Be THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Maren 4 
f following new Membe ers wer pa 
ortance. kei hen well“ The e elec ted: 
— is my inter season, is of the first imp Penrice, Thomas, Kilvrough, Swansea, 
pay farmers better than any other orp, iba ta done, drainage forms t e basis of an imp culti White, John Mould, Wicht Derb i Glamorganshir 
aty, as well as my interest, to encourage its gr ** n by it the pred of tillage are diminished, Bragge, Colonel, Sadborough Park ak „Some 
and ee the Rev. Mr. Wilkins asserts it eee, „IIe n is adapted for an extended rotation cf cropping, + enone W a 1 arton-on-Humbep 
H ow RE ali „ H. B. Raß mond, Garden- 
— * w without * fM . aet some | the produce is improved both in tyand 8 — 6. P, Osgodby Hall, Selby, T London 
eee h I have now | health and comfort of the anim als on it are promoted, Jeggo, Thomas Hayley, Gosteld; 1 Essex. 
dozens of examples similar to that whic ies the | and the climate is ameliorated to man, whilst the returns | Parson, pid John, Haslemere, 
astam 322 ie ~ . he — that Flax | are so various and important, that the outlay vega be he nam aby = nine candidates Ee, — at the nert 
ae tation aa 3 I agmit that said to be comparatively nothing ; for it is an extraor- 1 were then rea 
pear area 
to 
has fallen this di he entire expenses may frequently be FIxaNcES.— The Chairman laid i 
Flax that would fetch 7s. 6d. to 7s. 9d. — ce ice eres she peat 40 the first crop that the | the A of the . Committee on the ace hd 
time last year, ean be had t . drained land produces. I have thought it necessary to the Society; from which it appeared, ‘that on 
stone in Ireland, because rig re 5 grain, for | qualify the drainage I have in view by the term deep, | day of the month of February just ended, the invested 
2 cll thie why of oe to talk of “ the half” meaning drains of-not less than four feet, because I capital of the Society stood at 8999“. stock 
eee — 29, Broad- street would not lead any one to expect the same effects from | current cash- balance in the hands of the b 
a ly re Tar as a pa shallower drains. Mr. Parkes, the engineer to the 2629. The Chairman explained that th 
duildings, 0 . : p 
his Y 8 _th z 
ee ight on the subject ; for although the namely: York subscription balance 80 l., arre 
: Cc orresponde ne ee — N by ferendo? the depth of eee 742/., 5 osition balance 4010, an nd available 
The Farnham Fossil Phosphate Bed. ~The h been che drains had previously been seen, still the scientific | balan e for cu w A rposes 506/,: 
nya oc ded so m 
e 
m ch l 
s i doing the work, of why vegetation is benefited by | the 742l, then reported as the amount ived 
of Lime in the chalk formation,” has cleared up io Fd 2 leah er 3 given. By Mr. P.'s account of subscriptions in arrear, be invested 28 
a 1 which I ce Were time Sisco te Senet | en e and Tesch we now know that drawing | purchase o of stock, and be thus added to the fund of 
without success. I had observed the | ee water by under drainage, raises the tempe- | vested capita al iink in the names of the trustees 
fertility of those $ ots “whe ee she ontoropping. uppe rature of the surface soil, and adapts it for an the 5 This report, with the recommendation i 
sod unites with the chalk marl, and which pro- earlier vegetation, and Liebig has proved to us that rain contained, was unanimously adopted by the Council, 
east (ad your correspondent remarks) “svory Feat dt ¢| carries with it the prineipal nutriment of all vegetation,| The Eber aan also reported to the Council the 
enous green.” The district in question * po 00% ©. and in its percolation leaves a store of food in the soil | mendations of the I ouse Committee in reference ty 
Ss goals ranga betesen Tetsworth i Beales 4 ae — d for future use. These experiments have shown to us, not periodical repairs required in the Soe alen 
Wantage 1 8 t 12 luasan kike 3 only that the soil is much earlier warmed in the s a Dg the terms of the le ety the custody of the great seal and 
pi * goann San mo Hep Be ne d er by being dry to the depth of 4 feet, but we | legal documents, and the means 1 for 
lattor, and at Easington near the former place e 9 — ce d the tA s fact that oe passage of up the arrangement of the library and the casera 
the su 3 ition that the virtue 1 ie n — ote every shower into, the piney carries warmth and nutri- the books: aih which recommendations were 
sand, in a rough way, portions of t vow ee e Auen previously that wet | was by the Coune 
