46—1852. | THE 
transplanted it to his estates in — Isle of Wight, where 
it was before unknowu. The D 
i ced it on his — rth esta 
e of Devonshire has have attained 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
veral who 
have, moreover, received — assurance of se 
ch clearer insight into the workings | siderable 
to who 
the latter — been applied extensively, and in 
with no observable effect. We find the the 
manure ee e eee con- 
se theoretical | vendors — ing materi 
— so much . of ammonia, or so 
of 
opinion I pay great deference—that they approve of my 
od 
Suffolk, it has} been recently | uch per 
— aes afr nae al tance, by men me no com- views and practic of phosphate of a or both; but they a not set 
ion to i o it, but, on the mpa at ee I now “oa a ‘step further : I look over the fence of A the 8 they contain. f r of many con- 
i bert 7 ped * ＋ an ‘grant i y deemed it neighbour, the produce straw, and tell him that trivances for making straw into re ; it is not prac- 
ane a the opinion vei he e is — 3 using his produ th test ticabl change its properties; they may add the 
is held orit it by 1 dane who have 75 the best advanta an interest in doing so, for though | nitrogen or ammonia, and the phosphates of their solid 
nd amplest m its results ta 
eems to be Airin found in assessing 
which the tenantis entitled. For pure 1 
&c., the re — 1 . attes 
the cost. For drai milar w f the Sere 
asis of pi has? Ty It t 
© 
5 
8 
8 
pE 
— 
* 
xpen 
of the + — mk of the unexhausted improvements i 4 
y entering tenant, and m: of them declare whole of our 
è former cou ut it must not be forgo tten | Grate 
that, whilst in Norfolk leases are univer in Lincoln- fa 
may well be that 
with a lease shall farm as well as he who has m 
to compete at 75 with the holder 8 an . 
e for years R compete so, by wata 
admission, that it is A to decide on Eey side. the | rece 
victory lies. The proper compari 
er —.— Aia. whioh. 
it 
ment to render it Sar lete. 
| of straw, voids 40 Ibs. of excrements, thus — * e essential q 
Impressed with the advantage woe has been 2 suming of the carbon of straw, out of every 100 Ibs., | silex: being found on a sandstone formatio 
to result from the Lincolnshire system, Mr. Puse i ai 60 lbs.; or, from every 100 acres, the produce of 60 acres. tolerably dry state, 1s. 7d., while 
te M.P. for Berkshire, for secant sessions 1 Pa (Experiments of my own, the analyses of Professor | 40s, per ton: will ha 
ment, brought in a bill to extend the sam legal right Way, show a result 2 somewhat more than 50 lbs. of tion of moisture, while straw 
to every part of 0 But, after a — 100 Ibs. of fodder.) Mr. Puse ual proportion by decomposition. must be taken 
Severe opposition in its e through the House of | add s as a caution e too p- | into conside: use and no straw for 
Commons, th bill was always thrown out by the Lords tion of straw for fodder ; but, in the case of iure | bedding, the exerements, liquid and solid, require some 
—gen without even the ceremony of n. undergoing previous tion, I he a | admixture to render them. of sufficient consistency to be 
It is obvious that the establishing, by law, of a system serio in his calculation ; I mean the loss which | carted I bestow a quantity of peat soil every 
of tenant e would be a atest straw undergoes by decomposition. I can through the openings of the boar Which prevents ang 
meety and difficulty. But I do n any such authority to show in what this takes place; it | unpleasant odour. I know of no cattle sheds less, if S 
ons properly come before the society, And I beg | would under diffe with slower / little objectionable in is respect as my own, with open 
to be distinctly und d as e ing no opinion in 3 ˙ A ae LBs Bo: Akin tever process, boards. I apply the co in all its freshness 
one way or the other on the pres of establishing result would be—carbon or charcoal in very reduced 11 Grass land; to my root crop, I add guano. 
any form of tenant compe: y law. That which I | quantities, — silex and other m 1 1 feel sati that the fresh‘dung, wi all its fermenting 
dane is to lay before this soe an explanation of | have I of no data roperties, together with 9 i 
the real of the question—of e different species | w ORE TS RT remain sub- mpose the peat, and to away with the only. 
