538 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Aue. 24, 
the gra ing, run a drain to = main tank, of machine- f tank in dry weather; but in wet weather I can testify] was ~~ some of the late heavy rains. And this 
— draining pipes of 2 to 3 inches bore, laid in a you may save a great deal of valuable stuff, which flows makes the Grass grow too; 80 that I am quite satisfied 
little clay puddled, and — a foot underground. The through the dung from the centre to the outsides of it; that w h udgmeut — 3 the place and time of 
cast-iron grating can be taken out, — the little tank | and then, the horses being probably disengaged, one can | construction, such a tank as I have described may be 
— ne the hand when it gets too full of solid | easily be spared to empty the tank upon some adjacent made a profitable e to oss farm. Amicus Tu 
atter s true that you do not —. much into the | pasture, even though it N be filled daily, as mine 
TABLE, sh showing the Consumption of Food and the Increase of — Sod Sia for each 100 Ibs. Live Weight, as recorded by various observers. 
pE eee Food consumed per Week to —_ per TER $4) Durati Foo ned per ‘week to |Increateper 
Description of .Ẹ of Experi- Aathority. each 100 Ibs, live wght of animal week apon oo of 38 of Expe- Authority. — 100 ibs. — — animal ze upon 
Animal, E E Description. | Quantities.| live weight. ; 2 3 rim Description, | Quantities, paei ar: 
2 esc: x Quanti les ve we: eig a m 
i { Wks, Dys. F Ibs. oz. Ibs. s: Wks. Dys. a lbs r lbs. on. 
Cotswold Ewes ..| 10 8 0 |Rev.A.Huxtable tine Joe 2 ay 
— iaia lo; 8 0 A wae crt 1 8} sheep, Leicester | 5 123 Lord Radnor. < {Pulse ............} 10 9 2 3 
* Ist week Swedes. eee — 13: — ; 
Lêicëster Lam EIRT T) ileake if +00. 4 e ves voi 
20 Shea we 10 4 0 Ditto neff ast 85 cake : 8 $ Southdown siii 4) iy Ditto. . . ¢ | Pulse 1 5 2 153 
cal 10 4 0 8 ed 1 1 12 if av. x 8 
im Field p — y z Half-breds 5 123 Ditto . Pulse 3 4 2 03 
RPE CNTEE 30 10 5 JJ. B. Lawes «ee 2 95 0 Swedes . 130 _ Be. 
Wether Tegs .. 3} (|F 8 
meas. (Aes ie Mh DOD oe D4} 2 s cope 5 | 19} Ditto -l e 12 2 3 
i y à 8 14 
Ditto 3 4 0 Ditto —— 4 27 1 10} Peicester 18 0 — 5 8 aie 1 & 
Southdown 18 0 .. ... 
Dito . 5] 1 Ditto j A) 2 12% elf bree 3 wee: 2 Ae i 
Cotswold d. 5 18 0 DRO e chet 0 1 
Ditto | 0 —— * 1 4 ( 
* n na Leicester. . . 5| 12 Ditto . f — i 4 } 2 01 
Ditto Ditto 4 1 3 t 
aaron: Fai dafia = } Southdown . . . 5 12 0 | Ditto ......4 1 S 1 12 
* 13 ] i 
F. Soom 2 } — coves $25 aaa w || “Ditto... { 5 m 2 3 
— 1 * swé ass 
Ditto. sss . . . . 5] 19 0 | Ditto . . .. . 3 } „ % „ mito ...,.. (Se adgg ee 8 3 ite 
Ditto. sose ven] Sq 19. © Ditto — . Clover Chaff 104 0 154 à 1 . aaa e —.— 14 
Leicester Lambs | 22 7 0 |Mr, Rt. Woods ar —— 2 11 d 
Ditto 00] 8 23 2 i; Ditto ——— rd aiad 1 o2 : lees a a | — Á 1 8} 
— Ss 124 } 1 Kalt breds 22 | 17 Ditto DE ’ 111 R 1 * 
Ditto bi 9 0 no 1 . 
5 Southdown......| 4] 10 0 . B. Lawes {liter — J h 3 E 
s 0} ao 1 12 i ep a o r RE: 
— Do...... . 4] 10 0 DET bale neil Sh ee Al ay 
Sheep ..... 5 | 16 o |Morton...... A 1} 1 * Mangolds ....... - „ 
Ke |: Dittones s. vessi] Bf 10 00. |] Ditto nmns fa eee al a 2 
Ditto 5] 16 0 | Ditto. s } 1 * ! Aa e 3 4 
i pa R 1 3 | DM J 4] 10 0 | Ditto...... ( Manzelde l a 1 | 1 
„ 16 W eatnw te é J é — 8 
f : 1 j Ditto . . 5 10 0 | Ditto. 6 4 has 
Ditto . . 5 16 0 | Ditto 8 n ö — 4. 
j 11 Ditto.. 4 6 0 Ditto +f Mangold: en 9 & ži 2 11 
Ditto. . eee 5 16 0 Ditto —— 0 1 2 š g —ꝰ88 88 J 
ECONOMY OF MANURES. Of the inorganic constituents there can be but one | all the eder whic . its growth. 
