SEPTEMBER 20, 1856.) 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
635 
able or willing to afford him relief; he has a wife and 
en occupying by day and night the “small and 
peroxide, although of themselves gore are easily |i 
organic matter at lls. per ewt.; gypsum 26s. per per 
childre rendere d 50 by ammo onia.” e $, ton ; and the alkalies at one-third the, value ole ammonia, 
wretched roomin * A kell hi e old scho l, for, say the 
sowie: anani to the state of a living "skeleton s his| “ e Grass withers ae ryw eather now, how will y it 
ut to be hand the whole = re for ts ‘ft the e water "that still remains is taken so he ” This} © Explain the tnconsed fe re mea 
ecarious alms she may have | is very simply teers nd if those old farmers will] Bo rth. ally sol hin being defi 
ae daring Pine d -= ay. not th a household of examine their turf they will ypu that the ends of oat’ bore Bp token rg SEA apum a Arn e 
pauper poor rates of the union | the roots of the best Grass e all dead or nearly | available to plants by the deco s mn setting free 
to which they belong ? cig the regulations rl inches Saa genfa yi the air f the phosphoric acid, which the sulphuric acid accom» 
out-door relief to them, and itt } pein ` y oil oy ri ee gasii: co — by Barc with the lime in the bone, and forming 
the union-house because the “miserable father has a nee, in many of t re . 
y the crop i 
likely to be injured ty “arought than in kased ‘oi 
where the roots have opportunity of workin 
greater depth ; and in a Pos instances the sul oil 
contains all the i ingre edients rooney. to fert tility, mss 
his po ssession, and he dies S without 
dge. 
, why was not this pauper sent to 
ad been there and dis- 
i i ; yet this family were not 
s0 destitute as 
will admit this last. 
2. State some of the purposes dere by fallow operations on 
e 
the soil, whether during the growth of the crop or otherwise? 
of the pur is the de- 
into manure. 
h 
aa served 
S, CO 
by fallowing 
erting them 
that fallo i alone i is s suffi 
to be legally qualified recipients of 
re ieis 
the fat ber a nine ae who with their 
acres of inferior 
8, 
uires. Although I canno 
b hi 
cient to supply the soil with 
t requi 
ti 
und (sulphate of A e). 
e reasons for the greater 
"grown fatting beasts as vac macy with that ried young 
stock in a store condition. 
Full grown fatting animals havi requirements 
or bone eh oes little for wri Dee more et these 
ingredients n the excrement than 
c 
f th 
or the saesiienting p flesh 
and m 
? 
8. Sta e way in which the warmth and quietness of feeding 
"animals. are for ind to economise se ir er 
i 
of se has 
„wear away the superfluous aati with via al 
ide We fin d the hare never get fat 
Auch Pf 
J 9 
ily i 
gentleman who pays him 102. ayear; “xt most he can only 
devote to his family 6l. a year or less than 2s, 6d. a week. 
Pb being too feeble 
to till the land profitably, — must surrender both 
— ra land to the landlo at whom they cannot pa 
Neither in-door n me door relief is avail- 
aes Sethi unless the father aes “his service and 
joins ea rae in the poorhouse, mak ing a ere 
yea 
th D +, Lai ind ustr ry to 
the father, and arn cite impress of use arene” on the 
ahild: 
nts. 
ng the door of 
not only imn the pe sbeseyien of ammonia, but also | by th 
a 
have remained ‘insoluble. 
3. Describe th mical ma of a dung-heap, and 
give paa or the eit Sea as von recommend ? 
ung-heap I should be guided 
oil x is to be applied to ; if for 
clay or diy i adhesive soil I should use means to 
vent a sible fe oe ee Bene by 
or ¢ ring 
As th he sonidir tg er 
o the em oil to ve ha 
prera me fuel to the ce it te reasonable 
that the more quiet and reaso: pene rmth eye obtain 
the less will be = a para a their food, and the 
ey w ie he 
a | more fat the; 
9. Explain the pro by which the addition of rennet induces 
the coagulation of milk. 
‘Ther re are many ot her acids besides rennet that will 
the praia a to take me ity in te soll i 
whether es wa rant raf Panky a sid I should” sA 
every pre 0 pre as possible Pa 
by 
mentatio: caseous matter to unite on 
on, and. causing t the 
e pare 
be Sobran hs of 
The mother and children will not 
a sna — fi um- 
uardia ate aaa 
door relief is out of 
stances. If the Boa’ 
power and inclination a ndane ‘little 
chase a li ttle seed Barle z d seed Pota 
fami ly 
woul: 
a, 
r-case : a married woman was sick, She w: 
aS 
epee union-house, where in the sick and 
2 
she was inadmissible ; he was then ime 
diy w with his diet in a farmer’s ‘om 
illing his ow 
to earn 
house, , although all he 
asks for 
Take 
stem 
relief for 
he 
of a large family ‘aches 
ur- 
H or Ay more likely to retard fi 
ashes 
fe e of i in abe hiria of fermentation. 
n 
ouse : 
d wi ab 
bread and something for his apd ‘to live in a si 
sah ales phate 
t 5 P 
tiig 
| jipa wiper oy ashes are excellent 
pay urves 
Whe 
n the heap me finished, aog 
it should consist of all sorts of ma nure that 
convert food into flesh and l milk, rem a type of a 
poa food containing all the the 
cture of the animal body, it kapinan seem that rennet 
he horse, and the dung of pigs bein phair too 
Bi. of itself, it should be well mixed to | the height of 
is the right 
hag ter he porn fe ang. 
