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z SELLING WHEAT ae WEIGHT. 
rtant meeting of gentlemen connected w 
agriculture took placeat Liskeard, on the 14th ult., totake | 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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ifficult to persuade to alter old customs. If such an 
ith | anomaly existed in any other branch ig indu. mith there 
wou Id d be meeti ings poh bar every town in the kingdom, 
o for 
and not by weight. — no pics 3 of the 
— 
intended meeting w. leadin 
— 
5 
ur 
the 8 is to ieee 623 Aa to the 
it as Now 
gentlemen, tha t * rages taken of British 
corn in the 22 different towns in the 
we are so near the end — moe 
it is not now worth considering. t there is another 
the 
1. mean the re rent- charge in lieu at tithes. We all kno 
that we have a e emerged from 
have had for th 
a ete Nn vane “ight, 
fol} 
the 
grown in this is neighbourhood “iy 
om tyme bushel, — 
th part of a bus 
am not — you to do 
injus 
but what iv want ves 
to direct pen — a “little more 
ts, ~ once 
e purpose of making 
for Pesca it is hom 
to your aa teres 
nothing to Nn for 
weight, but sell the lawful Deak 
ade, 
Whe w. 
unfit on rg fi od, Se we have sustained 
of corn 
shoul 
be sold, and * i returns made, in order to keep the | othe 
seeing we 
the wetness of the u 
en are (properly) supplied as m 
e that t 
“averages in Now after seein 
— gre 16th of our heat by 
„and ded ‘16th 
‘hat no return i made of, I ask you whether you 
to add 16th more 
„and the ls, or selling the imperia 
urns are not properly made. 
2 125 Ibs. of 
the returns for the 
— — pa 
they buy i 
verages, as at present 
— ee ee, the ey farmer, the bulk of 
corn must t to market and sold within tw 
commen 
od, | that p 
* and return 
not tell you 
‘own | the soil 
e kingdom, regulate 
on foreign corn imported into this country. 
chapter, that 
averages ; 
worst harvest we 
o any man, 
resolve to add 
it 
th 
county is entirely 
prepared a the bushel for the 
Ae Lace of ue it weight, and oe the eae 
of graĩn in 
Wheat to 
I mean | ewt., or still chen 
of 
ee files serves, that er 
wo or 
CHuLeLeU 
ng 
ea 
ssed, meeting 
then pa 
7 Royal Gazette. 
HEAP MANURING.—No. III. 
8 Tr said in our last that the aea ingre- 
dients d — away in the air, 
gets on "ea 
separ 
2 
ugh fo 
ny yet to get up a SAA. crop, of 10 
ore than nature could produce, we rs Sas 
e carbon by the roo ots de, whie h is a m 89 
of dung dressing; the dung containing — 
— disso Ives in the sap th 
w 
Thus the “ineoinbialdéie Savas are only about onl 
twentieth of the plant whe en a dry (or one- eightieth wh en 
green and fresh) ; and 
which ma y be rendered a 
n 
will see what each crop carries off, and 
8 of supplying then, J. J. Prideaua, 
of the conli t 
thoroughly. rett n 60 h 1 85 by steeping i 5 
er was Maintained ata 01 
was desirable pa we 
e practicability of Stones the pio f ste 
d b 
into arra 
Bart., of New port, Mayo, and being associated with Mr, 
e of i Manchester, and other r parties, anesablsh. 
ment for working out the system was * ANS 
that wegn within the last few month 
„ 
N Uy called i ashes 
us slightly distributed a Wan, are commonly 
anic, This the farmer DHe to remember 
wh ganic manures, &., which he will 
ax w me in agricultural een and ad- 
7s, vert 
all The 8 or) organic elements then (carbon, } i 
all found in every 6 
oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen) are 
plant, * do not di — very 
e Te ic -are 
a 4 * in e 1 
Wh 
uch 5 
areful —— 4d has proved t 
lan v —— and m maturing 
e plants 
dierent p „proportions {ron 
t where the land is deficien 
eir 
ifferent 8 and d 
An 
constitute only mente of the 
dry, or 3 of the fresh 
-e this 
iali | ins th ae 
5 — is of v 
d why 3 of such light carriage and little 
cost should form the basis of Cheap Manuriiy. 
Of the 1 
ime is 
larger 9 ieren than the Rant 
— acid are both 
r more 0: a 
re f the acid, the additional . 
may — cheap, in soda a sh, at 12s. to 16s. per 
sulpha te of soda, at 6s., 
which supplies —— neid at the same time. 
sulphurie acid ma 
tive manure, in much 
consumes, d 
inorganic consti- 
(of which so 
are ‘Magnesia, I ewt. at 
is enou rr. for 3 or 2 acres 
10s, to 15s., 
„and 
three months after harvest in order — meet his phosphatie "acid, which are of the utmost importance, | hyd 
expenses. It often — in the spring of ‘the year, | required in larger quantity, and of not oe 
82 is fetching a better price, he has my: 2 price. Po tass, however, exi ists in all vegetable ma 
; and probably before another a pur- and anit wn 
-chaser ; livar to pay his tithes on the N 5 are therefore — in the dung — n Wen it is 
r anything he has realised. drain er soaked (when that is t , there 
Them grown last 20 is no — what it contains; its e r and 
3 bly any person that hears me, and I can | uality are lost). the direet supply of potass is in 
t fear of Gf etstendiction, that = never, | vegetable ashes, or weeds, hedge clippings, &e., 
„sold a single bus 
meat ; i mean T have never added to the 4 pecks to 
2 o But 
given weight, and have experienced n 
D, 
ted with earth and lime (not 
which e ve. tet the potass away). 
green crops carry off so much potass, that with 
h hitherto qui ected. 
[ems wil polyoma Ser cent of pot 
in fairness to | co — te the substanco and en of the ents they are | the 
t of what he bays should re el hilst the 
ul 
r | fermenta 
ee in common salt, W i 
s m 
| doors w 
ind | com posed 5 of railings of 
ur | tiers. The Flax is d l 
vy and the 
mpany from Sir Richard ( OT 
The tenements containing e vats and dryi 
are simple wooden 
d, de 
forated wit holes. 
the steam pipes, ¢ 
c nike ry their entrance, by 
ossing the vats, and ian a 
which the steam 
two eirge extractors, a patent apparatus 
—.— f 
on of — water with which the Flax 
g he vats. ` N 
stop- — Fe nd the wa 
becom —— heated to the required Point, 85° ‘er 
of 
rmity of watering, and the 
and colour, cannot be fully’ realised. wat tea ater abe 
60 hours, the Flax is taken reve? pos Sag 5 
machine at a 
the wate r; the F x now 
can be ac 
on Crate land, in the open at 
ever, it is necessary to fird ether 
shed he 1 been e 
h th 
