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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



< ^rrr-T7^[cULTURAL COLLEGE, CIREN- 



"j#e agricultural ®aiette. 



SATUBDA Y, JEP TEM BER 18, 1847. 



nodern science h 



•oxygen 



■ 

 f Animal Heat 



iiishedus. We 



carbonic acid and 

 Chemistry teaches that no oxidation 

 is of oxygen with other bodies) c 

 wiin lit 'the evolution of heat. It 

 then that the oxidation oi carbon an 



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result. Just as in a fireplace the coal (a compound 

 ;• ic [ 1 \ nt i .ruon and hydrogen) is burnt ' 



v ?ame process more gradua 



foing on. The oxidation of die animal d 



Te.«slsin evoiy part of the body; the heat given 

 «t, therefore, is uniformly distributed throughi 



*hilst the blood is being con 



™ture of the body when exposed 

 ^te-theli" 1 <f nd freea ' m = atmosphere of our 

 "^ttnderr/ 1S ° UF P olic y» to Hirnish to the ani- 

 tit 1 " -iff *U? * ^er'U^emeVbS 

 f* food a u m nV en,peratUre must beke P 4 U P : * 

 ^* nt stores of f Clent for the purpose, the 



— cold, indeed, is an awful coa< 

 of hunger. The philosopher can appreciati 

 misery of the poor, who, in times ot distres: 

 lack of employment, are at once deprived c 

 food necessary to keep up the animal tempei 

 and the means of artificial warmth, which i 

 enable them, to a certain extent, to dispense 

 the former. Whilst it is undoubtedly true tl 

 healthy man may defy the cold, so he be supplied 

 with abundance of food and enabled to take < 

 cisc, by which the absorption of oxygen and 





od, if in the absence cf Msiiii-icnt 

 n-ed up as fuel, is it not pla 

 >ral of our supplies to stoi 



preserve it where it already exists, if the iniii 

 of cold be not directly, or by an increase < 

 , provided for. Surely it is worthy of considei 

 l whether the expos-u.ro id hi.- -beep and bea-i 

 ic atini spl ere of a cold winter's night i-, not , 

 ter cost to the farmer's pocket than some outla 

 ie erection of sheds to afford them some degre 



of the animal by a s'.ugh- grain ; it should, ther 



rcdm i ). t umiit m cessan for.-iij ,U > _' a 



that sheep exposed to the cold eat one-third 

 than those which ire ( nightly , at least,) shell 

 and yet this goes for nothing. It is the fai 

 object to get his stock to eat largely when ; 



f keeping up the; 



biiity ol • heinical science: to . 



mind", as they may be induced to admit our concl 

 sions, that the English Agricultural Chemist 



adverted, has been constituted for the express pu 



policy of joining and r 



in the work 



ich it has been built— the fact that t 

 i of almost all agricultural processes is 

 i the laws and the phenomena of chet 



vay in-progress,' as Mr. Bradrdiaw with n 

 • and pertinacity of promise calls it, 

 aay have had opportunities of noticing 

 haped pyramids of earth left standing 



Turnipped, Barleyed, soil, smoothly smiling under the 

 siiuMii'n. i-i its t-Vst year's Clover— how often I have 



and furnish a reply of befitting 8 



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EARLY HISTORY OF 



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To this it was a 



uy, but only the want of ability 

 A worthy alderman of Cambridge likened the fens to a 



