THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
825 
= PERUV 
. TO 
230 
be 
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mee that point, A 
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Low Posse, 
HE LONDON MA 
IAN GUANO. 
eRICULTURIS 
— * extensive adulterations of this 
“fro 
best 22105 and, i 
ANURES.—The 1 Manur 
M r. LAWES MESJ Deptford a yes á 
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psa 61835 AND SONS, A8 8 
anton RTE RS OF PERUVIAN GU . 
the Peruvian idena and 
ate Farmers and all — who 
‘m — m they purchase will 
n addition to particular 
NY GIBBS anp SONS think it 
at which sound Peruvian 
3 by — = the lasi two years is 
less 24 per cen 
made by dealers a a lower ie must therefore 
goer — a — to them, or the article must be adulterated. 
NURE COMPANY offers on 
t Manure for autumn sowing, Linse 
ed, 
1 Superphosphate of Liis e, 
Also a quantity of Salt, th 
other e 
elen . and — makers, e more 
are Manu- 
1 0 0 
egitbes 
Office, 69, King William. — Cit y, Lon 
B. Peruvian Guano, gu 
e ere per ton; por for 
0 
teed r contain 10 on cent, of 
ined or more, 91. 5s. per 
past of Ca 
Garden, by Mr, Glenny 
25 705 as ogg the secund year a 
MANURE. 
Pe CHARCOAL, completely saturated with 
on erase, wil 
e found a most ce tive manure 
ca Manure 
er tôn, 
arcoal is a first-rate — 
Pane Shave tried it on Pret — — Dahlias, Roses, a 
ants; we put half a pint to each Rose — Dahlia, 
wowed — row with Beans, ‘ih put a few pinch 
e. The effect is 13 very — but it |; way muc 
s the first.“ — The 80 
s to each 
“This form ot churn is t 
| 
k’s Am 
25 7 RS 
numerous agricultural 
bas been shown, “The Royal A aral Joornal, p. 415 says, 
he best for churning s 
produce butte 
time —— 
GATE. 
T TMPROVENENT OF oer 
ST ANNUAL aca EXHIBITION 
D 
Mu t be mad 
= and particulars, apply to Mr. Fisuzn, Bell- 
— 
N’S PARKES'S So ante STEEL 
DT 
weet cream, and 
— — milk or cream, in any 
any churn that has yet been 
Mr. 
and an 
r | experie 
uhinery, h 
bet farm 2 amps, a cata — 
Basrss and Ker, 103, R logue se 3 9 mei 
. eet, London, agents for 
FOR THE 
e on or before the 15th January. 
fin ott 
aor aid at 45°, 
ject lately 
a: ; at 
The Agricultural Gazette, 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1852. 
—Agricultural Imp. Society of Treiand. 
Ireland. 
Agricultural Imp. Society of 
— 
Bees herh with a 8 of 
= to furnis 
the fact that the ribbed surface of — 
land is a maximum, when the furro 
nected wi 
+ 
: ae — ety, 
* matters connected 
with the det = d 
A the Scottish 9 oo ail of mere 
uch mo 
e to pronounce 
or 45° as 
< Mace slice 
his aer ia utting the 
ee 
deserve to be generally known. The experiments 
were instituted on the Home Farm, at Thirlstane 
Cas he following are the res ults.— 
rative weight of grain — straw on two 
Brits eee and on two er on each side | as 
of these which were deep ploughe 
Weight | Weight Weight | Grain 
Extent of Corn of of per 
of Land.] and Grain. Straw, | acre. 
Straw. 
rds, pls. sts, Ibs. sts. Ibs. sts. Ibs. 
