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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



153 



PKRIVIAN GUANO. 



CAUTION TO AGRICULTURISTS. 

 It being notorious that extentire adulterations of this 



M IN L' HE are itill carried on. 



• ANTON V GIBB3 AND SONS, 



At TPE 



ON IT IMPORTERS OF PERUVIAN GCANO, 

 Clpglilir- it to be their duty to the P» r ivian Gorernment and 

 to the Pnb'ic a^a»n to recommend Farmers and all others who 

 bat to be carefully on their guard. 



Thechsracter of the parties from whom they purchase will of 

 enrte be the best security, and in addition to particular atten- 

 tf n t> that point, ANTONY GIBBS ahd SONS think it well 

 to #mind buyers that — 



The lowest wholesale price at which sound Peruvian 

 Vrtiano has been sold by them during the last two yean 

 ii 91. 5s. per ton, less 2\ per cent. 



Any resales made by Dealers at a lower price must therefore 

 ti.ber leare a loss to them, or the article must be adulterated. 



C COCHIN CHINA EGGS,— Afl n i^neral a. r to 

 J Taiious Correspondents and others. HENRY COPLAND 

 will supply the public with Kggt from these fine and prolific 

 Birds at 10*. a setting of 13 Ejus.— Apply to Mr. IIenet 

 Copland, Chelmsford, Essex. A few fine youn- Cock Birds 

 for sale. 



GRASS AND OTHER SEEDS. 



THOMAS GIBBS and Co., the Seedsmen to the 

 "1 val Agricultural Society of England," corner of 

 Half Moon-Street, Piccadilly, beg to call the attention 

 of their friends to the following Seeds : 



Mixtures of selected Natural Grasses for laying dowa Land 

 to permanent Meadows and Pastures, apportioned to suit the 



nature of the soil. 



Mixtures for portions of Parks near Mansions. 

 Mixtures for Garden Lawns and Grass Plots. 

 Mixtures for renovating Old Pasture Land. 

 Italian, and other Kre-tfrasBes. 

 White Belgian aud Red Altringham Carrots. 



Gibbs' new very large Parsnip. 

 Orange Globe Mangold Wurzel. 



Lonj Red and other kinds. 



Drumhead and Thousand-headed Cabbages. 



Swedes, Hybrids, and oth r Turnips. 



Closers. Kohl Rabi, French and English Furze. 



Sainfoin, Rape. Tares, White Mustard, and all Agricultural 



and Kitchen Garden Seed?, «bc. 

 Priced Lists are now ready, and will be forwarded fre&, on 



application, by post, or otherwise, to corner of Half Moon- 

 Street, Piccadilly, London. 



THE SKINLESS CHEVALIER BARLEY.— The 

 valuable malting properties of this Barley, and the hand- 

 Fome appearance of the grain, are as superior to the Peruvian 

 Skinless Barley as the finest Wheat is superior to Rye. Messrs. 



_ SrjTTOM have but a limited quantity; therefore, to prevent 



genuine importation of Messrs. A. Gibbs and Sons, 91. 10*. per j d sappointment, it is requested that those of their friends who 

 ton, or 9/. 5s. in quantities of 5 tons and upwards. wish to try it will apply early for the Seed. Price 5s. per peck. 



Edwaid PuadE*, Secretary. 



40. Bridge-street, Blackfrisrs. London. 



the mineral soil w.-ntto build up the substance of 



MANURE DEPOT.— PEAT CHARCOAL. 

 TO FARMERS. AGRICULTURISTS. AND OTHERS. 



GET. POLEY, Essex Coa! Wharf, Lea-bridge, | 

 • Middlesex, Agent by appointment to the Irish Amelio- 

 ration Society, for the sale of the above. All needful parti- 

 culars mill be tfWen on application at the above address. 



Price of the unmixed Charcoal, 60s. per ton, sacks included. 

 Miied with Ni-htsoil, 45* per t^afsacks incl uded. 



