26 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. | [JAN. M, | 
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Lobos, and all the other um exhausted ? Or are ject; and the classification as to br eed which we have adopted , 2d, SM the per centage of — in ) POrnips aM 
the Americans running off with this valuable sub- | m ien from thètr меан РЕ ОСЕ [o a6 A.corrett Rename r comparative 
stance ? ; Nothi of the End. The explanation | Table of multipliers of the product of the square of the girth fe eeding properties iet wr to tho iei - these 
we nitdlevitaánd to be that notwithstanding a most multi A ea the length, to ascertain the carcase weight Сы pos "e A i P гаг di J “ Turnip | 
unusual provision made by the importers to satisfy of oxen ee quique r TE win lure "mà Чен р-р длану шта КГ 
the demand here, that demand has increased so Fon Воілоскв AND Heir para comen s ды opes niue. NEED 
en 1 : all calculati Nearlv th Condition of Beast, Decimal Multipliers. ^ increasing the per centage of nitrogen in the Norfolk | 
ormously as to райе all calculation, early in Clas Clas 52^ Class3. | White Turnip ; and it may be useful here to subjoin án _ 
times 5g quantity consumed in 1852 has bee HA см, i ш н з 3 22 abstraet of the results then given in eei MÀ | 
bo 1853. ns sr MD зр 2 Norfolk Whites by the side of some | 
v | believe - s not far wrong when we set the Чу uomo Жылга. аде. MON В 94 obtained ty the Swede, This is adir d in the f. і 
Es of guano, d n р эү а last eight дн , at some- Extraordinarily fat TB dua ai o3 25 lowing tà { 
g very near the following quantitie Moderately fat 269 95 in." TABLE I. showing the effect of highly-nitrogenons manuring 
184 8 from June io December 24, 600 tons Ord tQ ө 25 262 25 n the per centage of Du уб in ee ў, 
й . inarily Wd c iani 4 4 j 
2 j " 15,900 m Very эй... v e. чен EREMO o NU «| n 
Extrao y fal t 32 288 215 "E 
Les » 3 pngna » FOR CATTLE NOT INCLUDED IN THE Hl тете ды 1 8 f $ 
1850, " д 98. ч utch Nude crum those i > Class 2. STANDARD MANURES, Е B 
1851, s ы ге? - Holstein A ks fattened after having been 8 
› » » » al PEE M [NS 
LE "d "i Я j Shetland Dullocks and hoifore, prime fal .. 4.309 ^ 
, ,000 ! ! The result of the calculation is s the weight of " ur 
Upon this we have no comment to make; no one carcase in imperial stones. By comparing Me pei киелт =” к 
could have anticipated а zu" of supply bent апа measured weights of cattle from last week, two ido or manure, farist (sc | ogg ; 
considerably above 60, were od to | things are, we think, apparent, namely, first that | Do. do. minerals oniy (Хо: 146! 28e | 198 | 228... 
meet a demand which had ан ехе € certain unexplained exceptions there is а very | P^. до. оаа) зло ub. З 
tons; Whether it is that the dread of a rise in pric siderable resemblance between them — and Norron Warre 
has caused consumers and dealers to lay in twice their | secondly, that the gauge such as Ewanr's, which The stmdard 1 ihanture, mine-llisg| -208 | 236 $30 
usual stock, or whether Admiral Monzsnv's report furnishes a variety of readings to any given| T ошу j à 
has led to the belief in an approaching scarcity, | | measurements, leaving the'selection to the judg-| Thes tandard A manure, mino- iT 245 2.00 
which we believe to be a ground less apprehension, he measurer, is greatly to be preferred to pls on only (Ко.1)............ €—— es im ОШ 
we do A жакын but PUN fo m ifa aber en ме ot on ne мағ : of r ns ue in ре |De. тү Ф x ie ix 9.08 ГТА 
eruvian e only of one set of circumstances The Ra ey etn in of these _ 
меты, seems to indue "that the former is believed | seen that on the whole, the verdict of EwART'S|eases sp аа ent employed, itself contains | 
РА them to be ^ women cause of the Mete ostio pues , regarding the Baker Street cattle, із! about 4 per cent. of nitrogen; and hence the Vac 
iA which h l ha tt ey were more than ‘fat,’ verging, in fact, upon | which it, when freely used, as well.as the ammoni | 
й We are incli ned," dis ssrs. А. Gregs and Co., | а ‘very fat! show. salts, is seen to have in increasing the per centage of | 
{о гн that most ef. our friends have forestalled — o nitrogen in the Turnip bulb. lt would, however, be 
mands, and thus thrown a large portion TURNIPS AS FOOD. impossible in a mere notice of this kind to enter into any 
beri in the earlier arrivals, icu of acerba Ох тнк CoxNEOTION BETWEEN THE PER CENTAGE OF NIT rio- | adequate explanation of the ei eres or less amount of. 
