FEBRUARY 6, 1864.) 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
133 
d damaged by smoke, are disliked b 
achod an often rejected by them AMAT er. Smake 
rates the quality and diminishes vena quantity 
MD lover crops. nts with poig 
teac 
cattle, 
ga 
Swede 
ing to vegetation by sulphurous acid fum 
iier jg eo M 
“Tt has red to me that t the sulphurous acid 
culture, no one has shown so much 
energy, bendi, and jodpeaes as our noble Presi- 
dent sae Marquis of mire Ut 2 erous 
d, not according 
fumes of cop pper - wd rp ne be converted 
to su or be used for the 
tL for instan Prin 
ipd der vm crops, m am less liable to suffer 
pjary fro fro weit spher 
“p úh, bis es, on the other hand, E 
The leave 
Frui smoke eld no 
fnit, or or bt a : pd sickly c 
and I 
oe of sul phite 
do ft 
sider it edidi y that 
ts r for popular clap- ing spats Pore of super- 
ical 1 inquiry, but to throw ligh 
J 
h 
ge 
ady produc 
this ig 
i m iliabitent ts of the country sd about the 
and be turned to good economical accoun nt. 
y^ 
gue contained in the smoke of brick kilns, we aere 
o data for our guidance. The Ter of the c 
ed the construction of the kil 
of the end of whi ch the bri ri cks 
emer ig ^f coal Sign erected 
at which is carried a by the smo 
ecording to experimen 
Tamer 3 I Chris stison, causes a TW ves Td plants to 
Thus oal, with a 
cp, but contain biog pr paper Via die 
peek) d may produce less sul phürous acid than pore 
hur and i in m 
T on 
uif, Totali veia ecd additions to our knowledge 
on these subject 
beue rs’ Clubs. 
LONDON: Feb. 1.—The Tax.—At the first 
aimi ve meeting af this tpe Mr.W illiams,of Bayden, 
able paper, of which we 
Mr. observations I intend 
pee E shall confine Mixed to three points, n amely : t 
kind o coal, poorer in sulphu 
op ulation ; 
drop when roportion the e occupier of the siti and 
el 1-10, Q00dth par by the mineral po ortion of some coals, dns if the | the i injury the: abe gener sustain by an au. mented 
“Rece: ntl ex ewi the effects of air contain’ clay contains — or lime, | price of our national beverage, and in all probability of 
y PED ireintinn m hertz ost of vetu of the coal will be | the animal iod they co d You are all doubtless 
7 xed by the magnesia o aware that Sir Fitzro "Kell has written to the late 
have been ba B Funny by, LAT nd eed i brick ] of London Cl zt ll the information that we 
. Stöckhard of € rese ped be p clay a considerable Peer rtio M 
acid gas, w 
s killed hot they were exposed for a lon 
containing so small a quantity of Montes 
rich in iron pyri 
vegetation by the lpburous acid "proceeding enm 
a distance of ee 
to two miles from the place where the arity 
a i 
kilns Anm perm Mond. frequently ; 
ilns is vi arent 
t that, i itie 
t of Parliam inis pov i$ made 
for t effectual condeation« of muriatie Y gas in 
alkali works ; ut, as far as I know, there is no law 
v EE brickmakers un into xem air any 
who ith the 
chalk, gea re produce a smoke which contains ‘bat 
cks, 
a 
s charged with 
weather a much erect —Ó of this et | 
, the- air bec 
Pm adi to an rra which folexióuily affects | i 
1d. 
ha little MU acid, whilst in districts where | far 
ah tiles, ke. are lar; om 
im 
n such localities, im 
ex 
in April last, that if we ld produce beef and mutton 
the YS getation for miles round the brick-clamps or per lb. less than at present by feeding on malt, that 
° | kilns uld weigh very much with the Government in 
ur of its al. But, except so far as regards 
Scorrish MrrEOROLOGICAL/— At the recent half: the injustice of this measure in these days of “ Free 
yearly general meeting of this Society, Mr. MirwE| Trade," as it i led, British farmer—I look 
Home read the report, which stated that the total] upon this last division of the s as quite unim- 
number of stations in arial which at pre: yas eg | portant in comparison the , inasmuc 
up mont y soliedu Edo des Society’ s office 2.| as with the public it is a matter of taxation only, while 
Stations had Jerus d Damascus. | in the case of the British farmer it is a rank piece of 
Tw zes—one o1 101 and the Oh: of 201.—had injustice; and as us the labourer and "bap. it 
been Offered by the Marquis of Tweeddale f i paren de other 
trustworthy observations on the temperature of 
ed and undrained soil on mountain pasture and 
and. Tw 
words, b oth in 
(1). With Sae m p" hardshipe the labourer and 
artisan have to con nte nd wi ith, we must look i nto their 
t | it ought to be, and see if we can lay the «— to the 
high duty on malt affecting their domestic comforts. 
