. 228 
and a 
bp and Lancashire in 1858, 1st at the uar 
icultura y, 
m in 1859, 1st "i 
Canterbury and Yorkshire and Lancashire in 1860, Ist | 
wherever shown in 1861, and 1st wherever shown in | 
1862 and a: picos the challenge cup for the 
bull offe d by the North Lancashire Society Invia ving 
been won by three years in succession, became 
the property of Colonel  Towneley. His  per-|the his : 
formances this last ar re exceedingly re- 
markable. ae at the Roy show, at 
Rochdale, Skipton, at Lancaster, 
at Keighley, a Wigton, at Clitheroe—not shown at the 
= 
at Halifax, | aut 0007. in d Aeara 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
Worcester eer: nor at Stockton-on-Tees. He 
| besides money, three silver medals and one gold 
medal, init ve gold and silver cups, meeting 
Booths and Lady Pigot’s stock constantly in compe- 
plete list of the prizes won 
by “Golonel p dete since art aoe har =e: gir 
ory of the herd during 14 yea ards 
DAC 
h © 
DESCENDANTS OF PRINCESS ROYAL, DAUGHTER OF BARMPTON ROSE, BY THICK HOCK (6601). 
Dead c., '42 
Bustle c., '43 
Boddice, '49 
Bull, '50 
Richi ond 5., '51 
* Pantaloon 5, '52 
b 
[Maron 5, 1864, 
of plants, when the ammoni 
r development will be furnished by the ESTIS 
Ath. Edition, p. o (2 i phere" 
*' A fertile soil bem 
form a 
"i or — f od of 
sufficient 
xam Son. all the inórganic at ing 
tains a certai 
Ure co; 
ei time s 3, and E of ammoniaca salta ani 
monia ie 
wents, and that the pr is se Sere to th Dal cout, 
not of ammonia, bu substances,” ==‘ Pr supply 
55 (1855). 
“ These two paragraphs are altogether irreconcilable; for 
Mr. Lawes admit that the minerai mars E. D. t 
sable to plants, how can he maintain ‘that th 
sp terr in are neplsons! able by ammonia, that is ton oa that 
s of ammonia we can altogether dispense with them». 
ui "Principles," p. 89 Mie 5 a i 
“It has been mentioned in the prece art of the chapé 
xcrements may be replaced in agri b. 
Ol 
E. it follows, that we might manure with mineral food 
Mee plants, or, in other words, WITH THEIR ASHES [th perii. 
Baton Mebi aral: for, these plants are go the 
pg 49 ro a Butterfly’s Pride, n their nutrition and 2d l A 
incess Fairfax, ’4 ead cow, '49 halo NOT 3p EE iS, 1362) themselves. » 8d Edition, - 183 (18 
n Lord 5 varii (4249) Pride, 02 by 4TH DUKE e| No. 14. "Rae Pride, '59 Butterfly’s Pride 2d c, ’62 ut the weight or amount of a ps is in pro to 
Pageant c, RK (10,167) | y FREDERICK (11,489) No. ft pad Duchess, '63 the quantity ‘of food of both kinds, atmospheric and mineral, 
Prince ah vi '53 b; F WHARFDALE (19,648) | which is present in the soil, or conveyed to it inthe sams 
L Protector b., ' Prim e, '58 time. By manuring with es ve a soil rich à a 
B. R. B. 8th, '60 en te constitu the are augm 
* he same way as they aid? have been. Ir we ed ied 
No, 22. Roan Knight's Pride,’61 | F No. 36. Beautiful Butterfly, ’63 the pcuportion of ammonia in the air."—'' Principles,” p. 174 
H by Roan Kxianr (15,167) Y by RovaL B. 10ra (18,761) (1855). 
Baron Calder 5, '62 
sentences will be sufficient to show whethe 
Prelate b., '51 Patience c, g | or i Liebig i is justified in now attempting to fallback, 
pud Parliament c., '52 Permit c, ’5 nm agric al ions, u hé morem 
. . : E] " p 
bo or CORNWALL (5917) 4 Privilege b., ’54 | scientific meaning e terms “ mineral" and “ino 
Pompous ¢., '57 i ol anic,” so as to include within them “ammonia” 
nce Consort mulus Butterfly b, 759 * ammoniacal salts,” “ai atmospheric constitu i 
S ^ro '53 The 9, Pageant, ara I p Butterfly b, ’59 d th : definition td hi 
D. or Grosrer (11,982) | | by Count Gloster (12,050 and thus to give a new definition to his mineral theory, 
; : eU Me "» 4. R. B. 11TH, '6l or rather substitute at this date for me m wn theory, 
Master Frederick, 5, '59 
No. 3. R. B. 10th, '60 
G 
ROYAL BUTTERFLY (16, em 
by R. BUTTERFLY (16,862) Pene (10,86 
DESCENDANTS OF BUTTERCUP, DAUGHTER OF BARMPTON ROSE BY GARRICK (3803). 
b, '45 r Butterfly 2d c, 52 
Butterfly 3d i "54 
Butterfi A "55 
x CUR s 
LIE D THE *MINERAL THEORY." 
e penton = from a paper by Messrs. Lawes & 
Gi inthe m Mares of the Evgiish Agricultural here au s 
Journal has bee: o us by Dr. Gil Meus note to 
which ENT Liebus s letter given in t nu dite of the 
poen deny reply. 
eno be ral" 
r e coni of man 
venience, p throughout this p paper to 
the incombustible ituents," es ote 
been generally employ oyed in | this restricte d Sense x 
"n: wy "CE as Mn to 
ed e 
Master BUTTERFLY b, Ga 
r Butterfly 5th c, 
[ Butterfly 6th E 
* L Buttery 1 AAE b, 59 
= utterfly 7th c, m 
n ae b, ’57 
My Besoin (11,480) 
tation is brought forward ! 
