361 
but after considerable discussion and | Royal Agricultural Society," and by Mr. Hannam, 
22—1846. | 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
renewed ; 
opposition, founded on a report by gentlemen to in his Prize Report on * Special Effects of Manures” 
whom the subject had been referred by the office | to the Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland,” 
of the Woods and Forests, it was again post-| Mr. Pusey expressed his opinion that they afforded 
poned, in order that the report, characterised by |“ good hope » that the discovery would enable us 
Colonel Woop as the most wordy and. trumpery | to realise the most important saving ever yet held 
document he had ever read, might be laid before the | out in the use of manure. 
members. The motion will have been again made, For this opinion, treason as it was to the existing 
and probably determined before this is pub ished ; | order of affairs, Mr. Puszv could not hope to escape 
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season ag: 1i other Ar 1 Manures for TURNIPS. 
It beat them a » producing 6000 Ibs, more ulbs per 
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YERPÓOL; 
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And by their Agents, 
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To protect themselves against the injurio! quences of 
ing inf ind spurious guano, purchasers are recom- 
pply only to Dealers ofestablished character, or to 
Importers, who will supply the article in any 
quantity, at their fixed prices, delivering it from the Import 
Warehou: 
{QUID MANURE, 
ENGLAND INDEPENDENT OF THE WORLD FOR CORN. 
HE attention of the ieultural Interest, at this 
momentous eri isrequested to the great importance of 
LIQUID MANURE, and the ease with which it may be appro- 
priated by the use of FOWLER'S PUMPS, made expressly for 
the purpose, either portable or fi 
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"DRE URATE 
COMPAN 
IP SOWING. 
THE LONDON MANURE 
per Ton. 
ed th 
of all the light manures for the p T r 
h crop it is particularly adapted, seldom failing 
to secure a good plant, and to produce a great 
ing themselves of the many improve- 
i s, the Company so 
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using the Ur 
TURN 
or 
of crops is fully m ntained, therefore partie 
for Turnips will find their succeeding crops ot ley and 
Seeds materially improved. Full particulars, with te: 
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noni 
forwarded on application, Bridge-street, Blac’ 
friars, EDWARD PUR 
T 
HE PA RNWALL WHITE MANURE 
is an efficient preventative to the ravages of the Wire- 
worm, and a strong fertiliser, consequently most advantage- 
application to Turnips 
ous 8 : ps. The following analysis was 
taid before the “Royal Agricultural Society,” by W. Shaw, Esq. 
Silicate of Limo ., ~. {Silica . s 
| Lime 17.0 
Carbonate of Soda... {Carbonic Acid 9.5 
(Lime ..  .. 10.8 
Carreras 1v 2818 
Alkaline Salts os .. 9.8 
[o S E Dac dac ER 
Phosphates ++ I oe 4 px it) 
Law- 
; 100.0 
Price 42s. per ton, in bulk.—Tnomas Jonn Croaaon, 8, 
jill, Cannon-street, London, 
Fence Pountney 
Thea 
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1846. 
OR THE TWO FOLLOWING WERKS. 
ighland and Agricultural Society. 
sien] ural f Treland. 
of England. 
. ol Ireland, 
LOCAL 
N. Lincoln Galston—Cudde 
FAR 
—Bakewell-Selby— 
—Yoxford — Cirencester 
- Richmondshire mård =a 
and Walsham Howick Framlingham — Jedburgh — 
~ Wrentham Wstford— Wingerworth 
Wakefield — 10- Harleston 
field — 11 Groye Ferry 
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— Northampton — Swansea — Z Wadeb idge—Halesworth— 
Melrose—Vurbanr Cardi Chelmsford - Si. Germains— 
Gollumpton — Winehe | Taviatock—Ni 
Probus = Dartford. 
We were wrong in saying at p. 289 that the 
Mernororivran Sewack Manure Company's 
Bir had passed its second reading. The mis- 
take was copied from a daily paper. On Thursday, 
April 30, Colonel T. Woops motion that the bill 
e reatl a second time was postponed for a fortnight, 
we hope that the ability, perseverance, aod truth- 
'aluess with which the Company's claims have been 
advocated will be rewarded with success. 