HE LONDON MANURE COMPANY beg to 



offer, as under^tfoRH MANURE, most valuable for 

 anrinjc dress injj—pancentrated Urate, Superphosphate of Lime, 

 Nitrate of So^i<Salphate of Ammonia, Fishery and Agricul- 

 tural jSasHTGypaum, Fossil Bones, Sulphuric Acid, and every 

 ^Artificial Manure ; also a constant supply of English 

 tf#reiffn Linsee1-cike. Peruvian Guano, guaranteed the 



G 



UANO AND OTHER MA NURKS.— Peruvian 



Guano of the finest quality; Superphosphate of Lime; 

 Gypsum ; Salt • N. ite of 9oda ; Moffat's Patent Concentrated 

 City Sewage Manure, and all others of known value.— Apply to 

 Mask FoTrtr aoiLi*, 204, Upper Thames-s tr eet, Lond on. 



\ TANURKS. — The following Manures are manu- 



AxJL factored at Mr. Lawks** Factory, Deptford Creek : 



Clover Manure, per ton £11 



Turnip Manure, do 7 



Superphosphate of Lime 7 



Sulphuric Acid and Coprolites 5 



Office, 69, King William-street, City, London. 

 N.B. Peruvian Guano, guaranteed to contain 16 per cent, of 

 Ammonia, 91. 10i. per ton ; and for 5 tons or more, 91. 5s. per 

 on, in dock. Sulphate of Ammonia, Ac. 



RTIFICIAL MANURES. — PRIVATE IN- 

 STRUCTIONS in Chemical Analysis and the most ap- 

 S roved methods of making Artificial Manures are given by 

 . C. Ni-bit, F.C.S., F.G.S., a', the Laboratories, Scientific 

 School, 38, Kennington-lane, London. 



Analyses of Soils, Manures, Minerals, Ac, performed as 

 usual, on moderate terms. 



HOSPHATE NODULES, or COPROLITES and 



FOSSIL BONES (from the Suffolk Crag). — Manufac- 

 turers of Superphosphate of Lime can be supplied with the 

 above, either in their natural form or finely pulverised, on the 

 best terms, f. o. b. or delivered in the Thames. 



Applications to Edward Packard, Chemist, Saimundham, 

 Suffolk, will receive prompt att. ion. 



SALT for Agricultural Purposes, Asparagus Beds, 

 Garden Walks, &c, «fcc, price 38*. per Ton, delivered in 

 Sacks to any Railway Station in London. Sacks to be paid for 

 or returned. Apply to John Meredith, Salt Merchant, 10 

 Wharf, City-road Resin, London. N.B. Rock Salt. 



8amp!es may be had by j-oit, by enclosing two postage stamps. 

 See Messrs. Sutton's Advertisement in the last page of Vie 

 last Number of the Gardeners' Chronicle. 



EARLY AND CATTLE CABBAGE. — Stout 

 bedded plants of superior true sorts, is. Gd. per 1000, 

 package included, delivered free of carriage to the Kdenbri^ge 

 s»ation v South Eastern Railway. — Address to John Cattell, 

 Westerbam, Kent. 



PURCHASERS OF AGRICULTURAL SEEDS 



1- are recommended to peruse Mes&rs. SUTTON'S NEW 

 PRICE LIST, whinh appeared in the last page of the Gar- 

 deners 1 Chronicle of March let. The advantages Messrs. 

 sctton are enabled, by their extensive trade, to afford agri- 

 cultuiists in supplying genuine home grown Seeds at the low 

 prices therein quoted, and free of carriage, will doubtless be ap- 

 preciated in tnese times of economy and agricultural improve- 

 ment. The following are a few of the articles therein enu- 

 merated :— 



Per lb. 

