2 
— 
Arr 2, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 325 
very large, an 
by the — manure alo 
863. 
00 per cent. over afe averag 
a 
and in both 1854 and 1857 that 
ne even exceeded that b 
NETS 
t +h 
1 
whole set of experiments are perfectly consistent with 
of the individua 
eS 
showing the extraordinary productiveness p": 1863. 
compared with that of any of the other years unde er 
consideration, whenever ammonia, or nitrogen in some 
other available form, was liberally supplied in the 
manure. 
There is no donbt -— a Wheat crop of 1863 has 
one. 
been pretty gene rally 
But it w 
ould be 
vneir 
n 
when first obtained at eight gui ter, it would 
x > 
colou: 
{cr the market ne Tad a pied on 2 jm tanie; 
thata red seems we E le 
y | althou alk few r 368 rs ago Ti 
| ou ght to be — in d that colour hos but Title - 
vour and q 
Housekeepers shoul 
depend so much upon he salesmen's recommendation. 
0. 
The Vegetable Mould. 
ti the 4 
Gazette lately, some vini em ons mi Mr. J. J. Me chi 
regarding the vegetable 
ould, where M xpresses 
some dou E of understanding my recent statements | 
that they afford “an exact 
x eismimg of Liebig's great theory. js , Here ] must | 
say, t that 
respecting it, but thinks 
8 quit 
original without. hand picking, at a cost which would 
e in terlope 
Nevertheless agriculturists are ind ebted t any o 
who will try experiments with a v view of i inereasing the 
yield roots, 
b s prac holds 
oat not only with regard d io Wheat, but with every- 
ye ng else in the farm and garden . There i is difficulty 
n obtaining t 
fir rms, which ,may be attributed to the extraordinary 
reducing the price below the 
i| fir value, and thus encouraging P UMiduton — 
wholesale vendors. Scarcely any  disappoin 
3 
d $ 
every attention to soil and si ituation, which 
fair t ill the eie of fruiti ting and — and then 
c 
that it has been -— 
above “the average 
quoted. The season ie 
t arcana d be too 
1 plots s manured w 
the lighter descriptions of | 
ith th 
e 
case ri the eeparinents| 
dry for 
than in Sitas 1854 or 1857, it may perhaps be Fi 
that the past — would not be unusually favou pranie 
for the crop on lands deficiently supplied with nitro 
E 
genous 
At any rate the effect of ammonia on the crop was, 
well worthy the careful consideration of pro who 
ea 
very significa 
ce as a constituent of man 
e other avail 
. J. B. 
rce of 
able fot) 
nitrogen 
for cultivated crops, id that. it is E little value = 
importan: Law 
Home Correspondence 
— As the Skerr Blue 
Potato appears growing into popularity, i LY 
The Skerry Blue Potato. 
not be amiss Cogan offer a few remarks pua the v 
t two 
successfully, and Freel some pul cipi in naming its | Mr. 
1l h 
Bie aro "lonny ad 
riety. 
years grown the v very 
pow en ow it came to be called the Skerry 
lue Potato I do; dort know; it was ceres A intro- 
duced into Ireland a very. few years a 
go, fro 
it derived its name. As ik proved to o be impenetrable 
e Pota tato di sought 
hence 
e 
3 
ments, "ee with is "miner predilections s 
studied ina — matte 
eories partake of re 
n the c 
while my observations an a oo usions have been agi wae 
e|and come to in the fields of living nature, and the 
ite 
difference 
crucible and r 
of their origin. 
a + b, 
esides, what I have said 
w shi Liebig bas pas lis groun sd 
s he s found necessary or con- 
theo tl the "vegetable Hii ibe the natural 
and t 
ulture has 
exhaustive, and ‘he dud his followers have studiously | 
of agricu 
ignored the vegetable mould and i 
while my theory inculcates its tnpeoveitient As large 
eae as of Sd first — e. Let me not be 
is con 
sunderstood her 
mri Iuse Bedi 
co 
before I heard that Liebig existe I with 
care and caution n, and especially as a ‘means of decdaing | 
e 
Mechi is a clever m 
application, I would ask 
Mr. Mechi, —“ Does he quite understand all this? and |? 
