33—1832.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
521 
PERUVIAN GU 
AUTION TO AGRICULTURISTS— 
C It being notorious —— extensive adulterations of this 
RE 2 still carri 
TONY GIBBS SAND SONS, AS THE 
ON iy OF PERUVIAN GUANO, 
— it to be their duty to the Peruvian Government and 
to the Public again to — mend Farmers and all others who 
buy to be carefully on their 4 
be character of the parties hom they purchase will 
of course be the t security, per — addition to — 
attention to that — —— GIBBS anp SONS think 
well to st buy 
The lowest 
price at which sound Perwvian | t 
sold by ——.— during the last two years is 
» less 2 
ales made by dealers at a lower price must therefore 
* — leave a loss to them, or the article must be adulterated. 
TEA LONDON — ——— —— the 
followin ng — on th 
$ 
eg warran — e im tation e 07 Messrs 
A. Gibbs and Sons, at 91. 10s. per ton, or for 5tons and upwards, 
9. 58. in Doe WA — ‘resets. ec, 
40, Seem bee ies Blackfriars, London. 
RES.—The following Man manu- 
5 at Mr. Lawes’s 9 Deptiord — 
Turnip Man 41 0 
Su rphosphat 7 0 0 
te K ** 
Sulphuric Acid a One olite 5 
Office, 69, King William street, City, London. 
N. B. Peruvian Gua 
Ammonia, 91. 10s. per 8 . for 
ton, in dock. Suighate of ammonia, aoe 
ns or more, N. 53. p 
sorbed, and the wa ter pressed out bright, palatable, soft, 3 
Sold’ at the Charcoal and Sewage Works, Stanley: bridge 
2 Middlesex, at 60s, per ton, 43. per cwt., 6d. per 
WO 
INSEED CAKE, Foreign and English, Rape 
Cake, Peruvian Guano, Gypsum, Salt, Peat Charcoal, 
and all other Manures of known v soe on s 7 3 to 
MARK FOTHERGILL, 204 a, Upper Tham l haw on, 
— GUANO oo 
nee with Farmers or Lan 
so Ph cat a hi sales of fPOT TTER'S 
EBRA TE ED “GUANO 3 10 years). We Foras, 
references given and requ’ — 1 let n 
28, Clapham-road-place, Ken r Lond 
TEPHENSON anp 1 
G haring eo tara acon 
f 1, Grncochurch-stret, 
mproved Conical 
Hothouse Siete a 115 
ob 
the highest n 
furnished on applic 
PHE — i a CATTLE AND POULTRY 
SHOW a FOURTH GREAT ANNUAL et A 
various 
u, 15TH, 16TH, and te 
kes are now ready, an 
— de given, and full p 
oo MORGAN, Jun., Secretary, 
Offices, No, 2 Insurance-buildings, Union-passage, Birmingham, 
0 0 
2 tain 16 per cent, 2 i 
1a 
L AND SEWAGE MANURE.— Pro- A 
oy it this 
y 
that one of Hussey’s reapers will displace more than 
eight or nine men. Ten or 12 good “hands” will |a 
l ae as the Diaki with two men and a 
— ying and stooking being alike in both 
ases. Thore gs is probably a saving of a pound a day 
y employing the latter, and the cost of the 
machine may be saved in a single rgd but it 
he gain derived 
silt we a 3 a dds 
of a farmer idar 
c 
tn 
seven or 
Bos: 
5 
e * 
5 
faa 
of the reaper in the 
ste of bulk, the followin will robably be the experience 
i | of t day. ‘Two 
o pai 88 
a good h arvest 
e for the mornin vores 
will be |i 
needed, o 0 
e 
as it is cut, guiding it in 3 
parcels pa thel 1 behind the culter, until side 
sheaf h when 
h 
oak 
0 yards, apeta overtaking 
the machine and standing while remeng: from it 
the last sheaf it has cut: this, too, — 
3 
is man must be replaced every n a 
inders. 
work. is thus drawn round and 
rou — * the piece chat! A 13 cut, turning always to 
ine left, its driving Wen * upon * right side, 
o that the cutting appar s kept at work at the 
corners. binders 
round the piece that is being cut, and, in the case | 
of a crop of ordinary bulk, 9 o r 10 hands, or even 
more, will be needed to clear the ame before the 
machine comes up again. In this 
| 
oO 
E 
and ia four horses, will clear, yrobably; 10 acres 
— se Bel in a 2 
Tue loving! is Mr. Mecnt’s N r on mems 
subject at 8 ball farm: —“ J have 
working Gannkrr's Husszy’s reaper 
grt age and shall conclude my W — 5 — with 
eek. 
“ have much improved its action by placing a 
ejan 
In reference, however, to the saving by the use c 
u 
nape Ae 
im 
yr A at intervals all | eyil 
been | a 
with per rer — 
Pi 
re. ya — * ew — to have a spare bar of = 
a points; also oil for the workin 
prs M — he Rye-Grass i in the Wheat rn 
well. 
