The quantity of these thing s which ers 
know 
. : ja 
178 THE et Lube BLL GAZETTE. [Marcu 15, 1856, 
such p particular alterations as the analysis of his (a report from the present date. The > POTATO CROP. 
own soil suggested.” | following par ears are e amos wholly hen them a Aia sin foe pasting Potatoes is approachi ing, I 
The analysis is neither sufficiently etn 1o suffi- re ho wever, | f the ure market — y thought I would give y experience of the wari 
ciently explicit. There are, we Hove: bt n ; ay add that superphos- which PTS Besa ost Gu n planting them, 
ings present besides those med — q es phate va varies in pric al imp g the lists of dif-| aa well as the sort to be planted ( hich by the way, hag 
which, though mere traces in 100 grains, any in | ferent mere and from 6/. to 77. for hon be ree to do with it). I s last t year on 
the ' quanti ty traversed by the roots of a single plant superphosphate i isa sgh acourate ee p h eat st me a : dong, dug % R k-i —_ 
ht i terial infl varies but very little from week to | and allowed to lie ti egin pril, when 
3 iz hem in the followin 
i k in its quotations, and it is therefore needless | commenced planting them g p 
nu e i Ilat t pie beak report. If a rise or iw should | (the ground I should say is a very strong clay subsoil, 
Leva : hall te the fact in but has been well drained 3 feet 6 inches deep) :—we use 
the soil saniat oe a alies on br and soda— happen we shall intima r e fac $ i an T t ta Eade “fer Mevoziukiie, wiir 
it also probably contains some quantity, howe The imports of guano ang t Sata as t woe pac io. tenho a AAi aa fet Bese, cat ast Se 
aan f phosphoric acid ; vegetable matter iat been 7650. tons, the whole of whic ily taken eper, the drills 2 feet apart, and then lay in the sete 
in it to some exte on aps ammonia, ifa|from ship’s side, the dem beings tremely | ont 1 19 iiiches apt? t 
sufficient weight ha "been Soi might have | brisk. The stock of nitrate of soda is small and the: aiar Gnd. aks SAS 
been detected. hold fir rm. | Supe rphosphate of lime and all jeave the other side till the plant isup a fortnight ; then 
pr 
c 
esent is precisely the point one 
li 
b which to ide an answer to the uestion pat, ae fe ae £ s. d. th i l, you 
houl me : H A +» perton 8 0 to 0 0 | again and heap them up if w. They will require 
i to befi save 
or heavy covering of soil to make 1000 Blood e at 10 0, 710 0j|nothing more done | y pe, 
acre, and the very aht Gia which the Bone dust .. per qr. 44.0 wf 0 | only the top ae bie I science p oen 
t her e has negl ected to obse rve may corre- | Bones (}-inch}).. p -TE 0 | 3 weeks after they are up; f 3 pote ving 
spon Brown vitriol . per lb. 9 i 03» 9 a s 2h of su ae tee: pal sors riais fn z 
yi Con: er ton 7 ow ve several so —R 
not even im Texrer or Mr. Mrcut ever yet ‘applied. Coprolites “ a 10 0 E 4 0| Kidoe eys, Early Oxford, and oth of which suc- 
How much less, then. s such an analysis fitted to and ablas Wi 0,9 0 0 ceeded ve well but caia Mietta Ei Oxford ; they 
indicate the deficiencies which might lead one to mip h ua urie aci E Saag ele 0 iat ta the latter end of, July or begin- 
> sa z 
advise the anv of a few cwts. only of one tae don M Minti Cae.” ‘ | bes nots ‘Moana A gern oon enough for a crop of Turnips, 
or the a s Corn Manure » 71 oe The yield was remar arkab y good, more thau 130 sa ks 
iahed iot p ny Ton tae jeg Ena Sf a Hikes eed a gee fallen, sine Pinar ing planted near the surface, 
