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1e mammal e ass there are 
ri r e 
affected by thi 
are slightly alter ed in their a and os to 
that 
drawn from the ‘ales of the cow than its own insta- 
— aided ors me acts of e ~~ causes it to become 
trefy. In most dairy 
all are in calf, butter must necessarily be con- 
stantly i his perio con- 
necti what has already been said in regard 
to the iodical excitement refe: above, it 
rom nio c 
excited at such periods as she is when running loose in 
s among a lot of other cows; and hence when 
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season, 
the milk of — 8 Rok ge by Se and used for 
omestic purposes, as the bad taste bl 
it, but only in the butter. H. D, . 
ROTHAMSTED AND THE 3 N. 
i pag 
— on eee 
o sooner is it 
u leaf and in the bulb—and to dim 
it from natural sources, and — so — as N is are not req 
a as | conscientious Christian 
substance, and thus part of the rotation mn ~ the 
pe: sacrificed to the Ae. of food for sto 
of ta 
At the tim the expe * ‘vis vede 
crop of 1849, the Bey mire in such a bad state, owing 
e 8 weather it was thought useless to weigh 
respectively which h 
e taken for analysis. 
‘ay “with: certainty whether or not there w 
| nitrogen in the case of this first nc e but from 
mates as e able to make 
we believe that there was less 9 — i the increased 
rod ined by its use, than had been supplied in 
the manure. 
Thee rop 0 
ef to those of 1849, and hence it 
re 
of 1850 gave results in this respect appare nily 
was decided to give 
ut to determine 
Rape-ca “3 or both Rape- 
Ist, That of * “Of Ii lime alone for a series 
of years. 
supply of potash, also for a series of yea 
3d, That of 8 of wn with E soda, 
and magnesia, added N mann 
h of these, ‘both peer ae 
of dry substance, o matter, 
have been dete: ed; a general result obtained 
by deducting the amount of nitrogen grown by the 
as much nitrogen . in the apa ase o 
due to its use as piini y in the first 
ing . the nitrogen of 5 manure of 
ot obtained in the Trop, — 
within the soil. Indeed, — —— of zit mineral 
conditions was — nitro arate of the firs 
rm of — 
8. 
oO 
a 
expery 
f leaf—to increase the per centage oft nitrogen both in n the 
ish the mulation 
the case, to lessen the gain by the crop of amm 
ut besides experiments in — field, — 
of a totally different 2 and characte: th 
tional actions of the various corn and — crops of our 
rotati tions, are foun 
but into the results ot these we cannot adequately pa 
in this place. 
Before leaving the subject of the as td reduced 
gain, of nitrogen, when it is applied more freely in 
manure than the habit of the 7 — its adaptati ons to 
— 
Up to the time the paper 
e — N to "Toda inclu the Turni s 
Norfolk White ; and owing to the limited 
with the | 
the limit of favourable 
loss of . when sup- 
However this may be, we 
ed to the Norfolk White. 
lieve that, under the influence of the very 4 of the 
mineral manures, we did not, in the Norfolk Whites, 
n 
recover as much nitrogen in the in roduce 
to the ammoniacal supply as was provided in the 
manure, 
In 1849 and the two following seasons, Swedes were 
instead of Norfol olk Whites, and th ere of 
en much earlier, They were eee was to 
expected, much more ammoniacal 
manures than the variety of mone hate The 
uire, we refe 
i ts of 
lts w 
entirely without ben After several years’ 
tri ding it almost imp ble to keep the land 
clean ; and findin so, little result from the experi 
ment, it was disconti fter harvest of 1850 
same | e so thout any further manure, 
in order ‘to gauge and, to some extent, equalise its 
condition as left by the ious nures, and the 
emoval from the land of the several P rops. The 
result was, that the produce on all the plots was about 
12 or 15 bushels above the normal soil and 
season, and the repeated of ammonia on e 
of them, which had not increased the Pea crops, were 
fou be without effect upon the sue e 
Wheat cro 
Pe 
Again, in ma experiments upon — Si 1849, a 
seriės of plots having ammoniacal m with and 
without mineral supply, gave in chron a nae Le little 
more nitrogen per acre than the correspon ding plots | e 
without ammonia. On these Clover plots eat was 
next sown, and although here 9 after this — 
ge crop, there was, in Ai go Wheat 
of 
by 12 to 15 bushels or more dee that of anes natural 
increase | s 
soil and | season ; and even in some cases, a 
small 
Three mineral | ve 
as a frien 
2d, That of superphosphate of ume i a large 
salts | fol 
0 
t e have abundant ex ental evidence, 
showing that the effect of an ¢ yi excess 7 of bah ef in a a 
to throw much light upon aone a 
of è rse recel 
And all this — not affect the 
had been collected from natural go ses where it ha 
been provided in manur 8 E 
not been N 
d 
ys zan in the i mi > 
rops. 
e think — 2 jafi 
own a cereal crop, ee sae * 
jand whence — ave 
hout 
recovery of dio: nitrog 157 wh * 
—.— in manure, J. B. L . Z in 2 
Home Correspondence, 
ph poan and — —If idle, unedu 
left to thei th a al — 
iain ihe. anne: Wading to gross indulgence, the mi 
aving no in 
ga 
than 
ork without ay ti insisting Tather 
rounding, — ibe ill not a with an 
English labourer, who, however dependent he 
like to fancy so, much less 
hate wed w 
ally received d than a shillin ing fro 
would an able -bodied man 
ents in anagement o 
a better * — than he . attain at the ‘ail 45 
e be 
loug 
be of — Tittle — if he i 4 
ss he has capita alto tik ry out his 
support him — his first year’s trial. As bron 
uch to lea: efore 
ers, so mpariso n, has labourer need 
his pr — in onder to understand and 
e = e given Obedience is an 
n the composi of — 
liance 80 
of — * to prei the b 
d to his honesty and ‘iil; Is wh 
itted 
. Fale 
Insurance.—It “has pid 
insure the farm-buildings on menge ok 
would 
aie 
The Ayy A Diseas 8 3 5 
5 eee 1 5 
pe o i from 
belief ey the Potato disease tend fun 
ontinued ill-treatm 2 * the pent they are, 
ess of t soil K is most 
joa 1 
of y er 20, 
op 
effect to the Clover ; yet in no case 
| what we might sist 
PpPlleu without 
was this i $ 
— thatna.2 much nitrogen | care 
the Po more flow 4 
tatements were true then, and: 
The health of the Potato epee 
tuber, If taken of in — 
of in a r 
