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SEAP a» DURABLE ROOFING, | cay ity : pour on more water till it will no longer 
tions can be roofed at less than > y 
Houses of a cosi, by ordi the remain in the heap: and then slowly pour. about 
et ONT A SPHALTED ROOFING FELT, |9 cut. of acid over the heap. Turf-ashes (about | 
1 Fxxr for lining . alls under viously laid around the edge of the heap. When 
aho also g of lead. Samples, directions, and all necessary the heat has somewhat e ee. 
in in sent free, on PWW together again into a con heap, cover it with 
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Tratman, Brothers, Manchester—James Hurst, 14, the ashes, and leave it oe a ews weeks: the whole 
Bristol— ing. igh-stree 
diele Edward Jobling Neweastle-on-Tyne— Richard may then be mixed with the dry sabia, and will be 
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TCHIE anp SONS, Barra 300 bushels) may with advantage have been pre- bee 
where, as our correspondence inclines us to believe, 
the important conan phosphorus, will be much 
wise accessible to the des then’ it has hitherto 
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pall—Thomas Flint. ON THE MA STAU YiELD OF WHEAT. 
er — Bow- Sod Besar * eee 8 for drilling. It will suffice for from 10 to Tux ee on the growt wth and produce of Wheat 
-i „ and Whitebaten a 3 and 5 which appeared of late in your Gazette by Mr. La 
Newington Butts grote r. e a less quantity is pe 5 the following | and a ih i 1 who signs himself “ S., 
caps, Hone Seedsmen, 6, Lead — method reco mmended by by Mr. Spooner will be fou nal of th most sensible your readers have ever 
oe HYDRAULIC ENGINES i i a perfectly satisfactory. He i iy that the acid read; the calculations o produce of 0 
LEGG . to return thanks to 18 patrons and | added should be one-third the weight of the bones, | Wheat are so frequently erroneous and v 
' lic E „Water Ram, &c., suitable for | and that four ee its weight of water should first be | gant. The natives of Jersey, am gst whom Colonel Le 
tis improved 1 15 ait com be — ied t also F rra for poured over the heap. Couteur may be numbered, boast of their eight and nine 
ai situations whe is friends that he has quarters per an island th ntain a 
Dep several whan . Hydraulic Machines, and “ A very convenient and cheap vessel for manufac- single farm of 100 acres ; the largest is about 70 acres 
ies hin . a b A . — ction of te hither eee 0 ene the mixture is a sugar bee oer having its holes | an the majority are under 30 a d four or five 
br nham 
— Joun Leca, Chelte: 
stopped with plaster of Paris, It is very desirable to 
avoid if possible any measuring or weighing of the acid, 
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during the last year, and it is very difficult to impres 
TURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1848, farm servan ts with a sufficient degree of caution, or Anni 
R THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS even to con a liquid which appears so 
Wapwaspay, ph . colourless will burn their skin and clothes. In empty- 
Tavespat, —  2—Agricultural Imp. Soc. of ireland. ing a earboy of acid even into a tub it is difficult to pre- 
oo ea Tons Bane ini. vent a little slopping about and damaging the clothes of 
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unis (s. 2 La 6 wan Newcastle, Durham, the N as W as the basket, &e., which eng 
1 e carboy. t these unpleasant consequen 
“In answer to inquiries on THE Man UFACTURE OF have adopted the following P lan :—The car Oy is phase 
SureRPHOSPHATE oF Lime, we give the following on 1 ge or cask the ik we height = a 24 a hogs 
ts:—The main object of adding sulphuric head, into which i is put the rea quantity of bone- 5 
ch the phosphoric acid from | We intend mixing with the ca Bs i wate 
eee is now added with a watering pot ing a rose at the 
mt end, so as to disperse it e “kid the carboy of 
acid is then emptied by means of a syphon, This 
however, of the a sulphuric acid does not act | be bent into a y form, about three-quarters of an inc 
5 in fact, before any of it can be avail- = calibre and 4 feet in length. A brass 1 is soldered 
able for this purpose, the more pressing demands | to the long end of the e syphon, on which the rose of a 
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have to be met which are made upon it by the less watering (ot may be placed. The ch is now fiiled 
acres of Wheat is as much as many 2 ja ese plots con- 
tain ; 1 bring these crops i i i 
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2 sacks, or 40 to 48 bushels per acre. In 1845 the 
yield was 16 baaga per acre or 64 bushels, an 0 
N crop ; the season was a wet one. Farm adjoin- 
ing the 5 eee bY tenants, do not yield 2 this 
time on an average more than 32 to 38 bush per 
to 5 end so wok on severe wea 23 or heavy 
dust. Carbonate of lime is present, and lime, com- 8 th h Kere 5 8 rains ional it does on the condition of the 
bined thus, is freer than as phosphate. The porti then quickly inserted into the — 5 1 of the oy, the | jand e crop in. If the land is dry, or too 
present in bones as carbonate is oft ck turned on, and the acid will continue to fl ll ose, the crop rarely turns out well at harvest; if the 
| cent, of their w eight—a quantit the el is nearly empty, without any „0 land has been ploughed too often, or the seed-furrow 
