Oct. 6, 1855.] 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 



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THE FOLLOWING MANURES are manufactured 

 at Mr. Lav s 1 Factory, Deptford Creek:— Turnip Manure, 

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

 Coprolitt 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. 



T~~ H E LONDON MANURE COMPANY'S NITRO- 

 PIIOSPHATE OR WHEAT MANURE FOR AUTUMN 

 SOWING. — This Manure, composed of blood, animal matter, 

 and dis-.^lved bones with silicates, is most strongly recommended 

 to the notice of Agriculturists, It contains from 7 to 8 per cent. 

 of nitrogen, in a form yielding ammonia by slow decomposition, 

 and is therefore particularly adapted for Wheat. The quantity 

 required is 2 to 3 cwt. per acre drilled in with the seed. Price, 

 per ton, 71. 10s, in London. 



PERUVIAN GUANO, FISHERY SALT, and every other 

 MANURE on best terms, strictly warranted. 



40, Bridge Street, Blackfriars. E. Purser, Sec. 



A "ARTIFICIAL MANURES, &c.— Manufacturers and 

 others engaged in making ARTIFICIAL MANURES may 

 obtain every necessary instruction for their economical and 

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

 Principal of the Agricultural and Chemical College, Kennington, 

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

 Coprolitcs. &c, 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 find ample facility and accommodation at the College. 



BLOOD MANURE FOR WHEAT. 



THE PATENT NITRO-PHOSPHATE or BLOOD 

 MANURE COMPANY. 



Trusters. 

 Abel Smith, Jun., Esq., M. P., 2, Halkin Street, West. 

 Charles Dimsdale, Esq., Essendon Plana, Herts. 

 Edward 6all, Esq., M.P., 8, Belgrave Road, Pimlico. 

 Major-Gen. Hall, M.P., Weston Colville, Linton, Cambridge. 

 John Brady, Esq., M.P., Warwick Terrace, Belgrave Square. 



Directors. 



Chairman. — Jonas Webb, Esq., Babraham, Cambridgeshire. 



Deputy-Chairman.— John Sharp, Esq., Tower Villa, Queen's 



Road, Regent's Park. 



Edward Bell, Esq., Tottenham, Middlesex. 



John Clavden, Esq., Littlebury, Essex. 



Richard Hunt, Esq., Stanstead Abbot, Herts. 



Thomas Knight, Esq.. Edmonton, Middlesex. 



Robert Leeds, Esq., West Lexham, Norfolk. 



Robert Morgan, Esq., 72, Camden Villas, Camden Town. 



Thomas Nash, Esq., Great Chesterford, Essex. 



James Odams, Esq., Bishop Stortford, Herts. 



John Collins, Esq., Middieton Square, Pentonville. 



{With power to add to their number). 

 Ea?ikers.— Messrs. Barnett, Hoare, & Co., Lombard Street. 



^tufttor.— James Caird, Esq., Baldoon, and Sergeant's Inn, 



Fleet Street, Loudon. 



Secretary and Chemist. — James Taylor, Esq., F.C.S. 



Mfefejj #.— Messrs. Kingsford& Dorman, 23, Essex St., Strand. 



MANUFACTORY, PLAISTOW MARSHES, ESSEX. 



The Directors of the above Company (many of whom are 

 eminent agriculturists), beg to call the attention of their friends 

 and the agricultural community to their Patent Blood Manure, 

 which is composed of Bones dissolved rirh sulphuric acid, to 

 which is added about 1500 lbs. of p..re Blood to every ton of the 

 Manure, carefully dried and prepared for the drill or hand sowing. 

 Being rich in Nitrogen and other necessary ingredients, it is 

 especially adapted for the Wheat Crop, and has been used with 

 the greatest success in all parts of England. 



It is a very remarkable fact that the analysis of Blood and the 

 grain of Wheat are nearly identical, as proved by the most 

 eminent chemists ; it contains all the elements which plants 

 require, and when properly prepared and applied, will become 

 the essence of vegetable as well as of animal life. 