next, 
to 5 feet, 
Be inches o 
that w 
well covered us AP am or — 
oid 
d that fermentation should be ote ho cs altogether : 3 
TRIAL OF REAPING MACHINES AT 
Cc 
THE competition of reaping machines for 
of | 251. offered by the T Union A 
an “ia 6 ammonia is only formed in the rats heap a during 
the process o of decomposition ; i this salt, however, being | 
n Wedne 
in a first t insi nstance, was a Ap T of ip a a fair average 
extreme: ly 
a org ; if the mass ; should seem too dr 
stre ength, mostly sanding well u e land stare ng in a 
1 
ry, it shou 
saturated from time to time Jesas Pi Tignes | 
Mia! all 
tank. 
s been ame 
thicl 
|en Son Aata too RSs for per 
ting scarcely so obstacles by aa ~~ to tet 
The machines 
a 
ick, 8 
A 
the father’s itenes = si arga Trish oa matter, one load of which will at least be hree| 1. Mr. a aiai Newbigging—a Crosskill’s Improved 
law, says “ “ey Sith all pa et a becom A lec wok loads of that tig a geod aa ae | ate 5 jin yards Beli, vith, serrated knives, crank movement, and canvas- 
gan A y some eight o and washed by VER moller o horses Kai i 
ae A hoe ane wd he page rior see shower, und e raporated By every burst of Sagar ts gar Suttie, New Mains, Inchture, Perthahire—a 
i H $ t al should on rt turning in cases w! M k's 3 ‘ dy 
= cabin, lest it should be levelled to the ground smd seca ty ed pf oh nals oles quite, 3 Vld wiGormas Machine, with a cation web 
ep y» (such an act choos a dull or rainy any st the operation. A| 3, Mr. Crosskill, of Beverley siey's-—Improved Reaper, 
it suffers terrible e privations and bitter want. —_ not | ` itl al ip pond. maxed Mith the Beep. $ 2 ath pera od entten and vuleanised Rabber belts. 
pee. appeal fairly for commiseration and out-| 4 qm = Con yp re P ale i 
—_ The ee of lime to soils varies much according Reaper, with improvements on 
phen ae URAL QUESTIONS. | t° circums s, the magnesian limes having been |machine known pat i AEREA plain erties’, 
aati or cinta ` | known even on en e sterility ; but when lime i is jana back delivery 0 id orking 
from y raugh + z 
a maci increases their fertility, Thus when applied to machine was allotted (by eon a Pgs Lon 
Swarr OF AGRICULTURE. 
TH 
1—Name the causes to which 
allotments were sooner cut At the 
just di é i plants, but it quickly converts the fi unless th 
The ohithes fertility of land after into po owerful manure ; it also acts as Papacy ae ie the icant ke “~~ that ras —_ 
drainage are so many that it quire a volume to | the so! am is a often ured by st $: water), | machines square yards 
deseribe them all, but I think you will be satisfied with mentzalising acids, and likewise forming 
Some of them, It is well known that where wate fertility by decomposing or uniting igre ip phe a oe 
stagnant in the soil tmospherie air does not pene- with mineral i ients which in themselves were Mr, Grosskiil's, 4724 yards, ia rp re, r, 
trate, and it is lik known that the roots causes. of sterility, or at all e bach ve Messrs. Dray and Co’s, yards, in 58 
Plants cannot thrive without this element, but the land n; it also is beneficial in destroying Moss Me. Suttie’s machine, as well as that of Messrs. Dray 
having been divested of its superfluous water, the air | Lichens, &e., and —" them into food for-piemin; |an o., lost sor pairing aree, 
rushes in and supplies its place, converting noxious — em? good service lime renders to land is í f which we wer s a In this- 
se > à 2 Tie roots of slugs if applied in the ri yanda | to p D 
follow food as air and the righi right ti time’; j k 1 Ws machine did 
appropriate such 
water haven arfaa = for them. Secondly, pl 
dence very ted by heat up to veras pi pg os te ne was applied in a ematie ‘state, very patie Both machines left a clean short neun 
“a kan preta aaa sbTE rrai eaii . Two Sowers, , one following about five to eight | appeared considerably distressed. Dray’s and Suttie’s 
pola aie a a h behind the other, will effectually destroy them. lina sadni 4 be much more easily wrought 
and warm Sa Pak Se h ) a: d di $ gi d d g rt: £ arising, it appeared e us, partiy om e horses 
'8 drained the = surrounding atmosphere becomes manure, penn nica see by eae aa 
ànd more congenial to ~ health. of plants, Thirdly, 5. Estimate the money val cap agen: at te n those j 
before draini bane of land, Tenslubts phosphete of rg wet se nd 1 and Cos little artene 
ASO a at a D iari elements in its Soluble as en aie te aie aaa 128 Dray 1 Saas 
cater carrying down to the roots and dispersing non Sk RaRa *15.5 | eosts a great deal less money others, was very 
through the soil ammonia and other elements of fertility. Gypsum ne ea cl desis ee cers rae much , on ut of the simplicity of its 
Many ingredients in soils requi doal. RR oor =o om 423 | machinery, the appa with which it was wrought, 
Ms rare ona: ns aut a2 and the regularity which the laid off the 
ne for plants by the admixture of ammonia. In Moisture 3 EN 25 simeon ite — 
itis aT Bart of Step! s Book o parr sit sheaves ce mag aso erage erop, 
injuriously on vegetation, and ates reise that pa the value a ingoluhje —. at ‘le 6d. | ment, Mr. Suttie’s machine with 
the crenate wt. soluble, &e. p icno amii As eid ct 
N eniin n | | number of hands to werk it ; it did less work than the 
> | ining 
