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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[MARCE 2, 
7 best advice I can give your correspondent | themselves out, 1 wanted. Agriculture would then 
n art and a science. 
who complains of acidi ity in beer, is to procure Black on 
Brewing, a 7s. book, to study it 3 and ee ecreasi 
Mr. B's. directions an 
A com 
oo 
receipt. 
ko sase coole roughly sweet ; — if there 
be any doubt about this, ans should be 
24 hours with lime- water, and afte we 1 rinsed. 
troduced as pret I suspect are 
them 
have a close — wooden cover, kea saves some 10 per 
cent. in malt, and may have other advantages. 
be any: paint to which attention cod be directed mo 
than 
for i 
no 
eee 
grade. 
f malt 
the 
k’s in- 
I use 2 of sie, A yeast to 2 bushel o 
saccharometer 
m 
. 
that 
Blac 
ebruary 9, 
Davis pro 
improvement on Mr. tp ogg 5-course shift. As far 
Scotland 8 appears to 8 that 
t 
ere are 
ur, course 4 
500, has he not under-rated the expense of keep and 
labour ? 
o the 
Duke of Buecleuch's ekeeper, a 
friess 
ay T odge, Dum hire, he may be likely 10 
get et the proper information ting the 
ybrid pheasants 
posi 
ung go 
3 let him not rest conferees . mp 
attitude for a minute or two, but would ne 
strike at the 
it may be well 
1 
Feb eu 
the 4-course P Norfolk shift as — 
bo G. 
. Pheasants.—If “ N. F.“ will orn the n 
gam 
lap on the 
ust at the ge 
pressure, a 
Ibs. 
—— boiler, and was 
Lw 
but I know 
in H 
Mr. Way commen 
9 
c, | lecture, partl 
is nothing in aa e * si e engineers — 
not contrive. 
I propos what in 
— of the A dercn leer $ i ‘would, r however, b be | 
ing rward, it wo 
2 up the gee of ‘the soil, heb i is 3 hs gabe 
This would be upwards ie, the ka ang 
mealies mean 
of the qu 
lers, 
we 
par n account 
the — n of . 
they should pursue; but he 
the eduction 
Hou anover- square, on Wednesd 
of February ; Mr. RAYMOND Secs 
in the chair 
1 to adva 
Steam Engine.—I am induced to 
communication, I 
hall be 
ming 
pe guano 
y the pı was a 
— tbeir a heir” supplies of the manure, 
of t erable extent to 
18 
urt 
I found that to lift the p mr valve when 
ook 380 
8 ON GUANO. ra 
ced his lecture by 88 that j 
subject of a N ry 
Instea 
N. S. 
send you an account | 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF EN 
have done to 
and ther 
= teal awed the steam pier to o cae, = 
port open ned; this 
e pres- 
Ibs., and to 
the time 
reshing. Richard Nioklin, Isle of Man, Feb. 9. 
Tice. President, 
Season when 
duty, as 
a of| 
The Specimens alluded to were carefully taken — 
ships in the river. Since the publication of these 
sults in the Journal of the . n ad many 
more analy good guano, as more than e 
convinced of the uniformity of its nee aa ‘Bat 
whilst the authenticated specimens 
composition, samples were conti ake * — ing 
boratory, which, a ana peus exhibited every shade 
of chemical characters—that W e were adul- 
00 
iagram, the analysis of six specimens 
reached him within the last few weeks from different 
localities, 
ADULTERATED GUANOS, 
1. eT se | che 
. eee 7.77 6.04 | 10.92 | 12.32 | 11.22 
ee 36.18 | 29.42 32.44 | 34.96 34.68 
Sand, 3.14 7.84 25.34 32.50 27.23 5.44 
Earthy, Phosphates...| 6.80 e 10.60 | 13.30 21.09 
Annie ot ee — 20 10.29 8.96 2 
ny cases these spec s had been sent to 
in 180 belief that they de genuine, bat ‘the re 9 ja 
them 
about one-sixth less than t 
MONEY VALUE OF ADULTERATED GUANOS. 
0 
0 
arrere 
he ra fo: he analysis ot 
the specimens — Toa; —— that Ree ra the 
i r red the v 
theeta giano which was intrinsically worth TA 
less. idely known that it was 
. 
ich half the q 
Mr. 
uvian guano for less than 91. 5s., ere 
s, Bright, and Co., who had 
buy eed Peru 
the importers, Messrs. Gibb 
xclusive age 
Nothing was a greater delusion than 
the 3 5 not afford the full sities, let him buy 
ent on to mention the anes 
remark 
jure usidered it 
scientific principles, might be mixed with the soil, and the | Chemist of the Soci N to s bring t the acts = ber ee the fraud, but it was in most cases above 25 or 30 per 
latter would then be deposited at the other extremity of | e should confine vian guano, cent. The u use of ground — >: a certain step 
the machine, in one broad sheet or layer, on the land, san varieties ay za 1 to be of use the ny * 
somewhat in the manner in wh comes out of | importance ; and Ist, he would endeavour to establish | lite consists in easure of pho phate of lime 
the machine. There would be no difficulty, if the fact, t it reached | — itself an ee of genuine guano. By-and-bye 
£ to mix the seed at the same time, with the | this co was not page to much variation. By | h closely 
in the machine, or to drop it from the machine, and | the ex ion of more than 30 specimens last year, watched, would become more clever in ene calling, 
cover it witha and p r per-centages of ammonia and and the little chance (for unfortunate was little) 
wo with rollers, all in one one operation. This ponderous | phosphate of ite, the A important ingredients of | that 3 — ha 8 the im- 
i 8 or 10 feet wide. would be | guano, were con wi narrow limits. itio; pea — urther Ami He wi 
— N i across = field by —— mie het yey fan this pear. e could and simple method by 
two opposite sides on temporary rails, TARIA 1 _COMPOSITION OF PERUVIAN | which the bu an examina- 
The wheels on which the cultivator would 1 2 GUANO. | tion of his p sp en fo 1 e to be none 
to be so contrive they should cut ruts, g (32 specimens examined.) hott af hich met 
at the same time surface drains, as Lowest, | Highest. Mean. The ie on to show, by spe on 
paths for the weeders, who would have to preserve . 3.88 22.68 145 table, the difficulty of deciding between a good and 
crops—sown with much and at so great Organic matter and salts o * y bad specimen by external indications. ur was 
an om all inj ion. The busi- eee eee, ee 37.78 58.82 | 52.61 usually consi a criterion, but a sample exposed 
= of ploughing, manaring, anà soi sowing, would becom ar ee E i dias a 12 for a shart time to di air, became dark k and = ns 
Earthy e e s . (are in truth e. y , 
with their men, would travel E e 15.98 | 1894 17.41 N containing 2 or 3 per cent, more 
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