June 27, 1857.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 459 
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-CO shift,” was well tilled and | have assai “— hydraulic engines of one care two hres gon re as which aa.) keep up its s velocik ius r.a looper: time than 
se working on this principle tei Glasgow e cran | w e animalis turning ro tis n to point ou 
manured for green crops, Mangels, and Swedes and considerable power are there also worked by hydraaliee engines | the great superiority of ar mete of draft to that in whieh the 
during the course of the season 84 bushels of lime were the same principle. Ree engines have moreover pa og ARIER 98 AMALINA 
acr In February, 1856, seed | advan vga of — ng m Kw ad cen a Sete Sees as well | to twọ. In meng ane aain oa “tres hing machines for instance, 
: Bet and another, even | it is a des um to have po! e. “This, it is 
at the rate of s stones per acre, AE atest in | of of the higher her order of engines, fae will, be a difference as much | true, is already done, but not without ex: i 
h Garrett’ drill, and y 
drills 12 inches apart wi s corm and M | as 30 or 40 per and = ost as rt ES Tiiron in | inconvenience, the mill work required to give them motion 
following 3 bushels of py shee Italian Rye-grass the drole. of van and general wear and tear. Moreover | being cumbrous and heavy, and requiring more care and skill 
wn harrowed in genres a light | steam engines are apt to get out “of post es and in case of acci- | to take them down and ipe: oe up again, common 
harrow and afterwards TO | goni where there are no iene makers he the ay a ants von, 2 bestow. The whole  nppaanionn, 
: d, th serious. Way now pro ‚a man may carry i hand. 
The milch cows, which are and have been fed exclu- | steam er be | oe up at once, and the e ngino is unhandy fo ki t is 
sively on the succulent Italian Rye-grass for the last the use of frequent sudden op rtunities ; and i if it bo delé to ve ye-man poweria I mie this statement ro 
sight weeks, are not only in very excellent condition, unemployed, it proceeds rapidly in “ eating its head off.” | the authori zat essrs. s and Key, the agricultural 
opts Idin d te f milk. The These i harap aeee as we ate the expenses veadaone upon | machine makers, who ages et e quite ents tr oped 
are also yie a good supply o * | the steam engine, restrict its bane eet am advan’ to opera- | good ayana ad ically. äpingium oa theactual workings 
following particulars of z$ ing oy which were tions in a ies ee salo -q Thoarikani seimnaeeoeb to miich of a maiores s poaren sih tached aa to mei ae topchinerya db m 
carefull ri may not prove un shall subsequently advert have t thresh fi o t per ll gri a 
recently erd the Fee igi of vour P fens p of pens AY as they may usually ny “applied i instantly on | bushel mt oe halt of flour per hour > will 1 bruise about 15 bushels 
y aper; | turning the water on and instantly Vai off lane ba job of Oats per hour ; will cut ote 16 to 18 trusses of hay per hour; 
2 ey ar a of milk yielded by 12 cows on April 6, when fed Sos work is done, but the machines which are in will pump a eolumn of 1100 gallons of water 160 feet high 
med’ chaff, oilcake, Beanmeal ‘and bran, mosti t aare rn of ian +e iban mne ni hour. Dr. ats BEROAN ag gives higherservi 
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services 
Sich opore of the immediate 2 application of the means which these. The mac was ‘or time at- Woolwich ; Lam 
dn tity yielded 2 the same cows on psy 4, when fed as all possess, namely, to i and 
on Italian Rye-grass, 1453 quarts. i ven 
eT ein favour of Italian Rye-grass, 294 quarts Dr ato agts a Oud Hoan doma George Cottam, who brought it to my notice, says that he con- 
Butter wer lf ingle horse 
serge erty f milk gave 3 Ibs. 10 oz. Bt consisting simply of rer , endless ro pro over two 
f milk Ib ; | wheels o or pulleys, which may to of a barn 
Butter produced vas 6 quarts of milk arree ei | or totwo Sate Posts. It is worked most porate ea by a 
ieee of milk pre 8 Ibs. 5 oz. ; single hors ds and forwards, The arrangement 
quarts gave 12 Ibs. 1 oz. butter. | was invented à by ‘the, Tate Dr. Cartwright, the inventor of f the 
| power which 
The second cr dine it Italian Rye grass is now nearly successfully seizes hold of the upper or the lower rope, as the 
ready for being cut, oi? ae ive a weighty | horse to which it is attached moves backward and forward 
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sone the yield, i think, will be ng abun 
ange nd Swedes, owing to the hea ane and 
cmt n + Meck and April, were later of being 
= in than is the usual practice on . fares: 
I regret that you have not been o faveur the 
Albert Institution and Farm with avi since the latter 
was enlarged and the new ma ected. The 
visitors are numerous, and pt reali m accom 
Bey 
panying extracts from the Visitors’ Books that we then | 
cr Persa some English gentlemen whose testimony 
is i T it is uninfiuenced by party or 
personal (Messrs. Eddington & Trotter were 
two of the at the late cattle show of the arkir 
Dublin Society). Thomas Kirkpatrick, Albert A. 
tural Training Institution, Glamsvin,’ Dublin, June oat 
PS. The fall of rain during a yea Pr Spb er fh 
Moore, Curator of the Royal Dublin Society’s Bo 
praca is about 26 inches ; it varies from 20 to 28, gert 
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MECHANICAL POWERS, | 
APPLICABLE TO AGRICULTURE | 
-= a former occasion when I saias d the ‘members | ýi 
Society on the subject of liquified manure | 
thequestion aonan the page 8 og Pe aea requi- | FIG. 1. 
site fi ap , I expressed an opinion that some of Pan 
those who had adopted Jes ee as to t saupi a of culture d produces continuous motion. The Society of Arts siders it to be the most simple and mere yt tent 
had them by much more expensive means than were ite gold medal to Dr. Cartwright for the invention, whic machine yet invented. I now _ attent: k 
absolutely requisite, and that with lessexpensive apparatus for thus descri another horse-power machine w inert ws 
theparticular purpose, might have achieved even higher results. | “It must bo. obvious to any one, ”he A ‘tin the least con- | advantages, and my the o arty t os alm ire = 
I was then requested by my friend Mr. Slaney and by other. ith tl g| rtable as.a steam engine and i 0 sg ty two, or if need- 
members of the Council to make good my words, and bring more than Į nted getting into gen no doubt by three Borses. 
them particular instances of the cheaper means ose es i mite a merican Hor. se Powers : :— 
and I shall now endeavour to acquit myself of my promise e, the pri ime cost ot which in many cases exceeds 101. Our brethren in we struggled with the difficulties 
winging before the Society examples of cheap but neglected om ‘ty cannot be set in motion by means of a horse mill under | of scarce and dear oben and high priced money. My friend 
po available, not solely for those opera- , five or six times that sum. To remedy this inconvenience I | Mr. Whi to examine the 
tions in which I am most interested, but for all those general 
i purposes, where labour-saying machines rad L 
mabig this I cannot but express: i 
a confident op: 
prosent state of ngricuitore and fr along ine W eo ‘come,the 
arema mechanical powers for its useover iraa eor 
breadth ofthe land aall be oc their cheapness, that is tosa; 
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