if he does, has he “septal n ho 
and the sense of 
pply over we E 
mpared to ‘abo mo 
péticnid PETUNT abs the evil can be re deed LE 
niat 
Roxan Dv rch —The x ip M Cattle 
how E ned this day with an unusually umber 
of S merde de in all. ot cat, sheep, Bp 
e head prize and heme rmer's Gazette j 
Gis for the best bull h da; been won by SouBADAR for 
Mr. ek e cu p^ now, we understand, been 
won three ears in — and is the property of 
ley Cup offered in the yearling 
emt e is won n fot Mr. Crosbie, of Ardfert ; and the 
y Challenge Cup by Dr. MoHaLE THE 
a 
(i 571) the property of Mr. T. Barnes, of Westland. 
“pro ved 
lin 
—that of Kerries is also good—the sheep classes and 
pig classes are well filled ; and there is a large show of 
nest emm k ^ T 
expatiates upon “ 
ide 
admirable and a everlasting round of ieempcsiton 
and decomposition.” WI hethe 
referrible to is on v. 
f +} } | 
th 
zed 
of nature, or to mine, I the r reader of both to | Pe 
de termine. Wit — eco to 
discoveries, 
unt of Liebig's 
em, it did not 
require a ED to ind t out ‘that the vegetable king- |,^ 
dom is formed of earth, air, and water, not did it require 
a second Solomon to tell 
e 
that Liebig had made-that great discovery, This few 
will deny who do not admit of miracles, the admission | 
of which would upset all science, render wisdom an m 
ha ab is wi 
"a 
a2 
z= 
eu 
BE 
th 
flavour, a d m ay b 
syst 
of i 
any season ; jw I think they yi pest or for | 
ting of any variety, as they retain their fla up 
mer, In planting them caution should be 
TET 
mee nce to an alm 
of p 
s peévidin a field of | lifo 
and food for every select MR all condueted by 
general law, by nature’s infallible truth—it is this 
Er 
Reviews. 
The Journal of Agricu: aceon. | 84. March 1864, 
Bl 
From the current number of the “ Quarterly gees 
of Agri ricaltare;” with w ioh. i" printed the 
actions of the Highland Society of Scotland, we quit 
the substance of Mr. Scot Skirving’s prize report on n the 
e | relative effects of manure made in the yard and under 
cover respectively. 
* The experiments, an account of which follows 
were made during the years 1860 and 1861, upon a 
eld which was cropped UA first of these seasons with 
Potatos, and the second vit heat. 
e ent was made is a 
tie loam of good quality, with a ‘considers ble slope 
Eaa Previous to — € tá 
m 
cover, For urpose a and cou 2 meme ó 
in which a lot t six thie had er fed off u 
Turnips, oil-cake having been added during the last six 
weeks they € hae As the ous portion was 
entirely ex whilst the other was perfectly 
- de ier it, eo the litter used an e food 
e identical Em VONEH LS Vive 
e quantity of haulm is very great, hence the 
E be reduced to three eyes at most. 
ie ety that grows ited 
"x 
e 
Patet w wi mde to the 
ntity o 
ide dependi på number of stalks and 
of tubers, therefore y three eyes are am 
Gent to ensure a o um it that a is th 
number rt nd 
I don’ 
or 
an which, 
"o fini al 9 of the 
of the scheme of nature. 
f | fo Or W: ward the OES divi 
I endeavoured some tim 
a refatory to my recent description of th 
vegetable mould, to give a more extended ko "arm | 
of the scheme of nature, but it was said to be 
h 
ded into two piot. In it | ae 
, not a beginning, b 
Ar at 
a basement and progression of past ‘and present known | "' 
forms o of organi nie life, regulated by g eneral law. 
