Marcu 29, 1856. 
auh “2 substances containing i it are sold to. the con- | power, appears t be that patented by Bonser ving still obtains? If railroads have been of no 
dealer | Pettitt July 1846, aie tho name of a “screw plough. R because they did not argi supersede common 
aus f all my calculations, | nd carriages? If steam-vessels are of 
by panatas to the first ve the tables which you did me | carriage-wheels or rollers ; the gearing consisted of a E PACEA ng-vessels still w bse their way? If 
the honour to quote in your Journal of the 23d of ‘Feb, F spur-wheel upon ~ bind rt of -wheel, an inter- thes aie etrie Slegragh is of no use use the 
and especially as regards superphosphate, the value of mediate pj, and a pinion on one end oa the office i is still in action ? If the te! piepen is is of no use 
whose i ngri redients i is in =. calculated from its ae. on nder axle =y motion: eye-sig 
p ascertained by the best means ge-wheels, and there- | Many years have passed nerge etic 
at my disposal. h f th appealed to public, Pre Seg A piri e are 
Does “S.” mean to say that in taking the actual of the machine—was piscine to the tilling- | again involved in times of searcit By he age 0 bend | an 
selling price of a manure, and calculating from that | cylinder, either by th g dsa 
andthe composition the different values to be appor horses, d Digiand, |in s a of ‘odes a perro a un 
tioned to each ingredie t, I have taken “no acconnt | having specially krante at j a light l of the trials of ‘Tord vagy 
of the manufacture:’s profit? As we for actua ating quickly or slowly any | D'E 
te call sae 
uying a pound of sugar from a e growers I I have | 
Ar 
rotatory digger | hung to i 
I saw it may be said 
s of its Eine fro 
the nies. |to o 
oe referred is that | a a 
” and I somewhat “ig he 
=n paid for the expenses 
Q a ee f 
Sugar g 
Mh 1 
si 
P 
me E + FET 
its steam- aes prize to 5000. Y nl what it onl give 
for a substitute for guano, J. A. C. 
msist of a odia. ‘aft or barrel, upon | which 
fe a number of k 
someting, in fact, half-way | between the cutter “of 
ser 
of 
that in wy pave not more fully explain 
ns for fee to that substance. uS” 
tIl 
reaper. It seems r really w 
casei i in tate ala have fo oun nd th at 
somewhat more than 
ma 
in coprolite and |t 
S5.” for the 
ear 
bone e price 
bought at less than 4d. 
later), pce of lime is 
per Ib 
ge: erfu 1 
it at „have sage. the classic airon of 
These w-blades might be ei ither 
Home Correspon nden 
I Catat “ww 
draw ae to the bill 
| th 
t the Poor-law ; Base 
form. As ight b be anticipated, they think fit to „distribute, collec 
O aaO he 
shall roy AF pee £ 
e th 
t, 
Si e S, ing 
\to the ground, would not enter 
inventors had fiche her A would turn 
var s of r 
it at ail ewani the 
furrow slices 5 but ious forms adial cutters, 
ut will any one as 
lb. 
enly 0 
y 
bon ne, ash, or animal charcoal are W 
soil ? 
less c: said in ule 
derived! tom: minera ‘al 
rth ld. per 
psa dly no stil 
of ns nate oÈ lim 
substane 
in in consequence an S we) fouling themselves with 
eed. 
Pe 
historic series is a 
cids 
If in ae I have ay it has been 
o hi gh a et ov insoluble Phosphate 
ich I 
pate 
game ae Esq. 5 
experimenting friend has poe out w 
with engines an 
over short cael under the control 
ra- | in 
s | ti ugh with incessant suppege <a in 18 
h 
meth 
tented July 23d, 1846, by Toba vision woes rn 
Demerara, and which = produce mi 
statut: Thus, the working of ie measure Swill 
of the Poor-law 
and I ven that 
in the case 
54, 
f Guardians hind the 
o B, 
YE mag AN p 7 
wt 
be claimed by mp most. suspicious co Lor 
St odu the bjt into th 
pareta ag a will | 
paper. 
