THE AGRICULTURAL. GAZETTE. [Jan. 12, 1856. 
all around, and selves alive. the summer being the only time that ap jot G Grain in Great Britain, America, and Fran pens 
cut off soak ly nanen, By | improve mu ch in value, and then whe en fatti | : It concludes with a r eral referata to 
p si ip may be p ind it to hich we p 
ct the thorns to the ground, and leave them in a ` that they a ‘but ae  ishpovement for some time, chiefly i in America and in g agricul. 
enient row ere So as not they ha rdly w ho Ow a Turnip when first put | ture. The next paper is sone histories, ‘botanical, 
ble the Is W.G t up; , they will at any time get|and agricul — on d Clover, with especi 
“3 having a greater velocity less power is eid ? overa fene, ie ara into a Turnip field, and are | refer e “sickness,” hod shall n gi 
I Wo.] If we increase the speed of machinery, do we soon hur their Papi May not this do a little a on this subject, read a he = mee ae of the 
lose powe: the same ratio th at we gain speed? towards recon iling conflicting statements about > iety. The the paper before — 
Thos. F F. Wilkinson. o | ees paying ? @. S. rates the several theories of the Clover failure, 
Waste Lands in the Highlands,—1 am glad to se Superphosphate of Lime.—I have read with 
that some one takes an interest in = ny pa and ven- an article in your last Paper under the he ME of Su per- | of th TOp 0 n the same soil—the exeretions from the 
tareain ti een tape © think them of use for other ak. phosphate of Lime, signed “ dish Ga Me Grady,” | plant itself, or the exhaustion of the land of those 
than affording sportsm n opportunity of being a reply to a question sent ou by a spon want f cont i 
3 tg grouse or deer, and exhibiting their unco ent who, after calling attention to Mr. some are alos | t'on ‘of the soil, the last well argued the Rey. 
dresses to the natives. . And let me hope t t some concludes with the fi lowing :—“ I not remember | Thorp, in the 3d vol. of the Eoghan Agricola 
who will visit the Highland capital at the ensuing oe anything about semi-soluble phosphate in the | Journal. ‘He thus aci some of the remedies 
meeting of the Highland Society (so called) will see the —_ of Lieb < ote Writers, neither can I see | which eit nance sugges pains; ik 
of doing something more tl ee imi- how y manures can be too`soluble, ented they are| “1. Whe 
tating the Lothian farming on small es near towns, by r the ra Will y sin 
or to large sheep farms. What I think is ba so kn as to enlighten me on these points ?” BNA pe eri pibe g 
bir pa isa Prana of Sewing megia to the localit ared to me in my ignorance that the remark Be e Clover caine to Be i 
the climate ] and the question put perfec din 
of the in th must | rehooanble and auhougt T have not the sligh 
pe i the, defects of the present Sixty | t might be, ye 
years ago the agriculture of the Hi E aar | } = eee be taken away by the shock he h 
state, by all accounts, as it. had in the Lothians | ce’ ved, I n be allowed t a few re 
some time before. A r of poor nasie, ao e b } 3 for being, actordi "P guste va a onae eae whom pas 
together rt capital, knowledge, couragem rady, les s than “ame 0 tate n chemistry, and eo t| the of the d 
paid irr very mi: miserable rents ; “put inste: not "Oh | of the first principles of Spi it ¢ 
leases to the | | expected | that he 
, the whole 
wi ill be able to ly fo: for r some time, | 
It 
ce the system of 
| appears that the term semi-soluble, as —— to eee 
ers, b 
rent Jard ers ‘ving om ovement of pro- 
gress. This, “I think, $ 
oot: red aoe: A modificati 
tract of land is let ne ees this is in most 
instances 
ly feta ae? the increase 
of Heather, Alder, Birch, &e. 5 ; indeed the sites of old 
me To 
ree, or four y 
olling Clover-sown lands, both in ees m and ioari 
spring, has been found to be most beneficial; the treading. 
il with sheep in antumn, in Clo 
lowed i 
br to the Recorder | himeol A publi¢ leete s is publie 
property, and his subject for 
c | for ete th 
j init. 4. Rol 
publie „criticism, auld he has Ses yah no right to com- 
ə the subject of ninkai 
y reler toa 
matter F iispottat as that before us, 
Bee > 
of are ian b but 
so 
| The correspondent clearly meant that he doubted the 
th 7. 
