THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Juny 6, 
— 
on three | m 
farms in my A 90 bushels of seed Wheat s shall 
be 
vincing the world of its necessity, he 
d became 
a 
practice. As I have 
tradesmen 
a 
keepers, a 
and village tra 
of all kinds, and even labourers, will breed and fatten pigs 
cheaper than 
centre of it, capable of puns all his manure,’ and Town ae N isoning rivers owing d 
over this also „ e e manures masses to the sea, may be safely valued at a million and bers a simple and striking ex 85 
from the rains and sun. this, he a half ies ce away. a third item—impe yen eee vessels were connected together sy _— of bent 
will have something to TA N of imitation, and | and nt of weeds, may be set down, | tubes ; the first v Er N 
he wi ould be imitated by very many persons; but together with the additional wear an È se rte! (he a pure variety o ve carbon nate of lime); the 
88 age will turn — is frou: by oads, at ans half million, aking a vin a second, distilled water a and the third and last, a clear 
for months together either in or over cesspools | UPWards of three millions, which, w mmon solution of quick-lime in pure water (or limp- waa 
full of their own stinkin ents . Wilkins. and 3 W find its way into the ponketa of the On adding dilut 6 mnriatic acid gradually to the l 
The Rule of Thumb.—Your Lea g Article of landown enants, and the es poral ic acid gas was disen 
June 22 contains which, for very many y. amongst th wns. | grea „ which . long the naing into 
I have advo ve. now y table a copy of | I believe I have not over-estimated the disadvan the middle vessel, was there washed and freed from 
the first edition of Sir Humphry Davy’s “ A z ting from negligence on the of those connected an by its passage through the distilled water, aud 
tural Chemistry,” and which has been one of my text. | With the land; an osing the statement to be correct. rg 15 by N! onnectin 
books for all I to od W on animal or | è question naturally yd Would it not be consist- tube, the lower part of the inner surface, 
vegetable physiol th this and some others ent with the in tors of the soil to it 0 5 babble radial aoa the clear face wit 
of the same Sal Reis Bef guide, I 33 written with a | attem 1 ee zenis the evils w are wi heir | After a few moments t e-w ecame turbid, 
— g to some persons, w. The Professor 1 hat this effect resulted from 
I fear, trust too Set judgments, bihia raa a One-horse Cart.—The discussion about | the conve insoluble 55 
of their 5 1 advodate or em- Cumberland one-horse carts seems at lgay after a year’s lime A chalk), by its 5 with a fi bea oy 
x 8 8 tedly put rolling, to have rumbled itself to res admission, | tion e carbonic passed through it. 
them to the test myself. It i: quite true that ulti- on almost all sides, that light carts a best ~~ i pores few —.— afterwards, hovoris; the liquid regained 
ly a clubs must some > but it is e som to cart-horses. r. and | its original transparent appearance. This change, he 
astonishing to hear the i — which a t pres ent is other practical rs have stated that Gr etl from the furth pply of the same 
frequently taken f m at them; od I have even nonr carts than t f the Cumberland hills; | acid gas, constituting the insoluble carbonate of lime a 
known the test amounts of igno apeh receive uni | 224 some few exceptions, bath impression of your soluble super-carbo of that earth; the liquid, in 
versal shouts of appl whilst sentiments founded nden to be to (with | fact, being then ution, not in water, as 
upon true sci ve been hooted down ted | Side-boards) a ton of coal or . and weighing from | was originally, but a ert of e eee of lime, 
with contempt. You refer to the good old of 6 to 7 ewt., is to say, the common Cumberland | or of chalk eg hen uble by excess of carbo nic acid. 
