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not down the steepest slopes of the hill, 
these strata, as they exhibited themselves upon 
the surface, forming themselves into zones 2 — eng of me 2 — ig — —4 
z da detailed ma ce to the 
in which direction, the land m might at s : two, or —— fields together, according as t 2 — stratu connexion 
(a n thrown into ridges); in such cases diagonal | which came to the surface was more or less hort tal, orm ore of their gel and arch. cee Tap characters, and the 
totum gully hat ng been found to be effectual. His et aas thick. The result thus obtained a 4 —— | great practical i ce of the subject. Be o felt great 
ining y that the value of each field, and the mode of cultivation already | g 1 l 
added, more water wt frequently to be esire that the —— ty of Mr. Trimm: 
lordship 1 blogisi (with — xception of the use of een, which had been 
found in or under the slope -5 the es than in the oo frequently and too indiscriminately applied to the enti ttention to illustrations of this d be 
furrows. answ a tion om put to his octane), corresponded to the variations of the strata, and were rend ble to an ex of his 
lordship, by Mr. Darby, 3 such drains would showin ta — aS 2 ed — — —＋ h = hes and elucidations—th thus un 
s ing ea. him professio so far tion of 
stand seven he remarked that he could show ugh a different proc z., trial and error), the y protes y 5 à question 
drains 2 down on that principle 20 years ago, geological character ofa eeu, 3 when accurately un erstood, pense as to save him from | the e requisite outla 
me p Ys 
that still answered perfectly ; while others placed on the | pointed the natural value of the land, and the while > hpr ag up his — and serv ices to their 
_ lyd < t e slo system o alti — best adapted to it. For in nstance, on the Having consulted thi 
old system, directly down part Le, | highest range of my hills, a few fields, without any apparent 7 mer on this 
had failed entirely. His lordship could most strongly | re reason, have been universally productive — al sonsons more point, the e following arrangem ments had been proposed by 
com e plan of trial-holes, both befi - A ele adjoining them on a ewer wor bor level; an y A whioh ch 
mencement of the work and d te prog e | marks 2 fael — by Dr, Smith 8 the a — nina Imington, near Dartford, Kent, May 18, pee 
discovering, not Sass the relative depth ‘of th of an insulated portion of the u 2 — grit forma- 1 metab o much ot confidence in the — Sap of the the plan w wh 
ower or deep water in t parts of the field, but tion, which also pr — an exeslions tract of land tn another nd cake . * 18 have it Base segra cf eal 
the depth also of the fib 3 or po ts, > — ag eye —— ay n f experiment, at if any | er can be induced to have 
i stro : 
frequently to be 
these means he 
at one uniform depth — width. 
which his ee carried on in poena 
shire consisted of a strong blue clay, that hardened o 
exposure, 
MANURE-DEPOSITS.—Captain Wentworth Buller, — 
called the attention of the Council to bay he great res 
ur navi- 
gators, in reference to deposi cree 
and islands ma p eop m a especially i in n tropical 
on table h 
ve of Four Voyages to the South Sea, North and 
— Ocean, eee — 1 . Southern 
e 
os de 
is ore not a Šip was known 
4 the enormous deposit 0 pro 
hese islands. 
now think that the vein in question is upon the upper good bed à 
A — — ee reous k ened the — —— — oe eee i on th — 1 mia g 7 5 the estate from which a 
w oes not appear elsewhere : 
Whichever formation, gegen mal = bapi — agr d belong to, 1 for ‘which th = ey mi 3 2 the 
the peculiarity remains th a in other dis- shall pay for air copy; and, if 1 
rie Jand. have z 22 oa bt “whe tever dit —— 5 10 —— 4 Aue hene, to make * he shall 
the soils upon the calcareous formati alway vary pay, the drauglitsman. These may com about 
according = — opier beds of — —— — upper- the acre, 
8» also thro all the successive divisions of the upper 
8 — r e shail allow me two men for a few weeks, to open holes 
He 
where I 9 it, aud * fill 1 in — me 
4 pot my time to the w pen i 
hibi —4 and to explain the 
. at the Royal Agricultural aeons of eta 
T og iere Society, the Society of Arts, and the 
Association for the Advanceme nee. 
