SEPTEMBER 3, 1864] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
861 
that that here was an agency ready to its hand, by wh 
"^ the Eon mi ght ea d have taken "Acad 
ral edu uca tion. ‘It has | 
The proper quantity of — acid is then mixed | 
with it and dissolves it, and the proper uoo. of peran | 
between 40 moving s spokes or arms, and as many fixed 
ones, The butter comes in 12 to 15 minutes—and the 
is then added, and the DM: is thoroug 
m 16 "a odia a day, so 
hem well qualified as agricul: | 
e achieved professional success, 
taff of teachers | co 
nnum, many o 
or 
rooms and laboratories—a completer apparatus Ted e 
that the materials o chan da; remain — for | 
more than half an sii ties they are thrown into 
common an 
This in the course of weeks is A regno otit and put 
through “the breaking and achine, A 
evolving double deeds enoi the 
id ch turn differ wi receives 
nev ertheless needed help and guidance, almost 
ailed indeed nae times ra want of them, 
might bete fe it; 
ping general sclioo 
Lo ges Mr. Sotheron Estco 
athurst—with only a public 
sabsbrneesis has never -— : I ea been even recog- 
nised by the Royal — ety of England, 
Me aa am I dar of the members of tha 
Society, n e in ten "E all probability, uf those e 
are aS ca agricaltural eo ny ion in this „country for 
bx ir sons, know of its ex 
e 
Be 
And these | q 
and is ready 
be with, though owing 
to | and the 
to bag 
And a a ve ry uh ‘als it 
to the cost of the materials 
e process it is inevitably a costly arti 
e question of value is one of course ‘alle apart | 
from that of ed ; but with uiti 1 es te value 
from the h uthorities in chemist m | 
rd of its composition, dire is still | 
their 
better, with pies testimony ioe m ieu ulturists of the | 
m maf in our 
the | powe 
t 
nowledge R 
| the ordinar ry slow action of the box 
vr 
apa — of the herd is in the h hands of four 
and four women, who see to the feeding, cleaning, 
an: ilkis 
The whos waste Po the cow-house goes into t two 
r 
thence pum: 
aere, — is a pretty fair dressin of 
first year, much of 2-year old Italian, Rye-grass 
Ma treated, are Le generally four times a year, and 
vide pital s mimer feeding for the cows. 
Brei boy: n iti autumn after a thorough tillage 
| and good dca of the Wheat stubble ; it remains 
down two years, and is Tnnc ens for Oats. Very 
heavy crops of grain are obtained 1 Wurzels 
were the finest we fave this year xp e T 
y y July was promising well for t 
a natural guano to whieh sulphate of 
a been 
essay on the s bjeet of middle-class schools for a 
hile 
ammonia has, "been added—we need not wonder. at the 
| second eu 
| ing like more q 
wages, and taxes, are all extremely higb, as the neigh- 
IRTO 8 
price. 
2. LiscarD 
bou rhood ofa large town would make them. We have 
either in bez 
£ Livor. 
+h 
Kald +} 
SCARD Hatt.— Mr. 
po ool, owns a large extent of Pn near Seacombe, 
e 
_farmery. _Liscard i is a capital speci 
the Sects of 
a duty so obvious and direct remains undischarged, is 
giving the go-by to the whole affair—is in effect 
shirking of the plain responsibility which has been 1 
on the Society by i its Charter. 
certainly of great ent interest, I venture to as 
publicity for this statement of it, which your colum 
one can give. 
i is certain that the next vic of peno 
urists will need all the ability w good 
ave ught 
45 years purchase of the existing | ta 
tnt, ver EM do their utmost to raise 
Point 
é ductive cows were sta 
an 
of this property neat his house he farms, His farm | 
includes/300 acres of arable land, and 150 acres of poor 
Grass lan 
The five-course rotation is adopted, viz.:—1st and 
2d years, Italian Rye-grass; 3d, Oats; 4th, Green 
crops, as Turnips, pel Mangel Wurzel ; ; and 5th, 
Wheat. a crops, together 
ra ain A ttle fod go 
ance of a pa herd of dairy co 
Ninety of the finest Yorkshire large-framed pro- 
tanding in ve stalls at a time of 
000 quarts of milk w > di ily 
to the mainte- 
with large b 
Mr. Littledale’s farm manager. 
THE PEDPIRGION MEADOWS, NEAR 
ROYDON. 
cribed some weeks ago the attempt which is 
waste of the 
f foo d a 
that dxpéHitlent, Would bea ve ry courageous 
had ds iet tes to E ide his proceedings, i for “tt isa 
arid a 
the usual pron 200 gallons being ; sald ‘nly i in "e 
n to their apum A 
hi hich "their tenan! n affor 
which these will ees is hat 
mabl 
largepow: be imagined san i aiding, stintlating, 
and erecting’ “the hr d pom of it, J. wes lmer. 
Morton, Exam culture to the S 
Arts, St treatley, p^ "Reading, August 25. 
€ |n1— 
bii ame Hkc 
1, THE Puxo Wor d Seacombe, 
opposite imr qon upwards of 3 acres of ground. 
