THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[APRIL 26, 1856. 
ome now alts fe 
| ar wbai] farm will ever again be without _one ; no ee who oaran and to be ae emp condemned, It jg 
| English acres, proportion. has near p Y, to be decided by the 
| [ognin to e his horses toiling in the ¥ t d of en 
Arable land ... ... | PLES ie now erkin ng onwards when the whip aes no’ the English farmers have learn t from 
psa dad Ore Rh renee arts 1198 brought almost to a st: tand- still when ithe ‘machine is is Mr. > kawta omg cept pce with becoming 
em 3 E K Ret dle = | 40.859 2.10 logge ä bya wend y are panit them with inerensing 
Foresta, ae aia | 601,619 30.95 ring $ engine gives excellence to the work, confidence, deh, by day, to their great and pro 
Vineyard: me i zan a kee S ever wren in his place, and mrenah among | adva: 
Waste lands. | 29,439 151 vah y Mr. ree are also Hi > 
Stone quarries and rivers ... | 17,086 0.88 ven the most careless, something of its ex- ay, t om als sorain ng world is under 
BAE Y a and precision. the greatest AWANS » has snatched a few moments 
Total _. I: was thought a remarkable thing that in the Loved from his s pro ofe: essional rei “si furnish me w tish daa 
The waste ands i in this Kingdom it will Scare 1851, one oe a oe & paras oe of Lincoln. | f i of agric 
bear a a firm not he agricultural world ten years | chemis 
vation. The extent of the forests in the above- ae should have pak eS sold in one year 140 This department of applied science is now attracting 
mentioned year was nearly hird of the total engin es, Since mes l, the annual pro- | to 1 countries ; 
the kingdom. g to knowledge resulting from the 
The quantities of Beer and Spirits manufactured in Engines. have, anne the last few y 
bogie ae very considerable, 1852 sold 243 we been very jenar To a mpt pies like 
ear 1851 was 186, d the quantity of beer Bee Pa rd this p is obviously out of 
treet 35, 365,000 gallons; The number of gallons of 1855 F 491 3332 the question, and tent ] with little more 
ts pro te BS the same year was— th : ti fth E 1 
Imp. galls. ing investigations. 
— Grain 706,495 Besides the constant increase in intl it will be In this country, Mr. L h his experi- 
Potatoes 2,505,585 i hei Taik Arape aa 
increase also in the g ne 
4,020 the machines, In the year 1851, each Lap og pp tna of animals, taking for tl f trial pigs and sh 
Hanover.— te th ie ear 1848 tie boll of crs was | scarcely the power of five horses. In the year 1855, | Th b f animal i d upon, the i ntelli- 
distributed under the following heads :— they average ape neers g d b y detail of the 
pee dl una. mye" re of realtors 90 per cin e nd; r rben a and h e very ry consideratie = pradika 
-DADAR a a used for a poe tural pu pre in "8 and ; t e remain- which has evii ently accompanie hem, place the; 
oe a Bee Maree ee Toome ing 10 me t. are p He used i p investigations far in advance of any of a similar kind 
Con: E wheuthividted ‘Tard, “Bo. cbse t griculture, “We hav that have been undertaken elsewhe Although a 
sprezi fore i in the last koar years, g arrana 10 per “ir I fag ical ch the e pail kajaga 
an wand be ube th equal to 7 7831 horses | Mr, L d with the vei ryn 
The woods and forests, aes da and How lands, added to the force of the farmer from one firm alone. | trial I à die 
according to the above kr more than | Mess rs. Cla Biroa & Shuttle worth di pens a attention persed through ‘gues patios and which are 
half of the total area of t ‘kingdom. The of | exclusive and t nery, , bei without reference to 
waste land Pr, ca into cultivation since the | 1833 | by steam mpowe This devotion of th di “al | The a of Mr. Lawes’ inquiries 
amounted to upwards ‘ot 340,000 English acres Sub | tion to one pia of dbjes ets is of part an indication of | are too numerous to be stated here, but they rou i” 
8 ma and conducive to perfi point out that a just balance of the different cons stitu! 
in 1848 was— ; "The d power afforded by steam has a = 
Horses Sie ees ae 229,493 to improvements in all machinery moved by seam, in | ing of ys than a predominance of any one ; that 
pre o asied A t none more tha: an in threshi ing machines, The now neither f food 
Goats and bucks) ©., 3 SD NI -su 110,682 alue for the purposes to which they 
sass A D ge e a aa ae 851 no delivered from the machine into sacks ready for | are applied ; eo that tthe classes of bigrpe which ia 
Shee PPEP tet ; a great economy of time and p PE For | peculiar p of nitrogen 
iiei Rhenish BASE A E aaa Jone and similar processes a, use of s m power is matter are not nece ssarily, from that circumstance, the 
» Superi G S204 wipe ais hos x 258,500 makin ing rapid strides, and w most adapted in practice to pr hat part of the 
may «| to theg f every operation to animal body (musele) which most resembles them iu 
Wartenbwry The “distribution of the cil in the, o ppli Ne “Ser sen PSE ESAT AY igh ee “hae id oy eee jhe 
kingdom of Wurtemburg in the year 1852 wa fab eas A to the Exhibition of 1 | gen is attended with much f fallacy. 
nelish a aires Messrs. Garrett have foreign or “me arising fi Dr. Voelcker, of Cinai, 
a oa WET eee, : 2, Aa connections formed at the Exhibition still po a in. n- | Co llege, has publi ished an account of experiments 
Vineyards. a 3 64,678 ne customer in Hungary has not less than 80007. | with a view of ascertaining the gun pie fay eel 
s bedi ans wre) T aee BF worth of ‘machinery, ciel drills and fon | produ ced by burnt elay when use ed e has 
Keine’ tsa . Bd machines. 
