my fri a (from having * my beer) poni askedme | 
3—1852.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
Grass land, and I trust that paan tions. The farmers here not in the way of agri- 
ne OS oaiue will give 1 ial on | cultural schools or att eer ella and if 3 
rass. season I should mmend to apply ume they were too busy to take a vantage of them; but i in 
is now, 0 early as a agen after, as in the ter | institutions of this kind, if every man who had expe- 
month xercises its most beneficial influence on | rience would give the result of it, great —.— would 
the soil. I should apply — aes the acre. There|ensue. Education, in mo e of the 
is difference in the quality of lime ; whichever term, meant the mechanical = of reading a writing ; 
the ount of carbonate of | but things, importaut as they we re but th 
is the 
best 
lime I should N to be slaked, 
ible, we id immediately. re shed 
d white 
o reach in a life-time. an 
pigs day, if wi Am 
T 
us 
heir farmers' elubs more — fa had 
Clover will app uch — ae than re forth ag experience of those who attended them 
for years previo use of lime. Lim eer i pi give armers a stimulus in teaching them to 
means so extensively employed as it ought t thi nk for — and in breaking that 
ought to regulated to the kind z. cop. a state of min nd which usually belonged to those 
Potatoes are much benefited by its use; 9 tons, with who rely follo 85 in the beaten track of their 
their tops, will take from the soil 270 Ibs. of lime —45 2 H the more especially glad to m 
tons of Turnips, with their tops, will peas? e off 140 Ibs. | hear the compliment which his frignd aid 
of 3 — 2 the benefit arising to erops to science on this oceasion, because he recollected, 
from of bones, from the fact of Ds supplying at a very important meeting of this county, the 
lime, in addition to the organic constituen value of science was spoken of in somewhat of a sneering 
Watson, ee etherby. disparaging style. If the question was asked what 
Land Draini + Rae the midst of numerous — 
conficting opinions, I am not now desirous to add 
o the long list “of cours but as one ois has 
and practised extensively 
il in one or 
ther 
ridings), jaen ngham, Lincoln, Leicester, 
wish, by y your favour, to record that I have 
4 
and 
| science had done — W gee ge the answer was a very 
—_ one. He would look back 50 years, in one par- 
ticular case, w j ad no other 3 t than a 
a ome oh t — romai 
The 
the ‘expedition por, their threshing machines—whether 
drive steam, water, or horses—with which they |a 
Tan 
could ‘thresh their ae and have it ready for market in 
few how d 
these 
a t steps in a ladder, the top of which they were unable | it 
education 
flail to thresh — their corn, and when corn was laid |t 
a sta 
r 
mparison between this slow process and | ov 
45 
this way the land will receive a benefit due to the ped 
ton of fertilising matter. far fro is bei 
solid matter in suspension, in a gallon, 37 grains 
been deposited ; and out of 87 grains held in — 
only 470 grains; or, taking the matters held in s 
ployed, but only 5 pe t 
which ell known to be far superior to those hel: 
in suspension ; therefore, so f e water flowing 
off the land is concerned, great expense in transmission 
at 
ust be incurred to produce a — 9 — 
unless the be renders a rec ficial m 
ed ep 
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of pumping-engines 
and pipes, g e to that of ‘the great gies png a- 
nies,’ bb ap prarieing d e e is 
e power required to we friction 
sage — long ines of pipes, and 
nece rovide $ rw an 
or the distribution of, the liqu 
r an area sufficiently re 
ofs sewage from a —— 
a town with w ater 
never unde 
to produc the best results by means of drains 3 feet a He would ask if, in this i ce, —how normous m st it be when the e supply is to 
dee eet apart, in directi mechanical science had done no good to agriculture ? — — to dis — — 
8 3 5 provision for a free circulation of pure Then look at the whole round of their improve 2 to counties instead of towns 
atmospheric air through each all rains. I ements, fitted pe cheapen cultivation. « For these and other reasons (and after having, in 
few pa 1 cases, I had recourse to the aid of bo hem look the prospect of having a hine 1845, tested the Pipe scheme by calculations and detailed 
at the bottom of the drai ins, at shor’ —— and thus introduced, that would cut down vests with estimates), my own opinion was decidedly averse to this 
orded, at ee trifling cost, free and effectual vent h gr expedition than hitherto, and then say mode of distribution of sewage-water ; not that it was 
to deeper lying waters. In stating the above, allow whether science was doing nothing for agr . The 1 1 but because it was commercially 
2 observe that the professors of very deep drai sing a are | Chairman had touched upon chemical science, which | unprofi 
me and all silently abandoning in practice their pet an mor icate in its operation cience was The 1 — Paa in x examination was, to 
concomitant — of distant drains, an d I will venture 
that ily remove the fil 
frome hohe eve rt Dieve un, Manthorpe 
Lodge, G ntham, eae 
Ua fermented Bitten Ale.—Boil 
aim three —— of | s 
ash-tub ; 
with ig 
d three baue off, put it into the copper 
aa, add to it 2 Ibs. of ‘the ha: Farnham Hops; boil it 
one hour very gently, and then 725 it off bo iling hot 
Hops and all, into o your, cask (a half hogshead I use). Do 
not fill the cask quite full, but let it be spears 3 inches 
a head. 