The work of riy the corn down — the 
knives, * ae removing Pas from art wa * a 
quite within beg pow -$ machin 
Hussey 
its power 
The grounds 
table 
ntended these trials have not been 
late meeting at Pert K 
CAUSES OF reape IN BUTTER. 
wards the end 
eavoured, in 
e have kindly ende f the 
A e 3 Gazette, to throw one Tight on — nis subject 
taste to the butter, even tgp newly taken 
from the churn. That the nature of the food 
* em —_ y taste and 3 of their produce is 
1 known to admit of dispute. Thus 
Turn 8 given = 0 cows im a pecu 
e o the cream and mji ie bat also to 
the milk ‘itself, . not so stron ng 5 the latter, 
owing no doubt to the tainting matte ing 
through a i ag pace. Steaming or boilin 
has the effect in at measure of pr — this 
taint ; and the use of saltpetre, dissolved in water, an 
acquires a ener taste of the Grass, slightly — 
i also, but enpu absent from the butte: 
which is 4 — in perfection. No means 
d to pone the grassy taste 
n the course of 
he Agricultural Gazette. = 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1852. 
s MEETINGS FO z TE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. 
ee ug. nae, of ie ee 
w — 18 
ESIDAN, ig | Metin reland at Galway. 
Tuvaspar, — 2 ing Society of Ireland. 
o~ 
WEEK of wet weather has no doubt, to some 
mmencement, are, we fear, no longer true for the 
middle of the month. The injury by blight, conse 
quent n wet weather, which 
ble in many of the English counties, ma 
nsider f 
not — northwards if the weather — Ered 
for the better ; disposed to that as 
yet its effects ve been over-rated ; Wogen the 
recent rise of 2s. or 358. a quarter in the value of 
Wheat indicates that in general a contrary opinion 
pre 
e ex 
. If this be a Sie day generally 
machines at work 
have ve ite 
of 3 bal: do not prg that sr 5 — s spie ; 
up to us the loss o: f the 
eee aig 3 labourers poets haye emigrated since 
reaping, bagging, and’ moving, 
eight binder 
is being s 
near side under the 
machin to pera — ‘dipping into 0 ground 
when eating across furr 
We are also waking à a lebt ash-rake, 2 ft. 
forks), as far ala, fs 5 wood rake, for 
removing the c 
deposited on the board, hold i t, as it were, and 
1 slips from under it, ood deposits it straight, 
an a fit state to 
t It cuts eer 8 s 10 acres per day, and requires 
25 ane cs of cutting is— 
wheel where the | box was, 80 as to take the weight causes which, if 
and b co 
— sr — be an improvement to ee a small ce 
of the invariably d due to te prevalence of noxious pats in 
wide, wit ith fine deep steel ato (like Winona 
me eos — 
ch 
with the rake, — merely when a ‘aie quantity is 4 
the | w. 
n the beginning of summer is not 
the pastures 2 14 £. 
to know what * plants are to which the evil effects 
subject is so overlaid with evide t deal 
uch is proved for enabling us to arrive at a 
ple and sa ry v ; and we are fo 
the conclusion that eee butter becomes ill-tasted, 
n cows are in e prevalent of 
prev: weeds 
the district are blamed for th the evil. Wild Garlic, — 
wild Onion both of which names refer, we presume, to 
— ep ium ursinum ; the three varieties of 
Crowfoot — neulus R. repens, and R. 
bulbosus; (R „ Sheep’s 
rrel (R. wee — (L. Taraxacum m), and 
even e Clover 5 d all been blamed for 
impartin . N But why is it that this 
8. d. 
„ 8 
À corn ape sitting i in front 6 
1 raker 8 6 
r * vee i 0 
Or about 1s. 6d. per acre, exclusive of wear and tear 
of machine 
e corn 
to do it c 8 1 and will 5 5 diminish glean 
“If Mr. Garrett will adopt my suggestions, and 
for deep-furrowe 
wheels being in each aT | 
“ As the horses would otherw! se be idle in the grass, whi 
555 
tter than it is possible * 
ing. 
heavy land will have one to fit unfit 
e the furrows, so that, the 
a bad 
effect is — uniformly y produced wherever these plants 
make their ir appe The complaint of bad | ere 
— 
p pasture- land i in England i but also on dry, new 
In one 
— down pastu r 
latter country, with hich iter io som „ 
cows pastured on a first year’s lea, e 
Cro 
of the butter has now 
remark 
ii 
arad + t an 
t 
having a simple crank motion, like a stea 
s to be perfectly true, an 
l 
roper workin 1 or damage 
K Ave very fa * whe can afford the "ela wal use | 
them next y 
ne 
for the last two 3 It may be urged in reply to 
py | thi particu of 
that 
“We “a — — pair of horses; say, one pair for | 
entirely disapp 
—— are still in full flower, and have 
cular stage o 
2 
morning, anot 
we do not suppose | 
pair for afternoon. | 
“ The knives must be filed up daily by a 3-square ' 
ea 
the effect should continue all the time they are in flower. 
