THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Jan. 8, | 
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Tent bestowed upon stock in Baker Siro et, and 
ment bestowed | ‘upon stock in Baker Stree 
subsequently to е time, when they are slaughtered. 
. This being the case, what must the daily waste be 
under the г> i system of Smithfield and our 
other large markets ? 
1 йй. WR 
Tan exceedingly wet season which we have . 
the e of бра 
ount of this 
nglish Agricul- 
tural Society’s Nen where it is described by 
Colonel Lz Cov 
« “The cultivation of "m two fields destined for 
Wheat and the Whi 
Hereford White, Te 
folk, Hickling' sProlifio, White Taunton, 
ch White ien rop 
Scot 
Cone, Old 
858 ne. From t 
the lat 
generally ag 
Hun 
vera, wil, we im 
seed. 
It is a 
Wem 
that w 
OYAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
SESSIONAL жиы 7 
Giv 
ring-water, &c. 
carbonic 
nner as th 
being large, а greater quantity of it w 
than m т Kt is to be noticed, that in 
— field the seed. was put in as late as the 21st 
February, and thatit — = well tand early. | 
* Hardihood and p and severe 
winters.— This Wheat has ан in the North 
may be so 
in in all the milder * of England 
an average crop from 
mee vay Wheat, but with a Er 
more 
of o 
flour than from most. 
agriculturist Wate of it on the 12th of September | 
last—' Talavera is nearly — Ser such has 
the untowardness of а seas = ^ not expect 
any other Wheat to make — turn.“ This 
imony is in —.— of its early habit ts and hardi- 
hood also. It is what the French Aw Мен sought 
gre a winter m a spring V 
August,a week sooner than 
* "n was sown E a EUN 
ore 
d Tendency to degenerate d ——S a 
c—There. is no tenden 
inary white Whea 
affords a very fine, clear white straw ; it i EN Tid 
one of the Italian bonnet- varieti — 
is, page ny — in it, which i is, 
e remai er passing through 
the threshing-machine fhan any pet ms Say Te 
— with. 
“Amount of produce in grain, ¢ 
rau, and the победе qm — of Jour send fi offal. 
~4+he amount of produc n grain w: 52 i 
tothe acre ; 
е; the sample very beautiful, as а 
ch will be produced at the Oxford 
RM, 
ites Pom 4 
variety I am | gui. 
€ aci 
3. How do you 
oil? 
T How do you 
5 mention in — on w 
ve sown 
1. 
erent Kinds of natural water 
2. Mention the composition and the more important properties 
id. 
, а red Wheat 
- Rey yptian 
this it 5 that the Cone Wheats 
r than the 
which in this ‘ene equalled the Tala- 
agine, be omar "soe for 
a well known Scotch 
h ibis 
Hope 
NIC CHEMISTRY. 
as 
short account of the “characteristio properties of the : 
ich as rain-water, sea-water, 
determine the amount of phosphoric acid ina 
distinguish salts. of potash from 8 : 
in 
hes ls 
which беу are insoluble 
these reactions ; ge after proving | the absen nce of 
r substan esiduu 
ue eee on the 14th | Soda 
pet 
d arly in September. 
m. | of March, and reaped з goo crop Е P de eliquesee, pé bres salts efflor 
Srna Sees tts vene 
ты we 
large mountain ranges ; 
e 8 
table kin gom, and in Clovers 
is langely co Lim 
eina lly 
n-rowed Prolific, Thickset Suf- | as minute vium dry and weigh, and calculated ag 
Silver "n 8 of ma 
. Salts of — run to liquid on exposure to the ай, 
ed 
ome more otash erat are m 
So es salts b 
soluble ved ie salts, and do not erackle 
est, and that а Red Wheats were bya 80 
eat 
otash salts are distinguished pe 
эчтен with bichloride of platinum in 
entrated solution (having proved the abse 
and alkaline apr d and ни mr 
is 
ow oes in the 
ives a bis tame and the 
n heating, 
in- the mineral ‘kingdom 2 lime. 
s carbona found in 
as st phate it is — found, and 
America an 
chalk. 
an 
I me in See is us 
| what forms is it used in agriculture? 
What is the action of quicklime on land? 
