6—1853.] THE 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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for bes highest nutritive value, by 
s not seem by Dr. Vo 
. 733 of No. 46, 1852, 
o average one-half of ha ay 
d узу fourth. 
bene o cups RR RR 
me also as I 
ical obs ervatio 
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hase in ist ortable manures, will 
Pm А two pounds’ 
late return, 
— straw. 
Is there not some absurdity in treating straw as 
valueless _ for manure with an лу for its use for 
re so very low that 
consists in its bulk distending the 
з 
еа 
, about as 
vitality of an animal comm a 
inthe woul have been, had the ey | 
not 80 е. through its stom 
Perhaps the simplest way of considering ге атт 
as to the NS of Be raw for feeding o oul 
an animal fed on 
all 
animal must 
ave take n into 
uantity of animal nutriment in straw, de 
ether have been insufficiently л or 
the stomach so much as 
n 1 1 ed but e 
8 brought on by 
the A" induced would 
culent enable 
п the farm 
ue 
whole of the 
profitably а as wend je cannot fully enter "e the views “ each 
I would rathe 
leker's | stare 
u 
t at that i 
as our ancient sword anointing superstition the 
e € 
more fertilising to the|to use a 
d Mee but lide 8 straw. 
pro My pecu 
h | led — make these rem 
informed, with water, forms their woody texture, v 
‚ &e., which, with an additional 
en, composes most of their wer an 
whi 
e its fermentation, and 
the exigencies of pla 
s the pr ори — 
constituent of all pla 
consists of carbon and E. elem ent of w 
The valu n ireland is is no matter 
0 upport of science, it 
is a reality existing in her Dan throu 
le ength pm breadth of her 
north, from the e ast t x ub 
sa 
y 
Straw, wh 
"ris the sto koh “of cattle, Fed under а 
litter, о or d on the bye- -roads and farm- penc is 
still s 
It is bin 
of e ver +) ta pe а 2 nitrogenous m 
foo 
— for the cattle must assimilate the whole 
very few cattle stall 
he first fou 
кейЫ Б 
months 
ay, whic 
vinter 
E 
0g 
fe. 
— 
on? 
E, 
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ow 
a 
tiat of our large farmers, of ric 
stock E means, holding perhaps 150 or 200 acres 
s | of ground, and who sell their Tu yen PN * 7 fm nd 
as fo Ө Borer wom bones un- 
Mt whose jaws it would break to pronounce eel 
phate, to whom the vendors T portable or "un 
manures would offer weir g goods in vai " and by w 
е | the chemist would be laughed at who should fix a — 
Good: iff 
upon them. J. M. 
e Corresponden 
Liquid Men 
commissioner, m ubject of national 
are certainly entitled € * consideration flec 
whether his instances of resu a be bite neficially 
t behoves every man, before laying out 
ney, to investigate and satisfy hie {upon his 
ю 
i. 5 
ds ce kage eran shou 
e to adopt it on the faith of the printed 
f pulverised nor та 
В slo 
, | localities, 
h 
s | cultur 
matters they |u 
ed by ы gentry oh Tae in 
n Tur anc 
boot, and the thin for 
e | Read 
ce. со 
»2 — ed an accredited 
— з ed eet can 
|f 
figures would dd to inevi xc i ate "ы oet 
воас ave 
— = 5 found for 
immediate ee: During an 5 of more 
than 20 Ё а n the oe and management of 
urnips c d manures, at ever — 
of this nature ‘befor ; nor can I at present 
brought to the surface, and is 
with Bi natura 
land was man with a compost of night soil and 
verre oal, with — * other substances fro m the uni 
е, and mixed with a 
cted, being — inet, 
weather. me ver 
eph Е obably qe as the result, — 5 than 
he cause of the; mischief. ec 
bu t pen nce in the -ordinary rules o 
ё nage, good tillage, pes industrious culti- 
vation 1 ag the growth T the p 
utta Percha.—l have been ecd to try the gutta 
eep since reading the artiele 
mber of your Journ 
8 
receiv vith DN 9 they 1853. Having first had the diseased feet dressed, the 
any a tent ke is iet that gives | boots were applied, but I soon found, though 
rity to her fields, ‘the carbon o for, excepting | diseased part was in a w be cured, the up 
а pattern of two kin 
о uppe 
er. [We —— an а, boh the speeimens 
sent, their lasting v g 
Value of Straw y^ Manure.—In reply to a'cor- 
respondent, a late Agricultural aee states that a 
ton of straw, partly used as fodder and partly as litter, 
produees (of. course i 2 with the excrements 
of stock) five tons of manure, 
ment that Wheat straw is meant, 
straw in Binet Po any rud of the country sel 
to be drawn he purchaser ; but five tons of 
anure. s, p 
orm an equal weight 
taining it Supposing it, аас repe in 
fenilising value, weight for weight, to ments, 
which e seldom if ever ba the arrived 
atis that stra is reduced by use to manure 
worth 5s. I . — that 2 like most others, am 
manner; but can it correct to do sot 
ra to 
s 
piss “Мт. Home's Repor rt to hen East Berwiek- 
hire Farmers' — ? in which h 8, 
e has t to apply about € ewt. of 
es from 
asa village farmer, t throw a larger breadth of ground 
into Red dei for hay, for in t 2 Эд oncentration 
which they rest so much on, I t i ; 
Manure from ze as litter, 
rom its i ‘keeps strong soils open to 
o the ai i 
ugh the animal 
so operative. in effecting ; it also 
of 16 
pict eture, 
Now, look at the 
of feeding on boards, if not too costly, and if om 
— it — 
Presents soils eme with carbon in а 
transfo 2 2 
the almost all 
vegetable a up io our most serious 
Consideration. 
Liebig has well observed, that plants find new 
nutritive materials only in inorganic substances. It has 
d with carbonic 
staple of "e soil, on 
fertility, in * 
We know n 
в | but one aere absor 
| that a like quantity hi 
| the available balance to 71. 1s.—or 3I. 105. 6d. per acre, 
instead of le 
luble 
Accessible to plants the new —À9 which it had t 
cre absorbed the 16 cwt. of — 125, so 
Barbe dee en, which will reduce 
esti s, bat it is is 
The world is a bundle woh! 
are the asses who pull, 
€ ugs it a different va У, 
7 the greatest of all is John Bull.“ 
Disease in Last harvest I under- 
tok the management of a farm ich there w. 
Pt. ken down. 
ill liberate the e inorganio constituents 
— but we know it cannot be in , whatever 
may be its amount; and we ma 8 fro m the small 
— Ai ie them taken up AY plants, that i it will be 
or Liebig 
у successive crops ; says, |i 
E'A singlo pain foot of felspar is buftelen t to 9 я m 
wood covering a surface of 26,91 0 square feet with the 
potash required for five y: 3 
3 will also N м = 
: x b 
the 
be evident that, an! Mr. Bel кй. credit for the ok. | 
of 2 acres rge the ex of 2 acres ; | 
ell? Alezander Hol Hall, Water. 
and 
aequired this value 
meed three times the litter that is used 
— 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
