Marcu 22, 1856.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZE TTE. 
201 
became warm—too warm ; ; by: stopping ‘the 
1 > 7 en en 
pene ry it hat e cool, 
the manure regulated its tem 
cool, when moist it heated. Finely cut straw or short stu uff 
soil | 
within - two- -light frame to pro! otee! t them fr rom drying | 
be very s 
appa ET = aa covering of straw oncea day W espe 
parıng 
—too wa aly or August, I cut from bushes of oo d ble | rarely - per cent. of phosphate 
perat ure} when wet it was | and planted them very close together in sandy s Drainage and Irrigation,—A pondent of y 
appeari ing desirous to hav 
ad feoaushüy arp prr in stron 
became rooted, and i in the pore ‘Spring were put 
clays to ph nn iquefied manure r odaát ly, I beg 
in perfect or order, solid and fre ee from 
may be more surprised when 
hat came beautiful lants, Now I want somebody to 
Ou Be aa a half of straw per a n per hap for | diseover a spineless Furze bush, fi i Opa- 
sheep is a sufficient foddering, and 9 2lbs. for a| gate, and then so valuable a fodder plant for winter use 
bullock. We must not hen that isldthe of the 1l e plentiful reward ld ered 
manure is liqu i was never ee se or confi- | for a living spinele e bush.—Lastly, in answer to 
ow I see clearly | the wish expressed i notice to “ X ” as to seeds 
the tg or success 
depends fon the proper 
anagement of the manure. I read Mr, La 
n 
awrence’s | 
ase 
liquid, all I mined riae Y ith 
water. doubt P. was quite right 
in saying that beg’ will retain reder but if our 
nitrogen has plors ecome ammonia do we not lose it by 
filtration ? The is repens manne evi idence „giv en by 
the rich verdant ¢ colour the 
d that we lose much valuable 
remarks with much _satisfacti ion, and know that box- ertained rs 1838 to ‘1843, during whieh manure through our drains. A few years ago, during 
feedi has been quite success- | period I rains, I saw the drains git 
fal ; “but there is much difference between the „hard of Grasses, of other stots and of trees for the pu urpose | of m: and on oe ea ee it ded 
glassy cereal straws of Essex and the far 
AW el 
imens to N. S. Wales, of most 
spec 
spongy str: 43 the elevated Cotswold Hills. The| of which I ‘carefully erasers some weighed portions with | w. 
former are more hard and reedy, and admit air readily, | scales so accurate thai te seeds of Agrostis alba 
whilst the Inter “pack closely and exclude air. In the | would alter their balan 
tarner r case it i ssary to effect this exclusion by Number of Seed lb. weight avoirdupois,| Seeds in 
mple saturation, “The late dry weather has caused the — very well ole “cleansed, of the afternamed| 11b. 
man n farmyards in this | neighbourhood | _ £ praipepoie; 
to heat violently, ‘and _then * fire- fang. last Agrostis alba stolonifera Oe tiie PS 3 | 4,838,400 
p ira aquatica oo one 
valuable by man ical fi s, I trust flexuosa fe 
may not sheds wA be nopportu: ř the PE Alopecurus pratensis one 
Anti re 7 one Behn ove . 