lower than the ung-hole, to allow i f 
Upon no account break this head, nor disturb it in any 
Do not bring it down it is quite cold—the 
time varies from three to six weeks according to the 
weather, the tempera of the or the ‘size of 
k. It is fit to drink in about four or six months, 
when it will be as t ber. Upon no t 
right as amber. accoun 
use any yeast, as it — not ferment. I always brew 
in this way, and have a failure any 
or the recipe, and in this and one 
public ‘brewer follows — plan, has a 
very d i g demand for it. With my 
small copper, I always brew two in a 
beer brewed in this way not come to 
— * rn to 15 months. that it will 
I must add, 
ney r, and is — good at the end of the barrel 
as at the b beg e 
Short-strawed Whea alaa A ro coe fl 
Golden for the “ ra Sian Whea 
bal enclosed isa ‘sample, w 
ts kind 
e ide e shortest strawed kinds for high 
apii, as the tall kinds get lodged and deteriorated 
ea hie 
subje 
Golden Drop” is shorter in the straw than “ Piper's 
Thickset.” Eighty bushels per acre, however, et va 
great an extreme calculation 5 = ee 
he ean grow under any cir 
yo gg oe cman go very far to effect i it. t. Hardy and Son, 
oe” to presum 
shine page 
TYNESIDE.—. 
—Mr- 
Gey, of Dilston, said, Pees had ea rejoiced to — the 
forcible remarks of th importance 
n of certain ai ASB at manures havi 
ur | sewage, 
e | of rendering + esd 
; though high | turin 
most commonly referr 
now doing for agriculture what the railroads had don 
for commercial men. It was carrying them from the 
— int at which they stood, to the 
would 5 — in a speedy and certain manner. Had it 
had tau ge them to apply certain — fo 
a co 
portion of n trogen were ben Whi 
those — alkalies —— = fitted for u 
crops—and that for promoting luxuriant root crops, 
2 should resort to the . and phosphoric 
po meal to which they | 
whether the e held in ara re in sewer- 
could be collected — 1 for transmission at a 
remunerative pri d having found — 5 to 
the little — as a “fertiliser of this 
eposi 
valuable of or fertilising salts, an 
ad no sed, Bas! it account of the 
necessity of — it in i 
reservoirs, it would become a greate: 
hen flow 
— Sait Ta given their money in vain. It had 
pong his endeavour, in connexion with this ee and 
he He sed Farmers’ Club, to make the n- 
inquiry and knowledge. If he Thad tent 
the means of rousing any mind to 3 for itself, he 
should think he had not laboured i in va 
eo 
Reviews. 
Observations upon the Nature, 2 and Value 
pon t of 
py reine — Sewage Manure, with a Deseri 
tion 
of 
| Beemer Lehn Weale, 59, High H 
that * 
pre ore — Principal — in a solid f. 
for c ordinary manure— will hinge —— 
upon wyi e 00 of cenie PE S which has 
hitherto received an answer in fav of the Lee 
The extreme 5 — eeke r, of Wa 
water 1 the matter Apei ful ; an 2 
ve em se tet in which the 
water is delivered from he From an erg 
pace o e by Professor Aikin, of Guy's s Hospital, an 
n to ertilising ergo 
r dissolved, and erie ga the purpose 
manure, the 
must "ber 97 some means 
d; and just in pro- 
po! 
ater e 
suspended o 
enormous amoun 
ofS 
or other, di — — over the lan 
e portion as 
the application of 
liquid ete that of Edinb burgh has been 
poe — aa be taken as 
an example of the vine of sewage- unless applied 
in similarly-cireumstanced inhaa E Tor, although the 
——— of — to the meadow lands near that city has 
ved to source of very large profit to Var 8 
holder, this successful result has arise om 
$ 
sewage, in its 
3 
e eee 
> pro mity e 
of — 1 of — to that of ere and the 
f the 2 eek natural 
i- | cay 
e iwer m can | 
m 
Patent Process pest its — 1 doc. 
born. 
| Se advantage o 
ao: |i 
and, it must not be assumed | 
when ing direct — the ——— ther 
abandoned this se also 
At tha irer however, the impression made upon 
the public mind by the advocates of the liquid manure 
scheme was exce edingly favourable to their mode of 
distribution They not only urged the instance of the 
Edi 8 meadows, — 2 Pri. other experiments on a 
cale, but contended that the fact of its being in 
the liquid instead of the solid j 
efore 
“ Upon considering and reflecting upon this popular 
notion, I was ied to thé following conclusions :— 
eri — certain erops, liquid 
ad van 
ing first reduced by 
“2nd. That > oe ba me that the question of 
ing m in 2 solid or liquid form, 
as perfectly ä of "the value of the 
8 ontained in it, so long as it was not too 
te 
river water, of itself, used in irrigation, 
was more or "ess valuable in proportion to its muddiness, 
its value as an dependent not only upen 
or the quantity of salts originally eye S in it, but also- 
1 4 upon oe additio d organic tter washed 
panne ae 3 ‘the same 3 
the chemical nature of the earth passed over 
2000 affect its value 
*“ 4th. That all ideas, towns are — 
when 
supplied with ane would be too much W ; 
uld be con 
arm 
eee it e. 
manure 
tie ti e be more economi mical, as there would th 
be no necessity to carry more 5 1 
required for * rpose. 
we “5th. That i wae be better, therefore re, 
—.— matter — “trom io dal of 
ob ina like guan asit w ; 
— ä — — in the solid or e Bei state, 
phe 2 ver he e found most suitable to the land, erop, 
r the season... . 
With thee vows T 
lied to Professor Aiken in 5 
Ur 
in | proportion as wodki 100 of i 
1 
ammonia a it 
