I I 
f ri a ih ge the efficacy of a newl 
French termed « Pouduetta de Bondy” and to | 
of guano, thr 
DECEMBER 26, 1857.) 
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CHRONICLE. 
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sate arene (ceo harbours, is fav wourably 
Oregon, California, the Sandwich 
Sou th America, Australia and 
e n, 
ro- 
as 
Se gp eraen 
aaki Wit 
to colonisation, he thought ae Island 
in e available 
, | Manner in which this sort ts raw 
poudre tte 700 grains. Ema series 3d,. Twice as much, by 
ryan of fem gis a An as of guano, viz., guano 
po Tes 00. The w N. ot the 
Pota cae sae anted on n the 17th of April u 
es. pee aot the results taken up on Saoti bak 3d, 
and weighed in my miero sotie on the spot. On account 
of the diseased tubers, the 
0 543 i 
in all the 
ucing these 
The following peen will serve for pranie of the 
which th material may be 
pir vi: up into definite res 
AE er Entire iae including sound and 
EARLY SHAW. 
r been able to trace any real reli ong 
the malri. They had some traditions exces- 
sively childish in their nature, and which did not Tai 
„were cea aware of 
8 
One missiona 
the sun, 
thonght this too noble a superstition to exist in the br si 
of such a grovelling race of Indians as they ae They | 3 
aaa a few sipersitions a among the ey re among 
Roman Catholic missionaries, 
implant 
being i 
pee = plants ‘On y the is nari ba "oth 
sed 
n 
so that the different tribes speaking 
some difficulty, yr gripas É vee ind 
had a patricks a. 
mse each tribe pide a family something like 
t would not make a mat > con- 
baht of its Sangui © merica. 
to the cient across nel was pi vee 
to prevent the convicts escaping, a lates military gu 
some bay pen 
Rev. Brymer Belcher, F.R.G.S., believed what 
tad “éen sid about the missi st in Vancouver 
Tsland was quite correct, At t there were no 
missionaries in i the island, pers nA dai pa Catholics, 
who had been th years. The Hudson 
Bay Company had a bape at t Victora, and about a year 
ago an unordained labourer, a catechist, was sent out 
y gee of the great missionary societies of this country 
southern part of the isl: coat The gentlemen who | recom 
t their geographical knowledge to bear up 
missionary Y eigi? of the Church aikoi o n Vancouver 
field, and 
taland a 
y for E as 
000 of tive: "Sena 
given by the Hudson Bay 
the climate and nature of 
out two missionar 
to between 20,000 and 30, 
according to the 
e coal, to y which 
seas to believ 
ovr Ae ge faa od t of very viisat Men 
tin a Mie. 
Wn coul and wood, an and “with what, there was every 
e, would be found in mineral products as 
- .S., late Governor of Van- | & 
onver Taliti eave to oi 
t to the AR wage Grant eatihatod”§ 
eee ween 20,000 ot 
30,000. When 1 ias there To took pains to 
ae inc e who he considered were 
nalified to kige toe they stated the numbers to 
teal outside, 10,000, and that the population was 
ecteasing.” 
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a EXPERIMENTS AT HITCHAM 
N FIFTY-FIVE ae te hers 
compare its effects with th 
Guano. Poudrette, 
Ibs. oz. 
1/80 15) (2 f) 
12 5 (18 f) 
23 1 (6f) 
.| 66 5 (21 f) 
York REGENT, 
Guano. Nothing. 
os 
1st seri fe ae $ (3 f) 
2d eaten is si i 15 do.f)| 63.6 
3d series . > 7 Qf) 61 5 
«> +.) 54 14 (81 £) 9 181 6 
oe the ano was injadiciously agg 
contact with the 
Totals ., 
Inferences: 
from 
crops greater amount’ a 
oe no beneficial effect. 
appli¢ 
"The 
In al 
obtain with the pou an has beet lane less than where 
nothing was added to t 
NB. e following experiment with the torte 
has been tried on my own m In April last- 
of s 
bs. rl and 691 
orthless, may even tend to mis- 
lead. It should be repeated on different lands before 
3 
again 
| gang appearing 
sults to a tabular form, for amean pda p a 
h eee regret we are kieren to find room, the report z 
to sa that. ad atone eet Pan 
r aa eM from them, He was 
ro- 
when Potatoes were planted 
skin 
TRADE MEMORANDA. 