I have ined for litter aN tio to be increased | Avena flav. bi 
where the animals were fed entirely on roots. J. J. Mechi, | „7 » sativ va, var. Winter Oat 
Tiptree, March 17. areynte gual iz 
re v. ical) are rit ar hhe Birds.—There is a | Cynosurus cris status ; 2,32 
By r going o tim e, as it suits the con- Dactylis glomerata sts 5,520 
venience of Correspondents aoit rooks, sparrows, and | Festuca puruenls vet bebe lintegitea! orig SA See 
moles, and such like alled farmers’ friends. Mr. zs eae iti pats 
Wilkins, in your Nümker fos February 2d, has treated "o Ovina 1,113,600 
to the last essay on th ject ; and as he calls | o) prato ensis.. 207,3 
us to reason together, let us do so for a inutes, | H yeeria fluitans ... Taaa 
for there is yet a “ Greenin convi. by his “aa frome ts 3 1 350720 
argument as the happy issue of his i ti |] Lolium perenne o ioo su ‘199/480 
brought out. He asserts wing nobeay denies, thak ANE | Reet armupdinacon ; msi ani 509,989 
ings were made good, an infers that we | Phléùmnodosnm | ag 
cught to let them remain as Paps are. Butis not one » pratense "948,480 
our first commands le earth and | *°# annua ... b54n490 
subdue it?” The reverend gentleman seems to be a| ” fhis r 2,023,680 
7 » trivialis 2,380, 
great adm r of Nature in some things, but I do not| ,, pratensis o n. 1,405.4 
think he is so, so far as he himself sup Sup ” » var, angustifolia 1.278,7: 
we were to allo age ings ; T3 aii ia subcerulea | ee 
what would the All wa life is a struggle NENORIS U: o Meinalé (Water-eress) ” 2,457 600 
apan Nature, not to kill her, we cannot do, but Paes tb — ensis 34.304 
to olg s tnberosus 38912 
ue hér 5 without a ‘could not get on at all ; | Reseda luteola (Dyers Weed or Weld) 1,612 800 
but we must see if we cannot set her properly to| Rume “| "441.6 
x acetosa aiy pi Sorrel) 441,600 
work, and where we find any ravages committed | Trifolium incarn: | 104,44 
amon ps we must not say it is Nature’s tax, but n: meni im (tre wild zigzag Glove er) eer 
art P rfection. Let us then n hi 1 ve ratense (wild common Pere tea Clover) 322,560 
Peet oe fiint th # pratense bienne (cultivated Clov: er) 253,440 
even a g the cure va as w viena (We hite Dutch Clover r) 821,760 
re vi i ; the ae art will not find a remedy. | Vicia sep 28,67 
hi in k the s and were esttoyed =C. 
0) moles 
t put more manageable substitutes to do the 
ja oo which would wy 
What does a of these n do that 
or fowls cannot and. ‘to. “not do? 
our common 
Mong hs can eat 
| Major Francis Brown, landowner, occupier, 
0 yards distant from me, which 
PR a ramnecheay 2 
yer through which, and 
as carried b y the falling 
as surface of the soil; 
through the soil the essence w 
n, 
the analysis I am nsible. 
to Mr. ade a Great Maribatdat Street, and he 
charged m e guineas, the highest sum named by 
you in page 8. D. 
mers’ Clubs. 
Farm 
Lonpon, on CENTRAL Farmers’ Cros: 
ti 
Are verbal agreements, or, in 
customs, best plow to give a „stimu! to agricul- 
tural i improvement 
itt „it appears that 
E 
rita 
t this, a ts vith tenant 
almos: 
of Lincolnshire; “and tha 
Superphosphate of Lime.—In your Paper of the 
8th ¢ of March there isa communicatio on from Pr ofessor 
farmer :— 
“ Lincolnshire, in my early period, was in a very bad f 
cultivation indeed ; in short, one- a of Pov whole county was 
entirely unoultivated ; ind four-field sy 
uced, and artifici ures were fatiodused: 
had q! their 
to make to them. It was a very 
oi thing in ive early Ere eat it ped fought very stoutly 
por but it is now, I believe, universal.” 
appears jmprovem ‘hit and security (the 
| It fho w 
alsmins to improvemen ef irisa gone hand-in-hand, 
; for there appear to 
even without security of t 
description of farm ti 
of 
have been few leases. —The 
or freehold. This 
sf a are no keit nts to 
gd fi 
he Hist "inducement to impiae, 
enalties to fear. 
Y 
pists of lime whieh ‘contains “some ex 
tical rem 
ost seeds ; in short they are om ona th 
een that they are industrious, They il Sick all OF 
the surface, and even go down to a good de sae ME: bins 
now that we e have found them | how are we to set 
n 
trem zely u: 
arks founded upon 
wo 
und se 
dèsitahia. it he 
r in the| 
the. Son of this being the description of farm 
tee tet caloilated ts gip a Donekal wtchuhid te 
chemical alaban which he affords, He states that 
the value ae maa hos; phate of lime ‘when 
y in een of arin; it, 
and wo he does consi at it of prepa dasma 
, (a tive term) unless it rem Ard per cent. 
of of phosphate ‘of lime one half o ch has been 
uble bye tnt Sa re eo 
be n now fu rnished | at fro m 7l to i. 10s. per ton. 
what a remaining 67 per cent. is expected to consist, 
whether of water contained in the acid, or of ashes, 
si i ase land; and, secondly, 
ly asmall proporti glish freeholds ever come 
into the market for sale. If, , perfect fixity of 
tenure and ity for in form 
the highest inducement to improve, does it not follow that 
the ne: i t to i ve is a long lease ? 
