THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 





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LIUUID MANURE. 

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MIT^JF, OCTOBERS, 1847. 



* the former—" the ease v 

 f Linseed cake can be pi 

 i the s very triflii 



nfident, howe 



v.ry ! 





5 *e,*ek Se ? prefer . ence to cake. In th e first 

 tftaLr- ?T "^ * he inferior samples of Linseed 

 5 T ° ted for cr «shing, so much so that, 

 ! ! «t I ?Tl lms from tfa e Mark Lane Express 

 *KS that the P ric ~ ol E "gl'sh Lin- 



» : ;. ^ j n = wa « from 50s. to 60s. per quarter ; 

 :i % necew """r hing ^ from 46s - t0 49 *- Jt is 



i/'-, 'f tel of seed which is so full of seeds 



a use, has only to be passed through 

 transformed into what goes by the 

 [ useful cake. It may be thought 

 • a sample of Linseed, but a very 

 U enable any man to ascertain the 

 : "Iars which are imi 

 md freedom from seeds of weeds, 

 or superiority of seed over cake is 

 o" as an article of food. As Pro- 

 ject 8 r 80 .^ 1 ^ explained! 



-1 only state that to keep up 

 ^lll b0d ^. specially in cold wca he , 



of food. 



la 



^»«iTli be bod ^' e»pe«ally 

 ^««Iei "P.'^'resas con 



w "f r- lnseed as food f 

 Ut °allwho have' 



ecessary apparatus." 

 .Inch has extended o 



igam, 2 lbs. of Be: 



< the w:dch :: 



i 



n the floor ar 

 ches thick : 1 1 



of the Linseed are of the highest importance 

 method of feeding cattle was successful, I though 



le to try some ei 

 3 the degree ol 

 o crush the s< • 



the seed might be extracted during digestion. M; 

 first point was to ascertain whether it was abso 

 lutely necessary to crush the seed at all ; the pla: 

 I adopted to satisfy myself was, that of boiling 

 certain quantity of whole seed, and an equal weigh 

 of crushed seed. I then washed each separately on 

 a fine sieve, and when dried at a heat of ST"" ' 

 weighed them again, to ascertain what eac 



seed might be extracted during digestion. I 

 accordingly had a certain quantity of seed boiled 

 two hours, and given whole N to one of my beasts. 



of the dung and examine it closely. .A certain 

 portion of the seed was in this way found to have 

 passed through the animal whole, and after being 

 well washed and dried, was compared with a por- 

 tion of the seed which had been boiled, but had 

 not passed through the animal :— 



" To make it still more certain that the seed which 

 had undergone the process of digestion was still 

 of value, he had a certain portion of it crushed 

 and boiled an hour, when 100 grains gave 81 

 soluble and 19 insoluble. In this experiment it 

 was found that a considerable portion of the seed 

 had been crushed by the teeth of the animal, as 

 there were numerous skins of the seed mixed 

 with those that were still whole, and in all 

 cases where the skin was broken the whole of the 

 kernel had gone, thus showing that the gastric juice 

 had the power of fully dissolving the kernel when 

 the seed was crushed, however roughly. I tried 

 mmerous other experiments, to ascertain how long 

 t should be boiled. These it would be tedious to 

 ■elate but the results I would shortly state a* 

 bllow's :-First, that if the seed be well crushed, 

 )oilin'°- for one hour will extract the goodness of the 

 seed a°s completely as boiling for three or four hours 

 f roughly crushed. When, however, the meal is 

 ine, there is great danger of its burning to the 

 jottom of the pan unless cooked by steam. There 

 seems, however, to be no necessity for either fine 

 crushing or long boiling. Either one or the other 

 makes the gruel thicker and more glutinous ; but 

 the animal has certainly the power of extracting all 



from the seed when roughly 



ished and lightly boil* 





'th^ilr- 



b seed. I also consider it i 



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 •lereme to 



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intelligent sympathy will find a far more satUfactor 

 "*" ation in stiictly following out the rules c 

 ense than in obeying the dictates of mcr 



'eeards the further details: after a field o 



: : ■ 



e land;y/«.s ■> per ecu . on ; 



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■ made up of all 



mr, and the half S 



- laud 



allowed to draw only \ 



ort time, the bag may be turned 1 

 ,,^,,01 mixed with the chaff or choj 

 We refer to this subject now, as mo 



t is ccrtaialy a prop 

 e landlord to determine the exi 



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SrvT'hXn^of-iilnminV Those * 

 its singular appearance « would render l 

 ducks of out aquatic preserves, ^^'^ ; b { e ( 



