24—1853.] THE 
ona RA of the d Royal Agricultural Society's Journal,” 
Vol. VIIL., page 25 
Hence notwithstanding t the adverse influences of » 
season fo astern Counties, 
wS wedes or Beet over one-fourth of tl 
i y — to grow Norfolk W over three-ei s 
with the less lu uxurious fare of ы carbon” and phosphates, 
i „as requiring more or less — а 
in all Mr, writings, before I criticised his papers. 
It will not do for him to turn round and say he only 
meant the raising of — for “rotation effect.” 
23 he was giving advice, in 1846, to. the Norfol 
farmers, he wro 1 enough in his on ; 
— y enoug pamphlet 
& My ex "je vnd 
die ү? їп * — manure; it n always a rece enp 
the primary organs of plants, leaf and stem. As it is the 22 
— agriculture produce bulb rather than leaf, those manures 
mploy А, which best effect T ; phosphate and sulphate 
of lime, — carbonaceous s pow rich in. ammonia а 
therefore most suitable to this c 
AGRICULTURAL GAZE 
Lawes ought to call attention to his former errors, when 
e so readily adopts the opinions M^ others. = very. 
extravagant views whie Lawes 
to the action of ni ous on légurinous 
plants, in his pamp on in 
8th vol. of the Royal Agricultural Society’s Journal, 
m3 ow been en ntire d d an opposite 
TTE. 379 
and disposed of at the age of tinh niet there are 
now 400 — of a regular stoc of at 
e same age, allowing 10 ield ewes or gimmers of the 
Cheviots— 
His experiments it would seem, can prove — 
ré All m wing :— 
w subseribe to the follow 
mea чы of alkalies on leguminous plants perhaps а 
aches nearer to consistency with the theory of Baron Liebig 
vy. vg other fact which has come under our observation, for 
the —— which are found to have a very marked effect u 9 
their increased growth, — — xx чи 2 their ashes." 
* Ro wis get m eultural Society's Journal, Vol. XII. 
Mr. Lawes has рач led his friends by a very 
roundabout path in bringing them to such - tion жу 
that they can e last have a prospect of that rock of agri 
eral theory. In 1845, Baron m Liebig — 
— les upon whi 
wrote as follows :—“ — 
manu 
essened by excluding half or the vis le am- 
— I believe that this can be accomplished for 
any plants, such as peas + and all other very foliaceous 
3 and for d y trials are 
not = б advanced as Ac prov e the fact with certainty.” 
o Mr. L 
show — — i 
most 
| blacks k-faced sheep; and 20 of the 
BLACK-FACED. £ sd 
bs, 88. oe oo ** LLI 119 0 о 
91 ewes, 16s, ... дед ~ 7216 0 
5 ield ewes, 20s. sts ak Ege = ae DJ 
84 stones wool, Mb 26056 totus job E 8 
£257 14 0 
Cnxvrors. 
Bh mbea р „„ „% MM эзе 
70 ewes, 228, elt ^el ow. О Oe 
2 ila e ewes, 2 vn M) esae 13.00 
es wool, 24s. .., м 54 0 0 
£232 0 0 
Balance in favour of ЖЫ 25 14 0 
This clearly sheep are 
most profitable in the high and exposed districts where 
the he & coarse again, 
where is finer, a better feeding 
| quality, not being so highly elevated and there, 
in my opinion, a Cheviot stock of sheep would be the 
profitable or a stock of black-faced ewes, 
and crossed with a Leicester ram. 
We quote the follow wing from Blackie’s “ Cyclopsedia. 
of eme article CHEVIOT. 
* The comparative olen of Cheviot and black-faced 
sheep, o ny barren grazings, will be better 
derstood if reduced to figures ; 
I would have been very are эз to havo al A iud ET said ; the greater part of it has no reference to i 
giveh, бг agat — «раль тн anything which I had written anent his rs, and - under of 2 
а з been done, however, with the view of strength- ‚ farm, capab — 
ke. 1 "but NS Lawes' s st C (Oc M De is » анау ening the 3 Rel ihe «ll cf MEE ‚| 1000 heath ewes, which, vet Ne neg ваи a 
arlier opin hae was formerly made a very simple question has implies the complement hogs, > 
— upply of — manures is v portant for made да complex and as efinite as it is total of 1360, The same ground, if stocked 
the Turnip crop; yet, that an excess of it m rg duce the 1 p Cheviots, would keep more than 1200 in all, The 
amount of ae A collected from natural panied, and lessen the possib e to make it, If Proot as to be follows 
feeding value of the e —— tion, I will pro give А: but I consider he has ине — * ee с. 