ill picture 
i. 
the Council, and published afew months 
Sir Jony Forpes then gave an address on “ The 
Pro; 
although 
more pernicious to vegetati ion than even muri 
EA Ihave had 
practically acquainted wi 
a smoky atm 
1 the pr must Me 
three mile 8 above "the eart th, the cirrus clouds 
urous ie alwa present in 
u oty deposits are seen on 
rge enormous quantities 
us acid Into the air, are ree krown amongst 
fa This fact 
a 
SE 
ü copper-sm the metal, 
hoa exer of piros acide i discharged | p 
in his Hein 
and 
d 
ingenious weather charts of Mr. Galton, i 
graphica, were explained, as well as the “ bulletin” 
ui 
meteorological c observations by Glai sher, Symons, and 
f| Eaton rts th 
Sie 
idum. 
e eM DAERA 
en providing for | th food 1 the people, and its "ability | bee 
to dam 
hands, iud Morem nt 
ublic expense a staff for 
e, not the slightest uet un ice had. Pen We “of This 
a ather, we admitte ed at all 
r 
format 
man, 
ss p MR oi PU as since the Formation t 
o do this, Iw what I : 
l'iiappy and comfortable. neris hd tas nnm 
duty aboli Y ss a po 
a wife: he 3 th. e yeh ul "past, d y 
himself a rest course i he ds, in these At of Nisi 
ands worth whil become a first-class 
cup of 
finds him by his own fire-side, picking a better pisparstibe for 
A Sabbath than we Do: 
ces. ipee Moe 
my "Y at a case 
observ: tI beer rs dit aos 
fact — out ror d the pro classes of t voting the higher, the 
the lo wer—the two first having plenty of « that 
ry t 
as in the no of «yc 
re tho 
rule, T uM 
op or publichouse. There, as we 
their a LIE one pint c 
und “Again, wh: 
a rule, the wot the Sabbath. Whee 
his weakly pa ua ^ the time to settle scores, 
ribe at a p! 
“Th 
ren i ber traced beyon by Be smoke fom | grent i interest. So careless had | they been, ; that althou h | Isie i i —— t Me AE cli d chapels so ill 
4 ced bey a dista attended? Who form the bulk of our population but 
vidi e D i Lai s copper wor works | in drainage, no provision was made for even m geting the the Baba -— : ies — E oe don 
Which of tains ` epprecia e hem e, Prize Essay," of 18 well illustrates th. 
% the etic 1s inimical to the health of plants; t i| t^ ihe lal bourer,” The Mrollowing is ettrncted ORG 
Telation to es are eget in quantity in | to procure information Which the “Government gave a | “ Hansard,” 1839:—“Mr. D. W. Harvey, page 845, 
b produced i large amoun acid " n that, o a elight the EC * aie Poorav "Com Kershaw, d 91, 
in Abe E "AY aba XT n | examine ore e mittee. n being 
e T O00dth p. Pe phurous | discontinued Te dude ze Cn ut Je p "Yes; wen I p pared, 
t h re uid ha t for 2s. 6d., 
wees, I think the I: Jurious to vegetation in wet | it lit in any other for p» was ia earaeetl t to be s hope that pron xs at bere dei nk i dem Sue hut ii 
More mischief a eg acid of copper g od The question ‘ae DE Du Hod 
of the works to the crops in the neighbourhood | of trade, but lt t of dif. iw ‘Did the labo 
mote. Just VS M Ox as ds of the Per kinds of seasons, Yom the test v the advantage : i Y row as a general thing? =t A d “ow o iong "haro e y 
ers are permitted| of peculiar systems of management, would soon e SA e : ee at eee, 
shout nte “po e into the dein copper-emelters restored to Scotland. There ven no doubt that a at rein “re ser Bo y rem ber d para 
quan to discharge into A air the | sam e staff of enumerators coul y Simanta a wages w when malt was 2s. 6d. per bushel ?’—' Yes, 1s, 4d. 
te of sul sulphurous acid which is pro- dion fair terms of remuneration, hd the simple way | Per day, or, und eri MN uly ind to find such 
ible copper ores.. It may A to effect its proper working was to put it cai the | forge borative t wither aia is Foire bale. ee 
readily condense sulphurous acid so per- | management of the  Registrar.General to whose | of James Kershaw is mos D to our #900 lock 
Gera acid gas, and probably | de t seemed properly to belong. Such a fat his age (91), and the time h “bp ages was given (1839), it 
alton the Condensation of the latter} scheme, if influential M upon the Government, MN ut ye e in th tad. cee add sak nnn 
the Sean bbroptinte to effect the | from Scotland, would, - had no doubt, be | too much reason to remember the cause of his ceasing to brew 
tempts to mitigate the carried out, In utilising meteorology, by applying it ' his barrel of beer. I will now conclude this part of my 
