2—1852. | THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 27 
ed, full of ings. The fine, but elastic, steel ee the diagnosis of disease would be easy, and the | 4 ewt. of su ph of ammonia was added 
— rer . lves amongst this miserably rocky art of e would ni reduced to the condition. of an | guano, — it costs a little more, a ea < — 
„and bring it to the surface w with ease, wi | ‘the ae ee; and. so, if the elements of fertility. were | amounted to 2. 48. 10d. per acre, 
spade. is repelled by the resisting mass, and it certainly | co —— — ntities, — by known- and certain] But there is à certain limit in all soils, beyond whieh 
ible to break them; in wer some laws, the attainment of the maximum would be resolved | nature. refuses to answer your demands upon hers 
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ur are by 2 patent process no success could obtain a profit; thus, for instance, the | neration. Thus in afield. of yellow Trefeil four different 
ent out, or stamped out, of a solid. plate of steel, and three prineipal earths which compose the most fertile | manures. were employed, except on four portions res 
then hardened and tempered. 1 tian 1 ones soils—alumina, silica, and carbonate of lime, are found | served for comparison, very moderate proportions 
It was thought they would not bese useful en to var. ir respeetive quantities to the amount of | were employed, not above 1 ewt, in order to avoid 
i i 20 or 30 per cent, 3 now, supposing: * anne gegen ined the risk of deing harm; as to the 
j breaking and admixing in ld mbined;in ord — ra ammonia, each of them undoubtedly added 
the soilin an extraordinary manner. If during the dull = or ne the largest possible cropa, it might be several to the bulk of the. natural hay; but that 
months we can employ the casual population in this way, e hundreds of tons of that ich i is in | bulk — —— 3 to G ewt. above 2 tons, and the exe 
I am sure it will pay better than subsoiling ; for although — wud: to re ring, perhaps, — very great distan pense of both being high, the loss on the two taken 
this land had been subsoiled by four horses following | hundr —— of tons of those whi ch are deficient ; any on one together amounted to Id.; but where a ewt. eruvian 
the first plough, the g exhausts all this, and | may easil Į 1 pee guano was used, no inerease followed, and 3 ofa ewt. of 
brings up some fresh soil. I shall use the forki = the sulphate of ammonia seemed to diminish: the quantity of 
valley or furrow between the two ridges bringing up| though not aps ster but pora are es very | hay by almost be ent. Tti is Saras « not unlikely ihat 
of the bottom-soil and throwing it. on — Tie „necessary ingredients, less visible and e N the seed may h ly failed on this portion 
ue interesting to see,obstinate: old» Thistles and other| can only be detected by the long processes of i- the field; but oa is no A to suppose that an 
weeds thus drawn out of their 
have five rongs, tapering to a ; i and 
— eiche 5 ba, 221 3 inches long, 84 wide, and costs would 3 in a speculation from which | efforts are not sufficien — to gain the prize 
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tuen she ns of having every field, and in different parts of the same field; for for in another instance, the same quantity of sulphate 
—— re ie ploughs, shoning, revenge — the inequality with which manure is distributed neces- of ammonia applied to Grass produced a — — 
forth several shoots from the parent stem for . ee sarily produces this inequality of ingredients. And. II. 148. 9d: ; and so far from that sum being increased 
next command A — able workman, aided’ by his boy, since so small a quantity as the ten- thiou — part of | by an increase of the manure, it is an example of profit, 
ill earn about 10s, to 12s. per week at this work, or pme bodies materially modifies the character of the observing, though ata ie A an grin, on 
for himself about 7s. to 8s. It is admirable.exercise compound, some things may escape. notice whieh yet | portion to the amount of manure-—that is to. say, the 
‘ too end pe Brag ay epa n to vegetable growth, for homæopathy:| more the manure — — — ape 
— this season; taught us how much may sometimes be effected by Tewt. own „ . — 5 14 er 
no family to support.” It is just = age *. they are infin nitesimal doses ; or = ingredients may exist under a „ „* oat 
in the greatest danger from idleness. I am daily con- different forms from that in which they appear to the . 
