THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
1848 — Examined the two kinds of Wheat after 
inion that the 
— a an of an are 
| and thoug 
land were 
ih Weight of the —— — 
one ridge of each kind: 
ar and Tht T- 
mà 
. seeding h= 
jed—threshed, yare sete = p. 
stones. stones. 
a e ni 
* 
t 
2 
—— — 
s 
boll. a 
peracre 4 
kabel, 58 ibs, 
ehe gave 
1 — tee ** 
per acre 
ed- 5 
i „ 1 w. fe bush, The boll i is 6 bush. 
by this ze sketch that the whole 
2 a T corn ter on the thin 
weed portion than on the thick, while the Wheat is not 
quantity but better in quality upon the 
ee yan At the s 
poate must be -e into ace 
yn, the price of seed when 7 5 Wheat was sown 
le less than 8s. or 108. per , therefore 
i — 
b heat been sja either as fallow 
Thai, even in the spring, that i 
= „ the season when was 80 
forit, Excuse this letter; but as you 
icularly on such a subject as 
ht that I might trouble you, od should = 
e you m materials 
„G. W. Hay, Whiterigg, Melrose.” 
Correspondenc 
Mr, 5 ~ad — article y 
which appeared in a late Number 
i a 
partial m and i rrect inferences, 
d ated most materially to mislead the 
y slea 
b Ser publie, I cannot: permit the same to pass 
Tu dene. rofesso Bees by co 
which appears to 
Some papers of Mr. Lawes; 
oil no 
Ke. Now, admitting the 
or Way, it follows 
1 
over a geld, no fertilisng 
a lapse of a series . id ears, 
a substan 
Jour readers — defe to point 
which he ben adapted, br 
o* discussing the question 
r col r else 
boll. bsh. cap. d 
4 3 3 a 
ene the seed saved | so far 
them to the well-known experiments 
m 
e 
would have been 
fa uncalled for and invidious, — if inso doin 
k occasion to advert to one o 
by his opponent, it was e with the vi 
is unfitness, whether fro 
the 
a 
wing 
ignorance ans partialis fi 
office of a critic in these matters than as 1 many 
ni Mr. Lax »The question of alkaline manutin 
mbrace . other considerations than thos — 
— — in the remarks of «T, L. 
Rowlandson and until the ofice fulfilled by tt alkalies 
e nutrition is fully understood (a s 
of i we ma 
Rania to 
ireeted to the separation 
of the entire 2 of alkaline e en Sa present, but 
as such . de obtained, have been 
ing the pee of Natur 
—the solution of the different ee pe effected 
by means of dilute acids are 
ee Ra in Solvent power to ‘the natural agenci es, 
by Mr. — on this point, I would simply refer 
of Wiegm 
Polstorf, which ‘are in my mind 
hemists 2 white sand to ~ action of a boiling 
ur rochloric and nitric aci viag 
tion of tural wien een solvent 
carbonic acid water), i were ble of effecting decompo- 
sitions which in a — period of time tlie — 
mineral acids are unable to bring about. 
also. 
ee 
pyse 
8 
1747 l in Swedish. 
t of St. nen „of which — has 
it may be to determine wit oe oe am — of 
a vaiha para food in any soil, we e justified 3 in 
believing that a judie method of ‘analysis = 
res ults res rather fall short S than exceed thos 
int action “of wate 
s Way, 23, Holles-street, 
a time when a dise: 
n u 5 
= i est À ay ha me intere: 
At any rate it is short, and will occupy very little room. 
“Some time ago the sheep ad an eruption upon | w 
the body, which the people called small-pox, but a 
person who had given his sheep Cardebenedict (Cnicus 
benedict e w „ had completely preserved 
mere from such a per, although they been 
piss in the same pasture with others which were 
I ; natural 
f the argument used 
n as useless, | the 
certainly not | the 
ann and 
ese | tha 
ces, 
are the Saes of the dis- 
When? The date i is 
discovered it 2 
covery? Where irar it ma 
stem or ear of 
at p. 757 of our mt for 1846, 
looks like — 5 but it is undoubtedly possible that an 
error ma gg amo it] 
make the 
of Swede 3 n is to say from 35 Ibs. 
twice a day, extra a on Sunday, there 
viz., tbat of d Lin and mixing it 
cut chaff and Barley flour, but oe found much 
d fealty in getti ts to eat the cooked food 
without yee Turnips (as the, been previously @ating 
Turnips alone), I mix a proper proportion of 
with 1 cooked food at each time of feeding, — of 
giving it as directed, Turnips and the mixture nig 
5 1 conclude t this slight alteration can make 
context where this — place, but — i in the island 
n speaking i in the pre- 
ceding se ly ri iii est 
as C. —— is — a —— there, and the sheep 
— eme used in winter of Sweden. 
do n 
Babington, St John's — Cum 
rt 4 my Wheat —I ; that — 3 
ts did not — w of m 
m 
correctness of any of the stories we have 
origin — nye Wheat. The only ni stated is e 
that old Wheats when so e never a 
beer as new, and — very old Wheat might 85 
cidenta u px all. That r nly in- 
ci 
samples 5 ctl 
B rte’ s expedi- 
a cay a body, he acco te hin re- 
He told me that imm 
m the ma 
| proximity 
4 two 
d from ur 
Ad by him at Egy ptian Thebes, when, as the eet of 
a aterial di Jie. e 
ders may be 7 to 
swers better for boiling Linseed 
th followi extract. 
e pn the w 
some of them a with the promise 
about two millions and a balf — 
—.— to the neal masses sof the destitute * 
ese four some at ers 
2 half prono uni mpro abla, 
Speaking of bene for profi i it is s donbtfal if there 
be any land in elima 
s | reclaimed 
selves under a promise 
uch men 
lation. 3 
satisfy the curious, threa 
