An essay on farms of industry, and an essay on cottage allotments, or field garden cultivation, from a paper. Also an essay on self-supporting schools of industry and mental discipline

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Страница 19 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Страница 21 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Страница 7 - I have no grass land, and all the first winter my cows had only straw, turnips, and mangel wurzel, till green food came on in the spring, and now my hay is the clover I sowed with the grain crop last year. " I have experienced a great deal of good from the liquid manure from the two tanks, one from the cows, and the other from the pigs. " I have just killed a pig weighing 29 stone, "Jibs., and one before about the same weight, which I have used in my family.
Страница 11 - I have nearly cut it twice already, and there were really two good crops of the Italian rye-grass, and I think there will be two more this summer, with a little manuring. My early cabbages I always let stand to grow again all the summer, and they bring a great deal of food. I plant again in November, and put the liquid manure to them as far as it will go ; but to the rest I use dung or ashes, which are not so good as the liquid, which...
Страница 10 - The statement you saw was very true ; half an acre of pasture, half an acre and eight rods in wheat, and one quarter of an acre in oats ; the other part was green food for the cows, such as rye, tares, cabbages, clover, mangel-wurzel, turnips, and Italian rye-grass.
Страница 10 - Italian rye grass ; but if you are surprised at my keeping two cows on this quantity of land, I must tell you that one crop in a year will not do it; but my plan is to take second crops, that is, rye is the first thing I cut green in the spring, then I dig the land up and manure it with the liquid manure as far as it will go, then finish with rotten dung, and plant mangel wurzel and turnips, and the part that I manure with the liquid is always the best; the next thing I cut is winter barley and tares,...
Страница 9 - ... land were let to John Harris, an infirm man, who, two years before, had been in the Eastbourne Union House, with his wife and seven children, where, at three shillings per head, they cost at the rate, yearly, of £70 4s., which is equal to the rent of three hundred and fifty-one acres of sheep-walk : now he is supporting his family on only five acres, and, when recommended to give up his five acres, said, ' he had rather continue to pay rent, rates, tithes, and taxes, and teach without a salary,...
Страница 7 - I might have taken off my crops, and lived rent-free ; but I preferred staying and teaching, though I have no salary ; and so, I think, would many others.
Страница 14 - Id. a-week from each boy — the same amount which is paid at the national schools: but the time of the scholars is divided into two equal portions, during one of which they are employed in cultivating his land, whilst during the other he devotes his time to their instruction. So far as the scholars are concerned, it would appear that a sufficient number of hours is allotted to impart to them an adequate knowledge of reading, writing, and arithmetic...
Страница 8 - ... farmers of the parish have taken into their employ six of my scholars, all under twelve years of age, into their service since Christmas, and two of them under nine ; and all, after leaving my day school, where they paid me one penny a week in addition to their work, have each paid me fourpence a week out of their wages, for evening instruction ; and their master is now using the liquid manure the same as I do, which I have found most beneficial. " ' I have a wife and four children, whom I support...

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