THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
378 [JUNE 12, 
mm in his — ee on agricultural chemistry,’ so far as culturists, rich or poor, holders of small or large fa 
experienced in the ho. 1 2 “a een ee they lie iu ou 4 for er deep tilth it is in vain to’ spate poi 
have tgs into ate. n A “Agricaltur al che July 19, 185] :— retur. On this point there ca n be but 
at the botto % Thus, while themselves are extr tl Who ha e opinion 
w following four-inch ploug 
Cena an mode of veniilation, alfhough it yee 
the first, is yet fa 
from , being free from imper. ta oaa a whenever air 
is admitted at opposite s sides of the building, cur aa 
able 
mely 
interesting, their —— affords a wide field — in 
agreement; for itis on 
meteorology, of agriculture mee 
ach other,” 
Agricultural Gazette, Dec. 13, 1851 :— 
nd, we think, intersec 
emed 5 1 “ Before we Ae to apply the mete ical figures“ 
to be . by the heat of the su 8 75 rse |. which * number, in explaining some of the 
oes stems of agriculture, wí 
pet Re . 17 for the rey | sae a we “th nie —— are actually required. For this 
of of pure air become occas the syi of ome end we shall take a general view of the subject in me 
2 3 house “On features; and 3 it will —— e pr — a at 
chemistry of vegetation must have 
han d, carboni end MER ordin ng to the — it if it is — assist us in ey * r problems of a 
law of fu “on its * < Of Teas 3 g EY | practical natune by shiloh A Pan sey, in A 
n air oe page gaat, d by 4 r 50° | last Number of the Royal Agricultural 1 Jouraaly is nh . 
: h this os fident that 2 8 Rothamsted must be usidere 
of higher | temperature ; 8 wit erence principa of trustworthy ae ms information on 
it is still much N bt bene it still for orms — sai chen ry. Now we would say to Mr. Pusey what 
smal ir e 2 Wi we would say to any one else, I think you can account 
only 2 1 n for the varied systems of British . by the light of Mr 
hich i cae went, d though La wes's chemistry, just try it.“ wk s last . 
i i to the Journal 2 Agriculture is itera — 
DEN eg et = meh ee ia bat ols a — 1228 he e draws particular attention to a subje ect 
ae ailibrium t Place, t m result which happens fen 3 across our path, we make his Dr 
is soon effected by the diffusion of h. then | the basii for bettor es i y the principles which wa are 
issol the at 1 K endea vourin tra 7 to — that 3 of the 
whale, iş dite 3 m pages ti. ere. 8 | difculties haces ich ket trugglin eof — own creation, 
building ; so that t off the =e air o pp tetra 
a tas 
forefathers. experience e ventilation of F their 
halls when the fire was kindled in the middle of 
the floor ; for the ox in its feeding-box is like a little | $ 
fire thus situated, Pak wrong a chimney to carry o 
the 8 of combus 
Such are the Fs cote ‘of tot e with a few 
of ed eee with w ich they rrounded. 
The er system is obviously that of the beehive 
off | — before 
— 5 pra al from the narrow ad leat — 
ot a much wider experimental field.“ 
And lastly, in his reply to us, No, I, May Ist, he ge 
8 Rg some time back it appeared as if we had co 
f finality . > pone theory, ye idea had to — 
room left for further prog 
ese sane it was ce rtainly ¢ ae as a 
ry 
room” for a urther ; > 
dmittedl rth ugh tio agricultural 
theory—though | stated as opposed, ‘yet is ee in the 
ent of working —— giving direction to 
chimney to every feeding- box; 
at the — is to in practice, there 
being generally an abundance of air flowing in or 
at &c. t it not unfrequently 
happens that the winds blow in at one side do 
feeding-box, and out at the other, instead of 
ing thei at the ridge. The latter is the | 
hall fire of the en time—and in the absence of a 
in we arrive at the conclusion 
2 
that pure air ty of room in the fe 
house go together. 
ROTHAMSTED AND hn 3 W 
o from 
ntinued 
ch, then, for what we pian bes be t 
for exons i n account 
1 up, just now, a subject so important 
in itself, so much mine iseussiona k >’ | 
have trea 
í A 
] 
1 
with Vur clearly | m 
enough — by — indications of its character, not 
ab 
only in 
further foreshadowed in the following remark, which he 
quotes from Sir Humphrey Davy : Agricultural Gazette, 
July 19, 1851, 
“In aaa where plants cannot absorb sufficient moisture, 
| they must take up more manure 
And again, in his — No. ds Agricultural Gazette, 
says 
wn on | May 1, 1852, Mr. Russe 
„If we can once agre 
ammo 3 pew carbon in 1 and the relation which one 
ogee to another i in manures, we shall me ae be bet tter prepared 
ation 
We believe, indeed, that the only e inter- 2 
pretation of — indications in in our papers on = * 
would me 
twe do agree m — 
ir lin pee) to it than his aspect =. our views | > 
— vey any idea of; y we are able rightly to 
gather his own, we believe that there are still some 
e | Points connected with it on which we differ 
Seria was, then, in the face of — ‘Plainly — avowed 
mining process, with a vie up 
renew tlie m arte of iden tification on 
abour am ingenuity were 
1] 
eing expended to me: so that, when these materials 
oul d up 
g 
onourable service in the as yet almost en — 
of meteorology, as applied to agriculture, without first 
yä, in the way of the — 
3 a Spee as we think we see 
oan bya e ee, of — inevitably . 
