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duced to show that animals as well as plants can 

 only assimilate ihalf'ood which is presented them ; 

 in the first case, carbonaceous matters being the 

 Ibod of the horse, carbon is deposited in the shape 

 of fat ; in the latter, when more nitro<jen enters 

 into the composition of his Ibod, the deposiie ol 

 muscle preponderates. So it is with wheat. With 

 a manure that only supplies carbonaceous matter, 

 starch is the result. With a manure containinir 

 nitrogen, gluten is lormed ; both cases being 

 completely analogous, and aHbrding unerring prool 

 of one simple and unilorm law." 



Another example of the singular eflecis result- 

 ing from the use of a chemical manure ; not in 

 the common and well known case, resulting from 

 all manures, of an increase in the quantity ol the 

 crop, but in the quality. The authority is Pro- 

 fessor Daubeny, of Oxtijrd. 



"In an analysis of one hundred parts of two 

 different specimens of wheat which were grown 

 on the same field, one of which had been dressed 

 with the nitrate of soda and the other not, the 

 result was — 



Wheat on which nitrate was used, gave 

 Bran - _ . . . 25 



Gluten 23.^ 



Starch 49^- 



Albumen . - . . li 



Extract, loss and water - - 1 



100 

 Wheat on which no nitrate was used, gave 



Bran 



Gluten - - - - 



Starch . - - - 



Albumen . . . 



Extract, loss and water - 



24 

 19 



3 

 S 



100' 



Thus it is seen that the wheat so nitrated contains 

 four and a half per cent, more gluten and one half 

 per cent, more albumen than the wheat not nitrat- 

 ed ; and as it has been stated that gluten is the 

 substance to which flour owes its nutritious quali- 

 ties, this alone would prove our position. But il 

 we carry our investigation further, and see its 

 results as to the real produce of bread, we shall 

 be more fully convinced than ever of the utility 

 of this manure. And here again we resort to 

 experiments made by the same distinguished pro- 

 fessor, for an elucidation of the fact. 



" Three pounds and a half of flour made from 

 wheat dressed with nitrates produced 4 lbs. 14 oz. 

 of bread ; whilst three and a half pounds of flour, 

 made from wheat where no nitrate was used, 

 yielded only 4 lbs. 4 oz. of bread ; thus leaving 

 10 ounces of bread in favor of the wheat so ni"^ 

 trated." 



THE FARM AND FARMING OF THE REV. J. H. 

 TURNER. — NO. I. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



In the last (February) number of the Farmers' 

 Register, I am personally called on by my highly 

 respected friend. Dr. Dupuy, for a general detail of 

 my mode of farming. This call is also seconded by 

 the worthy editor himself. Being thus publicly and 

 respeclfuily called on, I do not leel at Uberty to re- 



fuse. On the other hand, I promptly and cheer- 

 lully comply, and, in my turn, I call on the doctor, 

 and hope that you and he will call on other suc- 

 cessful farmers to imitate my example. 



Indeed, 1 have long thought that this is one of 

 the very best modes to difl'ufe practical agricul- 

 tural inlormation among the people. We now 

 have several very valuable agricultural periodicals 

 circulating in our country; and I have no doubt 

 that the very best expedient lor increasiiis their 

 circulation and usefulness is, for practical larniers 

 generally to do just what I am called on to do at 

 this time. It is true, and I must in justice to my- 

 self state the fact, that i do leel a great reluctance 

 in presenting myself in the prominent attitude 

 which I must necessarily assume in such a com- 

 munication. Were I to consult inclination alone, 

 I would certainly still occupy the same quiet re- 

 tirement 1 have hitherto enjoyed. But my friend, 

 the doctor, intimates, very truly, that there is no 

 free-masonry among farmers. If they have any 

 thing that is valuable, whether it be animal, seed, 

 implement, or information, they are very willing 

 Jo share the benefits of it with their fellow farmers. 

 The^only ditfiruhy is to bring them to the pen. 

 They will talk by the hour, or even the day, but 

 to ivrite is a labor from which they insist to be ex- 

 cused. I, in common with them, have this same 

 leeling; and with me it is so strong, that it re- 

 quires no little eflbrt to shake it off'. But I will 

 try, and if I can be of any service to this good 

 cause, and especially if I can call out the doctor 

 and other judicious farmers in the sanje way, 1 

 shall feel that I have accomplished a great and 

 good work. 



With these remarks, I shall at once proceed to 

 the thing in hand. And here i will not, through 

 false modesty, disguise the fact that I have been 

 successful in firming. This success, under God, 

 I mainly ascribe to two things. The first is, that 

 from the beginning, I endeavored carefully to 

 avoid the faults, or mistakes, if you please, into 

 which I clearly saw that many others had lallen. 

 And the second is, that I was carelul to avail my- 

 self of all the local advantages which my peculiar 

 situation afforded. 



Under the first head I will mention, as a palpa- 

 ble fault, I may even call it the crying and ruinous 

 sin of farming, the creat, the excessive quantities 

 of land that many are anxious to encumber them- 

 selves with. I call all that land excessive, and even 

 worse than useless, which the owner cannot turn 

 to a profitable account. When, therefore, a man 

 has as much land as he can cultivate well, lur- 

 nishing as many shifts as an improving mode of 

 (arming requires, and besides this, as much in 

 woods as will supfily materials for his enclosures 

 and fuel, all besides is a mere expense without 

 any profit. I could now, did it not seem invidious, 

 point to many splendid estates, which, so far from 

 paying a fair profit, do not yield two per cent, on 

 the original cost and fixtures ; nay, some, I verily 

 believe, brins the proprietors in debt every year. 

 And what can be the reason of this 1 It is not 

 because there is not space enough to operate on, 

 it is not because the lands are so poor as to be ab- 

 solutely unproductive, nor is it because there is 

 not sufficient force to cultivate them ; but it is 

 simply because there is more capital involved 

 than can be turned to a profitable account. I mean 

 that the land, the labor, the stock, and the neces- 



