178 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. | Marca 14, 1857; 
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for the little use that is made of the chemist as the we have seen, sufficient to throw yas rare: ; nee ere Ry ae otherwise, contains Mai The 
policeman of the manure market. There would be | fairness of them all. As instance of the kin conan winnower, and separator. Dhe tas tren omy 
no difficulty at all, however, in taking a handful of | remarks which in some cases, have been made, we English for st ass o sekite aah are not shaka 
the stuff across the street and giving the necessary | cite the following on the Kilkenny model farm. erushers, „steaming kaieran ne aona enttery ake hakem, 
ita verbally for its ——, there. And| “ Leaving a chief farm on the ‘ model’ principle, food fo ock. prepa 
when means of this kind sha s be at hand in every | we find Kilkenny far up in the list of expenditure. < chopping cutters are better for han 
. l 2L., Miaa cutting machines are best for horse or 
consi sidneable country town aaa find that the | Last ye ear as 483/., and the income power. The apparatus insuring an intenoiten ? Sa 
chemist is, what he is well qualified to be, the entire | showing the ha ndsome balance of 4717. in favour of sion Tarsi thè imaan pe Bn = a RO protea 
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check to the whole system of roguery in the manure | | agricultural quackery.” cutters are revolving discs, on cylindrical or pam ar Turnip. 
market that is wante - | To this there is the following very satisfactory | with pr ojecting kniy es; capablo of cutting slice slices or fing 
pieces or shreds, ese last, whi are comin; 
The cost of ngs cess of analysis, however, is | | answe a ‘ ing=—"The | the food: At for mixing itch ae ron s into aoi 
rai all bo oa difienlty i val the way of its general [See lie veaditiie of this case are the following seDhor ocaten-in oaiit Turnip. 
his arises extent no doubt out | agriculturist took charge of the farm in March, 
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inly and indeed almost entirely from the time) possession of the land. Live and dead stock were | THE THICK AND THIN SOWING DISCUSSION, 
involved ini its superintendence. We refer now to| of course: purchased to consume the Grass aud/ Jy a late number of your Paper you itni 
the analysis of manures. A process- which occupies | prepare the land for anu Does it appear strange, | your views.on this question by the supposed. experiente 
a day or two cannot be a cheap one; and when — then, that the receipts were not higher? It ought | of two farmers, one of the old, the: other of thy 
day or two is of time as valuable as that of men who t o str zt any ee person that there must be | school. The idea is amusing enough, but to with 
rank high in the ree world, and whose en- some way of accounting for the discrepancy. t e de ; 
gagements in other ways are of the most important | | valtiaiion of stock, crops, &e., amounted, at the end | ticn on ee ahaa no “ up of the case for the 
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should be a costly one. The remedies are—(1) to! The balance sheet would therefore mmc — :— st to p ce iy ex 3 mran raramena ae 
age in this work young men whose time is not | Expended, a) $ ‘ae aad 16 n recor sails your general accuracy, judgment, and 
multiply the work to be done. A score of analyses | Receipts, ... £12 15 1 a a seaman Somn Ia oa oa hers allow 
could be: carried on certainly i h less than 20 Valuation, .,. 615 210 627: 1% 11 me to say that according to my orion Ay oa m 
times the period o sie roe re ri gr te armer Holdfast: fair play, 
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many a score of analyses would be forthcoming | Gain on year’s farming, £144 1 3 aggerated the merits of his competitor, “ Mr, Newlight® 
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labour of obtaining them were diminished and MEMORANDA FOR THE AGRICULTURAL | ™yse!f, I venture on the following remarks, the result 
divi wou mu STUDENT, of lon ence, and an > with 
. & ~—-AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. ial 
it were diminished to one-fourth its present amount, That in certain districts and on: ungenial ugly working 
y beli fh (1) Tillage aaa soils, much bad farming pre ayiee: and still conti 
as we n e might. (2) Machines em araa during the cultivation of plants—for prev vail, I do not for one instan eny; bat it does not 
What i e process of anal ysing guano ? a (3) CA seed and manures—for hoeing crops, and reaping. imal follies thietall 
amm arriages. farming, 
onia is distilled off under caustic potash into (4) Implements used in preparing produce for market. Take, for poms orais re counties of Norfolk and ore 
ing muriatic acid, which is ititira | (5) Taimani doaa in ferias food for stock. we ai that from nee pa iod—I daren 
carefully evaporated to dryness, and the m uriate of | Piao ieir i Ron thi nets Sp ign on a six-years’ course may |) long; but far ‘non mieni di fer. 
