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_Aveust 8, 1857 57.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
p day. We — the ‘following passage from one of the 
indeed no condition of the soil in Bde guano produces such 
, by applying 
worth 2247., with Wheat 
woniteifil results as in this case. n last season 
Peruvian guano per acre b the first TE bn lime, it was = I worth aoip with Wheat at at doe per quarter ; 
E EE H Paai ki of Kirby Hall, pews nage pin n to|I found that a portion of a field of ene m as guanoe and mately arrang ement was entered int 
the hig aoe rati balh: "aii in cattle in in yielded — et rod e more sa hich pene ea nog eating the 5 rd ur ion 
untry, and stated what e thought wo . The first of these cases, howev tion ears, fi ° 
om covery, a well as the farmers. _He alluded ones, or rathe er ought to be “exceptional, “ome e ms farm fo for ty at zs rent of „1602. ! It will be 
to the fact ffi letter is n iteri hereby to j go. tara — rule. d now (1856) 
ment of Grass ae vised farmers to keep their have hitherto chiefly confined m; natural | indicate the renting value of the same ‘fam: to be 2402, 
for for arable jana, be riven d e for Grass, to the ext extent | —, pe against special man on ap how: and sho presen prices continue, the landlord i 
of 1 cwt. of guano and 1 poor of nitrate of soda to the acre. In ough the evils be consis on rong I tele thet] Todidarataly and anadi yt ki mienia 
the year after this application, land that was previously mg te of top-dressing is the result, or more probably the y ng p ne 
only fit to kee alsin a gro state would now fatten | cause of, still pati It is an tnooutrovertible & t, that the will nr deprived himself of sot per year, for 12 years! 
them, and the = would be as different in doy zT ce which farmers gd fail artificial manures nl: 
4l: per acre might be made to be worth 8l. “if hey adopted the 
plan he had suggested judiciously, none of them would be dis- 
appointed in the result. 
The President for the ensuing year is Lord Bolton, 
and the annual meeting is to be held in Northallerton. 
Fio Clubs 
sare et “Ts t 
top-dressing for 32” 
of t 
Mr. James Sanderson, Meigle, said—‘‘The fact that the 
cree of Great Britain e expend annu ually upon them nearly 
l. i 
n r o held ~ their frtising properti es. 
For several yi 
were gta: age pote iiia 
a applied to the T wonderful results 
consequent on their application “to. this aoh Ta 
enthusiasts in farming to test em aioe J on white 
suce 
sin sak 
find farmers who expe: 
dressings alone a sum equal to thei 
then, as the present, sees the me eis for portable manures is | 
= great, an — prices so ext: ely high; and moreover, 
expense regarded ae et EET with ‘high farming,’ 
it is one of the most im T y in n with | 
rural eco) -Sadia erigat er the practice ace 
manuring ps 
T shall unit my remarks to the more prominent an 
pte ses of the question. — And, gent poy notice some we; mt 
evils consequent of the greatest of which | 
is the yar aca’ 4 of the crops to edad re which they a anata p 
This evil no go ubt ig as tbe needy and as of. 
use 
? 
e Thus, fot 
hai le to lodge 
= vag or Tr of prees altho e> = ag pone 
itae r less | the 
gt 
caused made th them undervalue, 
fadle i ly portabl 
profi Tarep a | een 
dressi ero: | 
arepohed was a recanti discussed Sy ae iei aE meeting 
this Club. 
oe | verified in prac ractice re dR 
cas and has i: 
ng, ertilisers 
Ti rm-yard manure. r esrar pia nures are no doubt — 
valuable as auxiliaries w Page sade in e ngs yard ; 
even re applied alon ip-cro) soils rich i 
vegetable re they pad vomi most beneficial results ; 
when the farmer negle — the spa , and hangs the fertility 
i they w 
prese 
—viz., 
ill be uctive of mo 
; and for this reason I believe that the syste’ 
o which has been vages Pea a nig farming, is i. 
retrogri th ou will all ad- 
mit that ‘the more frequently rea aramis are applied, they 
have diminished efficacy, and tae more rapidly is the soil ex- 
usted. It is = = however. ysl anure. Every 
tion imparts additional fertility ; ; ig —_ 
ng 9 of vik 
This is a fallacy. 
y” artificia omg 
lasting ng qualities. 