them over the whole ; but as we can GEN aem Vies AS Еоор с) 5тос pee int centage of nitrogen im the different 
execute them, we must decline nim une d at all - a let the guano ) question, addressed by Mr. these points we have alluded to mo 
events, til? we see more clearly ату з the dinis of the to ie editor of the Т апа равед іп that, ally in pe paper on “ Turnip Culture ;" and it is suf- 
busi f poris on the 17th November, he said :—“ It is well to. orna say general, that the variations depend 
ness may be during the spring, and in how far| pe i | ly upon i 
publicly known that Poroak ano, though the chie the rélative amounts of nitrogen in the 
BM cedem we «ciis i executed have fore- | best guano for the produetion of FW heat, i not | manure, upon the season, and upon the state of maturity 
82asOn." sually occurs later in the | possess the same superiority over other and cheaper of the crop. It may, Корее, be mentioned that since 
1 tnath = EL SEI pe еер m 
For ourse TSelves, QW imini those o e 
no риш holders of guano, and that the demand has w weg thè more effective manure of the two for the ably eased ; and the effect of this ba се per. 
arisen from nothing more than the i improved condition growth of Swedes.” | imi io of nitrogen in the produce is clearly se We 
of the agricultural de and from an increased ү itted that Mr. Caird has h tunities have then, with differen of Turn itm with | 
convietion of the ics of cr heus formed | Superior to most of asce — the opisions of prac- | different seasons, and w ith various proportions of nitro- 
ol DIK that have been digested by sea-birds. бек] men. on ый в Me tn miM к Н PM I ML co brought out of & - 
сопе — rom ral ex xem is. w in reat increase in the cen of nitrogen in the 
In order to an inference of the т " cattle feet accordance with ther esults of more direct experi- Тат тір, by highly ogena Жатан dade 4 we 
from their сате ement, there at mental investigation - — sted, hr зе ox il die Бейеу this result is in accordance with some of the 
such measurements be taken as shall pu d data. points involved. Some of these have alre ready been long published analyses of rene xperimenters ; but the - 
for calculating poets the solid contents of the ago published, and their bearings frequently pointed | conelusion that has hus drawn, viz. that the higher | 
cylindri ical carcase ; ап а 3d ihid the x: l out; Te it may be well, when the practical question is he per cen of ni oput in the roots b better will | 
5 eight of thus - promi inentiy before the publie, to take the they be as food for stock, w fallaci 
| oppor! orde ° eiterating, and а little far | Dr.A dessin De sum rt of is very elaborate inver 
the average to every ea ic foot of these soli 3 с со e 
ting, Some о e conclusions of direct: experi- | tigation оа un 
ee nte un This weight must = бы, vary соп - ment. ent— which, bein discordant with du doctrine: e т. deren rcumstanoes which he рае in е Highland | 
siderably with the д май of the breed, the age, fien v ught on ubject, are but m t'a eb Society's Journal for 1851, apparently conforming fally | 
sex, г and f; е animal; and all su gauges when кан ihi supported by - унта nni to the current theory, in in the more limited form of it | 
tself—but which, if true, it is the more recently put forth by Boussingauli— namely, that the _ 
E. 
nec су ea fail in mien case. t the a lim important bai бау should be generally understood, пап 
one fi PCT à Xn ална. m say that the cheaper Bolivian ena is a more ч ее рне йи бш о шша эл Wen 
culat > i specimens o к! 