We say beware of Lancashire swindlers. 
under all sorts fed disguises, ae 
county and victimises nursery secdsmen 
others, py follow! ER is pat free from the Tapii 
mi ta Dec. 1 
Saturday last 
Wil 
a William ony Chapman were reer guilty 
by false pretences arfd 
many others, by which means he 
Recorder r) w. ormed they d Se 
a large amount of cy property ; 4 that they had mda tho bine 
for the same 
ir eg evcuvitin and, panir 
0 ur ma > 
practices ae 
ment o ‘their 
that s nee the co 
to ind 
t 
had io 
t limit, and ae should 
ras S Anni MOGA 
sie ttering a bill of exchange, 
that offence a light one in oom- 
z5 bour for 
Te “the "Beoorder) consid 
s duty in cnt upon each the sentence of seven 
as pervited 5 age be added yas it is to ~ Liverpool 
uardian Boc è Protection of Trado, to its 
and iere aang T r. es y, thi 
mainly indebted mekas the giy tiaras and conviction of these 
w 8 i 
e enya Fagat v sodaky, and is, we bolii, = 12d conviction 
7 icious enters: fom the La Ra of È England riper apply 
ioe latoentheion $0 to Mr, Reay. 
We have also t eaders that a person, 
fesing to bia 2 from Messrs. Henderson & tas of the 
elli Nurse g for sale what he als Aostralian mise the 
ee by ofering vod lyr mor ` Me s Amia and 
other enderson 
last 
North of En 
e Correspondence. 
regent 
A 
sparrows eating off their tops. 
is sprinkled over irb while they are damp 
ws will not touch them. Soot is also valuable for 
sepa- | sparrow 
the | Carnations and Bae in any ground sen 
abound, It is 
only a destroyer of msects but also a 
rich manure. i ec n wireworm 
r punct ned aon A 
i hogany sawdust mixed with it. 
now being largely mixed with it for the country trade. 
ames Outhill, n, Praa 
ths.—I have had the disagreeable mis- 
i or. We ha ave here a 
Heath-house, an 
I am aware that Boom gas see 
but t it will injure 
the above-named temp 
had scales in our 
i the cattle have cropped th 
e of this man’ 
rass closer 
ure was laid on ae pats of the lt 
a # tough they had ' 
detected some improv: 
toes in the two crops. 
York REGENT. 
Soun ag Totals. 
Ibs. oz. lbs. Tbs. oz. 1bs. oz. 
50 1l- 4 30m) 104 3 
158 0 36 7(11* i287 8 
162 12. 28 10 (18*) 271 0 
Nothix “i00 8 57 1 er 
h | Poudrotto 118 12 54 15 (13* 
tals. |281 12 194 16 0% 361 7 - )_4 47") 641 5 19 
Per eeng n 
5: That the Ttaeen hit the dis- 
ease ater extent arco A double) t rear the 
Early Sha y just inference could be deduced from | 
the effect of the guano, it would seem to Da di ed | 
the influence of the e poud also would 
have had a slightly beneficial effect, but the 
ce is placing coni in 
having been the . Where nothing was the 
from 
case , 
disease 93 ,, 8) is 26 per cent.; that is to 
ra the unmanured crop has 
There is a prevalent i 
Ti Hew The proportion*of sound to diseased Pota- |s 
ae “ie ‘of considerable 
P » + u as i 
seriber, ipa nie pe 
pensi to rege back to, and 
Rose 
apne neg eg ined of. But the 
the 
| quain as wo ra “park « of a stock thus dead 
be induced to : 
ee the intermixture of of Beans, or their proximity to be eh 
. tho sets of P and | 
, and | 
