298 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. (Ais ale 18574 
finer Potatoes than larger ones wader onian — | =p cteties a wet tie ov ogen. After aa 
it became exposed to the 
vation. From larger whole ones, however, wher a. t can ~~ washed away, and the manure bern on 
ver, 7 
ees : s., at the close ; 
kg larve siz ers, W con will evens any one | = ROYAT AGRICUL F ENGLAND, April 22.— 13. Hence the fermentation of dung ought not to was but 
: may be inclined t s this. | In the or = the e official 1 report of m e aea A we | PS3 paned aga penak. Aoda iep, cuted great cae nag 
When : the plants are ant 3 sehen high, or D pisan can only intimate that aa other Eare which 6 kept 1n waterproof pits, sanii eaten in it Tt should 
of one’s finger, say at the of May, let each shoot or | under dise susion, a a note w. s read “On the De osits of portant ata the tanks should be water-tight, 
offset be slipped off ra within. one, two, or three - Guano on the Cur n Mit i and some hes Islands,” by | &xamined manure w which, or the s nek this, had 
strongest that can be chosen, and the re pa she nie J. C. Nesbit “PGS „ and ee al of a Agricultural | pest fx ce to a 
we have described. In short if this pract ae as gone: and Chemical College, Kenningt Tt gave ave the begs gypsum, g green vitriol, or of Sy elemi vica mem use of 
rall opted, ki the whole crop wonk cus of me samples, indicatin the: pres ence 0 was unnecessary. It was another thin 
pat rt fae seer ure, though h less in number, ie and et oni. respectively of Presence 39°95, 14°42, | ist Tealon, an i w for then the ammi en ould là escape; 
early and late fae ; and that it would soon be gene- mei D85 per ¢ of silica—15°29, 4°70, and 3°05 | interior of the hea hat it was form Se Wine’ then 
rally admitted that the largest Potatoes for sets are not | per cent. of the peeli of iron and alumina— | ture rose to such a pitch that they could not re the tem 
absolutely necessary, except they are intended to be cut | 13-95, 43-40, and 63°85 per cent. of phosphate of lime— Soe hand in, Sepp m oa free aala ; but in 
a sets, which are not so certain to a; from PEN 4-17 and 4'5, in the first and third samples respectively, ne thr rough pap aop si n ea iisi formed, and ie 
hen planted early as whole ones. Hardy & Son of alkaline paene he 6'2 of S arimara ea de of | ing of —— Mpa ed did, hasten decomp ve ) 
_—Will some of your Kietas lime in these — y—and ni itrogen occasione a considerable a a valuable constituent, and | 
whose ee ae drawn to the port sr be good — to 0°86, 1°8, ana 0° 186 pe cent. of ammonia in the Piva offer them the pra peers avoid tuming k 
enough to supply particulars of the value of milk as an ne samples. Pa rie s enlenlates Tat roe 5 per ton |" 
article of food | in fatte: i It is desired to ase oe these guanos 
tain its aig valu T of milk is x te to OL Si. 5d. ry pront He says these samples were BS shone Sa wlan a F Pores le Sewtnes | 
a certain number of Ibs. of Barley or Bean-meal of taken from the Curya Murya Islands in meee - be Shick we he apm flowin po asii Bap rs is subject, from 
th i quality—and the best mode of making | war rek vid 4 Bombay, which may account in a ei aad 
use of it. Milk as taken from See cow is referred to, | for the small amount of moisture which thay peers In the neighbour tirling, the late Mr, pass. 
and not s milk. Local circumstances or other con- | It is apparent ‘hat tera oe os n suffered much = re ag tried an experiment with the 
siderations would influence the decision with regard to | from as the oor is small, and | 9f the to a i He lai t portions oe land o hra 
its use for the purpose indicated; the real point in | they have re aleo settived ay sdinditen f earthy matter, ray soil in equal ain visions. 
question being whether a better use could be made in a| probably owi ing to the ree th nature “of the coast. No. 1 ured with ashes and farm-yard ies at the rate of 
given case of Grass aene than that of producing milk | is aean bad in this respect. No. 2 differs from 12 set per acre, w 48s. The second portion 
to be so disposed Of course other kinds of food | No. 3 in containing more b aiy non t both these, | Was done eg compos at 16 tons per a which- 
a ka employed, i i: can nee be sian interest if the expense of importing be not too great, e ame do | cost 64s. The third division was manured with tw owt, 
to give to pigs milk “ n from the cow.” ] Me fered = a pa p Saw is mi i mid that so mani z prow waich ~~ 16s. ; a a with four ewt. 