The hig;.ly fertilising properties of Blood has been commented 

 upon by Professor Way, and others, and the success of the 

 Blood Manure for Wheat Crops has been fully proved upon all 

 soils, by the practical experience of numerous agriculturists, a 

 few of whom are the- following: — 



Sir Archibald M'Donald, of Woolmer Lodge, Liphook, says: 

 "The Wheat manure I purchased of you has answered its pur- 

 pose admirably." 



Jonas Webb, Esq., Babraham, Cambridgeshire. — u Your Wheat 

 manure I tried by the side of guano, and if anything it had the 

 advantage, as the quality from it is superior." 



Mr. Baker, Steward to His Grace the Duke of Bedford, Park 

 Farm, Woburn, Bedfordshire. — "I used your manure upon a 



£)iece of poor land after Peas, and have grown an excellent crop 

 of Wheat." 



Mr. Benjamin Goulton, Gedney Marsh, Long Sutton, Lincoln- 

 shire. — *• I drilled your manure at the rate of 2J cwt. per acre, 

 along with the Wheat over 30 acres, and although the field is the 

 poorest land 1 have on my farm, the crop ranked amongst the 

 best I have. I do not know how I can recommend it better than 

 by saying I Bhall use it much more extensively this season." 



Mr. Walter Murton, East Stour, Ashford, Kent.— " I sowed 

 yotirWheat manure last autumn, and the consequent increase in the 

 crop both of corn and straw has convinced roe of its great utility." 



Mr. H. Steed, Nonington, near Wingham, Kent. — "I used 

 imams' Patent Manure for Wheat last November, and never 



J e * USt ' ( t an y artificial manure with such benefit ' 



Mr. Frederick Robinson, Southery, near Downham Market, 

 Suffolk.--** I last autumn used 2 cwt. of your manure per acre on a 

 piece of fen land ; it came up very strong in plant, assumed a most 

 healthy appearance during the winter, and has produced me one 

 •of the finest crops I ever grew." 



Extract from the Agricultural Gazette, 7th April. 1855.— "The 

 Nitro-Phosphate Company throw blood and bones together, and 

 *<M sulphuric acid, thereby manufacturing a manure, which, as 

 *t contains soluble phosphate along with nitrogenous matter, is 

 *s nearly perfect, whether for roots or corn, as anything can 

 ordinarily he." 



^ Extract from the Mark Lane Express, of January, 1854.— 

 Amongst the new things which appeared this year for the first 

 time was Odams 7 Patent Blood Manure; and it is this addition 

 to our fertilisers which falls to our province to review. Blood has 

 long been acknowledged one of the most enriching of all our 

 Manures, a proposition the soundness of which has been proved 

 "7 innumerable experiments. Now that the startling fact has 

 bached the ears of the agricultural public that Pern will be 

 exhausted of Guano in a few years, surely the prospects of an 

 everlasting supply at home will be accepted with some degree of 

 national satisfaction, more especially since the latter is supe- 

 n °r to the former in quality." 



The Public are cautioned against spurious imitations; as secu- 

 ™7 to the purchaser every Bag is marked M Odams* Patent 

 *v~° D Man 'uhe," and sold only by the authorised Agents of the 







Com pa 



ny. 



OFFICES, 109, FENCHURCH STREET. 



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directions for Use.— From 2 to 4 cwt. per acre, according to 

 "£ condition of the soil. It may either be drilled in with the 

 ***<! or sown broadcast : if the latter it should be well harrowed in 



CMITHFIELD CLUB, 1855.— FAT CATTLE 



I U SHOW.— The ANNUAL CHK1STMAS BHOW of FAT 

 CATTLE, SHEEP, aud PI'. >. will take place on the 11 

 13th, and 14th of Dec4 mb> 5, at the Cirri age Bazaar, King 



Street, Portman Square, when nearly 0/. will be awarded i 

 Prizes and Medals. 

 The printed forms of Certify tea, properly filled up, must b 



returned to the Honorary Secretary on or before SATURDAY, 



November 10th. Prise Sh* -; and the nee -ary printed forms 

 of i rtificates are now ready, and can be obtained on appli- 

 cation to B. T. Brandkstb Gibus, Honorary Secretary, 



Corner of Half-moon Street, Piccadilly, London. 