- p = ide E gauge, referred E last t week, effective manure for the Turnip than the dearer Peru- kind of food— says, “It is certain, eret that a 
шешз шо cg m E perds чем x Say, in other words, that in ordinary omit close eem wenige is obtained, во longas wè _ 
num y one of which may be Р 4 а eae containing so large a pro- | compare with one another similar kinds of food. Thus — 
— ed scoring to is eoque of the valuer; pe" for instance, to suppose a саве, if we had two varieties - 
and how ssary thi o an accurate jud grient | "esee — k е аттопіа), тау with advantage | of Turnip, one of which соп vos дауды exaetly twico зат 
ppear e tn ur last ON table of weights, peent бе ай арнат оой res ны. nitrogen as the e, thereis no doubt | that i their fe ceding — 
ыч the he readings соате a : he “а mo — coun: „езе quantities А but it — is, perhaps, no eoretieal noti: 
extra о е е appear in pan eomposition it is intermediat: о ароз ] 
ee, X it will be seen, very materially, and between the Peruvian and that which was for meten * andi din gr generaly eel er : 
| a choice | which requires the exercise of imported from the i island of Іеһађое. T es ave- values of foods generally are in ini qu 
mated as n 
on the part of the measurer. We rage quantity of ammonia (or nitrogen mess in nitro 
uote the followi wing ion of the whole process ammonia) in these three pa zi guano, — be discordant both with comm 
Mr. Ewanr's instrüctive article on MEAT in 008 Му taken at 15 to 17 per cent. in the Peruvian, records of direct experiment, inse 
Brackrg's Cyclopedia;— — . — ez E Te e ам Bolivian, ті about 7 to 8 | - sheep feeding, although at first we were - 
“© The dimensions to be taken ате the length of the back of the i : lime, on the certain extent inelined to t à 
: - , | r od i Бар е curr 
animal, and its girth at the er or length should Бе | the P hand, is the highest in the e called attention to the ‘hearin 
j — | 
and it should extend “ point on the upper of the tai the f 
са | two. To manure 
ме н PEE just inelnde the whole o the round | with a given weight of f the Boli ian бат туй 
of beef, n squárély round the 
reom behind the elbow of the fore leg. Both | the ыу Peruvian, i is to supply to the land one-thi 
must be taken in teet and inches, with m e каме accuracy, &mmonia but a larger quanti 
ar 
whe m the Beast is stand ading EIS S eae "um а ee rd of € к lime the volume for 1852 of the British Association 
ihe soli d conten paa ofa cylinder, of whi КЕ the e m i and ien primer е the nevertheless, at the present time, very impor- t 
noticed above - The rule to mulüply the the square of ее ан зана d considerations qone | 
cireumference ог girth a - ubstitution of the cheaper f 
^ of the circle ЖОГУ Dye осна kinds of £ genuine guan eine" gà 
m а н IN ing thus = а de The solidity, of des dm ns caeso vet to the enormous extent to which ed of i iiliutry ing. ? 
i i oam ^ | nurei i i E 
euet шне muris ШЕ i mamo oe prie ib ma menna атт REN P a p wem вот oai PR 
This yeight we have s wd nemen kis e Sms only a different kind of the genui guano. | of Teil IL, whi жөк i uc: MA 4 
pec inde CUM to fout" рей siones 1 m eubic е fontz | ы we now stop to reeall attention to the жей чен р ч e v" э нъ, paa Ag п 
irth in feet and inches, multiplied by the le а deris] an excess of ammonia in the manure, upon the | vol resul ined b eeding 
ro ree mls Sp acd ога аа, гебен эв yield of the Turnip crop—a point epos нан upon Качы White "Turni пума ед » own bf 
01958 muldplied Dy 4 TL weight of carcase mense d el decisions of practical experience would seem daily different man hich. niini финан 
in th e instances of опг experiments Now. | * ce with those of more d t y 
. ; to | ex investigati : : of 
the gradation in the ex ез extent et 1o сеа | m itm Mu E The only points w we pu of the same Table (IL) is given a sh 
table » о results 
x | bulb | not. before. published, in which. 
8 — uring; ferent manures in the season of 1850, and 
