218 Neu/ Process for decomposing 



The landlord is benefited by having fewer buildings to 

 erect and repair, and by having more opulent tenants. The 

 benefit of a large farm to the occupier I need not enlarge 

 upon. The misery of the small farmer, under bO\. per an- 

 num, is extreme. He has not Constant employment for 

 himself and family (if at all large) upon his farm; he is in 

 general above working day labour, is unable to exert him- 

 self and improve his small tract of land, and sits by the 

 fire-side with his family great part of the winter, lamenting 

 that his farm and his capital are not larger, and brooding 

 nothing but discontent and indolence. 



But while I am making these observations upon the ad- 

 vantage of large over small farms, let me notice the great 

 benefit and comfort that the common workman, in any 

 line, derives from sufficient grass land being attached to 

 his dwelling to keep a cow in summer and winter. The 

 landlord will also receive benefit, as well as self-satisfaction, 

 from being the cause of the plenty that the produce of a 

 cow makes in a large and poor family. 



I can from experience assert, that the cottager can afford 

 to give his landlord one-third, if not one-half, more for that 

 .small quantity of land than a farmer. The value of the cow 

 is generally more than one year's rent, and the addition of 

 a small cow-house is a trifling expense. 



I cannot help recommending this the more strongly, be- 

 cause 1 know well, from experience, the astonishing com- 

 fort and advantage that a poor family receives from the pro- 

 duce of its cow, and that it is also for the interest as well 

 as inward satisfaction of the landlord. 



XXXIII. New Process for decovipos'ms, Svlphate of Barytes 

 in order to prepare the Muriate of that Earth; with a 

 Method of preparing the Muriate. By M. Goettling*. 



JVluRiATE of barytes is now so generally used, that every 

 improvement in the mode of preparing it must be favoura- 

 blv received. M. Gocttling's new method is as follows : 



The decomposition of sulphate of barytes by means of 

 charcoal requires a strong fire continued a long time, and 

 never succeeds completely. This is owing, on the one 

 hand, to the strongly oxygenated quality of the acidifying 

 principle in the sulphuric acid, so that in its translation to 



* From Taschcn-luch far Schcidkutistkr. 



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