notice in the is ri- | Nitrate of potas ah ; s 
cultural Society that such an analys i as the aio | Nitrate of soda... ... . 19 ) 20 0 | we have a tool like a dung “fork, only pope — with 
al e in their ir laboratory f for 12.; “but i the higher ae guan sacii a u Ag A 1 one . bid ee ASE bones KA 
3/., cha or “a complete analysis,” — Tact tase abe Tae l 3 Galai of diseased Potatoes F oo a The Oxford 
ently much more than, three times | as "abel aie toe St 8 wo 10 . 0 Potato keeps so much better than any other and is best 
gpidan t ‘ su ak 45 0 oO for all he Se Richard Webb, Calcot ion, Reading, 
But the analysis quoted, as wel as being i imper- S eee SE eat ‘ 6 S March 6 
fect, is na rine explicit. pi aie ] e~ aP Selpharie acid ( perth. 0 =a ‘At paige 166 you Yeistesed’s. for rolari eje 
ye 4 Fe t im whatatate is t itechaiically Sulphate of .. per cwt. 0 1 »0l the Fluke Potato, There seem but two opinions 
almost undistingushabl 
Sie n Kaake is, y be so finely d divided that | 
give 
a very small eaten Sat pie a Roy =~ 
soil the character of a Aip 
grain a much lt Bopti of gr oran 
would leave it ESEA ; but upon the li ghtn ness 
or stiffness of a 
| a| British "ioan jiii: 
ri 
reee bed gai of this Potato; and these seem 
A 
kei some of the e oileakes now in ea ket is give 
our 
High pr 
premium upon adulteration—just rices are 
condition in whi a ust, farm- -yard d 
many other Sartilineen shoal be applied. 
‘that 3.2 per and 
and 
cent. are alumin um, but one 
Tt aes | aaa paths 
“fp: pitas 
wp 
upon Aaa Papetarich, in qualit: i Monies by care- 
of dus 
less earth, rubbish, is 
Many wih 
contemporary, the North 
rices are of course a | w 
Zos t rate,” and “good for nothing,” 
of age Rai A s as to pronounce unce it 
unequalled, while others condemn it as decidedly the 
orst Potato they ever ow, when doctors differ 
siyi ike pied ? id which | esè ‘shall we be advised? 
Io especting this Potato in conse- 
ferruginous and ear n ote it may be full of | 
poisons iron iron ee t may almost be a fertile 
‘absence of vegetable matter in 
ive 
ulk they 
re sito to the oil ad ressed. 
whether present 
fraudulent tention, — 
Such peim 
unintent ionaliy or nae o 
saer effi 
down as iaa would lead 
> they 
ysis ba is not sufficient to enable an an: | serious, to which both ignorance and fraud subject 
to the ques a purchaser of oilcakes, should make him ve 
Our answ seers owever, is less dependent now upon wary of entering at once upon their use as food. 
such information as i is so imperfectly given above | They should be tried on a single head before the 
carne ms have n ten years ago. “Ten |whole herd is fed, and their quality will then | « 
wes last week, “it ear. In the case referred to by our contemporar 
thought ae every eip of soil would require | 90 cattle were affected it. On the — day 
manures it rey it is no small addition | after feeding on the ee co EGO 
to mas freee of kno wledge to have ascertained with | Invergordon, who relat poms —“In 
=. that n k ovember me I was called iy pejte and when I 
for any particular erop, it will be applicable aired I found upwards of ‘90 head of cattle, 
hee all s soils. The farmer who en the bese soil of tg: pane Éni t Martain attacked with the 
Norfolk to cultivate the hea of W; spores most violent p r I witnes: 
f his S 80) ht io tell hin im e 
give gt cake as for | 
that 
so Mustar: a sed is | 
on sev seals occasions pear xelaim, * So! 
