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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Fesrvary 14, 4, 1857, 
o is so 
oting growth 
that we are liable to overlook sm 
which w 
equa ‘al 
Thus superphosphate tells well upon the 
iacal substances there is 
ason to believe > that superphosphate neafiied 
in secilartite quantity to the cereal crops will prove 
remunerative 
It will be doin ng something to break down a 
manure ae a which has to be contended with 
vario us for purchasers s will oy: deal with 
market, and the fair eer pieniem encouraged. 
But let every farmer be assured also 
i 
saving soap-suds, dish washings, and re of all 
kinds about the house and homestead, he will 
soon have a good substitute for several h d 
weights of guano. One : eman ‘stated before 
the Club that his waste matters - aa Am 
were 207. a-year to him ing 
Chandler’s water drill in applying sane sk: his port 
rther sav 
able mieg he effect 
considerable - 
-| Ichaboe kept dow 
y 
very | obje 
or a fresh impost of six times the present amount 
of his income tax. ‘He then gives the history of the 
Koorya-Morya expedition, The islands ceded 
to Great Britain b 
at the mews arrived 
“ The me however, of a valuable and 
extensive guano deposit has been ascertained ; 
islan ds aa b 
agricultural and Aourias interest to a that the 
ritish Government w. mediate measures 
S 
for 
y ship loads of guano to be imported before 
the ¢ Sens of the image year 
r en,” says Mr. — “is a ground f 
definite action on the part of the agiciilimat hranim 
against t Co pes oly. e discovery: 
of Peruvian guano for 
many years. A like effect “an assuredly follow the 
introduction of extend’ siv 
T 
It is right unquestionably that the Government | secur Our national agricultural societies, having 
and the National Agricul tural Soci uld | no political sate cannot act with much 
interests of the agriculturist by finding | effect on wi Gove rnment; ‘but let the farmers 
t and securing new deposits of guano; b ey throughou tl — s 
ought not and hag sae be relied upon to do this. | earnest, ret them p it on their re ves in 
It is needless in farmers as till these bodies Parliament, a it is a question A r which all 
moye—rather let sng omptly selves, as'a | British porama o united, it will-soon obtain that 
body specially organised Be the purpose of obtain- 
of 7} portable manures, gonos they will be doing 
more to break down a hurtful monopoly than they | 
could do in any pers Let the farming in- 
terest be true to itself, and there is no fear but 
the Government and the National Societies will be 
prompted to effective aentaraiinn e action. Jf, 
free leck of guano from Peru, whether arising 
sof the stores or from that 
pore $ ent which, seems to be i separable 
from sianopily, will have two effects, arising out of 
bers consequent rise in the 
seem 
posit of equal quality 
- Mr. Caren’s recent account of them and 
of the expedition to them. given in Imes NEWS- 
paper shows that the failure of the spaliti has 
om the i f the Indian Government 
rotection 
‘ater the ¢ circumstances Of the Persian ue to wae 
the armed which the trading 
b 
with that of! tical 
‘both | have 
degree of attention from , Government which its 
great importance demands.” 
A CORRESPO cent number ~~ the 
Agricultural Gazi cule kaiii to his 
of cattle feedin e has a lo 
except at 
The account he gives end es ase] 
doing very well; and he asks—“Do 
think tk the u could assimilate a 
ish t 
greater aiaa 
noarishm my food 
to 
e | pass through ti lhem unapproprinted TA the system.” 
w 
ow this is.a st on whic 
of the 
akami oia 
answer. The ments 
of _the 
abo 
very lean state,’ 
expected to be “ fat “Ae “the end of unie a The 
fitness of food davende not m the consider: 
ation of animal n ton the aralar of the 
animals in aonais and of that we have no suffi 
cient account. Well bred short-horn eattle would 
make the full use of a 
much richer diet 
here s specified while ill-bred pant: 
bon waste it. 
—a ‘Sek. of mountain 
se at 
and on anal 
the same 
al he. quantity estimated to be on 
is is between 1 hn OO aa 
Camp’ 
soi ap stadt Shoo hae d Arerio have 
more mutton on ‘the "of a Down or 
ester and yielded a mo: 
return though noes to sheep cos tier n snag te fos 
- or 40s. each, than to the mountain flock which 
The same holds true in other breeds 
and animal 
The feedi of as d 
to well-bred 
which 
shorthorn Steers in 1 the aas yards of Yorkshire, | "°F 
be table there, | 
figures Pig all I assert 
paar the one | very 
tarvelings a 
ve before us an at instance Minsteire' a i a 
ied of 
were imported at a cost of little more than a a pound | dit 
a 
Th 
stances 
te breed to which it belongs. 
anagemen a well-bred animal in 
in te iaa food, a attendance that would betha. 
away upon a Kyloe. 
learn from the Moniten 
Chater, near Slo . wish the public 
th a has at last been se i ia 
really can plough with economy .as offie 
Since ipo Chelmsford and Boxted cia i pha 
reat impr. have been im the 
and steering of the ploughs ; the merepi 
of the are now self-acting, ‘being 
when by the sa 
and so stationed along wi 
length of more than ‘half a mile of rope could ide 
to ace about two days’ work.on one side, 
that was completed, —— al extent og Í 
on er. ‘Owing to 
then on the engine I was hira to ma A a 
engaged ; an t the att acer Preset sweep 
ei ht or nin 
i 
two hours the e at at eed | 
l acre 25 perches—say, at the sth p; pape | 
short ive men 
winter day. were working me 
Mo, and plough, and a man and horse 
and tear, &e., and cloning ona 
e engine and tackle every fourth day, I estimatet 
383., or about Ts. 7d. per acre, But the machinery wa 
interent, meat 
h ‘frame, ae would be best 
Karae been available for plonghing 
allowable so to trespass on : space I : 
assert ; and I believe roe re 
ment of the capabilities of the apparatus, as 18t 
it in work, to: Pip that it — just as well pd 
© | ploughing six as five acres per day, A 
cost 6s. tis per acre "By Adopting another form 
windlass, with self-windin ing mechanism, it appears to t 
that the aaam of one man might ‘be dispensed vil, Th 
bringing se down to only 6s. per acre. 
field oe a “very level Wheat stubble, and eens 
ing 54 inches deep, were bringing up one 
ng gti by Home si a 
in a common aan and y I su suppose, & 
re at the lowest computation of the reat N 4 i 
furrows were ifully is J 
i th Sabai ven, the slices well 
laid ; and the only se cmt eng needed 
additi tion of 
unmoved soil, an 
wi see amet 
ot te Wont, ME E 
implements didnot plough at al 
not 
ie 
