412 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZET 
a 
TE. [June 14, 1856. 
warded 
Druce was also a pe rom England, 480 to various 
Down- Cotswold, joik dem 
o Franee, 
came 
pea for crossed pe of | these 120 only | 
4065 
other nations, and 
On Tuesday, after aistrib ution of prizes, to wee 
most only those who had gained gold medals were admitted, 
> ale the distribution of this immense mblage of ani imals | 
| and things began in earnest, ana h hig st 
# po | distemper gave in Franee 
coco as prevailin 
was aiite an ininal pie eevapeat 
its success, the oreo 
Hav ing thus given a short ect of the 
awarded | to Englishmen, we will now p. proceed to yi 
hibi some were even 
th 
was further extended to the 28th Jun The ican rench 
Commissioner of i, arr ure oad the Council of 
the intention o mper sh the French t ay 
the expenses attending the 
| exh aie at Chelm: sk oa a 
President informe the Council that 
numbers of the animals exhibited in each cies ‘both | seriously affected by it, and this made exhibitors 
English and foreign. 
short-horn breed was represented by 140 of 
pena bred i in a apa these were divided i into ioe iaaea belk, as “aPhO ney low figures had to be 
the 
Exhibition, the sales | fixed 
Pr d 
| the e Lord Ghiet Baron + ae karu g: ue nod post- 
t Chelmsford, f 
an of ‘Soc ely s show, Tor which t 
Pan Ae for ‘eae mark of 
; submitted to in gene an: yet several animals fetched a | his kind con: eS fe tion, and of his recognition of the 
to these 30 prizes EAP class of the | good price. W ould think that on “the Siae] inadoraeal expres of the Society. 
males, pare 7 for ohn ‘slabe oft AEE In the jia four-fifths of the Engish beg have remaine ed) W J Councit, June 11—Lord Portman, Presi- 
of young bulls there were a animals, in = heifer behind. There w: t demand for Aybi dent, in t ithe Aiei 
class 27 ; the old bulls numbered 36, and the cows 43. | which fetched a s high peti but the short-horns| AGRICULTURAL Cunnisr tRY.—The following Annnal 
Besides th there were other short-horns Tied in were the favourites. r. Ambler’s Grand Master was | Report oe Profs oE PI Consulting Chemist of the 
France, to which l ed, and which sold for 2507. Two animals bred by Jonas Webb om Society, was 
competed tel themselves, Of these the of M. R. dela Tréhonnais, were sold eve In ace r aoa en the usual custom, I beg to present to the 
pe separately ong property o! > 
there were 55 exhibited, 1 making a total ot a. en eine the opening of the exhibition for 3607, Se abiri oe ev bom 2 PEENE the Taboraton Ty 
in the exhibi tion. _ There was also a d prices ranging ee ert 801. and 150}, and we | $o theist Fe pectin Tna Te er ol of a nays madain i 
of -bred animals, th ould thin: k the avera of the sale of sho rt-hor! S | laboratory during this period for ponte of the Society at 
foreign breeds with “beet born or other bulls reduced rates is 241. They are as follow 
21 prizes were given, and out of that bomber n no i At the moment we write these lines the Industral | Mari Ber ah ee he Aes = 
aris an imes ones eee - oo 
0 ma ere carried by animals crossed from short- | ae; but a few days since so full of life, noise, and | Siparphorphats of Vite’ << "3 R 
oe oz 3 rN @ 
Th, Q, i J, 1 st folk 1 heii f| nimal c! h arcoal, A Sa } } 
fully tie mane There were in the Ayrshire rdst to awake other and wide acy à if- | Yarious sa rahe Fi = uct ~~ 68 
18 bulls and aa heifers eid cows ; to these 19 prizes ferent at clone, the i immense nave is divigped of its gay| Oileak ee y a 
were awarded, 8 for the ee and = ord ns females , and nothing remains but that) Waters à 5 
