THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



j^wfrery evenly through t 

 lit will be found fully to the am( 



[d regard it only as a happy accident, 

 ind several others, dbwn to 7 qu 



" , f 7 by Rape dust 



' ■ ■ I f if SiSE'te^heap 

 I Bipe dust, generally answers, and contains hoth 

 rtltttes and nitrogen. 4. Dung drainings also con- 

 Sbotb, varying, <* course with the quality of the 

 m ; when that is good^the^hquo^^ hxghly smted^for 



jsBg.'in ^"J*^ X^erf 'sodTwe moreun' 



y necessary for the production of 

 inia '; so that, when the land is deficient in phosphates, 

 they m produce only straw. From these cases we 

 lean list i good supply of nitrogen should be added to 

 the What dressing given in our No. 4, and it appears, 

 Iron Mr. Lawes' experiments, that the manure and soil 



hHj. Lawes, applying to quite exhausted land. 

 But there are other sources of nitrogen, often cheap. 

 -oil is the most important of ther , 

 »htre of easy carriage. Another is sheep dung, perhaps 

 aost conveniently applied by eating off the previous 



(■ lrwVEhouses), conta^ Tor 6 pT/cent 

 naogn; which may be easily fermented to ammonia, 

 ndung the bone almost as tender as it is with acid an i 

 w. this is done by heaping it with twice its measure 

 iJmT *v ^' 8awdust » or P eat > damp enough to 

 "jm; when, in a few days, more or less, according 



2" n « 4 «Wk, peat, nor sawdust is at 1 

 tut *fl eT( j n ' 0( ? eeartn "ill promote the fe 

 em™ , e B0 S ood an absorbent f 



1 "^ * "I 003 a manure afterwards. T 

 bS^^gbt of the bone, willl 

 3 ^fermented bone has n 

 * if feud t Iti8mnreof thenatur, 



* 1 »J! bt J tostnw ' 01d p° roua 



'eaavth f S °° fermentation as i 



i I have two recorded crops < 



litrate of soda with sulphate of soda or o 

 las been more generally successful than 

 )thers. This seems to leave i 

 wo following mixtures per acre : 



to hke salt ; and may, therefore, c 



& preparation than 



hould think the Turnip dressing, IN 



ey appear 



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To be mixed as the other fermented bone dress 

 Beans.— The best crops detailed are : 





^7. 



sulphate of soda is produced 1 



.Cut they will hardly ferment ii 



is the cheapest 

 *ft ^ may usl nS of p'tas? 

 wl «h. Our Barley dressing then 



Sl* tender gr t dlent ? mixed in when all is 

 ^ £ »tf ^; Experi ments are) ho 



**^°S made wiih acid " W ° uld be wdl t0 try 



as almost all the potass is in the straw, which is sure 



Clover (and hat).— Of red Clover, I have no details 

 af recent crops ; they are generally mixed with Rye- 

 grass, which contains very different proportions of inor- 

 ganic constituents. The most effective dressing for Rye- 

 grass appears to be liquid manure, which produces 

 surprising crops, as before stated ; and gypsum and 

 iulphate of soda agree well with Clover. Of hay I have 

 leavy crops noted. 



Comparison of these with many others, and the organic 

 he compound manure of No. 1— say per acre 



Potatoes.— This is a delicate subject to treat of. 



a cow. There is a passage betw, 

 ing them, about 3 feet wide, and a flag divides the 

 from their food ; the hay is put down on the floor, 

 grain and meal is given them in pails. The cows 

 from 8 to 16 quarts of milk daily, 6ay 8 in winter ai 

 in summer, and it is sold at 2s. 6d. to 3s. per d 

 quarts in winter, and 2*. per dozen in* summer. 



Soot and ashes appear to have been the best pi 



itive dressings against the disease ; and deep a 



early planting the most effectual precautions. The s< 



undness rather than qm 

 compared with 



..... :■ ; .-■■; .=. - - . : 



1 from the salt and sulphur ii- ;,ci.l. ) 



Nitrate Sulphate 



I 

 stalk and leaf, which falls back to the 

 the experiments of Mr. Lawes with Tur- 



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Turnips Whatever our doubts and i 



Potatoes, it is otherwise with Turnips 

 surprising crops, up to 60 tons an 

 cid only, in addit; 



Home Corresponde 



hybrids called Foi 

 compared the grains 



and Zea Mays Tuscorora ( 

 he latter in the spring of 1848), and c, 

 lightest difference in them, except t 

 ppear to have ripened in a more fai 

 han that of England. Quarantain 

 " "sd to 



tremely unfavoura 



the Messrs. Page, that Quarantain has been grown by 



ing earlier signs of maturity. I have no doubt that 



tiful May-day : together with the number and variety 



' Here we 



our people are in a ■tarting 



month adds to the number of large districts, not only 



rand thicker with weeds. 



d after America, and yet w© 



have a better America here. Look at the heats of 



and profitably employed ; and the universal cry is " Give 

 needing so j us employment," while those who ought to be able to 

 iployment are lying 



large (see No. I . 

 e that they find i 



n the plant dressing. But the pnospnate snouia i give _ r 



uutry. We are suffering from 



the way of the fly, with bone and sulphuric I causes ; not one cause, but a hundred, yet, a nuns, 



kdditfon of salt seems to reta: : DO t much more than four: the Potato, 



leaf, but to increase the produce afterwards ; and the j religion (so called), complicated tenures, and pride. 



bone, fermented with sawdust, &c.,or with sheep dung, | The Potato broucht the chief wants of man and his 



