels which
London Farmer.' Club;_ even Stephenson and Brunel are building—the Ulster, Munster, Connaught, awl
together would have been but AA a lair of goo:Liners Leinster-will each be upwards of 2,000 tous burden,
agaima such a load! 3(441 (cet in length, and propelled by 800 horse-power, at
But is not sewage required? and which is the legiti- a rata of speed contracted to be not less than 18 knots
mate place for it, the land or the sea! But if it be an hour. But for the gigantic increase which is nada
wanted for the land, why do the farmers of England almost monthly in the speed and seagoing capabilities
send to the Antipodes for guano when Alderman Mechi of our ocean *Warners, such dimensions and such power
inexhauatilde at dance. equally as good an article for Imckets intetoleil for a run of 64 wiles. They are
shows them that they may obtain in London an and speed might well tic- thou;;lit extraordinary ii,
the niere trouble of fetching it away? But, if sewerage likely to be among the steam wonders of the next 12
is not wanted, why is there so much mew land in months, by which time there are certain to be some
England which requires nothing but this sewerage and that will equal them, the number of which will on..
cultivation to make it rich ? But I,ltlano is SO Coll re nient, tinue to increase till the mail service must in time tate
it can he carried in the waistcoat pocket or in a .n.ar. another welloainsielered step, and pass ahead of all us
box, and a dealt or two of it—so the cookery books lieretof.sre. Three of these splendid vessels are being or
apeak of condiment:4—io all that is wanted to cones rt arc nearly built by Mt-ears. Land and Sons at linkers.
cold and sour land into warm and sweet land, ahl to bead, mid the fourth by Sammie and Co., on the
produce luxuriant crops. lint again the reports state Thalueo. The wed at which these %mods are intended
that the member, of the City of London Farmers' Club ato thy over the water through a narrow channel, where
do not lake irrigation ; but have not civilized man in all here is a Luaus, of colliaion with passing ships, has
civilized countries and ages irrigated their lauds, and tudcred it advisable that they should all be built of
with the moat astonialling beneficial effects? We need unuanal strength. They are accordingly conatructed of
not go back to the tune of Noah, or travel round die the finest Iran plate, bound together in every Possible
world for beneficial exaniplen of the practice of it, for way by cross lwains and angular stringers and part of
they ate patent to and are ackuowledged by wen of all the deck is foruled of broad girders, which extend ag
ages and countries of the worlil. At • union workhouse round the ship, and give to the whole fabric immense
1 know the master tried the effects of irragatian on a atrength. In addition to this the Irma is completely
bed of comnion culinary cabbages, and the erect was subdivided by nine water-tight compartments, Passing
such thst 1 myself saw sonic of those cabhagea cut and I frau deck to keel, two of which insulate the engine mut
weighed, and their weights near 40 this. each, whereas boiler-room from each other. The deck is entirely
without the irrigation they would not probably have flush, and will be broken by no obstruction save We
reached 3 Ilia. each. I myself also have astonished all entrancea. to the cabins. All the ships vrill, of course,
who saw them with the size of my broccoli by Inking the I have handsome suite* of cabins fore bud aft, with a
same lumina ; so large did they become, and do they I chief baboon aft 00 feet long by 18 wide,, and 10 feet
become, that we cut them at three or four times, cut- i high. The berths are separated from the 6111001111 by
fing off a piece as they grow on one day and a piece on longtituditial bulkheads, and all of them are wide, lofty,
another, until the whole is cut; and if any one doubts and well ventilated, and altogether may be said to be
this 1 advise him when lie plants the next crop to have deoguated to afford all the luxuries which can he
the ground dug '2 Or 3 feet deep, hut 2at the least, and afforded by any mode of sea travel.
then let him apply pleuty of liquid manure, and he will On Saturday neck the first uf theee fine emelt, de
find his broccoli* many time* larger than he has been Ulster, was launched trout Mr. Laird's yard at Bitten..