laboratory of Nature 
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7 Sema . 1 . 1 cwt. produced “He — 0 Spe, 
a more effective mixing and aerating of our soils than are not tied down tot ws which govern the labora- Il ewt. „ asa: T » 
the plough gives us, more especially for our root erops, tory of the chemist, and many subtle agencies are quite 2 ct. o 3 7 
which require to find their food in a dry summer, at beyond our a oar — and sy tan chee Not so, ho owever, in the case se of tho Trish pestichiareoab 
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the soil. To-day a. pair of my strongest horses 23 8 me —— neh eee 1 rw 25 wel utterly salon as a top dressing ; in one instance Dent 
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not possibly exeeed 41 inches (measured from the I — ee ee ben pio of — is entirely but the — of * cwt: made a — of 12 
solid ground), to get through their limited allowance an empirical and as no physician arrives at ang profit. In stance, 3 cwt. was a loss, but 4 cwt 
da di i 
my man the g 1 guided | ga lied to the 
riety > tog ether, or three first by the experience of others, and them by his m of corn, even a single ewt; of the simple peat charcos 
in the first and three in the second ‘plough to follow, so tlie turist should attend to = 2 of facts proved beneficial, by adding 1} bush. to the corn, and 
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2d. per rod is the a operation, combining the for the benefit of their fellow labourers, | that there is some peculiar suitableness in the peat char- 
kneh with fork eultivation. I shall subsoil between It may appear to some that there is too a samo» coal to the soil for the purpose of growing Wheat, 
the deep ridges thrown up by the diggers, and also, as ness in this annual report: of my experiment; but] it is not very easy to explain; for the whole of one field 
I make manure, dig some into'the valleys or furrows, on that sameness is the test of truth; for if nae ‘after having been manured with 15 loads of dung the addition 
sults sam i i Ibs. of charcoal could 
be ; 
i i ns again ua too 
well dug in, — carry © he crop w approaches | that variety—for that too tends to the establishment of | modify the warmth of the sail materially ; yet it was the 
ity. and in = spring 5 be sae flat by truth, even though it may sometimes be only a doubt- only application which increased the produce of eorn 80 
the scarifiers bees drilling, and well horse hoed with ful approximation to it. In the first class I may reckon much zas to yield a profit. In making this esti 
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g our dry of H . aug be 
Essex, root crops may well mildew when they have such 17 experiments of this deseription a profit: appeared! 8d, a — which is the cost here w 
sapati farm next year will be Corn. 4 SrnAw. 
able to judge of the effects of 8 es r a igs, N m 
ady proved s year. It is 1 eee | s: hig DEM is or 3 * 
wn den n the operation — find out — Without it 8 y z 2 2 yi * A À r 8 * 2 a 
to earn bre: an endure idle- | 1s. + ae a — oe 9 „ SB OR „ 
en TONE only know a 36 e. of Dito. „ . „ e 6 eg 52 Ter” 
couple of lazy poachers who refuse this labour — . bi 5 ki Gir oe o 4 
p ] iper ms nature. A strong youth or ane a i A — : 012 177. 2 f ome f/f 
ig a rod of ground (5} yards by 5} yards with | : U 17 
these forks in one vias and a quarter to mae ard), ‘and a r eicher it : : 255 2 A i 5 ap : 
=. f course in mellow garden soil more could be} 56 Ibs. of Disa. 5 . aa 5 0 9 BET F 0 6 0 ‘ ee 
hilst satin the diggings and ploughings of š S i y P * en 
my now improved soil, Tam delighted to kd ‘who le . og Ses sphate of Ammonia te * 0 90 4 : 6 jp i $ l a A * 4 iat 
army of newly 6 be. of Plus )*... 5 pi n fle Ege Bonk 
Imean earth worms—which have bored and rebored | 56 the of Pitten. ee 2 Sig lus e „0 eo f= 
every clod, and brought much fine earth to the surface. cre SE ie tect M — 0 5 103 F 3 
Still this never tak e for worms | 1 ewt. of Sul ui ss o F * 8 — 
1 . p oon 4 s.. wig at — l * é on eee 
a Saner. which i . t tells them is their St Tbs. of Ditto. ae e e api as 0 0 17 0 4 > 2 F a „ „ 
dity of my new friends, are comfortable assurances | 53 Ibs. of Ditto a Pees Se ee i o 8 0 Wiw 2 fo 5 6 s = 
of fat and dry land. They form a strange ti Wied Fall iss é 120 © m 5 
those long and attenuated specimens occasionally seen t. Te aetna w pea 2 r 
in poor wet soils. P.S. We are now digging in a very 84 Ibs. of Ditto „ 0 1 44 p 160 Pon's Toe 
tenacious soil, in which the men cannot earn so much as Without it ae ee ee ae ti 140 
in the Beles . I; J Mechi, Tiptree Hall, Dee, 30; 56 be- of heat if — — is * * 5 
e have just comp leted 24 acres, The Rut 4 owt. of Seg: produced ee 0 15 0 ai 1 126 2 
forks ‘rock admirably. Ki 72 107 2 
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9 — Aan WITH tempi ee. per aere, after lahki the cost of the manure, more 
Wirra he improvement of eultivation, or — in each case, but eee eee. to about 
itis extremely dificult to ascertain. the best eo n 13l., and the only se es a val 
rom the soil the greatest return that it is experiment with „ where the ae of the in 
— yielding s for the seience of agriculture is ‘ike! | creased produce — Be 2d. of the 2 ent. 
ne, not an exaet, but an emp ;| bestowed upon the land; but perhaps it would have b 
in both the of practice-are plain ch, and unr ble t inee that was 
thousands ion; but as there are left unmanured, f ve no 
idiosyncracies in the itution, which defeat | less tens, Set 77 Ibs of hay; thie however 
the calculations: of the physician, so there are i must not be su of its 
Syncracies in the composition of the soil which | produce, whieh is in general not 3 above 
and disappoint the agrieulturist. If there were no diver- | or below a ton and a half; and in that ease | 
sities in the. organisation of the human body, sometimes | quantity of guano has been — — in one 
affeeting the nervous system, sometimes the circulation, | instance — i paut opt j 
Sometimes the digestion, or the action of the other supposing the price of hay to be St. per ton 3 and — present; but che phosphorie acid: 