Li t 
“Dn. LIEBIG’S GREAT DISCOVERY OF DISSOLVING 
Bones iN SurPHURIC ACID d 
Maxunz has been so clearly establi 
the experiments of the Duke of 
other farmers, and so fully investigated by Mr. 
HaxNAM that nothing seems now to be wanted 
but some plan for bringing it within the ordinary 
routine of farming." 
We quote the above from a Paper by Mr. Pusry, 
in the current Number of the * Journal of the Royal 
Agricultural Society." We have already given 
some extracts from it in our columns, and refer to it 
again at this particular period—the beginning of the 
Turnip-sowing seàson—to call attention to the fact 
isey states, and to the inference de- 
as well by 
which Mr. E 
duced therefrom. 
It is a fact that the experimental investigations, 
which have now been given to the world, have per- 
fectly confirmed the first experiments on this sub- 
ject. They have completely established the trath 
of the theory that bones acquire an increased influ- 
ence upon vegetation by being dissolved in sul- 
phuric acid. We shall not attempt to point out of 
what material benefit to agriculture this discovery 
islikely to be, nor shall we now exhibit in any de- 
ail the rationale of the practice. This has already 
been fully done by Mr. Posey, Mr. HANNAM, and 
others in the last volume of the Royal Agricultural 
Society's Journal. The subject, too, has been dis- 
cussed in our own pages oa several occasions, and 
there is no necessity to revert to theoretical consi- 
derations now perfectly well known. ‘The fa 
The iact, 
however, that these have been tested and proved to 
be sound is what must now be published ; for if the 
practical farmer be convinced that an increased fer- 
ulising influence is obtained by dissolving the bone, 
he will act upon it atonce and without hesitation. 
For it certainly is not harder to believe that bones 
subdivided minutely by chemical means may be im- 
proved thereby, thàn it was formerly to believe that 
when erushed by mechanieal means they were more 
profitable to use than iu a rough or unbroken state ; 
and in the latter case. farmers have found out that 
a smaller quantity in the state of fine dust effectually 
serves the purpose of the larger quantities formerly 
used in the rough. And no man now applies rough 
bones by the waggon load per acre. Let farmers, 
then, believe that the chemical separation and solu- 
tion of the constituents of the bone does in practice 
promote its action as a manure, and they will in a 
like manner subscribe tothe doctrine that a further 
great saving in the quantity of bones applied to the 
Turnip crop may again be made. 
It is our present object then to insist upon it, that 
the theory of dissolved bones has been already 
thoroughly proved, and that the practice founded 
upon it ought therefore to come into immediate 
operation. The man who is impervious to argu- 
ment cannot withstand the truths exhibited by 
example, and the experimental evidence in support 
of the practice has now clearly established the 
advantages of the discovery. This is the important 
fact stated by Mr. Pusey, and which we can best 
serve the interest of agriculture by promulgating. 
And itis not merely on his authority that we would 
have this great fact taken ; the pages of our own 
Journal, of the records of the Royal Agricultural 
Society, and of every other agricultural periodical, 
afford countless proofs of its reality. 
And to these we refer with pleasure, not merely 
because they confirm and establish the truth of a 
theory which we have on several occasions set 
forth to our readers, and which puts the farmer in 
possession of an improved and beneficial practice, 
but because it justifies our confidence iu the labours 
of those parties who originally undertook the in- 
vestigation of the question, and who have fought 
the uphill fight ofimproved praetice versus * vested" 
opinions, Ads 
Experience has now fully justified the opinions 
expressed by Mr. Pusry when the question was 
first mooted—opinions which, however much they 
were then sneered at, now prove him to have been 
as correct an expounder of the science, as he has 
always been considered of the practice of agricul- 
ture. On the publication of the first experiments 
to afford Government time to make the necessary | by the Duke of RICHMOND, Mr. Gzppzs, Dr. Mon- 
inquiries. On Thursday, May 14, the motion was'sow, and Mr. M*Wirrraw, in the “ Journal of the 
the ridicule and the indignation of the prejudiced 
and the interested. The theory of Liebig was 
declared to be “ far-fetched and un worthy of credit," 
and the experiments * evidently unfair" ; and thus 
divested alike of theoretical and practical evidence, 
his suggestion was freely offered to be “taken for 
what it was worth— 
* A pin, anut, a cherry-stone.’ 
