THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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!S — 7^5 HON MAKUKE COM r AM beg to call 

 ilL ^^y^MtmUU to lh«ii WHEAT and 



X iW ■* fp?- s f0 r present use. The London Manure 

 CUOMH y A ^ r ^ en nine renivian Guano, Nitrate of Soda, 



*iS°™ SwShosphate of Lime, Fishery and other 

 ""fi Ardficial Manures of value. The London Manure 



VE* Peruvian Guano and every Manure they 

 T _f"^£?ji";,i„«_ Kdward Pubsbb, Sec. 



*2C"tiS strictly genuine 



^BjU StrtotjBlackfnars. . 



«FRCVI\N GUANO, Bolivian Guano, Superphos- 



P w •# cf Lime, Nitrate of Soda, Sugar Scum, and every 



?\En of artificial Manures, Linseed Cakes, &c. 

 J icnp»» WM - j is_CAByg » 10, Mark L ane, London. 



/^EWAG^CHAKCOAL MANURE.— This highly 



S ZldliaiBff Manure, which is Peat Charcoal completely 

 to? with London Sewage, will he found most elhcient for 

 mtMJt M€\es of crop ; more especially for Peas, Beans, Turnips, 

 fTe fL5$L\V'urxel, and other root crops. It will produce a greater 

 ^Safor the outlay than Guano or any other Manure at an 

 * i *Vlent value: it also possesses the property of retaining its 

 •^Jf: uLnm-ar loneer than other Manures now in use. It may 

 ^S^id at the SEWAGE MANURE WORKS, Stanley 

 *LtA^T" !h *™ at 4/. per ton, and in quantities less than half 

 <Z2^t bi per cwt., for ready money only; and in quantities not 

 .* jjj tn ttOD w% ill be delivered at the London Termini of the 



pwadii Agricultural Seedsmen, Ag 

 il \he other A& nU of the Company. 



'rilE FOLLOWING MANURES are manufactured 



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

 tj per ton; Superphosphate of Lime, 7L; Sulphuric Acid and 



\, oproUUa, 6J. 



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



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

 oat o( ammonia. Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate of Ammonia, and 

 other < *j_ Mamir«8. t 



ARTIFICIAL MANURES, &c— Manufacturers and 

 others engaged in making ARTIFICIAL MANURES may 

 obtain every nfcessary instruction for their economical and 

 tflcient 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, Ac, and Assays of Gold, Silver, and other Minerals, 

 are executed with accuracy and dispatch. 



Gentlemen desirous of receiving instructions in Chemical 

 Analyses and Assaying, will fiud ample facility and accommoda- 

 tion at the ( liege. 



JOHN MORKEN, General Commission Agent, 

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

 4f Agricultural Implements, Manures, Seeds, &c, and for the 

 pnrchtse of Corn, &c. 



PHILLIPS' 





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PATENT 





THE PRIZE PULPING MACHINE of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society's Show, held at Lincoln, Julv, 1854. 

 The First and only Prize ever offered by the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society for the best Machine for reducing Roots to a Pulp 

 was awarded to the Machine Invented and Exhibited by Fre- 

 derick Phillips, of The Hall Farm, near Brandon, Suffolk. 



Ibederkk Phillips legs to inform the trade that he is pre- 

 pared to grant Licenses for the making of these Machines. 



PUYTON, SHUTTLEWOKTH, and COTs 



!£«£*!££; IORTAB LE STEAM-ENGINES, and com- 



f^nv^ 1 ^ 11 ^' STRAW SHAKING, RIDDLING, 

 iro U IM\01* ING MACHINE may be seen at their London 

 Establishment, 6, Fitzroy Terrace, New Road, where all infor- 

 mation ative thereto can he obtained. These Machines are 

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

 2H-**? the . Pulse. They are fitted with Elevators, which 

 ffepoait the gram into bags, and beyond the feeder of Machine 

 squire no hands except to take away the Com, &c, as thrashed, 

 uae whole of the operations being performed by self-acting 



to fe 7J ,ere f by ^ *■* •*»* Chaff, and Pulse are 

 delivered in the places assigned for them. 



lUrhi^r C 2'J}* r f > paid B P (cial attention to this class of 

 tw i° : ' I f nd * ,x , ed Bam Machinery, and from the position 



shows nf v T 1 *\ l l e Koyal and a11 the leadi ^ agricultural 

 ShZ? of j^. lan ?> fl atter themselves that for efficiency, dura- 



aEEaJrfK fcIni P licit 7. their Engines and Machines are not 

 wttSSdto t5 £ ! 'V th . e ? . maker in England. All letters for- 

 Mm*to?£Fr ?? at L,D r C0,n wiU nave tomediate attention ; 

