THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



-^MPROviFirYDiAULIC RAMS. 



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^TTtCUDAY, JANUARY 30, 1847. 



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The annexed is a plan of Farm Buildings 

 - ■: Mid-Lothian, about four miles from the 

 dty of Edinburgh. It has been selected and pre- 

 pared for publication, with the kind permission of 

 .-•.'lit occupier, because it forms a 

 wr satisfactory illustration of those general prin- 

 apla which, on a late occasion, we indicated as 



oh this farm to the purity of the seed sown, a n 

 gular demand exists for spring corn, and a granai 

 of great extent is thus a matter of importance i 

 which the farmer is enabled to store grain durir 

 the winter months, threshing it in order to use < 



>ided the itrchitccr, will he found to afford a S£ 

 :tory explanation and justification of the arran 



-ent of parts and development of each in 



subjoined plan. 



„_ The 

 >all extract from it may be relied on as true, and 

 ley are important as well as interesting. 

 The importation during the past vear has been 

 hardly one-third that of 1845, but the arrivals 

 ude an unusual proportion of first class guano. 

 ; stock at present on hand in the various ports of 

 kingdom is estimated as follows :— 







l - £J Jn »««rO f P I < J ,B,are , one 



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" It roav create s< 

 quantity than 37,000 t 

 the head of 'Ichaboe,' 

 lat this item includes .„ y 

 f Ichaboe guano. A considerable porti 



sists of the I are ample, and 



f the good quality they received ; but 

 to buy the ready-made mixture is only to encourage 

 a deception on themselves." 



Another important point considered in this cir- 



h the nominal stock of guano in the 



kingdom, as already stated, rather exceeds 150,000 



ft be borne in mind that not one-third of 



that quantity is good guano. There are also about 



55,000 tons Peruvian in course of arrival (more 



than one-fourth of which has already been sold 



afloat) after which, a long interval will elapse with- 



any imports of consequence. 



It is well known that the best guano islands on 



the coasts of Peru and Bolivia are the property of 



ernments ; who, acting in concert, assigned 



lusive rights for a period of five years, 



■m is about to expire. It is understood 



jrt extension of time has been granted by 



a government, which at least will afford 

 opportunity for negotiation, the issue of which may 

 be to place the trade on a new footing. As regards 

 Bolivian guano, the large proportion of hard sub- 

 stances and stones usually found intermixed with it, 

 has hitherto prevented sales of entire cargoes of 

 the lumps are ground and 

 , guano (if from the best 

 parts) is about equal to Peruvian, and generally of 

 a somewhat lighter colour. Bolivia, however, has 

 3ut a small extent of sea coast, and good guano 

 :here is far less abundant than in Peru ; but it is 



w. itiwuue fjuauo. a consiaeraDie portion 

 quantity is stored in Scotland, and consists 



t be supposed that the Peru- 



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to Tur n Ps on T \ n & reen crop 

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fc! Tur nips J, ; the Jatter i 

 & ex 4tin? l° n l Um ^ d °» the 



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nsuM- which was brought 

 Ichaboe, when that island w 

 years ago. Ichaboe Guano, 

 serves as a link between Pen 



" The consumption of guano during the past year 

 must have been at least 115"""' 

 larger proportion of Peruv 

 fore." The superior guano* 

 while those of inferior quality have been im 

 : »ale. This indicates the preva 

 of greater in tel o buyers 



they have generally received credit for. Another 

 Mr. Bourne alludes, does 

 not exhibit this intelligence so favourably. He 

 says "the plan of selling mixed guano is on the 

 increase, and as the tendency is to mislead the 

 farmer, it cannot be too much deprecated. Of course 

 illy of the cheaper 

 ■'' , as alleged, 



a small proportio: 



;ture, they would COW 

 buying the two kinds separately, and i 



vertheless, a fortunate thing 

 his success does not depend n 

 [ity of Peruvian guano beds. The 



produce of the land has no doubt | 



during r 



it years, in part, probably, from 

 of imported manures, but the 



we may safely assei 



the sources of our fertility by importation hundreds 



and thousands are lost— washed into the ocean— 



by our waste and neglect of native resources. And 



sre estimate of the ways and means of 



dture a loss shall have to be recorded 



in the discontinued importation of foreign manures, 



we may hope that, before then, sources doubly 



have been made available, and that 



ss shall have been much more than balanced 



advantages arising from the extended use of 