 Mangold Wurzel 

 White Belgian Carrot 

 Fresh imported Lucerne 



Parsnip 



Ashcroft and other Swedes 

 Furze (Ulex Euroj ;ius) 



the vegetable living upon it. Of course there is a 

 tense in which this mode of putting it is correct 

 enough — but it is not the sense which Tow. him- 

 self entertained. He believed that attention to 

 tillage greatly diminished the need of manure : and 

 there is still danger of his admiring followers beiag 

 similarly misled. We believe that the need for manure, 

 so far from being diminished, is increased. When either 

 the power or facility of manufacture is increased, the 

 supply of raw material must be increased also. And 

 as we believe that the vegetable part of the soil, and 

 even much of its mineral part also, will all the more 

 rapidly go for thorough draining and Tullian tillage, 

 we believe also that the manure heap must be in- 

 creased as well; and that an increased power of 

 manufacture conferred upon the soil, must be accom- 

 panied by an increased >upply of the raw material 

 for manufacture, if a permanent benefit is to be 

 realised. 



It is not unnecessary to insist occasionally on 

 first principles like these, when we find those 

 whom men justly name doctors in agriculture, 



recommending practice which, how- 

 in itself, is necessarily imperfect. 

 Davis not only praises Mr. Smith's 

 Tull — in which we gladly join him 

 with his commendation speaks dis- 



praising and 

 ever good 

 Mr. Hkwitt 

 imitation of 

 —but 



• • • 



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• • • 



• • • 



d. 



| Per bushel- 



-s. 



d. 



6 



Giant Saintfoin 



10 







9 



Dickinson's improved 







9 



Italian Rye-grass 



7 



6 



a 



True Perennial ditto ... 



7 







9 



Common ditto 



5 



6 



9 



Summer Vetches 



6 



C 



THE BEST SORTS <>F PKUENNIAL GRASS ^EEDS £ s.d. 

 FOR PERMANENT PASTURE, mixed expressly to 

 suit the soil, with instructions for sowing, per acre 



SUTTON'S RENOVATING MIXTURE, for improving 



old Pastures, per lb 



Reading Seed Warehouse, Reading, Berks. 



1 8 

 10 



Ote agricultural ©ajctte* 





the soil 

 need 



P ATK NT CREOSOTED FISH FOR MANURE. 

 —This manure is composed entirely of animal matter. 

 The analysis of an eminent chemist states that one ton of the 

 prepared fish contains 263 lbs. of ammonia, 150 lbs. of phosphate 

 -of lime, and 39 lbs. of potash. It wilt be seen that they contain 

 all the manuring properties of the best guano, and at they can- 

 not be adulterated, they will be found to be a most useful 

 manure for Potatoes, Wheat, Oats, Carrots, and all root crops. 

 They also have the property of preventing the Potato disease. 

 All the Potatoes planted with them last year, produced srood 

 <rrops, and were entirely preserved from the disease, although ! merits, 

 the neighbouring fields greatly suffered. See Report of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society of Dec. U, 1850. Price 51. per ton. 

 Orders received by Mr. Hbmet Hill, Corn Exchange, Mark- 

 lane ; Mr. Geobge Bush, 22, Abchurch-lane ; and Mr. Bennett, 

 73, Mark-lane, London. 



IRISH PFAT CHARCOAL. 



" TO FARMERS, AGRICULTURISTS, AND OTHERS. 



MESSRS. ODAMS and PICKFORD, 35, Leaden- 

 hall-street, having been appointed by the Ieish Ameliosa- 

 ttow Society sole Agents, for London, for the sale of their 

 PEAT CHARCOAL, beg to say full particulars of prices, &c, 

 may be obtained on application to them. 



Odams and Pickfohp. 35, LeadenhalLstreet, City. 



DESICCATED ANIMAL MANURE.— This 

 Manure, which has proved bo eminently ?ucces*ful in the 

 culture of both Cereal and Green Crops, can now be had of the 

 Manufacturers, J. M'Call and Co., 60, Spiing Gardens, Man- 

 chester ; Ritchie and M'Call, 137, Houndsditch, London ; and 

 of all Agents Price 71. per ton.— Copies of Analysis and Tes- 

 timonials forwarded post free on application. 



SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1851. 



MEETINGS POIl Tilt TWO FOLLOWING Wl EK9. 

 Wkdresdat, March 12- Agricultural Sccirty of hngland. 

 Thukidai, — H— Agricultural Imp. Sac. of Ireaod. 

 Wid!«hda% — 19— Agricultural Society of bnvlaud. 

 Tuuni'ii, — 20 — Agricultural Imp. Soc. of Ireland. 



IS 



of 



The Tullian System of Agriculture, as it 

 called, which is being urged upon the attention 

 our readers by no mean agricultural authority, has, 

 it must be remembered, its faults as well as its 



The thorough disintegration and tillage of 



which it commends, do not diminish the 



the value of the manure heap, which it 



somewhat to despise. Cattle, manure, 



or 



appears 



corn, are a true sequence of results. 



last 



MEADOW AND PASTURE GRASS SEEDS. 



OEOKGE GIBBS and CO. beg to notice their 



^" mixtures of GRASS SEEDS for Laving Land down to 



l2 TOa 5 e v t Gra88 » are now ready for delivery. They have 

 reduced the price to 305. per acre, allowing 2 bushels 12 lbs. to 

 Ike acre. 



Mixed sorts for improving old Grass Land, Is. 2d. per lb. 

 rine sorts, f or formioar Lawns, Is. Zd. per lb. Directions for 

 •owing will accompany the Seeds. 



JESfZ L < ? IBM an , d Co ' wiU feel ha PPy in sending general 



SSSTl C ?? , %?55 f ^ ffHcilItur » l and Garden Seeds * on appH. 

 aUonjoJ^DQWN^TREE^ Piccadilly, Londo n. 



TRL T E DRUMHEADS *» CATTLE, also EARLY 



atTHOvis u^W At l - ar * e In »perial, Early Vanack, ft*, 

 WrTJ P?f: I ^ EL f-AND8, Surrey Gardens, near Oodalming 

 8turej packed and delivered at the Godalming Station, 3s. Gd. 

 j*r 1WQ ; the large Asiatic Cauliflowe r Plants, 3s. per 100. 



OOCHIN CHINA FOWLS 



v from the best Birds, 

 p.***' wa rr»nted genuine. 



^u^It:ll\^l **&:* 2 rd 5« ■«* ** the country, 



Mjd Spanish Fowls! Almond Tumblers and Carrier Pig 

 ^». setters requiring reply to enclose Stamps. 



u voina 

 eons for 



The Jast may 

 be the rent paying and profitable member of the 

 series, but we fear that, without the second, and 

 therefore, as a general rule, without the first also, it 

 cannot be attained. Drainage and tillage, the one 

 by the greater efficiency it confers on water, as the 

 solvent of food for plants, and the other, by the greater 

 scope for this solvent, which, under a given extent 

 of soil it affords, may have most fertilising tendencies, 

 but neither of them are fertility itself. Neither of them 

 are increased nourishment itself : they are merely 

 an improved cuisine : the family may improve 

 under it in health and vigour, but the larder is all 

 the while only the more rapidly being exhausted ; 

 and unless greater attention than ever be paid to 

 replenishment there, the temporary improvement 

 will be succeeded by utter starvation. 



No doubt the soil is not only a storehouse, it is in 

 a great measure itself the very substance of food ; 

 and so long as a current of water be maintained 

 throughout it by drainage, the rapidity with which 

 it will supply this food in a soluble form depends 

 upon the aggregate surface presented by its particles 

 to the dissolving agent. Let these particles, spheres or 

 cubes, or any other regular figure, be reduced one-half 

 in their linear dimensions, and the whole surface they 

 will present will multiply fourfold. Reduce a soil, 

 therefore, by tillage, and the roots of plants will have 

 a greatly increased pasturage. Make every particle 

 within it smaller, and thefield on which their roots may 

 feed will become larger in a rapidly increasing ratio. 