which h Ave been irly classed under one name—and | sequent to ion, yet dispose | objection that can’ be made to it as a component of the 
of the e nature of that one which has visible — font | it would not much exceed the 50 lbs., manure heap. I entertain a great and ir 
od where it has been in force, and which is being from the experiment of pager} consumed by for my peat soil, for though obtained at a cost of less 
“uly extended into new localities by those who have my eat „I make no nsion to scientific r —— — 
Wen i in the old. And "the purpose with m I ask if I am | which I am unable to obtain at less: 40s. per 
has question right in supposing that the dimi ich straw own farm practice will be found in some respects: 
the iar. I use or seek to y ce, including 
one aris Me mpa penne J have described as 
ng p y in tillage, it will be one- 
of the straw is so used. Now, I 8 
es the consideration both of the landlord and 
tenant of this and other similar ci inced districts, 
a farmer who pr 130 tons. 
of straw has 100 tons of this beyond what he uses ag. 
brovender: T think. Sagot than oat so used with 
Let the consider — tenant. 
9 on condition tiiat he purchases- 
with the proceeds such manure as he 
W | guano, bones, or if he prefer it will be 
2 I feel satisfied that both parties will 
be benefited | Apacer age and in addition to themselves 
zey m mses 28 nu — and Grass lan 
farmers, by having — . eater 
> re | abundance of what they requi gi 
a dow an of other countries, which are in some re — ts 
in prac position. We are told by men fav — climmte thea our o 
of se . ‘dns ammonia and agg i have We are bound to suggestion whieh may 
known ascertained. values as fertilise rof. Way esti- to enable us to competition, I hold the 
mates the former at 6d., and the titer; at ia * Ib.: but | relaying the conditi restricting tenants t * 
I know of — such define value being assigne to carbon, the whole of their produce, particularly straw, to deserv 
or old straw thatch, even in this negiboarhoed, where consideration ; and in this I am su ported by opin ion 
be 
number, ar 
supplied with 150 Ibs. to 160 lbs. 
uld pant a mere tenant-at- | P 
or 1 y 
1 without payment, whilst sawdust and tanners’-bark are recently received 
great measure neglected. I have been 10 
1g 
I mig 8 Aa his straw for ae Tam 2 using mains 
it serves as a convenient vehicle for what 
be valuabl i 
ater extent than, perhaps, any m 
— on permanent Grass —— in the shape < — are known isers. It will, however, 
fodder for my cattle, throughout t —.— be admitted that, in the common mode of treatmen nt, 
e por of m tle are soiled, ore — the straw in tends to more rapid 
an. Prang 
Na — the — 0 ptember — Oetober, 
when the whole of m iry an . — 48 in 
e housed, being fed on mown Grass; they are 
per dy of straw-chaf, 
reat proportion, and not t 
care, it may, I feel = be sometimes the 
robbing, instead of enri hing, — mn by the 
waste of ammonia . by [ae aman 
The question has a materi * conditions 
r proportion Wok our leases; in my own neighbourhood, at no incon- 
nase. venient distance, and e e b 
ea —— ſeature in the auer of mae lan 
ent Grass, as com 
use 
crops, and o — 
ings vane of limited extent, from J 
rm of 200 acres about 50 acres will be in 
grown, or ith chan i \ 
to serve, or intended to s u 
of the Grass grown is h * 3 with m theory | m w an 
refer the excrem rom our 
en = manure — 
f he bu 
— his. land deterio — if it ge 
manure; and t 
8 
> 
: 
mmonly used, — our sa 
astures, w 0 ago are said to have carried 
a goas per acre, Stil support their character of main- 
tock, without, in 
Turnips, &e., wi 
there will 
osphere is a main source of ood of tr perm: — and to 
j am not aware — asso of the A farm of about 
cereals. |a ut 
manure. 
acres in extent 45 be rented at 
. per acre, or for the w hole 2007. a year, 
unge the character of our Grasses, | straw which he had hitherto been tied 5 che conditions 
bones, which induces white Clover, | of his lease to use on es what the 
w-grass, — other sueculen 
early o aih aeeai * th, we apply access dedueting 
| ather similar man which encourage the stronger n for expenses, 150“. Now, I es a no hesitation 
and coarser to the r e of the cies a or 1 9 4 in saying that the — — bes not even an approxi- 
b mate enefit from his produe 
Mr. Pus sey, in his résumé of agricultural progress, | ‘practic, I use 
—.— on the authority of Isloch, that a sheep, from eap; bot 
bs. 
the 
straw is yaad no means plenti tained | of an eminent pate, who tells mo in a letter I have 
been informed of | e senna arctica 2 
