Arnrb 30, 1864.] 
—— 
rcu cies, Pet if experi 
but 
mil will give you that ex rience, it Mens SCAN 1 ds — intending the iners tfi of the vast mudlands of the | $p? 
i hese 
d facts that I defy any -— Agli over. Up to 1853 Wexford Harbour Emb inkment Compan . On the 
on flock 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
f experience is worth anything, | Wexford, where I have been for several years super- 
fet cert n of sheep was kno be as unhealthy as didi, Toho but partially reclaimed, there were 
regards abortion as any fock: of she sheep i sof es pr ae red extensive crops of various kinds grown for general kr sa v 
we had something like we h 
atl I felt that the time Wt me w hange urposes, ve of Whea eats ae, rg pe and to suc Hae atfuclo rti SL 
necessary, a that to go on in that way was stamping |an exten -grains, 
those who had to do with the sheep with a want of| which were in all other bed the finest samples, | hours of day and 12 hou 
ned that certain | at 
time of the year should cd ir another Turuip pe ti nearly délliciontl y free — salt to satisfy their 
But by 
the time of the lambing, 
this: we put our ewes X 
and kept the m 
on for s uu we got EAM: s w by! that means. | found they could dipana in a great measure with 
B 
I brough m back 
in iho antum m eye vai - gre s g nde d 
op which wou Nee very we x 
A demon uhi the end. GF Denniaber"ot the elabi of | value of salt in the growth of Mangel Wurzels far from dquitor 
Sene. Then I gave bran and chaff until about a Setnight the seashore, and especially in peat bogs. ut I quite 
Lee Bd time for the a lambs to fall. I then p them | agree in opinion with all who have spoken on the sub- 
h all 
we have not had a — ae 
areas MN of ew 
"ir 
t of Hogget 
im whioh i is the 
to Michae 
care, c à 
altered the 5 atem which, was then yd as a reason that their customers the bakers 
foun ifficult; 
retion. that ought to that some he gen Seed 6 o buy the same, 
and the ar llowed out was 
Turnips for p^ pin, 
H 
on peed y taking them off | the usual quantity of salt used in making ordinary 
"good deal Lege win | bread. I could give you many examples also of the 
DEL d fast, shat ro that day day ject on the occasion I am alluding to, that salt, if 
f abortion on the farm, and our | at all extensively on heavy, wet, or un lrained lands, 
ost ot Eas never, up to the present year, will prove injurious to most crops in their early growth, 
uring c 
e seasons. When I say 
ets.—Now I c to the let me not be supposed as arguing against the use of 
treatment of hoggeta from Taly salt even on such lands when properly drained' and 
n 
aerated. In proof of this I could give you many exam ples |! 
This is a qu etin nag a ge incer sd large experience | in the case even of leguminous crops as well as of pe 
are well acqua: ted, and it per! ecessary for me to srlr ave crow Cate d 
say thata frequent 'change of pasture is Mp a MN prn and cereals Edward Carroll, Demtaheen * | to perfectis his : 
d found that to give e bra with cake has le ermoy. 
ds the c our h sfull o the Mise 
D we wish them td put on ie € Tarnlps th om For c 
thing else; in fact, it keeps the ealthy. In other thin 
we re bought experience v or twice. By too aidaity eign va spon nden ma 1 
flushing our Lens with too much highly stimulating food an Agricultural Society and | cultural Soc 
LIN : p" h — 
we have produced a great weit of fever; but E when we | German Association of Posen, of which I am a member 
have done we 
ly von ob and I have found they do not then s Fa ers! Clubs 
an 
ts, frequently followed by a d | te t lubs or societies to in —— PM people to 
hoggete g oc Hi ish people to co 
ost of the compositions — Aree uu nto life and manners. It is a good opportunity to 
have found none so good for ticks, or lice, or oe e this part of the world. A German Member o of the |» 
er insect that can affect a sheep, as the composition by Contr al Farmers’ Club 
n 
ay, and horse races for May o you think any- 
that dil ét tha 
n of half mince of senna leaves cae = be done by adver tising or by writing letters 
be v i d 
I merely sec this — to say | might at the same time see a little of the war, or of 
" 
arm 
—AÀt — recent monthly meeting of this 
und gi X the 
togive a mite or two in return. I have r repeatedly, ments of natural science. We will cao nsider t 
: 80 
KINGSCOTE y 
— Association, Mr. J. "T. Harrison, the President of ae 
which w 
skinless Oats and Barley, being one of your numerous | practioally mei ul to you as man of lions e have 
uch | di 
arley : Saltas a dim — A Cor- | Association, read a pa ie * On e imate," from 
act 
temper: Or again, 
B 
et 
i. 