 And this is exactly the phraseology used by Tull. 

 He evidently believed that the very substance of 



along 

 paragingly, in which we cannot join him, of the 

 manure heap and its origin in stock-keeping. His ex- 

 perience has taught him, so he says, u to look with 

 distrust at the pains many are taking to impress 

 upon arable farmers the necessity for placing their 

 chief dependance on stock-keeping, to give them 

 the means of profitably growing corn." Our expe- 

 rience has taught us, we confess, to look with dis- 

 trust not only on statements of extravagant results 

 of all kinds in farming— and we say this without the 

 smallest intention to include the account of Mr. 

 Smith's experience among them — but on anything 

 like a one-sided or partial statement of agricultural 

 truth. Tullian agriculture is an excellent thing, 

 just as improvements in machinery are good : both 

 undoubtedly benefit the manufacturer — but they 

 are beneficial, simply by the ability thus given 

 to work up that larger quantity of raw material 

 which they call for, and which must be supplied. 

 No doubt the warehouse may be filled to begin with ; 

 and, perhaps, no man knows the wonderful resources 

 of a well tilled soil, of ordinary natural fertility ; 

 but it is exhaustible, and the period of its exhaustion 

 under such management as Tull recommended, and 

 as his followers somewhat less confidently point out, 

 is approaching, whereas, under a perfect system of 

 management, it ought if anything to be receding. 



Free trade may or may not have reduced the 

 value of agricultural produce ; at all events it is 

 much reduced, and we believe that while the u corn- 

 grower may yet get rich" in the prosecution of his 

 business, when all his circumstances shall have 

 accommodated themselves to the reduced standards 

 of value, it will be not merely by a more energetic 

 and diligent tillage of the soil, but also by a more 

 energetic and diligent supply to the soil of the food 

 on which his plants are to live. The value of 

 Wheat and other grain is greatly reduced, and there 

 is not that we are aware any such reduced value in 

 guano and other purchaseable fertilisers for imme- 

 diate application to these crops as might have been 

 looked for ; but though the value of meat has also 

 been reduced, there is a very material reduction 

 in the cost of the raw material — purchaseable cattle 

 food — out of which it is made. And, while w r e 

 willingly second Mr. Hewitt Davis in his efforts to 

 impress upon our readers the importance of deep 

 and thorough tillage to a good Wheat crop, we 

 would quite as strongly urge upon them the import- 

 ance of the meat manufacture, as a necessary and 

 most influential part of farm management over the 

 greater part of this country. We believe that it 

 alone might be a profitable business, even at 5d. 

 per lb. for beef ; and we believe that, at all events, 

 in the absence of it, the soil will not long continue 

 to grow Wheat at 5s. a bushel. 



FARM ACCOUNTS.— No. I. 



SPECIFICATION OF THE FARM. 



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Name of Field t, 



12 

 S 

 20 

 10 

 10 



12 



8 

 6 

 9 



_: 



100 



Dairy Field 

 Pond Field 

 Stable Field 



Earn Field 

 Church Field 



Wood Field 



I 



Path Field 

 Brook Meadow 

 Home Pasture 

 Cuckoo Wood 



Last In- 



3 ear's 



tended 



Crops. 



Crops. 





1 



Beans 



Wheat 



Clover 



Wheat 



Wheat 



Fallow 



Barley 



Beans 



Barley 



Clover 



Fallow 



I 



and 



> Oats 



Rental in pro- 

 portion to 

 value. 



Net 

 Rent. 



Turnips 

 Fallow 

 Mown 

 Fed 



305. per acre. 



15 



20 



18 



20 





Barley 





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20 



25 

 33 

 28 

 10 



it 



£ 

 18 



20 



9 



10 



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