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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
CORN MANURE FOR 8 BARLEY, OATS, BEANS, 
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ouses of th 
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* o recommend 
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resulting from scientific inqu 
course be effectual so far as it went; and as the p 
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ND OTHER MANURES.—Superphos- | m 
Agri- | attained a degree of perfection such as 
r old “rule of thumb ” 
cur why a ae a wet conceded to s 
ed t ultu 
Che Agricultural Gazette. 
TURDAY, JUNE 22, 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. 
Wepnespar, June 26—Agricultural Society of England. 
Tuvursvay, 1 Imp. Society of Ireland: 
a July rs r 
T — “teak ural Imp. Society of Ireland. 
Gasparin, in his Cours d’ eee has well 
remarked that there is no de epartment within the 
range — scientific inquiry which holds out a richer 
prospect to industrious, persevering T ch, than 
agriculture does at the Fersen time. 
4 the days of Sir Humpury Davy, Chemi 
and every other branch of natural bloc rtd 
made 85 rapid poene 8 to be now ready to 
render Dep 
STEP. nat ie E A Jou 
* an Chemistry,” and other ot oh oasa 
have a ee 3 farmers a clear knowledge of 
how far modern science has enabled us to ex pain 
varied — — of our far and what is quite t 
as important, these 2 Bie 5 us in 
what particulars we require further inform 
p, A 
This is an i s all future i induites 
into agricultural phenomena ire definite 
point to start from. It will yet be some time 850 
the practices of a farm can be laid down a s systema- 
tically as botany, in LIxbTEx's “ er Arsen 
dom,” or as e, in HERSCHELI. ings. 
Bu e are enough to rem 3 e 
„an 
eo mace of imperfectly —.— 
and often misunders cts, we do not despair of 
seeing agricul 
towards great * 
when its thoroughly understood, 
instead of being a ani collect empirical prac- 
tices, built on the g foundation known as 
the rule of f thumb, * will be as great 
covery of the com 
ed themselves not 5 little 
5 in 
takes of those wibi they sc y te . — 
y a strange fatu efatu ity farmers have 
hemselves tolerably ‘aloof ma en 
ks ; in this respect verse to the 
i Fasc held th 
acting 
Manufacturer. am instance, so valuable. do does the 
ood 
e Tike geolo ogy, mai rapid advances 
xaetnes the 
The benefit which i 4 — to redound to agriculture, eee, 
be 
omer —— mg 1 and counting-house. 
Ther ys by which this —.— 
n may bei removed from 
d of farmers—the first is, by some ae, 
iry. This 
last two or three years have furnis he — 
notab. ble ex anure 
ood bi 
ould of r. 
The fourth and last | 
mistry to agricu 
the 
could never of itself have 
e | arrived at, the use of artificial keni: will do more 
to remove the prejudices farmers iy against“ book 
learning’? than volumes of argumen 
have effected. 
ened equally effectual gran will be the diffu- | 4 
iculturists. 
culty. Model 
i 
o be done 
3 
mongst 
the diffic 
00 
8 recomm upon. 
The Royal Agri aner al and Hi ghland Agiealtaral 
Societies, by their yearly prizes for the best Essa) 
on pate: fre ural grate: which, in paar cases, — — 
be n by arme also con- 
tributed, “directly” i the information thus obtained, 
and indirectly by the competition thus excited, to 
spread amongst us a better opinion of “ book lea 
.’ Farmers’ clubs are also contributing their 
i n as with 
0 
the 5 2 to confer Arati for Naters, 5 
nowledge on ma bearing on agricultur 
ening oD . on the head by = — 
J should be refus ral weie We 
venture to call the eden of the Ro ofa Agri- | i 
cul whic 
tural Society to the question, as one in 
they might, with great benefit, act in concert with 
the Highland Society. 
SHEEP. 3 in so 
THe eee Keri in which the sheep are used m 
placed 
under fo — heads — the low- 
s 4 the care of m 
e- of blood which is not 
t could ever improveme 
and beh nltural colleges mp been stre- | 
ended, and in part acted u b 
| elevated situations do not admit of any improvement 
ls by 
per mathi a ar ° condition of each 
— in 3 g a better 
tering the nature of the animal by 3 
not, be of 
the anima! change or by a fresh introduction, — 
a mixture with tae — breeds N be wholly 
suitable to of the l 
The rich se of the. the reket pas grounds, and = 
artificial Grasses of the cultiva ands, main 
animals that are large in ne , heavy in carcase for. ~ 
ward in growth, and rich in flesh — wo he food 
being abundant and een obtained, and the situation 
ing warm, the necessity is n 
animal of dation} in seach of its meat, or seekin 
N the propensity » created and indulged of Wing 
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i urity at an early age. To suit 
u und sae circums no breed: 
sheep et been found equal to the improved 
Leiceste ich w. m the elements 
ing on the unerrin 
tid saath 
e e any iy tees of animals may be impro 
also assis y being 1 with 
near alliance of similar qualities, but superior, or dif- 
situation: 
reedin 
P ani q 
duced —4 este above le te power of being supported by 
e situa must evidently 
3 in ome of improvement. Tt It — be * arag 
said that no rg ea which t 
grees of animal and vegetable life. 
are universally ost fertile ; alluvial, | lands are unable to support — * 
deep, arm, and being aided by a corresponding intermix and blend the qualities, in order to produee 
geniality of temperature, it produces an age that is form that possesses a er of points of ex- 
rich, juicy, and succulent. This herbage being eaten by | cellence than were pusoy obtaine *, 
qu peds, it communicates to the bodies and the di principle the Leicester sheep have 2 their present 
positions of the animals the same qualiti larg ilence, and have maintained superi 3 
bulk and of a heavy temperament. aue me ght nst ‘them. 
a sluggishness of disposition — disinelivation much weight in 
food i red. 
to — as the is abundant and easily gat 
is of 5 pl as the improvement 0 
it from a atate of al s the flesh 
that et the lity 
a 
is very | ong in the — and ‘manera in the e quan 
Under the — of el w grounds 8 all 
the best improved lands that are placed within the 
range of moderate puns 
The low nd grounds pr sree the higher 
tion of the best natural pas- 
is ; the a 
wool. But the he quiy of the — — the wool is — 
lessened by the reduction of the size of the ved mi 
* 
— — 
and somewhat more 
erisp, but little x Samay hed in value. In both 
ps aca aaa 
to be ample and of first-rate 
qu ty. 
The third locality is the upper highland grounds, Means 
reason 0 
where little winter food is given, by of the small 
extent of cultivation, and where the rigour e the climate 
The steep formation 
carrying 
to | 
mo 
| 
diminis! 
e been mentioned, the supply of 
— to 
rapid growth an 
— 
The offal Ae small, which is the first point 
in of 3 breeding. At the same 
ans are not reduced below the 
The pelt 
ri 
roomy, a ws the ample play of the lungs. The 
—.— of —— — constitutional organs in 
which tend 
3 uantity is large, and 
fibre 
: * ——— a 
1 Le hg fal, 
| Leicester sheep is ae what the situation requires— 
a valuable carease table to the richness of the 
k e 
latitudes 
de! licate, as is by oan supposed ; but the very thin 
are now frequently seen are unfit bay m but 
t localities. ing, 
that the constitution be 
from 
on the. con- 
