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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[JUNE l li 
oo much importance for any ! landlord. or. agent, 
po a talented, to say how they should be 
d and manured pr the next 20 years, and |! 
The amount of igno 
ing pend IA to-day for the prac 
w, so long as this diversity of opinio 
— —̃ ä — 
ON THE PROPERTIES OF STRAW 
Your correspondent, Mr. Goodiff, in the co 
is observations on the properties of straw 
g proper- 
| for respiration and one EK the NT тин 
i. admit that 
— 
0 3» pd 
animals, as 
Т to 50° colder t 
atmosphere. Peat soil has the like properties wii perües E 
the humus of straw, but is held in Tuo 
ds, and ma 
If the “i e as manure, I А à 
P xdg : valu; pe the subject t Чино, localities where it aboun be ad КО x 
| kem. а about 50 per — of carbon, with about one- — e digging and carting it a short Me ha 
- ^ r 0.25 of nitroge i 
hi ete : 
gricultural Gazette, No ; refers toa to effect the Wy n | cho a 
(4 Ў мага " Nutrition,” taken from Blablie's vegetation is aetive, the atmosphere of the soil will be | I do this partially through the Grass season, 
Cyclopedia grieul „a work of great merit, | colder than on its surface ; the co ence is, а e ter-math. I it ec 
replete ps information, a and to which I have frequent constant interchange and circulation of the air charged | property of the young Grass ; I use it too with 
d previously given Dr. Voelcker’s paper with earbonie acid. e see in this that one great p throughout the wi on. Ipa 
some заба ; on looking over the columns headed | advantage drainage, deep cultivation, and - | fro to 40s. a ton, which will, I think, be 
Practical Results from direct Feeding Experiments,” | minution of the soil, is the facilitating the circulation of | value to the grow 
I find so great a discrepancy as to deprive it of much | the air in the soil, in ad o th ission of rain. terms, the community of — growers — 
weight, Taking, for example, Rye-straw ; the nutritive The author rd in Season” shows us that | farmers are sure t - 
ne is given by Block at one-half, by Petch at 1-5th, Nes the application of a shovelfal of manure, he has | we shall both derive great — intere 
by Meyer at 2-3rds, and by Thaer at 1-7th that of ha this means been enabled in the course of six or eight | There is a third party to his the! ке 
or taking hay, at the ket price of 3/. 10s., as the кА to raise 16 to 18 tons of straw from each acre of e ма rn the dev me 
basis of calculation, Rye-straw is estimated by Block at | his lan his elass, who allo re tenants to 
355, by Petch at 14s, by Meyer at 46s. 8d., by Thaer Mr. Goodiff — says that straw, with its earbon, а pm to stable ees stall-keepers in their 
at 10s, 6d., and by Schwartz at 17s In the other | supplies plants most essential organic и hood, ndition that they fetch it 
materials of food—Turnips, Linseed-eake, &e.—there of their Constitution, f appears to cite Lieb - | with the — f the whieh i 
is a similar disc рареу. From the names at the head | port of this. ‚оп anaes A that em inent author" $ | as beddin n thi 5 is simply 
of — column, I o e they are of foreig — cei chapter on the assimilation of ¢ after gi a | vehicle for con eying — 1 
and I think it somewhat sin- and statements — almost ans by та аа and | ће condition and value of the SR 
15 :—* The n 
s, and Swe des) 
gular, d not to our credit, that we have E look to 
ellers in other sin es (wi with whose means and modes 
of carrying on operations we cannot be so con- 
versant) for Hee on он so interesting and 
carrying on the business of cattle- 
far exc that attained by foreign Т think | composed of carbon, nitrogen with ydrogen 
it belo 1 societies to institute expe- | oxygen; their bones phosphate of lime, the 
riments for supplying statistical info ion ved | whole of which undergo a continual change or waste ; 
from а licable to . Besides | some portion ch is constantly being ejected—the 
the ical value, Dr. Veeleker's paper po ntains a|carbon chiefly through the nostrils, the nitrogen and 
by d phosp in the excrement. If animal ho su pue 
flesh-forming property, and not having regard io о that 
ration, Tested. b by the mar et price—which I 
consider a far safer 
iig * being the pans oe уо experience of te con- | bee 
iderable disere- | if the ‘Trish man us 
earried on through ages—a consi 
be obse 
ed. 
