MA 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
hat disappointment which your D 
©]. 3 MJ I would merit, if I took, by pr оху, 
the advice of any draining engineer or practical perso 
2 although E conceives he has discovered that I — 
no practical knowledge of draining: yet h А һе given 
my paper anything like an impartial perusal, he would 
have perceived tha was aware of the fact E 
and unsatisfied with the knowledge I possessed, other- 
wise 
i and be qualified, 
neas a day, 
d upon, on i drainage 
; I think, for I benefit of his. mor 
5 reed fellow- ereatures, he mi ht 
his «беге unedifying paragraph by 
eld be as described, it may be 
rms of such — such 
hich nothing could have been more 
easy, and ihing else was expected. 
Stoppage o of Drains by the p Аг Trees.— The most 
stance which er seen came under 
seasoned 
saying, * If J. R. B.'s 
thoroughly Sed. by x 
inch pipes ; for some 
rains in connection with 
ea "m slight inelination, and for the 
E RA = eight weeks the which drains 
verse, a distance of Bi or 600 yards, has indicated a 
ех of opia rity which p. not satisfactorily 
accounted for e it was probable that 
a pipe had 1 given 5 7 — a — stoppage had in con- 
sequence taken place, as I could see fro Wd test-pot 
e$, the current was not zn ous as in 
hich m WD lel with it, -= received 
I conse 
mass of roots 1 occupied the 
pel of about 
29€ I 
ric — it, бу Maa e — 
rogressive 
over the 
n 
tendency to seek 
rapidi when in contaet with 
to be ust, 
and "Alders are particularly mis- 
but most trees w 
great 
E gil vour- 
respect ; 
quantity 9. fibrous pte when in "ML 
posi 
to get pulverised, and ма Y. it as — perhaps in 
greater doses a — en ons’ dung. В. — 
Lois- Weedon Cul e peruse =; е ral 
аря іп 3 2 ritual Gazette on the subject с of die 
Lois- Weedon of g Corn, ave cer- 
tainly come to ‘the “conclusion, that if fee ci the 
B 
Rev. 3 Ses “iva ss advocates, of producing crops with- 
out m oun m the Royal Agricultural | s 
ust be very much i 
Society "of, ‘England m 
ground, when they are at the 
f 1000/7. for a manure €— in fertilizing 
properties to Peruvian guano, This sum I would s 
gest, э applied to = Mr. Smith’s — P aee be th зе 
of giving i air trial, and, if successful, we 
— not hear so much of the farmers bei 
pi oi er ever man 
&nrittits. 
BirMINGHAM.— We утуе from the мутан delivered 
at the annual meeting of the Midland Counties Society 
that delivered by Mr. — and in et Ae J “The Manu- 
fac = Apos Wie M — 1 Impl 
NS, Een. — a he rejoiced to find 
— which bad been committed to his 
ast 12 or 13 years, ever since the commence- 
prone’ Society, one of the happiest days 
e wa 
in the "list of — 
harge. For the 
— of — Royal a 
the him 
months by the | to Feypt—s со 
course 
ill produce а f. 
1 world, h 
Freies the inereasing r of its agricultural implements bade 
fair to establish as ds е in that as in any other department 
e skill. Hear, heart He vm felt, in — at a 
ted With stoc had this 
particular dia ‚проп our regard, that vie the — was 
brought toge ether by those who had an object in view with which 
t themselves familiar, the implements were manufac- 
^ f he 
hêt 1+ 
— eir that were өш уст peach was uo LM 
for mter — —— e — at first sight confused, they were 
— 
. With per^ n to the 
Hop ever mane — — struck by the immense number 
2 үү — ees s ted, x. heavy soils, others 
or soils, and ot! — still or soils of a middle description. 
