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inks, which n need by no means be expensive. F or | may be proper in dry weather to use much m ater, lanmen r dissolved. Every agrieulturist will, I suppose, 
- my tank, which is 30 feet in diameter at the In * of the solid pudding under ibo. board readily admit that it is only in a fluid condition that 
widest part, and 30 feet deep fro om the crown of the |t e jet, a rom à mpi a prae s and liquefies the manure can A absorbed by the roots of plants. With 
dome, is only 43 inches thick, set in cement, the dome | u until it + abs ream like melted lead to the n my air jet I can easily dispose of 15 tons of solid 
being of 9-inch brickwork, having a bearing or footing of | tank thro aah subterranean pipes. * pudding” daily, liquefied with about 120 tons of water. 
16.00 work. My tank, which holds from 70,000 to attach much per nce to these working details,| I have said elsewhere that I believe — to bea 
80,000 gallons, eost e about a complete. All tanks for until we adopted a hem we passed thro ugh a very | substitute for tillage, 7 the renovation i 
should be circular, an worked from the surface down- p and vexatious ри of карина and stoppages. | in the soil. The of ie, arising from а — 
h The t 
rds. For instance a a band or circle of brickwork, 5 feet w we have no difficulty whate e gutta pe S of air ‚от of 
deep,then another exeavation of 5 feet, and another circle | handles to the bottle I have de ol are very essential, | 
of briekwor , and so on to the biete. 1 y these means | because a weight is attached to the lower one to sink 1 of injurio us Sentier e » on events y — “that 
there is an avoidance of those dangerous slips which are | and to the гр опе а m to X it; shake it occa- | nearly one-half of the dried substance of all vegetable 
by the pressure of the superineumbent mass, | sionally, and t any ac ecu i around it өү үте, is oxygen, shows how important a free 
which p is received ел — Ager your ci өч I| without stopping the pares of * The Gutta — of it must be E the roots of plants, А." how 
speak at heavy elays. The d , built P cha Company, Wharf Road, uy Ro ad, London, | injurious is its absene Deep and frequent tillage 
i upwards, and loaded or banked wich gather a as ie work | have been most тем апа г eady to meet difficulties | supplies this to a — . — ане but irrigation on 
proceeds, to prevent s bulging outwards. No seaffolding | in this matter. By raising the prac. At out of the liquid | soil deeply or naturally drained . 
is needed for the dom and turning the two-way tap, the air is driven through | much greater depth, and, consequently, wi i 
i i i bot nd othe 
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ils 
komo and other s thrive well even in poor 
sands — soils, Y well manured ; but no amount 
of solid ng will e ompensate for r the want 
tillage i in sim clays i E : d 
ope we shall n mg orn de asked, EE has 
science bui for agriculture re!" Itis im 
co ee that this mode of irrigation without feeling that we owe it 
trap-door or windlass by which entrance to the tank | water has been used in the maceration, detachm ‘and | all to science. Without mighty steam and imperishable 
tgr бешш e it out, may be effected; р is the water-pipe; and e, | liquefaction of so much soli ийним, БЫР: us — gutta percha, without cheap iron, vain — ү ап 
than from 30 to 40,000 gallons attempts at such an operation. can help lovin 
s Sun and Winters Frost must be ed know of no process of rendering i the solid matters — science, which removes the v of 
against, for on a hot day in July or August gutta percha | available better and cheaper by sa erp and | ignorance, and gives us some insight to those wondrous 
pipes, when empty, will — e wax; — a cork | maceration. The ad addition ot po steam rom the | operations of Nature, enlarging our minds, an filling 
should be placed in the end, or, what is better still, | engine facilit dec them with awe and reverence ? 
