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the Society, had been deemed by honest est and | 
— Ty — with unfeigned gratification 
the h. we is they had con- 
2 75 ; it would be 
thejinteres e Society, e promotion |» 
jects, whieh | Ae} wae d bad bitt Een marked h 
astan ordinary member, or as one of its — aan 
Local BANK ERS. — Messrs, Swann, Crouch, & Co 
> oma s a letter to the Council, tccepting| 
the re kers of the Sue 
during th e period c H the York meeting. 
Swen 
Jart 
Nygard; near Söderköpi ng, in Sweden, in 
eA through Mr. 3 * ‘og edish Consul i in 
his 
tion member of 
to the Council the satisfaction it 
ous endeavour — al its — with the same ace 
the land in a we 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
Pe Ee — — E ä ' . . j. ROD 
— — — ee which ho applied artificial Gianures to his mon 
re mode in which he applied artificial manures to his 
time of 5 
Mr. Lawes uce the 
ts in the growth of f the pant and he had 
e that the soluble was not 
ee supposed, by th rains occur- 
ing 0 ing aah lon 
but that the manure so epusited along with 
e veed gg te materi i i 
n during t ett 
heat soil resting ona chal 
Mr. Lawes’s land rested o 
pro 
have been foun 
ky evn e that had 
wet elay, h tho ought it 
d less 
pon such 
beg statement of the mo which the Wheat 
n the 
t be 
Conneil ordered ribet best thanks to be returned for 
this obliging o 
Wueat. ie. a member of the Society, re 
siding Rotham r Park in arten e and r 
of two highly interesting papers 
icult berr chemistry, 
r urpose 
of explaining to 
had obtained, patty of submitting to their inspection the 
specimens of Wheat produced case, as well as | d 
an anal l cama of their chemical differences. 
from which all these sa map were * 
ta was the old red W. 
four Lawes d, that in Ae iat one 
previously ex by th corn | was the ee appro roach to an ralian season, his 
crops without mauure ; it was sown in 1844, 1845, Australian t had one p t.—Sir John | v 
1846, 1847, the same space of groun ing left each | Johnstone favoured the Council with a statement of ex- 
without manure, while upon the rest of the field | peri w uenig a fair g 
experiments with cial manures from 20 to 40 in soil, which came into his hands in a foul and exhausted 
number were tried. Tne conclu-ions Mr. 3 drew | state, in reference ue of Liebig’s patent 
these experiments were, that while t eage | mi N sapen : that manure was found pro 
produce was increased by means of artificial manures | duce the smallest results in comparison with the 
to the double of ey obtained from the unmanured 92 — artificial manures he tried along with 
ity of the corn, or weight per U i A i, as he tabular statement given in 
and the ap. aal of the grain to aan n ere the las mg t of = ie Proceedings of th Yorkshire | a 
very much the both in the spaces w ich had Agricnltural Societ Nesbit conceived that both 
ious arti ican: and that which had none, | organic an pani manures must be employed in 
Great differences in the quality of the corn aud in ee M either alone would eventually 8 
the proportion of st ere, s yi fre in | the weed favoured arol gry i ith the 
the uce ich h ed to prt ot his. experienco on Nes grow t.— 
variations in climate during the E pre nee In 1844, 
when there was the fewest days tween 
bs, of 
space 797 Ibs., on * highly wepu space 
and the average of 56 as 770 lbs. lol 
rnal on ex- during th 
oe for a year, then another e 
a 
ay and |i 
8 
south of Italy yt ais manufacture of 
naged. He stated that vase best mac- 
ar made between Naples and Salern 
known 8 aby then ella Ši 
Maccaroni 
t was made from Whea of t d the 
sun during the day, and to the dews of the evening and 
the early morning, for a Spynos or three weeks ; 
until, 7 these means, it had 
was also Aa ice 
Aus- 
was 
w, an ü 
n the 2o “ep ool 
valuable inv 
rought forward facts calculated 
e agriculturist in all nable hopes o 
mprovement, but at the. Gis time 
illusory no 
pendeut of 
correct an 
1 e l 
e could 
e and elimate. Mr. Way 9 to 
— which appe to a 
of Mr. Lawes’ experim 
8 rtion of corn to straw was 590 lbs., 569 
and “=. Mr. 