In id at them AM had often felt the Siy of the motto— 
cies non — us 
ee a m 
“it was eve ever. pem 
It was — 8 th at the plough owed 
ich the Nile, by its Mom 
e true рата g leaving little fo 
ose the sun-baked surfac 
n this k king- 
ether 
cultivator of the y foils 
do its origin 
r the plough ‘bat 
pt 4 G 
in which the olfato made it im- 
| constructed for 
E behalf of the ne Highland Society of Scotland. This 
r, for | he 
as an implement for light — it 
hab final а 
wee | 
to re- 
in Parliament o or elsew here, | he he always felt more ais 
elt 
— speak, and he had ‘little to er aan 
cordially ғ concurred i їп what had fallen fro ” 
тпе 
> vemen 
posed to liste: lis 
occasion, ма 
апа а gre eat dedi. " 
* — had been 
* — e of land to be d 
ny hedges to be re 
mporting foreign corn, they 
gn nure, is appeared to him a si 
terr —— of the long differences between the — 
free-traders. 
re came e to light, Lon 
enable farmers to grow a supply of corn for thisco 
e dabei could not have 1 The free- d 4, at tey 
mport corn; the farmers said, “ No, we would apa 
nm re, gr w corn pets " The free-traders said 
all 8;" and so question settled honourably i 
parties. (Laughter.) He heartily wished the su у of guano 
were not a monopol e ral Society Was going 
Chincha Islands—that it was 
ially to those islands, — 
Admi ral в aid t the 
Tal 2 
тер 
ference especi 
"- чү -— that the 
gnl na 
Admi ral was right. 
had — told that a an че as у 
ft 
n government 2 — Hove showed adis- 
position to appropriate, — from which h 
supply « could be obtained. ee ould not he ba — ina that 
had been discovered nitrate of 
sis. the properties of which were such, that if a railway were 
its transit, ү Sor ig ** come into important 
(Hear, hear.) He had to return thanks on 
reminded him 
that on the last occasion of that kind, he indulged in a kind of 
Mery Lra to — farmers of the East Lothian. He wished to take 
tion 
farme 
be — sg sorry to be supposed for a mo 
he farmers of t the East Lothian ; he was 
was bound to 
former occasion, he was mistaken in жаршы that it was good 
and only that was so well farmed in the East Lothian, mui 
been there since, he had — — a the reet farmers, 
those of — had i ed 
hitherto of any signal i p 
lately be 
— . be would — that. he did not look forward to а con- 
tinnance of the prese rices. He trusted мед йн 
prices would not Sar de. gentleman to relax in improvement 
that they would not prevent landlords from їшїп their lani, 
fòr a rainy day or a fall of prices. 
ti Soc 
the Chair r.— 
BT had reason “to congratulate | themselves on | what had been 
done, they future. 
21.—Hannx CHESTER, Esq, in 
was “On Pettit’s 
ETY oF Arts, Dec. 
as Hey . mrad be say t is, — be пан he was surrounded | Fisheries Guano,” by Mr. 
^ : n. ose gentlem — 1 
1e grins | ing, but by those who knew how much might be dane by | commenced by stating that 
drains. little originality, and who would join with him in the regret that | Stood to have been introdu 
Te was not a little more of that genius shown which ventured by Von Humboldt, in 1804 ugh 
not | to leave the old path, and to adapt itself more to the spirit of the | as object of merchandise in 1839. It had been used 
cb, in this It was not by ME е old arts of war that polen in P d^ 600 
; ed the armies ta it was kei. follow. 