with the indicati 
sE 
88 peo papers we were not di neparna 
the opinions of these to be matically, — aar 
finally ignored or reversed, mich a view of showing their 
antagonism to what, one no 
constitute their closest allies. 
writer & R.“ 
Wheat he says (A gricultural Gazette, 
its natural . e of — e 
rep pace 
of that essential elemen element, amm 
ry ae pondi 
* f produce in all ts ea. haart ta ad qonding 
the answer to * question w wo yia 
* 
to ao it with impar. 
inqui 
es has arrived at 
e ter o 
which should prevent 15 satisfacto: 
nor ith as little of mah 
or 
ne follo quotations 
that, as a matter of fact, it was the en 3 
dismi ews 
our vie 
lopment of | 
and capabilities of 
infi 
nistic to our own; = es sure that there is nothing 
h agricul 
limate, as applied to ulture, 
in the 
— — that the chemistry and | The expense of 
this, an 
: Cobain in n their 
rk 
— ttle more i Stil on the sources of | th 
antagonism, J. B. Lawes, 
6. 
P S.—RorHAMSTED, pe 29, 1852.—Since our remarks 
on 8 _— this discussion in this and pre- 
e task before us 
sentation in the N bir ‘the w 
| execution of this duty, 
our next, where we left i 
April 3. (To 
or: easure ' 
point out, but recom- 
mended them so dig deeply over the land 2 the 
l 
be rewarded, Exe ellent advi 3 weal 2 
co 
atm 
become a mine of . i the cone th at 2 
The moral of this fable is worth the attention of agri- 
| — 
when essed the 
doubly upon the sabsoiled set The eae 
trenching should not be per 
soils ; the under ps lee tie 
i „and has 
and ignoran b; were conv 
to comprehend how much it would beto th 
to being science and the practical knowlege of others 
e! theiraid. Hence the neces — ly nstantly recurring 
o the gpa subject. N well-known con- 
por tor a floricultural periodical found fault with 
notices ‘peng p reer which so often leaned 
me d had ne to wear Mi readers 
of hebdomidal chronicles > joule &. r 
tions of the sa individual have aad Aig 
perused of late, without “as scovering anything 
attention on the score of apne ality m deere Useful 
and placed before 
hin 8 been raked u 
in an agr pore’ poate 2 enn experience to 
induce — to follow in the When 
an attempt is made to Gaai a firer Aa: one lesson 
is ough — r itions of par instruc- 
tions are absolutely necessary, and i instances 
not bu s and months, If the 
more prk than the old, -r Ry has to be 
the task 
ind is 
daly * —— t, 
ssity of keeping before the « eyes of adults 
— and money), projeets which are 
beneficial to the ———— and well-ed 
s slow in — —— titude to the farmer, many 
ee — 2 vegetation speaks of improve- 
ents so many examples 
Nevertheless, t there are 
0 
outlay can — r be ter 
s to wait — time for the re d 
our correspondent “J. L,” on 
peat is not found ; th 
doriser, as reountly proved by Prof 
communication on that subject to the Ro, 
tural Societ 
-| apply them 
might be changed into dus 
xes, trey 
wth a scavenging sy stem which would pay itself; might 
d not the same be done; and a great step taken in pe 
m 2 
It is only our mons or negligence in applying thewaste 
realising the 
of all — that pre 
production — a erop osiy partially grown m 
value 2 which, if universall , would be $ estimated hy 
millions. I trust ¢ the time is cone when the su Pt 
the, 
th riot 
ng.—In your Seria of ‘Saturday age d 
e = Ay no p on joeing s gned “ Bufe that he 
entleman asks the question, A m T to conclude that weai 
(the man) did not do his * a "Most enn in tbe, 
not do his duty ; such a re f 
enjoyment ry good health: “ebile pi” 
5 days, ought never to a have D te 
again, e: ä eee 8 
that which “ Buffer” describes, I employedan “a vile k 
lately, to hoe between Peas and other p — 
i the price I er pe was 48. pe 
an 
ay. One evening after 
I 1 = aay’ s ea measured up, » 
that day, he h he surface of nO 
ain of posts to th s full 1 depth of of the me te see ; 
urple Fumitory, Shep 
Thistle, and dwarf os —— 
— bee. size. ee an 
5 
W did i in ** erei s 25 Wee per e acte; Aer 
that the crop will not requi uire to 
This may strike“ Buffer p Se 
xtraordinary, 
him itisa fact. Early month, with a 
