24.2 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[APRI 4, 1857; 
past avoided the Prussian route, and take their goods to R 
, particularly to Libau for shipment, and Russian hides t rae nd 
form _ went through the Prussian oo Me all go 
add that the hide and calf sere 
taken a -different ` kary 
Liibe 
and h thence to Berlin, &c.; and it is not impo 
_ The skins go now ‘almost “all to 
t to » Ste ettin, 
although the precautions of the Prussian Government ma 
warded it off from the ern frontiers. I have never heard 
that ci — have been shipped from the Baltie ports, The 
disease is reported to hea daat purging a and sudden death. 
I have, &c. (Signed) “W, J. HERTSLET, 
só The Earl of Clarendon.” 
“ Foreign Office, March 31,1857. 
pe the Earl of Ciarendon to transmit to 
you, _ ~ aid nt the Lesern and Committee of the Royal 
Agricultu: Society, € telegraphic despatch from her 
ae ‘Consul at anak, pa the symptoms of the 
mongst the cattie. I am, Sir, your most sepone 
henibemattente *E. Ha 
“ Jas. Hudson, Esq.” 
* From poore Campbell to the Earl of Clarendon, 
ted Memel, March 80, 1857. 
“ Animal loses appetite. Body tre rembles. oe inflame, Eye 
dull with discharge a = tomac h. Severe 
diarrhea. No einen fey Eight d dead.” 
Communications were then read from Mr. 
Maxwell, C.B., Secretary of the Highland and Agricu 
tural Society of S Scotland, and from Captain Coker, 
Secretary of the yal Agricu ltural Improvement Socie 
ary 
the arrangeme 
despatching a Daa. ng gi to districts abroad 
where the t present raging: The 
Council agreed to the fol following resolution 
“That it is expedient to send a competent Veterinary Professor 
to examine into the nature of the cattle murrain on the Conti- 
of Ireland ‘in t 
meud that Bieteeste nies of the 
mmissioned 
with him a German Vete: 
propos expen | 
this mission with the Royal Erstad Socety of England ; 
that 
they be asked to join in the same manner. 
L.—The Couneil accepted M. Dutrône’s | i 
p rrara of the Earl of Clarendon 
the & 
so hae Bt des Aiae March 31, 1857. 
3 ar Tarendon to transtuit to 
to be laid — Se President and Committee Royal 
al Society, copy of a Keg ae from. her Kabeyi 
0, reporting the discovery of 25,000 tons of 
now | have 
Puerto Rico, Feb. 16, 1857. 
My Lord,—In the os por Mona; situated about arty: ak 
baadi due west of the f Mayaguez, at t rn 
extremity of the Island Ay biaia Rico, some pakis o£. guano 
been discovered, and according | to. the repor ap of the 
surveyors appointed by this the deposits, 
ktd of which I have obtained, rt guano is ‘situated in three’ 
aves, and the quantity is said to amount to 23,525 tons. I regret 
th at I am unable to ;state the te a per cent. 
of ammonia 
’ 
—— a n this guano, as I have not yet succeeded in procuring 
aken b e gove tc 
asa 
of the United States, who was the discoverer of these deposits, 
per ton. The governo; o Rico is awaitin ng instruction 
from the authorities at ‘Madrid as to the manner in which he is to 
which in the meanwhile has been protected 
n Outings be comm to this That | to be mad 
against farther depredations. ave, &e, 
(Signed) “Lennox Hunt.” 
Hie 
mity of Weig Measures,—Mr. M‘Lagan, 
Pu umpherston, said: The prob 
diversity of weights and measures 
reignties into w 
rulers pt these 
used among t | sa su 
the country w 
mall il principales Bees 
da o be 
ofa particular part xy 
made exactly the len 
+ Dodot, F ae ae standards 
of the bodies 
of the middle finger), the — the span, abe hand, the 
digit, the foot, the fathom Mn ; 
modern 
Discovery or Guano.—The Earl of Shelburne has, 
, transmitted to 
3 in Ulverstone per 144 qrts. ; in 
rete een ham and Grantham 
o 
realised at nar York Bs a of 20 dollars, or 4l. 2s. aarme 
of 8 
c 
GHLAND AND ÅGRICULTURAL, March mangle 
hts 
vided. The 
he measures | in one 
coomb of 4 qr., in others by the hobbit of 1e 3 
in a thir d class by the windle of 290 1 i pe ey k, ang 
arrim and Danish Wheat p 
use 
abits of 
which often lead. 
ce to the indivi 
he disputants. 
be de e pieg a the se agai 
opinions of good judges, Siege) in the fair, 
‘Essex grazier, a agora ns oe 
T 9 not to cony 
the weights. The first ¢ te by ‘ scores, 
scores at of pounds); the second by Spee of 8 Ib. each; 
by stones of 14 Ib. ea ei he wager was yea = to the h 
cwt. When the opinions meed, 
ed parties could my see pi % either of the 
three judges tell who had won the wa; nor 
along time which of the thre mated the beast of t 
greatest weight; 
e had e 
and they parte declared ‘that is Wei 
the least idea of the weight, only in their own mana 
force of habit,’ 
A 
similar case once came under 
— 7 ED Bur 5 my 0 observa, 
er a gold medal, to os warded under the regula- | Sco e yards, in several of | wh 
tions of the Society, as a premium to the beat polled the counties acres varying = a 6084 to 6150 square nppeaed to a ky oe Cans weights 0 K p 
bull exhibited at the Salisbury Meetin ng, yards were is of calculation, was | accustomed to estimate “Bie. ae te by stone of 
U ING oF 1858.—Mr. Raymond Barker, | €Ven a greater variety of weights in use in this country 1 lbs., the seeond by the stone of 174 Ibs, per 
Mr, Brandreth, Mr. Cavendish, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, | before the act authorising imperial weights was passed. | third by thee When their opinions w nounced 
and Mr. Milward, are requested to form an Inspection e English troy, voirdupois or English weight, |in the weights the customed to use, they 
Committee, for the purpo visiting the loc o- | the Scottish troy fig! Dutch Mba and the tron weight, | stood looking at one another in blank astonishmentas 
posed for the Society’s = Meeting of 1858 in ere ail current in Sco e Dutch stone was|if each spoke an unknown tongue, or his though 
North-Wales district, f reporting to the next |8emerally 17% Ibs. ma aa whi ey the tron stone | were dering on some other subject. But besides. 
