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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Jury 13, 13, 
stated that the deposition of the carbonate of lime did 
not take place at once, on the application of heat. Prof 
pe considered 14 or 23 —— 
ago an — of witnessing a a 
kad bee of the AE EBr ‘of cattle fo 
fr 
ls in m where they were 
ured, He believed that cattle were generally in- 
posed to drink water.— Pusey, M.P., 
then favoured the meeting with his views on the action 
of water in beneficial effects 
for —ů— and soft water, on the co 
cial, In 
workers in — meadows were guided in r judg- 
ment of the quality of the water most suitable ‘for their 
in their opinion, 
a water unsuitable — irrigation. He — as a fact, 
n lime existed in any water i in such excess as to 
seat lf, 
contrary judi- | m 
he criterion by * practical 
eer — of magnesia was present ; whenever the 
ss arose from magnesia he believed the soap-test 
— “fail to indicate its degree, or rather, it would 
ive a false — of its amount; — ight 
lead, unl were conjoined with the so 
— for the purpose of guarding — this occurrence. 
—Professor Way was a . e that Professor Clark’s test | 
o| applied 6 nly to certain waters; it w from its 
l 
p- tobacco o or other fumes iaki be thrown i in a cool an 
Council his first attempt at L his Horticultural 
That little 
to 
s and flowers, without injury 1 
the pyr pgs plant ; or, by which 
generally applicable and cea mode of employment ; 
stoves iaries, houses, 3 or other enclosed 
th direc 
same time Mr. Rowlandson that, 
in cases where mag be de- 
sirable to employ a 
e questions affecting the action of 
to re is diffidence 
the Devonshire 
ro 
had fi in earlier been extensively en. 
age arming) to attempt its adaptation 
field uses, especially to destroy or paralyze the ray 
of ip-fly, by fumigating the crop with the empy. 
ic smoke, ulting from the 
m 
akers 
dows were guided might be fallacious, 7 that hard 
might produce a soft pes feeling to 
well as soft water. mself formed ‘the opinion 
that the effects resulting from — were due more 
to the chemical . — ties ater 2 to the cir- 
a) 
uthe was 
sensible how ignorant ¥ we e were on n these "difficult ques- 
tions, and he should be most o conviction, and 
lad to learn all that he could on y me — subjects 
| to which he ha se bv bony the pleasure of calling 
attention of the 
by practical men as mh on unfit for irrigating pur- 
"On the motion emy — e Earl of CHICHESTER, seconded 
was the only water fit e tru: sted that 
—— 
— —— th 
limestone ki dn 
of 
2 
© 
— 
rh 
his 
ring — e the members so interest- 
water-meadows would — 
istri logical districts of t the west of 
pe rae on the land from other 
for the of cultivation ; the water being in con- 
sequence naturally soft. He considered t er in 
become softene remaining som na pars 
In the hilly districts — Devonshire, ph 
wn the decliv ities » was 
ing a lecture on that occasion 
A WEEKLY jeg tee was ge on, Wednesday, the 
Hon. Rosert HENRY 
Earl of E Truste Lord Lo raine, Sir 
Acland, Bart., M.P., Sir John A . Johnstone, Pals 
$, Chal 
and as within which 
— snch wheel) an axis w 
— e 
der, at hie e combustion 
the ad revolution of the pat and the other in front, 
by which the smoke was driven 
nozzle, movin 
dissatisfied w 
ments for — 
in sufficient quantity, es with the ops rage rapidity, 
were incomplete. ped, by the 10th of July, to 
rap aliti gain: i 
that water running over peaty — was lon 
x 3 Nr. 1. 
ker, Dr. Calvert, Col. Chal: 
r, Mr. Fuller, M. P., Mr. Brandreth 11 aA 
* 
prejudicial to it; ; but that the same water filtering Fi Ho 
rris. 2 
to it, 
probably from carrying off the peaty matter; Sy “by 
such percolation it became soft, and adapted fo — 
“hs 
5 
Eta! 
~~ „Mr. 
Mr. r ondon), * Shel 
ect, that it would, in the present state 
of their — be unsafe to assume the exclusive use 
= hard water in irrigation as an essential condition. — 
paper on the Devonshire — — 
mn s Journal, he had only mentioned the — 
inion in that of the country on this subject ; he 
thought they were still ignorant on many impo 
points in connection with the theory and practice of irri- 
— — he t practical inspection of 
nd 9 f Sir Thomas Acland 
an eorge Turner, at the Exeter Meeting, and the 
chemi lyses o ters to be made by | Prof. 
onds, 
3 Prof. Way, and Mr. Was on, of Seetag 
meeting were th à 
NdLO-MRRINO WooL.—Mr. RowLANDsoN read to the 
Council a correspondence he had recently carried o 
’ Mr. Leyland Woods, subject of — 45 
Merino Wool for the p of dyeing; and submitted 
tothe mem 3 sample of that wool. He 
at 
he fineness of the old Southdown with a 
cal 
Way, would tend to a — 
prinei irrigation.—The Rev. Thos. 
