THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[AvGus? 15, ] 
‘is ‘inferior, and 
have it carefully analys 
: È aerae orme the winter = 
erp ie any ppg oy ed Cap = mrep Ds al sapia ‘ r grov = taking | to notice that, by this method by tenn, n i 
by Mr. (Saber as tb ran a folded | steps of 5 per po hg and that, fi A 
in = the Journal of the English Mpricutteral Socie ety. pee tre fm ma ee he fet the} faroiiod | will be made between a mend e me no 
| bulk o hay in noe ie the spring feed inst | ontaining per cent. ofsalt; but it is obvio 
SALTERA LIGHT nate Jegra G. iiss ideas and carriage, it ree ot precision may be arrived at, Provided w, 
be a grave error to consider the managemen nt! Sedii that its sant as sa iinet is quite equal to that | solution of nitrate of silver, not by whole vd 
a sai genta ands as devoted particularly either re of the spring fold, ideas is usually valued at 25s. to smaller quantities, for y fifth of a 
sheep and dairy pu s on the one hand, or, on s. ae r acre. s this = rther value in ned respond to 1 per cent. The objection to mt 
other, to corn farming; and yet ther are cris of . produce eee in the m of hay, that it i ‘| way, however, lies in the delay pea eat 
the year when both remarks would be fairly applicable. applicable 4i any oe and ea ity. between each addition; om whee 
Itis the m ju application of sheep stock to) arms wher ere are no water-meadows the | exact experiment for the cheat ae B | 
the p es of profitable feeding at the one time, and usefal and RR Sainfoin sme in to supply in | spondence between the article dared a a | 
their as “dung s” to the distant great measure their absence. That it does supply such by ‘which it was sold. supposing the analy 
fields at another, which constitutes what is supposed to want is a gtaet axiom, and although it cannot bear that the mingle iors 3.5 per 
be the rig gement of the hill la urnish in March or April the luxuriant herbage Which | would only be necessary to add three. 
To take, therefore, as illustrations, the ‘two rotations te clothes our meadows, yet, in the form of hay, it ounce of the nitrate of silver ; and if tl 
of four fields w most frequently occur, US SUP- contributes — = the health and well-being of the | Seh of the salt, the res atisfaetor. Th 
the first set of fields to be managed in the ordinary stock, The pro n of land devoted to Sainfoin in is, act, only necessary to take Podl 
course eat, Turnips, Barley, s. S this district on fons with a fair share of Sha aio nitate than | is requisite to precipitate t the wine i 
course identical with that whi current else- is about 10 per cent. on the area of arable land; where | common sa ride of sodium mia 
where, that it needs no further plait ambi han that a hey are absent it is about 15 to 18 per cent. The | th 
catch crop of Rye, winter Oats, hes invariably following are a few statistics of the produce and mor- 
precedes the Turnip crop. The other rotation is one tality of the flocks. A prejudice exists in favour of the 
peculiar to this district that it will probably be of more present system ah near to sheep, but the following 
interest. It is as follows :—First year, Wheat ond statement in oo larger mortality, with a propor- 
year, Barley ; third , half Clover and Rye-gra d ti nately sr ahe pice nce than is obtained from any 
half Rye or Vetches, followed by Swedes or late Turnips ; other di trict or breed, the statistics of which are kno 
fourth year, half old field or old lea, and half fo ward aken on the 4th of May, during five 
Turnips or Rape. alf of the Barley land, which anaa agh 5 it appears that the average produce 
is sowed off to Clover and 5 = for 10,600 ewes, in : in ant - ithin a radius of 10 miles 
hay in the ensuing year, is fed through the autumn, and = Salisbury, was t. of lambs. The average 
a moiety is then covered with long fresh straw o 8 peA of ewes a tbet 10th to May 4th was 
and the sheep k penned upon this in the latter 4.35 per cent. verage mortality of ewe tegs, or 
end of November and the earl of ber, as hoggets, derived from istrict a ing t 