it by having our poultry houses built like 
that we can take whole flock to n gh Nt 
ted, one Le eo only p! go. t Wiem 
be taken in the morning when the ploughs go to work, | ren 
their house is with stop con- 
tentedly and work with pleasure, — littl 
food | erting a scourge to a _We know it 
18 Sal tew l g' h t 
and so with them, yet see ho t 
the one or two fields that adjoin their house ; and if 
they get so there, how mu: if sen 
over ? By this means they could exist in 
great numbers at little cost and with better health than 
they da, i con to one spot. d then, 
pane Mr. W.’s friends would disappear, because 
t| made, that nothing but acid has been 
turer. Again supposing that no admixtu as been 
aape An to the 
sa pees Hint ts substance — is in eee 
e then ethane o be the 
of phosphate” o Tie. I ha N inet in the Habit, since 
ed th 
leases for lives, fi 
Some even in my own neighbourhood are 
not run out ; but I never kn instance in which 
renewed at rack rent. may, and in 
fe to holdings of from 500 to 1000 acres pro- 
bably do, perth “that leases for 21 years, with few 
restrictions tenant-right clauses, are “ best caleu- 
lated Pas stimulus to agricultural improve- 
a pores ca I think shall iad tk that their 
t ments, ink we 1 
je ‘is fixi tenure or certainty of 
ere would be ni o grub left for r them. _ Th k will 
they might be aoe to answer as well in the garden 
(they ena be confined by netting to the spot they are 
wanted pris as dir „to injure any crop, and then we 
pation for a given term. This ly secures 
to the lessee both the pleasure and the profit of his im- 
the time Mr. ` Pusey recommend e_ practice, o 
in the siepi manner possible. 
rg for raag papa ad 
convenience in using 
e ashes ve | that th 
afterwards been added, bet : TT should per E aes ‘lied 
if he would sa: 
e profit in n improvements is made more secure to 
E 
should hear n inquiries how to kill wire-worms, | to Professor Voelcker whether his | custom, e ipe o 
a farmer rea ‘and I yo say always will have, lots pasa of 33 per pele to the pate mira t has in some ie Pas kept pace w otsin pld, in PARAU 
p iongan but many of them are very selfish, ft id ges aye es this point tn hi | Likioclostitrs Baka ion is then calculated 
cach we Me, Ws protegees. nen vt by prasi aen As far as I understan d'the|from the date of improvement, while in the other case 
macht pert 2 n for he game-laws; by | chemical ck Soe Ypa s this : that bones | the term may be too nearly run out to allow of a return. 
ving A 0 mp all ste stray. grains ter harvest, so that | consist | st phosphite of ag that by áa Tam aware it may be ‘for a 
or efe for hg wild G. S. sulphuric acid neces are e being | given time is better uncertainty for double that 
x y anann the fi lace I pamend your sulphate of lime, eoki ag ar, 299 of lime whick time; as under the former the tena: prevent | 
h 8,18. y cannot 
‘ormed this | to a given date, whereas under the latter he 
culate at roe in 
put any sulphat operation without D oie ai aeir what hef all. But it must be borne in mind that we do 
he does not know that of soda is consider to be the proportions of ious contend, on behalf of the | the “ profit” of 
common purgative salt called Glauber salt, the use of | dients? This appears to me to be the only it lay } ts 
bop learn paperi ana br i 0 [It is | of estimating the real value or of super- | only for the pleasure et ee "and as these are 
hi ther h f lime, and the value which is obtained in| brighter im anticipation than in retrospect, I do 
that is is reeommended.] _ Next as to Gorse—I think it the arti purcheaed Considering - the great adultera- not see how we can refuse to concede, in reference 
xtraordinary th inel E y hich | to agreements and Li i ms, on 
bush with soft ines has not been dis- | Professor Voelcker has so often explained, and the so well birdlimed two bi e 
the milli bushes almost | doubtful value of what is sold as superphosphate of | I have here an agreement of this kind, for a farm of over 
ae a Eemi it could most easily be mul- | Kime, it is surprising to me that more jg ni poe e acres, dated 1817; and the ec 
tiplied by small cu epin so as to be sold in rooted | no t follow the simple directions of Mr. Pusey, which in these words : if the tenant shall 
plants at a shilling, or for hundre: 1852, ia | EGOA EA all chance of deception. Scotus. [Bone | ierat at store at so not have 