the | 
etermined by 
, 1846, gave the greatest 
year, 18 45, the smaliest oan per a ia 
In 1846 the bushel of the unmanured 
Boe 
bushel 
hottest year 
ariations in 
heat manure, 
eet gave 1.81 per cent. 1 nitrogen; when 
Lara: 
were .69 per cent. A 
sampio or V Wheat, 
pyran 
ht necessary to 
far from Mr. we — 
yoy 
referred to the inion neral! also 
the z 1 4 
only 1 
grown in Australia, of remarkably | Marl 
3 ea of nitrogen. | 
grown on th 
e res 
entirely subversive of the princi les of } 
8 Ga. mineral m er 5 dg im ving 75 the 
of thei 
bo 
— Mr. Lawes s 
experiments when the ee ot 9 —— 
longer epa of prod 
matters | 
e crops, as, therefore, 
he . to deny the 
im of a correct know! es 
on somone p By, aimera plants. Mr. Wa 
sv made so upon the failure of bone, 5 
der th 
carried off by 
interest and i 
a at an he judged so 
singe riage 
he 
This might be 
the Wee 8 rectified by y alight ja 
rocess 
wing af urnips, furnished 
him 232 Mr. Eliot. a a i in ariel, by whoa orian a vb- 
and was informed that they were all drilled in | 
th 
eriod of its fs ars in the | autumn 
d 
ally in affording support to the | fi 
inter seasou.— Mr. Benn 
es that his land was a | H 
bable, f 8 his own Steg HERO cats ‘there would | sown 
corn 
et season ge baa 1 Challoner bei gave an | had nev 
pe 
ome yy hard and 
f. 
the 
to 8 the j 
its was no 
ee i 
hed to | in 
[APR ls, 
having begun 
2 -sown Woes 
roved to be dai mite 
bushels, 
per acre as git 
bushels of seed p 
at the same time, 40 bushels ote 
to his serge 
vizes mar 
autumn 
greatest advantage would be 
tor r subject le ight 
ere the autum heats were scarcel 
Wheat, to — Mr. Hal Gab ey 
the attention of the Council, was estimated 1 
= 
wth ari 
held = — Borie ey from seed furnish 
the 3 25 
ery pe 
ne of ere nid 2 Ben 
trans 
eared, from 
own exper 1 thie it woud wos be 
- | fou seas a ee ty of an 
any value. 
* lone, of Belfast, called the attentions! 
wie Council to ant ne 
utching Fla intended to exit ha 
objec y his new process 
1 at raw Flax id be rendered fit tor te 
market, or for the mill or hand process, in due. ff d 
the usual time.— Ihle Co ue directed Mr. Robiuson's 
letter to be antago = the stew DES of the implement 
yard at the York mecting. 
—_ 3 ACHIN ele a of pees Us, 
unde er 
he 9 
tile-kiln, enii by h 
borough ee ot the Yorkshure ‘Agricul 
for the Earl of Tyreonnel's Pr ize 0 ahit 75 the bes 
plan of — on that occasiou.—Thanks were ere orden 
to Mr. C ock for this communication. 
PLouGHS 
meeting in explaining the opera 
team-draught tur ploughs, winch 
88 had furtuer to great Í 
od argen iu = 
without ee 
a 
oe of horses 8 n a turning a 
Cod 
E dpt, —Mr. FisnEn Honns thought the 
‘practical 
tan 
common rights in the — 
that manner about be inflicted uh 
that it Was only after pihy most 
sheep, and 
cee earlier sown was 
and the later sown on 
