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dhe land. 
43—1853. | THE 
entails considerable ignorance on the practical, | will 
not say theoretical, advances made in agricultural che- 
mistry ; zi otation referred to in conn 
nm notice, 1 am 
done in -devel loping * ophis of a science 
8 every — effects must hold 
to be one of ^ alu 
mankind 
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of Na — y . adjustment of the human 
race over the of the 
bringing in to cultivation the waste yea of the hitherto 
I do 
provements alrea 
attention to the fact that much veins to be don 
i to offer, or the slight 
ave x Eere sedis ting the ma 
of manure by a people who for some ages ha 
orting nation, be produe 
good as exciting investigation of the iret on 
which — Аа the object I have in view will in som 
The Chinese, as is well k 
people ; their food 
vegetables ; : Lo ме those о 
1 food ; al 
so great 
; but few of ihe 18 provinces into 
are strietly agricultural 
rt rugged, 
in their northern por- 
of Chin 
by the Chinese i is the ро: 
wns wt villages, and such as in Eur An^ 
— inadmi icultural 
found a pit тарсад 10 - e wu by 15 feet КЕ апі 
bricked both sides and ; here is accumulated the 
tionable exudation, ^. I 0 water g adde 
n. 
We now come to the of this renovator of 
soils. Manure in its ata state is seldom 
the Chinese; occasionally they will 
p at the roots of young Beans as 
from the frosts; but land is never 
thy mor i it piod in as wi 1 me 
is not often. 
mn the ord is sown, "and is generall — up 
dy гаред the era ts set in, e com- 
mences ~ moment the 
to shoot ; wb are see 
8 with a couple of buckets filled with the liquid 
from the pit diluted with water, 
| for the small class of plant usually fo 
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о | with ou —— ed to 
the peopling and 
m 
nagement | an 
e vada the handle with the "em hand 
n nal ma 
fresh d. Sad 2 diluted with 
А 8 1 matter 
te in | they bing thet ab about 23 the use of li 
been the 
GARDENERS’ 
— young Wheat, its evenness in growth, and the 
urn, which, in a fairly dry season, is generally ie 
und in the N "о, 
few observations on the preparation of the land by their 
farm 
Ther Chinese 4 e is but surface work compared 
plough sufficiently deep 
is us 
peculiar con- 
to give a new ne to 
he p 
pole is onin en 6 to 7 feet long ; perhaps the к 
юй, the hy idis will be better understood b by imagining 
flat-pronged Potato forks, with the socket 
for As 3 bent t to a ri 
d a long pole inserted therein, When 
urned up with this fork, the labourer, holding the | road, 
р 
handle at its extremity 
„raises the fork — his head, 
and buries it in the d 
groun 
e 
clod of earth is МИР ed up by t eople 
n work in pairs. enetrating the 
und at the same we and —- ә ach поли, the 
lod i is prized up in large mass The work 
is is very Дэу апа E performed, s and these forks 
ways used heavy where 
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677 
ut ten guineas. The Cornish districts were 
ld. The i omia 
d 
named Wellington got about 407. ‘worth of gold 4 sheep 
ston, and Mr. Calve rt had obtained gold from m the granite 
est 
игү көк. found in the copper for ages, an 
(Ма Eino had discovered itin many of the ores and 
, Buttermere, 4 у, and a 
fine "lump of gold gossan, which weighed originally 
ed oz. The th ode distriet had ж been 
orked for its river * n Clydesdale and Niths- 
"tona but in his (the lee 
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2 
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bso: 
quid, and freed ome pre 
deleterious gases evolved T ecomposition, whieh we 
hold to aped the chief 9 5 gained by this mode of G 
ap wag 
cus 
nure there 9, рерге be said ; in its 
s used principally 
for vegetable products, a little ad appli 
At спе 
то лер. ago, got gold, which at 
in Perth- 
shire, Fifeshire, Sling, 3 and 3 
The Highland Gold 
ed to the r 
of each plant, or po soluti 
vigorating qua of which, to plants, 
believe, ener та E омей To us its effec 
appear ous, in developing their pro- 
perties, лает giri VN feng 
unctions, 
the uri e oed ange worm 
impre n from some experience is, that 
if us total, they are 8 east. very considerable destroyers 
veg ow, raw man "m on the con- 
trary, & ibrar nd fosterers ; the more 
heavily land i is dressed with it, the more fall it becomes 
of on and creeping life, and the gases exuded by 
this ho tbed of nox ious acids our 
with them in their growth 
y] сғрре ge d earry wi 
the taint #4 prida e, which m i is witnessed in 
the failure of the Potato crops, breaks out without any 
visible ciuse, and sweeps ‘off whole fields of produce at 
once. I would call, therefore, teed attention of our 
i 4 1; prejudice 
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reven eso 
ese use, but chemistry will supply nci 7 
is to be obtained in any илтү чөй "a this substance, 
with ferment animal manure, 
ect of this paper to 
strate. , 6 va August, 1853. 
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MENT OF SCIENCE. 
in 
om of action to their respiratory | creased. 
in nearly all 
f these were worked in 
t 
uced from 
refined. The only two gold felds м 
worked had pon, s — ay amounts. 
ire dis of a million to half 
a million, the Wd Fed dite 2 108 ,0001. The 
| Iw Paris two varieties are 
ы, — 
into fm he 15th of open ( 
sown broadcast ; 5 the seeds 
te it over th 
land ; this operation is eei with the aid of a Section E: Geocraruy ann ErnwoLoer.—On the — TTT 
pow fixed to the end a pole, which being dipped into| Production of Gold in the British’ Islands; by J. : 
dhe Packet filled with the disperses it over | Catvert.—From his own exploration, from es 1 
erops by means of a ei sweep gi y the in various works, and com: i Я à _ Correspondence. | 
arm of the labourer to the pole. Sunset is the time for | stated that gold was found in 40 counties in these Preserving late Gooseberries and Currants from N 
Wing the manure, for a very obvious піз, and over an area of 50,000 square miles. He | Birds, dc.—t t nd 
Grass averages a foot high or so the “singe oe thus classified the gold regions :—the West of England, | kind of protection is employed, it is rare to see thes 
(Bes, except on the weakly | hes; and to| North Welsh, Mid-En land, Northum Lowland, | kinds of fruit much later than August ; owing to the 
tie е would call the attention of oyr readers, who will БА sce gear einster, Fishes of England | ravages made by other v at that season 
? that by this system a farmer is enabled to to bring | regi be divi ided into three d of the year, when most kinds of field crops are ga 
eard any portions of a erop which may be one p mouth, or West Secun In Corn- | in, together with the unfavourable effect of rain on the 
rh use or other more backward than the rest. Indeed vili fs ar нйн SB ES EVA HN. tO EM | ШАЛК, e e 
M" care and judgment, acquired by practice. old n known to on the i 
HEP employed in reguinting the times for ma” en ce ay а — gold, pobre d ES DA aad sire o not destroyed 
ig КОЁ and the quantities used; the result, however, | been slightly worked y uf hristopher Haw qudd i асс An In large gardens, where there is a sufficiency 
rapidly developed in the great strength shown y Ladoch. The largest Cornish ru sor hd aM of allow of devoting a portion to this purpose, 