A 
m 
t 
4з. per Чой, whilst 70s. p 
It is clear that 
experience is no 
nitrogen. You cannot apes or even main a 
а cow on Beans, nist n good meadow à only their 
condition may be ys it affords, besides a mode- 
rate per centage of nitrogen, material for the proce ы о Е 
ing rumination, in the vulgar but expre 
parlance of this district, termed the“ fill-belly” ч двд 
І know of по two materials of food more similar іп 
c are both of the 
—— of Grasses. -= you allow your Grass to ripen n its 
uce will 
hay-lik 
esenius, te 
nantity of nitrogen, or | with food e 
Take, for example, s, | wi 
ugh not without à considerable proportion of | of lime. 
ogeno At 94s. 
or other бн зне it will be fou 
abs 
e have | be an 
arses of | to sell a straw to the bes 
Al, 1 
he bou with the — ч 
Р. 
manure be su 
ject 
contain a fair per centage of al nd phosphate 0 
fe серай 
E 
a 
rable — = * The Eleme ts of A 
— 
mmonia. 
state, — to its dine 
Those 
- the | tainly much less objectionable they 
have | p hoani average 
ey merely ass * 
Turnip in extending its roots. i 
planation be distinctly understood, us! 
about the “ otherwise ess T of our c ; 
peces ” being the real pabulum of лк ; 
The Ro thamated T „ех ie ni 
such a i z 
| over dete y years, 1843-44-45 ; the Mam Шла 
two first years with refere nce to the effec i 
1 
8 
= 
te alone p 
do., 
ee 6 an exceedingly heavy crop. After | ence tl pe of carbon dissipated by fermenta- | and 3 ewt. of 
meae sd of the M pore. and threshing out | tion, whilst they evince such care and anxiety to retain ill 
the grain Arg: nform he has wintered nearly и e cent, of nitrogen? The only answer I | experiment, that th n 
70 Вамі of fair-sized Irish е pes solely on the produce | can t if you supply your plants with a | much earlier when ne 
6 acres ; their condition is so — improved | sufficiency of 1 nitrogen, phosphate м potash, and other | ammoniacal manures. 
that га calculates on bringing them to market as very | minerals, they ri mosphere a cheap | of science not to have atte 
ed animals, 1 inclined to think that a ant abundant supply of was not only mi 
more eua use of heavy strawed and 1 Pending these di ions on 1 your columns too little was given 
of Oats could not be have been pied by one of far wider range, and liberally supplied with 
. Goodiff inquires if there is not some absurdity in | conducted by men versed and practice ight plants were cro 
treating straw as of little value a did not say valueless . Lawes and Mr. П, both of whom have given Ама behold the result of this scien 
M for it as fi Certainly | their n on the properties of straw aş manure. Mr. | disti a 
i wes has arrived at the conclusion, that for Wheat, it | from th ints to 1 
has no effect except from its nitrogen ; that the carbon | Lawes writes very learnedly, 
—a very of straw does n 2 increase t ep > of some very useful inf 
| ing crop о of straw (the material of all others “Tf, allowing for soil an 
lants, | would expect it to ийеле); Аы не appel diat Scotland bore the same рер 
арра- the ca: straw does ad e growt h | duced as in ч ST i rn Cou 
latter; | of the It will, I imagine, й nee difficult | to be” Ac. —Agricu 
Turni 
to explain on what prin ciple this res sult en 
| ever beyon: 6 үе үте е ia, giving i it out 
more slowly, and — lad the . war M Ва. |in 
Dior orbits 
TA 2 
d 
» advantageous t0 ac 
It would cobably bd n Mons с! 
adat on than Oia foart scd of the farm dn of 
) m, Y gach 