On tier” July 31, a lecture on this subject was | source, the soil namely, which to be fertile must contain | And this is unques what a manure of theoretical 
delivered in the Trades’ Hal, by Dr. Anderson, the | the whole of these substances in greater or less quantity. composition 2 — ots Nay, more, it ought to contain 
chemist of the Highland Society. He said: It bas It is different, — with the organic constituents, these substances in the proportion which the 
that the present affords an advantageous | which have a two-fold source, and of which part, or plant requires, so that no waste may occur. It must, 
opportunity of calling your attention to questions which | even the — may be derived from the surrounding however, be manifest to every one acquainted with 
must unquestionably depend for solution on the mutual atmosphere. The atmosphere is in fact a great reservoir, agriculture, and still more manifest to every ome 
and or I hold it to be | of the organic T of — hich it contains | acquainted with chemistry, that it is im e to carry 
certain the two must go toge that though all four; two of these, nitrogen and ox: oxygen, forming out ically what is theory ; nevertheless, 
some of the facts we require may be determined in the almost the whole of it; ; the 1 two, carbon and the aim of skilfal and scientific practice ought to be to 
laboratory, there are many questions which, th | hydrogen, existing in smaller proportion in the fo: theoretical perfection as it is pos- 
be established onl facts by | respectively, of i d the vapour of water sible to do, th nat we 
ted by ` science yas by oug 
experiments in the field, performed with every attention a can l 
accuracy. I hold also that neither of these | certain quantity of the same substances, in the form of it. Although, however, we cannot hope to arrive at 
xperiment will in themselves suffice; they | what is called organie matter, in a state in which all perfection, we may advantageously aim at a somewhat 
hand if our results are to be of value. | these four — may be supplied to the plant. lower and less difficult standard, for experience and 
chances are that they lead to mere Now every fertile soil contains all the constituents of | science concur in showing that all the constituents of a 
ions, of which science will supply one set and the plants Which grow upon it, and that too in sufficient | manure are not as equally itaportant, but that those 
— — for you must allow me to say that | quantity to supply many successive crops, a position | are most essential which the plant has greatest difficulty 
practice has abundance of ‘speculations of its own, which | which I have had recently an opportunity of illustrating | in 32 5 — from other sources. Now, in this point of 
are often mouch wilder than those on which science ven- 55 plete manner, — es of analyses of the view, nitrogen is the most importan of all the. con 
Wheat soils of Scotland, published i in the last No. of the stituents of a manure, because it is — which Nature 
on the p present. occasion, I must be contented Highland Society’s Transactions. You may possibly express 
to do so in a very general manner, as your time will not | even nitrogen, of all others the element which we should some sur urprise at this ‘statement, —— — I, not 
permit me to go into any S and I shall advert, in least expect to find in them in abundance, nevertheless many minutes since, mentioned ‘that it 
the ‘first — ee, o the l properties of exists in what must be considered a comparatively | enormous quantity in the — : But it 80 
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in ; i be 
; it is farther necessary that they be present in a to the plant in a special condition. It has been estab- 
e from one state in which they can become available to the growth lished on most unequivocal evidence that the plant 
of the plan ow, to provide for this, N h nn 
When this is introduced an extremely beautiful and important pro- mass of nitrogen existing in e ese 
whole of one of vision. In order that these substances shall be absorbed | to the plant, while it is a a a very minute Ne 
rocess earning i the p i they must exist in ne soluble condition. It | existing in it, in the state of ammonia, which i 
the obser. 
e| ins | i 
c would soon wash away from our soils all that they con- | when I mention that 100 Ibs. of 
gs. The | tai aa tained of valuable matter. To obviate this, however, about 77 Ibs. of ni and, according to a recent 
| so arr i ist | i 
these constituen 
r tw q ome solu th extreme slowness gee oa. and in 
these it cannot flourish, and justin pro- | no o greater quantity me wei oq for supporting that | 
.. rep lied will | a 3 hich the general eco economy of the this source, will observe, then, 
> of its growth. 92 matter of great practical importance, that the principe 
hese| Now the 2 wale panu of cultivation is to obtain by | source of the two most i constituents of plants 
o ; i plants 
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ering this question it is necessary 2 from their insoluble state. The far 
guish between the twe — — . — — ; 
have already referred, and to inguin into Some mit tthe plant sequen other words by into 