there should be no E Lj ag, i e lad гова ng the other | position taking place more ete at a high or summer| The time is fast approaching pound the farmer will 
at meal times. In win жашы» percha pipes would | temperature. The flesh is gradually detached from the | receive back weekly from our town and cities his 
be fl of ic ioo. in the — e refore, to = this, eniti the latter must ultimately be removed and|supplies of food, altered in Sé; ut scarcely 
raise the suction above the liquid i in the ‘tank, and your | digested with sulphuric acid or earbonised. So powerful |in value, How reasonable and delightful to trace the 
will draw and force air through the pipes and is the agitation of the mass in the tank by the air jet, | bullock of to-day returning this day week, and passing 
rive me -— the m leaving them empty. All the that it is not unusual to find round pebbles, — through the jet to produce on the morrow the food for 
y be emptied, if necessary, | small pieces of flesh, &c., forming part of the shower | another bullock. The arterial Sepp and venous return 
or or he guia percha rak pay be emptied by the atten- | which falls on the la: nd. will be the Hadas agrieul 
n them, I may here mention — the gutta; As I ч through mossy and L^ si Boi cab же We ought to be the richest 3 country in 
я ра, w hen nipped or injured, are repaired by | parks, mostly having a command о k or the world. Not 2255 do we consume all our own pro- 
removing the damaged portion and inm the two | stream, I sorrow that the LR are a айну duce, but tax the world for necessaries and luxuries; 
ends together like melted wax. It is worth while to see | see | informed of, or impressed with, the о p rocess of irri- | not only may the farmer demand back his bullocks and 
itis done by the Gutta Percha Company, as 2 gation, whieh would, in a few short months, change | sheep, his pigs and poultry, his bread, butter, cheese, 
will be frequent occasion for the operation. Nature's face, and add appearance, abundance, and eggs, and milk, but he may claim to have them 
Amongst several practical difficulties was that of pre- | profit to their, or qne unfortunate owners. Although |flavoured with the spices of tbe east, the coffee 
serving the fluid condition of heavy bullock manure, | the редно n has only меп їп operation for eight of the west, and the tea of China ; port, 
posing horse-flesh, and other substances, If we months, it is telling very unmistakeably on the profits | sherry, brandy, and liquors, luscious 
stir up a pailful of such matter, the heavy proce soon of my . and juicy Gra Mes A Figs and Arab Dates; 
subside, leaving tho fid on the surface. Now, with an For instanee,’a piece of Red Clover of 8 acres, being and how thankful should be that free trade will 
of manure Tr an imperfect plant, was condemned to be ploughed u supply him wi th millions of quarters of American 
Бе ply it to fallow land during winter in а dense semi early; bu on the applieation of the jet it — Maize and Dalle Wheat, hundreds of millions of 
condition, ly р gh to maintain 13 sheep per acre all the summer; French eggs, Dutch cheese, Holstein e and Ostend 
by agi itating the contents of the tank in the vicinity of | thus setting free my other fields for hay. MODEM hovering on n his farm, in rich brown drops, 
suction vessel, by air passing with great foree and — were fed until late in November. Again, so greatly to fill it with plenty and profit. No longer, then, 
Velocity through a gutta percha jet, attached to a gutta | has i increased my produce of roots, both Swedes and should we hear of farmers feeding their animals 
The air is drawn in and supplied by an Mangold Wurzel, that with 40 young — and 100 | millions of oileake and corn, at a certain loss of 33 per 
- es cows and calves, pe. (oan u, unless I cent., for the sake of replaeing that which has left their 
oscillati à on, being alternately ad- sheep, besid 
mitted to the cylinder through a slit in the axle on € inerease my stock, carry me on — June, | farm for ever to pass down sewers, to be food for the 
к it oscillates, The agitation or violent boiling of | In the mean time, owing to the liquid manure, 6 acres | marine plants of the great ocean, or only to reach them 
fluid keeps the so atter in suspension until | of Rye Grass are now in capital feeding вен foe on | again in the shape of Peruvian guano at 107. per ton. 