y 
our obligations to Mr. Mec 
hi. Itis 
with oun pleasure | 
pay i as "^ Iw ise enough in planting | that I have perused, in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, his 
core} rach use a great many whole tubers, and | observations on agricultural science and account of | 
was mein Mel coat edi E opem was never seen. e soil | practice. These prove him a man of super 
n; a good loa eee with ver intellect and industry. The s he has e tes 
n "Rr the opem was put in with one and the greatly increased productiveness of his fi 
Teaser p T i o sown along the ridge. give evidence of this, mor dis ed he has not hi 
L^ Compact mat of interwoven stalks of eic n al 
length rasian great | of an agriculturist. But we m that his 
My last rm in weight to several er Le. abr position as a p ing merchant enables him to E, 
acre, alan crop would yield more t out capital in improvement of the soil fearlessly—even 
of haulm pod diseased oni e to d fo X the goals —Ó it were lost the mere of his d improve- 
the tubers at h too heavy,” ropose se ments would more than Were the 
being 30 inches EL ter distan in in the T the Dm epist t of the farmer hid d ont on the | Blprorágedt of 
Blues should pha My impression is that Skerry | the soil protected, uld not have only one Mechi, 
the sets 1 P nic wis inches e" anl|but many. His improvements haye b eg: in spite | 
harvesting nches er. ey are ready for|of mischievous social S lations, Patrick Matt. 
| Variety at, ion the ime, being an — Gourdie - ig e 
slow to set, wy urity, but as their skins are somewhat| The — The correspondence in the 
Mine haye kept im to stay till the dead. | Agricultural " Gaseite selating to the Pedigree Wheat 
pay graves Merced well this season, while very | shows that the seed is worth one guinea a bushel | u 
lave no e nt the district have sadly rotted. | to the farmer. It appears na be o pm in the grain 
Wefül and serviceabl kind. ing that they are a very | an “a long and ‘strong i in the straw ; the first not suiting | 
disease ought to ie. 7 being untainted by | the miller, the second taking too much out of the soil, | 
— lle disease is " trict where | and not so valuable for cutting chaff as a finer descrip. | 
a foolish 
prejudice 
tion of stem, Hower er 
prolife the 
seed might prove" 
cm a third was added for the sake ot 
med wi 
mtisfactorily obtained, ” Besides the two acres devoted 
o the experim 
urther comparison, which was manured with half the 
zl (vigi of ot iud with 5ewt, of aoro m which 
sisted of guano and dissolved bones ualquantities, 
esired ; 
uperiority pto a one of the t 
sed were ents, which were planted on the ish n 
April—a long winter and a backwa ei. o aving 
e all 
whi 
of vast. ae three lots were manured in the 
fo ae manner 
Lot 1.—20 tons ot rms per imperial acre, from open 
Lot 2—20 fous at dung per imperial acre, from covered 
Lot 3.—10 tons dung from open co anda mixture of 
FORE ewt. , Peruvian guano 24 ewt. dissolved 
The Cites. of the crop having otherwise been 
"— m the results may be attributed to dif- 
ference of manure alone. 
* The crop was carefully lifted with the fork, and the 
produce acre accurately measured, with the 
ollow!ig results ;— 
Mi TT Ki imp. 
od Sat edhe e shed.. T $ 2 SA pre 
Lot3.—Mixed manure 7 9 1 
These "dun represent the total ae per im: 
ue It will be seen from the above that the dung made 
fori oduced 1 ton, 2 cwt., 2 qrs., 1 st., 10 Ib. 
e Potatos per imperial acre than th ^ made in the 
open court ; Me the anti ae dung and 
&e, w rod a slig ig hti y in Asan 
et the covered- died lot ^ zd frst nanc lost that 
smal] superiority in the process of sorting for market, 
Hm 