 All communications, on the Club's business should bear the 

 words" Smithfield Club" on the outside. 



HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 

 — EDINBURGH VETERINARY ( OLLEGK. — The 

 Committee of the Highland and Agricultural Society «»f Scotland, 

 appointed to superintend the Veterinary College, hereby int 

 inaie that the SESSION will commence on WEDNESDAY, 

 November 7th, at 2 o'clock. 



The Course of Study INCLUDES the following Ci.a es : — 



1. ZoiatricB, Veterinary Medicine and Sm J Professor Dick. 



'2. Zootomy. Veterinary Anatomy&Physiology Mr. Barlow. 



3. Chemistry Dr. Li.\;»lky Kimi». 



4. Veterinary Materia Medica and Pharmacy Dr. I.inih.ey Kemp. 



Anatomical Demonstrations Mr. Barlow. 



P»y Order of the Committee, 

 Edi nburgh, Oct. 6. Jx. II am. M ax well. 



pOLLEGE of AGRICULTURE and CHKMISTRY, 



V^ akd of PRACTICAL and GENERAL SCIENCE, 37 and 



Lower Kennington Lane. Kenninjrton, near London. 



Principal — J. C. Nermt, 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. 



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DRAINAGE OF LAND, BOGS, ETC. 



MR. HUMHKRT, of Watford, Herts, supported 

 by unquestionable references and testimonials, offers hi 

 services to proprietors about to execute works of drainage, which 

 he will undertake personally to layout and superintend, and to 

 supply the forms and attendances necessary to obtain the 

 certificate of the Inclosure Commissioners at a fixed price per 

 acre-. Mr. Humbert (having been more than 15 years established 

 in business as a Surveyor and Land Agent) has found that wet 

 heavy soils can be usually carefully and thoroughly drained, 

 with pipes 4 feet deep, and upwards, at from 4Z. to SI. per acre, 

 inclusive of every expense. 



DARKES 9 



aud 

 Co. 



CAUTION. 



STEEL DIGGING FORK- AND 



DRAINING TOOLS. 

 Whereas very inferior descriptions of Steel Dlgg Forks are 

 now manufactured and sold, and I have been iir that pur- 



chasers ot the me have believed them • be the same as those 

 manufactured by me, and to which tb i val Agricultural Society 

 and nuint is Agricultural Soci- prii have been awarded, 



I hereby respectfully inform the public that ei Fork manufac- 

 tured by me is stamped with my trade mark L P.." and that 

 Meaars. BuBOKSs y, of No. 103, Newga? Street, London, are 



my sole Wholesale Agents, and I have authorised them to re- 

 place to the purchaser ♦ very Fork of my manufacture found 

 defective; they will also on application send Wb ^sale •■** 

 IN- il Price L s, &c. f pott free. Frames Parkks A ( 



FIRST PRIZE REAPING MACHINE. 



NOTICE. 



MESSRS. BURGESS and KEY beg respectfully 

 to inform the public, and particularly the noblemen and 



gentlemen whose orders they were li^ed to decline for this 

 season on account of the manufacture not being fully arranged, 



that the Loyal Agricultural Society's First 1 ze of 30/ w:- 

 awarded to them for It'Connick's Keaper, with thuir patent 

 screw platform, at the trial at Leigh Court, near Bri- n 



the 89th of August last. Amongst the competing machines were 

 I'., lis, by Crosskill : Forbush'g, exhibited by Mr. Palmer ; an 



liussey's, with tilting platform, by Wm. Dr & Co. The 

 reports of farmers who nan worked the machines during this 

 pn nt harvest, show that the a rage quantity of Whfli 



Barley, and < which they cut was from 1} to 1} sere per 1 r. 