ру the suction into the pumps. This suction | land of a ийин» quality, and will evidently be a Let landlords and tenants believe that town sewage and 
causes a sharp stream to set towards the suction pipe, heavy erop for ing in April, some of it being a foot | bullocks and sheep, and guano and oilcake, are identical, 
80 violently, indeed, that solid substances are rammed | lon ong now. In fact, it requires no eonjuror to f: and then this reckless folly will be redeemed. Like the 
in perfectly tight. The violent denied of the suction | that now my annual balance sheet will always show a great Jenner's vaceination, it will ultimately prevail, but 
but is objectionable, and s t, | profit ; for there is no occasion to accumulate а |“ mr we is in the м, and another acre Bi \ 
now we have succeeded i tle goo profit fr th purchases of food. The power to teach us all мее" 
; quoe! the area of | grow bulky root crops on a single ploughing—the oppor- | it already. J. J. Mechi, “Tiptree, F Feb. 10. 
— ly. The 3. inch suction is in- tunity for foreing large grain erops after roots, the Se 
ced into the neck of a gutta | great economy in and manual labour, the absence 
of fail 
bottle, about a ures from seasons and insects, and the power of Home Correspondence 
and 18 inches diameter, pun thoroughly manuring and improving the subsoil fll zm * Mitchell will be kind enough 
́— an mind at en te — — profit. \У | to go a little into detail with his experience in draining. 
diame This bottle small 
Tun 
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distance fro interior | i of. 
K| | ann or available form is most Б — aa sae 
| apertures admits a gentle current. | trated by Mr. Pusey in the Royal Agricultural Society's |. uiekly others + 15. À 
Although made strong, if we at- — obl vol. 13, page 408 :— quite close enough for 4-feet 
in too 
te Superphosphate. Turnips. 99 of his Chemistry, “ Insolubili 
pasty a form, it will eollapse, which Water drilled ... пу cwt. e^ 1 3 Нш nce ofa e fins ate a = b ko destitute of (сора: ; 
is not to be wondered at, seeing Dust Ard M „ 1213 т tons. — €— се ^ — — 
that if the pumps cannot draw advantage of 7 tons from the mere ene water has the same effect y о exudes a of 
е 
> presses 14 lbs. on “square 8 enormous of mars ; 
of the surface, I have now two such bottles, one | 43} tons per aere of Mangold Wurzel, admitted by all r —— ip — 
of the size баси for weak liquor, the other made | who saw it to surpass anything of the kind they had seen and vegetables do not decay, for they ean irae po 1 freely 
supported inside by an iron wheel to | this season, supplied with oxygen; but they uni rgo putrefaction, for whi 
collapse, The holes in this bottle are of опе-| І eannot too tao eisongly in insist on cre i hn t дни — юды — e Ты, be 
ido SO OO 8 a thieker arising from applying all the solid manure реа samian |, — all surr dior — n oar the ped 5 
on, it must. be b mind that gs exit or suspension. With Us exception of litter, all the plants E All а" from which oxygen can be 
holes in the delivery jet must Lu proportionate, or you animal excrements, solid and liquid, may forthwith pass|extraeted yield it to * trefying bodies yellow oxide of iron 
will often get them by solid matter. Some idea through the jet; where long straw is used for litter (a | PU ineo abite ee — 
1 „ es II. tact 
: i ay ina te covered tank, communi- | metallic oxides, the ashes of [tiae Er T gans е 
course it ma. чн һу a larger supply of water, | eating with the suction же, and the jet of water passing | change the р utrefaction of its organic constituents into a pure 
| Үк ш Я е : aa ash away all — — and from the moment at which all the 
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may be formed hore the specific gravity of our soup when | system that must soon give way to the boarded floors), (br оГ ien — — m Ae z aN frequent renewal of айг by 
m ii M А ) 
* tor ] it from time the 
wer to make it comf y available, although it | Ла ара ies ics nl ag Сл mdi r 