a n tand, bist found , r a lig e pad the always cold and poor, and had its vegetation react ‘net x OF rÀ MPLEMENTS.— Colonel CuaLLoser Chaire 
berant fertility was due either ae condition of id be We ma A n the Trial of Implements Commit-ee, presented 
sak ws 
have shown to us that rain whieh | should be a power u Be ollowing— 
the soil produced the union of the 3 and monn f agent for rear and fe eding the soil, by the gy of EPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CONDITIONS FOR THE 
perp K. n os r rainage ro s the soil and es au aggravator of TRIAL or IMPEEMExTS.— The Committee havio ing had 
3 3 p t 1 Harte stab their consideration the report of the 
wabi i — — which cold produe Mr. as | under their e p l 
3 x dee, 400 prier likewise = beyond a Ward, th oe of stiff engineer hi Serey on hey part 5 a ei 
cause ¢ ' clays being drained; he has shown that when report which the Council, in December last, directed 
vice to the of sei united har rarae Ni these eile” are properly drained, they contract and | Committee to reconsider, find that the schedule of con 
s s Nr 1 y have given con- h or k implements and machinery driven by 
‘ po rous ind he may 88 d to have g winch or eran ple Aà y 
—— 01 * one 9 fe i Whore abs | tid ence, and extended the benefits from deep drainage steam or horse power, hab. with the suggestion of a few 
— is not — a by any rr deposit, the 1 a cla =e of soils having most occasion for 5 verbal alterations, recived a son of the 
1 * t in the texture, but which oong trana a the Society; and the Committee 
disease called ambrey or fingers and toes is very pre. Warmth and i pa ake ovemen ? ` 8 410 te 
valent among i i previously had b svap in hopeless ee of such | have ace cordingly resolved to recommend to Connel 
well k 3 tt wo sg i amendment. We also indebted to this 5 the paraa oť the tite ng conditions i” be inserted 
give up the ner of Turn n certain portions | or 3 whieh hks Jed to the mitika oduction | in the Implement Prize-Sheet, be pitter the Regulations 
n he tried the application of the scrapings of small pipes, thus effecting a considerable saving in at present standing as Nos. 18 and 19), kimi 
of. a turnpike is repaired with stones from the] the construction of drains. In a word, the scientific verbal amendments ee halve een male, 
i ; j discoveries and ex 9 of Mr. — 5 kes, combined | namely: 
coral rag, alois in fossils, and which, as he with the skill whi ieh h others have gained by experience “L That all implements turned by the winch or hand-crank 
acted as a charm, e attributed tò the lime ari WEN > * mas ie be nd the revolution 
which it * — examination it yielded not have effected important Gade in the exfeuse, and ‘uliowiog 3 ee oka deni aie Paaie ank. 
only a f carbonate, but a perceptible . — same —— 88 ended on Per pider 35 5 H ben i 
om — phate of lime, Nea rl the same 9 — 0 gainin t is muc 5 gregre tted t nt nis as in 6-ine „ 
＋ tae gre pplication of the serapings 0 other a bla ments to be made in the apt a of the | 2. — et ehe, sat by hors RE si tema 
al line weed bia ta repaired with a aal band, the want of consideration leads to very imperfect R nor exceed 21 miles per hour, or 193 feet pit 
ssa am e of the detritus, as waste. Of the very large expenditure 781 Alder aba under % ea 
3 4 aa 
— other strata, a contains portions of Jimestone, AO en sorte . it is 3 e ee 3. oe x — 5 Y trial with a. greater ron 
‘fossils, bones, teeth, Ke. These road scrapings are more | hs eing spen Principles. than. 4 Iha. por square i int e bei at mti 
pure lime, and would no dolibt be found | The truth is, that the Biealestation iid looks upon 8 it will be expected that aha ¢ N shali work 
to contain phosphate as well as carbonate of lime. Where | the DEn ave of professional men as an expense to ` „ $9 the pow 1 1 Vue a ae that the quantity of fad 
the stratum of iron sand is co with —— of this saved, leads, in the end, to a waste of mone y and a 5 “consume by pes pit will be stri 12 
gea vel, the „Tarni flourish, and are very healthy. At amount of eee far beyond conception. The — 
some of this gravel, as greater part of the draining now be = e ne is 5 
under i to 1 
pi 
Ie Ce Committee have om had under thain 7 
l d 
ti 
l ` own bes W ts at th untr dara of the Soci ely, 
po oes la merit was very perceptible. If these e has not extended beyond their ene: | the heat en at din duties S the J 
aimp come er the noti m- | at e vi 
the best system of distributiv ie! 
