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a GRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Marcy 29,1856 
be made unim i ion, that the retur. “March 4, 1856. ; from colour or odour. This oil becomes solid a 
should be pa di f i trol of in al on of be report of the proceedings of the Royal Agri- | between 37° and 39° F., and is nsed for the purposes of perature 
we go aire cultural iety’s meeting of the 25th ult, Bens you expressed as well as for the manufacture of a a white dry soap,” cooking, 
Fespects qualified to improve and age fr some dubs shetivor the husks and short fibres of Cotton which | 5 x | 
> CULTIVATION OF GRAsSES.— Dr. Calvet f 
and to the average rai E a ees adhered to the seeds from which the Cotton-seed oil-eake was | s’ Park ; rt, OF 3, Park | 
acre. As Lord Stanle, of Ailey E entered spas a produced might not prove indigestible and cause obstructions in | Place, Regents ark, read to the Council a on | 
encounter which hi pis pre ve shunned, w. kee animals which might be fed upon it. This statement has | his 20 years’ experience in the cultivation of G omy | 
ead commented upon by consumers, and as it may in | pi e i orkshire, h ° 
fairl to complet pack a t work he wil ps degree deter agricniturists from using the cake, I think a oe S T : th Bo iy a "i this report, 
le you will excuse me in bringing to your notice a fact of which I | Wmieh occupied nearly three hours in its deliv Wi 
secure to us reliable and sits ig to yi l k s > 
the moment has arrived when all persons aliye tothe rtrd nthe questions te Dinaan pordanso Enga ae allow us on the presen Dr. Calvert treated’ ne aries 
: e of hea ic . Calvert tre: 4 
e: pn pu et —— to the seed, viz., that cattle are extremely fond of Cotton itself, ae Blas fates ENGE ai : a k a ti 
mode in which it is proposed to ca: 3. | and eat it in preference almost to any fodder, and that no evil) I—. r | experience agri- 
Humbert, Watford, jers. my it consequences arise from it, but quite the reverse. In fact, Cotton | culturists of being able to lay down their tillage land to the 
g, Seeds- Vlad th I f | Planters, when their Cotton fields no longer yield a sufficiency to | greatest advantage into permanent pastures and ws, 
weet A Seeds.— ree small parcels o remunerate them for picking, invariably turn in thew cattle to arising from the want ofa sufficient b tanical knowledge, 
directly from ner? =o and I was | eat up what is left. With regard to the husks, I am not yet | II.—The difficulties to be overcom n Consequence of the 
shee =e prepared to give a very positive opinion; but I have aioe years rege = ie occ gay aed aed pena in Stoning: weeds 
ago ob:erved the avidity with hich cowseat the se à, aA J E yea arent]: 
very old, bat zane. from I know net. T pi 1e they wale never reatsict ed, mo toe tT piei erred do evil on sequence sanctioned by all classes of British agriculturists, “whereby the 
but not Jia had = arose from it, I have now some seed’ here and ing t ae half of a = a obi Y4 kais pr ality ce of the 
a ket ziven me of Wheat which Ty was Farai b beasts upon it exclusively. I ove sis a ar mp te ydan of i it | Sesired crops reduced below one half, and t quality greatly 
Aim g and who is a man of me crushed, and have made cake of it without any “en at decorti- | deteriorated. 
gentle: 4 aac ty oe cating. The eattle eat it quite as well as that I have imported | III.—The further impediment arising from the Tavages made 
racity, was grown from eat taken | the seed for, which has been decorticated, as well as the simple Upon the seed crop by a species of grub or caterpillar called by 
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-out ummy. The history of it was this—as it was | machinery will admit, and is the same you analysed for Sir | Curtis the Noctua cubicularis. 
