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THE -AGRICULTURAL tll Sc 
eee 
has 2 e a the ade of Kildare for the last 
He was plan his Potatoes when I 
re the drills were 4 Sit on 
solicited me to solet a a stem, which = id, a ee 
= ae 1e pulled it up, havi ing no spade, and I 
d 42 Potatoes, ie. second trial 43, and the third 
ere a m: small ones, but I do 
y Potatoes at a single 
ing the 3 feet ‘tilly we found the largest 
, and m h 
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rotten Potato i in “all we tried. I am, indeed, sorry tha 
I cannot tell the same story of my own, which are aly 
not Sanit lifting. P.S. The names o oes 
and Red-nosed Kidney. A. Matthew, 
ummer rains have 
s of all 
descriptio 
which save’ lain in 
ns, have now germinate 
as the future may — irly expected to be 
e more free fro 
care be observed in n eradicating them. 
tion mie the Se deme he we take this opportunity 
men ding the use or Banta’ broadsh 
was 
dant . 
o swer. 
nia, might go on to a very great 
of re 
lad to state that e Bap 15 
experiments in regard to this matter are due, found 
that 1,000,000 parts by es ga of air contained 0.133 
a topping to examine the 
such a Sar would suffice for 
tion. or question it was impos: ssible to 
Mr. Way’s own recent investigations had brought 
o light the 8 — in the soil of certain double silicates 
bent ing the power of abstracting the carbonate of 
ammonia from the air with as much avidi 
were strong acids. good soil well opened 
an- 
vation wo y thereforə be constantly at work, p day an and | too 
night, collec 
a 
erences in 
the air, ae inden of wind, 
— take pl 
ure, diffe 
et perhaps! also a constant interchange i in the particles 
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of air t 
in the soil, and the consequent acquisition by it of ammo- 
extent. Andi 
lways proceeding. The more, eso — soil was 
expos osed to the air the richer ould become. 
rse M = ke of soils 3 a 
e light soils there pausi e that 
Smith, at Lois-Weedon, expressin re 
fication which k e had experienced fecha a visit to that 
ce which were nee ng wing 
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ooked as "e tilay had 
Wr mon niacal salts; and that, 
indeed, was e fatt, ough the ammonia had been 
added ‘not aula wia po aner and + 
the abundant cultivation which Mr. 
255 N plough, to be put rege — iate requisition mak Panel enabled him to give. of Solais, then 
opportunity offers ＋ one of the first-rate that, so far as the e e e n of vegetation were 
modern implem ents for ‘tits * rpose now introduced, | concerned, th abso impossibility, but, on 
all should if possible avail themselves of it, or at least | the other han d, every probability, t that they might be 
the use of ae i similar implement. Care — 2 in all abundane e crops without — 
should be taken t eeds are burned as soo they | provided that the soil was tally exposed to the influence 
can be collected, which should be as early in the day as of the air. The only question that remained was 
Possible, to prevent their shedding seeds. A. Hardy and | regard to the exhaustion of mineral matters by t 
Son, Maldon, Essex, mode of cropping. Mr. Way believed that the danger 
of mineral exhaustion i l frequently ve 
greatly overra mn There oubt t the con- 
Societies. 
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ROT AL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, 
A WEEK 
3 
principles ms atte ‘al illustrated | 6 da 
—4 oe s object in 
pe: 
mo 
yates 
certain organic re 
of which was now well unde e qu — 
d these substances be supplied A, the air 
at any one time 
in this invisible form 
t | Silica 
Wh * or any other 3 5 
urn of E Re in the s f „ would 
ete ally ' ‘but certainly re 
matter contained in ~ soil ; a the 
ly 
he 
d the per-centage —— which 
the van „e 3 4 yield them for 20 s rops. 
SHELS OF WHEAT AND 2 TONS oF y ae 
Of mad 
ufficient | in 
, Pama a be 
very | nutriment kare being required to be man 
reduce the ere of f mineral i 
0 1 
Per-centage re- 
moved from 
Soil by 20 Crops. 
1 Crop. 20 Crops, 
— acid a 
Salphurie a acid 
q —275*⁵˙ꝛ»„„„ 23 
FOOTER eee 22 
5540 
The per-centage on op soil by 20 crops is calealated o — bei 
oe Payee a that the soil is 10 inches deep aud we 
r | Those who had had anything to do with the analysis of | th 
soils would see that no soil of ordin ~ fertility would 
ad — found without a small quantity of those mineral 
to here 
mentioned; indeed, i 
source all 
an Whilst, 
uired for their g 
1 gave access 
too, every disintegration of the so 
contribu susten nance of 
of the world in immen: quantities by voleanoes. 
But to ascertain the proportion of — in the air 
dißeult, and althoug bee 
to this certain 
n larger 8 for = dae supply of | 
had ix 
| land, and was informed of * 
ter, the 
upon as distant approxima- 
to whom the most careful | 
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f years —8a 
alternating v wih are land, which had been 
under m n conélusion he 
secon ded 
the several operations of the crop. He resolved, 15 
e purp 
ense of be ing 
per acre; and t labo 
10s, to 125. per CMe 
ing ee engaged in 
tent W much d 
refer 
dug 200 acres 
The cost was greater at 
248. —1 acre to — the botto 
Apen e 5 
Mainwari 
substance , loo 
current year—were looking remarkably well, 
74 quarters of Wheat. Py, applying to the c 
large amount of a pu 
mith’s char 
s account was too m 
he was much struck 
as stated — s0 me a propi 
inorganic — il ie 
The 13 of exhaustion was oi that had . 
mith's system 
on growl m 
however, —＋ Bonar crops in t is, the 
re bet Gadesden’s s 
rticularly trying, and the autumn 
the grain — lain long in the E 
a difficult o 2 heat to til e 
to get th ‘ 
object = believed was * — erie 
the —— — not rn work 
replied “that he did not 
when the system woul 
woii be continued as long 
profitably. He saw, how 
should not continue to be 
should only be omi itted for 
that the lecture they had just heard 
