The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-12 00:00:00

emeamed a good id of assel awl sake, will, I appr►
hmed.make a veryr rehire Ihr rearing and feeding.
By this system a the straw is sat so and used se
Ind. the expense of litter being ailefther eared ;
the plea was brought into notion by r. Huxtable,
emi esmasthing d the sort is neameary. if • very
liege quantity af stack is kept in the house, for then
the great diamolV is to provide litter. It is mess-
wry to throw mos, burnt earth. or mina. about
ease in eight or he it over tiro Los. ea as to ear-
wirtimmi Aeleit the effavium feu the Ifroppiersi
ami it disk me that the MIA maim imasevesdemse
mit arise hem the multitude d Iles which are gene-
Med or stimuli by the wows. At this semis
that was met mit felt, bat 1 maned that ads and
seeking was smiled up over all the yoke% se as
to keep the slob so dark as possible. Iliere is •
sile and ammedent apparatus kr steaming the
obA which is Int moistened wick lest water, and a
of the steamed food is given with each
M ut
was is the yard at feeding time, and I ob-
served that two strong lads served all the stock in a
careful and methodical way. I thought rather leer
quantities of meal were given, but I found all the
roots and hay had been exhausted and green food
was not ready, so that it was necessary to supply
the whole of the nutritious part of the food by means
of meal.

This Retrace, however, is not new, foe it is men-
tioned in Middieton's " View of the Agriculture of
Middlesex," being • report made to the Board of
Agriculture, and published in 1798, where, alter
saying that the wash of distilleries had been =
in feeding oxen, he adds, " Mr. Lip'np, of
chapel, has fattened many beasts in this somelitett
and at a single house at Battens*, Surrey, dans
, have been erected to accommodate SOO at a time.
They have • little hay or straw given them ones
• day, to enable them to chew the cud; they both
stand and lie on a framing (a kind of trellis) of
woodwork raised a little above the pavement, and
are not allowed straw or any substitute for it for
bedding. This beneficial practice is extending it-
self very much, and is, as well as the feeding of hogs
by the same means, a very considerable improve-
ment, and must be of great advantage to the com-
munity." Thus we sec that it is from men who are
not 'merely farmers that the new and more economi-
cal 'methods of feeding animals proceed. Every man
who has attempted to keep much stock on a small
quantity of well cultivated land finds one of his
great practical difficulties consists in the demand for
litter, which the farm itself cannot supply, and
wbiet, if purchased, goes far to absorb the profit
derived boa the additional stock. I shall look for
the remelts of Mr. Mechi's practice, as disclosed by
his balance-sheet, with great interest
I to be in Essex shortly after the Duke
of • s protectionist demonstration at Drury-
Imo Theatre on the 29th of April, and I heard innu-
merable issideate indicative of the way in which
fereesoldionntent is turned to the account of party
poligonal'. One landowner in this part of the come-
ti, who has also large resources independently of
his lead, on being applied to by his tenants either fee
some reduction of rent or some outlay in the way of
nt improvement of their farms, or perhapsfleme
both, saved his own pocket and served his party
by saying " Don't come to me for relief; go to rec-
hannel; I did not lower prices, parliament lowered
prises ; you must nut expect any help from me ; you
Mot go to parliament for help ;" and accordingly,
*sir expenses to and from London being paid by
the local protection society—to which landowners are
almost the only subscribers—the tenants start off for
Leaden to swell the Duke of Richmond's audience at
Dwny-lone. It is quite notorious, too, that many of
the Essex agriculturists, who are rich men, are
mmither intelligent nor educated ; and one of these,
while stopping at the tavern on his way
bone with his son or son-in-law, and
being engaged in discussing a good dinner
and full allowance of port wine, was accosted
by a neighbour, who knew where he had spent his
morning, with the inquiry of how he, a ruined
wheat grower, could indulge in such extravagancies.
* No, no,* says the farmer, " I bean't quite ruined
yeti but, Lord! you should ha' heard what
name, John ?—Alt I thinks--(hisLord—
horzrd whet woo his
ma been told him it was Lord Stan , who led off
Overarm to St. Martin's-lane)—well, Stanhope
aid—how he did talk! I didn't think I was so bad
off stand bard him as I find I be; but I bean't quite
rained pt." This man is worth 60,0001. at the least.
Again, there are many of the over-cunning farmers
who think that when they have got from the land-
owners these loud admissions that farming can't pay
at t prices, they have founded a substantial
iia for reduction of rent should protection not be
soliopowl ; but while farms can be let as at present,
they will find that landowners will use the farmers
hr their own political purposes, but will not give
away an inch of the advantages competition enables
them to command. I believe the territorial politi-
cians will only postpone for a brief space the time
when the farmers will cast their lot with the rest of
the industrious classes of this country.
A MIDLAND COUNTIES FARMER.