have ‘ound whic ve not been much expose division was 
— gen rgb of. Fat waa at Eston The atmospheric influence, and wh hich contain therefore a| manured with the sewage water alone at the rate of 16 
the Agricult aiako at irit. in the Gazette of last | large. oraren of "pane a and ammonia. The’ tons per acre, of which, E —— ad. pi 
Sai y, may probably, although I am sure unin- home matter present in the aie subjected to | expense would be 5s. åd. The rage produce of the 
A Stak “ae” Stein’ iad yeis by Mr. Nesbit amounted to 444, TEA, and. first four manared with farmyard ine 
‘ S a 1 compost, an was at the rate of 46 ‘bushels. 
lained of at the Midland Counties Cattle 10: 085 5 respectively. ry “ Eor aa e a 
Show, where age alone guided the classification—and | Ţ7 These analyses do ‘not give so encouraging an idea of | acre ot Marketaly’e Parey, -me on dressed w 
2. aa old, yen old, and 4-year old Devons, the Arabian guano as has been hitherto entertained. the meted alto zh thi vai ced nonai 43 bushels. 
Herefords, and short-horns competed together for the 4 pe arret pian = i i Regge oa te doa ape waa. 
prizes—that eller judgments were impossible, and | TAUNTON.—At a late meeting here Dr. Voelcker gave war littl than 10 Ekai ce was carly 
differences of breed rather than differences of intrinsic | a ari On the Composition of Farm-yard Manure.| ° cha the others ms nt ae TA MoN es the cy 
merit did after all determine the awards, is here | He said :— TOA E E TA ee four 
penera- nsely aggravated. e object of such a gathering There was first, as a large constituent, water—from two-thirds 
e disco y breeć 
o encouragement of all, and therefore the animals o aie __The solid matter contained : g of car nenta ar kanpa his y eeraa = wok 
each ought to compete with each other ex-| bonaceous substances, and those ining ni and | tri ned dees eines all Fe rit ms being 
some At wd annual shows in Kaag angea the mineral ah Papp aa silica, phosphate of lime, gh ae soda, Ph Silat re h p? E th betes 
classification of stoc by breeds has always been carried chloride of soda, and so on. The e contents existed in the equal extent, he found on the po p 
insoluble portions ; and this w. was he. reason why the manure | the sewage very nearly double the pene 
out for the general ewe altho nongh pad has hee & f remain mi ergata À me s wade el 
m between the all breeds—oxen | lisin rties were not spent at once; th A : $ i 
en and aed and S ia extra prizes and | of org onpaiie and inorganic matter which gradually b became soluble | Hight urine of two adult persons, mixe h ashes to 
The Midland Counties Society, in. fact, set ad hire rele to the growing plants. „One constituent, he had | make it applicable, is sufficient pirs an acre mas a a sa 
c U p 5 > > š p fa) . 
the example of this improved classification for the tained a much larger proportion than the fresh, the insoluble ser bee re tected re Soe ene ee 
purpose establis the principle so clearly enun- | phosphate of the fresh manure becoming soluble making tne cuation Tor one y 
ciated in the above extract, which the Smithfield Club | ™*° the change vote Semmes am eee would whi direct attention | would produce 27 tons of Turnips, 
were not slow to follow, and the change was considered | h 2a ah rpe a atrai aee p eget a Sa ears the ei on 8 tone 
mmr me emer ts ening agra “near a Mal he ppt of wh he 
the our 
te 
ts were 
H Devons—anime but the basi s in the neighbour 
; oe a ae of a totally different character | the results were wonderful, as land in the ie 
a compete ee en MOR coer o Wey tal @ pleas echo Baa che nlmicand | hood of that town which, at one time, would not etft 
ton m lane shane te à a T — famas gonne a brown colour co in combination | more than 6s. or 6s. per acre per -m Pe lets a 
oxen oe that age, as well as classes for cows and sogughos of the’ Semation of these brown w ids, which w from .12/. to T4: per acre, in-eonsequ he Grass 
F. in peat mip decom oan eee substances, that water — diverted by gravitation over the 
heifers. chemist of the se 
re riei Saas wiid f a brown Serei r portions of | Professor Anderson, the able 
— matter backunt changed in cinco al carbonic acid | tyra] Society of Scotland, says, after a most h 
gaseous -p ; 3 : ` wers, “ 
n Correspondence. large proportion was volatilised and lost. Ofthe ammonia, under analysis of some of the Edinburgh se ‘ contained it 
car managem very little n be 4 i ve-sisth? 