soon as the + for | is completed. e fi same period, was 2.75 per cent. It is believed that the 
hich sup e sheep is period, e: conditions under which th ers ee btained | lee 
the event of an Turnips, is hay supplied rua represent the general circumstances of the flocks e house water, 
to them ni ing, and a spread er the of southern Le of this county. “Mr. Squarey at | S 
downs for a few hours in the Py not they go for poe Wilton, July 22 
The average fol about one and a half sheep to a 
ng is 
square a or 36 square o. feet, 5 which i is equal to abont 
1860 sheep per acre per night. When the fold has wiht tet 
Ho 
Dr. Pisah Test 
Societies, 
over the nad, it is either raftered or fallowed, an ommon Salt in Nitrate GHLAND SOCIETY, argik —The ae 
a -p pehing in March is in capital se te ge for of Soda.—The fo ollowing is Pia test to which Dr. Ander- during the past has bee 
early Turnips or Rape preceding the Wheat crop. The son referred in his lecture the other day at ow :— ber of exhibitors, spectators, and stock 
ether moiety, of old field, is reserved for fooling about “Tt is founded on emical principle, that if a suf- | ments exhibit ew 
per first k in May, when the sheep leavethe meadows. ficient quantity of nitrate of silver be added to conme Short-ho 
a dunged and folded, and either ae salt, that tance is entirely decomposed and no | 79 Kyloes—in all upwards o: 
to sapere ploughed up, and the sh eep longer exists the fluid. This fact can be easily | the Societys pri rizes. 
folded w upon pa filiows, be conso no them previous illustrated by experiment, in which it is shown how sheep a 9 of 
he sowing of Whea S n as after both mon sal be detected, for it is only nece ary | besides net 143 pe AAE 
‘hens systems of ator 9 w to a solution of the ure a further | 234 under that of dai 
Let us now return to that tia 2 ¢ the l Barley field Sunti of nitrate of silver, when it is s tno |in which the Highland Socie 
where no Ry or Clov wn, the early further precipitate is formed, the salt originally present | unless, indeed, it shoul me beaten at the 
autumn i with hich ving be = previous addition. By | show at er next year. Th th 
on the land in the bara and July of the next summer, ae o well-kno cal ree it i ~ found that | 600 im ple ments, completed the show. The 
led in, = ns of nitrate of saver si required the award of prizes in the cattle yards Tt will be seen 
over for feed until po period in the spring w may 1 1 grin of salt. m this Sensini a gaini is made, that Mr. Stirling’s aeae short-horn 
be most co j Srijoontiy it ha aa tend 290 grains of nitrate of silver in rial | is successful here a: agai 
iss Arpeka oe the sheep can ` | pint water, and its strength is then such that a fluid LIST OF PRIZES. 
Swedes or Turnip land is then d from our ounce of it mposes exac rey The SS OA ; 
yards, or from h lave rted to the use i ion for the of det ing the} 61a Bulls—1, I. Ca pbell, New Cumnock; 2, J. Stewart 
fields during the winter, and, with the SEE ss gs | purity of pira of soda depends on the fact tha se — Strathaven ; 3, J. Rennie, East Kilpatrick 
phosphate, is drilled with earl a Tw heer old es J. Stewart, Strathaven 
ality it rey contains less 
at if we take 100 
t., the excess above that 
8 sometim: urs a the Patatia kok ve water, and add a Posen es ounce of the er pona 
for a four-field on, when a Turnip crop ken s tion, we ought to have decomposed ‘hes me of 
between the Wheat and ae or the land, os Pe ae salt it contained, and none should be ft 
portion, is sown Siih the to Sainfoin, w. n the mr 3 where: e -ipen 
he per remains for t 
the s 
ain, 
per ce 
second system just dineribod. and be detected b 
e.—1, J. Parker, fer 
of Barley after The mode i in which the experimen a Aha ar a 
well known and appreciated in Wiltshire, le. 1ined Degli: 3 fe Hi Mas, 
ne: dino stood the so much practice, that are wei “igs apoth es’ scales, Yearling Heifers 
it is pim oe an audience of comparative strangers that and put into a bottle iah “of containing abo about thal a a | Stewart, 
i tion so apparently old- pint. es ances of warm wat Kei = 
eed be Its application over a fair so iad ai. sgl of ar. 