r John 1 tone ho 
nt of Scien 
RIMMER, 
some "opportunity 
egy balk, —4 red seientifie experience in a 
pursued than 9 — Aor . if we k of so interesting and pra ractical character as the 
wish to secure our Wheat crops “trom — from — 8 par- proposed. 
ticular cause, Next we found (as 2 ase over an neive 
— e) th — — 
WO 
— now 
aa 2 rtion as A petih 
vation — for by the oe ry 
— ihe cealoareous gr grit, w which “antwithstaading pert — me) co 
ng — 
hat | ae 8 
iry He Sien find t 
in the 
HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT PERTH. 
th 
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rted by public opinion. "He 
and advantageous to the 
p men than that o cheapening 
— concluded his remarks by striking 
with the discovery mi long be ofo 
2 ee loca — of- its 
the ge 
ug 
was held 
be highest of | 2 two feeli ing of a 
ty to the coralline utility i is concerned, this has been one of 
. — ing exhibitions So held 
d tested in other — „ auspices of High * Soc 
the calcareous grit forms very 12 a: billy be charac’ 
ls aris tro m te ealenreous beds being this remark is espec cially true of the implement 
ain, when, on descending the sides, j 
it was found that there were certain fields which—wheth de —.— in which there was NOR 
towards th or north, Toe — aspect, whateve 
to be plow ghed)— | mac ines 
in m 
bab! this 2 
(so steep to 
inva ese A ate ced good Whea eat; ae was a triumph bor — 
tural geology — discover gpa these fields — invariably upon 
the Oxford 2, or r where the low arpa of the cate 
t become mixed u a th that Tasio 4 ** d comparing the | 
comparative value and 2 of — 2 produced upon dif- 
her wes thee — n amg — 
was ‘satisfactorily established ‘thet ‘Oaks tip 
— n this identical stratum erever —— — 
appeared on examination that t the lowest bed of this prs a Ox ford 
— was the — — H —＋ —— bed on the 
ill si 
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require a resident engi irect 
exhibitors in this 3 fio evidently. learnt 
wisdom — hays rmer failures, 
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ew out every spring on the hill 
power require: 
increasing the w 
expended in sinking for wells i 
e hills. The —— with which ; viz, 
uring greater 
en manager * he estate 2 | pr prices defeat the end the 
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ter- tight seam in it 
‘ior ts — 
— ond oh thus produced 
logical knowledge would have 
of the two —— — 
of dilavial m on ma 
— ee on one of the highest ost summit levels; t the construction of a machine which costs from 257. to 
das lands i may therefore tately say, that the geological map * ere is not material to account for such a price ; 
ead survey of my esta 2 cone rye ri ee — adapted an 
for such an — ment. — Boss mber of the 
subdi the eile — which, — — themselves 
the rea 
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2 
Welker spri: this case, 
shown at rg thet different ar caer = 
a curious fa — . ost mas 
inf and ing which serve no practical or ec end 
— 5 be dispensed with. Corn-drillin, en Bers nes are 
t likely to come into gen until 
i ogee he surf — 
cessivel upon t — h 
y — e surface as u 30 — tee a Bootlen 
ay can be made and sold for a sum kot exceeding "10l. 
of the — between the peers a veness of 
neighbouring fields—a — of gr —— int — and tending — 
develope i true condit . of — ake life—but *. — th 
— 2 pr ponis n wil o have been deriv 
LIVE STO 
ing with cattle, the first class 
Ris own off 
Begi that comes under 
. is ap tek ch bulls. For the premium fer bulls 
Hs 14 age ara were 21 competitors ; it was ied 
the whole series € of ‘soils, which risp, of Nort . A for his 4 years 
the iculturists of this cow Captai Possess a sort ry ff by Mr. 
