THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTF 



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ERUVIAN GUANO, Bolivian Guano, Superphos- 



^ofa nf T.imA. Nitrate of Soda. Suerar Scum, and every 



description 



anures 



W«. rwoT.in Tarnk. 10. Mark Lane. London. 



PARKES' STEEL DIGGING FORKS & DRAINING TCOLS. 



^HE LONDON MANURE COMPANY beg to call 



— the attention of Agriculturists to their WHEAT and 

 CLOVER MANURES for present use. The London Manure 

 Company also offer Genuine Peruvian Guano, Nitrate of Soda, 

 Concentrated Crate, Superphosphate of Lime, Fishery and other 

 Salts, and all Artificial Manures of value. The London Manure 

 Company guarantee IVruvian Guano and every Manure they 

 supply to he strictly genuine. Edward Purser, Sec. 

 Bridge Street, Blackfriars. 



HE FOLLOWING MANURES are manufactured 



at Mr. Lawes' Factory, Deptford Creek:— Turnip Manure, 

 71. per ton; Superphosphate of Lime, 1L; Sulphuric Acid and 

 Coprolites, 61. 



Office, 69, King William Street, City, London. 

 K.B. Genuine Peruvian Guano, guaranteed to contain 16 per 

 cent! of ammonia. Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate of Ammonia, and 

 other Chemical Manures. 



RT1FIC1AL MANURES, &c— Manufacturers and 



others engaged in making ARTIFICIAL MANURES may 

 ohtain every necessary instruction for their economical and 

 efficient preparation, by applying to J. C. Nesbit, F.G.S., &c., 

 Principal of the Agricultural and Chemical College, Kennington, 

 London. Analyses of Soils, Guanos, Superphosphates of Lime, 

 Coprolites, &c, and Assays of Gold. Silver, and other Minerals, 

 are executed with accuracy and dispatch. 



Gentlemen desirous of receiving instructions in Chemical 

 Anal}. ses and Assaying, will find ample facility and accommoda- 

 tion at the College. 



pORN CRUSHERS AND CHAFF CUTTERS. 



v-^ A large display of the best Farm Implements shown in 

 operation. Price Lists sent free on application. 



BURGESS and KEY, 

 103, Newgate Street, and 52, Little Britain, London. 



PUMPS AM). HOSE PIPES FOR GARDENS 

 AND LIQUID MANURE.— Bubgeps & Key's Pumps 

 were highly commended by the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England at Lincoln. Price Lists sent free. 



103, Newgate Street, and 52, Little Britain, London. 



CHURNS.— ANTHONY'S PATENT AMERICAN 

 CHURN.— Since 1849 this Churn has obtained all the Prizes 

 awarded by the Royal Agricultural Society of England. At the 

 trial before the Judges it made in 10 minutes 4 lbs. 6 oz. of Butter 

 from 4 quarts of Cream, being 8 oz. more than any of the other 

 Churns from the same quantity and quality of Cream. 



103, Newgate Street, London. 



LAYTON, SHUTTLEWORTH, and CO/S 



PRIZE PORTABLE STEAM-ENGINES, and COM- 

 BINED THRASHING, STRAW SHAKING, RIDDLING, 

 and WINNOWING MACHINE may be seen at their London 

 Establishment, 6, Fit zroy Terrace, New Road, where all infor- 

 mation relative thereto can be obtained. These Machines are 

 constructed to horn Barley, and make a perfect separation of the 

 chaff from the pulse. They are fitted with Elevators, which 

 deposit the grain into bags, and beyond the feeder of Machine 

 require no hands except to take away the Corn, &c, as thrashed, 

 the whole of the operations being performed by self-acting 

 machiuery, whereby the Corn, Straw, Chaff, and Pulse are 

 delivered in the places assigned for them. 



C. S. and Co. have paid special attention to this class of 

 Machinery, and Fixed Barn Machinery, and from the position 

 they have taken at the Royal and all the leading agricultural 

 shows of England, flatter themselves that for efficiency, dura- 

 bility, and simplicity, their Engines and Machines are not 

 surpassed by any other maker in England. All letters for- 

 warded to the Works at Lincoln will have immediate attention ; 

 and Illustrated Catalogues forwarded to all parts of the kingdom 

 postage free. 



HOSE P I P I N C— Great Reduction in Price. 