2 Ridges ploughed 10 — etw 
with 3 horses 2 14 335 10 108 1257 9 | 60} 
2 — e ploughed Š 
14 |332 2103 0 230 257 
2 Ridges 1 d 
with 3 horses, | 2 14 372 6/109 6 (263 ‘0 | 69} 
Average i of the four deep ploughed ae 
over the two ebb-ploughed, per acre :—26 sto 
straw, 43 bushels grain 
oughed wit 
have bee 
the depth of ploughing me be equivalent in some 
localities to the bringing up of entirely —— 
soils, as the seed- bed ‘of we ig thas 9 
r a mos 
material influe The 
excessive rains under swish English yra uae been 
thos 
may still have to — whither it P 10 ea pras 
Oats,” or fallow land for any crop whatever, to 
consider oe itt may not be well i 2455 by the 
of Mr. Hume, wd = arm, at 
Thitlstane Castle, and by pager es tt of the 
causes to which that pris: Selia is attributable 
Tue rearing and fattening of cattle is is ar 
manufacturing of the vegetable produce of the 
into — meat for our tables; and in obtai ining 
„this 
mpo 
first, to fatten the ox at oe its whole life, from 
the time it is calved u taken to the shambles ; 
and second to —— atalii it after it has € i 
stems ve 
and e adopted in 
various degrees of modi Ae e to the 
influence Which the diversity of breed, r 
climate, season, soil, and quality of produce 
the nutritive and "respi iratory functions of the 
animal economy. 
When the ox is fattened from the = it is 
calved, according to the former of these systems, it 
is same time that it is fattening. |} 
‘ate a is an peed of bone and muscle as well as 
of fat and the other noel of the 
—two sys 
the artificial syam of house-feeding on m 
But when the an has arri 
ing to the later system, th 
materials is 
being 
to supply 
the 117 al maintain it at 
fill ft roper temperature : and this last function which 
the ane parila a ArT to perform consumes a m arger 
a mathematical demon- | quantity 55 the first. The ratio of the nutritive 
tnamed point is indeed now =F ; 
nt of comparatively smal 
mor posed to che the 
which is 
the surface ex 
relating 
of too far from that of 
itted | by all to 
wer er, Its in connection wi daily 
e North . | contained 75 er cen 
Dr. Taourso 
no notice is 
The land ploughed with two horses was ploughed T 
5 of p 
80 to 90 per cent, of water, the urine voided 30 lbs., 
and the increase of weight of the aie 2 = daily, 
ing less than 4 per cent. of the : 
Such data would leave only 14 Ibs, of solid 
the Ani consumed by both functions, conse- 
UGLI ration y $ Ibs 
respiration 4} lbs. But butcher's meat, 2 
average of skin, bone, — &c., contains upw 
of 50 per cent. of w o that the increase of 
= daily would be 91 ibs. and — Now, 
as the 
s. and upw, mi À with the above 
aily consumption of — by a three-year- 
old x from the time 5 ve "EOR is less 
than above sta one year may 
probably have onl ‘consumed about one-half of the 
above amount. 
ractice, how 
ally — ss of the increase, and the quantities +4 
food consumed, is seldom if ever so uniform as 
would insi 
The gen — Wander of che other system is that 
of e feasting and starvin ng W with the change 
of seasons. When grazing dur summer an 
nerease in the weight of both eas R m fat is 
gained, while in straw-yards or less fav — 
situations during winter the gain su — 
generally speaking, nearly if not e lost; but 
etween the oe = remes of this system there isa 
amples. The case of ‘the stunte 
turned out to Grass in 
sprin, 
Under this system it is Seldom that the three- 
n 
year-ol acqui ficient to carry 
100 stones carcase weight—on a two must 
be added number; an 3 even this age 
there is thes a loss, by this sys tem, of m 
the food consumed ties the process of f fattening 
The raw materials in this case, 
am often very differently situated from those. ot the 
e is yet ‘a wide 
tract of the British soil in a semi-n and wild 
he rds and flocks dai 
Se ocess is slow 
while the manufactured article, — ot 
a 1 of 
h 1 
he 
te pn peculiar feature in the 
also the 3 of 
which 
affect the quality and value of the manufactured 
article. h the chemical and ee. cal world 
different ae require different agents, machinery, 
and a 
poms Cuk to their various 
in 1 * manufactu 
destina — 80 
N of the vegetable. ger be 0 the soil into bu 
meat, for ted herself to her 
raw On exigencies b givi ing to cattle those constitutional 
h the different breeds weg. it 
= whole produce of 
uman fa 
mily, a 
i i E which Sai otherwise, pu? re been o! 
for although t 
acture the i 
districts into sa i beef or — ; 
other 
for turning the produce of both localities to the 
2 . a here * ht oie 
The grand gr g 
the soil itself. et l. is a ‘al eg? 
and other districts, lying in a natural siate, 
ucing under N ostering 3 of rig — 
what the most econ to adopt wi 
their improved productions ? 
NEW MODE OF PREPARING FLAX FIBRE. 
