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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
by °37, the tabular number: required: in the’ case, is 
12°21d. per rod—the rate required. 
for any ‘aa kind of 
e—p measure, for 
instance—refer to the table of the ae values of the 
different kinds of measures at will 
be found that 1 plantation mea t to 
(983 statute; then, std orgy! fe the result of the 
suc 
n 
rod lies comnts 
ave n sooren ERpS by i $1983, is i ig. 7781243d., 
3d . per 
meinen Pron Bwart’s Agriculturist’s Assistant. 
Home A Sorremondonpe 
nglan nd and their 
the Royal 
Agricultura Society ot rA England acted wisely in deferring 
compact of which enforeed 
ania trials of Som: mare or Whaa the Bath and 
West of England Society have been injudicious in con- 
tending the compact, time will shortly tell. D 
the public know the heads which led the hands in getting | Ì 
together this antagonism to the long wed routine | 
‘of the societies, then would be known the motive whic 
prompted to action. If the active m f t - 
pact ho in oth: on their renown a 
| among farm 
rod, plantation 
Tru 
Š arrangements 
taken 
shout loud the system of prizes, and t 
their clamour will there not be h ‘if we cannot g 
the fir us down with p: altogether, and 
andl E Dewara of 
; Bhe patie air ometaing arta beneficial 
PAPE Sey is 
ers, as far as my experience goes, on that , 
score SORRY .Now they say they make them much 
easier for a but I think somebow they must se r 
hing: is clear, ; and that i is that if ay make | sin 
ust be | i 
one One 
v — much impair ired, and certainly a horse does bota seem 
comfortable in them. A Canadian Farmer, Plymouth. 
Soricties. 
sot ae eis am 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF ENGLAND 
Lt, July 8.—Colonel CHALIONER, 
or Way transmitted a kati 
of the sample = of gua 
wlan 
— Profi 
on his chemical MED ians 
by Mr. 
fr peda sin the oy torwiniod 
to the Foreign om which it eae that the 
guano in n question ‘contained only one half per cent. of 
onia, and was, in Professor Way’s opinion, of com- 
paratively small value anket " dissimilar 5 the produce 
e Chincha Islands, and not worth the expense of 
y 
the prizes 
or English cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs, of pure 
or mixed bree 
Cartwr ight, of Clarendon Terrace, New- 
ington Gren, sabaisete d specimens of a manure c 
stituted of animal gelatine and earthy matter; 
Messrs. Chisnell & ai of Colchester, e r a 
specimen of their Giant Rye 
SPECIAL COUNCIL July ~ Col onel Challoner, Trustee, 
n the chair, at whic details connected with the 
s of the ensuing Salisbury Meeting were 
into consid eration, and ARo issued in 
referenco " Epi o pletio: 
Patras to a “sige meeting at 
kolba a on Filey the 24th of Jul 
e is 
Farming, aeu nch, one of 
Vico. Paai of the U. S. pps Society. 
sai p 
“ The fact is, that thousands of acres of the lands taken at 
the Government ia of 5s. an acre have been planted 30 years 
with Indian Corn 
orks which we have ae 
years is ‘by a’ care 
etabi me think, 
io Siimes 
In rearing. 
ofi 
In matt grounds ten 
difference between the old cow 
e 
ep the 
been in 
cae: e ie 
earlier it r 
The siolo of A griculture.— 
physiolo ogi distinction which 
respect to 
the So l as an al 
eee itis is capable o upon the 
osphere, and is therefore less dependent 
pelle pas shed to its roots, us a Pe; 
fo po ae eat and blossoms, and eyen 
s time,* can dr 
atmosphere than the Wheat-plant, 
eaves bag it 
gr 
lib 
character of bein 
stated, perennials. 
= y t 
Aone a but the 
abetrncting i _ fro 
obvious Tg 
agricultura 
$ hi 
the public t tres the ysgar s e i we jeer of ine wosa nation, when we reflect that aa size wal me 
‘the ship in your im nts, nat hat they are made far mor ely l PrP oD 
day, i ental to those who aaa | expensively and dorsbiy than reeeo ihai are us. the plant pane occupies, than is 
Jive = the ae te aang hoe pa the future. Observ is this? Because you believe that you are perfect in your other plan of Clover and TAA 
Jul uly 1 a mes But tak e your Pike a poo ag! = ne es t a y ar hie y sown over the. 