Besides these 78 Ay impression which such a removal mu necessarily | Miscellaneous s 12 
France, forming a distinc ct ape ites. total ¢ of 95 create. And now from that Palace, where so great a| pr 
animals of that breed. ame oie polled Angus num- lesson has been taught to European agriculture, men | This number is almost identical with that of last year, Fer 
bered above 40 head, to w 3 prizes were offered ; | rs all s ia the world havi me back to their | inasmuch as my report in May, 1855, embraced only a period of 
the West Hi 30 hı peting a ~ Prizes. distant hom ing with them new ideas, a better | je re the iene pote nalyses during t the pa ast at yat ais 
The Irish “breed had n A | short to some extent of the previous year, oug e wi 
ich’ 8 jedgment of “things and in many errno elemen | it was in 1 It is probable that the mear ki the list of 
prizes were offered, Altogether the United Kingdom, | “a mprovement in the shape of animals, implements, | charges which will be proposed to the Council o n the ath f June, 
the Channel I contributed about d seeds, which before were unknown in their respec- | will, if adopted, cause a considerable increase umber oi 
r p TGP 
head of . ve countries, his is a great practical result which | those Hehe ho are ie = re pice advan age of the 
The prizes fi PE by Mr. Kirkwood, | | sicaes would ce t ard the exertions of those | !#boratory.| The great bulk a gasnom; superen AAE 
ef t, Mr. Evans, o Mr. Stewart, of who first penveavadt and then so completely and satis- | and other manures. I am gratified to be to report, that 
Strathane, near Auchenberge 3 Mr. orteous, Mons factorily ponte this great undertaking. | — ugh po ampere cae te ee oe ie. 
t, Mr. Rennie, and Mr. A. Dunlop for, Paris, June 12th, 1856. SOREN vad bas deesthadktol eewatae etn eae y 
m b petition and better informa- 
bulls i and Sir Fed Pact bt Mr. faker ma Porte a n tion on nh f the A mai by x all, perhaps, fe t 
and r, n or cows. ever: the animals consciousness the part of dealers that their manures wil 
have been sold a rices ing from 5 1002. | THE saa FARMER AT THE FRENCH li all pr lity subjected to the searching ordeal of chemical 
a P ng | a ee | analysis. During the past year I have at request of the 
The prizes for Polled breeds are taken by Messrs, Trg over there i EE us aò ee a ben | Cocal ade several examinations and reports, amongst which 
M'Combie, Walker, Watson, and the om of Tne The Cattle Show in what the calls oe Pally Dangdoostree; | may be mentioned the various mineral and other substances 
me of ave hans sold at | They French be clever feller of that oe a t no doubt, | collectse in the Pacific, and forwarded from time to time by her 
y too. h pri 
The Dutch aredi had 40 head; the various Swiss | Ee iste tiga diede exit Stine of it wa the cy gn a ee eat year I delivered as usual 
spring ar a 
tribes of cattle amounted to 228 animals, T equally | Tis in the Shonseleasy, their public pleasure grounds, | three lectures on different subjects, oue kd which, “On the 
ivi amon; Bern: Where pc , refreshment, and all sarts o’ games abounds, atmosphere as a source of nitrogen to plants,” was subsequently 
g the Fri aai) tz, Eastern And well i ts th th Tl blished in the Journal of the S x 
Switzerland, and Unterwald. The Tokas tai Austrian Not AEE wip mnt mooti TAY PaE aM ATN ommittee made in O 
breeds num! 62 hi d the 1 raimp i ini | | last, I have since that time been gees 1 K mines 
garian, Moravi: and i | wr flags 0’ differ'nt colours upon his outer pari | the waters of la po nds rots a have obtained results whi 
“rm 3 Ed ve stuck their Pally woaver and made ox gay and smart, | believe will prove ery in ting to the agricultural public. 
