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wers admirably under the new arrangement, | after cuttin green food for their acre, whilst u the d land 
the. whole space, 30 inches in depth by 28 inches in | | dairies. Chom try oh ae t bag valuable |è G= Sitka ‘eppastuk eer T ripe po 4 
wi t yell ame ; | contained in concentrated manures, in guano and other | j and. threshing himself, he was satisfied there was no 
smok er Apon at tie chimney top, and then only | apago yielding ammonia. n Ch eshire, ces The fact was, he got 20 bushels 
or a few seco I think I mentioned that the waste | matter, even before its dilution, To only one- hal t Oat s extra, and three of Crosskill’s harvest carts, in 
team is intr erar. into ma chimney just above the | the price “of horse-dung.— r. Chadwick cited the | addition, of straw, ‘That extra quality of straw he 
‘i the pipe pointing upwards, as in a locomotive, the | authority of Cou n D asparges as to the value of liquid | behet at 17, the 20 bushels of Oats at 37. 15s., or 
hoarse „pulsation pea myad ear at many hundred | manure ; and re Per er 1 
ards’ ath he intensity of heat | by means of ue ks g Aai 12.8 ; vip 
produced by such a mass of flame at a te emperature of| Mr. Slaney, in moving a vote of thanks to Mr. Chad- | | 31. 6s. 6d. He had followed Mr. 
3000, hi ad the effect of veausing a thin layer oF, E a ” | wick, remarked, for Mangel. In November, 1854, he ploughed 
hus | lifi humour, dogged perseverance, a and calm- | once ten inches ee sp- n the spring, ‘three weeks 
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par about 1 ewt. of coke to 5 of coal; the sokel | invariably and eventually succeed sential toa land al drilled 
retaining its form, and thus pE AN e air, J aaa Pe | was in the right, and ld dly fail, as sit py to | |in two cwt. oa okni ti hen vious to 
formation of slag, so that we have nothing now to | do, when he was in the wrong. Q no twie of 
Tepig or amen By usinga vertical plunger to pamerane] as a compact and manageable man 
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anure. He quite | nitrate of soda and three cwt, of salt: the result 
$ work agreed in the opinion expressed that tenant farmers | was that he grew 30 tons of clean root, ' not including 
pom the ane we have never once been ‘roubled ought not to 42 called upon to lay down expensive tops, of Long Re d Mangel, a 
y of wa a a . Seo By the same method 
ment and long thin horizontal plunger, there was always | seconded the m bapti remarking that Mr. Chadwick, he also grew 25 tons of orniga Globe, on 30 tons of 
trouble, owing, I believe, to a slight o oe which however led away per rha aps on some poin's by an execu- | Long Red. rae And the 
disturbed the ay acking and admitted air. J. J. Mechi of his object, possessed | soil was ~ lay u With 
Tiptree, April 2 the best stored mind statistically of any man living pas to anf ruses sigh, te “ia ap plied thro ewt. of 
ee erphoephat, with about eight mi) 10 loa ng of farm~ 
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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF ENGLAND. | V. vii in the Chair. The names sa i poli in | they w re not upon a smal} seale, for he tried tenio dé 
3 rin ast w eek for | Sof land three and four acres in extent. On two 
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b Mr pea eek, : p ap AR T Cax r. ahe oner favoured the one portion of the field he used three quarters of half- 
r. Slaney thought that Mr. . Cha nee world confer Counci aly wit vith the following our to inquiries made of inch bones, and four bushels ; 
a favonrton the agricultural community if he would him in reference to bd eee I 31, 1856 ulphuric acid. On ano field, about 
gears from the various returns in his possession, or| «Jn reply to your communication requesting me to furnish | four acres, he sowed two quarters of half-inch- bones, 
obtai ain ned by hi him a suc ceinct tabular st atement vd i Council with information respecting the price and the supply | four bushels of bones dissolved in acid, and two ewt. of 
f Arachide-nut cake, a sample of which I had the honour of guano per acre broadcast. The results were. 