But this statemen t his own experi- 3 fhe ур: citadel to be * in not ing i ae, 560 lambs, at 10 N ee — 9 0 
ments, and shows cn he oil no reliance them omg us 300 ewes, at 179. o у з. с 
hh ane To la bé arde сее fan ius P. growth of one oar of plants at all 1200 fleeces, at 2. GGG. 150 0 a w^ 
n in the mere production of bulbs; and what he Чеге} TOM AD * i^ doubt the explanation “hich Black-faces :— 
chiefly means now to make out is, if you give a plant as T ok of certain d,but great caution | ^ 60)lambs, at 8s. xo S55 
much Ned it can assimilate in a given time through been exercised i in quoting. the erroneous passages. — n. at NE r. E p^ 
nnot take what the "m monter can —€— ум 8 529 0 0 
supply. „л thia holds as true i in regard to carbon as it to the ‘ varying character of the sun's rays throughout 
dies е sivi өр Hehus hovorer sili кесек ave s; I will not rob him is соп Nh and | tm sc M: < £156 0 0 
ї re be 
consolation left in regard to his ha imagines is | "ill even further confess that 1 never did far овое! TP по tho Cheviots, and the tent —— 
the active manurial agent in нея ена Тара of a imagine that ‘the heat capable of being eliminated by the sam n both cases, the Te 
high feeding value, because this subs fav ртов i pes animal eoim ic first have been ot this number falls to be deducted: 160 ә 
* special 8 5 x ) and a “healthy ripening of the renger tent during the growth of the plant." * sheep, a a 0 0 
bulb? e alludes labours of two individuals on | I once intended to have entered upon the principles C rg кле ions ма 
{һе sub jee E — seem to 2 e economy of manure made among the heviots, taking ап average 
“Туг, on considers that an increased per centage of n the farm, contrasted with artifi anne; but ol years, say wets 117 0 0 
nitrogen s ош be the index of a proportionally increased feeding spaco e does not it. І suppose Mr. Lawes is well 
value of the с ware that the basis upon which he has made Balance in favour of Cheviots pe 
v | , 
— Aime ekor = —. by rme Pa a one neue f gata is far from being correct, although the: showing a profit, in favour of the Cheviot, on the 
i of ammoniacal salts. Our "MM es are now and th noted with the utmost assump! ion that. the ; 
on the point, yhen we aay that th ve ma Mors are P i^ A confidence by ту active J- too. Our agricultural out which, on the description of ing 
within the range of the organism selves as yet unorganised, t ti ndi all be . through the 
&е” This is opinion, then, we say, would seem to require little | a few pag principles, Ther most; correct 3 а But as a Cheviot ewe stock 
never did —— — the _inferences "me Dec mein icd aee hazardous, supp aig ym "e 
are only valuable 80 far as s they go. Truth. can n never place; o 
value of 8 were nmn: out p moror quantity of agricultural i 
: К ' agricul £ а, £ 8d 
— e e condition — — murine e are sufficient to show that we are very far — 71711 s 2 99 99 
in of Turni an che- i 440 Cheviot wethers, at 26s. E 
— vat у p. ——— —E the laws which regulate our P 3 
nised on subject amongst racti Believin that en has been written in vindica- £742 0 0 
1а d easy classification which these facts | tion of — — papers, I conclude. | Doduct 460 wether lambs, at 100. 230 0 0 
admit of, ong appeared to me to place the matter I do not hesi ural — o | 
mineral 
rese — of certain |; 
the n 
not in sufficient queni 
than you have mineral 
properties, It may be said with 
carbonaceous matters have not 
ig kobea r ion 
the n the fe 
produce 3 2 en ть ah front Ke. Thad the | 
f li a paper by oeleker on the subject 
nm Mr. 2 due 200 an admirable paper it 
But Mr. ae mi memory, 
in | Spittal 
— out the fact, that cd 2 formerly wrote about 
onl 
on this subject ; the 
* Т consider Clover 
nitrogenous mm 
onsi te applied it 8 am mote d 
ЧА 
t which should receiv, 
certain rn than апу стор in 
3 - is, shat the уа — of a erop 
ight—rw pi чав LOVER- 
voporin to its 
ft 
matters are. — A IN of элш» a not be ; 
influenced b of t th — 
7 
material to bul Be its better his 
th: 
kept in 
| should not be cast away. R. Russell, Kilwhiss 
=| herbage of a 
a plan ve abun- | p 
and "n. this manure is judici- i 
a 
agricultural practice: 
end. I would be quite hrs. 2 iste to 
labours, but the dedu has 
i cachet sho 
opinions of others, 
BLACK-FACED AND CHEVIOT SHEEP. 
meetin the 
ture far m, where * is not so much 
fs "oul the "qui of the pasture g and 
eseription, on such P. as this, I 
2 e. r tho Cheviot breed to and 
e 
ewes, is now to 
a stinted and ill-thriving stock of Cheviots, the | 
MIROR one ure being utterly unsuited for that 
breed. But the real value of a and black-faced | 
will be th the best 
t tof place that I ll 
Balance in favour of black-faces 
m Turn 
.| August ym too much 
aced | to 
the only ss um to the Holly as 
In this case the wether lambs are — to receĩve 
no теу, Without which,in very man 
t | will not d 
Home Correspondence. 
On the Raising n Turnip Seed.—From many years” 
ion in the farming of 
ould 
3 
sic into shoots. — 
to run 
from the fact 
slowness of its growth ; this objection, however, I 
will onl + found to hold good w 
| attention to the due preparation o 
| removal 
— oa ips ap 
is abun- | stock of ewes, - was rok the best description ; it is 
w stocked with 
as stocked with a plack faced 
нам 
онго А ok tha. smallest ай 
480 of a regular black 
kean be i 
2 - E the 5 
* 