rain water ) 
en poured into the bottle, “which is shaken until 
then 
ente 
for the following reasons. Fi fully ines the insoluble matter, which ahead be 
enables the farmer to his Barley over a large area very sm qnantity, ing 1 per cent, and 
early, and ge very little labour of tillage. Secondly. | nares | of grains of sand; and a little experien 
The | of the Barley so grown is uniformly supe- ‘ena in by inspection whether the quan- 
l grown Turnips. Thirdly. If the’ tity i is raat . An — stn nitrate of wok 
for Wheat been what it should be, tion is m mon meas 
ity of grown is generally satis- poured into the bottle, hry is meee violentiy 1 for 
n an av of years, will quite compete | some time, and then all S for five or 
grown after ips, which latter is fr minutes, when the white curd teil deposits and 
injured through its late sowing. Fourthly. It leaves the su t fluid nearly or altogether clear. 
ellent opportr of cleansing the land, a | When this is the case, afew drops of nitrate of silver 
uent a often | are added, and if the fluid remains cl and shows 
nt to accomplish before| no further milkiness, then the sample must have 
points of this system are | contained less than per cent. oi is of 
the large quantity of green food bo which is cheaply pro- sr am qualit as apea it become muddy, 
duced under it, and the admirable facility aff for anot ounce measure of the nitrate of silver 
the consumption of such food at any period consistent | “ake ot shaken, allowed to stand until clear, and 
with th er’s conveni ted with a few of the 
Another advantage not lost sight of is, that a' eta 
antag if it remains clear, then t the sampl tain 
ee and wasteful application of the Turnips, fo fear | more ! han 10 per t. Should 
of losing t the season for sowing 
cent. of salt, _ Should 
will. ri 
by a further addition n nitrate of silver. k 
is made is very | ”9 
will Castle Douglas 
J. “Dongs, 
Balfron. 
“Old — in Mi ate ea oles 
barchan ; 3, J. Parker, Irvin x 
Young. Cows i in Milk. 1, 7. Spies ye 
lan ots Port-Glasgow ; D. M*Farlane, 
Helen sbur 
X. We A gs, 'Bart., Be 
s een ear-old Bulls. —l, J. Douglas, A 
2, A. Bethune of Blebo, Cupar-Fife ; 
earling Bulls.—1, Wm. apm ha 
‘Athelstane ford; 3, 
hi 
Yearling 
Douglas; 3, J. gees 
1d Bulls.—1, the © Earl p Southey 
Walker, Portlethen cn Maine 3 PT ; inet 
Two-year-old Bulls. 6 
Leslie, Thorn, B 
ortlethen-Ma 
f an e—], R. Walker, Pi 
Wat cr aE S the Karl o of Southesk, : 
ee ee —l, G. Da Biom Fochabers + 
Ardgay, Forres ; a E 
d Bulls.—1, Rob. B ardlaw Ramsay 
han aerd , Whitecairn, Castle Douglas; ss 
ley, is avoided, nor ati och, Dum ta Beattie, Newbie ] 
i sly the the pa may ed, is there any | r as often as may be r uisite, until ia u — il 
thereby injuring crop of the prinse fluid e muddy. Every ounce 
It leads, moreover, to a more equable distribu- | of nitrate of silver which has thus been used co 
horse labour the year. Ho otpa “i ong at if 3 ounces had 
the ewes on the old field, to which reference | there must be from 1 15 per cent. of impurity and 
made, and the the system of folding generally, |s0 on over, In this way t e experi pener on ee 
Peculiar to this ah may ascertain within S per cent, the am purity. But 
ne the sien i is satire AEE it would probably not be advisable for rak him to go beyond Paetoc 3.8 
i tat first additions ; beara there is er; 
