THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[FR RB. 16, 
Staney, M. P., chair, Hon. Captain Dudle: 7) HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL, Jan. 16. —His Grace 
Pelham, R. N., M. P., Baron M: m Alcock, the Duke of Buccleuch in the chair. “The egs 
M.P., Mr. Burke, „Dyer, Mr. Fuller, „Mr. | or 3 of — Ploughing and of Trenc: 
H. F. Hunt, Mr. Maj j Mr. — . — M. F., Ploug Ploughing.”—Mr. said : 
well, Solly. ect of ss — 2 8 in io of tim 
to rol epen “the surface soi t breaks up and loosens the 
The Marquis of Westminster was elected a Governor | subsoil, , mizing it partially with the soil, greatly increasing the 
of the Society. efficiency of the drainage, and by the * of atmospheric 
$ j | — to a much greater depth rmerly, abe rg what 
The follo bers were elected : was previously a barren rv and an obstru to the 
Staniland, Meaburn, Ma: ie. effectual drainage of soil, suitable for Aai Ta tion 
Rome, Joseph, Mayor of Carlis! f the roots of plants, “thereby increasing their fertility, 
Bran , Headon House, Sun 1 more particularly in seasons of either excessive drought 
Colthurst, Joseph, „Jerm treet, Lond or moistu Besides — ges, there is also cas 
Milner, John, Hordle Farm, soa aoa Bent greatly increased facility, and saving of labour i 
Bayley, } 4, Basinghall-street, London prac nt working of the land, and the ease with which, 
Percival, Stanley, Strand, Barnet, Herts later od, = a Aer by trench- 
Wyatt, as, 359, a * an po of the loosened 
Bradshaw, mshume, Manchester — prepared subsoil. pry to ‘the „ the chief ob- 
Caldwell, Capt. Fr. Ed. (en 13 Langford-lodge, | jection which I hear urged against subsoil „ploughing is, the 
Brandon, Norfolk expens — n; this, I am glad to say, h w been 
Treby, Paul Ou Erana Devon materially K or rather reduced ‘to Seiat. 2 a 
“Py oe Saye as 
„Charles, Henley, I h, Suffolk 
Stephens, rabies te . — Wa adebridge, Corn 
Samuelson, B., Britannia Iron Works, Banbury, Oxo! 
Wilkinson, Rev. John, Brought: ifford, — n Wilts 
Dickin, Thos., jun., St. Stephen’s-hill Ruge! ely, Staffordshire 
Carew, „ Colepriest House, Tiverton, Devon 
Cail, J., 8, Pavilion-place, Battersea Fields, Surrey 
Daniel, as Daniel, Stuckeridge, Bampton, Devon 
Maw, G , Southcott, Wesleigh, Bideford, Devo 
Robinson, Mrs., Wilson _ Milnthorpe, Westmoreland 
Veitch, James, Exeter, Dev: 
Riley, Edmond, * Dalton a Oviiige, Beverley, Yorkshire 
Stratton, Richard, Salthrop, Swindon, Wiltshire 
„Jun — ter, 8 hire 
Phillips, John R. Spene Lodge, Chelmsford, Essex 
— William, 197, e treet, Exeter, 1 
Hayne, J., 24, Gloucester-square, Hyde- park, Londo: 
Lewis, Capt. T. E. „ Sele Devon — 
Packhard, E., axmundham, S 
Arnold, W. Jun., Nethercott, e Hatherleigh, 
Devons ie, the 
Lubley, Joh: 
ersetshire 
2 8 W. i. Maine, fe, Bashley, L peace Tamnehive 
I seen W 
| — whe — ive . — 
4 — 
f diei 
9 * — 3 being to increase the goers of 
oil, oe to work, Kr longer of 
n we 
y subsoil, 8 ploughed without any apparent 
— result; this w. 
cation, = the cause of ‘the inferiority of this previously 
the deficiency of Tonia or clay, to enable it to 
ent moisture in eather, while ead subsoil 
subsoil without adding 
ldi 
lity o: 
take somen * c on plough, from 9 to 10 inches 
deep, at right s with Py — 4 K t ain, the subs 
= following 22 br eaking up 6 inches deeper, 
thus 
rking i ma sekr — ape 3 9 15 ok 16 ier this I have 
— N bey of tog horses in each 
of the ordinary 
hat I can save 
work 
plough ; the uv me p» — (exclus: 
ploughing), is hp 10s. per acre, and I find t 
e whole of this extra r in spring, when is come í to 
aan it was not done. 
obviously also an injudicious appli- | 
soil 
ann we Hall, 1 Manchester 
28 Puben tton, Lincoln: 
sonn ag Rer. William, 2 rd, tive . — 
Henry, James, Blackdown House, Petwort 2 
James, Backin 
Bentley, John, Eastwood Hou otherham, Yorkshire 
Wills, Thomas, Jun., Eastury, Bo acey, Chudlei igh, — 2 
Smith, Sir Charles Cunliffe, 12 8 — Romford, E 
as Owen, the Park, a 9 
Richard, Hampstead, M Middles 
Galpine, W. L., *Lymingt n, Ham 
Thompson, Robert, 22, Sonatas, 8 Middlesex 
Mac Connell, Frederick, Newby Bridge, Milnthorpe, Westmlad. 
