—The following extract, wri 
to 
erything is the 
everthing the a Seiden 
rts of linen elfast in 12258 
Ireland in — the total is 3 of * 86 nade ay The 
entire quantity of Flax British manu- 
N R 400, 000 acres. 
T. S. 
"Mr. Mechi’s Live Stock Account for 1849.—As Mr. 
accountant, I think he would confer a 
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great, this 
rotection, buta 
is.—Your correspond- 
dae, ean the pheasant ever 
c fowl. 5 ‘send you tæ, his 
I liv 
1 5 fowls are rn is a 
fowls kee 
disliking them * were all killed o cept a couple 
a gl and I then kept fowls of the Slack Poland breed. 
fow lace m Las 
d10h 
except that two of them had fro 
beautiful on their necks, which since 
the hens are all much 
very well too mixed with half 
roa wee 28 ue to pale the colour while deaden 
gg to have aia Ofte its 2 
is (or 
I would add that the 
tive emu mea 
her I| was true 
d be 
fasa disgusta g sm 
Sand, 
e| dient tin soils 
sion, 
sane 
n- gravel, which were o 
of soils 
ee AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
old hedges into some form, and planting n I would 
tock I should keep A consume rat produe 
r this purpose 
to me that half an acre, well cultivated, model fo 
T 
e al 
to ) attem sist to 
* It has th 
garden. i you 
axton [Iti is the sage for your | 
rpose] there any crop that ised 
titably in a garden | re poultry, . 1 the 
it. Cobbett, in "his = Cottage 
da= 
E 
tuce, 
answer 
found that soils had the power 
s by manur 
the absolute preclusion, of any loss wie 
va 
[Marcu 23, 
i stopping 
— 
by rain op 
Way had ae ope 3 T of ae a 
carbona 
to useful, it must be full and prompt, A Country 
Curate, 
ortefies, 
natin ti ee wut ik SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
Pro the 
ciety, e a an ie ‘On the 
magn ents of Manure,” before the members of the 
Societ their house, in Hanover-square, on Wed- 
| nesday pel the 20th of March, Mr, Raymonp BARKER, 
ice-President, i in the chair. 
TURE ON SOILS. AND MANURE. 
Mr. War stated tha t he 
before ociety 
to the ferri of soils 
hese obse: 
th nure 
rvatio elie ved to — per rey 5 new to 
the agricultural publie, and he hoped to show that 4 
some of the 
the w 
may ay aril, was 
and often bea utifally len 154 lim ini. 
the nature of these Were they the oer of 
0 
ioe of hae sag a especiall 
o be free from . 
nt bring f 
un 
e operations of | w 
5 "r Beirne filtration and the hats of ees that w 
ed in 
15 
an pen 
* eee in ae affirm: 
n hitherto, but it did not meet all the 
os of igien 
On = table were glass filter-jars, containin 
soil fro Pusey’s estate in Berkshire. „ Fbe soil soil, 
lt 
— 
we 2 
they began to drop fro 
the same. earthy sme 
mative, and such bad A ait the 
S 
true of all the 
salts of the diferent alkalies, so far as he had yet tried 
$ 
m what he 
containing ¢ clay ; and carbonate o 
were 2 for vegetation. 
had just shown, 
as no b for the 
3 ht that hard water may be softened by 
the 
Wit th guests to the extent to 
were oa, = being carried, 
d go 
separatio 0 the salts contained i 
1 imit was soon 
in per 
ence to the bulk of the 
had found that a pure ma . 
tenths per cent. of its weight 
z 
easily proved 
and that there might be 
— Aad! would pass through 
ches depth of 
a fi than 9 in 
fine cae ms a quantity 08 cow’s urine taken from a 
at — was so far altered by 
untry. The 
on filtration that the turbidity as it 
cao n through paper, but 
ed in all their 
a 857507 was no at 
ingredient o 
ted the power in —.— er 
y coarse s other great | 
soils was hay, and to this Mr. Pid attri- | 
n 
— 
nature, and said to be rich. 
all around 
sis trenn pruned by a 
leaves for compost, cutting the this 
animal and v. 
property ay had 
the property of separating 
vegetable N from 3 but was | since they 
the only one exhibited? Mr. W 
was justifie 
of immense activ 
he 
might ar that he had every reason to believe p 
able to develope that satisfactorily at 
shou 
"s 
2 
hus endea 
e! ure 
practicable after its production. 
if it was 
able importance ; for, 
t class of 
them by er 
this distribution, 
In liquid ! 
Soak e 
Wibi quantity, the power 1 
soil enorm 
ts of gua 
ed in — hat the property w 
r. Wa: 
voured to call thei 
| distribution was a point also which eS of 
an absolute 
was foun 
ery means in our power. 
wherever practicable, was an effectual way 
which these actions 
to,be 
on filtering indefinitely with the 
ke lgu On the 
; although 
ously great, He 
ae” perhaps, two 
monia—that i is to 
no, 
as p 
stated that he had as- 
t 
tert 
ir exp 
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