The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-14 00:00:00

ROLKHAM SIIRSP.SIIE.4kING.

THIRD DAY, iv Ly 5.

The vars.'s*, of the prise sheet) were exhibited
this vomiting; the weight% were Its loiln‘ts

Mi. s at,i4•.wa Wrlbrr-C46.rets.. 104.-Fat 14. 931.
Pt.,ri. •
Mr. 1'•.'.e'.9.[..1.4.•'84 Wei her-ennsub 101.1- FA ht. 11th.
-MO.. %OP..- Otte% 11th.
Suit *Mows 'Weihrr....-Cmc.a. Itilh.-Fat
114 10.„
41 (I 5...0i1ul wee hae-Cuts
k alt.. .
Mr. H. Pi.e•ltheloWit Wetuei...-Cmc LIS 1-t. 6:b.-Fat
11116.-..Nkiat Set!. -lllurk 9th.
r.. 1 . H. . S. us Wethrt -Careen* 7.t. 31h.-rat
2°J h-tkie 10111.-. Pluck 9;h.
otr. 041%6 irifirr. artau. i.i.6t maw: hrt. were (Al
6h• rt 'of the weigh I e Fecled 1 'betted col reach more than 444.
sisml tat B,'. 71%.
After breakfast the eomparty proe,ecletl to tiro.

the Varna of, oftep.ist week
.eleven
.stittnghts started
for the premiums, bet the spot appointed for the
vurpose being an eld corkalont taxer, and the weather
having been 'of late trer's•de; the ground was se
lard that it way with the utmost difficuhy that the
ploughs could he maple to cider.
Mr. Coar.,..in. apologising to the owners of Ike
cattle for tt.is circont-lanes„ expleitted that it was
owing tohic having fivett on that situation at a time
when the ground was moist, and hating, in the
burrs of Cosiness, omitted to take into account the
continued tiry another which had intervened. La.
houriits under this ditlisulty, the work, as might
be expected, was not so Will perferratd as tt eight,
. but this by no means detracts from the merits of the
cattle. It is alto due to Mr. Ransom, of Ipswich,
to observe, that of the eleven ploughs which started,
seven were of his constructien.-.
Atter riding with Mr. Coke, and 'fleeing hiv
Dee on Stock, his 6ne crops of Wheat, Barley, and
as. fist on the Wells side of•the Park, and after.
In arils at [Agleam's, where a fine drove of Devon
beasts were exhibiting fur sale by Mr. James Cole.
plan, they proceeded to the Ilan, and Soon after
three o'clock: the company, in number about 300,
sat down to chimer, the Duke of Bedford presiding
at one table, and Mr. Coke at the other. The first
toast proposed by Mr. Coke at as—
Si. ti • Pretitletit of the Bath and West
of mud Att. icult..rat Society,"

who, Mr. Coke regretted to say, was unavoidably
absent. -

As this was a day of business, 'Mr. COKE !Mid he
feared it might occupy too much time to drink bll-
y/thirdly the several Gentlemen, alum on this OCCE.
lion he had hoped to have seen; he mould, thisre-
fore, beg leave to propose them eollectirely, viz.

" Lord lirosbroAte, Lord Gonda:, Lord ‘ii,,chits"u. sir
J. Sol liti,, Lord Tunitt, Mr. Whian".,d, Lord St. John,
Mr. Webtrio. Mr. Lord T..liont, the !inn. G orge
\Volvo'', Mr. Ceram Mr. Midis, Sir W. Ro%,ley, kuul Sir
S, br iXIIB there limes.

" Lord proidrold.• who briefly Mewled Own Ls.
" Duke of Redford, wog Pr,operily to hue House of
Wohuro."

The NobTe Duke rose and observed, that the kind,
warm, aid hospitable manlier in which he hail been
received I), his a nrtlty friend and those ,around him,
after an absence of nearly two years, reinleied his a
situation of peculiar difficulty. Ile bad the same
sentiments with regard to agriculture he ever enter-
tained.—" L reckon it (says the Noble Duke) the
main support of a nation's liberty, virtue, and hap-
piness. 1 have been in different foreign nations, but
you will not be surprised if l declare, that in all
any travels I have seen nothing like England, in Eng-
land nothing like Norfolk."—The Duke then pro-
posed
" The health of Mr. Ci.ke, and prosperity to the House of
Zit k :.assi."

tis- Filch was drank with all the enthusiasm which ac-
companirs the toast.

Mr. COKE having bliefly thanked the company,
observed, that as the discossion of folding between
bic Noble Friend near hint (Lord Albemarle), Mr.
Greg, kud himself, might probably extend their stay
in that room beyond the limits which other inipoit.
ant mailers dt mauded, he would wish the debate to
stand over till another year, when he had no doubt
Lis Noble Fliend would take the field N ilk many
new and powerful Allies. In the mean lime he wish.
ed the Noble Lord to say something on a subject
which ho had paid great attention to, and the history
of which was but too little known—he meant that
destructive insect, the wire-worm. Ile (Mr C.) had
known several instances of rooks bating been shut
which had their craws full of wire-worms—he was,
theiefore, inclined to think, that the indiscriminate
destruction of these birds was by no means to be ad-
vise.% In the meantime he would propose the

•• 11-All of Alvriu.ol,," vsilh three turti.e.tl;ree.

After returni..g thanks for the honour conferred
on him, the Noble Lord proceeded as follows:
" I think I may with confidence state that oil-dust
destroys the wire-worm. I ground my assertion on
the successful result of two experiments, one on tur-
nips, the other on wheat. The first was an old sain-
foin layer for turnips, a small part of which was
sown with oil-dust, at the rate of half-a-ton to an
acre, befpie the last plougliitig for turnips. When
they came up, there oils a perfect plaid all over the
field, but soon went off i 3 every part except where I
the dust sit sown; they continued to look strong
a::il healthy. The portion which failed was ploughed
awl sown again with turnips—again the wile-worm
destroyed them. They were; for the third time,
sown with coleworts, which shared the same fate as
tlie turnips—the dusted part remaining at this time
uninjured, and produced a fine crop.
" In order," continued the Noble Lord, " more
fury to prose that it was the oil dust, and no incl.
dental chump of soil, a hick thus preserved my tur-
nips, I must explain to you, that the dust was not
6.• fa as the steches were drawn out, but most foot].
nately for the success of my experiment, diagonallii.
This direr ion was, in the first historic:o, purely acci-
dental--I tinily believe that you might see exactly
the path in which the seerlsinaii 1.all:r(1. The next
"was e'piece of wheat, wtitli had also partially been
sown with oil (lust. In the spring the wire-worms
snicked it, but orleiramining the roots, I found five
wire-worms dead in ewe piece of ,iit.paste; it sus-
tained but little injury, prodoced eight coomhs per
sere, and I have nu reason to doubt was preserved
by- the Oil dust."
Mr. Cons nest proposed the health of Mr. Paul,
•f titsrston, who showed specimens of the wire-worm
In its different stages; the turnip-By, and the beetle,
iiirb destroy the peas.
PAug. said he had saved five acres out of ail