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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
of that mee meeting, as 
as Wellas having g submitted a schedule 
of local prizes amounting to n 
ddi 
ag ee they 
y e Cou 
ial comn èe, aipsiatinig of ae Me es, M.P., Colonel 
M.P., any 
h 
shale of proposed local 
so handsomely = 
he disposal of the Council an the sdeputation, and if 
the de 
scary conferring with sage ane ‘oe Teng subject 
The Cone | hm decided, m of Lord 
pe be fee ded by aren the 
Mr. 
g of the Fee: yn 68 ould be held 
È ES ‘ity p; f Che ster, on the usual condition that the 
Mayor enters the usual ent with the 
of the Society. e deputation were then 
, and inform: grins oe e irman 
ed of t 
thanking the deputation ae the favo their — 
= and expressing a that their edt efforts t 
ae their orh and pte 
be followed as 
r. R. Clut- | b 
So ed bein T 
been cog te dl determined, th: h 
district for t] 
the counties of Kent and § 
Ca TTLE-MU URRAIN.— Comm 
urrain were rece ha 
m her daga Barker, Chairman of the Veterin 
Prof. Spooner, of 
Colle, a Hall Maxwell, Secret 
and Agricultural Soci ey of Scotland, ad pal 
Croker, z of the 
, Secretary 
ment Society of Solent 
from Professor Simon 
deputed to os into othe nature of the catt 
ne. nes the national agricultural i of 
oh Kingdom. 
« Cracow, April 30, aie 
My dear Sir, —I have délayed writing to you with a 
that. I should be Ps to eee that we were ia 
an 
Gr Senderpest,. (e (contagious ty — of cattle). 
a, having come bh of geed “westphatia 
vines Holstein, ere dion bee burg, and 
Prussia pre vac of the 
nal Wehave met with diapaae | n avery ‘State Py rationed which 
ve have come, on investigation proved to be nothing 
more than pleuro-pneum monia. severe measures whic 
a plorat hs have kept back themalady ( (Rinderpest) from 
cations on the cattle- 
The fo lowing letter was read 
terinary Co pspgniasioner 
e murrain 
he country meeting of 1860 should comprisé 
are: |G 
RE Agricultural Sone Ho 
II. Jons BAILEY DENTON, of Ste 
Prize of Ten Sov ercigns far the best essay on the con- 
struction and maintenance of Farm-roads, with special 
ee to clay lands. 
VALLENTINE, of Bureott Lodge, Leighton 
“Buzzard the: prize of Ten Sovereigns for the best 
m the comparative advantages of sowing Beans 
in 
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. —Mr. Wren . Hoskyns, 
chutes “of the Chemical Committee, laid before = 
renege fee of Profes yay, the 
e Society, “ioe was Rea to 
ury meeting. The entries for agri 
ments and machinery were an 
large; and Mr. Brandeth Gibbs was epon 
P order the vin aa amount of shedding for their 
mans 
acco rw 
Iu Worx.—Colonel Challoner, Chair- 
man of f the the Implement Committee, reported the follow- 
ing recommendat: 
The 
sual 
ane of mean: a oe, showing the implements at work, 
¢ smaller exhibitors, who do not supply their 
re the notice of 
have offer 
an engine to w 
Committee recommend the shows otter to be accepted. Sh ould 
the Sogar find this arrangement answer, they 
li berty to purchase the said shafting and i sgl for nak sum m of 
A 
venage, Her rtfordshire : the | 
”° the 2 Co mace opie this prii evier and gave 
instructions accordingly. 
AMOMETERS. — Colonel Challoner also report 
recom E a A from the kaphat 
nence of an application being made 
resent in use by 
f th So 
essrs. 
this age goer ne with an 
e to Messrs. 
vad would be granted tò any o implement 
makers who might desire to avail Fouts of the 
same s advan e. 
2 
Cnn were received from the 
PE Otice m H.M. C 
reporti ng t » Be 
examine ied 
iy | been discove 
5th inst., was received nb Sea Maan 
Hayes, the lessees under Government of the Kooria 
Mooria = lands :— 
Ed G at eve before the Royal Agric oe 
be happy ee find co 
roved of pae" ‘inferior 
on Austria and isin, and the places where it had broken out 
are at this time entire rely free from the affection. 
killed, a on the breaking pleuro-pneumonia. 
these severe measures stop here, for if but few cases follow t the 
first a Gar singe all the hy Nee ee animals ho h had been in 
contact wit killed. “Full iculars of all 
the facts we ges ascertain re ert oa will presently be sent you, and we 
think that all fear of the stein ys oas entering England by the 
direct importation of animals may cease to be enter- 
It is evident | 
the Ps egl and in the pera ge of conversation, sai said that the 
in question was taken = aha yen situated 
d miles from Kooria Moo: e question 
n ; 
Of course, as al and Chinchas, there 
will be a Pr enia g> quality, Thana. ho near the shore, 
where there wi mmonia and m peg mixed 
rem we neue than oy a sg elevation pt more inland. 
nths of the year no rain iy ale in Ages ‘neighbour: 
tained. Its indirect importation by hides, horns, hoofs, &e., hood, a 
is stilla sionall t is atar 
is. given, and we have devoted much time to | when in the course as" kampora ie ‘question of quality will 
The eer we were in possession of at the time a pone | be decided by the sisal “of several cargoes. 