 •pStaw free Catal °g ues forwarded to all parts of the kingdom 



WATERPROOF PATHS.-BARN AND^CATTLE SHED 



Ttinci? i FLOORS, 



w^f , Wouid en J°y their Gardens during the 



CEMWT fft\rpl^?? d c ? nstruct their walks of PORTLAND 

 ^Telof whS ffiSS '• Wl ! ,Ch are f °™ ed , th «^-Screen the 

 * mixed with if o il ath lsat present made from the loam which 

 river sand TnfiJ adtoe 7 e 7P artofcl ean gravel add oneof sharp 

 tea Cement l^a- P&rtS of such C( ^al m«iure add one of Port- 

 *Pplying the w»fo" CO i r F 0rate ! he wbole weli in t},e dl T state before 

 ff&urer can mw * a *' may tben be laid on 2 inches thick. Any 

 ^»nd inTv, Ld 8 - pi T d !t - No t001 i8 requiT^d beyond the 

 ^t ^ow thron°I ra " beC0In . e8 as hard as a ™*- Vegetation 

 •^^est frost n? ° r Upon ,fc ' and tt resists *h« action of the 

 *° ^e a fallfrri #1 nece f J a l r y, as water does not soak through it, 

 Tii. J™ ^ the middle of the path towards the sides. 



"' " " -rate paving for BARNS, 



The tornl ine nnddl e of the p 



CATTLE% P PT^ ar ^ ion n,akes fir8t 



•bare a.&.S. ?ARM.YAKB8 f 



factnrers 



winter •qnaiir w^ ° ,tom ,s a nesideratiim. Maybe laid in 



STEPHEN — 



«"• SS ^" c »' R ^ t {niproyed Conical ifon BOILERS, 

 '«». wipectfull v c .um Ho t t , ho " 8e B " llder9 - e^her in Wood oi 



^rySen to thrtr S" * V^T* * ^ NobiIit y. Gentry, and 

 a «rticuit,, r », *" le ' r 8, "»Ple butefficacions method of warmins 



from th. " - her Bui,d5 "Ss by Hot Water. g 



2 16 hi 8hest res^r'tltr. 01 * 8 the J ha . ve "ecuted, references of 

 ^^JHlSult^ ltJ *** ta given - and ful1 Particulars 



PBIGI Bono »» 



U London «nn Vtw RD l£ ' 1 ^ L »t>l,Graeechurch 

 or Copper <C.i ^ •* , 6W Park St,ee <.Southwark,Manuf : 

 »"• SerX 7 , ' i nCa L R P, d m P^ed Conical Iron BO 



Queen n^C"" — Pat ronised by her Majesty the 



P«J? the Uuke%^ Northumberland for Syon Houm, His 

 Liodley for ft, H«J? i 0n8h . ,re for Claswick Gardens, Professor 



"^ ' P «C! Rov?l C 7« U , ral - S0 , C i et y- Sir j08e i ,h P81ton fo «- 'he 

 'SJo Park Jal Zw,1 °g.cal Society, and Mrs. Lawrence, of 



"JJK » perfect n^''L \a Canvass mad e of prepared Hair and 

 2ft U i8 aiH n a W ? n r c ^f"«tand Cold, keeping, where- 

 ,,l8w ticmt ur Sj , ^ d 1 ' *. , fix f d temperature. It is adapted for 



tod 



'roi 



nw„, r"-.Bor n .„,. . — ° ••;• »' i"c »uu, irom winu, ana 

 ^"•red l. n „,u ,ns ects and mornine fro«t« t« be had in any 



rd run, 



._. . --, Street 



andsworth. Surrev. 



CSZ 



per yard ran, 



WAKNE1VS IMPROVED LIQUID MANURE, 

 OR GENERAL PORTABLE TUMP. 



The valve is a hall of imperishable 

 material, and cannot clog in action. 

 The barrel is of galvanised iron, not 

 likely to corrode, and can he raised or 

 lowered at pleasure. The legs will fold 

 together, and the whole may he carried 

 on shoulder to any pond or tank required. 



Price of 4£ in. Pump, with legs, V.Ss. 

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

 are 5 ft. high. 



1J inch Gutta Percha Suction Pipe, 

 Is. Gd. per foot. 