‘ and one th Fit is i’ 8 carte-and harvest balisi en Brought forward .,, £218 | ROW rogas A the practice of Tibbling, especially Wheat, 
monia. Its phosphates are by means of muriaticacid 4 ic ddranght tr 20 1Turnipsowing machine T | Beans, and Pea: almost universal, to the ex 
mbustion, and ammo- | ép pair = — i pense motions 5) 1m ident say ie. extinction, ns the old-fashioned 
ded to the filtered al and the precipitate | 3 arpea ae arrows 14 hummelier, wei ging east system. This , and is to the preset 
ried, weighed ; its weight | 1 heavy roller and clod- chine, sacks, & 30 | day, in many cases, accompanied by the drill, of which 
ri nearly indicates et of the earthy phosphates , crusher... -.. 1 sp ee gun andi hat 1p | Jethro Tull may be considered the inventor, about 1700; 
eg e two steps essentially Blight do. eE sie Ti 1 psan Aen nome finishing 4 
EN Ned Stable im E bens ments, ia ears soe at vik jens of the Rey, Jams 
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: What quantity of muriatic acid, pine ggg Grass-seed 3 Poe acne ied 25 Cooke, by whom my father, then eli Pying a a farm in 
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Carried forward Tötak isa £340 a knife, now and then a new blade, or a nev 
bed. fire take hom i ; Thre shin ng machine (extra) haisdiós lasted him more than "half = century; p l 
wk k ey (1) Tillage oo “or e plough—the most various in its | be in use m this day for- anything I know to the cot 
anal M Cy clo- | form of any o n. Engin this adk is pr ems S trary ; : having been sold when he retired ioe 
griculture”) is not a communi analysis of giving: way; and. ‘the wheel Pieva as made by 1833, being tiom in fain working condition, be 
| Ransome, Bail, and others, pretty nearly of one kind, is kes ciei in 8 nge 
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pig: MCOUTACY. | taking its place. Except when the surface of the ground is v very | add, in i refere ence to this mplement, that thoug 
it is just such a quantitative caine aS We uneven, the wheel is a desirable appendage to the plough; the | § id tte mproved i erties oe mre: ji Fi 
o save us from those who have epps A parts of the plough should be at Hat Boe. = it the principle of Cooke’s drill re unaltered. 0 
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and.if 40 or 50 such analyses were zontal—the monld-board s he 4) a8 ag = his I am quite sure, that no- drli; could: asii Tee 
week, as during autumn, winter, and | The skim coulter should be used where the object is to bury | work, But my present object is not so much w 
Spring in nams s a town they might, it would * The draagt th entirely plough varies from 24 to 36 stones, accòrd- | OF that particular lipine as to show = whe 
well rem ruggist in the town to under- ing to depth of work, weight of im implement, form of mould-board, | OF dibbling was in vogue some 80 or 10 ~~ 
take ke them for for. ive aiding each. | Speed does not af afiyet p aranght. Price varies from 31, to 5i.; double | the Holdfasts-of that paes could not yo ne per 
sis Edinen © : slovenly farmers you would make them: out to 96 i 
—jt iş. an reperi of the paeas merely that igs Journal. Ey the common plough we hace the trench plough neither drill nor dibble. could. work among = pl 
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would soon areren ey A mra and perseverance | ang ano Cote tn tke ih ber ae description” ‘hat Maat sac A oem va 
would soon oS aes e any difficulties; and there is | Baker. The plough is combined with other tools, wing rere 2 n broadcas hoosi} with an = 
no reason why a guano should _no t be bought ™ machine ini mn works within it —a harrow is reac erent. arb 
with. as much confi Bois upon H five shilting.| combined with it— Sed of revolving ae convert it suites a moment p 
saapi Potato digger—a. subsoil tine is sometimes: attached to the den 
analysis by a druggist’s assistant as upon the c costly | common i 
cer : : The harrow—a framework, varying in weight, generally rhom- 
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boidal, studded with teeth ber and in length 
vt us add oe is le fear that the latter will aad i ‘weight, altos in i: R the aad ane 
: eir se ess called for or less appreciated we ieis of varying 
a —though every county town in the coun COn- | ca soak cultivator eon amn salen 
rryi ig patois of varying piani and length and number and 
distribution, niig an apparatus by which the frame is raised or 
lowered, and so the teeth placed at various depths in the ground. 