AsI found from the drawings submitted | to me | House of ‘ety made a quotation fro fro! 
f the e Roy 
derley, on introducing 
been little impr roved upon by suc- 
ist: 
t to class “all "insoluble phosphate i 
pon tne There are no doubt degrees in its ‘solubility 
and. couaccaant effica acy, as derived from this or that 
which in regar ra 
Pa price pe: fias e is at presel 
rphosphate si 
pones the e insoluble phosphate, of pea Be be valu 
the sped ts er ice as ame the dealer, 
se 
E prepared i to enter. 
from TARA, 
ed to 
with 
own experience oad le 
that not ian superp h: it i 
gines. 
eurries tw 
k thei 
ding i Osborne’s plan differs ‘from both 
Heathcoat’s and Rae’s in havin engi d 
of a si 
gricu 
tural Society, in support of his argume in favour < 
on measure; I take the liberty of quoting from from th 
e paper a para ragraph which equally d th 
After in a masterly Aay vail 
Mac 
ftp aioe piosa instead gi 
1 
F 
n an siti 208 and pulley. 
pce mpor' 
upo n B ry tramways from 100 to 200 yards 
GhI 
bene city. 
f he mail cea ea 
i: ds, a and of tl 
Aa a to the direction of the ‘ploughing by means of 
l Sheien anchor $ zapad, and wound up lat gsi one on ais 
| en e are tw g 
vels 
ir respective R 
pl u gbs 
th 
represented re% the farmer and the shopkeeper, as- 
regards returns of the tea and sugar sold by one, and 
y the other, Mr. Hoskyns adds, 
opes, 
Sy it which alternately coil pia pay ent | pi 
so that rope tra 
factured ; but even if it w: 
hate of lime, as pik 
me BPS 
ee Ag 
ed od tes don at pe Pom me neem 
of Rovenber, w hen (as it will be foo i not) be 
the paper was written, eiat not vpablisted till late in 
ye “S? will observe that in regard to the: 
wo ful 
e quoted for half-inch bones me Pe ny 
aa ik 
the ploughed | 
ee in a ready fo er 
| are about 5 fee Aparis so that wee 
Ya (= 
l 1a b not, 
is necessary to 
a A d fi 
route jocidental to the markets, 
i orward 10 in rete: 
5 feet prac along the tramways, in order to take 
und. 
0 es | is the ques stion 
Med ploug ch has | 
* But s almost thankful in such 
that will tad ohjetion into a shape susce) 
mere vexation oo out the history of th 
seful measures aos eee 
the be oof of ulture, as ths 
old i maining reports of the Poor-law inspectors em- 
plo bye for P ial statistics. B 
that keeps penna one 
and recurring h and fresh at e cee pies: are 
gentlemen of higher standing or more valuable cope 
i public service than those who hold title, 
scien ess to the 
rtal 
Su 
t fresh grou This removal is cleverly managed : att ties. at House. But what possible con- 
ou yourself, sir, must a equit, me of a any t of | np = of ~ ; a furrow | nection of thought was it tbat sugge ted the idea of one 
spect if I decline to discuss this question further. | it is directed by the superinte orkm: to an a ay oa waged Belay a n —_ wae 
Let us imitate the practice of our courts of law, where | inclined plane, attached by nt A te near ails of the bation whieh Moke Os agrestial mind of England « 
the plaintiff having been answere ed by coun sel for the engine, w which gradually r raises it t fre off the ground, | Wales to the nature and benefits of ag tural ‘oie 
th i n Pe eadeh body of gent enna nie. either by education, habits, or official 
If I have failed to may or convince Paor corre- | of land, | Each plough, "aio, in the ae furrow of each a Barleyrick? oaa nacionse hound fo leno fan 
p sy P RELATE pe by means of an out- im nann still bpe es iria lad hipin 
T Aasi for the next furrow, whi feet | turn of every o! one is co knock one’s 
“ta dis, I fonr smevintovrengthy ovo lng of mi are employe or neh ng | i gral ed Ea ari et 
com amunication, iw ould wish a all pra stness to one pat taken hind Fog! in Ss Did the Bema of the Pn PA at this part of the S 
g uP ti ere ho ee ttt ile whilst the other is sustaini ew eT me paca pa ee Ba i "9 If not, we 
deep sense of 7 lity of t wee k to|of adapting the tus to the sine yee eiiis ; 
