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324 THE — CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [APR 2, tgp 
mals and of man, as if predestined and effected byjand for assimilation. And it is s this pr provision (a| conditions year after year in the same loan 3 
a gradual pae ision for e rior life, —that life itself | | portion of the progressive scheme of Nature) so| would be necessary to this end that the den t 
is endowed by virtue of = oe | pow er, J io rise pari | gradua i prepared in the course of "nritisueeablé ages | the land should be the same; and - hv d 
passu, as its field of life, , becomes | for the support of a higher order of organisms, the | operations, the odes course of ng, and 
impro ved. ly ery m or his own creation and continued exist- | manuring, n nd ve been ura Dey the "€" 
e yet ignorant of the nature of the power best tad may say, wilful à x ont ert e know that thes ns doe 
We n by his 
which the rootlets possess so far, of the selection of | obstinate windwe S, has n destroying. It is 
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bee 
of the British pee in — i^ 
hi 
food—that in the same soil — of diftere nt genera, l.open the eye n a field. at “Rothamsted i in which Wheat 
growing side by niy — un this destruetion in progress, tha am trying to|grown on some plots witho out manure, and m 
ingredients, or sam " ingredients, different aibei their best friend, but w ith 3 g p ure, or 90 
quantities : as th pcm: o be no stomach to | suce years, the tillage operations having be en, as far 
divide the useful from what is not useful a more | The. whole e dry land surface of the earth, wherever | seasons would allow, the same year after year, the 
accurate selection is required here than in animals. organic life exists, is a gr r^ "os ach diges ting, food | essential rs tions for mparing the p 
f the i or t in organic remains of | characters of season with that of anothe pis 
leaves, in assimil: ating the substances which the roots very ife, mixed with the|better fulfilled than i case of mos cords of 
or the leaves absorb ; we only know that both root c Peu ine v s "rd is tha Aw peer P M ci digested; | ordinary farm practice. ; Unfortunately, 1 none of the 
leaf selected absorptio n takes place. Yet iy seems in the case of peat formation we only a little | plots bave been dressed with exactly the ne dep 
probable that the ite absorbed, both by roots an sd local indigestion Fprođiised by cold uid n feet which | tion and quantity of manure every year slag a. a 
leaves, may be either in a state of chemical else n in draina age and a little "T DM er will Mey n this | mencement, E ds ing th je one with fa "n 
water, or aérial, or in very minute division physicall r field, animals (for m in be ee owing to vem 
(not chemically) in the water or air. e fact that me of vital exiitooo vegetables seem dona ed) b y ortant cons dine nt that must take place within 
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lets, renders it likely that matter in fine division and jte tables, 80) measure to assist i 
moist, without being in chemical Sean à have years ago strongly pointed 
deleterio be ~~ ed. te X also i T | out p an by his ignorant and mischie 
whether the rootlets es h a ha nd-to-mouth sy E es br tem e. in to 
d leave rh 
power of attracti ing what à is Tequired "fom some "ine. | exhaust ‘lelia digested 
istance. f the British ANA “se Liebig a or hark his 
perian ed facts not otherwise easy to accou = ‘for—that | tme pn 0 followers, will supply the food of plants | 
not having the power of locomotion or locomotive c eted b 
members like hands, or ton ngues, or probosci 
ovision, for 
drinks up— organisms, must detiénilly i pokake Hitherto i in Britain, 
are the dissolved substances not suited v ame “the mischievous system of destruction of the 
y | thes 
the natural pce of, comparatively Iimited 
med of d produce an 
soil when à large quantity of this ma anure ig 
loye 
amount of produce yielded by it year after ven, d 
taken as simply due to the comparative effects of the 
different seasons. Many of the plots have, however 
been supplied with artificial mineral manures alone, or 
with mineral manure mmonia salts together, 
withont any material change either in the descripti 
d increase obi ed 
some of these artificial mixtures in ‘kable 
season of 1863, with the average Pies. yielded by the 
out? The power of selection shows why a mixture of t 
different kinds of plants is 
more productive than Lone | protection to capital and skill vested by the farmer i in 
: 
Many years ago, in ished in the 
a only, hv pasen : succession of «vehi kinds 
rops productive. It believe small manures has been to hasten the exhaustion. | So | 
admitted du e sies selected or sbsorbed by eac ék much bas this extended, t 
kind of plant vary a little, and that one alkaline | without a gradual increase of these artificial manures ; P | pro 
or acid Vibuibtse sometimes supplies roy place of, | and under ‘he present low prices of grain—of grain | oe tha 
another, The nature of the attracti v we | raised. abroad from land where the vegetable mould is one 
comprehend, but it seems to some ex 
pap 
'Journal of the ovals Peet es Society of 
| England,” it was stated, as the result of the experi- 
pen 8 now under consideration 
for every 5 Tb. of ammonia 
S|F 
It has been thought that there is a in the | q "i f small y to raise crops will as manure for the crop, provided the soil were not 
magnetic influence upon organic life in an southern he whole rent which the land was/ deficient in the necessary mineral constituents, This 
hemisphere, at deem the southern temperate zone | once capable of paying. This the z ndlords = Metin i | statement met with much ridicule from Baron Lieb 2 
from the northern. The advancement of the fauna in | will nt is a little more true than the smo oe said that it was “a mere stroke of irm 
the southern is behind the uorthern. The ancient-era forting flattery they so willingly ‘listen to rie ether the statement in question, or this 
Pe cesta predominant in Australia, New Zealand, d advisers. ion of it, geniekoe most of “a mere stroke of 
E the eid shows the wise disposition an on of | may be judged by the following record of facts 
2 of à Rs ai UR mould." were the | to a 
tid ant food, to which I have alluded—the Siem of the experimental plo ots a complex miner eral 
an io Mon Pei fermentation or corr if you dm been applied every year for r the last 12 
is not idijrobeblo that the changes th oe in the | choose to term it so, is carried on vim ‘the utmost | “yours, tl on another the same min manure, 
a with a | sweetness and freshness. This is necessary for the|an amount of ammonia salts containing 50 lb. of 
chan - the | magnetism, and "that animal MM nd existence of the higher organisms, animal | ammonia, has been PES applied. average 
magn r annual produ over the last 12 years 
control, may not v baseless ‘conjecture. _ The pb itr | or orders, the carrion animals, the foul- feedi ing t and 
Mes digest c matter without chang: | 
aait have a large mouth to receive and | 
— 
i nce the — savage with i large | mbi mode Firboneae acid, terium 
pesjéniü g mou mouth, great jaws, large incis animal xh table 
aud molars tc to grind the et in transitu, ‘downwards rendere ia 
ce the civilised man with rure m power of the 
his s quern. or large c corn mili» iina his jaws and teeth, tralisin ng w Me -—- - hurtful. 
