THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



Mr. Bussell of Ross ; 

 love of Gloucester some " Patagonian guano " foi 

 6/. 16*. per ton. It was bought by sam] " 

 bulk delivered was of the same quality as 

 by which it had been bought. The tran 

 perfectly straightforward and honest on both sides. 

 Mr. Marklove is well known as a p 





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Condon, analysis," and 



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CHEAP AND DURABLE ROOFING. 



QOMPOUND CARBONISED ANIMAL MANURE. 



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™^^iPW!u7 anlC animal P r od"Cs, is now ready to be 

 ^^1IS\ ?,* a ^t- re pla r n m b e ei„ d g?o n °e-h b : i f .Uh 



atstttultutal ©ajettt, 



URDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1849. 



M 

 S'orfl 0ar ® most of what is sold at any distance 



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W j. / s wno > retailing the articles at second 

 kthe vj ct ems f Ive s as liable as their customers to 

 iWrated k ^eoery- This fact was perfectly 



W Co % a Case tried last week in the Gloucester 

 a* 1 * would • hat the ultimate Purchasers of the 

 porter ' h 7 dealing only with the original 

 «e who can supply them with 

 i '* is « * S Waren ouse, appears plain enough ; 

 ^ nerf , this we would now refer - U is 

 Jlytic ch e Safety Which the evidence of the 

 es to the purchaser, even under 

 WLSJ^y W thus incu, 



of 2f lbs. of farm dung. It 

 made-up article, and not a natural guano. 1 

 * of one-third part of ground rav 

 lird part of bone earth or copro 



shells of any sort : 

 no feathers, which guano always does"; fourthly, its 

 solution is acid instead of alkaline ; and fifthly, its 

 nitrogen is lower than that of any guano I ever tried 

 It has not even the smell of guano, by which 

 those who know anything about guano could tell il 

 to be spurious immediately ; but it is made tc 



and in character. I have analysed many guanos, 

 Like other things they differ in quality, but there is 

 a general character running through all of them. I 

 My found shells in guano — water, of 

 —organic matter, always — crystallised gypsum, 

 -carbonate of lime, commonly — phos] 

 always — superphosphate, never — d 

 invariably." 



3 obviously at an end after 

 ; and what we 



„ 7201bs.ofgypsum,atls.percwt. 6 6 



Carbonate of lime, worth 



About 720 lbs. of phosphate of lime, 



at?rf 2 5 



„ 29 lbs. of superphosphate, at lit?. 3 6 



Silica, worth 



Total £3 8~~0 



The real value of the article, at the highest valu; 

 turn, did not exceed one-half the charge made for i 



so long will security be possible, whether for dealei 



r purchase. 



Testimony is valuable not merely 

 th.' truthfulness ..f the witness; lii 

 as his honesty determines the v.ilu. 

 People are often misled l,y well-im 

 The student of many an art and s 

 Inst his W ay for a time, misguided 

 posts, which had neveitlieless been 

 sincere desire to direct him aright 



greater intricacy of t 



students, agricultu 

 The writings which 

 rist abound in mistal 



thought of ace.: • nded error ; 



but this has been done with a confidence strangely 



? can be had by every c 



for analysis by a compet 

 Id be disappointed in the i 

 1 The learned judge was < 



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me learned ji 



ised upon the merchant at Liverpool, and 

 be merchant at Liverpool, in all probability, 



;h Mr. Marklove had received was not 



Mr. Carter said that the guano w 

 what was the sample said to^ 





to be guano, and of t 

 the representation of IS 



could be very well imj 

 pool ; and his opinion 

 perpetrated by any hoi 

 sideration of the who 

 st stand for the defer 

 this decision, howev 



which Mr. M, 

 that which Mr. Bussell, 

 Mr. Marklove, believed 

 so clever a counterfeit tl 

 nposed upon an agent in Liver- 

 as that the fraud was not 

 in England. From 

 of the evidence judgment 



; has a remedy, no doubt, 



i real powei 



vk." Mr. Mark- 

 milar to that by 



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Just see the character of 1 



sed on Messrs. Mauklovi-. and Bussell. Mr. W a 

 s a most valuable paper on guano in the curron 



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manure, according :•> pn-ont market rates, am 

 >nia should be considered worth 6d., phosphate c 



. ™ie Jtf., and potash 2^., per lb. In the cas 



I before us, a ton < 



fallible as the i 



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Caird, however, is now corroborated 

 by other evidence : the details of Ml 

 on Auchness farm were given in our last Number, 

 and well deserve a careful examination. The 

 pamphlet, too, which excited all this d -i .--., n, 



received it or n tta contents. 



And, first, as to the qua: 

 Mr. Cairo has long been a practical farmer, fully 

 aware of the i agricultural 



evidence generally so valu. 



1 men are led int<> ' | 



unpractised eye can obtain. 



i rejected. — But how 

 before us ? It would 

 of some agricultural 

 ,nt farmer led them 



aid seem as if they 

 and that reported 



improvement re- 

 appear to think) it become kn 

 farmer is prospering, so sure! 

 others in the ti . 

 the same margin of the gross r 

 before. Now we have no feai 



which high rents are 



profits are general — a thing surely not un 

 1 ' dency of rent- will be m 





i duty, th- y Ir-.v 



They are 

 s as a text 