given tome. A nobleman was present at Cambridge at | Thomas Parkyns. The analysis ‘of this is quite satisfactory, an IV.—The difficulties arising trom apathy and i indifference in 
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ingi, . s as follows :— i 12° lost 12.1 . water, thus dried and | those who have the means, and ought, by ex: xample and precej K 
the unwinding of a mummy wherein some heat was powdered 100 BH ea bt da antal 83.33 pee i Mate | to encourage the superior culture of our meadows a wid piin 
found. The nobleman—whose name I give you, with the | 6.67 ash; 100 grs. yielded 6.60 nitrogen, eqnivalent to 7 | lands, so as to produce at least double the amount of nutriment 
n’s I obtained the Wheat from also, but not for ammonia; 100 grs. Whausted by ether gave 12.5 of oily matter | for their stock, which the vane is copable of doe. ir kent free 
publicati : sa | The ash on an alysis gave—Carbonie acid, 3.5; sulphuric | from weeds and laid down with pri ‘operly selected clean Grass 
ion, took the Wh at home and himself saw his do., 3,6 ; phosphoric do., 4.8 ber cent. You are quite welcome to | seed RG 
eee ae, plant it, when it grew and brought forth seed | 3 sample of it if it will be of any service to you, and I ho |. V.—The difficulties attendant on short. i Ah whi iaag are the 
perfection. It was that seed which was given tome by | the next opportunity you will correct any misapprehension you | | kinds of Grasses best adapted for. perm t pasi and 
the nobleman’s relative 3 and to protect it from | ™May have been under as to the effect of Cotton-seed oil-cake as a | meadows in ordinary situations and s soils, a and which ought to be 
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re z 4 food for cattle. In reference to the statement of a, another speaker | Tejected as unprofitable or beers oes from their tendeney 
gl l planted it ina row by itself in a field of other at your meeting respecting the disagreeable flavour Papati to | to impoverish and exhaust the land, inducing foul = s by their 
Palamo np and ripened, and the produce | the meat of animals fed upon it, I have only to say that I alg | Eti y roots, or by occupying the spaces wher stet er Grasses 
was three kinds of heat different from any I had | now in the house as sweet a a pieceof cold beef as ever was e: mig e grown. 
ever before seen ; two of the AE apin ine 9 à bj fed upon the Cotton sowed and have eaten others Teron of | _VI—The di iffieulty of obtain ing seed of the last i anges ami and 
? a 7 an equally sweet flavour. The but nhs also equally sweet. arieties of Grasses for permanent pastures and meadows, 
one not. The whole three ae? ripe: ong oo earlier Signed) “Wy. BARBER” | out PERES of weed and inferior Grass seeds, 
aic VII.—A summary of the pre eceding articles, with e 
it the e flavour of the meat referred to b y Mr. Holland | and suggestions, particularly in rega ra to the siate of ian nti 
aia sata fo ormer “meeting o of the Council, resulted n lot | ya own and the treatment of the grow: seeds, 
Tt ke | complete success, 
care. I had it yea ed h and t ne 2 up sareta, and hung ri whi ch the greater part of the oil had been e ie Dr. Calvert stated that he had adopted the plan of 
pe- pd ge og, O't where birds got toit through a hole ressed, rot the Cotton-seeds s themselves containing sowing his selected Grass seeds s (of which he ha ad still 
eat the whole. I lamented this s much, b 
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ea „because, 1) their fuil proportion of oil—Mr. Gadesden 
A that in his experiments on feeding sheep with Cotton” uantity to sow from 10 0 to 20 acres), at the “rate of A4 
t. Now, I am perfectly satisfied, that the noble- seed cake, e hid found the mutton after, king to be rs to baier, on well-p PPPA eront; and that he pre- 
man and his relative believed this Wheat to have come particularly hard, a result not to have been expected | ferred thin sowi ing, ‘indepen ntly of economical con- 