Mr. Pussy, however, afterwards laid before the 
Council ofthe Royal Agricultural Society some ex- 
tracts from Mr. HAxNAs's unpublished Essay on the 
* Theory of the Action of Bones on the Turnip 
Crop,” having reference to what he termed the 
* great discovery of the economical employment of 
dissolved bones;" and stated that it contained, in 
his opinion, “ not only a detailed account of the 
best experiment ever made in agriculture, but some 
points of so much importance, that he felt anxious 
that not a moment should be lost in communicating 
the facts to the members.” And this is the mode 
in which his cause was then spoken of :—* The day 
of Chartist regeneration, of Johanna Southcote, of 
flying machines, of South Sea schemes, nay of Cæ- 
sarian Cow Cabbage, is gone, and the lion of 1845 
is'bones dissolved in acid. Every season has its 
lions. The world of politics, of religion, of science, 
of speculation, and even of poor agriculture, has 
now and then bubbles cast upon its surface—so 
varied, so resplendent with glittering embellish- 
ments, that the eager hand grasps the bubble, and 
it bursts and dissipates in nothing but ‘¢hin air?" 
And then came the application of the figurative 
imagery of the oracle—the practical morale ofthe 
propheey—* Will any one be found who will risk a 
crop upon the evidence?” 
In less than twelvemonths from the issuing of this 
oracular denunciation, we find the theory which was 
to “dissolve and dissipate into thin air” recognised 
as a thing clearly established —supported by the 
evidence of scores of crops risked in its trial, and 
recorded in every agricultural periodical in the 
kingdom. 
This result, we say, is agreeable to us, and to 
every lover of true progress, not merely because of 
its practical usefulness, but also because it tho- 
roughly justifies those who have laboured, through 
such difficulties, in the search of what has now 
proved a scientific and practical truth. 
We congratulate the importers of PERUVIAN 
Guano upon the very judicious step they have just 
taken. We find that the price of this indispensable 
article has been reduced to 97. per ton for 30 tons, 
or 107. 10s. for smaller quantities, in London ; and 
to Si. 10s. for 80 tons, or 107. for smaller quantities 
in Liverpool. 
The immediate effect of this wise measure will 
be to drive the bad Guano out of the market, and 
to diminish the chance of the Peruvian being 
adulterated. 
We may also congratulate our agricultural friends 
upon their being thus enabled to procure the most 
valuable of all fertilisers at a price which does away 
with the motive, such as it was, of placing them- 
selves in the hands of Guano sharks. 
VARIETIES or SWEDISH Ax» COMMON TURNIP. 
“I am a dealer in Turnip seeds, and am frequently 
put to considerable inconvenience by the various names 
by which my customers are pleased to designate the 
sorts which they require ; it is this inconvenience, and 
the view of obviating the same for the henefit of my- 
self and others similarly situated, that has prompted 
me to trouble you with the annexed list of names, trust- 
ing that you, or some one of your numerous correspond- 
ents, will furnish a descriptive list, with definite names 
(other names being eonsidered as synonymous), of 
the different varieties ; which may be a means of pre- 
venting error to a great extent, both to the seedsman 
and sower.— West Briton.” 
A list of names panied this icati 
which, with certain additions, we here lay before our 
readers in a classifi 
ssified arrangement, for which we are 
indebted to Messrs, Drummond and Sons, of the Agri- 
cultural Museum, Stirling. They say, * We have 
merely gone over the list, endeavoured to classify the 
names according to their colours, and then put toge- 
ther those that we consider the same sort, although 
under a variety of names. 
“ You are, no doubt, aware, that in Scotland we 
cultivate very few varieties of Turnip, but these we take 
| care to grow pure, and improve on the variety if we 
can. We also, however, are troubled with new names, 
but unless the varieties they designate have a distinct 
character, we never introduce them. A great many of 