Cator —— the soil itself had m ch to do with 
onger staple, whi ch apri susceptible of improvement | 
with 
theo expressed both b y Mr. Pusey — 
= T that time would prove each of them 
circu 
— in his views, — the partieular conditions of | 
carding and fine combing, and w. 
were duly limited by further 22 . object of his g this subject 8 the Cnel 
considered snow as the best exemplificati the bene- | was, to inquire whether the bad of this wool might 
cial action of water containin d pos- not be obviated or removed by judicious management 
ing chemical qualities from other impregnation, in of some kind. Unfortunately, the close quality of the 
addition the influence exerted by its me- | Southdown wool did not admit of that perfect 
chanical strueture.— Mr. Fisher Hobbs was glad to find | to which the more Chat genes wools could be subjected. 
from Prof. Way that this subj f the economi xhi ess an : 
employment of water, was to we * him still and would fetch a high pr ice Fay market ; N it 
further, especially in reference to connected | would compete with the fi may if i any 
with agricultural operations. He dià por think that means it could be properly nest foreign for the dyer. An 
generally preferred muddy to clear marly |in interesting E gr hagy ensued goar the Earl 
water from clean wells, al ough they might pae of Chichester, Mr, She the Hon. Mr. Clive, and 
it, after it had been drawn and stood some inio, Mr. 3 on the 3 connected with the 
to the same water in i te 
i cattle on 
one of his farms had so great a trip ayang for the drain- 
owth of this wool, the character an 10 of the sheep H 
i i e management of 
t price compared with other 
wools, —Mr. Fisher Hobbs agreed with Mr. Rowlandson 
Mr. Parkins, Mr. Pen- row 
pose t, the Marquis of 
ts 
be one man 
n 
| meeting, to pass over into Ireland to the Cor ing, 
ere a most di ateful reception would be 
— to the an instance of their 8 
re like that of 
kindred Royal Societ 
THLY CounciL was held at the maps s House 
in Hanoyensquara, on Wednesday, the 3d of July; 
DowNsHIRE, President, in the 
; Lord Camoys, Lord Bridport, 0 
M. F., Sir Matthew White Ridley, 
Si 
Hon. k H. Clive, M. P., 
r Sir Charles ‘Tees Bar P: Robert 
Price, Bart., Colonel Austen, Mr. Raymond Barker 
G. , Mr. S. Bennett, Mr. Blanshard, Mr. 
Bramston, r. Bran . Burke, W. 
. Kin F.; 
Prof. Sewell, Mr. Siw, of Toit, Mr. ' Shelle T te Pe 
imonds, Mr. W. Simpson, Mr. Stansfi eld, M. 
7 — of Barto n, Mr, Jonas We bb, 3 Prot, 5 
The following new members were elec 
Morris, 8 Lewis G. (Vice-President or ya eri 
Sta‘e Agr * Society, and Chairman of the BO 
Agricultur the American Institute), Morrisania, 
New Yok 
ae on Sh rages noe Dorset 
ardy, John, jun., 3, Portland-place, London 
—— ö n, den Devonpo: 
Hurd tony = mas, = ——— London 
Roundell Rev. H —— — 
— 3 East * 
es Hardy, 
issued in order to restrain oa He p~ — hana 
ought not to all e runnings from r farm- yards 
to get into their ponds. He could fully confirm the 
of Mr. Pusey. A curious circumstance had come 
within ys 8 in reference to drainage water 
He a drain in his land 1 Wer in length and 
from 8 to. 12 feet in Seah through sand and gravel, and 
veins of clay, and which oea 3 3 gallons of drainage- 
ter per min 
wa "i : nute, Whe weather set in, 
a ** noxious 5 — from this drain, 
a ere was found, on examination, an accu- 
wa i cart-loads of a congealed 
gelatinous-looking substance, of an ochreous co our, 
nd nee g fresh On 
revisiting the place a fortnight 
means as would increase its quality for the ol — its 
—.— ee as an article for the manufac 
n remarked that the — of se of this 
wool was . only for the finer class of goods, which 
ere less in deman — 3 it had every quality fòr that 8 
i of colour ; and he feared th 
being perfect, was indelible, and aes 
causes, not from accidental circumstances r. Ray- 
mond Barker thought that the yora of wooly was much 
influenced by the soil on whic e sheep were kept.— 
verman suspected that the application of spirits of | b 
tar was the fre 3 cause of the stains which were the 
pia 
Poo'-place, € — Yeldham, Essex 
yt ee 905 Regate, S 
‘Ames, b. s Edward, C. E., "The — Southwark 
— J ohn, 1 Petticombe, Torring 
Duran rd, 
Datier, Geers Poon pending Torbay, Devon, ` 
ames of a candidates for election at the nex 
tain | meeting were then 
ad. 
„Finances. — Colonel CHALLONER, Chairman of th 
ted to the 
Society; from whi ap 
the month of June, ha Just ended, the current cash 
krs bankers 
explained that this gen S € 
— Exeter Subseription Account, — ba to be in- 
ested as life.compositions ; leaving a 
available for current pu purposes, — r 
rm the 
fessor e thought ie 
test for the hardness of w 
when (as 
of 
: a ery simple and u and useful 
in the water of rey Dolomitie districts) the 
excepting 
made | it very — ble that s 
Y 
woolstaplers — ‘fl by hath more 
inducement might be offered for . production of supe- 
rior wools. 
Turwie-Fry,—Lieut. Brown, R. N., exhibited to the 
POS 
in the county of . had been go 
CUCU ro ILIU: 
been ooh the amounts claimed 
had either been ea paid into urt, the office 
Society. In the case u 
