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Sulphate of Ammonia, SfC— Dairy Contrivances. Vol. IX. 



From the N. Y. Farmer and Mechanic. 



Sulphate of Ammonia, Sulphate of Soda 

 and Nitrate of Soda. 



These are very useful preparations and 

 essential materials for manures; they may 

 be used separately or collectively, and but a 

 few experiments are required to detect the 

 great advantages which they are respective- 

 ly exercising/ The Sulphate of Ammonia 

 is according to the subscriber's ideas, best 

 employed in a liquid state, say two to three 

 lbs. for a barrel of water, and by sprinkling 

 over the ground morning and evening, the 

 effect is visible within three days, and Mr. 

 Gilbert, of Jersey City, has made the same 

 observation with his' cauliflowers; mush- 

 rooms may readily be raised in a week; 

 there is no doubt but the advantages 

 in using these very preparations are two- 

 fold. 1st. In planting corn, you make the 

 grain sprout quickly, and the grub-worm, 

 vi^hich is the greatest enemy to the farmer, 

 has little time to attack the planted seed, 

 which at once begins to sprout. 2nd. The 

 plant certainly produces an early crop in 

 every instance, and in a pecuniary respect 

 it is of much service. The Sulphate of Soda 

 rnay be used in a liquid state, but I prefer it 

 in lumps mixed up with dung or horse ma- 

 nure, as it will then gradually decompose 

 and form with the ammonia devolved from 

 the dung the various production of salts ; it 

 is invaluable for an early iwtatoe crop. The 

 Nitrate of Soda is by itself too powerful to 

 use, and may well be mixed with the Sul- 

 phate in proportion of one lb. of the first to 

 four lb. of the latter. 



All the three salts may be used in solu- 

 tion or in a dry state, and will prove very 

 efficient, say: 



2 lbs. Nitrate of Soda, 



3 lbs. Sulphate of Ammonia, 

 5 lbs. Sulphate of Soda, 



All mixed up and dissolved in one hogshead 

 of water, if intended for artificial guano; to 

 the above composition one bushel of bone 

 dust may be added, and il will be found to 

 be higlily useful. 



Tiie subscriber is now preparing syntheti- 

 cally the guano as by the analyses of Dr. 

 Charles T. Jackson, of Boston, and will be 

 able to furnish it at five cents per lbs. 



The price of Sulphate of Soda is half a 

 cent per lb. by the barrel, of about 200 lb. 



The price of Nitrate of Soda is five cents, 

 and the price of Sulphate of Ammonia is 

 seven cents per lb. 



Compound chemical whale oil soap has 

 stood the test of three years use, and is 

 found beneficial either as a wash on trees, 

 or with a syringe thrown over them, where 



the insects prevail, such as the ants, — either 

 black, red or white— curculio, turnip beetle, 

 cocus, rose bugs, leaf lice, peach, apple and 

 pear tree insect, caterpillars, &c. 

 For further particulars, apply to 



Dr. Lewis Feuchtwanger. 



Dairy Contrivances. 



Belvoir Castle, the residence of the 

 Duke' of Rutland, in Derbyshire, England, 

 is celebrated not only for its elegance as a 

 ducal abode, but for the extent and excel- 

 lence of its agricultural arrangements, and 

 especially for the accessories of its fine dairy, 

 under admiralile management, and a model 

 in all its operations. The plan adopted in 

 this dairy for obtaining the cream without 

 skimming it from the surface of the milk, 

 has been mentioned in a late address to the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, somewhat as 

 follows: The milk-room in the first place, 

 is lined with porcelain, and in order to pre- 

 serve it continually fi-esh and cool, as well 

 as to create a gradual ventilation, a fountain 

 of cold water Is kept constantly flowing in 

 the middle of the dairy, the current rising 

 through an upright pipe in the centre, and, 

 having attained its height, rolling back in 

 sheets of water over a cone of successive 

 basins, increasing in size from the top to the 

 bottom, where the water enters a drain and 

 is carried away. All the puncheons are of 

 china-ware, and very shallow, it having been 

 satisfactorily ascertained that the amount of 

 cream thrown to the surface by a given 

 quantity of milk, is dependent, to a certain 

 extent, on the breadth of surface given to it 

 by such shallow vessels, the same measure 

 of milk poured into a vessel, allowing it to 

 stand at two inches deep, casting neariy 

 twice as much cream as it would do if its 

 depth were eight inches. In the experi- 

 mental part of the dairy, the puncheons, 

 containing milk from various cows of the 

 different "breeds, are arranged in distinct 

 order, and duly registered with every cir- 

 cumstance of condition supposed to affect 

 the quality and quantity of the milk and 

 cream obtained in each case; but the greater 

 bulk of the milk is kept in leaden cisterns, 

 about three feet long, two feet wide, and 

 three inches deep, the bottom of each cis- 

 tern, inside, having a slight concavity, in 

 the centre of which is an aperture, con- 

 nected with a tap underneath, for the pur- 

 pose of drawing off" the milk, and ^leaving 

 the cream behind, untouched, in the cistern. 

 — Saturday Post. 



Instead of spending a rainy day idly, re- 

 pair whatever wants mending, or post your 

 accounts. 



