W 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[JANTARY 17, 2857, 
an.animal mapure in.a-state of the most per rfect 
reservation, and in the best possible pose nn 
shemically: for sayin to. the soil. This condition 
a healthy stud, arae and 
e ‘sup the advantages incidental 
theret o, Mr. Murray enjoys ‘at little or no cost, 
s the effects of the Disinfecting Powder in ‘drying 
the pavement, y enables him to economise his 
under favourable circumstances, that itis not, per~ 
manent nor even leng-liy 
fixers or disinfectants that we have 
y what we ae cic. 
eed, - use for these 
lain that) for disinfecting ‘stables, 
* feeding heheh cattle stalls, &c., it re] 
unfitted, Age to its corrosive and $e properties, 
bei e 
rsg: isa kunra which sha (straw as to effect a eine greater than the cost i 
i hi ff _of the Diotcing Powder 
2. Prevent putrefactivo ferme entation, so that the Ofthe immense loss sera iting the ordinary 
offensive smell, being once na shall not set decomposition of farm Dr. VÒELOKERS 
in again n from the same substan writings in the Journal of the » English A fa 
3. Com bine reserve, inv fi a pas is 
Society and elsewhere inform us. easy 
a? a elements which form the food of Benga of this loss en Rada: passage from 
4, And be cheap and easily procurable, 
FLT EEN Ss pamp san illustra’ 
This is the way in which the problem is proposed | ‘ idea is losins that the A exeuia 
“ The Preservation of 
” ‘eons eà emamaa in æ sa of putrescence : this 
ina pamphlet on Manures, A 
s quite neous; a ave ed “that 
am owe Fahiree Y pergi by i the paias air healt aries are never putreseent 
r voblem . They should never be — ed to become putrescent, 
HITTAKER Co., 
M'Doveatt claims to have solved this pro 
he quotes a number of testimonials to hi 
success from the keepers of piggeries, cowhouses, | 
stables, Rib veterinary surgeons, from m phy: | 
sicians, and o 
? as it can onl 
“« 2 able, or more liable to become putrescent, and t 
on fective. ive disinfectan in, said the date Professor a s and detaclosation wee carelessness ae 
nEs wit h both the alkaline and acid products | neglect 
i d 
ches increased if, 
emical it at t ti 
or ea Rae pin mot dar daai P hi 4 — = AE will Tarn 
| if it T the other disadvantage 
et and still ‘more. produces one that is pueive y | from a last extract -which we make from a pam 
Mr: M‘Dovearn’s disinfer tant, whieh shila | paemes that deserves to be eidal read and “amretélly 
rte ie 
Aai hovi w great 
s Berabed may be agathered |, 
y answers eal ne ription, is a com- | pr 
pound of two m sehia acid and carboli c| “The instant that dung or em comes into con- 
acid, and two ine, magnesia and lime. These | tact wit Pa air, it is ae ble t 
anne in 2 k — salts, aa sulphite 
late of lime. 
ofeasive products o of putrefaction aahi decompose 
d «rendered in y phurous acid, | 
aid the further mer to ‘of putrefaction is hindered time to air and 
by the so-called carbolic acid, which i of the m continually decrease in -value 
arts of coal: naphtha, aide ry the pro- | my Toms ei effete, nothing 
woody This pro e 
of mag- Some.of i ments assu 
The pass into on 
” 
component p perro but 
eked haiti ces, and 
fer ly of. preventing putrescence. It is com- a This ma is 
ais elin apies in order to dry and reduce it to of manure 
pow —— ono acid 
the 
wating the ee evil suffered by the farmers. 