The lasting sas a y 
for it iti 3 getting bac nstalm: 
apo’ it all at pone Gow, Toet plausible pein 
eory and in a ‘commercial sen it is, 
ed if a farmer, 
manures to his Turnip c 
the soil pa kigh state of fertility, he makes it undergo such 
appea: 
jaca mit, not 
By liberal lication of 
ya li ra Application of 40. 
degree better than the 
was 
| through 3 ther sources t than his 
| the oe of knowing that he hie 
| the soil, which will 
chemi 
; ani 34 also 
SOAN resources in 
throughout a shige a produce ai 
the farmer who solely depends on 
t never 
certainl: 
| hin eae PERE manures to highly- conditioned soi 
| fact that it is on the that farmers 
app. 
re, which (as I have 
arm-yard and artificial 
ccesfl cul 
su mares t corea — 
f portati manures ge 
| Mr. George Dun sai 
a great of good. 
based u rrect 
rent of 224l. converted "e a fluctua’ 
arrangemen ade in 1851 eg 
ore. the partie that the sum of 224/, represented so 
of Whea many quarters o of Barley, 
ny quails of Oui with a fixed ra for the 
; the result thai 
landlord 
many 
and so man 
the tenant without 
rather 
system of 
mining the rent charge payable in lieu of tithe. But he 
is especially forcible and clear in his ‘of 
n | the present sy determining the 
current x yoa price of corn. On this subject we ex- 
ha Pee 
it did a eal o 
han narm it was oniy w sa PREE 3 ee Its effect was 
| to accelerate the bringing forward of the and also their 
wing passage :— 
= Complaint loud ‘and deep sted of late years been 
ade upon the unfair prre of co 
on too ra 
c 
the crop is prematurely laid. It id, fe er eee 
generally erick by o fe pore, pr N on n w cropped land, and | striking the averages o t many years 
—— crops, the straw will tiffened, and thereby the peen no o erop a at ah Hi kaa op-dressing do good, even had the eet, of pauri poner, the rents of 
Rowers, after repented miany That ale oeny alii fens th fotra | after a gre On the question of the chairman, he said | Whi irade apem. hy 5 whe 
by shortening it; and although it does tetalii 400, rapid | | cad meant “by i uaicigusly” ap ly: ih kollo iie put etga rents), ia attention has n yous ak directed 
action of amm vig spild with guano, yet it in a great | eax: pr haberine atter it di id not eatin ae ari to the subject of those averages, sad my decided “gree 
a neukan : e effec et p-dressing is intended to | "Mr. A. Thomson sai flis that the argh approach to correctness, both i 
ES, pec $ i whee cca gy te Y from Mr. Sanderson. There might be cases fists piera was | pre ti poin view as enabling the ‘Government “ss 
what lightand porous description, such as the soil in this district |d oes rience ite not large, but he rer remenbered wwe ta ee ascert in the aunty ri grain n annuall n, as well 
— — “= cee — ajes 3 + S = Ee Nees | ao rags raat fighinectino At as the price it sells for, sah omg ale it im aiani on the 
Aea E E e o = > roe ; a ic a = | Edinburgh, who applied ited manure Mistinaively, but | grower, and on him pacar o furnish returns of 
abl ices only sneak thes se Lad theca? nekera | who also used to frequently top-dre NBs sequence was | transactions in these respecta, but at the same time 
== crop pe valuable. y soils, again, produce stiff-strawed a hay in go troutéd yidided miiy s mA aeh n g Lans ing especial care to give him the least possible 
gap erefore the evil consequent ats, da crop was almost as good as the first. (Mr. Thomson, trouble in the matter, and whi assistance 
soll, howores alias a Deak ep itn bd Mr. Sand afterwards explained that the ati effect to a certain arrange- 
tn d Fe and p aol wes ronie trees tise Or ks, at Powder | ment, to make 1 of doing so simple, unobjec- 
yoten a ae Slave, Toas ‘heed of ex proper | Mills.) Mr. Sanderson sai there is no need of app : ‘a ale ree e, a i 
syste = — to land which is already full of nutritive elements. ole on his part, easy performance by him. 