d di though I arene n = y dioa s we nder ordin: nary Satie gene | as the animals were at side erations in refere: Pas seed. He exhibited to 
ap see be i Whee . Fisher Hobbs stated that “es | the members a gre E ratty of specimens of an 
ways been sceptical on the growing of Wheat had remarked the same ‘effect produced by feeding on | as kid as of iten Grasses, for the purposes 
iy years old, however it might have agen Len: “aed ‘par —Mr, Scott stat ed that he had, himel been 
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that toy oui ossess such a method, “a te a z that the attention of the Sty at sv $7 eekly | Grasse be mses it olen an wi ar hg Grase ae by Dr. . Parnell ; ; 
ein so man, ny thingy bg ey woul Particularly to Cotton-cake, I beg leave to forward a sample of | cultivators might fost in all seedsmen of established 
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have put the Wheat into the banda; Arachide Nut-cake, with an analysis of th S s 
wg Either, therefore, there Ea “li Sial Way. The ia appears to be palatable. te tothe et ee utat: tion. Th hey were respons ha Se whose 7% 
Wheat found in mummies at all under this suppositi on, cattle, aeia its paine in gcd a rreak the ved b ti pp!y of in retails A 
and the nobleman, and_his relative, and others baye | the Society, to whom I shat Sor hones A n communicate any |, ` PORTUGUESE elix No 
been deceived, or the ancient i some | additional partinlara pat may be required. transmitted nae p Lisbon, “through the Forig 
€ of preserving the vitality of Wheat altogether Analysis. — SF ry ts Sod Sig ae 
‘unknown to men of modern times, PS Some of your | 
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patet piia : mon 1856, with a x Ba stating that he offered it “ as a token 
rrespondents may be able to throw some Woody ir atc, ee «+... 3826 |Of his high consideration of the Roy JAL Agios cultural 
farther light on a ie tame which = certainly worthy of Mineral matter ++ a 4.29 | Society of England, and as furnishing in its pages 
being inquired in d as far as possible the tru truth ~~~ | obvious proofs of the estimation in which he held the 
ascertained. I tae the nobleman and that Containing nitrogen 100.00 | agricultural literature of England.” The council 
of his relative, but I have, I observe. , not their perm (Siig Jo Tuon as Way, | ordered teir be for the favour? of thi is present and 
sion to make the names public, ‘Geo. Wilkins, Wis gne 3. Spooner.” `| communi 
Parsonage, March 24th. y iei A aat was directed je Spee ped Mr. Spooner! Fiero pinnis —Mr. Amos, < one of the Consult- 
i —Havin often heard of ducks | for the nator 4 Ag > rier ar ft articulars o ing Engineers of tl , annot to tl 
‘saying large wars, Lež paan nedi to measure ant weigh | Which he reterred. In antimo, the following in- | success nd his efforts produce a’ Dynamo 
one laid by a bird of eg true Aylesbury breed a few | formation respecting the itr nslated from the | adapted for the purpose of outa the draught of imple- 
: ie y to E renchi ah oan MM. Girardin and Breuil, may perhaps be | | ments in the fi eld. This communication was referred to 
The à rac hide, or Pistachio Earth-mut, is the arachis hypogaea of r Communication from the Rev . N. Kingdon and 
ra f, oe nneus, an longs to the oo even family of plants. oH 4 ” to 
will info. 5 eggs of this mea are common; to me it ported into Europe by the Spaniard, hows South Ameri Tica, it has | et gn A n Sen- romid as Man nure, Were pee 
‘Seems extraordinary, H. T. P: PERRIN been especially cultivated in Spain. It is alse to be met with in | Profes oe 
some localities i in the South of France, barticariyin the depart- | Mete corology, yee Mr. Fulbrook , to m a Com- 
ment of Landes. The cree a yie ield a t St perc of a mild | mittee. The Council adjourned to their onthly meeting 
d April 
. ich is, how tracts afer 
ents about to pursued fi the dra der- | oil. tis particularly e pre i for the purposes of soap making [on the 2n! 
