Star.
London, England, 1819-01-01 00:00:00

FIELD-GARDENING.

Copy of a I..ttLit from Sir HENRY VAVASOUR to
Lord CARIt/iscTex, containing an account of a Cot-
tager Keeping a Cuw by the produce
Land only. ii•Lond 1112 20,
" MY Lnun--1 have had the honour of mentioning
in conver,ntion to ytair Loidship, the advantages
:hat appear to me, in cultivating Laud in the Ile-
mish manila ; or, what is now called about Fulham
and that neighi)ourhood, the Field sarde,:ing Hus-
bandry. I have for sonie years encouraged my Cct-
Lagers in Yorkshire, in this mo,.!e of niinaging their
small garths or garden:, -vhici, are from
one to three ac-c:, L.i‘e now ..n opp,rtunity of
stating the Ho illar,ciry of a poor indr.tri:.as Cot-
tagei% g rth A,tlie to..ia can nei.d.e.l- read con v.-rite,
these particular '.ern trar.srili-,:zd to ?Ix Com
his ov..n mouth ; and, as I saw his ,and almost every
day d.tring the las'. harvert, I cast vouch th..t this ac-
co'int is not far fr.:it. tlu. truth :

e: VICCf. . VALVE A. A. r.
9,.0 111%470 '... of l'Gtatote - F. 0 0 0 2 0
C.. Mal . I Carrot. t; ,) 0 0 1 0
-
r; (tu:.: t•rstIO:" it 445. ~•.tr qt. I 1 U 0 0 7 Vt.)
L... ds of Cover, pai t iti Lay,

}':t •:: TrPet. - t 0 0 0 (A tO
Ternpt - - • 1 0 0 u 0 20
In (.ardet• Sr: •5. ',r f:tt vi,•:lly. v::-.
beaus, peus, •:.1•'..•.g.z.., 'cc ki, 3,.. 0 0 9 U . 30

Dcdt: • t rrt. , ti ,:*
eing the h,u4c, Q
Seeds, tke. - 0 0
Value of I:o.:nur iQ i 0 U ^4 1r)

pr.A. to o
sot'. at Market, Pxclu.ir, of Racer.

a His stock was two cows and two pigs; one uf
his cows had a summer's gait for 20 weeks with his
landlord. The :and was party ploughed, arJ partly
dug with the spade ; cultivated (the ploughing ex-
ccredi by the man, his wife, and a girl aboat twolve
years of age, in their apart hours trom their daily I
hi,-ed work. seldom a whole day off. except in har-
vest:_made tlu. rent in butter, besides a little used in
the The man relates, that he thinks he clears,
one year with another, from the thiee acres. about
4:30. The daily wages his funk earns, .:i,out keep
them. It is very es i dent that this um clears from his'
three :arcs. more than a firmer .an possibly lay br
from more than eighty acreq of land, in the common
husbandry cf the country, paying for horses, servants,
&c. and it mast be obvious to every one how great
the afiVan:Agei must be to society, by cultivating in
this naanrer. It wo:ild have taken more than half
the iiirantity of his three arras for pastille, for one
cow at gra,,s, during half the year; whereas (except-
ing the :dimmer's gait for one of his cows, as men-
tioned befor.,) his stock of two cows and two pigs is
!kept and carried on the whole year. The tinnily
lives wet:, and a handsome sum has been yeally
tared to place out two sons, and to supply them with
clothes, washing, etc.--I am, &c.
newßy vAvAsouft."
TiKserums art conformable to the prices of this year ; but
its evident that, Its other seasons, they must lo fenerid be
Tie CottAger's oune Is Thomas Rook.

On Christmas-Day the news ranchei Mr.
tilt his Ticket was drawn Eso,ooo Prize. Those',
al) now treat themselves with a Ticket or Share as
a few' Yeth's GO, may receive the same pleasing in-
teligence in a few days, as the Two Prize; of
£.9,900, and Nine other Capitilsof E. 5,000, So:. must
# a &awn on Tuesday Week, being the last and
oßl:day.
tITS POR Tint Nr.w YEAR.—To forget the rriev-
ance of the old one, to pass the present merry sea-
son. ii mirth and festivity, to look forward with con-
fident and hope, and to provide for my future eu-
joymots by purchasing One of the Two Prizes of
£50,00. which will be drawn on the lifth January,
at Ca.aou.'s New Office, No. 19, Cornhill, where
N 0.2517, a Prize of i.:A000, was sold December 23d,
the Serind Day of Drawing.
The 4anager of the Edinburgh Theatre, as a pre-
liminar, excitement for the sew farce of X. Y. Z.
caused 41s, containing these three letters, of a glar-
ing size, to be posted about the City. These myste-
rioas pufs so alarmed the Magistrates, that they
summoncl the bill-.tickers before them, when the
latter Itnitily ssete able to prove, that there was no
seditiovs rtrea ona!i le signal it ender the
sicAl placird !