THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. nk. 19, 
1“ misrepresentation is complete.” If I had written the or drives them away. I have we t slugs and eari 
follo owin g, passage , would not Mr, Lawes have “ joined | worms instantly perish 9 the jet. 1 never had 
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fens—a total of ‘about 222,000 acres, and add also 
orse- employed; and bone manure 
motive power applied to the artificial draining of phosphate valueless "d oven ;- о feos tc tik 
hundreds of thousands of acres will scarcely amoun this appears doubtful, as we have grown — Wheat — will insure us a а сгор оп у, from which 
to one-half more than that fm ond for-drying two crops with no other application than bone manure. oots have been withdra ies = » Such soils are 
Cornish mines. Now, we require works | I will not find fault with any course Mr. Lawes may filled with wireworm, which fall fi ee na roots ; *. 
vaster than these, in order t - _complete the local = take to render -his reply = — = — meh дете the sheep iret fold “of crops 
ral drainage of t ngdom, we ought to чату: sacrifice in ing hi riends, but es nts 
Lo jou to quarte: to the Government for assist- с е how this wil bettie his position — I| The Seeds of Weeds are се destroyed by satura. 
ance, e agricultural interest—no one can count ndi that, unless my objections to the Rotham- | tion in the liquid man nk ; hos of it, T soaked 
in numbers and em ‘philosophy 1 had gone 12 — than the common ane | roi = oleaginous m meti. n liquid mantis for 
ust not show | cies which a — — over ud — sup ris nse, E ley Dad spear for о bos. TY great 
writings of the arme ay, I never wo ave touched | surprise, short 
3 ing wi иһ we arh es etn ү it at all; I thought Mr. Lawes might have gathered | T ration of our manure will tend IUE 
We intend to few words about Srzam from my hints that our principles were 2 € ent. veut ба increase of weeds, І have no doubt that 
Dra em Bd To prevent any Se ana rms it will be as well а: eem of liquefied manure hastens decom, 
race in a future article, J. A. C. to bear in mind that Liebig's “ Chemistry of Agricul position of the roots of the previous crop, Its great 
i ture " and Boussingault's “ Rural Economy were in | speci ifie gravity will naturally displace water either 
ion before Mr. Lawes w 
circulati 
KILWHISS v. ROTHAMSTED.—No. III. and long before he was put forth as an oracle. Тһе undrained soils in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh it 
Rornawsrzp having been silent since Oct. 9,1 thought opinions.of any of these authors, so far as any of us =à = found bene efici al. 
I might ask if Mr. Lawes intended to eonelude his pro- | were concerned, were common property. Mr. age —It is evident that however pure 
mised reply to a criticisms on his papers. In answer, must not suppose that he can take out a — ee appear, it often or always coutat ‚Атау 
Ihave been informed that other iy y Apc: prevent | Liebig’s or Boussingault's opinions by merely puting considerable quantity of earthy or stony matte: 
him Te ing eo a во at JJ resent ; and itis now high time | them into his own ambiguous English. Therefor tio Take, as a proof of this, the condim of our 
ion of the Prat of work | was the ———— of ted, as distinguished terte in which during a month very co 
Gies had to do with, deposits are er 
ich are person myse “of g га, , tion—the 
be u rily turning the matter into a personal | eannot be said to have ever taken a low estimate of the | silica for their use being furnished in a soluble available 
squabble. W While, — . I will dispose of his attack, value of nitrogenous manures. The contrary is the state. I have seen horse bones, piece and 
y in such a way as an! honourable defence actually ease. In justification of myself, I must — — other matters, completely petrified by the action of clear 
demands, I shall not shrink from handling the more | opinions of my writings in 1843, when they w: water carrying into their pores soluble silica. We learn 
serious-looking passages; I shall very willingly criti- pared with those of a Hannam and a [cm Айе a А Finnie that flints are only marine sponges saturated with silica, 
све any paragraph to which Mr. Lawes or any one else | and a Ste ephenson, Cost per Ton of applying Liquefied Manure.— АМ 
may wish to call my attention in any of his articles from ^ Agricultural Chemistry Association, Id. per ton would pay 73 per cent. interest and all wor 
the 16th March to 9th October, If any one thinks I Edinburgh, 7th Feb., 1845. ing charges, still, as there are occasional stoppages and 
have used Mr. Lawes pd the where un- “ Sir,—I have just read over your report of e experiments in the | hindrances arising from various causes, it is desirable to 
perpetra surely be pointed out. last number of the ааыр Journal; and although they are кейе a lid to 9d. й When is oi 
Mr. Lawes tells his read а Ma 7а not so full as those of many of the mie palis yet the remarks > Per е considered 
ers, on y 22, that I * have | with which you close your paper satisfy me that you have as | that 10 kpa acre may be, as it were, filled 
chiefly given my attention to the effects of climatic | clear a perception of the le upon which manuring | carts, — 2 half-mile to a mile, spread 
am sy — practice ;” but how | depends, a : D ren |e — Я a: , hat is better, deeply soaked into the 
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te ge in boasting; but Mr. Lawes will perhaps | have had under my eye the effects о of artificial manures hors j cart — and gates. Besides, as ex 
en | оп all kinds of crops, and on a great variety of soils, this season, the advan ntage of disposing of manure 