 Two horses work the machine with ease, and tie only attendant 

 required in a man or a boy to drive. Further particulars and 



pricea sent free on application.— Buroess & Kkv. 103, Newgate 

 st reet; end 52. L ittle lii in. Lorn u 



DO YoU BRUISU YOIR OATS ?ET !— One 

 bushel of Oats when Crushed will make two. Great saving 

 OAT BRl IS1.K-. Chaff-cutters, Ploughs. Threshing Mad. in 



Flour .Mill Carts, C n I treating do., Hone and Steam Machinery 



put up, &c. Hook on Feeding, Is. 



M. Wkolakk, 11^. I Ynchurch Street, 1 »<lon. 





LAND DRAINAGE. 



MR. THOMAS SCOTT, Land Agi.nt and Valuer, 

 5, Charing Cross, London, is prepared to undertake the 

 Planning and Execution of LAND DRAINAGE In large or 

 small auantities, by Contract or on Commission. He has now at 

 work around London steady and well-orgauised u gangs," under 

 competent Foremen and Pipe-layers. 



Mr. Scott is at present carrying out extensive Drainng 

 Works on Crown Lands, which he will be happy to show to Gentle- 

 men desirous of seeing them. Communications addressed t 

 him, as above, will be immediately attended to.— Oct. 6. 



~^HE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. 



FOURTH YEAR— The third financial year being ended, 

 a favourable opportunity is presented to persons desirous ot 

 investing capital or savings at the opening of the fourth year, 

 whether as investors for the sake of drawing half-yearly the 

 guaranteed 5 per cent, interest per annum payable on completed 

 shares and uncompleted shares, upon which a year's subscription 

 and upwards have been paid, and of receiving whatever bonus 

 may be annually declared, or whether as allottees for the purpose 

 of acquiring building land to secure lucrative ground rents. The 

 taking of land is quite optional. No risk and no responsibility. 

 Monthly payments 8s. per share. For prospectuses apply to 



Charles Lewis Gi:i nf.isex, Secretary. 



33, Norfolk Street, Strand, London.— Oct. 6. 



7 1 A RSON'S ORIGINAL ANTLCOKROSION 



v^ PAINT, specially patronised by the British and other 

 Governments, the Hon. East India Company, the principal Dock 

 Companies, most public bodies, and by the nobility, gentry, and 

 clergy, for out-door work at their country seats. The Anti- 

 Corrosion is particularly recommended as the most durable out- 

 door Paint ever invented, for the preservation of every description 

 of Iron, Wood, Stone, Brick, Compo, Cement, &c, work, as has 

 been proved by the practical test of upwards of 60 years, and by 

 the numerous (between 500 and 600) testimonials in its favour, 

 and which, from the rank and station in society of those who have 

 given them, have never yet been equalled by anything of the 

 kind hitherto brought before the public notice. 



Lists of colours, prices, together with a copy of the testimonials, 

 will be sent on application to Walter Carson & Son, 9, Great 

 "Winchester Street, Old Broad Street, Royal Exchange, London 

 No Agents. All orders are particularly requested to be sent direct. 



« I^RIGI DOMO."— Patronised by her Majesty the 



r Queen, the 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 

 Crvstai Palace, Royal Zoological Society, late Mrs. Lawrence, of 

 Ealing Park, and — Collier, Esq., of Dartford. 



PROTECTION FROM MORNIHQ FROST. 

 "FRIGL DOMO," a Canvas made of patent prepared Hair 

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

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

 all horticultural and floricultural purposes, for preserving Fruits 

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

 from attacks of insects and from morning frosts. To be had in 

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

 Elisha Thomas Archer, whole and sole manufacturer, 7, Trinity 

 Lane, Cannon Street, City, and the Royal Mills, Wandsworth, 

 Surrey; and of all Nurserymen and Seedsmen throughout the 

 kingdom. " It is much cheaper tha n mats as a covering/' 



WATERPROOF PATHS. 

 BARN AND CATTLE SHED FLOORS. 



THOSE who would enjoy their Gardens during the 

 winter months should construct their walks of PORTL A N T D 

 CEMENT CONCRETE, which are formed thus:— Screen the 

 gravel of which the path la 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 8 inches thick. Ar 



€l\t SlgncttUttral <Ba*ette. 



SA TCRDA y, OCTOBER G, 1 ",. 