. . welig Ea uy Tequiring’| that the attendant has 10 expose himself to | not of a good depth, I am here . 5 aking of * not 
1 5 A San | the injurious and offensive fumes which almost di- | of sandy or chalk soils, which are the easies 
) , for its 5 so that this—a large | ately begin to escape. He may, however, approach the | put unfortunately the soonest os t up du 5 — i long 
: 1 0 waste, we may almost say, in windward side of the tub, and give the mixture a little droug But when the land is close and moist, and 
3 t of 15 process. The proportion of — 8 which should ts continued for some little time | the d-furrow turns up stiff and tenacious, such is the 
of mee present in bones varies from 50 | afterwards, so that the mixture may be com ee A 
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sa a : 
. nearly full. In two days afterwards the mixture may | consolidated endered more tenacio he middle 
phoric on 105 form superp osphate of lime: it be shovelled into a heap, and either remain till wanted | of October ppears tous to be the best season for finis 
aT of lime, and 163 Ibs. of phosphoric | o in portion of ashes. It ing the operation of bdr sowing „ upon strong 
of 0 effect this decomposition such a quantity | should be shovelled over several times and ashes added and cold soils—and Wheats got in at this season, and 
Abe ofli acid must be added as will saturate the at each time of turning, whi thus render the mix- | the soil in the condition 3 deseribed, almost inva- 
ok lime: rather more than 15] s. of sulphuric ture fi ine and dry enough to pass through an ordinary riably produce the best crops at harvest, e prefer 
hs equired tor this purpose . broadcast to drilling—the land bane. clean—and find, 
rr | te T rpose. 
above. ona ty to the “nearly 10 Ibs.” required] As to the modes of using this manure, probably 
oe. Ye, and we have 25 Ibs. of acid as the mini- the best is to strew it from a basket in the fu urrows 
; generally laid where the ridge system of Turnip 
4 main no, however, we have omitted | cultivation ing the h then to mix it — Seog = 
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kas while considering the phosphates We referred a few weeks ago t r. Puszy’s 
i ates of lime alone, one-fourth their | method of disintegrating bones. The details of it 
acid may appear sufficient, we quite agree | as he has given them are simply these. A cart-load 
- Spooner m recommending one-third as of bone-dust is to be well wetted, mixed with two 
Proportion for use where it is desired that | cart-loads of ashes, sand, or porous soil of any kind. 
possible quantity of superphosphate | Excepting the outside of the heap, where the heat 
ed. It is, however, often desired that | will be insufficient, the bones will in a few da ays 
2 many years’ experience, the n both of corn and 
of straw to average one - thir e chan by use of wa 
drill, gars of Markle, El l known 5 
common, having had a crop of we one of Oats, 
which was succeeded by Potatoes, and the crop of 
Wheat, which is that I speak of, was sown oe in 
the ordinary way, the soil dry friable hazel loam on ¢ clay 
2 I should think about 500 feet above the level of 
and about 10 miles from it, nearly on 
e phosphates present may be | have fermented so as entirely to n theirstrueture, 
nd i 
i eir groen l. for the plants | the e tu AAi See, TEE tw —the kind of W at, Talavera. The Potatoes had 
í wid ind their growth—so that $ con- naig b but a homogeneous mass or and and bone- aaa ~ pe f Wheat farm-yard dung ; lime had 
ion for ió er may be left in its natural con- dust will rem This is ready for drilling, and | bee = sae at By M but I have no note of the quantity. 
50 = n by the Dag acid of according to Mr. Pusey’ s experience 84 bushels thus | The extent was 7 a pr 60 b np 
eho 3 uent su in such | treated produce equal effects with 17 bushels not | acre, and on weight 66 Ibs per pt . 
l me Mees mantis To 25 | so treated ; while in another instance 124 bushels 8 e largest q a per acre, iad though 
ary pouri¢ acid may be more than is ~ m fermented bones exceeded y sarees . eight p per bushel ä a ever know 2 ee 
e 25 bushe's 2 their natural condition. It ist e treatment we 
plan adopted on the Fen Farm alluded 8 only fair to add, that we find from the pane > farm, » 3 boi ag 
ya ks ago the eportion between the acid | annual report of the Botley Farmers’ Club just pub- 
Pore very wisely chosen. | lished, that Mr. Spooner’s experiments with bones 
ft to be de 44 4 5700 veight of a bushel of bone. thus heated in sand have not yielded such favour- 
he 
ing is the method of on a stiff clay, hindering the access of air to the 
hels of bo 
er lowe. vitor till it begins to run off than the ordinary bon 
abros a a 8 of days: 1 5 We cannot conclude without referring once m 
300 lbs, ca sone used there last | able results. And we can easily believe that the | bee 
given up from the fact of its 
. 9 “a as grown in Cumberland, i having 
ne-dust in a particles it envelopes, it may fa very little better pone 
4 ie raised rim to Mr. PaIxx's discovery of phosphates at Far- 
~ dead ed hn. ‘shaped bam, I ir should load o siniflar discoveties 68 
summit ofa hill, and cares no land 80 high as itself 
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