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Jockey Club — extraordinary trotting, pacing, &c. with the size of 

 trotting horses. At an early day the prices were far beyond the 

 average value of farm horses. Your committee feel that the highest 

 praise they can give this work is merited by it, and that it will long 

 remain a standard, creditable to its author and compiler, and ser- 

 viceable to the public." 



Mr. Boswell made the following communication which was read, 

 on the manuring of seeds. 



Manuring the Seed. 



During the last year we have heard of the agriculturists of Ger- 

 many producing the most luxuriant crops by manuring the seed in- 

 stead of the soil. 



For the first time we see published an account of the method in 

 " The Journal of Agriculture of the Highland and Agricultural So- 

 ciety of Scotland." 



It is taken from a German pamphlet from the pen of C. L. Victor, 

 at Neiderholm in Hesse Darmstadt, and has been tried for five years 

 on a large scale for the culture of wheat crops. 



Substance employed. 



1st. Blood, in the liquid state, is mixed with one eightieth of its 

 weight of glauber salts, dissolved in a little v.'ater; when thus mixed 

 it may be kept a long time in a cool place without congealing or 

 undergoing decomposition; or clotted blood may be dried either 

 alone or mixed with a little earth or powdered clay and then reduced 

 to powder. 



2d. Wool, hair, parings of leather, horns, hoofs and bones, are 

 charred in close vessels until they are capable of being reduced to 

 powder. 



3d. The dung of animals is dried and reduced to powder. 



4th. Fats and oils of all kinds are mixed with so much earth, clay, 

 or rye meal, as will enable the whole to be reduced to powder. Oil 

 cake is also powdered for use. 



Mode of using them. 



' Make a semi-fluid mixture thus — for a bushel of wheat or other 

 grain, take 20 to 30 pounds of clay in fine powder, I^ lb. pounded 

 sal ammoniac or 3 lbs. common salt, 3 to 5 quarts whale or other cheap 

 oil, 15 to 20 quarts fresh blood or blood kept in a fluid state by means 

 of glauber salts, or in the absence of blood of as much water, 3 to 5 

 lbs. linseed meal or powdered oil cake. 



These are mixed together intimately, and water added, if necessary 

 to make a half fluid mixture. The seed is then to be poured in and 

 stirred about till every seed is completely enveloped by the mixture. 



A layer of one of the following dry mixtures is then spread on the 

 floor ; over it the manured seed, and then another layer of the dry 

 powder. The whole is then stirred together and left to dry. 