ine Santos moa Aia wished it mp! oy it might forwaniing a ann te since, I beg to state ee my firm whilst there was little difference in the size of the 
at once be enabled to deduce in sagas, shillings, an a France since October last, and that the present price is 9/. per , wedes, those grown with ano were more porous— 
ne Puce a roy they were likely to derive fro on. It appears to be relished more by sheep than by cattle. I| that was to say, spongy—and not of so good quality as 
its a’ optio adding tos uch stat tement practical infor- ten there is likely to be a fair supply of this cake, unless there | those which were grown witho 
shou ea z J ne e cake: 
mati well as oil, a8 to render the collection of the nuts not sufficiently | ay Mr. J. . Wit SOLENA aoe mane Fees When Mr. 
the rı quisite gigines, horse- -powe TS, vha jets, and other | remunerativ It is scarcely necessary to observe that whilst | Nesbit propos cast, of cours course 
app™ atus necessary for ae out the operations, He Takdak wìll probably always Sosia its supremacy t le 
pave y be had o spit yaa ordre cast, and had made up his 
nter est of agriculturists to encow urage the introdnetion of a ate haut 
d to the location other feeding cakes, such as Nut-cake, Poppy-cake, and Cotton- , min aes should ei the last time he would wads or 
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aae sere on Bare pi opie ag the sanitary con- cake, more particularly when such cakes are rich in their nitro- | so, for he hte te lost three-fourths of the effects « 
ditions A the family, as well as the tural advan- ; gnos elements. ny far suitable for working oen or at it, bi application was made on a dry day, and th 
tages to the farm, might equally be adjusted.—Mr, jsratherdearer than Nutcake, W. C. SPoo Erg a aean vet peeve off by the winds to hi 
ked that Mr. Mechi had fur r. e ised to hear that the Poppy-| neighbours’ farms, for aught he knew, miles off. And 
yrs oad ar jant an or seed cake was priced so high, as he obtained his o iva that he feared would be too generally the case, if guano 
concern: e supplies at the rate of 81. rhe were applied on the _ The 
inspected OMe. Waleecs Mylan ts, whieh he oe Barn-Fioors. — Mr. Grea f ¥Matlock-Bath, | had been asked to-night, “What was manure!” He 
tood could now, from the experience he had gained, be Derbyshire, paana Co sails with the followi “agreed with Dr. Ellis hee? it was, in fact, the food of 
i in ion respecting barn-floors, in reference to an the plant; and if they appl hiia ep eiA ane 
been. crops were looking most grire inquiry made by Colonel C Chapman, “ whether any Was not suitable for it, they wou! effect as 
Mr. Peas Barker alluded to the impediment, cheaper and equally durable material had been met | throw it ed as if t apt pori "ay t to a pig, or 
would arise to the continuous pe ing on of with, as a substitute for barn-floors, than the old- subsisted to a horse, 
liquid manure ‘én the frost in winter.—Mr. Scott fashioned Oak-flooring, for had been | Mr "Me chi ‘jut iy are J 
considered it ruinous to irrigate m oie “during the sent in to him of 407.” :— [ais a s drains nage, he gave that gentleman credit for ex 
continuance of frost. Arable land p ploughed pe i time“ In reference to your inquiries relative ‘to the layin; ing o of barn- | A, taty er hse from experimental f ate but thought 
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pidly passing over the land. Mr. Robert Smith, at hours the 5 halte-floor will bear any weight, and it will be, la nds | & found that the bones themselves were of far 
xmoor, had a stream from the e top of the hills, which ake not wane he aah but yu! than vet io greater importance superphosphate of lime, 
passing ugh his farm, where it: or ig iip Se eat economy i in Wherever he had tried the latter on a light soil, he 
men were ny hohe to stir Ae the calite this Hiooring, its | ona cme boly Tf ie an area which, invariably found there was nothing he er to it ; but on 
of irrigatin the iaa sie doe half an laid down with Oak, would be re ane ould pe nly strong clays he grew better Turnips where | 
pes Sieam-powen Ma Mr. Sidney thought, should only yey a ee as tee Bae om Sa es, but w fe as well hae bones bones alone, than w. 