-which the hare of the agricultural ni oes nner’ | where eer ag p n boats or punts, the sham te his Tate evidence before an onho han Pie aR. gi 
— n inclination impelled m nr enes baa we a | sheng ig es p lide on E piah axes GA a e ver- | “‘Certain pa always to ing returns. Itis- 
ho aris rable are the interests kél cal), rai owered to impossible to all the motives influencing a man’s mind 
difieale it would prove wonela Wi e balance impartially iat ay Tevels oo a ground pone + || tach SAI bave ino wa myself it hap pe 
between the parties cerned You may, herefore,| With th mee portable steam-engines of farmers would make the returns ns if left to themselves ; but when 
fat aa onstruction 0} f drums i i gearing, the they get together, say at market, w the other fourth, who will not 
z lous spisih tanay! itted | strong and light i actured, and | P by a nerve minor os mae the returns they m 
errors = greate b- | a light and easy arrangement of £ ploughs accommodated otherwise have ven p88. or 
ble, but if s0, i pes Pa I TE {ago t of draught, there would se “Our t experience,” adds, “joins in attes- 
iseover, and I hope to acknowledge th I have a | little difficulty in following out a modi = e tation of ever, Tose poe pier ae er re 
fair right to ask in return that those who s at in ju udg- | Osborne’s orem: of steam tillage ; and I may explain be said of ine the dry? it tis be tre of tho feral eor market 
a mopy oi inthe 
ee ne E PE S: Thomas lys is .a matter of the | Se paves many-titled inner-cl where, from time- 
Vay. importance. In ea the propoupder of one scheme time, vests ce ad packing es org 
og ORES p ae msing wi without ancestral 
STEAM-CULTURE REVERIE.—No. VI. Sere me aha ne a annua. Me aidan i a 
= De steam-cultivators having been designed to | Osborne ip ced hi he notice | Now, with regard to those experimental returns, the 
with we eae or toothed barrels, I f th d Society “ - a Eisi erty a en publie mind seems to have been divided between admi- 
P f food was spreading d wo ee famine was| ration of what was and viy Sassi 
of the eames pro posed abroad in many places ;”” cand. argu ed that steam-power benighted individuals who, by the refusal of their.co- 
In Pratt’s invention rat 1810, I i obstructed the success of the 
Sharer ters att about a food, and yet laboured only 2400 hours out of the 4419 But I am not aware va nes one Da m tu 
uarie pe. axle baing vertical. In 1845, hours of da; gana year, And in a powerfully written to hint at the pai Saera £ those ret 
pa machine for drain-eutting and subsoiling, in | pamphlet on e Food Question,” in 1847, steam-| were duly deli 3 $ 
which as a ar yr ph armed e cutters was Ploughing forms one of the principal texts. “ In plough- ordetiy gad ite sta ges 
employed to excavate a trench, while a endless eleva- | ing 100 acres,” says the author, “ men horses paar: in which they are arrayed. m there- 
ting belt o + heh wasting vital force fore to q their , as | pel race 
and I see just say in passing tha endless belt | food which might ha so much better armaren avowedly object to this inquiry,as being i t : 
or continuous railway with foot Hi iko eee s| And in dealing with t the hagar that animal power| and unfair; as people di , in matters of © 
was employed to propel maohi ana keap: i fed up | can naiak be Apara we have crops to carry, manure | equal momen! e erroneous ret as is evidenced 
to its work, were driven | s — rence Bu ena ined not totally disuse | by the Char of the Exeh s 
with a very slow ae a iR a ai S and screw. | er; oxen, which event chers in the Times of sums sent 
But the first Saraan tines, “at, will i be at hand; but I would ask this class of | conscience-stricken taxpayers ; 80 I think it will 
blade, or tillers, and sok oie ive- | objectors— tors—If power-looms are are useless because hand-j desired by those who expect for the outlay proposed 