ins pe The = 
ion eo a a yields gases 
of the most : Hotini tea 
to health ; and where it: is Permitted, the evil con- 
r 
of sewage or other simila 
matter in an re stage of | wher are ke 
considerable 3 of the general ‘health of the pind from 
says Mr. M‘Do toadd |W. siie neither the farmer, 
eater as the quantity of phosphoric 
to 
heir 3 
from disease which has 
kindred ca 
and preserve the poen A 
ammonia jand tin ial weiadda 
e iat fo pa the a ~of Re of the 
Powder yon Such is the theory: of ‘the Disinfecting 
pos nuaber af illustrations are given of the = 
Fy Saad bs gi prac 
K Tae the diseases -of our plants oe ets over 
yan i; ai: Mae is oe assertion of a 
ent cf the Times, who o face aici 
the utilisation of London. sewa 
or elsewhere, wind as a 
carrier of pestilence, but a it a end in our 
elt 
ell as brea 
of 
u 
l an assertion we have lately met with pre 
ar most valuable Heper Pleuro-pneumonia in ‘the cow es of 
Edinburgh has ‘iat attributed to the over succulence 
= es Grass pAr e cele water meadow 
ea nnip 
hat it is only for a time, 
> any one TELFER’S: cows conti 
the of the cows fed upon 
Edinbur, 
rid manure, no gaseous amm 
is sweet and wholesome ; ‘the dun g heap is RT a 
without smell when it is temoved, ‘which 3 
500 tons are accu, 
o 
satiated seldom Pap an exists pon a in’ agriculture it is there 
fumes or aak i traces of Bes i A the 1 sera 
Tig ae 
by the ga of decom 
BER escaping be ezpl 
pa the at scons produe k tiana 
eats ere. Thi is ar ee e instance of that succulent —— dds distributed at Covent 
delivered s tehe, annual meeting of th the È Bakewell LF: aran Chose Garden, the Borough, ret else M Mie ich is due 
| | |to a manuring far more “ yee poor 
afterwards at the City Hall, Perth. g 
ist oe Wareracen & Cos Avà Lane, | Sewage water is ever likely to 
wo 
ing existing disease as the result of all 
sé al recently been 
till 
and w 
oih- 
‘adadhis fii 
only, nor| di 
most detrimental | proce 
lin some 
rmed aec of: ow 
| aapea be perfeetly flat-and cleared out, and ry land side 
me rte of late oe is justly attributable to | E 
ing poisonous 
ues as it was: the health tee is ex] 
; attach great imp 
ariii on the perisa being cut 
h 
F raaa it will pean EA to grow, whereas if effi 
a skim-coulier ' (which is 3 really a 
REMARKS 4 
ON PLOUGHS AND. ia jA 
Tue plough is yg apes the most an 
of-agriculture, and is al 18 i 
may e des ibai an instrument for cutting 
rese curve 
eoch-raifh wheels 
oi rs made 
abruptly turned, or gradually ew 
furrows to the le ft, others to the right_—whilet the t turn. 
wrest B pn lays the furrows in one direction, and 
almos t asgreat a variety existsin these turnwrests as 
nthe apar n 
any reasons might be-adduced to account forgy 
great a =u, but doubtless the chief cause ene heen’ 
t the manufacture of this important io piena has 
ya al ra uch in uae 
scientific men, each | 
Nelle producing its favour 
maker 
ere sha ape of av illage wc! ight or black — t 
communi. 
smith, g ploug 
ekto. ibaik fancies and prejudices : but since the a i 
lishment of the Royal Agricu re perme: ety a different 
fain 
eng ar these r 
way fo the implem te 
Having said = much upon ‘varieties we will now 
yaeta ra ect plough -and 
ploughing, OR the latter, as do all good 
n oni 
E we regret to say is so gen 
formed as though it were a matter of no consequence, 
sli 
“hee 
CVEDINOTICe 
at right ae with it, for unless the flow 
the depth is irregula 
r— 
nough importa: 
portions of the:plough, viz., the share and coulter. _ 
en, in many cases not known, that more ape 
Bie | 
often » bre in this operation than in the 
one of mov: 
W 
3S 
emain. in. and if the form 
and made of steel = plough will work pra 
furrows should be Jaid 
ra loti h is corr its turning turning 
pitaa “ati A gp able to turn well i yf ine "a 
they a are narrow, 
importance to any vi table matter 
off and turned ins far 
if left, as is too cuse, a ou 
urned in it will deeay an 
bere of drawing its own 
the - e of the er 
med by two simple ic Sprei 
