ee Ven a 
à 
Arrt 9, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
347 
and the Short-horns at Barmpton, before Mr. R. Colling’s day, | These remarks suggest the propriety of mixing bone | breeding, rearing, feeding of the animal—truths which 
were better than any be ever hreg, iti n- | dust with ou spar gt dung where carbonic acid and — the theory of agriculture, which are in 
inui A Shen 1 Nei M at ^ Halton € Castle, mne al ammonia v vill a act in dissolving it, operation everywhere, and the force of which € 
berland, bad the hardi " and best constitutioned stock of| It is Ps clear th: th fi who, he know 
| vere horns, and they were two very amm henda, and very | the soil, we shall nitra t or not, is using pe directing them; - -— "ot 
prolific up d. Ue J, and the on = oL ah cel Ec te E EN | soda or common E , and it is pinks certain that Aa ich, too, armer, 
= dies rer le acre i The do breeder's Short-horns | continued a application of these salts will ultimately whether he knows it or rat is opposing ve Sahing 
all lived, but the former always said he was the greatest | exhaust the most fertile soil. against them, and nae evitably beaten by them. 
BIEN oi ho two, for the Jata De ons ao 2 ^ = fo Liebig says (page 83), “ If by a more thorough This is the way in asoga MASIA ith 
rnm 10 years, till th y% last, many of them, | mec echanlon! preparation. of the ground, or by a locality. d of knowledge by experi- 
out, ould have done so, had they not been slaugh- common ec f far m practice anywhere, Dems taking his know- 
d,and till this cross n could be more hardy than on of the available mineral wm be edge of dem at onde hand, may maoin 
they Mose ae igi saot ER acederted the elà wn perhaps- ps in 50 years as wel end agricult discussion. It is in this 
k With infi vndis. Pitt: cattle such may go on; | much g have done in 100 that Dr. "Noe oeloker, "Professor Way, Liebig, and 
P men deter. paring thie aem l M ment ui e without re am zeb E 1 half the time it E 
coarse p$ prvhorned ow od would be exhausted for aad Cultivation of Wheat." well- foun ed opinions on the policy of n M and 
te tty oni ec of aca deoa Shoreham, |, T Am ind nlarge upon this subject to put E farm management, and are able to 
rally , and has brought—justly a | landlords upon their Is | t ful li “ht erally. 
discredit m pn von Bbort horns; ; Tor it is s, och | men that, have to be grown every year in succession by sush means. ——À is another way in hide an pennies not 
ore ets ait’ aft (ite d destroyed your Paper by reciting | know of one instance of 2 s where the whole of - z local knowledge may usefully lead the diseus- 
instances—such as the blood of *Cramer' on his dam’s side. | the farm has been ——— € for eight or nine years with | sion at a Farmers' Club, ^; — is drt simply making 
Thomas Fairfax (05 be ho Lo. gi — Sir [o ny ce qug TOS, dress ig n 25s. — of nitr paci j himself the mouthpiece of who have this 
; soda and no other manure. je C S have been e 
M oed D» iie Eu dia a ibo whole with their straw have impe sold and carried It ist in both of tk have 
mence sai Do you 
do not give a drop of milk ; I have 2. used him, nor ever 
my herd of Short-h E r. Whittaker er — 
e that the great grand- x “Fairtex. yo! nn 
Petweon a blue apd a ec toli hat s onn 
ae sn Coke said that be Tad bought teri at Stockton, 
r. do 
she 
hitta! fedi desired m t different = 
act out her pedigr bad nh. 
uiries, for many years, ul i no person ever beni of this ne 
-horn 
cwn Fairfax Mg fe — a ito Mr. Parkin: 
son ât a sale, he sa . Xp don't 
approve Bt thie blood I iow. "m I EX "Cert (URL s not ;" 
and when Mr. Booth told me he had sol omas 
Fairfax to Mr. Par! id = I congratulated i ee: H 
he was not offended n than Mr. Parkinson sen.; aud 
t; kank ‘Co muminds ent’ in your Journal for this dis- 
they m 
closure 
NITRATE OF SODA AND MENNA SALI; 
I 
cretary, and 
the farm without any "e exhaustion This | Se 
process is, of course, most remunerative, as no cattle as a wroiden, cm man yt my turn in opening a 
are required rm before this the leading Gloucestershire 
The system 000 | Farmers’ Club. 
acres being hired b | 
is spreading, and I hear 
y 
| " have t 
as to cropping. ply g for his tion to such biographical dolia as swill I proe nonl 
opinion, he re lies to me under date “The | interest any "- an - district whose famil 
theory of mim E is Atl little mudtditoof in Lire pce resid: They will t 
—- this by the so-cailed practical teaching of Mr. 