Г, Mention the composition and properties of ammonia, and 
ben 
Бо ate under 
8. Nam 
3 | lising properties 
on whish of t 
depen 
10. 
| animal has been 
* 
ides 
carburet 11 
9. What is the general composition of Ae ene clays, paed 
rt 
ou proceed in discovering arsenic with which an 
CIRENCESTER, December 13, 1852. 
No. 1. Of all 
Rising pes the atmosphere as vapour 
own as nitrate of ammonia by the rai 
Doe E * Phosp 
indeed all the — arising from ee may 
occur in rain-water. 
through silicious beds ; ; it contains chiefly a as impurities 
refuse manuring matters which ves their ferti- 
‘chiefly to the ammonia which they contain. 
eir constituents do thei. r fe ilising proper 
poisoned 2 
natural water, rain is the most pure 
, and again falling 
monia existing in е = is idi |o 
it loe E 
roved to contain 
antities of carbonic acid, Tight 
gen, 
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P 
pho 
ron us 
di — E of shells, oysters, &c., it is applied near 
the se 
e с са 
s the 
nishes sively food for’ plants, - 
their 
and ае and in — t soils it has a tendency to make 
them 
ane 
s | nitro — jus аз 
e (oxide of ealeium) and a 
— to soils Med pa 
vel to bọg land it is largely 
se of gas s-works, too, and as 
s qui nicki lim 
Pee is also a 
arls—as gra 
Reheat: as refu 
capa. 
me etm caustically upon land, decomps the 
table ma acis x contains; it unites with and neu- 
in pe вої 
vegeta 
acids). 
l properties, making clays ан open 
onia з qunm by the union of hydrogen and 
xd are "p liberated from their 
ombinations. It is prepa by nitre — iron-filings 
а one setting thee nitrogen, = the other hydrogen. 
=NH is pr dere when all 
purity is Wa 
exposure to = 
ALEC, 
which rise 
solution as w 
lee 
| exceedingly 
weit 282 Ibs, 
2485 de quantity o of flour 
e X dis разм 
; — to be 
used fi 
к» doubt at — 
mildew than such as 
| Soil. 
a mp vent for many ma 
insoluble, and of no 
та be mentioned 
remain 
erige 
4. Phosphorie acid — 
qom by burn 
dri 
ae | evaporated 
chlorie acid is 
which 
anlatan 
iate а 
may contain sae quantities of organic matter in 
ith lime, as limestone. 
tuents of "elis, which m 
and | sh , 
throwing in piem which fixes it. 
rtan 
a little, lime, > bicarbonate. Hard water, dati is, | springs | p 
n li mestone beds, contain uch lime in 
ell as water con- 
sulphate | 
estone, and forms one 
piscem is * ind falls as | 
on 
and on account of its in дену a 
rns, &е., renderin 1 
rendered innocuous 
One of the most 
dition of the soil (this 
long dung e. 80 —— on 
the minera 
has a highly forcing upon 
| a «s its — it аба largely ieri to Ens 1 4 
dy, г 
р 
value as * a е ене 
1| 9. Clays 
silicates : 
Бра ts, or d ^ 
| of 50 per 
З per cent. of lime ; it censi. too, , Small — of 
alkali 
ime-water, when |; 
coppe 
А wit 
Ys 
маа as horn-parings, shavings, 
matters which do not contain 
r alkalies, — more or their chief 
ood, anim 
= 
hosphorie acid or 
e up principally of alumina = 
for] homer purposes the more free { 
tances, so mu 
cent. ^ silicate of alumina, 
— „and | 
in solution is 
ich ubi: pm for C O,, 
ies to vegetation amongst 
phosphorus iE salts of 
ryn à slight 
ded io di issolve 
RE 
t quantity more hy 
the reactions of — 
_| THE 
h 
dro- from the late 
salts of lime, T езе і 
remains i insoluble i is — The we 
FAT STOCK SHOWN AT e i 
MEETING OF THE SMITHFIELD CLUB. on 
Tu following account of — = 
Smithfie 
th 
able to examine enm being sl 
| in which 16 
: They vert sov on Now. 
БА 
E 
spon easuremen 
ее It — thus decia | the 
n the perio ods when 
subsequently enumerated, = how far these co 
ond with given in а n 
daily — х. 