Monthly Council on their Pies, or Etar Py for varied i is different counties from 21 to 28 lbs. avoir- | the inconvenience e ced i of such a 
that du upois. e give the following as examples of this variety of w measures, it is often æ source 
The Connell hen adjourned over the Easter recess | V@Mety :— I ight for butter, | of frauds. io eee oe ee i taking advantage ot 
to the 15th A = some ote ti was prege, for bute fs eat a a the state of d also of the laxity 
G a Arg) e stone weight was 24 lbs., i 
Asame Datini -In atthe Society, delivered "y |in as n Berwi ek 174 Ibs. and. 22 Ibs., in 7} Ibs, and old eh 
; ! ee’ Sin Lam of bs,, in Dumbarton 23 lbs., in Forfar for hay 20 lbs., 
pridas Saag week aad the con ditions ie i Bertin te the burghs in that county the tron stone | measure when i 
which they were | i aigso : 22 lbs., 24 Ibs,, and 27 Ibs. ively. In one 
illustrated by numerous physica charts, showing the tien eg > mep aeea i a second 
dir ection of Fagg Sin sd, a wc anal jr n, and | f lbs., and in a third 28 lbs. ; in the middle ward of 
the rainless regions : on whieh ey pointed = ld a exes Y Peter mest 
arious districts referred in the series ae Siren sips eae ee 
ie im horton despatches forwarded to Pet Society from was 212 Ibs.; in Nairn cheese and salt butter were sold 
tia oaa Offiee, through the in struct : fe one of 2] utch Ibs and fresh butter by a ston 
a asa Shuversiees :-Bectabihs hiiel ieurs Nalen e Ibs. avoirdupois; in Renfrew it was 22 4-10th Ibs., 
of guano in the p of amire Pii an Selkirk 234 and 24 Ibas and in Wi wool and astre 
ie into a mineral subs n tbe motion of bay T 2 s A much eater variety of | as wail 
Lord W. y seconded by Mr. Fisher Hobbs, « the | Measures prevailed even than of weights. Th a 
best thanks of the meeting were voted Way} er ne tate kinds of bolls in use—the the 
for his useful lecture, with a hope that it anit cail ee A abreck,and the Kintyre ; and in Dun - w me 
lie attention more y to its important subject, artonsh i — were nine dry m of capacity in | times makes the kemple equal to pangs fase es more than 
and produce a Daat A den dinene On-the| rman. mbartonshire water salt firlot, for | 500 lbs, Bat thisisnot ot all; sometimes the money obtained 
motion of Mr. by Mr. Ramsay, the Ragi 2, the Dumbartonshire bere | for the excess is appropri their own use, Here 
best thanks were also” offered to Mr. Lawrenee, for his | hi eal fi Y, and malt ; 3, the Dumbarton- | then is a fraud committed on the master, simply {0m | 
kindness in ing-on f ba a shire m rlot, for all sorts of meal ; 4, we — his continuing to an inde illegal measure inthe 
(of Castleacre) called attention to ò | firlot, for salt and Lin sale of his produ But he isto blame for it himself, 
important subject of nitrification, He found in his 7, the Dembartons sal the {nlc not merely for the loss which he. sustains, but for e% 
Own practice, that mafiure e: on the land fora | griot 3, the Dam me | posing his servant to temptation, The set 
few months acquired either from the a here, or | or Wina is simple, Let the imperial w used. Det er 
from some chemical change going on among its own Potato all d the Tahari nahire straw be sold by the i stone or cwt. One farmer 
ents, or from some other or to him — “a which » wore of a paan annot introduce this change himself ; it must w 
unknown, a remarkable addition to its i ’ and Beans. | b Ji straw 10> 
perties, as evidenced by the resulting crop to ing pro- | Ph The enfin Nan oaith such a diversity of weights and 7, ae pr ae aes of all who te 
iisi, a oomai with aoire 1 3 increased y almost every 
“= appli a 3 wih wae town Pence kingdom adopting eroaa ethod of di 
sure, Mr. a Hobbs hoped the day was fast Whee of We find, for instance, that 
arriving when be more alive to the value a n and Edinbur; the quarter 
of their h aidaibe to a. EN ing to the natural weight of the b l; 
fish, een that from the Irish pa applied to n Spin. by. Sa l of 282 Ibs.; in Belfast, 
oo land as manu — prepared dry state. Professor soe Mage Pore td the c = 3 in Glasgow, 
ay remarked o Ww. ‘ ?, a A 2 ristol b 
site ofl Side: Pepa as only the digested car. 60 Ibs. ; in Li é 70 Iba: in y the 
th per 65 Ibs. ; in Carmarthen per 64 Ibs. ; in Bolto 
