370 History.[May,

Coke, Lord Somerville, the Right Hon. John Foſter, the Earl of Winchel- ſea, Sir Wm. Rowley, and Lord Petre. 7»rd St. Vincent has alſo pro= miſed to attend. Some tups, the property ot Sir Wm. Rowley, of Mr. El11- man's beſt blood, will be ſold by au&tion. After the meeting, a public diyner is ordered at the Shire Hall, where Dignum, with ſome other of the moſt diſtinguiſhed vocal performers, have engaged to be preſent. y

The following very ſingular wager was Jately decided. Mr. R eed Jun. of Welt Dean, near Chicheſter, engaged ſor a wager of fifty pounds, to find out from a flock of 200 ewes, the lambs which belonged to each. Mr. Reed completely ſuccceded to the ſatisfa&tion of all preſent, in finding the mother of each lamb. Confiderable bets were depending on the event of this curious undertaking.

Naſh Court farm, in the Iſle of Thanet, is t3 be ſola by audtion early in the enſuing month.

Mr. Mansfield"s annual hews of heep, will be at Pickwell, near Melton, Leiceſterſhire, on thurſday, the 6th June proximo-

Mr. Jellicce's annual ſhew of new Leiceſter rams, takes place at Benthall, in Shropſhire, on May 31. The fires and dams of the ſheep have been 1e- le&ed, or immediately deſcended from the prime ſheep, of Nicholas Buckley, Eſq. who has long held a diſtinguiſhed place among eminent breeders in Lei- celterſhire.

A writer in the Shrewſbury Chronicle, deſcribed to be a elergyman of the Eſtabliſhed Church, aſcribes, among otber excellent effe&s of the union, be- tween this country and Ireland, many agricultural advantages:==“* It- Sipd (1y's he,“ extending with altoniſhing degree of rapidity, and the value of land daily increaling. From my window I ſee a track of corn country, That twenty years ago was a deſolate moor covered with heath, or interſected with turf-pits,"&c.&c. If ſuch a reſult be true, we truſt the happineſs of the peälant will be proportionate, and the union cannot in that caſe be ſufhciently appreciated.

Experiments, It is aſſerted in ſeveral parts of the country, that“* ſow» ing about a peck of buck wheat, per acre, with the turnip ſeed, will pre= ſerve the plants from the fly."

Fifty capital Leiceſterſhire rams are to be ſold by auction at Lalford in Warwickſhire; on the ath of June proximo, belonging to Mr. George Penrrice. The ewes of the ſame ſtock will be(old in September.

The cultivation of turnips in Ireland, excites a laudable ſpirit of emula- eion amongſt the principal agriculturiſts of that produttive iſland. The Marquis ot Sligo, grew lalt year in his domain 1805 tons weight, upon fix xvods of ground,(one acre and a half,) and foyr of theſe turnips weighed r12l1b.

Experiment. Improvement in the culture of potatoes. A member of an agricultural fociety at Greenock, recommends an improvement in the culture of potatoes of which he ſays, he has had ſeveral years" experience. The firſt year he cut the potatoe in three pieces, the top, the middle, and the bottom parts,(every one knows that the principal eyes are on tbe top) and planted theſe in three rows, the top plant was.ten days earlier than the middle plant, and a much greater crop; the middle plant was earlier than the bottom, and a better crop; the bottom produced but a very indifferent erop. For ſome ſeaſons paſt be has planted only the top eyes, and declares that he has the beſt crops and drieft potatoes in the country. None nced be deterred, he adds, ſrom this plan on the ground of waſte, for alter the top is cut off, the remainder then keeps better and longer for uſe than if the potatoe had been preſerved entire. As a proof of this, lay a whole potatoe on the top of the ground or in any expoſed place, and it will ſhew that the top plants grow faſter, and are ſeveral inches long, beſore there is any growth F:om the bottom.|„>

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