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AGRICULTURAL 
GAZETTE. 
[Serr. 16, 
for damage ; but fortunately it is not all ape work. 
1 have stated previously that I covered a par 
division with guano a fortnight after the en of 
: piat: 
s 
2 
Bs 
obtained by the use of it; 
tions of the birds, the porti 
divi 
ng others 
try the same experiments.— T. G., Clitheroe. 
15 pl z gi spoont of the next harvest: 
that a short summary of 
not be out o 
h d 
not only rarai poor, bet foul and exhausted by long 
` cropping. the season was very wet, it was indif- 
ma aid, and lers of it it eee with a 
post a eight sil m - ashes, and then the field was 
ith Whea o of the zo ain ing three-fourths 
t 
the rem 
Fling. were the 
Bushels of 60 lbs, 
That singe" with guano produced. 27 per acre, 
nitrate of soda 7 ss 
„ night-soil and ashes „ 
ek the 
= 
= 
esi — 
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3 ” 
eld had been cleared of the: erop i ahi was 
the sea as 
sown wit vith 
Wheat in October, 1842, without any manure, except 
over it when the 
as divided into 
mpoun m a man 
No. na r 60 lbs. = silicate of soda, 2 
soda to the acre: and with 1 — view of still 
farther are the oe ating a part of each portion 
was sown with guano a wae after the A epee e 
the chemical manures. rop pro 
wg good one, but it was iak er — ea bir * 1b 
8 of lime (or 3 
was nearly 
of lime fe 7 tons to 
last 
d as the summer was wet it suffered also much from 
joa 3 dk the destruction occasioned by the 
birds, the ero imated at— 
D as pushes in pe No. 1 
413 age 
And infthat part of No. 3 wh vered 
with guano, it ed, b 
y actual weight Gat fe. esti- 
Ibs. ti Those 
taine 
sea (about 30 miles), $. 8 soi 
gales of a generally Brins 
o high 
r g to 
dee ee of the e ee to 5 “affect, the 
rod 
bee 
: ones left without anything ex 
that: t 
there ot more than six ane 
cold fae ungenial each Meye 
affect both the quantity i “he ‘quality of the crop, 
the 1 ae being o 
at 
follo 
1 but no She: the yield was S 49% bushels of 60 
ya 8 524 
oe aa 
of b when me own ause, 
T cwt, nitrate of soda 
wt. impure sulphate of f magnesia « 
1 ping silicate of r oda 
Z ewt. common s 
Mixing and N it, say 
tal per statute 
Speculating oy the probability o 
tity of manure ; 
4 
of a dr ry s e 1 
1 think that 
e, the 
e ee we ha 
— —— and I thought that, where salt was ned along 
w ay as 
uxuriant than a 
n 5 
d on whic 
lf of it 
it w 
oe at des scertain the value of the ‘chemical 
ano, half of 5 patch was sown with 
in April, after the ae 1 of 
mall patch 
aA citiaition 
ve as a une pe ron both with the 
a på TOT 
men 841-42, 
sg 0 as 
wishou 
* 
of the ‘field 2. the exper 
ng vee the geo alt i portion yielded oniy i93 "bushels 
acre. e exp riment 
This part of the th 
0 frustrated by the carelessness of the men whe re 
the Whe 
) was a very good one throughout the field, 
was appl lied alone. It 
where more lime had been 
apy e avourabie until 
pes Wheat was going 0 ~ 
he crop en own the rain, i in some 
places so so thoroughly — it nec rose again; 
it was reaped (the lat August) 
rm da 
ubt e 
only jus 
pai ing out the pets Ti 5 Awe result kii be a 
e the guano and c cal man were 
s pe pplied, i 
2 bushels, and wie ere six times the nt 
he acre) it was 493 bushels. 
