the. et be pra _ 
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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[NoveMBER 22, 1856. 
as thin, and the district was considerably above 
a root rivalling our garden crop b 
quality. The Wild Oat Avena Fatua 
both Potato and Tartarian Oats, a 
amount of niece nae ingredients which are 
| found in ri 
pare 
of Wheat in each Month of the Year. nd the cultivated Oat | in a m: 5 is point cannot be said yet to 
Height of Tenth | ; ~ | has been proved to degenerate into the wild variety. | be fully developed, as Mr. M‘Dougall compared pure 
Year.) Sown in:— nt of Ear. | Remarks. A case oe eg the produce P successive years | night-soil prepared by his powder with the common 
x | exhibited the various — We eed not stop to/ privy dung of Manchester mixed up in open ashpits, 
ft. in Inches. i hich t lel t 
| point out the i ut he had 
1851 | June .., 3 5 3 Clean straw. hint BR aie iba anrea eee 
ah a 210 2 | Ditto. y à ; p d him shortly a ca reful analysis of stable-dung 
p 4 4 itto. with and without it, to wi the actual mone 
September 3 it 4 itto, arietta the Shrine Professor Mr. B h i ney value of a ton 
a a ha r $ a : Ry blighted. furni sh anannualreport of them. In connection with this hye town | nigara disinfected and pov te ed by this 
December . 3 10 34 | Much blighted, P 
1852 | January Ditto. grown by Mr. Maund, who d uring t the course of the Ammonia, 4 pee cent, or 99 Ib. per ton,at6d. £ s.a 
February Ditto. evening delivered a short lecture i in explanation. Veteri- per Ib. 250 
«ae ry science, Phosphates, 7 per “cent., or 156ib., at “Sa. per w. 099 
pril .. | | Failed as a crop. The other constituents cannot Be estimated s at 
May kto 5925 agricultarist, “was ‘well represented by some excellently less than 010 0 
~ This, while: it shows that for the ame Wheat 
t cularly noticed the teeth of animals as indicating age. mag 
Sep more oe = p” i vember are $ nt Further on we found a table covered with roots of |—While that of a ton of the ordinary night-soil, as 
Laer h h ETE ee ne? ie i ab greatly in aint, the col ult of | usually sold to fi d which contains 0.5 per 
though the sam eat may grow, ye it will be] 4 series of experiments by the Professor of Chemistry | cent., or 1] Ib. per ton, is only 6s. 23d. Sir John next 
ae in th awh ja of winter i n the effect various manuri su stances, _ any 2 re- S to the benefits which aa se -= vi ‘01 
after Dec almost certain to arks u hich, save that the | the use of the disinfecting powder urray’s 
blighted, so that one sem should at all und 
osen for di aa rent season 
farmer fon necessity got in 
ipon 
highest interest, would be forestaling that information 
pe a we look for ea om Dr. Voelcker at some future 
Amongst v m bar 
of thie newly discovered metal alu 
terest. Pow ful mic croscopes revealed the wonders of 
bl] 
| extens nsive horse bazaar in Manchester, aia concluded 
his interesting observations on the subject by reading 
the following letter from Mr. Murray :— 
bad gg = pee Mews, Manchester, Nov. 3, 1856, 
JOHN a MD BART. 
means a thin at- 
tenuated growth—n resalt wa sure to happen with early | 
thi 
and thick sowing on improved land. 
These remarks ther = tend to show that under | 
certain conditions thick sowing is a necessity—a | 
necessary evil, however, evkbee e certainly the crops 
past were, when the at was nas 
ultar 
| me e ieved to amuse and interest. 
2 
NEW DISINFECTANT. 
Sir J. S. Forbes secondly called the pleats os a 
meeting of agriculturi at Fettere N.B 
‘Dougall’s enero a a quantity 7 of whi ee 
had obtained, as using in the ae and mrha 
apon 
n his 
s powi Sad sa yet had suffi- 
aeii time to try its effects in preserving the essential 
e | Smt it ies of the | manures, bat he had no doubt. whatever | 
stables, and outbuildings; I find it the most important imgre- 
t tried. Sinee i i 
f u; 
an stables 
my horses have enjoyed 
next year we shall have 
p to the Mayor of Man 
ing the result—Be! me, I 
Obedient ae 
nt On this, 
” said Sir John, s I have e only to observe 
of the 
not equal to those of moder: aisi 
ia ba 
On the other thin sowing under improved 
is as m much a a “necessity as thi ck under the 
a The ey were aware that the f 
nur the action of aìr and moisture ver 
TRE their value, and in time rendered ree 
alto; a er worthless. But the loss of the manure w 
rc 
© 
our friend Newrcer has been su pposed t 
not 
evil sustaine d from such exposure. The 
price of the powder EAr. the aA a iter from es 
additional effect (perhaps from chlorine evolved, 
bes des the mere quantity of os) in drying his stalls. 
her Sa rt and byre re dun oye 
than 
advecate, will some day be the topie which will 
aih 
5 J 
ea Teh? 
u go down stairs to the 
yard; and, savo ene? Bh etiam cary the 
occupy his descendants. 
