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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
LSeBUARE 14, 1857, | 
Mr. Ben Gan eet the escape of effluvia from 
farm- concession to my argument, but 
stronger instance brought forward in the 
healthful o m sh ploughed guts ane the 
fetid exhelntideld from a fresh-stirred rank ¢ yard. 
That t in i 
organic may 
are brought into, a solub 
fi capable of volatitiation. 
p d are indeed seldo 
efficent to effect partial sapere io 
manure the plants (the Bev) aha ye 
their ‘eid sands ‘with’ the quick evaporating guano ; that 
stom ae soil, and both 
er d Soman during their 
grow n the mountains ‘ot Don he w 
(before the disease) accustom to 
tatoes a second time whats maei lia" high, with 
mush c sequent increase of produce. From all this 
«hot conclude Mood there are yp n 
gh their leaves gia the soil by evaporation of the 
kobi matters in it, and that t 
poran as well as their evapora 
nuous breakings up of the surface. ast Goodiff. 
Speen bd Manure— Although farm 
on of artificial man 
: will do toa 
extent roporti their knowledge of its be appointed to inquire into the cra of the Society, | 
value, and their aye lesire to cries m eee of pati with power to const ider specially w ents ca 
occupation. One feai uch hom ufactur be made to dim nish the expenses p Hoe ountry mee 
take to be th earing arte f ‘the aL ings of the Soc et . That the Finance Committee, with 
e time » Sa June or July, after eae vie a pi ona and Vice-Presidents, be the said 
ich ti and A requested to report to the Council 
0 oun den nd refuse, used 
with Tares, Rye-gr. lover, and ot n food, will 
the t to have a tolerably large heap ready 
for the Wheat after Clover, or the Clover after 
everything depends upon the quantity of Say crops, | > 
he fa: 
rmer. 
Beasts of all ages should be nearly in n the proportion of 
4 head of cattle to every 20 acres of land, un oe 
stock of young horses take thelt | place, and 3 Tong t hal 
this Plita ee should be hay aa with from 4 Ibs. to 8 iba, 
Our plan is art the 
from the yards to Pié feld ‘here it ‘vill be be used, Ti age 
spot near and, and pack u 
ld rectaugalsr heap bc 6 Rey high, p e it with 
as | two-thirds of this cro 
states t 
e- | have been plo 
decided between them is. 
o 
tion is anh py t 
è XPENSES, 
following resolution w: 
he 
Meeting j in Ma 
e| How 
f fas 
hash ter a 
he on 
ant afte 
oer to harvest the crop at his own expense. 
crop of Oats ys am in September, sae: “st 
was topor ed i miri r Jun aa 
ring w ith Whea aps 
aaiae, 1855, aes i ten The cutgoer n 
, but “the incomer objects, and 
that to constit ae a summer fallow the land x Her 
ughed in autumn and me, wed in spring. 
ur ully on this 
lim d man 
and he contends that 
for each of a sban 
the suit of his landlord, his tha ina 
“Wh 
A Welsh Farmer. [We sh m i tbat the land in 
G estion had received a llow according to 
e | your account of what was dons ag 
Societies. 
clases ety OF ENGLAND 
iobenty Covad eb. Mr. EvkLYN DENISON, 
M.P., — in ‘iarehais! ` Fifty-three new members 
were e 
NANC ae —Mr. 
Raymond Barker, Chairman of oe 
inance Committee, 
gm 
presented the report on 
t n 
The current cash-balance (including the subscription of 
15007. from Salisbury) in the hands of the hanke: 
27231. 
—On the motion of Lord Portman, th 
se.— Mr, Raymond Barker, Chairman of ‘the 
House -Comunilieren e, reported on es execution of the 
repairs = red at a former ons 
JOUR r. Thompso ns Chin n of the Journal 
Committee, Taid o on the ibis 3 
along with 
among other es, to the 
made with the prag Veterinary ue 
for or the p iublieation of gine delivered by the p 
f the institution belor the members of 
Soci eesi 
apeo Lncrones We AN en Hoskyns, Chair- 
of the Chemical Com mittee, reported the recom- 
of the aishan that lectures on the follow- 
ing subjects should be delivered by Professor whi the 
consulting chemist t to the society, in the course of the 
res 
I. On zie rly o of manures, and to what extent it is 
tat? 
etaton. 
vo 
» Chairman of 
mmittee, reported the hatte 
the Ganada AE 
road mortar, ashes, or soil dug from a trench e inquiries of the Committee on points connected 
round e man two or three weeks after | with the e preparation en the Sho roadie and the aiteatibe 
being thus formed fermentation will ensue, and it may avilion 3 cil accepted from the 
be turned over to lay a few weeks long acquire à | authorities of Salisbury a schedule of prizes for p- 
good ammon smell ; it where i D wt nting 02. Colonel 
epre and at once in, if not on seed or Gras Challoner, chairm of the Implement Committee, 
ae these heaps we pile a yard high from the reported the miregon of that committee on the 
5 ae emer es first, then a from bullock ao = the terms and conditions of the prizes to be 
gso Orders were 
rtment i" the show. 
then a give y the council for final arrangement and 
publication a the two prize “shouts for the Salisbury 
meeting. 