8 it was ascertained, but do no 
for the Wheat plant on this head- 
eo as the other, tone it w 
unkno 
2 — 
ive this 
Son it conclusive, 
=a quite 
analy y blighted, an irregular patch, 
yard in width, and extending A mim from 
the headland, becoming brow wn 
at ` | Guano alone 
led part. n 
a over the ane: of a hill, * upon that ridge the soil is 
n that it was deemed 
9 acre 
2 eaa uniform with i 
rmly covered 
er 
er part. 
hand- poin 
ort to the extent of oe 
Birdie of lime, and the proper sien 515 magnesia Wà 
it, a 
the view of making these results a litttle clearer to the 
eye, I subjoin oa following be statement of the 
pro differe of the 
oduce per acre, in the nt parts o field. 
sues of 60 3 ~~ statute acre, 
| to gn 
m 
e there was 
wa: 
ushels ; where guano alone was applied it was a 
ent out 
W. 
and pa arched, as if 
nese of magnesia, as in experiment 
ut still more when: 2 it wi it z 2 a 
soda xh as in = = : 
firm, 
co 
common sali; aa gypsum 
5 - uch as 
om 
ts go meme 0 ae deny, pi 
rust 
aw w Lieht s le 
tion of quic klime i in libe is — 
the 3 3 p then I considered it very im 
e proper quantity to be kL e, “The 
3 e required to 3 — th the phos 1 of iron 
t gre and a ing Li ebig 
pion ey in berating potash to 
that an of l would 3 ntly impoverish 
the and ; for, , supposing se > hire. required 100 lbs, 
of pot much lim applied as liberated 
0 lin, fe a aaa of the 4 oe which did not 
enter into the cb gem of the Was not 
ortion of pia 400 lbs. 
es 
nently impoverished by the excessive use of lime, it 
at tead 
that they should take care to appl yn 
most Bap needed 
on is prevalent that the more 
me RA it is for the = sony where it is common 
apply 10 or 12 tons to the 
55 have . et that eab cal manure was applied 
o a small ippa of the field after the settiug in of the 
drought i 7 The action of this ure showed 
that a dar thin 
P 
perimental field, but in severa the 
chemical manure was sown after the setting in of 
8 8 
E 
E 
field was sown ig Ait it was thought 
with the African, and 
applied, 
lës., the Afri rican 2 p ewt.) 5 70 pa 
plication of the African gen an 
Wheat w in alg objection 
Roney does to the chemical 
drought h namely 
. emical panre A 2 re t was just 
uano and manure, ait 
“and lam p cwt. of lime to the acre, but =. n sore „ set in, 
no and manure, but no lime 49 af ae aH to dis- 
African guano, manure, and lime 45 | that the not sufficient moisture m he e 
Peruvian guano, manure, and lim 523 lve i ghly, j 
5 guano, chemical 8 and three times as to benefit by it, and therefore ie failure woul co | 
Peruvian guano, ical! dsi ch roof of the value of the African h with 11 
lim: 4 „which was the t of the e maki 
Kierat crop throughout the field 50 | is true no bad effects followed the application, chemical 
It may be as w e, that the total ex = ay by the misapplication of i 
of manure, and of e d that portion of th ary er. Yet, if soluble salts, like t 
field which produced 62 bushels per (including the ater, aid oct sufficient moi in the ga 
guan: tbe additional quantity of lime used) was n appli ied in ‘Aol, there is reason to suppose 
the rate of 8ls. per stat acre. ucting the cost th e would not do so when app 1 89 
S| of the nitrate of soda, the utility of which, under the I regret the failure of the experiment without pnd 
circumstances, I am inclined to doubt, it Sold have | manure, a ink the result would have shown erished . 
deen 63s, factorily that the land is so far from being impov every 7 
I goodies these to be very favourable results, an as | by sys of cropping, t = 
| offerin inducements to continue the experiment. | year. I think, however, that this is shown by 4 
have pt Sys had the land plouughed up and duce of the manured with 
cleaned of sowed wi at on the 9th | first year’s experiment the produce from g 
inst. 1 detailed the general results of the experi- was 27 bushels per acre, and 150 
ment, I beg to Ae * ee e wing remarks upon some were very . in quality. 
ints in it, whi 3 me to require a little from guano alone is 424 bushels; sodas 
I consider 1 of this experime w nor so good as nthe sh 
a great measure pam to the use of soluble lands, they are very much 
3 ag we, 4 Siege 4 in 1842. It will be observed K 
1 rst crop showed | unsubsoi i 
iserable results, the grain being ill-fed E poor, ave gag it, “people won val 
4 N raw soft and discoloured, although the year | there was no advantage i in § 
was in this district very favourab heat, | opi i 
‘manure = the follow- | the month of August being singularly warm and fine 9 oo. oe 
iia Paes : 5 van 
oe n aes arene 5 nitrate of soda with 5 wa 