1£ inch Flexible Rubber and Canvas 

 Suction Pipe, 3s. 6d. per foot. • 



Maybe obtained of any Ironmonger 

 or Plumber in town or country, at the 

 above prices, or of the Patentees and 

 Manufacturers, Jonx Warner & Sons, 

 8, Crescent, Jewin Street, London. 



Every description of Machinery for 

 m Raising Water, by means of Wheels, 

 •^ Rams, Deep Well Pumps, &c; also 

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



WARKER'S PATENT VIBRATING STAN- 

 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. 



21 in. short 1ft. Tin. / Fitted for lead, \ 1 12 



2* 

 3 



34 



4 

 2* 



2 V 



tl 



7» 







2\ in. long 



long 3 „ 3 „ gutta percha, 1 __ _ 



ditto 3 „ 6 „ -j or cast iron \ 2 12 

 ditto 3 „ 6 „ flanged pipe, 2 18 

 ditto 3 „ 6 „ \ as required. J 3 

 short, with 15 feet of Lead Pipe 

 attached, and Bolts and Nuts 

 ready for fixing 2 



5 



12 



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 desiied, 

 under the stage. 



May he obtained of any Ironmonger or 

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

 Patentees and Manufacturers, JOHN WARNER and SONS, 

 8, Crescent, Jewin Street, Loudon. 



Every description of Machinery for Raising Water, by means 

 of Wheels, Rams, Deep Well Pun ps, &c; also Fire and Garden 

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



HE LANDS' IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, 



INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PABLJA31ENT FOR 



England 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 for buildings), specifica- 

 tions, and estimates are prepared by the proprietors, and are 

 submitted to the approval of the Enclosure Commissioners. Pro- 

 prietors may avail themselves of tl e powers of 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 Hon. Wm. Napier, Managing 

 Director, 2, Old Palace Yard, Westminster. 



^H£ GENERAL LAND DRAINAGE AND IM- 



PROVEMENT COMPANY. 

 Incobporated by Special Act of Pai piament, I 



Offices, 52, Parliament Street, London. | 



Directors. 

 Henrv Ker Seymer, Esq., MP., Chairman. 

 Sir John V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., Deputy-Chairman. 



John C. Cohbold, Esq., M.P. 

 Sir William Cubitt, F.R.S. 

 Henry Currie, Esq. 

 Thomas Edward Dicey, Esq. 



William Fisher llobbs, Esq. 

 Edward J. Hutch ins, Esq., M.P. 

 Samuel Morton Peto, Esq., M.P. 



William Tite, Esq., F.R.S. 



William Wilshere, Esq. 

 Empowered to execute, or toassist Landowners in executing with 

 their own Capital and by their own Agents works of Drainage, 

 Irrigation, Road-making, Enclosing, Reclaiming, and the Erection 

 ot Farm Buildings upon any Estates, under Settlement, Mortgage, 

 or Disability, and withouf any investigation of Title, to charge 

 the total amount of the outlay and expenses upon the property 

 improved, to be repaid by annual instalments, varying according 

 to the number of years over which Landowners may determine 

 the repayment shall extend, within the limits of 31 years for 

 Farm Buildings, and 50 years for Drainage, Roads, and other 

 I mprovements. William Clifford, Secretary. 



VTOLLEGE of AGRICULTURE and CHEMISTRY, 



\y 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 he had on application to the Principal. 



8TJie agrt ctutttra l <Saj£tte* 



SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1855. 



MEETINGS *OR THE ENSUING WEEK. 

 Thursday, Jan. IS— Agricultural Imp. Society of Ireland. 



The " Markets Improvement Committee " have 

 determined that Friday, the 26th January, shall be 

 the first business day at the New Market in 

 Copenhagen Fields, but we believe it is their inten- 

 tion formally to open it on the previous Wednesday. 

 The time allowed them by the act of Parliament 

 expires on the 1st of February, so that they cannot 

 delay beyond the 26th. The works are in a state of 

 great forwardness, and there will be no difficulty 

 in obtaining the necessary certificate of one of H.M. 

 Secretaries of State as to the fitness of the place, 

 before the day determined on. 



Upwards of 30 acr* 1 of ground are occupied by 

 the various market places, buildings, lairages, and 



abattoirs. About 35,000 sheep will find accommo- 





dation in the pens ; 6600 bullocks can be tied to the 

 railing ; 1400 calves, and 1)00 pigs have standing 

 ground under the shelter of their respective markets. 