Mines, quarries, heaths, roads, &e. ... "aed, ayo in 185: |n cal, but principally due to the Jiberation of dc y win 
mbers’ pa ie t manure distributor is a new in- silicates of that alkali existing in the soil, but only 
T i dutitinaster aa aS, ne the invention of a practical Norfolk farmer. torrefaction. 
nearly on one-half of th f th Mr. Way has published two further papers on the 
Pa sack cultivation of corn, and one-sixth meadows acre, deli ivering it with great regularity, and is excellent. fendi reg of aad absorption of manure by soils, 
and pasi oe e extent of forests Pn one-fourth for t the > simplicity of its construction, nuation of his first research on this mea 
ofthe ares of teibiegion. ý n H . Mr. Way attributes the 
The extent of land under actual cultivation of the ment. If found useful in this count try, iios much more | | power possesse: d by soils to remove various alkali 
principal crops in 1852 was— valuable are they likely to prove in the dry and sun- Pages s potash; ammonia, A Tam poloen in water, 
PT om .. Ra EN ig as ites H of Southern Europe ? ie xistence of a class of double of alumin 
Summer corn... x Nl 575,129 
L Peas a eae Sa ee EE ing machines to be equa a new creation of the Way hes pin for the first time, in producing t this 
E foc Eaa ae T aao tap sed TA E D ae Their esiri has increased threefold ape of mas and he ar; argues, from the effects observed 
pees Sane Ue à + BIL 61 ce 1851. soils, that the se latte tart ae ilicates in question 
Cabbages Š oe A =e s atter contain the silica! igh q 
Roots Messrs hence their power to preserve 
Linseed, Vetches, Beans, Palas, ‘and Toas 141 pa the tenant fa farmers 
Corn 
men 
| form 
aa quantities, | and lar, ‘ge proprietors. 
‘om solubl. 
sy. it was in a great degree confined to amateurs seco 
To the secon i 
tions ae been received. There is a „host of local 
soluble 
Flax and Hem wn in] The Popian i all the leading e 
there being tear than ir 504 a Serek under cultivation of m. achine m akere has rt oA | qua aie of ammonia hme in almost all soils, which, 
Flax, and 6 876 acres of Hemp, in the year 1852. | st ee aipin in According to his pepe nts, very far exceeds the do: 
The number of gallons of wine produced in 1952 A aei og Pinkeye and as a to increased demand for re, that lime acts 
was 5,822,1 iaaa par wen ‘has been done, but much mains much in the 1 manures them- 
The suet of dong his of live stock in the king- to be don | selves, by furnishing indirectly a Mpa! of nitrogen zo 
dom in the year 1852 lat nn ie Sith and A mey date the wide diffusion of p'ants, 
Horses Si CEE EE T] ents from the a eee of 1851. The | the same way. 
ao : v 841.159 pa “Fahim has opened t em several new) Mr. Wa ay has also given an acecunt of his examina- 
Swine Pa RE at i ani j 80 trade > in, France, s Algeria, ee ie Ban aha on of certain se lying imena below e an 
(Zo be continued.) | of an agency in Berlin fr formation, which contain la antities of what is 
2 | the tthe r le fae impro i ved m a te res $ e Germany, kno o chemists pe i ehh silica.” bho fort ast 
t the eano of as irite: merc! ant of that ci sili i th naturally, ex 
PROGRESS OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE | M 2 RA a ha ns not Cee a te enarak Me 
a N = NEN A Fk pea gely si 1851. i $ Ardennes, in France, whieh + were tane fo! ages 
wi cted fro Deni h h ie fy H 
“bwin Board of Trado“ on ts E Faris Exhibition] “Ht Ean E g by auvage. From their peculiar na 
ive 
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“ akers, 
upposed to be available ae minnie Pr 
n the arts, and as a source 
1 
man y purposes in 
a n made since 1851 ra reply |m 
pai aap age ind given tha t pro ogress as been made | and adding ah in their respective spheres to the 
infield practice, “and to 
f th, 
pike an extent, that ipda all as ultural istry peak progress 
f agri i the: name of Mr. 
The subject in the chemistry of agriculture, whic ch has 
late! tely, Main attracted the greatest share of attention, 
both in nan country and abroad, is that of the gr 
h pla 
ae snore largely ieersaned within lish farm 
ants derive their nitrogen. 
the ordin: 
of Asy at any aer A 
than within an equal space mig controve: ersy between | way often contain more of the element nitrogen than 
period. : Baron "Lichig and = ith lately revived with | in- | they from the soil in Plage mi oon Tonta 
animation, the English farmers have aa | placed ; and it is obvious that in other tus 
rna, pgs as cteristie feature has been the | ac pted the teaching of Mr. , based on e accumulation n is deriv ed fro om the a oonheré 
constant improvement, tending to perfection, of our ments in the ċare and accuracy of which full San posed of a 
implements, and a great f their may be placed, and the results of which are open to th sheen 
sy the body of the farming munity, a fact | vie all. T e learnt that the approved artifi- r parts te the former to e part the latter ; it 
the superior ight api which is now | cial manures are ere stimulants, but agents of ox contains small quantities of paid Binig such as 
pasene to bear on meae airs, promising a sure fe rtility \ wh ich, wh ] lied. nitric acid, and ammonia. e question 
> pro roduce a crop. The princip! les | 
“pint ap i iet list in m point of i of seco first in its re- | ou which, the growth | of corn depends are better under- | 
No farmer who has 
at Arner is, as 
tood. rhe repetition of corn crops on th 
nsidered 
ever had a a engine on his'can no longer be co’ as necessarily faulty i 
uilding up their ti tissnes, or w 
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