accuatomed to grow them. I head, in the presence of a very numerous attendance of
I have so MUCII to say about the late meeting of the I ladies and geutleusen. Luring the interval which
n City of Lodan Farmer.' Clots that not to trouble you ' elapsed before the noble *hip was started the visiton
[either on the present occasion I will draw this letter to occupied themselves in inspecting Mr. Laird's work.,
a conclusion by briefly allowing you awl your readers which, for conipleteileas, extent, and value of plain,
what 1- 'Hyoid( have done by the plan 1 have practised I are not to be surpassed by any building yard in the
now for nearly or full forty years, and in 1817 and 1818 klogiloin. Veaaels in every stage of construction or
I published a aeries of letters in a provincial paper, repair crowded the dry docks, from colossal screw
explaining and recominendsog the "Mr ol.tn. First me rcliantnien down to a tiny padelleboat • the latter. a
MOO tirAM%: 11, b h tint I ere confesa that I It-..h not the ' pleasure kaeht buililitos .or one of the upcountry
knowledge on this that I have since obtained, but in Kings of the African thaws. There are almost acres of
everything else, as 1 wrote at the above dsires. I write steam machinery going all at once, and one of this
now, imowly. I strenuously advocated deep :suit thorough I highest mid meat powerful double cranes that was
cultivation, thin seeding. lairse.lioeing. and tl:e keeping ! ever built stands in the centre of the yard, almost
the land in generous wurkiiig heart. Since then I have capable in the inimeiese circle over which it acts if
like a good teacher lisped practiised what I taught, and ' depositin.,. its weight of 50 tuns in any part of it. Sam
now to the results, mei with these I close this letter. • idea usaybe funned of the extent of the works Mita
Having deeply and thoroughly drained. and as deeply I we say that within the teat few years nearly 250 Teasels
and thurougloy cultivated aa I could, I drill in my seed I have been launched Iron them, of an aggregate tonnage
with a drill I made myself. which drops the orals ii, , Of MOM WWI. and some 20,000 horse-power. Pre.
rows 12 ladies apart, and the seeds drop aced after seed 1 eisely at 12 o'clock the 31ar1n15 and Marchionem of
singly Ult., the furrowa inside by the dritheoulters. The ' Chola.c took their places on the raised platform at the
drill is drawn liy out or two Moles, as the laud may be I bows of the 'MAMA. Her ladyship named the Ulster in
very heavy or light, but on light land a pony can draw . tt-e usual Rua tttttttt end then.-by a peculiar apparatus.
it easily. Six rows at 12 Mehra mort are elrilled at one actually launched the revise' deaf by cutting a silk cord
sweep. But in this way I put iii of wheat 2 pecks an . which communicated with, the machinery employed to
acre, and of barley and oats a little ideas., but never ex. knock away the dog shine*. The motion of the vessel
cased 3 peeks an acre or either. And now to the result, ' at first was slow, but it moon began rapidly to increase
and I give it for one year. My yield of wheat that year till it plunged out with the rapidity of an arrow into die
was 1 bushel under 14 COollar4 an acre, and the barley Mat-my. Set, in elite id the great" way" on the vessel,
crop was 1 bushel below lei cooniba an acre. The wheat . apd the strength of the tide, two light Troturan anchors
was threshed and Measured in the field where it grew. : Idotight her up within almost her own length from the
before as many people As i could coilect to-ether. The I shore. Her appearance in the water was as light and
barley was threalital after Chriatioas by %and, and a as beautiful as can well he conceited. The trial of
sceptical neighbouring farmer who leid is wager noon the I meet!, on win. h the success of the whole of the my
101.1140 Y was tolianed with the 111C+bure. Let me also I line of Loess will, of course. depend, is to take place is
state that the wheat sold at the ',Obeid price in the I about two usonths hence, and, we need scarcely say, is
inariiet, and that the manatee ohe haught the barley f.,r ! looked forward to with deep interest by all connected
malting found it to be so goal that 1., kept for aced. 1 ob. I with the advancement of our large seagoing steamers,
serve oho, aiiil I %vial' this particularly to be re-oh with i
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care, that for four years afterwards, year after year. the I
"Mr MA,' Sr" WWI wheat, and the result was 44 bushels I
on an average per acre, sail the land kept improving all
the time; after that the field bad on it a fine crop of
barley, and then tha largest crop of clover I ever ass-
arid then 1 was obliged hi remove from the presidia.* 1
then occupied to those I bort illi.bir, and to I know
nothing of the extent of the crops 1110 W at them. I give
you this account as a small example of what may be done
with laud by proper draining. wood cultivation, rational
seeding. and horse-hoeing, where the rows are nut much
less than 12 inches apart ; but where they are much leas
a inure destructive impleinent than a modern horse-hue
could not be invented or uatel.—Gtiaare Wilkins.