voy mong = vations kinds Sare e named Finlayson’s, as improved 
Marteg Aaram mis ae ee and eer itani 
Il harr stowsand horse e-hoes belong to the class of cultivators; purpose o 
na | convertible from hoes or grubbers into paring | Wise 
ere implements by shifting the tines in “Garren anain the ferrai, of the land. ‘tain 
and ryke may have | (157) cleans at once 7 to 10 intervals between the drills of corn; | the one thing a what means 
society: | taking at once the same number of rows as were sown at once. 
ful, no 
| Rollers are either cylinders or dises of various forms, strung | But you res to any seeding whi 
1T on a common axle. The cost from 47, to 181. The Northumber. process of t 
| lavd clod-erusher has two parallel axles, the dises on each ecessi i free 
is th Eos wat nl for then but tein the intervals betw der those on tha other. ‘ene a acipte| | — the necessity of — base 
: os a E kaa ut j in other forms of the implement, and: in 3 experience ng 
i on whom t ting. this fm pieaende having other purposes in » Gibson’s rotatory superio sty, beth as to safety, : 
a E ekor at peadega | ley machine acted in this — picking its own teeth.” formity of ‘quality, To sow or drill, that 
” “catural uses Tas boen pastor ste =O pe arent in my view, to do evi 
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Tue proceedings during the past year of the oyed in plant. cultivation include manure I admit that in case of a be zae 
ae sony as naps tn Chandler’ id wireworm, severe s 
Commissi ssioners of Na ational Education in Ireland, | comin sat bate Sint ia da atricts where es acess gt : -ohi . to ti 
Peon other calamity, I have no s 
or rather of their subordinates in the ch of is late. The 60 ng mac vum acts on:three different principles: | onla chance-of making the best of a bad- 
model d agricult ural schools, seem to ha © tet to Crh e of the sapere neuen = Seg perce eral eet to thin peers for the mere love of 
; e through which the seed passes; 
d severe criticism at the hands of the Irish (2) corn rally are made on the principle of spaces or | I _ knew a boy who hid his T 
L aeol those siri EN ine i- Caps in : = sh on g cylinder, which blocks u pas ate in the that he might 
= xpendi bottom of the seed bo through ve cupsfi y wayside; mig! 
this In | pass; (3) the Suffolk drili acts a mich the sucoeasi psn nar of of ading that it os ie not been stolen 
we The oes oe oe oa seed funnels to the ground. | the spot, thin 
uffolk t machines: 
Y> | principle is adapted to all sorts of saati bateie g clinging st ha If ey get their 
heavy annual ex- — i hoe, a useful it implement for ch err å ato hë: am ‘ sti 
corn. machines are all Bre wae of the i eservi ing ae 
ishments, yet there Ben. at M‘Cormack's probably the best fos of knife. ine acreable rtion of seed, That cann? and 
cheap educational establish- | the cheapest machine, and practically as good as any. Hay- |: isl ap ; -dej 
be toe cell “te ene ace, | mined by-any fixed. rd, but: oda 