wes and lis ass ocia ate e. vin 
d give to the respecta 
but very Satan gentleman who grows Wheat e | not of the pe i ma a tp 
year m ic D psu with nitrate of soda is, | this Cotswold district has made within 
to conti i 
eory. In a few 
perfectly ruined his fields, very rich in vey | facts whic shall have 
phosphates, which by the i tions on one si saln 8C 
simply dissolved and diffused, as you observe mott ing the inevitable failure and decaden 
in your letter.” | str ength, ge; M of prime] through, d tly 
The Cheshire cheese pastures give unmixtakeable agriculture; e other 
e ph 
he iners 
enses they had failed to be si To 
et tied for a clear explanation of this 
appar: mmo 
ind edi * On Modern Agriculture," 
ion of Earthy Phosphates,” he says, “ It 
ls quite eins from these acts that water contain- 
1 quan 
We have ample act gr that 
salts pay well by t 
of dissolving phosphoric acid, in th 
aey: phosphates. These fe i 
towards earthy phosphates like solutions of ei 
prove 
they come in contact with containing 
ecumulations of earthy , phosphates not fixed Dý -— 
duce. In med 
Baron | Mechi, March, 1864. ake m 
thy | si Me of Tete miam 
Milo, co Iam indebted for the use 
osphates, and iatis" Em 
of the advantage of restoring thes y boning. J. J. | 
A LIFETIME ON THE COTSWOLDS. dairy farm 
[The following paper was read by Mr. J. Chalmers Morton, at which have generally, I p^ been as bene o in 
the late monthly ied of the Kingscote Farmers' Club.] 
um materi a ich the following paper has | 
annual soe ejm pt bet 
I. BioGRAPHICA 
Iam s that you will eet with me that 
position Bch gig ©. agricultural 
puni it Sy high or gi on a comparison with otl 
not depend alone upon 1 
ich the cultivators of t 
2c 
3 H 
EFRSEERIE 
of - 
documents. The series together form a most complete The person 
agricultural "ame rire e, we may suppose, with | “worth of the tenant Mamme of "the diaria. has a T 
0 : a whole distri trict. UA ld t T n 2 ag 
And n 
A, ee ped fo e on — Ó the papers w; 
Rich enough to give me—not even the 
publish hed ie in 1 1813; Mr. Bravender's report of 
Gloucestershire, published in the Journal of the Agri- 
minm — in 1852; aud the very — and 
old ch i is n obtained fro 
tn ve e ud eie th Rd cur h 
e through the groun s rarhy Phor 
phates, v when thus diffused in solution, come in co 
been good 
evidence which E e of the i intet tity of 
| produce whi 
nstructive arison of Naw oe oot; 
ead 
1f "en h for 
farmi g by M 
and we have almost u ndun 
certainly at a very confident pie indeed v" nothing 
might a 
ich | notew 
© 
EE 
"and. fix these rear 
he | am Ei to e able to lighten my story by a number of | charac ter w 
e | personal memoranda relating pro rote A 
neig 
ge individuality of 
eof Mr. J fohn 
f late Mr. i rs and "s frie! mo: 
din some 
“inten ed to | | stri rikingly illustrate. It may bea c in 
e on the minutes to lay all these sufficiently before — 
| the i pteniop which th papers have e on me 
known either personally or by reputa 
the gentlemen present, yetit is ot 
attempt any single biography. My * Lifeti 
pei oy aa oru to "he period of the 
past 90 and i 
d clea 
—à of “earthy peni 
n its effects bear n 
parison with a much small - quantity which, in an 
P i nl division, is dispersed through every 
wile most mine s at M spot where it touches the 
most minute amoun of food; but it is necessary 
e ane. Me cm Sith was, I ek "mes them, 
of general sinis ral in 1722, in the neighbourhood of Chipping 
Gentlemen, i MC ^ believe. be eve nien - ee it| Norton. In 1744, his father and he came 
is impossible to speak o: a Bowldown Farm. HAM a foa oanp V es 
i out for private 
his’ pros jr iier 
personaly acquainted with m. "et rin Which iu 
which 
, as to establish the fact j 
born 
exactly at this spot; for if the food of plants 
be not soluble e in water, | then is.any excess a at any other 
letters of his which I have seen addressed to 
the locality has arisen. Although I have known some 
farms on the si for more than 20 years, a and 
yet I cann ot pretend to anything like that detailed | 
agricul owledge of the 1a ferm fer an rict cmi | of 
many y 
mcd 
only | the tenant of a Cot swold farm 
. Nort the salts of which we havo 
elem p À some the property of ca carrying these 
of from the spot in which they exist in 
their elements contributed in no mi? 
process re nutrition, vet these salts 
nevertheless exercise a marked i —Á cm on the 
* * # We ca under- 
ts exercise a favourable xe in 
a second o or | 
"t 
"e | 
by ing the seeds down a 
* You have 2 right to be talking to a Cotewold end hy taking. Oba after Wheat. Mr. Smi 
Farmers’ Clu! to ~~ gatum dist of Pit Norton about -- 
yY 8 after wards. € 
telligent man. In his ann 
e dee remm an bai for every T dy 
of the year (every. day « of his life), 
h 
discussion may be at pened b: 
ors gi to yaa dis y^ Bes — omit from his dis | 
m si a local 
«Permis 
comen why 
Şi 
i 
8 
i 
a 
H 
SE 
z 
d 
* 
t attendant on divine rerhp the text text of 
oen jaws v Nature which are in pent A constan 
may co: ending etin levery sermon that every werk. s hear is dul s 
corded. A most social eared friend 
par 
Vias chapter should be read 
to know the importance of the 
and solution of phosphate of lime, ' 
bier n 
regarding the soil, rain, the air and t| he light— 
regarding the seed and i the fo future re p iine rt 
