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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
(Octo 22, 1864, 
engineers do not require a preliminary = 
with those of ordinary farming o over à large area of the cove its natural state sew Ot & uni nivea) 
cou ney, I gave it (as my opinion that the crop o of last 
/1Q69Y Gati 
e is ü 
e like stable dung, wl ich is efflonetond at all 
n 
f the whole theory involved in ps 
o d It is not 
and such subsequent experience has pr oved it to have | 
and on all localities, but a specia! ma 
continual applicati ion of which exclusively tail " 
t the attention of your 
be eonseiously in aecord with the whol been: O dirobt the à À 
i esee in the season ne ast, which is the ls of 
Mire year after the same land. 
elow are given, ‘for the: harvest of 1864, the number 
" of à els per acre, and the weig du m bushel, A the 
dressed corn o bia in Un a left entirely 
unmanured during the whole a - (uS, on asthe er 
manure red with 14 tons of farm yard dung every year, 
artificial mixtures 
And, for the sake of com 
tisfi 
ikel vs pa follow as. example of m 
done the thing, than take the ated “of ke p 
What pa ught to to be « 
the eae qu estin ? In the prf place it has|in each of the 21 years, 
taught us the immense advantage of getting rid 
of all this focal retam; rj pn contrary to all the | 
shemistry ulture. 
relations of. chem 
are given, in parallel columns, those o: 
| the pes E the last 12 years, during which period 
p | the des on of & rtificial manure applied was the 
parison with the results of the present season, there (See 
f 1863, as well as | Se 
Stable dung contains all, a special manure only som, 
of the elements whieh ought to be restored to be si 
nder it DAMM: fertile, Pep 
the elass of " 
that 
countrie: es of tland "the pee 
guano on meadow land, vhi Hee the firs 
years — crops of f Grass or hay, hai a del n0 effec 
at all; and that the man v pe at first overrate 
the va ue of guano eventually cursed sits applicatior 
ee my “ Natural L p. 261—263, 
^ 
Germany and S 
ammonia, po otash, 
add. in a muc 
ich (ini p? natural state 
— EOM £T. 
da sn o the 
| 1864. It may "be added that the SETE artificial 
h | mixtures contained the same pe man in each 
ful growth of plants is achieved | case, but in combination either with iere t 
d supp tities of mumonina or Asie ite f soda. 
but by a liberal Bus AGORE:— 
ial manures are| — | — -— 
e whet Lresie first 
a teacher of E e ie men - 
supposed that 
“Harvest [Aer Fijt 
12 years. 
Beki 63. 
Plots. 
1563. 1864. 
it p renee, = ee large crops "den 
Turnips, and eorn, if the soil supplies the A of 
pep eti acid wanting in sewage, but as in 
reel crop a Catala quantity of "phosphorie acid is 
tracted, the total quantity i in the Soil is, by contin a: 
d a time must arrive when the pina acid i is 
produce its for 
pe «s - sme ihe soil and iE ant, ^ Farm- ya manure 
h : 
ai “ot the food supply could be piena Unmanured . «| ERTES DI 
t — manure ., | $ 
» ” ^s . 
Harvests. 
effects. 
By having the Turnips eaten on the field, the e iy 
the solid and liq y 
rye 
the elements of voiding’ of he ‘sep and the coal 
tation he must 
with pape teat in n one to get the 
“Tarnips, corn, &e., in su ccession. The 
ou ald o furnish 
me field c 
manare yont afier year the voidings T only 
[Unas 
| Farm- rey manure 
[Ar "EE manure .. 
$ s] 02. 
» os . i 
| 62.0 | 
625 | 
i 
t 
, Which would be the same 
thi 
By “the increase of his crops in the first years by 
sewage irrigation onl Ys the far rmer, ignoran ut of the 
moe di read 
x every generation gets ultimately 16 a- 
Nas i nfi al It is seen that the prodnee of EU es in every case 
Kerma that of the extraordinary se of 1863, but 
that it was, on the other hand, in every i ease consider- 
a 
propriety be made the subject |, 
g: 
would continue, - d ial he could dispense with other 
manures altogether, except, ME - ir the ge 
sd which his farm produc would be m 
ey Wi P jv would poo 
= it may, and, 
t this manure 
— te 
should agriculture. 