PATENT FLAX TUBING (1 inch to 3 inches 

 diameter) is woven without seam, to stand immense pressure, 

 and much more than leather, vulcanised rubber, or any other 

 hose, and it is prepared so as to be anti-rot. The difficulty of 

 producing this HOSE at a moderate rate has hitherto been its 

 only drawback; but, owing to recent important patented inven- 

 tions, the cost of manufacturing it is now reduced at least 00 per 

 cent., which advantage is offered to the public. 



BURGESS and KEY, 103, Newgate Street, and 52, Little Bri- 

 tain, who on application will forward wholesale and retail pric e s . 



WEEDS ON WALKS. 



MR. FLEMING'S WEEDING or SALTING 

 MACHINE fob GRAVEL WALKS, COURT YARDS, 

 &c, manufactured and sold by Alexander Shanks & Son, Ar- 

 broath, Forfarshire, fro m whom particulars with prices may be had . 



"waterproof paths.— barn and cattle shed 



FLOORS. 



THOSE who would enjoy their Gardens during the 

 winter months should construct their walks of PORTLAND 

 CEMENT CONCRETE, which are formed thus:— Screen the 

 gravel of which the path is at present made from the loam which 

 is mixed with it .and to every part of clean gravel add one of sharp 

 river sand. To five parts of such equal mixture add one of Port- 

 land Cement, and incorporate the whole well in the dry state before 

 applying the water. It may then be laid on 2 inches thick. Any 

 labourer can mix and spread it. No to«l is required beyond the 

 cpade, and in 48 hours it becomes as hard as a rock. Vegetation 

 cannot grow through or upon it, and it resists the action of the 

 severest frost. It is necessary, as water does not soak through it, 

 to give a fall from the middle of the path towards the sides. 



The same preparation makes first-rate paving for BARNS, 

 CATTLE-SHEDS, FARM-YARDS, and all other situations 

 where a clean, hard bottom is a desideratum. Maybe laid in 

 winter equally well as in summer. 



Manufacturers of the Cement, J. B. Whitk & Bbothebs, 

 Milbank Street, Westminster. 



PRIZE MEDAL- 1851. 

 AT A VERY ECONOMICAL RATE. 



SAMUEL CUNDY, Mason and Builder, Pimlico 

 Marble and Stone Works, Belgrave Wharf, Lower Belgrave 

 Place, Pimlico, London. 



Marble Chimney-pieces manufactured by improved machinery. 

 The public are invited to view the stock, uneqnalled for quality 

 and price. A good Marble Chimney-piece for 405. Marble Work 

 in all its branches at a remarkably cheap rate for Halls, Dairies, 

 Larders, <£rc. Circulars sent on application. 



N.B. The "Royal Blue" Omnibuses pass" the Works every 

 ten minutes from the Bank. 



"CTEPHENSON and PEILL, 61, Gracechurch Street, 



*^J London, and 17, New Park Street, Southwark, Manufacturers 

 of Copper Cylindrical and Improved Conical Iron BOILERS, 

 and Conserv ory and Hothouse Builders, either in Wood or 

 Iron, respectfully call the attention of the Nobility. Gentry, and 

 Nurserymen to their simple but efficacious method of warming 

 Horticultural and other Buildings by Hot Water. 



9 1 ? tue extensive works they have executed, references of 

 the highest respectability can be given, and full particulars 

 xunushed on application. 



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MESSRS. BURGESS and KEY, as Mr.'PARKES* 

 Wholesale Agents for England, have always in stock a 

 large assortment. These Forks and Tools are now in use by 

 upwards of 1000 of the Nobility and Farmers, members of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society, who pronounce them to be the best 

 ever invented, and to facilitate labour at least 20 per cent. The 

 Royal Agricultural Society has three times awarded their prize. 

 Price Lists sent on application, and Illustrated Catalogues of the 

 best Farm Implements, on receipt of eight postage stamps. 

 103, Newgate Street, and 52, Little Britain, 'London. 



MINER'S PATENT "VIBRATING ~l5TAN- 



DARD PUMPS. 



PATENT CAST-IRON PUMPS, for the use of Farms, Cot- 

 tages, Manure Tanks, and Wells of a depth not exceeding 30 feet. 



Diameter Length of Barrel, 

 of Barrel under nose. £ s. d. 



V JA in. short 1 ft. 7 in. ( Fitted for lead, \ 1 12 



COLLEGE of AGRICULTURE and CHEMISTRY, 

 and of PRACTICAL and GENERAL SCIENCE, 37 and 



38, Lower Kennington Lane, Kennington, near London. 



Principal— J. C. Nesbit, F.G.S., F.C.S., &c. 



The system of studies pursued in the College comprises every 

 branch requisite to prepare youth for the pursuits of Agriculture. 