ess to go in that Airedtic 
of falling i in with ts that 
d be found in Eray pa nA EE of an | 
agen in of our seeing the diseased cattle | 
gag a quarantine 
and not onl pat msl in ibgpieubiub at cance Iih BARS | 
Manteuffel el but also with Sir EE Sima a x Tes so that | 
out our mission both in Prussia an 
gary kae e 
are a 
of three weeks | ceed 
paan o goy vernment to 
|in int "this gehen with Npa S K E e spirit. A 1 
vessels is peria on the way out to load there, and rn more 
about to Practical chemists will be e to pie 
ship- 
e 
nected 
eras ‘iene is among the de 
second only to Pe should t 
by Messrs Ta 
with the concurrence of Mr. Bentall, for 
plans that t Rovelty. H ias b Ba produc 
practical, but 
a terror to every n 
tanks the sewage a 
what Bia pe it could, 
ae ey 
of doi s soon as the mischie 7 is ac pi aal ae 
to disinfect ‘te material. | The great object desired is to 
1s. 
Wo: 
the town itself, a tee an 
various re so t that “all aa main arterie rg ag y be romat 
. Air rushing from them into private 's will 
the impurities of the private sewers only, “whieh each 
disinfect for himself. If disinfection of private sewers 
become common, the public use might then das given 
is means we purify whole cities. The sewage woe : 
come — ae nee ina rea state, and it be 
carried int witho fi ory o tin 
nuisance. i 
ii 
e a more wholesome 
a our “st ae pare ta T channel like 
covered. To a a oe channel is naturall: 
serious undertaking, and even to use the liqui 
covered prea will be iaa gerous. Sewers 
first time, be unq — “blessings. 
dangerous at the and we dread e 
them. The state in w which ae disinfectant will m a 
the sewers must differ to some extent accordin 
tion of the water a sewage, the principle vot its pkai mot 
c This, comprehensive pani for able, i Loa 
18, 
ee 
of grea neon nor a com 
plan ever having been ronal bate the chile 
before it was po y Mr. ugali and mys fenis 
have never had a a 
whole town. 
ier of m 
more pri eas pe demonstra 
throats prevailed m 
in the ‘neighbourhoods ni nearest 
open sewers and frak disinfi 
On using t the d 
and the 
of the disease immediately followed. Tore were no new ¢ 
— those under maareh s peik koa umed a 
We ee sted a 
should bë „instantly arres 
f 
evil, for the benefit of bot 
e engage- 
s tation an noae vessel at the islands 
and main- | ni 
n 
the be Be cae atin apo runs by 
kind without pannes ag The inha bitars 
either endure the evil, =. then send it to th 
or they must purify the sewers themselves, “a source € 
The Ps airman said, t 
escribed by Dr. Smith possessed very sm; 
One of its ingredients was the substance known among 
chemists as carbolic 
he powder wih a be 
uld be more readily app 
putrefiction ; and w 
magnesia its 
There was one point wi 
was important in a sank view. 
. . 
ruvian in quality ; 
m be correct, of which we have — doubt, this dis- 
Fein at; ve a T to both t e agricultural and 
aA rests t ker ban a Ea “Se ale otd 
| he Admiralty that H.M. screw steam-ship); “Cordelia, 
| eee In the evening, Professo 
: Henfrey, of | res 
anes te London, favoured the Society with an 
d instructiv: 
the ammonia 
this was not the case, p it unfortunat y 
that ge phosphate 
solu o a certain brii gh 
a | pra jy eager ive Da subject of the ore the emi 
; ir im ion of pl elucidati misation and | thought without any e 
bng Dien Pi eve set, functions by which they d assimilate the kara in th e of 
ee to gedien peg per aii envy | by _ a sources. Th one to between four and five thousan 
ouri illustrated by 11 diagrams, distinctly drawn i very 
“hey. ie my dear Sir, very i Pena: B Saon be a large scale and ifully coloured, showing | obtaini f sae 
Ir. - Thompe rman of the Journal Committee. | different characters of the cells composing different say t 
Mananta oi fik À ittee, ; plants, and their changes according to the nature and | tenth of the Se Fic in na 
at that time on the Continent | 2° icular vegetables. Mr. Fisher Hobbs, as ia or the su 
tion on the su iie mn | chairman of meeting, conveyed his own thanks and | t uric acid, an 
aoa he be requested to embody such informa- | those of the other members , for the favour | the true valuable matters 
‘arnished to the Journal Com- | 72°", Henfrey had done the Mesias d in favouring ter, nan ent 
ely on his return to this country, in them with that lecture, w to see reduced | any process as yet sugg 
ti : y be prep | Into the form of a distinct paper for publication in the amoo ai such like 
to consideration Sea best means of Jo an undiluted state, the 
a ie then reported, fro: 
Sowing re 
the bist i t Hope on : the 
——— or Arts.—[The latter part of Dr. Smith’s 
on disinfectants, and gran on Eg oem oe 
rall’s ageing. eres 
the | connection with town 
s As I have shown, it is 
D Sa ith; es well as many 
doubt, “do Met well re 