o 
tt 
a 
® 
> 
sages 
utors how far from ich E [^m Bie ped S bringing 
of them approved of cultivating | under your dbi a evening oppa: so 
ishe 
ntense winter's cold. The maximum rature of Moscow, 
for inatanos is only 12° below that at “or equator, whilst the 
cold of winter is greater by 70°, consequently Wheat and other 
there durin 
d Ba 
ence of the ocean and of ocean currents 
reri Ser t z effects of solar radiation upon 
421 
band of which 1 I have spoken, which is the tropical region, the 
’s rays must fall more or less Morro Rae more obliquely, 
the gre vd the surface over which t i 
consequently the less the warming p T oduced. "Thus 
are spread, and 
the e poles. S gradually diminishes from the equator to 
po 
day and night. All piane 3 within the oka have nearly 12 
rs of nigh 
as the i S vex is ne ever, the 
pecu ted] perature of a place is not of so much c once ence as 
the maximum, and it so happens that. this considerable 
n 
ng the short’: eee and brought 
ns in Lapland so far nort. rth as 70°. 
Mr. Har offered so: phe ations on the 
effect of altitude sme aspect on tétupaivtesd, id quoted 
h 
ne of these ocean currents, the Gulf Stream, is especial'y 
Vatoabis to these, our Mian its influence extending to the 
€- | north of Scotland and Norwa 
The effect of it upon our British Isles is most marked ; to it 
chiefly, Ireland owes its name of Emerald, and that the 
following peculiarity in a must * attributed, viz. :— 
re s 
mpera 
orth fro: E Pexkanóe to 50°.36 at London, 47°.84 at 
Edinburgh, wad 36 to 42° in the north of Scotland; yet, this 
greai ea 
hrough 
m Hull, rongi York, Newcastle, 
and Eihbugs Fem ‘the west rt of Scotland to the 
Que and Shei Hand i in ahe g enta o Hp ahd and not experi- 
any very great dif 
co in the temperature, 
climate and character 
y 
BCUSS 
however, Tuy fal " rare kd well repay y study 
d be l 
of particular seasons, Me 
Ls 
for experiment; urces of heat, Sh are, 1st, the heat of. the eth; — e eae REN ase cool wai a of 
nd Barley on H great variety of soils in various 2d, thatofthe sun—I might add, chemical action i medium MÀ ation bebween them and d theland. We 
parts of Ireland, and in every case found both | the soil. know from experience that in perfectly calm weather we can 
he one and the other to fall far short in value| ist. The H. — ay ihe Earth.—Ia any latitude, at a depth ui stand a very severe degree of cold, but let the air begin to 
in juxtaposition with their congeners. I had the skin- | is small co red to the = Ne the temperatu move, and a brisk wind drive past us, we find it —" to 
i reason: tbrompbout the year; the effects of solar radiation protect ourselves with impervious non-conducting clothing, 
Oa 
ess Oats from the late Mr. De Renzey alluded to by — contis ed to a superficial E of inconsiderable | to take violent exercise so as to apply to the surface of our 
€ bore the first year nfter its mie e thick p ~ iced med as die Med veri w chilling PE 
esults of my attempts to cultivate it with The fent rature increases rapidly as we descend into the | 7° this atmosphere, as the vehicle of con warmth 
wi Su. T have m en pen uyi one of = d s pits i Z the S from the n to the land, T beg next to draw 
orth of Englan ere the thermometer s wo ae x 
single plant c of it pers n the locality of Clobemon | Porter Pogland, v Chord Wi now little doubt that hinter] "i any ca rh omine emenda of the air is lowered 
hany years; ind erm — $ — e be | of our earth is in a molten state, e that the sod peen ati d a certain point, that moisture becomes visible, forming 
many there who even re remember bes compassing it is considerably less than 100 miles in thickness what we eu mist. A remarkable instance of this occurs at 
Barley I first had fi 1 Time was, no doubt, when this internal heat plkyed a very | the time dm did ur" MATT - 13, 1864. During 
y rom a detilery establishment at | 4 ^ the week ending Jan rienced a most se 
Middleton Weir Cork, a and ed important part in the earth's vegetation, and it is very probable frost, foll - Aie ido a e. rdi. ie wit vere 
collection n, MEA -— that that most extraordinary vegetation which in the shape of | frost, follo y. p , westerly winds, so warm 
of cerea i i i on the evening of the 12th that it seemed like summer, 
burgh 1 ndod ohn ais te greets. Us ul ee UAM, was During the Bight th e wind changed, and, without violence; 
as ate io ee eria stimulate: © intern eat o e eart g : - 
calture.* It is a fact LET. Seve the a ned | rather Sonn 2 C in This subject, has been well argued | we hav th itor with the sold eons Doe ste 
by some of yo ^ United | 57 Dr. M n His interesting litte book, “Sermons fo days or ean wi ail the ay, the cate or Deng 
on : š Mas 
1 that evet Ty - Barley | One « poonti arity of the vegetation of the great coal formation — down, and unable to maintain in an invisible form the 
Moms partially, in many cases wholly skinless, and | is the ic Remo of ean rings, toge ok vos ot the | gta with whioh tho warmer air was charged, P gives 
invariably free from awns when grown on the coast of |? there season ring become marked featuten, aL (— red rise to the formation of the clouds, which are, as it were, 
Wexford, and for some miles Un which I have ting influence. The earth, no doubt, 1 is still | Suspended fogs. Various causes have been assigned for the 
: wn to $ te EA gra ua. srr loy own, an us there is proba’ constant t- n 
never: kno to be th " other par ddr Bs olia d “4 thüs th bably a particles of the cloud collecting and falling to the ground i 
Ireland ; and it is also E ded Barley th supply of heat Bro ace rth's surface from within it. This | the form of rain, such as electricity, &c. The subject is now 
H riey thus seems ii'eouie voor out by some observations made | under careful epee M VEND and will no doubt have a 
when sown farther inland pre better crops | by Mr. Back ues, Ut i good deal of light thrown upon it by Mr. Glaisher. 