 Engineering, Mining, Manufactures, and the Arts; for the Naval 

 and Military Services, and for the Universities. 



Analyses and Assays ot every description are promptly and 

 accurately executed at the College. The terms and other par- 

 ticulars may be had on application to the Principal. 



THE LANDS IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, 

 INCORPORATED BY SFECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT FO 



Enolakd and Scotland.— To Landowners, the Clergy, Soli- 

 citors, Surveyors, Estate Agents, &c— Loans may be contracted 

 for the execution by the proprietor or by the Company of every 

 landed improvement, especially Drainage, Building, Clearing, 

 Enclosing, Warping, Irrigation, Embanking, Reclamation, Roads, 

 Planting. Machinery, &c. The plans (of buildings),specitica- 



tions, and estimate s are prepared by the proprietors, and are 

 submitted to the approval of the Enclosure Commissioners. Pro- 

 prietors mav avail themselves of the power f the Act to recover 

 from the inheritance their own funds to be expended on improve- 

 ments. They may also apply jointly for the execution of a 

 mutual improvement, such as a common outfall. &c. For forms 

 of application. &c, apply to the lion. Wm. Name r, Managing 

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gutta percha, f 1 15 



or cast iron f 2 12 

 flanged pipe, 2 IS 

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short, with 15 feet of Lead Pipe 

 attached, and Bolts and Nuts 



ready for fixing 2 12 



2.} in. long ditto ditto ditto 2 15 



The short barrel Pump is very convenient 

 for fixing in situations of limited height and 

 space, for the supply of coppers and sinks in 

 Wash-houses with soft water from under- 

 ground tanks, or in Hot, Forcing, and Plant 

 Houses; they may be fixed, when desired, 

 under the stage. 



May be obtained of any Ironmonger or 

 Plumber in Town or Country, at the above prices, or of the 

 Patentees and Manufacturers, JOHN WARNER and SONS, 

 8, Crescent, Jewin Street, London. 



Every description of Machinery for Raising Water, by means 

 of Wheels, Rams, Deep Well Pumps, &c. ; also Fire and Garden 

 Engines, &c. &c. — Engravings sent on application. 



W~ _ ^ARN£R^n\lPROVED^LIQUTD"^TNURE, 

 OR GENERAL PORTABLE PUMP. 



The valve is a ball of imperishable 

 material, and cannot clog in action. 

 The barrel is of galvanised iron, not 

 likely to corrode, and can be raised or 

 lowered at pleasure. The legs will fold 

 together, and the whole may be carried 

 on shoulder to any pond or tank required. 



Price of 4i in. Pump, with legs, 3Z.3s. 



The barrel is 27£ in. long, and the legs 



are 5 ft. high. 



l£inch Gutta Percha Suction Pipe, 



Is. 6c?. per foot. 



li inch Flexible Rubber and Canvas 

 Suction Pipe, 3s. 6d. per foot. 



May be obtained of any Ironmonger 

 or Plumber in town or country, at the 

 above prices, or of the Patentees and 

 Manufacturers, John Warner & Sons, 

 8, Crescent, Jewin Street, London. 



Every description of Machinery for 

 Raising Water, by means of Wheels, 

 Rams, Deep Well Pumps, &c; also 

 Fire and Garden Engines, &c. — Engravings sent on application. 



G "Galvanised wire gamS - netting. 

 T Id. per Yard, 2 Feet Wide. 



RUSSIA SUPERSEDED IN THE GROWTH 

 OF HEMP AND FLAX. England for the Neces- 

 saries of Lin: Independent of all Nations. By an 

 Improved Mode of Vegetation Two Crops, nay Three Crops, 

 and for Cattle Eight Crops annually. 



A LECTURE will be delivered on the above subject by 

 Mr. Wilkins, Patentee, at the ( i»v of London Tavern, Bishops- 

 gate Street (City), on THURSDAY next. January 11th, at 

 8 o'clock in the evening precisely. The Hemp. Flax Boots, 

 &c. } <fcc. ? will be exhibited. 



Terms of admission moderate, which will be announced in the 

 Times, Daily Hews, and other papers on Wednesday or Thurs- 

 day next. 



After payment of lecture, expenses, surplus to the Patriotic 

 Fund. Botany and Portable Garden, which will move with the 

 Sun. to be referred to. Tickets maybe had on Wednesday and 

 Thursday next, at the place of lecture, City, 



Patentee's Motto—" Do good and communicate," 



Walworth, Surrey. Jan. 6. 



