3-1849^ 



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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



PERUVIAN AND BOLIVIAN 



ANTONY VlBBS N AND SONS," ONDON . 



Wk. JOSEPH MYERS and Co., LIVERPOOL; 



GIBBS, BRIGHT, and Co., LIVERPOOL and BRISTOL ; 



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Iff A. LYNDON, Mi 



ROY^AL LETTERS 



it cannot be u 

 tested with all the tact and 



cannot be until a doctrine has been 



niftelgfwhich^iUnl'tlf 11 ^ 



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®m agrfctttturai (Ba^ttc* 



SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1849. 



"fifflpC- mLh. a pr( : ce P tor witnout being an 

 fet «Tucha c ^ \ yinrelation t0 moral truth 

 Pfevsical tniti i wou ld have cause for shame. 



to fif? L? y be /- aught b ^ one who is unable 



W farmer. P ractl <*: agricultural truth—by a 



^.SiSs^s rSftabif 11 not thi ° k that 



"Sto w f e S eir ( i ?,erit ^ as ^achers/ The i^mark 

 J must say hash'T^ " '1 lrea<ly existil ^< which 



JV* iiL n n tr med on , with more ener sy 



Hin fanning "* pa S es of a contemporary. 

 Ir*»»y«i>lin™f , eSl mi "* be fei 'ly -ipplied- 



St* 084 ^Sr to 7 " h / S be ^ that th ° se who are 

 P* ^ trnl See farthes t into the rerions of 

 k C h ^inTo? 6 V T — leasVlfkely to 

 C? wbn «iSi^ Pr °° f ° f k in which *™ 

 «5 1??* th * enW ? e - generally able t0 confide - 

 ^ed views which an acquaint- 



5 S% aknoSete er o d ?h artmentS ?*"> 



^ a e c ° B ^Vhth a^::H the i most like]y to 



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we had them, they could prove nothing I 



skill or the want of it — points of no mil 



ance ? The balance sheet is, no doubt, the true test 



of the farmer's, as of every other bu.-i 



any one well versed in the business, and anxious to 



improve it, will give us one showing his development 



of the views of our leading scientific teachers, we 



shall be heartily glad to p u 1 i 



t tempt to make these doctrini 



it confidence they inspired, 

 but the failure of an inexperienced fan 



re himself their author, ought to have no 

 ice upon us whatever. And we doubt if it 

 be good policy on the pan 



'ice *! ing the money 



) ourselves the injustice 

 txtable's balance sheet, 

 him for his continued efforts in the cause 

 ■ 

 ;ion m saying that, whichever way its resul 

 inted, we should not have allowed it to affe. 

 inion of his agricultural teachings. Lot the s 

 ss of these be tested by a man of such expei 

 and skill in detail, and of such desire for pr. 

 l principle, as would have en- 

 one to them, and the results which he should c 

 'ould be instructive. But when we find a < 

 spondent, as in page 28, asking for the m 

 " Mr. Huxtable's experience from the 

 it of his farm practice — the amount by 



: 



"anded him in loss— this exh 



ppreciation of the real value of testimony or evidence 

 a respect of agricultural doctrines, that we could 

 rish no balance sheet had been published at all : 

 pr it must mislead all but those who remember the 



lat the real office of the hearty, scientific, amateur 

 agriculturist, who now urges his views on farmers at 

 ublic meetings, is to point out the course in which 

 leir efforts at self improvement may be most use- 

 i experience, no doubt, 



in many important part 

 ties which will no do. 



we are glad to 1 

 of which Scotlai 



c; 



•ngratulations which 



The whole change, 



telligent agriculture 

 to be proud. 



it, we ought not to ornit refe 

 le Scottish Agricultural Chemistry Assoc 



the high standing o 



body 



- !y to be desired that the e 

 hrst years may revive to animate the officers and 

 supporters of its present form of existence, and that 

 her example, induced the 



Ireland, will maintain her position as leader in the 

 progress of intelligent agriculture. 



No one will deny that cultivators and chemists 



on particular points of the a 



try and impart some of that energy and hopeful] 



desiderata. Let him do us the favour of recon 

 the results — economical and otherwise — of the 



we have no hesitation 





ship can be closer tha 





chemical manufacture : ' 





argument that Life, which all recognise as a real 



agency, puzzles the me 



rely chemical explainer of 



our processes, and confo 





our experience. This s 





dt the many chemico-agricultural problems which 



Life has proposed for 



solution. The difficulties 





mist will not 



agriculturists will only 



patronise his attempts to 





e appeal to those interested 

 in England, Scotland, or 



n British soil, whether 



reland, to assist in the 



r respective countries the 



nly agency able to eluc 



date the methods by which 





eloped. Thev must desire 



o act in accordance wit] 



strict reason and justice 



n this matter ; and, on 

 nit, they should suspect 



that very ground, we sub- 

 those feelings towards it 



• action consequent upon exaggerated 



deas of its importance h 



is occasioned. 



ON BOX FEEDING. 



so witty a correspondent as the Rev. M 

 His contributions are, I h 

 and bd joyed by great i 

 This places considerabl 



