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Rs th:vt which has less seed sown; ;iiul it is more work to pull it. When I 

 havf sown two Imshi'ls to t)io acre on ii;i)od hiiid, it has JaUcu and iciiiaiiu'd 

 as flat as if il had boon rolled; and not ouo-tenth of it will straight(.'n up 

 uiiti4 pulkd. In suclj cases the crop is not worth half price. I generally 

 Kow on p:r(H'n sward, and seed with clover. In this way my land is improv- 

 inpf. I think where land is seeded it does the grass as much good to pull 

 the llax as it does corn to hoe it. 



Pleuro-Pneumonia. 



^tr. S )l(>n Ivohinson. — The following interesting facts are taken from tes- 

 (iniuiiy elieited before a select committee in Scotland: " Mr. Gaujgee rc- 

 peat«"d his statement that tliere was not proper supervision of the slaugh- 

 ter houses in Edinburgh — only a small proportion of the diseased cattle 

 being condemned. With regard to the large towns, the ordinary practice 

 was to milk the cows as long as they can be kept on, and they were usually 

 sent away within the year. Diseased cows with plcuro-pneumonia would 

 generally die in five months. He had known cases in Glasgow where dis- 

 eased cows were purposely bred from, because a higher price was paid for 

 those that had had the disease. It was almost impossible to buy cattle in 

 the market at Glasgow without taking pleuro-pneumonia home. He would 

 recommend inoculation in large dairies as the best remedy for the evil; and 

 the objections which had been raised against the practice were entirely 

 consequent upon the clumsy performance of the operation. He liad prac- 

 ticed inoculation extensively himself in farms of 100 and 150 animals, and 

 in dairies in Glasgow of an equal extent, with only one case of failure. In 

 one of the large d;iiries of E'linburgh ho had inoculated, and tlie cattle had 

 been in an irreproachable condition ever since. His experience was that 

 plcuro-pneumonia was only taken once, except in very rare cases, and inocu- 

 lation was, in his opinion, the most effectual preventive." 



Nitrate of Soda as a Manure. 



Mr. Solon Iv<»binson. — For the information of the members of the Club, I 

 will read the following extract from the 3Iark Lane Express: 



"The use of nitrate of soda, as a top dressing for barley, is gradually 

 extending; and here, as in the case of other nitrogenous manures, it is 

 found useful to combine it with an equal weight of common salt; and where 

 a too rapid growth is still apprehended, the mixture has been successfully 

 applied, at an interval of three or four weeks, as in the experiments made 

 by Mr. W. Horn, of Scole, in SufTolk, in the season of ISOO, on a light soil, 

 where the manures were ajiplied in two pmtions. viz., in the secimd week 

 in April and May 1. This division was intended to prevent a too rapid 

 growth at one tim<*. The following are the manures and the results ob- 

 tained per acre: 



Foil rimple prodaeed ?,i bushels. 



1 ewt. (fiiano, 1 ewt. ofjalt, do 41 bushels. 



J cwl. of nilratr of soda, 1 ewt. salt, do 42 bus-hcLi. 



4 ewt. of »ul. of ammonia, 1 ewt. salt, do JO bu.ihcls. 



"The small proportion of nitrate of soda, successfully employed as a top 



dressing for barley, is remark.ible, for 42 pounds of cubic petrc (nitrate of 



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