CONVERSAZIONE AT THE ROYAL | 
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
p 
Ir As ie Pong hn Bo to our readers to learn that a | 
e first we trust of a series, | his fami 
wan tld: in in mth hall of Mes Royal Agricultural College | 
on the 11th inst, and fully realised the idea of its pro- | Th 
moters, in in affordi i 
y 
ng to numerous visitors, many of | 
whom were attracted froma considerable distance, a | 
agreeable and instructive evening; to | 
their view, in well isagi ap iaai variety of | 
Ee eee T a eee lucidating | 
ehair was Ed 
Ith, and 
of Manchester, ina 
well Seca Club. 
their effei cts as M‘Douga “a 
ury a 
wane deposit tobe, I think i his must 
deed wi 
s. per cwt., scar 
per Ib. and as aen a past dredged 
i aig a white i iron papers ‘oot of the stall 
dung has been ae aal the fresh 
many 
smell of putrid mera upon their {premises ; they B 
been so Tong. socns to it— having been 
od beens it swage be co! nsidezed, in any circumstances, an 
extrava: taking into account the sanitary 
Esq. 
a to be bro mp 
and interesting style. The room, which is 70 
ing and — was well jap and presented a 
5i , hung with a 
the various sub- | sary a 
any in his usual | sm 
brass in a A aE ea as I was once la "Tt 
home; re they would feel as if all were 
e without it.’ Now it was obviously 
supplying a great desideratum to obtain a ne 
_— ag would ha ave the effec t of removing all offen 
effects w ich the dragoon officers’ certificates so con- 
Bently ielare ia aye = its effects, independent 
of enh rial v: 
Dr. Foreman, ie oll rn, at the request of Sir 
here at stated the result of some experiments he 
had made with th His antes were 
tive x bare vari ious depart 
1 
ments of instruction; several of them being tl k 
ents, especi: rehensive gloria | 
g hood. T 
series eaten 
he ie | 
ur = Dougall paren out that the naan deodori- 
r disinfectants failed to accomplish this, and were 
open to objection, on the ground that they 
introduced pernicious substances into the manures to 
hich pe Thus, chl 
ch they “anes a us, cj oe mit a and 
tiles scenery. pi) Konan 
aa ty ME Taia at OEN |S lim 
5, both 
der. ex 
i to “generated sulphuretted Pag i in large 
‘oom, which immediate! 
doors, &c., from 
the ee 
mer o Mr. Cowie, Sir John stated that the 
powder could cay be applied as a = Whitewash h wan the 
ngly acid and c 
being Shey Le a both 1 highly ny eee Corie of 
place in numerous 
a of insect life, described by Mr. Jon 
upon manures ay “ihe caine g 
they contain.” Other ptT such as 
ular enumeration of the tapii which “were 
pur- 
charcoal and pi pie are also pernicious in their 
ieai admired, as as excellently adapted for the action upon organic ures, The noxious o iRNENis 
ofi Above these, and fi gp 7 Mwhich it is desirable to remove, 
this were flags à 
ne is is alpo eyen ve, unpleasan: most | 
as s fumigator in infected Aaaa 
company then proceeded to the beg a where 
a ‘guns of ° farmyard manure turned over, 
emitting, of co! a po odour, “which disappeared 
almost e aaea on the application venti a slight 
sprinkling of the powder. Abridged from the 
Standard. 
Sie oo either « ame the room were devoted to th 
and the a elements, ote it is saan to 
preserve, are phosphoric acid and manure. Mr. 
M:‘Dougall says that his powder fulfils both these 
essor Johnston 
ts of science bearing on agriculture, 
which form part of the college course ; ss, Sp 
covered with agri cultural produce, principally from the 
farm, and ELET ats age rope _ 
confessed as the desideratum that m 
viz., “ either B decompose or 
to combine with both the sikaline and acid products ped 
Haig Sere tion.” It is compose sed of two acids and tw 
FARMING IN STAFFORDSHIRE. 
quality; 
se ees he Grek Laut Be sae 
sm the bases, tango and lime. The general effect is 
sid d b - M‘Dou agall :— “We use sulpbu- 
earbolic acid ti 
songs e sy be worthy of mir the finer 
f +h. 
prevent Pate fe iment a little lime to neu- | T: 
Egan int yangi iera manuring and spring 
a to vaninn 
misront 3 reserve ve the paran acid ammonia 
been one of the judges of 
crops for the Keele ? Club for several years, 
| which has given me i times 
goin — oe Belonging to to Ralph Snyde, Esq., 
ot Koele and remarking the improvement going 
coon e. oe ee the + elev eee 
| of hough readers, 
Keele Hall and village are situated on 2 nce 
| land in North Staffordshire, on ma diver 5 
cay at» Stern ade 2 
ted favourably as 
ai a 
vent ‘the “Ton of pong of the ammonia,” 
che eci ion 
Bondio Can ¥y | 
this deodoriser, and the increased 
are | seldom 
August. 
“yh = 
the | cher in temperature or meistare amd San 
same county. 
Jom cevomences before the middle 
| praggo a strong clay loam 
| on a strong red marl, or rock, in the neigh 
mosti: loam wi 
‘ety a poor slay drain, an 