here Senet "ag Holland, | smell that was given out by manure heaps sa not so much | the insoluble of the sewage, the other fi 
April 18. 18. ig ee we very right greatly to fear she from the escape of ammonia as from other volatil ieoa existing in A arar and it is therefore obvious 
‘on seis of ins cathe a in your country. fine animal secretions. A yery sm: al utiy of ¢ Mi gio í 
Lane set a 
s ing the s t > was | rendered availabl part Tittle 
seems to have been imported from Poland to East Sonaat — e rope ep e farmers, that farm-yard solution, they must be of little value, and ze very, ‘in 
the disease wea. ecessarily uantit: mo: i abkant t iti 
: : : It was by no means the . They would observe that f| Const ion wi © see A 
nately, eee unknown until now ; and it would, | the hoaa ii. todk: pact in “ay bemarit van as in the this r t that all the oui for 
in rat ous how it could reach our Seroniarcn Gapa dialo i dryand portable 
a] ubled, an x de ] alsostys 
without traversing the enormous distance that | nitrogen orstimulating matter increased very rapidly, becoming | thut ce constituent 
: Ge ke t he tried instead of t 1, | that “ammonia, the most v: e wiat- 
sr he e a a pl 
: > x orcing AN ‘on Crops, was the reason for 
have exportation, and no importation. The only way | eve ono neni my Paaa. upan iren and w well pense till new patents are ae 
would be if any cattle were to be introduced across our | mnce-—an experience that was followed by they at. what ias ible? > gentlemant 
>A body of A ‘The fresh manure did not t contain sufficient | doing wha p ‘The seme gon he 
frontiers, especially from Hanover ; but our cattle are in | nitrogenised substance to force on the plant ae age and in the | to the subject again in ow her in thee aht 
t . 
s hat i ” 
anion . : ble to kee of th fi it toto as 1 iia j 
Sgn ane ia | ar Be ete | Wan thai emf Og 
i : 3 > in a year, y . up in ual A r : À 
cattle, however, pees ait a. considerable part of | et every three months. ithe fist ong ome cultural Society, confirms the above e evert D ineoloble 
constit ; : : l that , 
i ; OF | November to F 3 i ing without the shadow of a doubt 
the national wealth, that no doubt the greatest attention | fom 7 to 12: by this tite hadron ts main sate f or solid parts of the sewage of townsis of Iil mg 
would be paid to the co Fg e m the danger was not | ferment ; it was no longer in an active state; but subsequently | w ed with the say rol pate 
considered at such a vast distance as not to be ete: ae soluble matter decreased, and from August to November it Me 3% luti a in = 
ing until now. Itisa very and Pic P pth ry ey orgena PE caren fell off ag rege se E MaDi hian e piis may iadi the ogni, we =e 
for a country of importation ours, to u effect of the fermentation in i i miei Ae A ee and | 
precautions respecting the cattle from the ports orta that ars | matters ecules but Ont whee ane, ehe mineral and organie the largest proportion n of manari of the oida 
Ein barar ‘he mithat ibak The cattle muri | 42282" of rain washing them out. The same appeared also by." “4 e to show that the co is agiecleorly 
rain ie a fearful disease. Daik tis century it has | deonocd arenan as aanle mineral and organic matters, which | Will not, st the ee aaa A Mr. Oliver, Seer 
T3 perhapsi ort ; 
but once been observed in this country, and that was by | stating the char produced in T aiani ac doers ne fed ‘pct be y plat, pher h, ia gaen the a ciate 1 
cattle of the Allies, when they entered’ Utrecht in bowed how rapidly it would decrease and waste even when it.|,). 7 ure men 4 
November, 1813 The sever: “dhe were then | Ws Kept ina tolerably good way. The quantity of dry manure | the sewage a nae some yon 
: P ae é t 961 Ibs., i ill would 2 
ately taken; at the slightest suspicion the ani- | the dry manure, as the quantity of moisture was me SA ng these words, ST cone noun for the solid, veh 1E 
were killed; around the city of Utrecht a sepa- | In the course of six months 961 Ibs. became reduced to 689 Ibs. d giv ve me in Bain ole 
pla and only 507 Ibs, were left at the end of the year. give a fig for all they coul 
Lean Tine was drawn and watched for several ard 6 organic mutter st frst was 70 Ia.” in fab tame of bos ee the water containing the ret A 
orii k iby | ie 86, but exposure to rain reduced it in three months = | well sented for © castle, the town, 
even.in the most active stago of 
fresh dung when put up A Toas 