must be ane yd ep recommends while 
another condem On several occasions I have 
witnessed different persons digging up. — Flukes, and 
have fi opinion, which ma 
I ould s 
for the pigs! I will n ant another Fluk I 
|as I live? Another ee be more favourable, 
and : “They the best croppers boilers 
ever saw in my life’? On the ane — ~ 
raise the following objectio: “Too rank in 
haulm ; much deformed ;” or, as your espond- 
ent —* whe one- a oF t was planted. 
uke ised last 
When the Fl vely adv 
season, it was ariki in get following high terms: 
«Th fine variety is less liable to the disease than any 
ii at 
f, 
irain on one soil will 
HA om the other. and say that 
the same rule wo part oi 
W] 
s of a soi il would indeed enable 
more economically—but, after all 
the my in manuring ar to apply it as 
abundantly as S the crop will take it up, 
Wesu ose, then, that the eras ia me a com- 
infertile sand, and in that case we should 
recommend to grow a crop i 
cwt. of Pi dressing, and plough 
it in in autumn, work it well in spring, and wi 
2 cwt. of Pervvian 
phate, grow a crop of Turn 
t | abov 
e ” 
and excess | co 
nation, 
guano ah 2 pis of f 'saperphos: of 
m, 
found ym most of the intestines 
inflamed, and 
ni t has n less 
erin ae are abit few, i 
w has it sustained | the hig h os racter t 
ALY; 
has entirely escaped, but ‘or this last point I 
that it merits the a ae heap given to 
For the benefit of t may 
of arly pa summer caused the 
to perdi their vitality i in peta r of which the w 
ming to 
= em that caused the violent purging and deat th, 
ent the eae tines of the other stot, and a samp 
I 
ripen me skins before attai 
their or ae and when the season chan; nian s 
of the cake given them, to Pr ofessor Dick, to be 
analy: 
Dr. Kemp, to whom the cake was sent for e 
mt: :—“ I tested 
mach and ah for the u 
nearly all = contents 
com 
ae: 
long c of wet ty which the newly fame 
— and formed 
lot, which accounts for any de! ear 
My opinion is am ¢ the Fluke rena natura! 
grower, smog be oh gona on ‘poor era ger ne 
rich manured land, the tubers ias 
haulm pane a y coarse the sopp in con 
get neither warmth to the tubers. nor sun and air admit- 
d | po 
feed them of wi sheep dae grt puede al next ascertained that good pan hould not con t tho! 
cake, and following that with Barley, seeds, &c., in | tain t ame number Mg ol seeds, if, | ripened ; “the strength of the haulm one 
the usual rotation for r light soils. indeed, it should contain any. that the skin tatoes 
It is possible, however—and th f lime} of a plant oe to the n ome pars goal paste perh and not rent payee ouch P Pola 
would almost indicate as much— that wi we are wrong ew, some me of which — acrid Papa not be expected to boil like ball of flour, k or aoi 
in supposing the so | al d it erties that ponte account for ym od The a nn will 
may be possible by the addition of these “artificials,” | witnessed by Mr. M Grr Foor during | the ] life of the oor soil, new broken uplan LE ae i 
much farm manure as can ed, to | dead animal, an = perfect tubers eo moderate size; the Daol 
grow a crop of Turnips at once. nwt = oi whic! The, particular genus and nae | erate ee aeaiia aa 's pal is of 
d be, wiil ri ity 
will save a year in the process of improv. | of the A p-ap y in the cake is, or at least almost mee ae they sn lies rate: Ra e Potato, 
certainly, the Polygonum lapathifolium, a seed that | but in the soil and arenira af a f St these pets 
is made in eaen — to the| I non infests ill-cultivated soil in Belgium and | no doubt selected his very best piece rte yoann and Saal 
pres of manures veces thd imony of ae cad north of Germany, w where the cake in qu icon! were it in order to exel, by which means be Ove 
anure Company We have was probably purchased.” | shot the mark, for while poor ground willgrow 
pores 