astance, в | а few | ing in the ancient н senes that E Galileo, deposita jes had been for age the 
"es tree, it | and Herschel, truths of — (Неаг.) of the State 28 1841, Professor Johnston 
dis. | He held, ety vith i oio to pu nam lication of steam to the culti- | price of 5l. em. in this eoun ту, and not 
tance t vation of the and m cially to clay soils, the attempt g P spot; and having 
reds ul | to unite bs tha plough w rroneous In tilling light soil, the | More than’ 27. bs. — 21. 10s on the t which the 
f i ater | object was to press it as as possible, while with clay | made an analysis ula ted the price à added to 
distance, - any one | the object was to lift it as, Tightly as it could bl xtreme amount of "fertilisi matter might þe 
these roots, and the way they have filled the drains ; also | lee it М. the more a plough was ada the soil fi he „ his country (41 
the effect of the draining in the pro. of the vet d the less it. became an е а —— for 1 the the soil from the manu А sh 
applied to whilst superi ats d ding 2 ya fa = ‚1 3 — eal the — It was necessary that the soil | 97. 10s.) he deduced that th British — for Peri- 
„or со ts 1 
on Primrose Hil, s Park. P. “Mitchell 63, atmosphere, or raid; and he believed this yir vian Guus, Му. Philip Pusey also gave the se 
5 instrument wor hear. E i 
Ay АА, Р riy if Steam was no longer an ngireng 3 i с apay ur 2 opinion. Of the excrementitious matter "9, 14 
da to once te anure.—If a 45 e {фо agriculture, but it was an argumen birds, a very large rtion was decompose bn. and. 
were pu 3 to 4 inches Pk would it aa —— n farm-yard to the field, and be the o of e as ext from it ot af 
ird m virtue - it than if s sp ped t ere long they would witness that greatest triumph . 2 ) А is country. Proof d 
Ў "Т seo in your tj да * “ыл = steam-en ne which would adapt its power to the ever-vary- more still before its arrival in adio f might be 
surface | liquid рен re x n un ties o clay of — nd. Reverting to the | the rapid depreciation of guano in keeping by M. 
) fruit trees, y making holes that their than 8 were peculiarly due to | found ses of the g of birds by P 
inches deep the tree, and partl filling them. the fi of implements, becau Ty implement 11 e UT inder found in 
It M me the -— ^d 5 produced W. increase of wer "an hand, Coinder and Sir Humphry Dav Coi * un i 
* that де ire uiring fresh no t| thereby an mier чөе ни» of the power of the human brain, to which nt excrement 8.61 of pure ammonia; an making 
would more gratefully accept such favours if the surface | the minister. Its P al uses were уана but they | in the form of its equivalent of acid, 35.20, soluble 
round the tree was bared of its soil, and then sprinkled | knev that ph physical power lay at the bottom — and intellec a total of 43.81 per cen vy found that the 
over, re ing the soil i Аа е оре ration. Ё tual nature, and w. e foundation of the highest aims and the wees ы s V from 23 " 
Late sen th Бепебе еен of Баш me n f purse game Resim mte v a I IN 
A А , » rers of in H 
many ways, and m hope ^ Pos a: guts inm. in some | Agricultural Implements.” (Cheers.) 6 months-old, and to 8 per cent, after fermens р 
think, Ж а wipes Dima 45 тач нагла [| ‚ Lonpon Farmer's CLus.—After the annual dinner of ЗРреагей that in five УЬ — (1845-50), nd the world 
B9 А “м J» mE OF | this Club, a number of interesting addresses were deli. | tons of guano had been T ; va » 
= el ag ager weak evaporation. Peru- vered — Mr. Baker, Lord and Mr. Pose for the martes’ of the so f this country ; ly 
779 88. beled among the We make room f or My. | was was generally believed that p^ ер ра of оер 
Pusey’s speech :— Peru was past. From the m ammo- 
Mr. Pusey said he pv: felt great pleasure in accepting the rent varieties it was seated that tne amount of 
honour ЕС * лер ; С the invitation to attend i was in ан таң т cent. j 
fing to i ile fg | 38 pe cnt i Capo and Algoa Bays 2907 Sh 
1 ety, to attend the annual i and in 
MERI crt RUN IET Meals sand nex te 
t whil ith- 
ld Club had for couraged fat cattle, the heed еве — t of phosphate of beg) 
кт ter Ш if he raised a | аео ho confieso seed tenen пећ diffe — * Bon di rod Dele 55. 40 pe per nit n p ; and 
eov ed «е 
ering over ene quite dry, allowing it t | cattle of July and the cattle of December. (Laughter.) Whether per cent.; in Cape and Algoa Bay, 20 00 per 