s muc y are eas tle- ) 
The test Mi A np Rte 8 gta otan, .—Some f my retin what was the weigh one of voi ploughs, ons ra individual plants not r sa : 4 searc 
neig y the newest lights are aieantins replied 280 Ibs. This was a plough for two horses; and a plough of phosphates; and they have also ee 
this year that top-dressings f guano are best applied in my country, such as we work with three yoke of eave oxen, for a suppl h the T E 
ther. “Never mind the sun,” say they, “but walls off with eee = mafortably ENA that tiptoe ase te so oe on of the ” when vegetatiat 
avoid rain if you can.” Ast tion is now a of tim Ena Slee neon oe Sirei ae timulated by a high temperature. ` small § 
i , will you kindly give me your opinion ? | n Tee, gett raids your ploughs yore og at: in Pei se has the” T iy <á (ao heeled within i 
Jur Turni ips here have e eankers ” — would be old iron in ours in about five minutes. It does la: wth of 1 d rootlets; 
Norfolk Toe alera Wt m to me that, with r regard to icult implements, you © ree Greys). of konvenan 
erpillars), bu ortunately we have a gentlemen faay loan som g of America yet. Baek see it have a liberal su as 
rookery, and our black friends came in force | M‘C upon the field. It looked A and it grow with vigour or rapidity. For t 
nd cleared them off in a day or two; had it not been peeing whether : pe feim bss king a little that wa way, an phates must often be i 
br their intervention the whole crop in two fields | °° vei Aan ate a: Bis of T these substances a 
ont I Aniki urnips, w i 
i lost. I wish y w 5 ete doubt Sotkan they are botter fo for maini Wo are own at but J awanting, and not even i deficient in q tely obtain m 
r. Hardy ary 8 e you for much. We are importin the-Dest tock t i a 
y guano and all other manure fee i ú easily | We find in the country here, Wo send our agents, who come cay 2 i ap a facilities for 25 it 
luble matter during rainy weather if possible. Their om ot sy oe —_ _— mu oo will False a good animal ae greater, "so that they are less dependent on 
depends on their being dissolved and distri- | as well as anything else under the sun; if you PB att a suppl ’» 
buted t roughout the : ] the agricultural show of our United States $ Agricultura 1 Society bee hop SURAE 
i ( at e eej | The Meteorology of A $ 
As Horse-power.—I have been reading Mr. Chad- | %6 4 SAAE tend ene ay a ‘how ;, grounds for believing that ee yer bps 
sare er on the Amer ] -power, but I find | as ever you saw upon the earth. ‘There are different ideas as the air is directly as the quantity of 4] 
ne has omitted one material point which has in red | to what constitutes cow. I was told this morning that The supply is pedaz in hot and moist weatnes, 
very with the univer : roduction the | 2, certain cow was a beautiful one, and I asked, ‘Does ition is 
achin: mee which I would. wish to warn an pond we a good deal of milk?’ The answer was, ‘Well, I d and dry. E pp "1 dependent on & 
one who might put one up for erg! = mean the great tom ae Well thes Seis they wey ren PN <a pain ah cag pein season, 
injury to the horse in strains of he back sine sinews. [| Want acow that will ve milk ; if she won't give anke she is A i more m : 
need hardly say that were inves peas good for nothing, and I don’t care gi cold : in other wi it es Thet 
i i Pye A Wie a ae a R lantinspring than insummer.” “ihetaes 
coun ing disadvantage, no other of horse- Te ee s ag A t zri lish w 
works would ever be made in A erica, as the advantage Review rrnipa BERES n ee 
havin . $, phates for Turnips, an ; 
able to do all threshing od othok work vets tea bad|  Chambers’s T sue mn = ss si igi a re ne a on thi 
eather no one can move out of d in | We have rece 5 Information for pa w pie ee ty ual. 
E : e hrst sheets of the re-issue of this | respect Tee 
Sues tee uffici cie tl estimated, b ad e), | work, Ben wht which, as it is sure to reach the hands of the | bearin: he qualifications pe ae 
; wa ‘eben th iL lath oon » but the old style of | largest umber ers, no work on its subject can cel wane pee truth t to say, ‘ammonia 
Sto =r e platform raised at the front, | be more import appears to be in nek i nds id pha “ Tris 
50 e et, the weight of the horse, many of our non — t i “Condition of the soii i ve 
much disliked in | Robert f Kilwhiss, evidently guides t ‘the bi aera Sainfoin and erne will nae 
hey make them much | when it is pes de of the emite of e; Mr. | w it ains a Iegi ve quantity 
d looking things, such | Lockhart Morton has a eal to say on the archi- | Now, the analysis of the ashes of ass 
horse into, though | tectural part of the sub me Melvin. of Ratho, | indicate that either of 
them who never con- | speaks of tillage implements, and Mr. J A. Clarke | building up its. v i age 
at goes pee (eee usba; pr don and Lois W >e We do that thrive upon soils € ntammng - 
: » from tion of the work before us, gather very | of calcareous matter.” “ Turnips 
universal | easily what the plan of tte: araeeiniand: to lalasi io subject to finger-and-toe, a a 
