Max 21, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
491 
been school companions must now 
e prosecute their abstract studies 
repair to medi cal co lleges, 
up to this time have 
part company. Som 
at our Univ ersities, others r 
ARE NOT DUNG HEAPS UNNECESSARY ? 
, Mosr puel 80, uy pe n circu 
of 
i and manufactories to learn the cus rade 
The youth which we are interested i in | 
2 fic ult q 
now had the ex sos several 
be 
during "which the balk of my manure has been 
toms of t years, 
taken vows under the anim: me m vi covered sheds, 
ppli ed to the oil. ,The' esulting crops 
f this 
is intended p? Ag riculture, and ad 
es, * What is the best an to giv 
rs IER £^ 
What is the nature of agriculture ? Baron Liebig 
answers—** cience,” 
on an art is a practice whic 
observation and imitation ; pan 8 
:h may be Aaa simply |s 
as ploughing, 
Therefore the 
ed tice. 
heap, why 
- “custom is > follo 
m power into 2-inch 
penc splits vui of it, so that the spongy inside of 
If ‘fermentation is so necessary in a dung | 
fold acts well withoat it?| 
F 
ws. 
m- | each, 
; when for want of keep, I sent the eight 
arm Fair, and poss were sold at 127. 12s. 
A der I offered the 
that they might 
eight vila E 
be Levi together, at 171. ea ach, and he refused them. 
e Ea ster NUM VI i 
ars old ; 
v y; cedem to 
$1 a the MN of the s 
same stra they one all winter, 
eating W. abs straw ; they valued those by Gambier at 
97. each, and oe by Belvidere at bg 10s. eac n 
the 13th of May following, t the e 
is at once ren ndered a vailable bsorb th 
sowing, all agricultural operations. bak e straw 
practice of agriculture is an ah all ee is glass, 
ith science. All m learnt 1 t straw is xml 
All may - 
and imitation, and I main hat a an with su er ~ 
riepen 4 may be a imer end AMT further, that 
the ie Vend may be so so desc Fibod, ii 
hat 
th 
as as litter. from grt to pong are being taken no 
e than a get thoroughly saturated. ang i inter 
ixed wit th th solid manure—in fact, 
ebig mean, and 
popul we opinion pom to, eo they d xe in saying that 
agriculture is both an 
If you put in too idi it wi 1 ben 
E 
IM A stones each. The SQ 2 by "Bali 
dere were turned out in the day to a Grass pasture, 
very bare, Kan gob straw ab night, E] the autumn of 
h, 
1835, till January the 12th, 1836—12 weeks—and they 
were then not so good as they w ere a ir, the 
19th of October previous. They had afterwards a few 
to advance agriculture ^ we 
must 
laws v 
D E LS remain long; 
modify m same with them 
Wi w why it is wrong to bleed and purge 
ive up so time- honoured 
it is 
in the summer or 
more frequently, having a ate. pci 
d "ihe 
mfort of the Trials. 
4 
land ruin the ze thiof your stock. It is trodden, | : 
t and sci It means that | we 80 intermixed, into a H sort of hodge-podge, whi ch | Larnipa (noh Ro Val tp dar aM) and lud. ^ nero 
vhen appli I beat the best guano ever | besides straw and the cost of labour in boiling the 
he practice of others— 1 tl of crops Linseed, and for a few weeks at first got a little bran 
gc, d the ae y The manure is allowed to accu Coats ihn mixed with it to induce them to eat it—and wl 
an pretend to the animals fora min ortwo, according to the tempe- | learnt, got only chopped straw mixed with the boiled 
i ublic aucti 
> 
ES 
warm, i 
+l tas F 
rub sa s b 
ierat th e reker of such an 
must be sure that nitrate of soda and ind inca salts 
e we can prevail 
a 
or kem disease b y lyi ng o 
coming exposed to “atmospheric change. When the 
l 
a top dress ing. ther try to find 
out why rotations of crops are. necessary, and if they 
t 
m au 
d, so much 
so, that my practical neighbou ur says—'* Mr. Mechi, 
your ' dung, kcu ge ps under cover, is much more 
hich is exposed to rain and the water 
dhere to. Somebody ought to look after the causes of 
Clover sickness and the Potato disease. We should much 
e a rt or Prof. 
w something of t ings of nid 
be called sister of his occu- 
e is his master}; with it, he is 
It is only those whe have Seve applied them- 
selves to such s tudies who kno ow. how deeply and 
from buil » 
It is highly desirable that this manure when 
Dieu should ‘be at once 
uy e land; à m € 
no 
er of rain hes cin 
n hot yos and then be- s: 
** Thes the first 
eek in June, and averaged 34l. each, averaging near 
90 stones, each, o bs. per stone; those by Gambier, 
having e Salovey polled blood, &c., were sold 
wee as at Wakefield, ‘at 210. 10s. each, 
making a Fs imis in the price of the two lots of 
127, 10s. per head each; 1007. difference in the value of 
eight steers; no small consideratio » fits of 
8 5 
grazing, be: sides three months longer 
“ I meant to ed the cows d gor woj e 
bier got no ca. PAAA 
this tribe of ca 
were to Gambier, E 
i the produce in steers, in 
n the former year’s breed, ‘tots pos the 
ttle). o 
} 
soluble portions out o " we have no land orons 
he M it close to our presi tank, so that 
oes into the tank, and is thus ftm. 