The materials used in the manufac 3 a dy t, the 
so-called Maracaybo guano as a stone- 
like incrustation ther on the dt on, rm the organic 
oat Me which the surface of certain West Indian 
ds is covered 
being churne ed. 
arrang com- 
The bui ed, 
ac i ave been 
is very far as yet from bei 
rA en 
th 
r grinding cutting haf churning, 
"Ther re is ample s rore e beth for boning, the 
the 
id "the apparatus includes aipa Ee aae | dà 
pi pear n EN chaff-cutters, corn and cake | 
f| © 
i cim. milked at 4 A.M., and adu are fed at 
8 $4, and 5 P.M. 
| hp Mangels, as "i hay chaff, ok good on iag, an is kept, 
Re li ÉL aes] 
of ei its suffices n the fertility of a garden; 
but even this fi alaf far shor o£ the a aeiaai an allel. 
—| An poke ‘and. that 
inane well seanured if 1E cater Z3 ires sheep 
per aes ab when We cone fev pia 
iare in situs ply a had of ‘iekind 
altogeth 
In Mr. geb: s evidence — the select com 
i House of Co — in cT he M 
"owen y y off, the water which d ir out o. 
uL. por bout in "tale l o oat up he een on which the city of Ed Edinburgh st : 
the supply of milk. They are generally bought|all turned upon about 280 or 240 acres between 
in at their prime, four or dra) v and kept two Leith, so that 300 as it 
or three gans before bein The pleuro- | were, have been “ folded” here per 
eiui has made em havoc in sl pone At Carlisle. again, where “Mr. M M-Dougal hires the 
r several occasions during the past 20 y e | sewage of the town, the luce of 20,000 people flows 
esl 100 having been l in this way s EA 110 acres, being after the rate of nearly 200 
times, When the supply of milk exceeds erson it is one of the test 
Muse rp a 9 remainder exists, whic pea exists in mie 
earthen 
The churning ode hen the 
essels for bu 
wiki is two or three days old, in an upright cylindrical 
agricul 
appeals ^ "eg 
nns 
when sheep and cai 
yn gas ee im the "neidhbonr live hich e tilises the diei M fails rds bong 
hood, are Soar and deliveiei T = e Compan ose few cases where the .waste of & 
oads of guano pil mM the other from the t populati t 
shelter 'asthey arrive: the vitriol i delivered E crede at lg of in ay *yinia, A number of experiments were | needs no no longer two or three per acre, but a whole 
n carhoys e as it is wre: site sulph made at the time gS m erection of this churn by Mr. | lation, to bring about the €— which is desired, 
ving i a small hil arge sged His the s m Ciyburn, of Lor e's Implem et ain at . Blackburn has examples — Cro Aog 
loucestershire, pp tana Cheshire D or I l kind 
" The mm follows :—The guano, in the form of — — aan Brown’s dm double-action Fi success which was ae to follow his pred at 
and-shaped fragments of the incrustation, i is fed into} chur his and the following table gives|Croydon, In the former of these places the Earl of 
mills and ground. A horizontal circular trough, with | the Tesults o f his jire ies nts:— dr sex hires the sewage, i pumps it over his Ttalian 
bed, revolves rapidly around its centre under a | —— — —.— Y i n | vede grounds; but pyres he has à considerable 
pair of upright ‘ stones x eee icm e in 1. is is HE sla "uen | i og | | population é à fertilise the grounds, he confessed before 
] EFIEPMEIERICEREAECIEAE | the Comm o that his mistake 1 in setti part too 
iron bust dul 5o that any pebbles in the Nam or [393 $1313 5)53/ 8/23) 2 8 | rpose. I 1 had & poptintiati 
guano cn always s their tion, and a certain HURN, Sg har 2$ EH : a= EE pet, many nores fo pode set Lu 
portion only fed in is i with each revolution | tle | i AMEE wta Lore bees iore poo 
cat to powder. The , however, Sele Je E ^|. Probably, however, tbe most xp 
emptied at a t rate by revol i in the utilisation of town sewage is mear Croy 
- hs ipi Whatever they lay hold of to a screen, | Cheshire = No. 1 by the Board of Health, 3 
and from this the wder i$ received into bags, While | , Chur | j hand | ahd been prosecuted by neighbouring landowners for 
p unground residue returns to the trough. — 6) power | the nuisance which the delivery of the drainage water 
bci ae. airs of stones keep two men continually | vertical 6 e No. 8 by at one point had sin bab a some hundreds of 
8 ng e shell-like fragments of guano into the | , Churn ] borse | @¢res on a very slight but uniform slope about two 
a ; and three or en afe continüally carry Cheshire 0.) power | miles below the town, and velot. this land to a tenant at 
round guano away in bags to the great heaps NM | an advance of 1L per acre for the use of the sewage 
are operated on during the busier manufaetüring| Churn | "x on it; and this is now being po it. 
» And which in the meantime accumulate to a | Cheshire i . |id 8) No.3by |Mr. Marriage, of Chelmsford, the tenant of the farm 
oc of Sere M PN hurn | | } horse |at Beddington, has thus about 240 acres under sewage, 
anabi ee ure is Unionit in iron pans, each| Churn } 18 8680 124| .. 16 2|) power. o the fi at its u end, aad is 
Pn e pile 920 ewt. of =r m mre Cheshire | 23 5600 4209 147 .. ho | aby acted along ditches with hatches at one field and 
ua or each is a cistern of sulphuric acid Oh: | another, by putti own which the contents of thi 
of the “sulphate of ammonia is put into each ot ae chora, 9 Bun 4000) 25 | itch aré made to overflow at that field. The water 
ir m of whieh thete are two Sum ble rows, RÀ is to drive the revol ving beater | thus led Mone ag cate narrow furrows about 16 y! code 
fro over 
140 idw per an the milk being thus broke 
apart, and from them it flows the intervening 