Tui REVALUATION OP TIM DUKE OF RUTLAND'S
RSTAT.L.I informed, now coenplete ; and the re.
cult b t• be • very small decree's in the total rental
only. It is added that the effect of the ealustion on the
tomtits whose semplainta induced hie grace to take the step
has bees • easslarable increase of rent.

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Socirre or Fittaaoe or FOREIGNERS TN TheraNlL
—Yesterday evesg the annivereary festival of this sr
chap was laid et the lead's Tama. The Chevalier Dar
see, the heads .Weser K the lltglirh amt. prosided.
sad taillied hi teastieas la • sarsor iadiseiell I
ens sises eelaeloisee MS the seals oairilyf public limn
ia Loam The 'essay Nailed of fyer&
The MGM eat speedos were af the ordinary eleeeora der,
end were kesemed with the ordi seclanweles. The
ropers of tide easellent society's opentlias, daring thegast
year, is interesting. We give extrema. The IYesiers
state " They haw had this happiness of Wadi. Wise at
their weekly leave is as less than 1,111111 wres, of
which23l law bees Row lONS taken on the Ilea=
the past year; and of des above atuaber IN have
assistance to eaahl• then to relent to their Inds, swig,
The directors have pursued Mlit tar row se i ihrmae
yeah, of making a worthies investigatiow iat s the charac-
ter and circumstances of than who hare applied for
relief—frequently by domiciliary visits—and they be-
lieve that they may. assert with truth that during the past
year, although it is utterly impossible to avoid deception
altogether, yet but few instances of the kind have occurred.
The majority of the cases, which have come under the eye
of the directors during this period, has consisted of the
aged and infirm poor, who have spent a long and useful life
in this their adopted country, and who, from a variety of
causes, have been reduced to want." "The average number
of applicants at the weekly board daring the past year, has
been about 40, the majority being the natives of European
countries ; but the inhabitants of Asia, Africa, and America
have participated in the society's bounty. The sum ex-
pended in casual relief during the past year has been,
814/. 18s. Bd. ; and fur passage money, 1441. 81. 9d. ' • total,
9301. &I." " The number of persons who have re-
ceived the weekly pension of h., during the past year,
&meats to W." " The sum expended in pensions and
allowasisse amounts to 1,4321. 175." " With regard to the
lawful position of the society, the directors regret ex-
that their report cannot be so favourable as they
weak vs wished it to be. The amount of doaations at
the amine dinner on the Bth of May last was
osu. l7s. dent of the annual subscriptions m-
ashed *aria from her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen,
sat elm illosteisas asemben of the society, amount['
3111. This as big 6061.6 e. less than on the p
memissa, and the operations of the society having been oar
timed en the same scale as heretofore, the board have
head limmerives in the much to be lamented necessity of
as the seeiety's funded property to the extent
or sheet he eider to provide tor the amount of
pealse sad ears now due ; and to avoid a similar
ewilleyeeep ha the next year, sad if possible to enable
dim le replete the funds now sold cut, they must make a
met energetic appeal fur the continued and increased sup-
pert eif their friends, and of a generous British public in
The directors feel that a special opportunity may
Carilltiollff
_the Gat influx of foreigners from all sta-
tism al Me Imhetrial Exhibition, to increase the funds of
the charity. "The report then goes on to refer to the
simete of eeldWhing alminesse in connexion with the
eadety, which arigusatad with Mr. E. U. Brandt at the
last Erotical, sad which ha set with the rased
the as of 3,W1. 18.. ad. having been gawky eahesied
he this porpose." The shins ma is sot
eibiste to
=iste the wedessideg sa the scale
is le sand eseseaseition foresiVitt
than Spew ipso* ; but se, aossediag to the pine had
beim Sea, it IS snidest a WM atasheasse Mr belt that
asabee. the sab.asesitese heat isleardad ups pressed-
leg wilt Se week as bra their mime will edasit—herayed
up wilt the bye that eny seer be aohled, through the
enisisee et aggros polfe_ emery out to OW fel/
the algid of bandage eontemplated—even
labile MO Mime are neer to be kilaalei. They are
=kakis oat Is a esavesdest Oa la the
of the setespii. at • moderate pia, neigh.
Ira* thatbeim may mob have elapsed dm asylum
will M k amt eteesellea."eL%inee.egemeigrainsic
Nat se the dhow wow IL le lam
Jana* ea mime Ain of Iffraikos M. T. de D. Hall-
as N. P. Rua. M. P. Ibtawilwad IL &
M.P. The dsiatisse issiisseed the swim ertaw ma-
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