Though our notice is tardy, we have not been inattentive
observers of the progress of the Irish Farmer and Gardener's Magazine, the Eighth Number of which is before us. If it be as industriously circulated and read as it is worthily conducted, there can be no doubt of its proving exceedingly beneficial to Ireland. We confess our ignorance of the Irish mode of plough- ing ; but we suppose it must be different from that of Great Britain, from the circumstance that in ploughing-matches in Ire- land, the premiums do not appear to be given to the ploughmen themselves, but to their masters. In the Gorey Ploughing-match, for instance, the 'cup is stated to have been won " by Richard Booky, Esq. of Doneshall, his ploughman getting 40s. worth of clothes ;" and the " gold medal by Mr. Barker of Wells, his ploughman getting 20s. of clothes." Will the editors please to enlighten the English reader on this subject ? as perhap, they are aware, that on similar ()evasions in England and Scotland, the ploughmen, not their nuisters, pocket the money distributed as prizes.
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