Christy, James, Jun., Boyton Hall, . Essex 
Tae dae Stelly Hall, Nottinghamshire 
eee or Guano.—Mnr. H. T. Hur, of High 
street, Lambeth, attended the Council for tus * 
of reporting the extensive and systematic plans carried 
out weekly i anes ang of the Metropolis, for 
the adulteration of Peruvian Guano, which 
thought it of the highest im importance to be 3 known 
at this season of the year a purchases of Guano 
4 made by farm 1 ee the country. 
before the Counel samples oi sles of the various | 
ress purpose o 
hanked r. Hunt for the | 
i they decided t 
the next monthly Council, 
tion that a Special Committee should be a 
ds of the Consulting 
Mr. Masenpre presented to the 
c on the part of Dr. Cain, 
at 
the Reed d- grass 
along witha supply of the seeds for 8 
members 
m the 
] 
present. 
yy ease s.—Dr. INDLEY transmitted fro 
8 ae PUPP y 
ointed tọ 
and isg en the 
2 
sphere has affected the lind 
3 better in condition for 
— 
land that ns — * ploughed, _after having got an 
additional — har ape Be rollin ng. My e ae: 
| pied — abe — exte: mas t 10 and, 
with ception of the first experiment, pre was made on 
deep dry loam, ora "tolerably porous sub- 
T whole of the 
that has been subs oil Pionai, it 
| soil N 
pes where 
gratification in witnessing the — ——— — 8 of 
the 883 R aio and bey ad pone on el Marquis 
Tweedda and also 
e the p vs ae at th rhe of I out 
ha e TH e ofi 
tivated to the Nees of 18 inches. i yn 
that the riba ose advan 
il aad 8 ing, 
vantage or agg R of 
see it is — known 3 
tivated . 
er—will g go 
“are N 
il or its growth so materially 
| substance on whi a t feeds, 
a may have passe 
Horticultural y’s Gardens 
of the tubers of Melloca e distribu tion an san 
agricu In t number of * ae ournal 
of the Horticultural Society, Dr. y has given 
Some Memoranda concerning the Melloca.“ 
—Mr. James Drxoy, of peat 
Diemen’s 
» Launceston, Van 
specimens of Flax grown by him in that colony ining 
vious 8 
year 
Froit TREES. Mr. Ror ee trans- 
culture of 
urnal è 
—Mr. Ben Wolrz favoured th 
— in pe Rage ~ his experiments on the 
sowing eat, w. referred to the Jo 
Committee, 
MISCELLANEOUS „COMMUNICATIONS. — Baron Mertens 
> prevailing F 3 omer 
i y of their Farm Account-book. 
A bost thanks of tne Comal weze were ordered for these 
rious and communications. It announced | Ter 
that a T eek, Way, TA 
would be 
; on Wednesday, tho 27th inst at Re dock. 
urnal | „ 
1 or ni 
| it sis ab so to ap a iien th tl 
he slightest difference on the crop where it was don 
4 cleverly. wri ten i = 
only — ean mentioned directly bearing on the point 
these oe “ That land of the same jo quality 
inches deep 
A inches — 
But two years ago, 
— 
aa 
quantity if oon that when again turned up 
had all the app un 
It ploughed m 
, 
1 
by the plough, i it 
had — carted off, and * 
ole 
— turist I think the ‘lee 
nam uld before this have found i its way to 
Sipe of manure as I could wish ; deems I am unable to stand 
en ra: of * this Pake let 
igħt be a very nice Pain to have a farm wi 
il; however I would prefer — Pe 
the oe of makin, ngi it. e hav 
gricultural matters, that 
> * 
going this 
ae ck of a glass bo bot 
small 1 of cote i 2 
st. I loo pon the soil simply 
in ich is lai id. a — to be given 
when agp seer. the necessary food for the growing crop, 
and ium by which plants are 3 — take — 
ood. The soil itself may or may not be naturall 
posed o of the 
been placed 
soils i ia this country may 
8 by Vv 
stant opping 
or — or addition by the h 
that form the crops pr reviously, a 
E aes 8 i saad to them. 
g soon renders requisite to othe i richest and poorest, 
. of m of the materials 
o b tracted from it. I 
have frequ gai * vant penetrating to 
great depth i in ‘search of — but I am incline d hed 
near the surface, and it may h that the crop may be lost, 
9 hagas ‘ore the roots reach the 
away. I on 
Ainslie, of e 7 ene bones immediately below 
the Turnip see eed. 
T with guano and bones mixed, and 
hough fi did rk so pleasantly 
as I would have ined, . = crop of Swedish Turnips grown 
tha tity of 
could only account for this 
in such — kige 
it at on and b y 
after it was decid 1 ** 
manure was sown i 
Turnip crop than any other 
use I think that ber 
1 
surface, and that the cream is o 
g this out of the reach of 9 — a, FO 
poses, I ser rol 1 o aseyi of T or 8 oe Ae: 
rig ane ans ither og Sem or 
and la: 
— iti is ee: rule, on ever y desert ti 
lan 
e th 
own it to cost.—Mr. eae y pene ee said: I 
— of reluctance to do md keni foes aris Se which hasa 
Wee, may deem 
enaren “Still it does 
proper t 
me more 0 
with one of “the seniai 5 subsoil ploughs fr 
bourhood no fields in Dumbartonshire were done 
n 
—. —— wil don, I n 
made, I grant at once ‘their ae, warens; in fact, 1 do 
nor th think g 
efficiently attended to. 
take an ordinary Lothi: 
from which it ap- | 
e direction of the drains, 
e that it was cousidered necessary 
ill not 
where I Peon it would have 
as done across the d 
8 ards of eight 
FV — 2 
ug, 
h denn there was a pro rofit of | th 
iginal cost of the 
d by the late Mr, Stirling of 
ery few 
thoroughly and wi rpi y e Are by such Ploughs, so 
sometimes shallow, — — 
bsoils 
winter 
e —— water. 4 
worse crop might be produced o over these Maios, the first 
after such su e been produ 
unsatisfactory- 
little wane reece ag 
soil 