be employed in the absence natural privileges, adapted from its streng elasticity to o e 
pe Sper ere from his o owe “sxpericnce;: to enter į Mr.) Mr. W. BENN ext (Cambvige) shouldbe glad to be 
Chadwick’ , which | Raymond Teaia feared the objection to its use as a enlightened as to which aw manures were the 
although “aided by. every advantage of publicity since threshing floor most likely to premature decay in the root 
1842, had not, in Mr. Sidney’s opinion, made much HREP —Mr. Devas had not heard of that objection. ton It was one of the crontuské to the extensive 
that liqui ese m: 
way. Mr. sien s fo 
only available for green crops, and that it was only to tl h e to decay where artificial ana 
such that it was applied in Italy. The farmers of poring? answer. those purposes set Bowe rent S than where they were not: that, he hesita- 
this country had shown so great a willingness to Aldam, M.P., rae we respecting mes  partioular aa, of ta not to state, was the result of his own experience. 
adopt every rational mode of improvement proposed asia employed.—Mr. Devas stated that he ee It had been his af Bg. tice for many years to manure partly 
to them, that he was quite sure they would also it had been supplied by Mr. Prentice, of Bie nd partly with such artificials as 
have adopted Mr, Chadwick’s plan had it been Who intended to pare enais ns of asp halte. pr } icul p. But this 
their interest to d ad evinced on all occa- | Chelmsford | Meeting in July ne ie yea nlingtefarngord firna holga lier Oia 
sions a readiness to pay a reasonable interest on nthe | Eien Mr. Brown, late of | he , he applied it to eight acres of Swedish 
permanent improvements made by their landlords,—, | Arriston, on the subject of eor Sige to piker the | in without artificial ;; and the result was 
Mr. Scott remarked that in Cheshire the tenants paid entrance of fibrous matter in the neighbourhood of that his Turnips gb vee GE better there, and 
va bosn used, 
ous tages ap ml had derived from iher pi, La, might possibly be worth i ing into England. | Pu rips in Bed sdfordshire, by the Conny Society, both at 
of li iquid manure. Yi elds of of one-quarter m re ha ad been | Prof. „Way (on serene of Sean sag": _ndisoston) Leig Leighton E pi irap ete h Luton, dgsad ee oy can 
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not yet asserted w: as remunerative ve, or was ENA like “4 eee” and he was disqualified by the mag A gr 
Farmers’ Clubs. r 
and the of Edi were not fair | London: April T.—Artificial Mandek i We add the! glad, therefore, if Mr. ae would give them seme 
examples to cite, Sir William Cubitt had poraa that | a: seer some sat the addresses given after the | idea as to was likely” to cause 
y p | lee ae week :— | decay at an earlier pe a m an, another, ` ba a path 
tion of the t problem of np nie a Grad | Mr. erie (of Knole, Guildford), stated the to what Mr. h state 
wake oh atl leg can geet PEE atlas me ie anoles on which he EE 1854, on 18! masere ‘being carried through the — =i 
Ep ieee nes steam-engine,—Mr. Sidney acres of Oats. In that instance he used ane wt. of. cle, the statement was very staggering. 
had not found demago o, at 9s. 6d. a ewt., which cost 1 Be. 6d. Of course, he did not deny that it was true ; but he was 
was advanta crops. In Italy it was never The Jani undrained, v: very n wet, an sr sitrgntbor in |i ed to think that by this time the land would 
applied to corn crops, but only to common Grass crops, wrete ned soot The have extracted pretty nearly all that was valuable in 
and to Italian Rye-grass, at the right time, immediately the guano-manured land he grew 40 bushels of Gates the manure, provided there was anything valuable in 