x a e con sc: are an unsurmountable gir eo This was very true, and obvious as that a man after eat-| “For this on market days, I station 
thee orisii et seasons Was. applied abje Jodo ee a inner could not be ed to swallow any more | near to entrance of every corn market of the 290 
on rich soils, the an almost total loss of manure | th “orci i oot cane ne soll Tonetred a fimile | OWES the. clerk for the time bei 
: majority o n m cases the so: ur a 5 : ° 
SoA cae Where thoy oeod natoned Of. per acre. | Which a and brings it sooner to maturity” | Whose business it should be to ego on vost peso 
Inan able leader anuring,’ recent number} It w. Ived “That it is the ae of this club | PT repared for the purpose residences, 
Eas Bere British Agriculturist, it is said :— sy ee in | that with the ne exception of ser soils d p a in | quantiti aa wit es, and prices as he might then an and there be fur- 
ing the Wheat crop, but this is the strongest evidenc ible Orga ewly — not : 
in favour of the practice of top-dressh Crops do + do not sufer > profitable to pci matet manures to cereal e ec market, should report to the clerk orally the quan- 
= ‘exceptional, an and. without ‘ongettin tsd lesson, it it t taught, E E ught in, how much he then 
of view the nce e urse i ecessary 
which the surface a satio he has e culti- ahevielns, + first Dr “ eget pero P tit 
pe t do not, however, concur with t remar! - —_— pa  esbi T ae mc! ——— J> 
for I think you will all admit that ih this district—where the should at the same time give his name dence, 
con a large qua wg fel v le matter, from the | Corn Rents. By Peter Cowan, areas Lala: i ois and Surveyor. | or if idence, 
stead portion of it tig n Parning oe geome Pes ob is E. Stanford, 6, Charing but the necessity for so doing would soon cease, as the 
requently ater loss sus t $ A " 
-than poor cro Ge cali T aoo kow 1 iE Toia ined last | This is a pamphlet advocating th ydi t | person acting as clerk would in a short time become 
i top uoir i isthe strongest evidense i in its favour,’ | calculated on the Jerard that a landlord should share | acquainted with the growers, and would only require 
TA it aos De apneic cial influence.’ (0n the contrary, | with the tenan fi om a statement of ergi 3 ee As his eth 
objecti ath wet already K crate tee 5 ae | prices hea es. hav eon the value of land; though | farm ig servant, finished hi and was 
that th ba wattige mode of ap oe manures is not the proper one, | he ought not to share in such crease or diminution reciting A the market, he shoal £ iodi to the 
EE te e sane with thesoil, sothat | of the value of his land as ma due to the age- | clerk, Se as before, the quantity of corn he had sold 
It y dood that Nature oo sgn eT the ape ment or mismanagement of his baer Bs = and at what price—and the priees cs and, q pen so 
climate: that hei pe | period of his assured tenancy. Mr. Cowa 
crops throughout all their stages should be | period 0 he r. case is not | 
bed = not be wo ge mat vas confined to ; he gives da Sree ces in 
to pour rays on the ears of crops, we would i airer parti farm 
Only reap whitened husks without an: Ei a e inatter ; but tl chs rents have. proved a to. bak i = 
nature provides dew eh sarge gh change gr ey | so Eagtcoanat i er l 
qualities, as well as suns As it is in the The cases + 
tee soit isin theearlior stagos ofthe plant; tho thestem mustnot specimens of many which have oceurr ithin t 
its gay foroéd, Leek are uscle with | knowledge of the writer, = they are my illus- 
growth, so as to enableit mirena g. ima sabroe 
; s also p little or no effect when the | trative of the advantages of a corn-rent under 
Weather continues dry an they pplied ; as | of free-trade. 
thereby they, are not ren ered soluble, and therefore not commencement of the year 1851 saw the landed 
available w pian e : 
Shay their climatic conditions, more unfavourable for this kind interest of this country in a vory ding state, 7 
tee ih ch as the western counties of | Wheat averaging 36s. per quarter—te | 
ranges, where t Venia of rain frequent fal = destroy ‘the | son settler oe oe in my ths a eS could 
‘Atop. Bach are ont rien e | many instances, to comply. In the wij pai of the [it ced. if the | 
toa Seen aod wileh of often, gy ependantly tag ‘any | year named, a tenant who had held his farm for a ‘report such sales orally to the dak on “on the flowing 
ae Ther we ns donde ca loss than a benefit. | period at 2247 annum wai his lan [market day. rs should be in 
ar ve geal gg of the soil il which would | with a view of effecting a a considerable ee of | spicuous parts of every market, reminding the ers 
sola: eee applica tin or nie or mineral, ingredi sine nts, or r wlien rent, or — this, of ene notice to ya at the | of what the law hei at their hands, and stating the 
the first is | following Michaelmas. It was agreed, that as the farm ' penalties for neglect. By these means I am persuaded 
