790. 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
Keeps appoint ted to take "Lr 
t 
аз successor to a dum Low could confer 
éclat the chair and the University, and difficult | 
upon t 
to nam А е апу опе epa e fitted for the discharge of | 
the duties connected with the position to which he Ё 
has been ар | 
For ун РЧ not confined to the detailed | 
description of the and home operations of n 
agricu ides that a ын of 
all the items ing un 
between the 1 
ia relations to those great bodies of truths which 
obtain under all circumstances of soil and climate, 
though the learned in addition eres а 
mere skeleton of agricultural truth, which how 
could then ey clothe with flesh themse. 2d 
in the field, than if left wi eir memories 
crammed with data Er details, without their judg- 
ments Mi improved or themselves. caen. { 
Better er " 60 or 70 interv 
паат іп Vene the puce 
students, эт\ бә enabli ingt e$ to learn their business 
in the field, where alone qe be learned, than in 
the vain attempt to mi an art ру talking, which 
never yet was done. ich no one, we dare say 
it, will ever succeed in 
It is because 
uties of the 
d 
y may be cordially 
on his appointm 
тобет Wrnson i is so admirably | 
The ах сире — it will be see 
principle. 
ere this i is econori- 
pui vi profits is “ half done work." t 
| may be illustrated by an instance ү our own 
ad a field of wet clay land, i 
ense. E about 5 
e than 5 per Mes 
tiy on фет. an additional drain чб 
two, and subsoiling the field, the increase wa 
| upwards o per cent. in cer tay and more 
than 100 in Turnips and Grass. The wi 
estate will be 
way | gated, and otherwise improved at an expense of 87, | these 
Or judging from experiments made on soils of this 
ves, the highest and аай rofitable 
ot be obtained under an average of 
e total investment under this head will 
`97, 0001. et irte waste by 
г dra raining, trenching, removing stones, trees, roots, 
levellin о &c., from an sve of successful example 8 
of this kind, also cannot be reclaimed and put in а 
of pocket in t 
balances before the land i 
farti this i is the most expensive mode of reclaim- 
roper state of | bee 
Last year Ca, 
isited Peru and brought over from the Ch Chineha 
: rgo of gua His account v 
ifferent from any I have yet seen ptiblish iristea 
of th eing exhausted ш м pehe 
most writers assert, he says, that the compari 
o | tively геа is inexhaus de DEP dt" 
kcu in s more than 100 feet idee RENE 
-— 
"e threo principal islands being yet E 
bing the cliffs an innumerable 
skeletons of Гагве шағіпе - imals were present 
uch as those of the seal and жа я zé 
кен ios up out of the su wien in, 
the place Е pps to be eompletly v | 
2% 
5 
and the birds are continually in fetching fish 
from the sea to thei eani. ones, Te; = 
so imme air completely alive 
them. By this aecount, ai ps the most ir 
reliance can be placed, pereeive аё gu 
not all exerementitious matter, e have. 
se, 
— "s decomposed an 
exerem irds. 
ue. , 
inglan 
gunt ia: 76, dpa , tabularly stated thus : 
e 107. per acre £19,000 
Pas € dc. » 5 n ,000 
Improvable waste 1500 ,, 201. » 30,000 
00 , 76,000 
галі поза у realise from 10 to 12 per 
cent., or say 8 he landlord 
whi mt 
would jet about the Ћа1 from the. айылы, or 4000/., 
ally as interest, which would not redeem the 
y _ Тнк permanent improvement of the soil is the 
same in effect as increasing its "dis If, for example, | 
еме the annual produce of the United King- 
one-fourth, it is orga to increasing their 
cd 19,000,000 acres, an increase only 
one-twentieth less than. the eden of Ireland, and 
80 on for any other proportional increase ob tained. 
an increase of pro -— m se P M one- 
But 
fourth would be of of 
are requi at eo an increase of acres 
trary. 
sd, 
Y give rise to the c 
annua 
principal in less than элу О to 40 years; and 
isa e, it could not be finished 
likely in less time den this, so that 80 we 
would expire before the whole was redeemed a 
the эүлө» са ebt. 
h 
estion requi increase 
| tenants" кезү aid not сана d skill, to turn 
the em to the best advantage, without whieh the 
; andn 
Of the Pretcabiliy of increasing the annual 
uce o country to this degree there need 
o opinions, for every province 
Take an acre of 
evidence of it. 
ars 
Wheat land for 
aer 
1 
s of this quality, what | 
ose subject to greateri improve- | 
e eve 
ure, 
more ptible of i increase, 
acres of *improvable waste," 
and scanty herbage of only nominal | 
Ginis Hiaprovemen 
an деч possibilities—the work is not only | 
Eine ihe з e aspect тд and Ње гонче 
- it, a e ей) to 
Ex for in "he other, may be illustrated by a 
Nei азота A an estate of 7700 а. х. which 
« and ga ; 2700 теа iid ses 
h cim 1500 improvable ds d 
1600, in icul 
рї batin many с 
resources of minerals, 
r be brought to 
other divisions. 
. 
s possessing in inexhaust- | 
Which may directly or 
upon the improvement 
20 | to pre 
now | che 
syste 
t of the soil involves more | 
in almos 
the | example 
5 percent. This i ho doubt 
over a w 
but the old system of the tenant is also liable to be 
overturned. Hence his 
ot only so, | ri 
rte limited, and th 
~ miee men to endeavour k тре me meni 
imported in this s country а 
no doubt iet this could be ed if it we it were а нн 
ood еры by some 
t perhaps so quickl 
body ; y as our н 
«аир the heights of Alma in the late MH onf 
in the East, рае nevertheless I think it ас 
roug ere] 
wil n pr oportion La the extent. to 
he 
4 
alysis belo j could. 
all hé alkaline salts which are red 
of ingre redients necessary to vegetatia 
soils, and not to Бо contained E. 
d ak 
so rackrented, m ‚ от otherwise burdened, as 
revent the ne security being given. On 
this head aera rag not be said. 
Suc of th 
Мне ате * protlematically circumstanced as to 
the progress 
ck — sl 
roduce arising from cert 
changes i in the EN of the soil il produced by 
draining and other improvements, so 
better guarantee t capital; for this wn ie found 
every case to be at the root of those mis 
apprehensions which prevent enpin being invested 
in fone of the most productive enterprises in the 
т жэ, It will be perceived that the hypothetical | 
which we have quoted jus 
thousandth part of the whole kingdom, so e Е 
ciphers a j -righ figure will show 
field for the investment of capital than is 
ests. ° Thin in is 
ded inten 
the 
ised this 
| may make their own |; 
ent 
provement of land "holds out а E and more | Iain 
m 
De of к soluble portion c 
куш n the islands of "Scotland, 
sete va by the rain. 
most recent "nouos y Peruvian 
ме iu 
e 
A kaline e. 
Phosp! aes 
eed of ] Lime : 
Sand, &c. 
The percentage of Ta = I 
rather high, I rarely fin 
To of silica 1 per 