about 50. There were besides 4 buffaloes from Tun. J: y. r b d f blica- 
Saxon: | Likewise pi Taa and erari; adornun’ the vap ia The full details of this ane Doro een prepared for pu 
parei y contributed 12 head, Denmark and Hol- | The purtiest shrubs and vlowers as I thinks I e tion in the next number of the Society’s Journal; but I ma 
| | pe bet here mention isos? k; Pei prii e Gt invest È 
$ bec: ecessary to method of dei 1 
ee may wel be imagined, exhibited all a \ po peer rack Aeae eA pirani tet ae ra pe sma all II quantities of ni nitrie ene withuet which the examination of 
breza to. great Amadea in point of numbers an d | strong, drainage water would have been comparatively valueless. No 
3 the heavy big usticea | | And fruits, and blooms, and blossoms, that smelt so — and | Such method was in existence, although it hai n long a 
61 he head, the beautiful white Charolais about 40 ; the | | That I thought o’ Cupid’s Gearden as you hears ofin the zong, | @ ao tes tie Sai had el eee 
othe tire eds. emis; in ail countries, er se 
é + iene’ kee: “rt eae mese, reton, Then p en imidges and statchies for to ze e, ceeded in devising a method by which extr ely minute aoa 
ai 100 more, And now I s’pose cin wonders where the beastices could be; na of nitric acid could be estimated with erat peta thing 
so that reckoni oo Bagh hretsalsn exited To the | bullocks, cows, and oxen, the stations as was gave, hat very lately, and simultaneously indeed, the sa d 
by France, the: ae cenit 500 head of Fre: They was beneath the galleries and round about the fas, been accomplished in Parii . Ville; but this ar 
y k 3 . Ns stance ouly proves how very much such a peeo s was regu 
So the exhibition of cattle ecnsisted on the whole of the Their nati d breeds, weren’t wrote on papers like | M. Valle’ ‘method is is totally different from mine bo th in principle 
e y 
extraordi ber of 1300 animal to ; REE A, 
i um! imals. se 
ae i But yor ai ields w d iB id tati re Ia sat ged also at the request of the Committee in an inve! 
The sh races and pokies also ver adorned wi’ flags, and trimmed wi s Ithon al 
numero England exhibited 250 pe fay! y| And lots more flags hung woaver te and em, likewise, | Peras on “he on of the semonphare on soils, m al ugh 
erous. England exhibit olland, 24 ; | I never zee siteh cattle-stalls in all my life afor [more; | have already obtained some interesting results, they ar 
Austria, 100 ; ony, 28; other Taga Sites, 1 5 ” | suftic ane svanced for publication isi te AT: 
France exh ited Prat 200 pens of her own breeds, | | There was orkshire, there was Durham, Sussex, Jersey, h Welbeck Str =e ae fine al a 
i i yuernsey, too; mber: ih ileges of Che wal Analysts 
ag also other breeds i bre ho rom forei There was Hereford, and Devonshire, as fi s grew 4th of June, 1856, reef Oe the following rates of — for analyses 
countri < ika togi t 1200 mad 4 re: ae h, and poplar i Swiss, Jarman, "Danish Duteh, | to be made e by the c consulting chemist for me: of the Society, 
500 of which were exhibited by Franee, 400 400 Ah Great And Fre: zum on ’em pretty g n’t good for much, | who, to avoid all unneces: corr tiie gis particularly 
Britain, and rest ot E "| requested, when applying to him, to mention the kind of analysis 
In th 171 ani The pigs and ship and poultry was lodged in pens outzide ; | they — “ae uote its number in the subjoined schedule. 