lt by the chem 
Liebig x his followers wl encounter something 
the above e i mental organ to a t. They 
ise lid, 
pounds &c., are all held 
the bird without incisors "h 
| has been :— 
| With mineral manure and 50 E v passer ^ D bash. 
| With mineral manure alone Lu ie ™ 
Increase by the use of 50 Ib. o e 1 " 
king the LCS of 12 years; s herr we have in 
Ta 
this experiment an increase of eeil d ba F 
Wheat, with its erat of straw, for every Tha yield 
ammonia, e; , to nde pes 
n of average * 
is standard, to consider a cape: go det kr of 
portion as it gave more or less in ever Bb. of 
rather re ; instance 
molars, ae onan a forceps to seize, but with a na sr 
mer Ae millstones inte rnal, drive nby muscular ar pow rr | aat t find it soup n EA H m os 
1 be free ens bile and salu- 
brion s as Nature's nih rae of t e "Vegetable Mould. 
Patrick Matthew, Gourdie Hill, Errol, Feb. 25. 
oft their { food. A ants the man organ is want- 
ing; ; they have no jme Lees a curd n mills, 
digestive stomach; but must have t 
digestive of eine, aa whi ed y the| {HE INFLUENCE OF SEASON ON THE 
“organs o! i which an organ 
absorbs the chyme a ee Danid; Their food, PRODUCE GF WHEAT. | 
Organic and mineral, must ina 
sor rein 
der tpm solvent 
a mild nature, ine arrett Pa r ve acridity 
acid and alkaline ingredien vp 
is the vegetable mould, the geier 
mira like the chyme for absorption 
eare by som 
er the terms average, 
in many arent rini: 
um up, in e 
he weather of the. particular s season 
rodu 
| at the same tim 
ASA IU i ores more ba 33 years ago, 
ces of the could not brook 
the higher A 8 of science. RE Todos 
t m ia aot ipid that animals and vegetables are 
ot are 
of 
— vog d by ape | on the M and quálity of its 
a tim tal 
progress in e 
in seid 
weri 
terms to 
Inthe Woo Pos ti | 
LI M We l ant, ceni 2 s 
RAS 
iu 
d 
en I first es to school, 
over black 
were grown under otherwise 
chi = I remember of gathering 
ben as a "AX: collect, the resin m the F 
* ^u the Gean, charcoal, the honey 
them — pot on the kitchen fire MC reri water. 
| with 
dosi De its proponis of dico for 
sed as 
1863 the same  misiure of mineral 
ia salts a produce of 393 basin 
poaticlg over the avera 
fore, 5 Ib. of ammonia has given, ma t win 
, or more t ber 100 per cent. aber? 
wt 
plot, 
the large M eur 100 Ib. of ammonia 
oo bad, &c, the aac Hsc manure and 100 a of ene e = 
bable yield of dios | With mineral manure alone . pio 
In B 
Ther 
uce. But they droning F^ average of nin 
i 
$ reed over the a 
n| 
pr | omnl ects f th l 1 = 
f little hand, “aby o e sensons alone, unless the cro | manure, 
by 3 mfneral acid. a m t ps 
oung mind a 
e same | 
k |13 cwt. of 
€ acr 
E from ad | been 
i on 
&e., of e the most os minerals I PT ot vue , and pt c complete aly flat, i in which conditio 
he same mineral manare le 
ws 
ri oed the average result over 12 years 
bus. 
T. £t 16015 
mmonia 
fa, thie! even with this cave sages 
e-tenths of a 
ease of Whea 
5 , 
1863 this plot gave ac. bushels, or an 
alone ; that i is again very nearly 100 
| ive c ave resu : 
On an other plot, where, i in additio i 
er 
e. Large as this produce is, it w 
larger, had not the heavy ies za o * 
beares rer rerit horse, myself 
TUNE rure rest, s e | e and fumes. 
Tur eds put me of eonceit of chemistry for a time. 
The chemistry of re is conducted. "t 
vei cen better cond: 
Throughout ie 20 yea E on stain 
yielded a crop at a 
In 1847, 1857, and especially in 1854, 54, the "m 