notice of th more an whos views go no further than to rid Jand of the ice Cb beg to s 8 o the Council the t 
p Arer than * am to pis À them to the test of chemical r in the q i manner. To those who have tion of the following ee e = 
» they may, perhaps, be found useful in the | draining to effect would address e sense, and 5 
localities to which they refer, by makin f shall » and amended as experience may 
y making th f 
man re which Nature provided available to the|ing to anyone) to sr jously obtain the best i 
rey hod the soil. —James Clutterbuck, | formation, carefull ery what Mr. Pa 
wri 
u Ir. rkes Ke ieee red by the Judges as 
Long Wittenkam, A tten, and also Mr, Mechi’s letters; an in- ns ean 5 of a friction break, 
ee 3 at Fars „ham. — I have read | tended arg eee ee ter reading these works, by y pendulum, to supp 5 
interest Mr. Paine's er upon the | personally to inspect draining now being dene under nt; : yw the utmost resis 
phosphates cf the lower Shalk formato. pure 2 am Jiving able direction, even if they thawed 200 kilis for that mnie den oe ger i : ine on trial may 
that fi believe that I shal 5 and not to plans of men wh II. That the Judges be direc 
find the substances 3 of in the strata of my own | knowledge has been gained only from the narrow limit engine, and report in their aw 
3 but owing to local variations in the | of their experience, id may be well | o ernors, are used in the steam engines 
— lopm of beds, I do not feel cert or ill: the expenditure will not secure the desire eee tor prizes, and also to asce tam 
subject. At any rate, the precisa forms in which | result, and 5/. or mes per acre may be mes — 34. | perature of the water in the boilers imme 
he has found the valuable substance do not exist here, Would have better answered, Mr. Mee pe 
us of p omme enc 
fain believe their correlatives do. There | hundreds lost for Ps os of better ; La ahead Lee e fires at the co 
er, tuo places in ect t where I have | could point out w many th W at this tim e are (40 1 b of each ae 
Meee : 35 wet — Peeks eas 3 “i ras aa a Leu itt Davis, 3, shall furnish M “the Society at the time 2758 ot 
ates. e, Old J y Jan, 18. : tudinal 21 d transverse sectio np lan ise * d also att 4 
nS. Loo. 2 8 
ROY — ee me SOCIETY or ENGLAND. | as well = the diameter of the eh li 
erf b 
THLY Councrt was held at the iety’s H 
à y's House | stroke of the piston, the numbe 
1 1 folt ver square on W ednesday last, t t, the Ist of March, | crank shaft (with its diameter, and 
ores Members of Council aud Governors were cast or wrought iron), the diameter 
Mr. Rarnoxp Barker Bert, Chair; i rd fig sted: the ee of the tie pine is 0 
1 Price, Mr. | the number of horse-power that the enen 0 gel 
B k ; Bramston, I. P.; Mr. rat, Mr. to work at, the 5 time it w aa 
an Burke; Colonel Challoner ; Mr. Bell Crompton ; Mr. ( 
af piia M. P.; Mr. Druce ee; Mr. Garrett ; Mr. | workin 
Pi Fisher Hobbe + ds; Mr. Gran tham ; Mr. Hillyard ; Mr. sume in getting 35 ‘the eam, 1 ri 
inet hee ob on Holland ; Mr. Hudson, of Castle- fuel for 
hour it is in ‘fall work, 
“bringing M. P.; asa one ir, inder; Mr. Miles, | bitor of 8 machine be re 
e soil London; ;M Si 8 Prof, Sewell $ Mr Shaw, of writing, at the time of entry— itd 
by the | of Burley ; i Me. Sohta; Me Slaney, M.P. ; Lee r. Smith, | power, the ee and length of t 
vater in the Prof. Way., ; „ Thomas Tur ner; and of revo utions it makes per minute, vets 
| wheel or pulley on ‘te drum spindle, 