erabie | 1 
e 
Hp natat and above three months earlier; Panga old 
May, and got w ws n 5s. per head of the price we 
Be lvidere steers were sold for the previous year ; 
prices of beef per stone ney the pe e both s 
836 and 1837. — Thi s, by a sure test, the 
pr TIL IRAE 
ally 4 
a 
a sound d can be given upon the reasons of | 
uble manure, an onder 
at his porn E the dee fold, where e soil gets 
n of tl 
phenom ena, 
7 ?, str 
l chemi 
Lm A 
enera. 
tio: manure. 
ah is so mca E Umm that we shoul 
eas m of it as we is of binds 
farmer would see, 
p 
ways sorry 
orry to hea 
^ having 1 too much straw, or, as this last winter, 
“ Now this is a bud bd value far different v ES 
«Correspondent prop ess 
y have p judgment, p honesty to act uprigh 
no estim oof in point, I need 
s | only refer Mr. a n, din » hi T self, die his decisions, 
and that id im Aber eai Mr. Torr, Lincolnshire, 
and Mr. at Richmond, last er, 
at the Yorks shire ? Agricultural Society's n 
c ree took ever np y aat He e different 
nimals), and the decisio he judges a Ug the Dur, 
m is 
Ve 
-| It is evident that such a man does not keep 
stock ; A emm d I grow au immense quanti| 
raw, made 
, ely sorry 
disparaging manner s eA which the Royal 
College of Cirencester has been lately spoken of as a 
Place where peu farming could not be taught. I) an 
shall not enter into the discussion of this question, but 
simply give it as my opinion that with attention i in the 
—— ed 
ty of 
— and niaka Bi 
oe vong Society's s Meeti ing at Stockton, sib: 
of the f. wee the same bulls w 
Ir d hmond son p re the two that 
B po orton ofi my stock vd sparred floors, I never have | vot the first and seco ynd premiums x kihonda: After 
quite straw enough, an generally purchase 4 | such frequent bare-faced, unprincipled conduct in men, 
sack ori to predict that the time is coming when 
an open ving Sy and a dung heap will be an event | ; 
of fui ry days 
to the youth there assembled than any private farmer 
can bestow ; while the high fei aeri d movie) 
Bgu mach aupexjor te th = ite f ie ‘nud 
muc the solitary i o iu 
student, wi ve E liable to be T 
and -— and io seek A fe 
There i is no place land DW. 
sound notions of sence it 
culated to give | 
both in ap and special 
ure than uon oble institution. 
e remar 
looking out for a system which in so sh 
is y Pre out men of not only ischia 
int to our Medical Colleg 
Do 
send out men who can at pepe 
Wed experience? Are our military colleges 
urn out cauti s? D 
a time i 
but exp 
vmm 
should “go on during summer. Why not 
making good manure all the year round? J. J. Mech, | 
it behoves the conductors of agric cultural societies to 
other mode of ascertaining merit than M 
mt to such a task 
Mr. 
Durham, in 1843, when 
May 16. 
ic ey ig AT CATTLE SHOWS. 
follow: extracted from a ix by the late | 
Mr. Bates, of Kirkleavington, published in the farmers’ 
e of Nov. 
“That by extra feed ling “the worst of animals may be 
fo keri forward to gain the applause of incompetent 
; but mg m are fed, 
Sir * Thomas Fair fax 
| Ny , without the least n: a good m s 
—but the d RS Nerea 1845, wor e praise- 
Ho s 
Iv enti 
nd said, how improperly my stock has been nma at 
sed 
Ia 
rry said, pro- 
eg rai 
e 
* day, of milk at m but never s 
than foursquarts, | ful at every show 
ie exhib itions. 
I exhibited cattle at the Tyneside MAC 
ociety's meetings, from its i" institution in 1804 to 
wed d was 
thrice a year) till the last. show in 
c er animals than I had | 
and who t 
d|advised me never to exhibit and for 
afterwards I never did till the York ^p in in iss 
, | although I continued my subscription to the 
and hav Society till it was dissolved. 
the highest we fr} 2 In 1819, i seven years after I had ceased to show, a 
I 
oa ke Suites Northumberland fr om Tyne ^ dined with me a dad 
which 1 bought soon | same table at Saewick-uponT weed, a after | duoi 
| use at the time, an ng | he asked m actibus s “wk mpany, how my 
buil. 2 LA the 16 together, invariably, on. the same was gila and I said I had nok — 
he 19th of October, 1835, after they were | since 1812, and kasvin the matulis that w 
