250 
settee 
before April 23d : 
Pall Mall East. 
A memper of the Corps SERRI i France tee [s 
asked :—“ What is Ea 
me 
ity of solu ble 
matter, ‘hey can ct f it ‘ith b 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [APRIL 12, 1856, 
the forms are to be had at 9,| his doctrine be that superphosphate by a is vette as the result must in every case be taken n as 
| suficient manure for Turnips we quite agree with | the m a it be in g often a impose in pa f 
it; but if he desire to teach that the less sali of Gra: asse s et 
Vv 
| merely Tada or even eae 
f they ap Ply it to ri soil 
the interests of 
ne 
vet it will be wail diluted er „Mr. Cur 
not be take 
as it might if the samples sov 
ur ow i 
> 
Oby usly 
will vary rexobetie ay i in 
farmers 
Some soils are proverbially 
ar ai 
kept of such waste; and it wil 
illustration» of attention to detail H an 
o 
T the an as a comp marzi te answer to Mr. 
n| Ne ESBIT’s theor His suggestion as to making | tl 
nd abe mineral ņ 
Ë of the while bones 
the tnayaratienly dandable aR 
° that pa serves the attention of all m 
| In addition to phosphoric acid and ammonia | 
sikala: salts were specified ; common salt was 
ned, 
we" bet the — nevertheless, knowing kia 
on some farms a contract bah the eS 
entered into in Bec h p” to keep implem: 
in order and horses shod pr At much per ae era 
annum, p ayment { for all whe ~~ eing in addition 
th 
Ve aec hTe of ‘excessive fertility,” 
x say 
4 lian opa as well as other seedg there 
om, been a good deal of eis etic pS going 
ose 
the y as 
Sprinkle 7 a little of the whi upon a 
what a qua antity of ‘ Hair r-grass d 
The with a ‘long tail,’ 
5 ne a 2 
- 
me i a use gush with guano for 
recommend d, „as tending to roa voke straw and | 
vile weed whi t ] nd largely 
pE 
was followed by Mr. Bax f 
in common Rye-grass seed } 
g d 
to „take it out. urn it, but 
aq 
y Wes ESBIT 
Writtle, vind senda to the aiao of ae 
sprung up y for it, ie rp t pur- 
art rtificial m 8 aS being o of the man importance. 
We may note that in genuine 
[omit Rye-grass we never have a seed of 
If an der of this p agraph 
+h Omit 
shall ha ea blacksmith’ s bil « of this description b by 
him, a will tell 
with the extent and kind of soil he cultivates, we 
shall be very much obliged. 
AN interestin 
any 
g lect artificial man 
fret last Monday by y My riirii of Kennington, 
London Farmers’ Cl ub. The rival 
Santa at plant nutriti d ‘th 
m was act 
em, és ren lectur Ae 
p g month of Ma oh ee 
been lost. The e lan he believed to be that of 
ap i an 
THE PRICE OF ARTIFICIAL MANURES, 
IF any excus r addressing m 
previous aiidata and the pes on Bon im 
portant mm referred to, it i oul 
of Professor Way’s pap 
ho 
“Tt is as easy to grow 35 or 40 tons of 
That i “cc 
Wheat you may manure excess 
crop; there w ps 
ing t e grew the pe st erops o 
Wurzel in his feighibouth f| 
T — followed Mr. Barsa, ‘referring to deep 
ey, Wa. 
therefore, no “egotate 
I ce 
© 
rs) 
i=") 
a 
n 
3 
a 
Ea 
& 
-© BH 5 oo 
ate brarl ara 
pa to be 
S, not so consider now becaus 
ous «quantities are sayid in other ways, 
Š ene rete e, ee pea the supply ex- 
ceedin Ta ema uch extraordinary 
results 
the 
man saat? ed and to the fact that in spite of ita 
wite “of fertilising matter took place through the 
drains even on his s tiff clay s. To this subject Mr. 
M 
ith now as were formerly 
experienced ‘from its application as manure. 
her sane or preephorie acid ever shall 
become in mann mparatively 
ECHI o-d ay. 
r Witson, dinburgh, had long since 
Boana of le 
complaint, for no one can better enl the wholesale 
and retail value of manures than a manu facturer, and 
Etal 
rofess: 
pointed out the fet, rong it by the analysis of 
drainage wa his Mr. Corazert Jonnson 
cannot make saat ; Te F tie <iserenice from 
Nesprt’s Maasi was that all th ib things rank 
in importance simply ace cording to the natural defi 
of each, and that a Lnag demand for 
red in eigen remar ae which he, following Mr. 