re 
P 
i 
uble ; now 
wall apt hot 
per cent. “of sE biphösphata and the same quantity of phos 
parks to afford ha f for winter food, ; and | 
aris an asain nato, ane crops as shall 
man opinion ey erea = 
may Awe ioe at, by sheep farmers) that shee 
are are te e better o 
semi- sohibles bat then it appears this will not do, 
se 
The: y be farmers who 
~ ‘this but I cannot, say L have Reon ofthem. I do 
r classes 
in Baglnd be erior to the lowe: 
bse: 
iy 
not sufficient, it requires some 
d to it. ` Malt and Hops ar 
| the Treing it 7 
to it. But th 
aft 
t 
Ho ops and ma alt adde a| |in E 
o the manure which c 
zakri ‘fom 
tain ai combined ? Liebig composition. 
says nothing about it, 0 white or Playfair ; on AP _ There 
Mr. Grady. But t I am wrong 
he calcareous matter gn ich enters mto 
rare, pects some other causes Ms failure. in: 
uch as badi | 
a +h z 
freely give my 
ts on market. 
testimony in favour of all t that he states, Bu ut why is is not 
1 the south ? 
f Saher. runs from 
ot c 
tne attacks « or 
there might be such a joni ; i says sag 
is s different sair te why" should ARA not 1 pe * semi- 
ubilit yi ? Si most 
sup en ough to reply, bearing in mind, however, that | t 
e talking tr eet of li lime, whi ch the wri riter 
5 f the slug—and of ' paramlicà ach. nts, 
The next paper in the Journal is 
id Agricul ure as re wg: a n the Vegan ahb 
n.” It takes as asthe of its information Prof. 
Wilson’s sr ag (an n this s subject before the Univ 
descrip on ol 
the means of such argu-| Deux M 
„it is as if a prisoner brought up 
for theft, although there might vide: 
which has been alre: 
him, was condemned be 
one passage in reference to the implement part 
xhibition. 
Now i 
extract 
a of oe e 
“T 
but h 
he same thing done | here in 
t cannot Ni 
yro in che: emistr uccess of the present year,” says our autio 
he man 
ry Fa according t 
high n this veat A nay seg ope to the whole 
hin he: 
ig-mac 
veen, able a any circumstances to do iti 
bell, th. 
ate 
e gra 
ly soluble a hes | lending feature i i 
eapin; 
J 
taken up by water, 
| thot instrument which is t te save 
wherever it g This is, no re quite 
here from w. The 
able to tell in ren they d difer; zbot I p found a 
he texture of straw is not the 
ene: 
e granite rocks are near the top, 
nd the soil partakes preety of their nature, which is 
fi erica again has the c: 
know full well that the water co E> ting better tl 
soluble ingredient until it met ith an object for which orl A ated Page rekes 
it had an affinity, an: at the soil itself posses the n 
ing thea re well as the 
at superphosphate oe te oe yarat with | m 
carbonate of and Sorcha ecame min 
neutral. Why then Shónlda neutral, 
arrer: eteme “ semi- 
solu! ble ” pho: osphate, be added t he 
make him clear, 
that causes the dilana and then say what that is ? 
—and th , f tho T ips is qui OE 
q that he a director e the Patent = er- 
nature. Th d of | pt pany. eread the 
course have n uch sugar in them, and we we > so it tha thi s 
know that it ai pe fattening egent, — the Tile patent superphosphate at all, beca activates are 
progress that stock make upon them. To those who|not all scientific and enlighten me and |a 
can fat bed at straw it pi odd to | although the lecturer’s intenti ere no doubt | a 
hear of so many receipts for fatting as are now pub- i sie there are some stupid ignorant farmers kons which 
lished, but I think there is good for them all. in nelined . to think «that this learned | Że 
I find in Morton’s “ Cyclopzedia” that Oat straw is put mention 
ata very low by tk emis i PP fool: whieh | of pri 
accounted for by its being A tih solub. ble p etn: in it, and “rede pres have 
is the reason e Oat f compost at home, yet they mus A i 
ipe there than i te nant, if we would prevent ma put ‘in his “ compost,” and he oa sm 
loss of a great deal by shaking out 
that it is not the same hero as there All these things sounpest ie: ipatall X, gir f the T 
go to prove that each locali liarities, which =n culture ” is e colton ‘of short arr ih 
must be carefully noticed if Long Mean to succeed. But the title of “ The Farmer’s Note 
re is point in feeding. that is not so often Aebicws, eritique upon a novelik bk ew of a book, the 
noticed, that cattle in the north always have a in | Zhe Journal i mat? and the | Transactions F the | reference to an item in mem practice, &e., which. 
quantity of Turnips during the winter when young, the Highlan read with interest and facility sei Tonge and 
object being to increase their value as fast ossible} The er just published contains: useful „papers formal dis squisitions ok ys andes © She bee 
at all stages of their aa th, while in. the south the both in the Journal and the 
idea is to p them little as i h conductors „of the English J 
them only to mane a ips that is, tread ‘Straw and p Sim reper 
water eating a certain quantity t d he Producti , Consumption, E y PB P inst; hi 