JOHN MORREN, General Commission- Agest, 

 Ock Street, Abingdon, is open for Commissions for the sale 

 of Agricultural Implements, Manures, Seeds, &c, and for the 

 purchase of Corn, &c. 



Eixt flgrtcttttitral ©ajette* 



SATUHDAY, JANUARY 6, 1855. 



MEETINGS ¥OR THE ENSUING WEEK, 

 Thuesdat, Jan. ll—Agricalrujal Imp. Society of Ireland. 



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2-inch mesh, light, 24 inches wide 



2-inch „ strong „ 



2-inch „ extra strong „ 

 lg-inch „ light „ 



l§-inch „ strong „ 



lf-inch „ extra strong,, 



All the above can be made any width at proportionate prices. 

 If the upper half is a coarse mesh, it will reduce the prices one- 

 fourth. Galvanised Sparrow-proof Netting for Pheasantries, 3d. 

 per square foot. Patterns forwarded post free. 



Manufactured by Barnard & Bishop, Market Place, Norwich, 

 and delivered free of expense in London, Peterborough, Hull, or 



Newcastle. 



* t^RIGI DOMO/'— Patronised by her Majesty the 



Jl Queen, Duke of Northumberland for Syon House, His 

 Grace the Duke of Devonshire for Chiswick Gardens, Professor 

 Lindley for the Horticultural Society, Sir Joseph Paxton for the 

 Crystal Palace, Royal Zoological Society, and Mrs. Lawrence, oJ 



Ealing Park. 



"FKIGI DO MO," a Canvass made of prepared Hair and 

 Wool, a perfect non-conductor of Heat and Cold, keeping, where- 

 ever it is applied, a fixed temperature. It is adapted for 

 all horticultural andfloricultural purposes, for preserving Fruits 

 and Flowers from the scorching rays of the sun, from wind, and 

 from attacks of insects and morning frosts. To be bad in any 

 required length, upwards of 2 yards wide, at Is. 6d. per yard run, 

 of Elisha Thomas Archer, 7, Trinity Lane, Cannon Street, 

 j City, and the Royal Mills, Wandsworth, Surrey. 



To the general reader of periodical literature 

 there is not a more curious study presented during 

 the year than the various introductory essays which 

 are called forth by its commencement. Cast your 

 eves where you will, be it Magazine or Review, 

 Newspaper weekly or daily; be the subject what it 

 may, science, literature, politics, or gossip, — from 

 the c leading article ' down to the advertisements, in 

 one shape or another, with view prospective or re- 

 trospective, in tone promise-full or regretful — every- 

 where you knock your head against 'the New Year/ 

 saluted after many fashions and in many strains,- 

 sentimental or prosaic, moralising, or puffing. 

 There are moments when one is half tempted to 

 vote the good old custom more honoured in the 

 breach than the observance, occasions again when 

 the happy phrase or well-pointed reflection revokes 

 at once the undutiful thought, reminding us that we 

 can never be too often reminded of the precious- 

 ness not less of Change and Season than of Time 

 itself ; but above all of that season which, standing 

 at the margin of the new page of time, commends 

 a moment for reflection even to the busiest way- 

 farer of life. All experience and observation, all that 

 lies without man, or within him, exemplify the need 

 at certain intervals of a fresh start : the feelings of 

 our minds, as well as the labours of our hands suggest 

 it, and outward nature confirms it. 



But if any one more than another may be sensible 

 of this, it should be the Farmer. Constant and 

 never ending as is the round of his labours, yet 

 the chances which Nature undergoes are to him 

 the actual machinery by which he works, as Nature 

 herself is his workshop. Yet it may be feared, and 

 that, too, without departing very far from natural 

 history, that here paradox is triumphant, and the 

 very opposite of what one should expect is the fact. 

 The deep-felt inward resolve to turn over, in the 

 best sense, the new leaf that life presents to 

 apt to be least felt where the routine dependent 

 upon change, has effaced the impression of the change 

 itself. Flatter ourselves as we may with the here-and- 

 there sound or sign of progress, a faith one would 

 rather exaggerate than diminish, it is yet impossible 

 to contemplate the amount of wealth employed, the 

 number of individuals engaged, the breadth of the 

 social state represented by agriculture in this 

 country, and not feel that its importance in each 

 and all of these respects is, beyond all due propor- 

 tion with other pursuits, in advance of its intel- 

 lectual condition. Pampered, as some supposed, 

 but more truly speaking, drugged and stupefied ly 

 false patronage based on false politics for nearly 

 half a century's legislation, till it verily believed the 



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