Camp, but they have left one point untouched, viz. s | and the ie pues The oil-cake i is very rich in fertilising 
be properties. ese seeds, 
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ing purposes, In Spain they are eaten either in their raw state, Calendar of Operations. 
so late + 
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a — athe ree Fe, Ma rch 24. —The weather has a + 
nth ex rable agricultural business; #8 
7 s rie Powe Stallisable | gh, 1 almost 
in most em e wane sugar, colouring matter, Papa essen aie Bean matter, ke heimen b ilhe fat Bsliela of dui, da PA iat avery horse days eiga ik 
rA frry free ni te : aeia, srar k mee sn betaneen (such and the land that was ready, being in fine condition, was quickly 
obtai 47 per cent. of oil Mt. Bidii of N of Nova, 5 Auten tha in bespied with seed, and finished off op eae ng mar but 
Lialy.50 per contutnbneussbar mwN tat Spain it iy asserted best possible ore The Wheat pinat is generally healthy, 
ts to 60. Nu the ps eet 7 bee 
Societies. i frosts, ambrid 
“3 r all our Wheat, and given a dressing of 1 cwt. salt per acre, €x- 
a eae sak Sane Tk percent, of oil, 592 cent. of cepting one piece of 9 acres, on which was put before sowing 
e knee Pa am a dei Eini mbara the ofl Sh al cack of salt and Siano; And though this was awateered 
at Rouen, MM. Soubeiran and Gi irardin obtained the fo ‘ollowing a tng last, it looks the best of any. ee Faye “ren 
results ;— is 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF ENGLAND. 
WEEKLY Councit, March 26.—Mr. Rav ND BARKER, 
Chair. names of 19 additional — 
election Coun 
year over the quantity of land allotted to this useful root, as t 
the next Monthl: vat e ee A OT 13 prices have been for some time nni interra] y declining, so oe 
7: Pies “4 a Salle Son rs now find a ty in effectin a 
PINAN AGRicULTURE.— His Majesty t the ing a of a rner EA se 71 the quality of the Potatoes should be very choice Seeds will 
Sardinia pret | resolved to develo; esd the phar res g sa G xt engage our attention, and the sowing of Clover anà Rye- 
‘Tesources dominions by the application of the “400 = promises to unusually expensive, Red Clover selling 
tural machinery af En and, Sign Meare ron, of | In the organic matter there were abont 6 Feith per ewt, and Italian Rye-grass from 7s. 6d. to 
n per cent, of nitrogen, wE ry f i acre to 
, and Sign. a of Rome, presented them- |-and in the mineral substa. ances, about } per cent. of soluble salts, oe per bushel. 1 ts of Clover ee Shee others 
selves before the i ion for me pur- iolerabiy tich i pia fon phates, a dns contents t ne a Arachide is | not more than 8 or 10lbs. "Whee any of the Ryegrasses = 
of announcing this intention on the part of the neon: inthe , "the ce eoa | used, and if oe for pasture, one-half stone each of 
un ntie phosphates: accordingly cake, poen d i bushel 
of Sardinia, and of submi to the members the employed as a manure, ought raide s to be ee with s White Clover, wit ill “pre iene orea a eae The 
harter, b aj pe 1, grant- a Tich in phosphates, such as bones and ivory black. The lambing season has bee: ra many cases a very unfortunate time, 
Ing them full power and authori ei t > . — beg sr other simile with success in the South ftor not only an immense quantity “or dead lambs been 
of their mission to thi 3 tly situated countries. dropped, but many ewes have di died aise a sit eee, and the 
Ms Dr. ” gives the | surviving lambs have too often exhibi weakness that 
—Prof. Way laid hefi sions much fear for their ultimat® sound ‘soundness and 
vigour. 
fatalit, some attributed to the defective Turnips, which 
“Esrth-nnt oil, from the Toot-tnbercles of the arachis aatal peia oo heed wane been more or less liable. Some cases of 
hypogwa, which yield about 50 per cent. of an oil almost free dust comngaeg ne erate y be traced to a liberal use of corn or 
the Coun- 
Fa cycling letter from Mr. — of Poulton 
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