és ps ckh ^ y^ n the 7th of January, during the m 
“an are obtained fi same variety of seed, bw frost. - (Beo e Times, January 16, Letter from Admiral | , After considering the causes of motion in the air, the prin- 
Whether of home a oi imported. Are such | Fitzroy.) —Mr und that a thermometer placed japon 1 the | cipal of which, he said, was heat, the lecturer went on to con- 
things comm E f :_ | bare gropii indicated d degrees, whilst one T > tant, | Sider the effects of atmospheric currents th produced. 
or "eotlm a? d And » bri vm to Miei std f wt a nnde mah ai : though itis hear wa peer vite up one 
England n n is brings me to |stood at v Liga Khen the etu thin hos oug! i mate con- 
m pet of my eading— “ Salt as t2 R n oe is c ly sendi € ds mot so m re ; but hat as the 
Sede ta with Mr. Lawes in the | Out jn every directi with it—if it were otherwise there be such a win 
rum qe Nem s : consider the effect of the few rays that upon our- 2 it—if it t 1 bes 
come to, as late hed in the Ead on the earth's surface in a direction to its motion 
v, ien d A little world at the great distance it is off X3 XM t7 * Nov ur tar = 
my. ay s for general and experimen definite idea of the intensity and immensity tte, heat | motion Js grea a a a 
Jaits imd on a | Siven off by it in all directions! These are the rce can neither be given 7 iet : 
Practical m of heat more directly affecting climate. Now these rays can suddenly nor con- 
n T bei salt to be i acm neces- | fall perpendicularly only limited area sequence is that the air passing from thè North where it 
sary on. ^" die tots | «AUR paries “This extended | has no lateral t the Equator where 
sean, i a soils to give strengt! the M a hend Ur round the earth by means of its | rapid lateral motion from west to east, seems 
Ireland, rire the laying, or, as we say in Aaly -tOta on its axis, and to a still wider girdle in the | to blow the east, and this, combined with its motion 
grown LE » ing" of the crops of e| oouiip-ot. tie year, or d ts revolutio the E | aie m poc keie ratar sine it —- pomme 
my It Th bee ashen Negli. Saas i Pond n an Pra : the ru from west to east Pole where the 
more especially been | latitude; midwinter when they fall on 23}° of south latitude: 
malted, as somehow has been been done * ule the x xd er being aminti | 
grown bx E E highly extends for about 234° on either side of the equator. This | effect is a south-west wind. 
mon Bere or Bigg. This equator, when the days and nights are equal—midsummer | time remaining steadily in a 
tion on "t yen 
to question the cor regia endicular ra; consequence of the axis 
correctness > analyses | DérPen. desto tbe plam of ft 1 earth has no lateral motion is constantly moving faster 
to by Mr. Lawes, when he Says he found so (Htastrated being at rignt ip -—- deed y This ba ai rer girdle towards the east than the earth as it moves northward; the 
Manured, Here è ei We know pretty wel from experience that these are the two 
Er T ' € n, I will fall back on t of meer Me poling ver Pande eveponiihs wan te vitta to whe == — are E Id ‘varying slightly on 
Barley Most profi , A one side or the other, the w 
wileh cows especially. was in Profitable for cattle feeding, | period when the sun's rays strike perpendicularly on the 
t for a comparatively short 
other Wes vá 
uct used in a liquid when having. uced | with us, when the rays fell perpendicularly on 234° of north After a full vn on 6 this ect and of the 
—— the southern hemisphere summer and wint 
influence ‘of movements in the air in pecan cli os 
rsed. Upon all the rest of the earth's surface except this | Mr. Harrison Sought the facts and laws he bad illus. 