 Lairage is provided for 8000 sheep and ( KiO bullocks. 

 Slaughter-houses are already partly erected, and more 

 will be built ; and a dead meat maiket is in process 

 of erection. We shall next week give an engiaving 

 exhibiting in perspective the general arrangement of 

 the several parts, with descriptive remarks on each, 

 and on the improvements upon Smithfield which they 

 present. Monday, the 22d January, will be the last 

 day of the great "Metropolitan Smithfield Maiket. 



A good deal of discussion has been excited by a 

 proposal of Mr. Mechi that the London Farmers' 

 Club should merge into or become the germ of an 

 institution on the model of the great London poli- 

 tical or professional clubs ; and that the Agriculturist 



Club should take its place among the United Service. 

 University, Athenaeum, and others. It is plain that 

 this would be more than a modification, or even a 

 re-creation, of the existing society ; it would be the 

 cessation of the London Farmers' Club, and the 

 commencement of an altogether different institution. 

 The club which Mr. Mechi wishes to see established 

 may be a very desirable thing, and there may be 

 room for it among the other metropolitan institutions 

 of the kind, but there is no reason on that account 

 why the existing discu^ onal society, assemblin 

 once a monih at York Hotel, Blackfriais, shoul 



to hold its meetings, or to perform any other 

 of its functions. The two objects are entirely dis- 

 tinct, and are not likely to be united in any institu- 

 tion of the kind which Mr. Mkchf indicates. 



The wayfarer in the midland counties must fre- 

 quently have been struck with the strange and wild 



appearance presented by hollows and excavations 

 which he often meets with, especially on the east 

 side of the river Severn. These, as they are scoopul 

 out of the side of some slight eminence, or occa- 

 sionally forming a deep pond near some road-side, 

 as at Henwick, Powick, and various places in 

 Worcestershire, at present excite attention ly 

 the wild shrubs and flowering plants which fill up 

 the dry hollows or surround the water-filled banks, 

 thus forming spots to which the botanist is often 

 attracted. 



The advance of vegetation 

 excavations attests that it 



about most of these 

 is now some time 



since they were made, and a moment's thought upon 

 their origin shows that they belong to a forgotten 

 use or a worn out instituiion. The name of 

 "Marley Hole," which these pits usually bear 

 amongst the cottagers, not only r< minds one of the 

 uses to which the contents of these pits were 

 applied, but suggests a few notes upon the use of 

 marl of practical importance. 



Fifty years since marl was considered, not only r>s 

 a manure, but almost as the manure, and so much was 

 its use extolled that landlords and farmers made 

 search for marl with as much industry and circum- 

 spection as are now employed in seeking for guano or 

 coprolites; and the possession of a marl pit, without 



reference to the quality of the marl, was, indeed, a 

 great recommendation in taking a farm or purchas- 

 ing an estate. 



Mr. Young, an agricultural writer of note at this 

 period, says, u All farmers who have marl under their 

 fields, and do not make use of such as a treasure, 

 are to be condemned. In some counties it is the 

 common manure, and almost everywhere to be 

 found when dug for ; in such places the farmers 

 have nothing to do but resolve on the undertaking : 

 they all acknowledge the expediency of the work, 

 and seldom dispute the great profit of it, but in 

 other parts the knowledge of marl is very confined," 



In the Rural Economy of Norfolk, Mr. Marshals, 

 a writer of the same time, says," Marie has been so 

 long in use in that district that there are few farms 

 without marie pits upon or near them, so that 

 searching for marie is at present seldom requisite, and 

 the att of discovering it not much studied." He adds, 

 "The herb Coltsfoot {Tussilago farfard) abounding 

 on the soil is considered as an indication of a jara 

 of marie being sitnated near the surface." 



Now if we consider marl as being an argillaceous 

 deposit, having a tolerably large admixture of lime, 

 we shall not be surprised at another remark by the 

 same author, where he says : ^ Time and accidents, 

 or intentional researches, have not failtd to discover 

 beds of marl in almost every estate, and, in some 

 places, on almost every farm, situated sufficiently 

 near the surface to be worked with advantage." 

 Here, then, the geologist will at once conclude that 

 the marls of different counties may exhibit wide 

 differences, according to the formations whence they 

 are derived. For example, in Worcestershiie, the marl 

 pits have been excavated in the Keuper mails, the 

 upper division of the new red sandstone. In Glou- 

 cestershire there are now abandoned marl pits in the 



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