THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



[Sept. i 



What is called 



Vl.'LTe^n "held out as the grand substitute 

 a ; but knowing that nine-tenths of the 

 tenant farmers cannot command the capital c 



because perhaps daily under their eyes. Jjomeo 



This is ttue if he allow them plenty to eat ; the popula 

 tion even of rats will breed up to the food at command 

 the starving is the only plan, and with u rats and mict 

 and such small deer," there is no moral repugnance t 

 the starving system. A tenant of mine says he has 

 always effectually protected his corn from rats by laying 

 at the bottom of his stacks and of his barn floors a layer 

 of the husks of kiln-dried Oats ; that with him if 

 failed, and he mentioned other farmers who had s 

 fully adopted the same plan. I have not foui 

 method generally practised or known, and perhaps it 



injury by eating and fouling a 



the phosphates of the manure are allowed to go. Then 

 is generally a foul ditch running from the yard afte: 

 rain, or a black-looking horse-pond in the corner '- *"< 

 to one or both of these receptacles the phosphate! 

 been washed away. I therefore suggested spouted 

 buildings, a hollow for the manure, and a tank to catch 

 .1 overflow, as only second in importance 

 to the fixing of the products of " 

 mind the farmer that an ai 



! farmer that an average acre of Wheat straw 

 cattle, 3/. As. 10A, of Oat stra< 



STe; 



put up by the farmers' 1 

 few shillings. Fix firmly 



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; fix one on the top 



only money outlay, 

 of the pos 



many years, especially if the lower ends 



21. Vis. id., and of Barley si 



their value as manure after passing through the »«'*"• 

 is only diminished by about one-fourth, I am s 

 will see the economy of using the utmost possible 



Food, especially when he con- 

 siders the manageable condition of cattle-dr 



tected from loss by fermentation and washing. 



The agriculturist without the means of farming high 



must needs make ends meet by attention to sources of 

 lonomy which he has hitherto overlooked and 

 elected. I the more pressingly urge on him the few 

 have referred to, for this is the last mcnti 



tor his corn and pulse crops, and the most 



re— for spouting his buildings, and for making the 



re pit and tank. 



th the editor's kind permission I shall be happy at 



other cheap appliances as observation and experience 

 have suggested t ome. P. 



Home Correspondence. 



: harvesting grain might be carried o 



fact that it was deposited 

 andtr l 



guano mainly consisted in 

 here no rain : 

 tion will not take 



turists to the question, 

 j done, so that the work 



i is adopted in 



with the aid of a kiln. I believe 

 cloth and paper have their drying rooms ; may it 

 asked could not farmers use such rooms for drying 

 Wheatsheaves \ it must be admitted they could, so 

 aess seems to be a question of expenditure 



only of Peruvian guano ; other 

 the Saldanha Bay for instance, have not been effectually 

 protected from fermentation ; and mark the co 

 quences. The Peruvian guano contained on the ave: 

 17.41 per cent of ammonia, giving as the agricult 



Bay guano was only 1.63 per cent., giving as the value which is frequently to De iouna i: 



of the ammonia in a ton of this kind of guano, 18s. only, available in producing a current i 



What is the cause of this enormous difference in the would much facilitate the process 



amount of ammonia (or of ingredients producing am- another important question coi 



mcaria) in these two kinds of guano ? As deposited by Wheat in this country during a w 



the birds their composition is considered as nearly an acre of Wheat cut and tied 



investment of capital, including the use of from 4000 1 

 5000 tons of Swede Turnips yearly. That waa 

 startling fact, and he left them to calculate the worth 

 a ton of Turnips in that case, Mr. Mechi : abo 



fhich he was speaking had formerly impressed his own 

 nind, and he had been in the habit of baying pollard 



e money for his Barley in the market, forgetting, 

 >wever, that he bad to pay it out again to the milter 



- 

 •awn up a paper, which they would shortly have the 

 >portunity of reading, showing the bearings of the 

 lestion upon the interests of the landlord, the tenant, 

 id the labourer ; and he was prepared to prove that 

 30 n ICO acres of arable land he could with the half 

 ■voted to green crops feed a ^^j^f^^ 

 '^rbesUiu'aUty^besides, in the first case, empLovin? 



wr Grass land, especially if at ^convenient part of 

 te farm : he would rather till that which was in to 

 est position and which would pay the best tor carn- 

 ation, leaving the poor pasture land to becomeim- 



Uieh Imd most probably at a f °™^f JJ^'StS 

 for the purposes of tillage. 



Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, w ^^ 



I^Lea'and May, of Ipswich, with Jj^jS 

 particulars of one which has been sent w _ ^ r J tliitm 

 own corespondent " L. V. R., r 



difference is owing to that very same ' what quantity of cotton cloth would 

 •osure to the air and rain, which deprives as to secure it from the rain \ No\ 

 I the farm-yard of the greater portion of j the wonderful triumph of machine] 



>r the waste from the 

 Lue of millions, 



.nd placed in a line, 



its fertilising capacity. In the words of Professor Way, of cotton cloth may be bon 

 "every ton of Saldanha Bay guano may indeed be re- j Cadogan William-:. 

 garded as having originated from two or more tons of I Wales. — If you have a 

 m which " 



I rain have re- i that you 

 ' mpounds." Wales, I 

 ake place ; neas than 

 i generally allowed to mix with [ must occur to the t 

 lace if one-half of the 



I, 



w ana tnei 



think you could d 



Wales.— If you have a spare corner of your Gazette 



Id do a greate 



ntity can easily be packed on n 

 >ld nearly so much of Newcastle *»., — of the 

 , heaped much above the sides. The *" n g ^ 

 ame work and wheels is quite adequate to ^^ 

 eight. The following particulars areta* 



before the farm manure is in a mana 



hut does it hence follow that farm manure must neces- 



o Saldanha Bay guano, almost the whole I even generation after generation i producing hardly 

 of the ingredient which constil .sufficient Grass to support a few miserable sheep, tha 



By no means; could each successive deposit of this cannot pay for the constant trouble of looking after, the 

 guano have been covered with a layer of earth, and a king at; or have they an 



sprinkling of gypsum, its ammoniacal compounds would good quality except that of being « first-rate jumpers 1 

 have been as effectually preserved as in the Peruvian G. S H., Lansea. 



guano. The farmer can do this ; he can employ the I Value of Green Crops.— The following remarks wei 

 leisure time of his men in collecting soil, and occasion- [ made on this subject by Mr. Baker, of ' 

 ally spreading it over bis manure ; he can lay out a few tinuation of those reported at page 525, on the occasic 



ends. On these cr-y . 

 tntfnal bars of Ash 8 ** 



long, 2* inches deep, by 2 lncnes » . ^ 4 »r 

 11 inches long, 2 Inches wide, by l* ^ otB er« 

 front, another 13 inches I herefrom, £ ^ec* 



5l b t 2 feel *2 inches from the ^VSto*-* ** 

 r£ch from the back of tf-M* ^ \, £*-£ 



SfelSTJ inches deep by ^fj^O^^ 

 taxes : the diameter of the former at tn 