side has superabundant strength, 
tinny meadow yie 
as | Indeed, on two of the plots the produce of es present | 
senson execeded dhe precedi 
must the average of ‘ 
that it) 1 Indeed on two of the plots the prodané mar "the 
its weakest season — n the rati din it "- preceding 12 years 
The Crai igen- E a about 12, and o eb than s Esc shels por 
an increasing | & The quality e the grain is also y high, 
spe more, Seat ving nothing in ndicated te the weight lak bushel, jai îs Lyn p 
d yet being xdi io font of orago o ie uch h that 
ab 
robbed of 40 or 50 tons of um per acr á X 
from the shore re the Grass is ite lly 
battling with the. med and the s "un my, and d 
"e the revulsion 
eaused by it T be most 
balefal. The crioditit bn ware that 
t be made 
5 ‘a 
i e introduction. of sewa, Age his eds Pede of 
that T has to make 
5 apprenticeship to learn to pec rightly and 
cally, and in order to benefit and not to injure 
his "fel aa, 
If the —— oi ms without tg instruction 
on this cy vet ears wis imn 
where pde but sew has been hitherto yeas 
d, the étodaeni is bought 
rgh cowkeepers for 207, and - and 1 
more 
Nos is plain that Baron werd S letter has been 
in the neto ni me which | ° 
etre, © 
ve the aver On 
n 
eo as ‘that of last year, it is not sur- 
ful sewage prising that the price of Wheat should be 
ss 
Rugby, at J. B. Lawes, Rothamsted, Herts, Oet. 17. [This letter 
appeared in Time. mes. |} 
vs 
n the vena inn T think 
gua 
sed schem should be expended in vain, m t 
n ret and peas idee T England should th 
2 lost to Europe, I confess that my anxiety on tl 
atter is very grea T would be of the 
misfortanes ox could 2 should tn jar a 
ns, therefore, must be en 
refore, my lord, I write on the subj 
e you will give it your most serious mii 
ee be willing to devise means for averting t 
tened 
threa evil. 
wif neat of understood and pi sie td pannes ea 
in Wednesday's 
d 3 
LIEBIG ON LONDON SEWAGE. 
{Lord Robert Montagu 
t cons 
— will undoubtedly guide 
Ji from Baron Liebig, 
loo! 
has received a letter on eM subject | 
earied pers 
e consu mation of thei 
e have 
the +7 Hee “ne ay 
1 Hee as x besefütorà of their 
fe pe -men, 
boys agricu turisty 
thought 
fu t e 
any future outlay al in the same d " 
vL the resulta Tom elsowhere shall | ofthe Morning sir: Cr eiie rene et 
been th ae A i Sant I beg leave to enelose a létter wi P eo, M dde 
try and AN. I conte eptions he theorist, an. received from Baron Liebig, B the subjeet now engross 
by the refinements of slo E uie endeavour TOM = ee Wer geo of j- Me an atthórity wi will 
C I the ferti ilising cleat of the w | Obedient servant, Roer. Mox 
was (ola 72, Inverness Terrace, Oct. 13. 
ure, 
Munich, Oct. 6, 
a nwhile — lene has m e-book which Dr. Brady was so | 
et thorugh ced Beh that the use of | kind to send has reached me, aid I have read it with 
uld a nt emn t the abu ndant | | groat satisfaction ; it contains an abundance of mo st 
iren ion of Grass p> nd, but thet Baron | The perusal of 
tye Lord,—The blu 
remain, cá —- 
E 
t 
w lace 
in its far? sr pores e| that, SE "d conf. 
| will D 0L erops onl 
that de ch crop the 
be Corrected accondin 
5 
: " PE iie. Brice of a perfeet Fe zo ond of the iiie lead ants to think that 
ertiliser cannot be accepted is important question, which has occupied 
of UY m which is p illi erm the same degree thoughts since 1840, and to which T tried incessant] 
while within the ingly aceorded to him to direct the ‘attention of the 4 
e proper province of the | « Agricnltural Chemistry ” 
juin 
WHEAT CROP OF 1864. 
first years E ite apt me fd ond 
proportion. 
composition of sewage being once 
ed a recipe for what bt be added 
d put in the hands 
zl 
~ em 
est with which E AN "€ 
a is so grons , tha 
alf lam 
now wit 
, Who 
sssaredly give it his full approbation. In what ma: 
e | talked over t as 
has not yet — upon the question 
bej perhaps not yet ripe to bring appre! 
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