EMBER OF CouNcIL.—On t 
conded by ; 
he motion of Mr. Mil- 
of Castleacre. 
cation having been 
at Koorya-Moorya, on the coast of 
present time, of the supplies to be derived from 
locality. 
WEEKLY e Feb. 11: Mr. Raymonp Barker, | ( 
eed. | V. T Tentene 
ips. By 
TEN lover the field to harbour in 
ax nana ne Tt ia a custom of this country that 
n outgoir j entitled to mica a Gat 
f his 
t pure saltpetre, which Prof. W 
alae’. at Sa wed! too. ‘The altið tis Bopati Wi gece 
aan had bee obtaided! extended Deyan a a 
of 20 miles. 
the 
adoring communications were PEE from 
announcing the ete A of immense 
djof one mi 
ing, a if he has not 
- | properly fallowed or cultivated his land, or has rendered 
- | himself liable to an action ndry at | t 
mi 
parna ates of the Society, and laid before the Council the 
usua 
ers sealing ‘this snieip ly Di 
It w 
o :—*That a Committee | 
topi 
rai ot oe Journal, e mii end the satisfactory | 
Guano DEPOSITS.—A co’ 
read from Mr. Cáird, in ra to the guano by pes | 
a-M Arabia, the Presi- 
it 
tation from their body, and ; cattle : 
i to represent to his lordship the importance, at the 
that 
OF "Niraz.—Prof, Deg -~ ee x 
e report 
Foreign Offi 
smother : * 
ARABIAN Guano.—Mr. Caird, in reference to tiem 
the late 
ani of tia etl Koorya-Moor a Island 
ihe yA “islands, produe 
British Govern 
a3. ersia the necessary arm 
s of the coast would ha 
might have 
B 
9 
r being bro 
G ould be made to load one 
ne mtg! smal cargoes miine efore t the setting i pa of b 
possible both of r the mpd ana quantity in “balk, It 
onsoons i 
r England could not be oret 
rated. as the best peat in wat pow oe 
thi Peravian ag y; 
g monopoly which bá for one ma dl 
would not use the Peruvian guanoatil 
opinion he was strengi- — 
ened by a of ‘hie friend Mr. ~n of Castleacr, 
who had come to a similar determination, and í 
e was eni to any principle of. exclusive bgr | 
= make be were 
a effec 
oon tty sey determination xt 
<praers sgt to abstain fro 
Peru uano while the price Borei 80 A 
iaoa macik a telling effect on the Peruvian monopoly. 
A discussion ensued— 
1. On the bes ere effects arising from the improper us I 
ber: on imperfectly drained land, especially it 
se of root crops, and in that of = regnant ewes and othe — 
paca fed upon them ; and ge e greater economy 
manure from ordinary s source i 
. On the improvement ra A introiit into the matt- ; 
facture of superphospha i 
On the adoption of menses for eigen i a reduction 
_the Pre: sent t high charge for guan 
tised re uuprineipled d and i ial 
persons, nid ae between theim porter and the loa 
v N 
guano being mt 
und guano, aud the whi 
6. On farmers had shown for ce 
Peruvia male crops, in conseque 
less amount of ai atomy and the greater p 
phosphates the former containe: 
. 7, On the white oe = phosphate of lime covering seat 
near the n consequence of the decay a | 
organic matter, and ‘the concretion of the mineral T 
stances in that manure, this crust, DOW valued 
or 7%. per ton, having been thrown into the pc” ne w 
sands of tons as worthless, from ignorance 
value, for ag purpose of getting 
eath it. 
which manure must be presented 1% 
os r cece us foods 
Ain pote were > daddi with much a 
Mr. Caird, Prof. Way, ah Alcock, MPa M the Reb 
Hobbs, Mr. Cavendish, Prof. Simonds, an 
Vernon 
E Dısease.—Communications w wali if 
tibet hi the Foreign Office on the subject of of the semið 
burg Cattle Distemper, Professor ordeal the i* 
that the English Government had interdi j 
being the rl of introducing pleuro-p® 
mouth and foot disease of 1839, ‘which 
on 
English ask “4 and showed itsel gly Í ri 
Paris Show, was occasioned by the animals over-exerie 
i railways), and an uns 
(S 
rivation from food. 
The meeting concluded 
eve 
s : } 
with statements oun? . 
ete 
. Athawe’s new lever-fork ‘for loosening the soil mi 
rows, manufactured by Parkes, inghs™ 
by Burgess & Key, Newgate Bie 
ah aoe en A seed of f ploughing by horse 
ploughing ng by of 
tracti fon, and 
der difire ap 
io 0, 
on, and. Sy 
econoom’ 
E 
pene hi vio 
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