se > iba: excited much interest in the — spie ains an e Agp peculiarities, a and 1 — on ner A alei old bull, bred mself. This bull 
E ure agricultural operations a y 
— and were received with full concurrence as to the e best 755 — code the hills is — the coralline oolitie gained the Royal A ieultural "hociety's premium at 
portance of the qn pag map at once points out all those — wes, and appears, therefore, to be à with 
SUPERFICIAL DRrosrrs.—Mr. Pusey could bear witness | of the esate > weich consist of this stratum, and u hich | ¢} ibe id 15 i 
at those w * = consider e hest judges both in England 
to the priority o f Mr. Trimmer’s important views on | there is obviously no necessity for lime; and I am — — 
from the task w and „He is oubf a very fine animal, but 
perficial deposits, as brought under the — of the 2 * Lory -m gown ch individaa = d have 1 ** e pe 5 4 bout hi m, especiall the do ward 
analysing the soil o e above are a there pe about hi ec in the down 
keg ogical pene and 3 yal Agricul qe oa „„ mee — — —.— _ wed from the | twist of the horn and the shortn ~ ay his hair, w 
oug great benefit wou must be considered as very serious defects. There 
that, by pursuing a similar s . over different districts (f pas: f 
— po result from —— — — — Topi. rapie of the —— — on of f the | were Tat pong first-ra The 2 class, and 
agric earth may ubservient to the s were very in eee rst 3 
Lee Ma ...... improvement Societ of 
Jo n ki PPING or Estates.—Sir John V. B. — dest local practice on differ * ils hav en d was also a competitor in this class, but 
k letter M. P., addre ed to Mr. Pusey n 1839, eralised, nor even had the benefit of a judicious selection. | even considered worthy of commendation ; he is, nevat- 
201 containing the particulars of the geological map Certain soils are 80 obviously connected with their , that | theless, a g imal, well covered 
EEE ̃ »]“ e.. looking, but sadly deficient behind the shoulder, 
, mP Dr. . mith, This letter succeed each other ry a 8 order, and, being del ineated, Ta and a slight tendency to oreg in the 
was 3 at the — e t e of the 8 — — NN 1 5 comes —— : e found “akg ‘ALVED IN 1850,— were 13 petitors 
Society’ s Journal, and th e following extracts from it will | tion if agricultural chemistry be ſe in this the premium = a to Mr. A, 
Strongly 3 — the i he importance of the subj successfully ‘pated “a the e es of 5 15 3 ere em a 1 
ject of Mr. t be by proceeding ater ee emie — sis of soils alon Cruiksh A Tem 2 
<n th ran ze of each strata ng 1 on the pos (and 11 months old, bred Wien Smi est 
sole u z — . 3, — observed great variations in the bazis established by t the 8 — geoi Woon may sae a on ; ay itiful animal, of 33 
— ron not oniy we 1 — — ot the — aish = i t bas w la; — of facts, with rea T oo —— fine etry in the d-q' kin well 
n the fields upon the table- 2 wee OF neral reasoning hair; 
1 A ese hills, and which, from being | may be readily — comp hen cove á lose si A hor 8 sn i 2 — 
slope, read * g to uth a građual easy | two parties have made experiments upon the same stratum, no | with ares it would be in the horns, w ma 
fonsi — the variation more difficult to explain, en- tter which, a n can — „ Chemists will | ness w augurs badly for the appearance of his head 
Searb subject to ith, who was then lecturing at | thus be called into action, and as the different limestone, soils, h fall wn, There were many fine animals i 
view 1 h, and surv the surrounding district, with the | and clays, &c., va rA n lieu ae ‘the general terms sa nay, | When fully grown, * 
Rear ( — the identity of the Hackness strata with those | loamy, or clayey, which are po À generic 8 of littie this section. 
* fo geology ea aa, be a solution of my difien ty by | use, specific ae derived from geological terms will ae . IN 1851.— Eppu the Dake of Bae in 
Teide in question, d. ng gone over minutely the | hereafter be this Premium award the Duke of Buc- 
hands, he marked upon it, in — colours: — ot At the : ting, Sir John Johnst firmed | cleuch Shei a bull 1 year and 6 a e bred by 8. 