S Lawes’: ’s sentence to suit the requirements of 
rgument 
E the last 20 years o more. his rece 
work TEC I in die Naturgesetze in Melipetes, 
et seq.) Baron Liebig riore usd ridicules 
ineral 
setting up, in in opposition to his own, a theory accordin, 
to which mineral or inorganic manures should contain 
only incombustible or ash constituents, To support 
< this poem he gives, in a separa 
pe 
tion from Mr. Lawess paper on “ Agricultural 
y vol, viii, p. 240, of the Royal Agricultural 
cosi divided intotwo cla organic an 
UT are tie whic re erable ^ 
SA art. 
the 
the Eier Ie capri ere 
in capitals are those which are ‘omitted by Baron 
Liebig i in his professed quotation :— 
here 
classes—organ: 
WHICH are 
of which the ash of plante is 1 
bee ee ee Ueber eee oan 
hich Baron Li 
manures, and accuses Mr. Lawes of | ài 
E | might be e p rs ^n ip to 
d 
Ben lige v 
bee: 
Fados as being produ 
TEXTUDC " and E. a daino peresis 
Yet, in | we 
m s doctrine of the practical man 
ure must be one seo contained 
prod and this 
d to the Suspicion tha that Seems 
ot y uded from a ipte: 
e lcultaral Teata f the 
mi 
istry, and thus Ais theory might well 
in jostifics tion, but according to e i theory I obviously 
too! eon Ch point of Maes Mr. Lawes, indeed, mentions in 
per (p. 21), A 
eed 
give to my manures an 
according to irs Vn 3d Sage of my theory, 
E po 
wing quo otations, taken from several - 
De vil show whether he has not 
ter: 
effica 
they sh 
The 
pu E 
mi 
nstituents, and to aman these from “ ammonia,” 
"ation iacal salts," 
The eim T is our ihn 
without any artificial supply of 
the produce only if the mineral 
soilin due Quantity, andin an 
** Ammonia is tensa are m— em mineral constituents are 
wanting. Consequently, th of ammonia is limited to 
the j— of wes AoHÓN of T ae al constitue 
giyo en time.” —“ Principles, >” pp. 86-7 (185 5). 
3 the other is the action of sulphate of 
as a “solvent for ection important mineral cons 
n senta of ho soi Ib., p. 99 (1855). 
hen used asa manuro alon 
> a want of p^ constituents in the soil is like the uiri 
ch the Aasep Tangent endi - rease his available 
n; an "that. stimulant, i 
action, in this’ E followed bya a corresponding exhaustio: xa T 
and when there 
a field 
exact proportion to the diminutio 
suiit substances conveyed to it in posed 
Having thus moulded 
his | t 
ecessarily | i 
oð eal d 
cere RRES which pm coritisetion with rate 
di be Ew for less than 2007., and in some parts 
tmospheric constituents," &c. | de 
o 
constituents act, as is shown by the produce hi 
npintaatvedl land, A r 
TE eee 
| available form, ^ 
nts in a | pi 
for agri- | it has been in parishes all belo 
r with ‘certainty that tho supply of ammonia is : i t of 
most of our cultivated end that it may parishes in par A 
if only the o soil contain a sufficient sup is in part owned 
which has proved to be erroneous, another not his ona. 
Correspondence, 
per 
Then, why should cottages ds o expected 6 
n other aec [Becat 
de ind rent for t up 
ex Lom and ris early al 
parts of the country a good pai ir o of 
y giving each cottage a -— gar 
poles) they ome be let for 4l. p vun 
mo: Fi ich is as muc "s 
ae I do no ^M nS with H. D. 
labour r, or in other words the ten 
benefit of cheap cottage rents, " | the — fa 
is ruled by the dem —— for 
country, "there i 
r in the ‘on irom Gg 
regu y d 
rate B that nis apo selling he Fe 
rents of co ic Lut 
7 
labour is ruled by iuo 4 
in no part pes I heard of the 
ing the oid market. 
of com: 
es, 
fe 
ike to liv 8s. 8 
will at once votive, "V peer i ee of his 
advance his pay. I have 
found many willing 
cottages rather than 1s. per ak forth 
experie: taral piden 
{se would pinch and screw in any Wa) 
rent for a comfortable — to live in, 
there was a en to it—and fr cottage 
t " 
nce of 
Tu 
that t 
owing to their not paying ; in more 
landlords not liking xim der in 
them, but preferring to draw their 
adj Where I have known & 