thumb,” permit me to give another rule, & the scowl of | one-horse cart t be advantageously adopted pretty | To prove that this — e, the Professor z took the 
— ome years since a favourite cow of got | nerally by the farmers of 8 aed that the ton- flask containing this solutio ion, and having placed it over 
a heap of Potatoes, 7 eat so many that she was weight waggons, and and 10 ewt. prize | a spiri p, ca ebullition to take place. After 
nire by ee 1 = ld docto carts, might be profitably ae wi I boiling for a short time, the li again became turbid, 
essrs. Ransome and May will this year have specimens | from the circumstance of the heat expelling the excess 
of their carts to show at the Royal Agricultural Meet-| of carbonic acid, and again g the of 
ing I hope the cartwrights and others, who bave | lime to the state of insoluble chalk, He then p 
abused me for introducing the — will examine to s w this experiment illustrated the change 
them carefully. L. which was found to take place in the waters of limestone 
$ districts, which were naturally charge also how it D 
as well as the sulphate of lime; and also how 1 
Sotieties. ened that, w o wane ae d hard by sulphate of 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. l ly, did PE to -boilers, as that salt 
e FESSOR sulting-Chemist to the Society. n een e oe 
„ N à ? | was not deposited on raising the water to a boiling 
ourne’ elivered a mbers, at their Ho ere: er, on the contrary, holding a large 
„in Hanover. square, on Wedn „the 19th June,“ On Sat a en lime dissolved in it by = 
—— . amn » his G a bonie acid, did the greatest injury to by 
—— EOT sted, Delai DE iie Shed | gradually depositing, on boiled, such ters, 
: es Bier Among | Bonate of lime at the bottom of oe aa. 
the mem the Earls of Lonsdale and ie E h 
ichester, Lord Bridport, Hon. R. H. Clive vo; MP; | . is 
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, B Ps Bir- MW. | aaar ae cea ee ae holding in 6 ar 
s | Ridley > Bie: Silvie’ — —̃ boiie sr Ga EE a, ee 
* 2 
* a Med Bart; M.., Sir — oolitie, and limestone districts throughout the I 3 
, Mr. Burke, Mr. Decimus Burton, Dr. Calvert, | 725 322, hard ; becoming turbid when of the in- 
epositing its carbo of lime on that part * 
Mr. en, Rev. Tho Cator, Mr. W. G. Caven- a W to the fire. As 3 
dish, M.P., Colonel Challoner, Mr. W. Clavering, Mr. fern Surface of the boiler n crust in tea- 
£ P - 4 iliar ce, he ed the fur or = 
Capel Cure, Mr. S. Druce, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Dyer, Mr. | kettles. i districts where such water was used; but in 
Feilden, Mr. Fuller, M.P., Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. . ilers, this deposit was one of the 
Harding, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Colonel Mr Cs imagined. The hard calea- 
uch | Marshall, M.P., Mr. Maw, Mr. C. E. Overman, Mr. bn wich the iront 
Twas ae to be dying. On — aa a] — ia Pendarves, i, 3 * Shaw plating of the re in a few 2 — 
* yi | three 
Joined by an individual who who ‘united it his own (London), Mr. Sillifant, Prof. Simonds, Mr. | Way explained how the Se 
farmers can ; 
fatten them whenever 
these 
petitors ; ipon my friend, "therefor 
good 
and they always 2 sates 
e by 
a peia ; 
the advantage over all com- 
uld set m 
eep and o oxen ; let him als 
w 8 will be the waste o 
ractice the three on of farmer, doctor, and 
e 
He w. 
strongly interdicting its 
n 
nd found it of t 
to an —— 
ing them 
ax anf I succeed without 3 some force if ‘not P 
0 
the time of 
means 
l 
sample of the dreadful effects of ignorance, and a 
ge which is rey Be all, tot the 
t add that the 
is brandy bottle, the Bag vil of the earths í Sa 
and doctor either could not or did not read a boo k. 
e Gardeners’ eee — 
canty crop coming up 
cape. 
o be placed to the debtor side of the farmer's 
own manure, as we 
saving that produced w ade 
the careless manner o 
e | head of inquiry aire ted 
me e 
M. P., Mr. Augustus Smith, Mr. Wilson (Stowlangtoft), 
B mean 
rered for that purpose, an 
tendenc wee 
circumstan 
live-stock on a 
inert matter, its 
enabled ese es wit 
loam, pels rubbish, at 92. on ton ; producing a pa aay | 
Messrs. A. and B 
in 
had to g together parn nL 
tee W refe: erence to 
he influence ce of the 
et; co ped 
re always e by i, while thas ory other sub- 