~ addressed to the meeting. 
The discussion generally embraced ve "e fully 
both the theory a nd the practice of manu 
each is of | the same kind, y, or force, its 
f it in the Club Journal will form 
aoe ’ 
of sup 
appeared, 
ply. 
ae niii in A main a true statemen j 
of the cas fps much calculated t 
mien if the dded to it (1) that the 
pee supply of many thing is abundant, and of |f 
spr Denni i in sufficie 
BE 
ptt yoh 
ordinary 
e of the several | crops, we 
aste | 
tings is atrii while of | 
ver, 
too, is so largely | 
d and so doarea supplied that its rank 
manure is with reference to the majority of soils 
ent one. 
w 
The one ga and artificial sources of supply of 
-aT cog ances were enumerated by aah 
en nitrates, blood, as — 
On ject of superphosphate some use al | 
and some, as we thi questionable ome seal th 
ns Shr r. Nespir would not ai 
Mr. 
prod tion of an entirely soluble superphosp: e. | 
After the se ed has brai tded and the y z plant i is | 
amet y me 
numbe: rs have been n ascer- 
ing, iat ceive: 
one of the most useful of that series which has y yet | az 
Sal 
e m: 
| b 
EFORE ape pines 3 further with our remarks on 
Let us suppose a rA consumer in 
February asks the ee 
formed 82. 
an sk 
| tained. - Summers points 
oe Lawson and 
‘ebruary last, which usd Aie — in een stern 
Jerald, and „probably the Mark Lane Express, 
g N time hankeks it is the whole- 
our ieee sneered “J. Č. X” > |b 
a 
hå 
J4 
vies e case of severa 
cifies 
per cargo for uncrushed bones that is here 
quot ed, d 
much less than 72. 
he h th. te ho ow 
| per ton is the peie quoted ? yi he si refer to se ve fel 
public sales of bon in London ring 
ed the enii will ie nen alleen 
oe confidently state that 
eeds in a pound, fur- 
me and published on March 22 
recorded in 1838 to 1843 co correct. 
“Treat = 
cargoes Curing the se same month at not less than 7/. 
e ve a ri 
en 
collected all the mined, a 
elieve that each species or varie fis as botanically 
a | true, 
r wrong in saying that 
t have been the wholesale and not e retail price, 
customer 
vere Welg hed 
e, and not i wget 
been s 
tree e 
2 ounces of seed as 
pA 
eo 
a 
FE 
FI 
oO 
œ 
had procured 
had wei 
t alae oe 
Prasa Kone that 
| price of this 
eed. ori 
gos a | the 
|thimblefai of the aan Å Trifolium rg (white 
d ith a 
charging 8l. 
Te anid a 
pë ton, including: crushing, &c., use of roth 
i, Ss carri 
p 
3 but he says that nly of 
value to dissolve, "and not to apply to the land in its 
rdin; n Ni ho: lime in 
a fine pow 
1 offaet. for ai 
can, ani course, ats aes in another form. Again, althoug d 
J rtion w -grain or 
le ht, Fuari the wei i porti 
ka soluble portion ta well -ma ee hate | pan “ror oe K by 700, which weald give t the | 
comes into t had been sonal solu vl ber of see a pound ; for if he had done so 
would before jat ‘io der disa peare wou n enabled to judge which of 
plant, p p bles, viz., eya of ‘J.C. X.” or that of Messrs. | 5 
sive size, would. rot. . Nesser Bre over some | Lawson as most to be depended upon.’ 
Tur ae ire ie long ago, and on o this Ai that in the cases published by | 
crossing the line which separated a and bones | us last as one ounce, 100 grains, and i few 
as the m. from superphosphate he found he had | inst. ances 10 ‘grains nial unted, | 
left sound roots for rotten ones, and this was of the calculation. The see 
proof on which his based. Now if| were as pent pa the market, and the numbers 
less 
orn on we know t] that 
P 
essere ee gro against the assertion | that s 
dered ‘phosphate i pert is penay ea s 
| powi 
adiad io ibaa 
Professor W: il oles i is dissolved ens in Peruvian 
guano as costing 44/, 2s., whilst in bones it costs 
@ 
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