r 
12—1850.] 
— ——— — — —ę—e 
—— = be made to Grass, or to land bear- 
wily 
gen not t the Aine retai 
difeult y Sep 
salts an ganic matte 
a it will be — 
o flow . rather than ove 
with pure water, Mr. 
that with the clue he 
progress 
of — itself upon soils, 
osely connect 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
men proceeded to make some remarks on the quality; in search of its food; and the worse the soil. th 
= the 
in 
s th 
uld arise in the use of aui id pone for 
ated for vegetation ; 
‘that ‘the "E “re Id ede ade | 
This reason- 
the obse ene “tne = “produce |p 
d be 
separ 
manure, 
ecount for the supply of towns 
ay said that at he had gr eat hope 
now possessed some materi 
de in the elucidation of the action 
which he had 
reason to believe 
with the which he 
had that day had the pleasure of explainin 
On the motion of Mr. Fisher 
aluminous matter, on manures 
his property on Bagshot-heath, where 
light and sendy — through —— 
the manure, pinta such applicati 
wa nders 
known, the soil was 
could u 
farmer to Boa and, 2 
in the atmos: 
— to be — do 
ymond B 
of chalk lands i p 
“mag | had 
was the firs first essential in 
and oe agencies of the 
e had so ably bern to them on 
an 
nly t that i 
Ho bbs, se conded by 
soil, in reference 
ss to 
or other 
applied to ‘A poron of 
immediately applied by the 
that which was known to exist | 
soot and ammonia, 
wn — the soil by showers of rain, | 
arker re to th 
en proceeded to some remarks on the quality 
of water, and its mode of action on water-meadows. 
The effect mo — ascribed to the warmth of t 
water, and to its impregnation with — — 
e had no do ae that both these causes were f 
able to the production ar the e 
20 years ago, Dr. William Smith, the 
W. 
nad requisite in the w 
chalk or caleareous matter 
rr 
t | made, and aE earlier crops were o 
e man 
d | soils, ee W Was cite 
| causticity for a great 
the 
wn cons ena oe what might be 
the e uch mineral impre goa ion; it proved 
derer that the water partook o 
mineral formation, on which the catch- meadows were 
of th 
— in ae, it was 
of s 
land not si ffect of this wa 
all the fin 
. ommon 
opinion of the — i in r whiti Here ere their nutri- 
ent on water-meadows.— ould furnish 
Professor Nl with specimens of soil from two conti- 
guous hat es of land of his own in Yorkshire na “ 
which o h heaviest crops of any land for 
due | round, while the other 3 5 the pome herbage; 
although the soils in 
ed, | — rker 
milar. 
ascer co in w whether 
appear 
1 it — to 
7 in Sea — quantities to thes 
the ure 
avour- | 
t | re: 
Fia nature of the | and 
the latent causes of barg — bec in sark of 
. the same chara were 
jsa him from -Sussex with a i uest t yro he 50881 
mit them to scientific examination, m 7 rt the 
difference between their qualities. He them in 
appearance exactly alike, their . ee de 
ical res 
_ chemically 
tions lay, sand, chalk, and organic matter 
reported this sonal accordingly ; ; when the gentleman 
h ecimen to him informed him that 
soil. Aeara enquired whether acidity in 
the land atone not o influene 
the quality mie the coil sag rops; and whether chalk 
would not remove aah acidity as readily as 
Professor Way replied that N. eae had an effect 
that chalk had not.—Colonel Challoner observed tha 
quick-lime, on exposure atm — pers, soon 
but he was n 
mortar of b enildinge erecte 
— was foun ave remained in 2 simple state 
without e combined with the carbonic acid 
of the mosphere.— Mr. Rigby Waso Sis tek Sona 
on the 88 of these new 
p or shallow drain- 
d 
Way had j oat favoured them fro 
practical farmer would Svent ti asi 9 
advantage. By the agency pointed out to them, not 
pen Me colour and smell were removi “Ate manuring 
b 
ts passage through 
i "hoe i pur of 
se penetrate, 
| deriving der to the plant; and of the result of | re 
- | his own experience in 3 lime to the e 
elays of Essex, 
which were almost unprofitable until that e e had 
— — — ion had not i 
of the est in the county, yield. m 
tia 
be- | 
— | came converted into the carbonate of lime, or chalk ; 
t a w r on | ape crop in d 
re | e! always di 
hat all- important 5 substance retain the 
and arrested in 
189 
in search food; and the e soil, 
longer ** ro which, Zy this case, ae sald exhaust 
of i ies by ae. the means for 
a E for the of acquiring 
rom the. arren soil —Mr. P Paine stated the. 
of which when Ae im he ee 
a very sensible N tt one- ye = cent., of 
— volatile alkali, obtained by the e 
mal souree at a very pore paid i in — geological 
hiatory of the W Ma John Bethell enquired of 
ay, whether, as an arable field, from the 
principles deduced fro researc 
dow. 8 prams Juti delivered, mi 
f | gar . tor manu ring 3 he 
wa that ely fallows in summer migh 
inquired, wh 
viously to the Application o — ee 
would, in a 
and then the application gt ures ; 
ixed ‘paths, but te be applied 
ell remarked that, as arable 
e of | separately. — Mr. Bet 
|fallows, after being ploughed up, were hint 
er | lef rhaps 
in a plastic state, it would per become 
searifyin i 
* 
t g was applied to the 
— weather; but he thought i "s 
with the soil.—Mr. 
Hag piid 
e 
z 
experience to the same effect ; 3b 
C Co 
had * the 
absorbing a 8 quantity of ammonia, an 
would no omy have a similar effect to that of monde * 
substance, although its e of act 
would pee diferent. He A thought it very 
possible that an yreumatic oil like to which 
Mr. oxy Hobbs had alluded, would have 
to remove the causticit i 
power ot fixing the volatile alkali.— Prof. W. 
at charcoal or charred peat 
MOTOR p pa ahe eee „ 
each case, 
ohn J ——— — that under drainage | 
saage oi He 
tions; but now, since they had 
to — the water on 
the effects required. He 
t was ve „ 
had been 
bad become very valuable. He 
tion n of sub- irrigation, or 8 
to * 1 pienk and allowing it to remain below 
ace a sufficient 3 to enable the “mother 
abstra ishment 
= 
j e be 
root, for it siit not be required to 
a strong 
i * the ammonia, = 
3 a e ater th: i 
Mr. Ra Barker then lett the cl 
meeting bro gan 
ing 3 * be — 
, the 27th inst. at 12 o’elock. 
S F 
d Oats — 
proceed far Wheat, Oats, 
Calendar of operations. 
Ma 
ing for 