♦ 



Mh. NoimiroTF. has published in the current 

 number of the Philosophical Magazine a useful 



paper on the Function of Salt in AGUiruLTunK, to 

 which we beg the attention of our readers. In re- 

 ference to the alleged power of salt to fix ammonia, 

 it has been understood that the sum of the affini- 

 ties of muriatic acid for soda and of carbonic acid for 

 ammonia, by which on the mixture of common salt 

 and carbonate of ammonia these substances are 



enabled to retain the characters which respectively 

 distinguish them, is so nearly equal to the sum of the 

 affinities of carbonic acid for soda, and of muriatic acid 

 for ammonia, by which these salts would decompose 

 each other, that it depends on other circumstances 

 capable of influencing the intensity of chemical 

 affinity, whether these salts shall retain their ori- 

 ginal characters or assume those proper to carbo- 

 nate of soda and muriate of ammoniate, into which, 

 on mutual decomposition, they resolve. Such a 

 mutual decomposition would furnish in carbonate of 

 soda a salt more caustic than either of the ori. nal 

 substances, and in muriate of ammonia a fixed salt 

 in place of the volatile carbonate >f t v alkali. It 

 is, therefore, greatly to be desired, in an agricul- 

 tural point of view, that so cheap a mode of fixing 

 this volatile part of manures should be available — 

 and it is the near balance of the affinities on which 

 such a method depends that the great variety of ex- 

 perience which has been published on salt as a 

 fixer of ammonia depends. 



The paper by Mr, Northcote relates his own 

 experience on this subject in the laboratory, and 

 that of other chemists. 



It appears that M. Barral 

 •exposed to the air for 15 days equal weights of 

 guano, and of guano previously mixed with half its 

 weight of salt : the amount of nitrogen in each being 

 determined at the end of that time, he found that 

 the pure guano had lost 11.6 per cent, of ita nitrogen, 

 whilst that mixed with salt had lost only 5 per 

 cent." 



This is one of the instances indicating the ret; 



ing power of the soda salt over the volatile alkali, 

 and a number of experiments by Mr. Xorthcote 

 strikingly confirm this inference, correcting, however, 

 the views which have been hitherto held on the 

 subject by attributing the power in question in a 

 great measure to the sulphate of lime present in the 

 common salt of commerce, and showing that this 

 power is not permanently exercised, but that the 

 ammonia there collected is again gradually liberated. 

 This, however, is by no means fatal to the agricul- 

 tural value of this function of common salt, and Mr. 

 Northcote's results may therefore be considered of 

 great agricultural value. They are *a follows : 



** That agricultural salt is a most energetic absorbent 

 of ammonia, both in virtue of its chloride of sodium 

 and of its soluble lime-salt, and that the proportion of 

 the latter especially most powerfully affects its action ; 



iab\mre7 ca"n mix'and "spr^ad'hC No "tool is required beyond the I but that at the same time its agency does not seem to be 



spade, and in 48 hours it becomes as hard as a rock. Vegetation j altogether a permanent one ; it will collect the ammonia, 



cHunot grow through or upon it, and it re ts the action ot the , j )Ufc « t | g questionable whether it can retain it for anv 



severest frost. It is necessary, at water docs not soak throngn it, i pn «tli of time because in the \>rv dppomnoaitions 



to give a fail from the middle of the path towards the sides. ^ "**»■*■ «* ntrt11 ™ Mm *- necause in the vt-rv opromnoamons 



The same preparation makes first-rate paving for BARNS. 

 CATTLE-SHi;DS, FARM-VAUDS, and all other situations 

 where a clean, hard bottom is a desideratum. May be laid in 

 winter equally well as in summer. 



Manufacturers of the Cement, J. B. White & Brothers, 

 Mil hank Street, Westminster. 



great length of time, because in the very decompositions 

 which happen in order to render the ammonia more 

 stable, salts are formed which have a direct tendency to 

 liberate ammonia from its more fixed combinations. It 

 may, however, retain it quite long enough for agricul- 

 tural purposes : if the young plants are there ready to 