18 mis- over 200, 300 acres, and upwards, annually, I must owing to the wet state of = land, s 020 
е mineral с ve idera. p arded fioo 
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med at there are many qualities and I will firet try and poin of wate rful as fr fi i 
; t out the & on » 0 water, as powerful as from a fire-engine. | 
— analysis — not yet reached, but or around i e Lawes ers arts 1 oly solid pudding, it flows from every shed in a 1 azy stream 
i emonstrates do exist. to draw all his own PCM, but all the ideas of | through a subterranean pipe to the great tank, whence, 
2 others. I must be al TI P protest on my owa Y when still further diluted, it is propelled 
send . a — judgment upon account, and boldly state my reasons for so doing. It is hardly possible to appreciate the advantages of a 
— ce, using as prece- Vd Bote: flickeri di dim French! irresistible and all-powerful jet; in five minutes it 
dents what аге peculiarly only the dicta of authorities, | onceiy Shas kee ды, ound a. of sailing um: * 7 covers your buildings and yards with a torrent of rain, 
T i is of a thousand serubbing-brush power, e f 
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"of the pes proof ;" but I must be made upon which a rotation of crops must rest, I will dissect | every crack and cranny, washing away rats, mice, fle, 
T€ one of his articles, where he says he has © done his best = — and leaving sd ie times, — Za eng 
he . to teach me," and where he“ could not have b ot weather, a most refreshing sense o 
po obj M point ou the matter which he consi- мр ihe had P ded all my ee bies Excessively fat pigs and other 3 
! uri W. after 
has fini 
the p divisions of his subject ; so f. г 
pru f ] ar as he has 
gone, he has merely tried to clear up his own incon- 888 animity by ‚ е № 
scarcely with * бадә —. close quarters. It feels, close to the jet, like a solid sul 
2 - tan it ; : 
graph which he has write. ^T ne offer him, hon. 126010 MANURING AND IRRIGATION. pe obi gap a Ln vines aa ot 
terms i à пе uoto No. II. di Minen: » state 
rise predicts, acknowledgment of superficial — erre. ME this subjeet, and purpose giving prae- diameter, and it is mos fer choked. W pariet 
зацеррғеће bur papers ;” and, so far as I dopüsel de voiles Gh Qu. quem ha sidered that the on е tion. internally i 
— it is the only way s escape that is open. first закс ld to some — advan — resulting from 40 lbs. — — — — x ed. The 
Fn ens ев — сэй deg illustration са a funda- it. depasturing в, which always most fluid is in fact a confined, rushing, irresistible stream, 
gna т: : from own ;" I, on 8 in 1 cows or bullock, it is well | travelling about 120 feet per minute with an impelling - 
р ory great practical ap known that the portion covered by the solid manure | force of 98 lbs. per square inch, which would of course 
E „ an г а year, азд ugly patches and wastes. | compress or elo ongate any compressible substance. Ttis 
gating, we turn the jet against these masses, highly de rer that there should be no right angles in 
immediately fluidised, dispersed, and sunk the pipes, all abrupt agg ye wa yes os с great obsiruc- 
e t and strange to say, that very spot tions and causing waste of powe 
hitherto avoided by cattle will almost immediately be опадао Be — at the e of the hy- 
elosel; other portion of the drants. a general rule, the larger the pipe the les 
— and —— slowly. D friction aa resistance, the stream travelling more 
tg Deer Pan 
closely packed, and where Grass is coveted, x. Ж; а osa ry through a à 
The same мер takes place whether they are washed mischief I work жы, jets сон Т 155 anch gutta 
iquid manure, percha pipes. When we only w чан one jet there wis. 
straining compelled $^ 
in dry weather, speed 
ing foul. „А heary shower from the fei |. Pinas ing equally on 3 may be irri 
rages growth, and stimu- poin our farm a the same time, In 
lates the appetite. It is astonishing much stock an | on a very large farm, with an ample supply of water, it 
' managed ; — I feel myself bb to 1 d 
E гам " готина. n ! the | work ral h ime. 
: names чы Several j at the same tim 
My ial faa just mention — very large quantity of stock water i ts of summer cn 
BO pi у-у | been АА — opinions from the produee of the farm alone. One most striking | hardly be sufficiently apprceiate — that, besides i " 
That there has been much тее авй full disenssion, ssion, | result is the improve ed quit of a вун, which being а manure, it carries down the heat of the surface 
standing " somewhere is evident, and ite Piet et as - | formerly on ба one hand page NE ик "esl Soil, warms the subsoil, and gives off abundance of 
at whose door it li Among the "ight to see | in fact, as I ha re, this syste steam, which, in 1 ing dew, protects the plants from 
which it is common for great authorities meg 3 profitable farming, of. of which T feel now fully TTE the pinching cold of "A Ts ois t of my iron pipes 
rs soe of ats i IN Vicissitudes of — s hav 3 а painful and | purchased in the neigh ood of Neweastle-on- Ine 
y meant, none equals one who — оп agrivaltare, are in the spring of 1852 41. 5s. per ton. D 
of Britain than any man- I а «| n — аме Щ of course allowed of no intermediate. profit. Now 8 
Mr. Caird. I suppose I have the warrant of Mr. Lg «тегу Gy Maii. orm, slug, and grub, devour | price of iron ced. The joints as 
for sayi ' - Lawes the crop. Rew, di Pirates th ғ has greatly advanced. e : 
ах сы that, from the ninth line of page 461 e irrigation, 2 м ид» йи. arri эрча the lend from passing d С E S 
d from e joint. * 
offensive ammoniacal shower ; it either dase ten | Чо The Ti ad, me aed Deus deii in regard ^ 
