THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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[Marcu 28, 1857, f 
218 
however accuratel ans may 
describe the processes in the " superintendence and 
direction of which practical skill ser ts—and so, in 
ome to be sure that he m and experi- 
any 
this skill, they require a period o 
to have elapsed before he y ye himself before 
for examination. so the committee 
igh] i o 
Society are about to gran r 
persons, have most aramat p reso in 
addition to = — ng of a good Banan aaa before 
te shall be 
proper qual aminers, a certifica: 
uired not redy of attendance on gei urri- 
pt, ak of study, but also of Tadini for a certain 
iod on a farm. 
But it is not merely a combination of theoretical 
and pried knowledge that ME ae pieres agricu 
tural efficien which, indeed, 
of e believe 
tain that which instruction literal or oral can com- 
acqu 
test the Baoki of vékalidaði for their diploma ; 
but 
kaioa dahat is to be tested by experience alone, 
as 2 e orne alone it can be acquired. 
cer in command of a ship, Kaware, is not 
exactly the piit to the tinànit of the farm—the 
in 2 poe of business qualifications. He i 
nt who has hired pont essel and who te 
freighted Tae is the supercargo in charge of its 
the agent who y engaged its crew— 
the io vn oe on trader who 
di ts produce. He does not merely need 
scientific ability u Bre his course—nor the 
practical ability merely to direct his men in doing 
ea the trade experience and skill as well, 
b ich to accommodate his supplies to the 
of the ports to which he steers, and the 
that no examination can be. a suificisut | piles 
which every 
self. | from 
shrewdness and Paalligeiics which must save him 
being overreached by are with whom he 
We 
orrect and improve practice, to know what in 
it is = Moding everywhere, and what in it is the 
f local circu en there is the 
of the 
then, for all thes 
d s 
by w 
the f joren which ` needs: 
to the and—the v 
hired ey ai the labou 
whom he directs—and to the traders ‘with whom ie 
deals, are of essential importance. 
tual experience he 
amd his 
ete e n ese grounds ra is plain that too much 
€ in whic d lastly there is | care e taken edge an mart ea 
ie business of the at, in a which it its relations to the | diplomita about with such esa as shall requir 
people in i are concerned. an a of actual farm paatai, as well = crops grown. 
Take the ans currienlum of industrious on to have been 
for i The ideal of het tie bo- | prosecuted by all those who desire 
tany of agriculture—the mechanics of agriculture— 
and of the laws of matter generally—in all these we 
have its theory—the aspect which it presents, not to | m 
the professional agriculturist interested i in its peni 
yet to the ama 
, there is the a of . leulture 
which consists of a number of parae ; 
n- | condemned n importation here. 
ttainm 
scientific wais] 
object is not eyen the ae ere of po hs 
whose object simply is the largest 
from the invest the 
Ir is now some weeks since the spread of the 
— murrain from Russia and fi oland into Ger- 
respond- 
nt Mr. Tu of Wakefield, in ah Paper 
called antonio be this excitement, ich, however, 
as apathy itse face of the |t 
which it contemplates. e contrast 
an and English administration under |" 
eat 
umerous importations from infected 
| mee of the n 
ower di sek. as dir as other quarters which are reported 
.|Tacter and pr 
course, too, farm profit is not 
in aceordance with the |i 
pay y by the oe of pan and ee 
= te erea 
theless farm ring a gg 
a ability of energy 
on every opportun opportunity of onl en a 
every T of impro 
him ak ee 
the art of £ agrios ture: the business does | the 
roving 
ion, and judgment, tanned 
mar. 
The E ag sh a “ag through fe 
ary Officer, Professor Snr has do 
good service eee ve by sa in “hewn the ake! 
oper treatment of continental cattle į 
diseases, with which we are cared Bi ely ere long to be 
that 
well acquainted ; and we are 
€ 
commis- 
sioned s Sa report pe Bad upon the 
is thr 
given in 
The 9 writer says : 
most stringent regulations be revent its | ** 
introduction should be in ie oa 
columns of a he y 
«The most 
municate. eld and market- ene are the true 
ve — sp that which there, and there alone, | 
e board of naval officers can 
cannot ascertain his ability to apply that | a 
uccess of the latter is even more pee 9 go aies £ 
t 
to the probable effect of this new risk upon the ny i 
d sheep stock. T must nog 
ago 
ofa CEEE in bate vs E Galais 
Minister at Brussels, published i in s the re 
pda Bo Society’s meeting last Wednes a 5 -_ 
GUANO AND OTHER MANURES, 
urbe by the 
Peruvian guano, a prs Sed 
se 
Eyy to find o 
millio: 
creases, 
upon ra food: -producing spac 
The agriculturists of our country are well applying 
their ys and study to the obtaining good and large 
results from the land, and are now well aware that they 
must use every means that will facilitate its cultivation, 
and eat they must riem (or rather return to the soil) 
such constituent parts as have been abstracted by t; 
R r 
of various kinds have been ued A sce ih a i 
n | have di 
sary t that 
anges w 
siderable hat k is F aani, fertilisin 
and set free, and appropria 
oy to its own use. Rotations of 
ee de like a manure in severing the constituents 
of the soil, Root crops require that the land should be 
Alon certain condition ; _ the land will produce gis. 
w 
can this be accounted for e except that various ¢ 
rent aking down the affinities by 
which the soil is held together ? Bev beneficial action of 
manure: —the di area 
à fret 
the 
compounds atè 
by the growing — 
must at 
dioui pern 
Foreign guanos must rank with manures iann 
chemical for from 
+ phen on the land the substantial nol 
ed must almost entirely be gathered 
properties o as 
risien pi 
from the earth and air. 
A manure having i s essential 
the earth to give up its 
furnishing th the material of life from its own suss" 
must take the first rank amongst manures which 
considered valuable. whin 
Every farmer knows the value of green crops © 
ploughed in as a manure, and he also knows tt 
its value is greatly i 
off by his cattle, <r 
ut y Tae eel a man does 
matter so immediately extracted from the 
eros when ente eaten a 
agent, with how much 
the 
be ja aidaa may be said to be > doubly n 
ound 
elements 0! 
ba spon ape and the cow ell ventilated before mais agg Few ain st will do this 
4 ata cost 
vo fy oer there is to look with anxiety on its | enable o eae Sem pae a his 
wan eet : enone ee may be learned from | substantial to support the janis and preser"? 
a recorded in| from s A 
mM) Yovarrs weed on Cattle, ere it is stated that, i ‘belie bon ae 
at, in 
perad Uh and oad gece, SAn years, an epidemic imported 7 can te mee y he value greater 
o mortality | from pantry 
the herds of some = rhe: counties ale ne crement the quantity of i better for mg 
q n ricbrhery us know | sista aE, 
$4 Fd igi S shi: g to our 