in the pig there were prey 72 o lt never thoughta A in his pig could axes a aga The char; analysis, together with the carriage of the speci- 
which came gees the United Kingdom ; hag ss | Aee cied [tiabóay, oa) ld breed a good fat hog hat Wi mens, paid to him by members at the time of oer 
by ce there are itis: Seo than 65 from Ry pigs as ever I did z appli 
i: f Peruvian 
SEn es. | And there purty creeturs too—another kind and sort, a 2 An n opinion o cia imar pa the pns a 
In classes there were 474 pens, containing They poki ed th the pigs wi’ parasols to rake "en squeak and snort: | ” molaire, organie: mathe Sand: ‘pho spha of tamad 
about | r i Tav à giggle, aid sure, and Hyi to — the row! Fp Ee ie. rE ae tenis’ 2 . 010 
arty aà playu 
shen 
There were 2107 lots o of implements of every kind and | 
imaginable; 317 were contributed by the United 
‘ustralia, 88 came from Belgium, 51 | 
fro: Roman 
| To zee the voreign he ores and shepherds drest so gay, 
| Twas 1 raly quite as good, mun, as gwiun to a play ; 
| How differ’nt to our Srovers, and oo pun shepherd- -boys, * 
| And carter-chay aps, 'longzide ’em in smock-frocks and corduroys ! 
| The talkun mas babble was wuss than any mill, 
| Then Peesdiins renchwomen, thei gues is never still. 
and F. 
sd gabbles, porary and chatters, till yoat ph is in a maze, 
ğ rance. | noisy mag] and jays. 
the prizes awarded for implements are those for 
and for heavy-land-plough, to | 
- Howard; for light-soil-plough, to Messrs. Ransome =| 
the 
£ 
a lot of noisy magpies and jackdaws, and roo! 
I missed one sort of animal I reckoned I should vind, 
Which I thought as how a Frenchman ate as sins as he dined, 
There was no lack of ox and cow, nor yet of sheep and hog, 
And ryt they had, and rabbits—but they hadn’t got ne’er 
n purtiness, and all that there, 
| In our Zmithfield club they beai 
But I thinks we got the best on janis 
'em,a purty sighnd in meat; 
trimmuns is th 
A They be better hands 
shee, to Mr. Garrett ; <a ae , | But tthe leg 0” aallon eao seiner te the iaa ei: 
ean. a he ; for ‘ 
engines to Barrett & Exall and Hornsby & Son; =, ; 
for portable threshing machines, to Ranso & Sorietiez, 
Sons mie Mr. Barrett ; for corn-crushers, to Mr. AGRICULTURAL OF ENGLAND. 
‘Turner zam Yoot-cutters, Messrs, Ransome ; SEES June 11: Lord Portman, Presi- 
m OREIGN Stock.—The period for receiving entries for | 
[iael Sass teeters the Chelmsford Meeting, | 
n 3. a — G the value (relatively t the average 
amples in the market) of pei Avie -n muriate 010 
pihopa par of the nitrates of potash Pola 
» 4 An analysis of superphosphate of lime for pia 
pions katai only ... 
5. er oo: dame of superpho 
roporti: ue of geen 
noe pho: 
spl hate of lime, showin; 
organic ae ae a nd 
sphates, sulphate BE i 
n of its 
nure 1 0 
ble pra 
and ammi 
6. An analysis ( "enfficiont fo for the “determination 
agricultural value) of any ordinary artificial ma 
T: Praimer :—The proportion of lime, Ts. 6d.; mopa 
ian sia, 10s.; the proportion 0: 15 
8. Limestones or maris, including carbonate, phosphae, 
and sulphate of lime, and magnesia with sa 1.0 
clay... 
9. Partial an nalysis of a soil, including determinations of PE 
, organic matter, and carbonate of en “3 b 
10. complete analysis of a soil 
1. il showing the proportio 
a perri ture, eg minerai oor E buminous te 
an wondy Bae’ of starch, gum, 
sugar, in friaa Hae 
n 12. Ansas of animai products, refuse substances ag 110 
1 aleas reper “hardness” of a sample of tab 
$ j ae oe 
ter before and after boiling .. FERA Š 
ef 
” 
used for fod 
Be ratric acid in a sample of water .. a 
nae diets oa Of charges 18 not sppHieabie © kayes 
made for persons commercially ly engaged in the manufacture oF 
