THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



377 



PHI OKMKAL LAND DRAINAGE AND 



Htt IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. 



HKVRT KEK SEYMER, Esq., M.P., Chairman. 

 tnHH VILL1ER3 SHELLEY, Esq., Deputy Chairman, 

 . «i«d bf Act of Parliament to execute all works of 

 ^powcrcu j ..«#»n« thrmivh oriioinine' estates'), to 



-._ ^^ buildinf •, and carry out every kind of permanent 

 •"^Vmcot upon estates under settlement; to provide the 



or to enable the landowner to employ his own capital 



- Tl^ote the works by his agents, and to secure repayment 

 5.^undav by a charge on the property improved, spread 

 iTl number of jears. Applications to be addressed to 



o£*« 52. Parliament-street, London. W. Clifford, Sec 



"^PERUVIAN GUANO. 

 CAUTION TO AGRICULTURISTS.— 



It being notorious that extensive adulterations of this 



u^NCRB are still carried on, 



*** ANTONY GIBBS AND SONS, AS THE 



ONLY IMPORTERS OF PERUVIAN GUANO, 

 •ider it to be their duty to the Peruvian Government and 

 lo the Public a$ain to recommend Fanners and all others who 

 |l f to be carefully on their guard, 

 the character of the parties from whom they purchase will of 

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

 _ w that point, ANTONY GIBBS and SONS think it well 

 remind bujers that- 



JJu lowest wholesale price at which sound Peruvian 

 Qtumo has been sold by them during the last two years 

 it 9L 5*. per ton, Uss 2 4 per cent. \ 



Any resiles made by Dealers at a lower price must therefore 

 either leare a lo*s to them, or the article must be adulterated. 



PURE WATER raised to any height from a small 

 stream, where a fall can be obtained, by FKEKM AN ROE 

 and HANSON'S IMPROVED RAM ; less waste, by two-thirds, 

 than those ordinarily in use. Portable Steam Engines for Agri- 

 cultural purposes, Threshing Machines, Deep- well Pumps, 

 Water-wheels, Baths, Hot-water Apparatus, and Fountains. 

 Towns supplied with Gas or Water. Drawings and Estimates 

 made.— Freeman Roe and Hanson, Hydraulic and Gas Engi- 

 neers; Office, 70, Strand, London. • • 





GUANO AND OTHER MANURES.— Peruvian 

 Guano of the finest quality; Superphosphate of Lime; 

 Gypsum; Salt ; Nitrate of Soda; Moffat's Patent Concentrated 

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

 Miii Foth e&gjll, 204, Upper Thames-street, L o ndon. 



TrtTfJCIAL MANURES. — PRIVATE IN- 



A STRUCT 103 S in Chemical Analysis and the most ap- 



rived methods of making Artificial Manures are given by 

 C. >'i»bit, F.C.S.. F.G.S., at the Laboratories, Scientific 

 School, S8, Kennington-lane, London. 



Analyses of Soils, Manures, Minerals, &c., performed as 

 usual, on mo derate terms. 



MANURES. — The following Manures are manu- 

 factured at Mr. Laweb's Factory, Dtptford 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. 

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

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

 iu dock. Sulphate of Ammonia, <bc. 





 

 







rPHE LONDON MANURE COMPANY beg to 



\ A offer, as under, CORN MANURE, most valuable for 

 spring dressing— Concentrated Urate, Superphosphate of Lime, 

 Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate of Ammonia, Fishery and Agricul- 

 tural Salts, Gypsum, Fossil Bones, Sulphuric Acid, and every 

 ether Artificial Manure ; also a constant supply of English 

 and Foreign Linseed-cake. Peruvian Guano, guaranteed the 

 genuine importation of Messrs. A. Gibbs and Sons, 9t. 10*. per 

 ten, or 91, bt, in quantities of 5 tons and upwards. 



Edward FoasEa, Secretary. 

 40, Bri dge-street, Blackfriars, London. 



CHALE MANURE.— The Bituminous Shale Coin- 



*J pany can now supply Pulverised Shale Ashes in sacks at 

 2L 10#. per ton, delivered at any station or branch line of the 

 South. Western Railway, and at the Terminus, Nine Elms. 



This valuable Manure is at once cheap, durable, and fer- 

 tilising, and will be found to be superior to all others for 

 vrain, Grass, and Root crops. 



A singular property of this Manure is that it entirely pre. 

 rents the ravages of the Fly in Turnips and Hops: it is also 

 utterly destructive ot the Wire worm. 



Orders to be addressed to the Bituminous Shale Company, 

 115, Upper Thames-Street, London, where also testimonials 

 from the first agriculturists of the day may be obtained. 

 Algernon Pollock, Secretary. 



XJOSE! HOSE!! HOSE!!! Improved "Canvas- 



-*• A coated and Lined Gutta Percha Hose, for Liquid Manure, 

 Fire Engines, Garden and Farm purposes.— This Hose is greatly 

 improved, the rigidity of seam avoided, the flexibility increased, 

 the waterpoof qualities extended, the prices more reasonable, 

 and the pliancy that of a lady's glove. Much research and 

 trial by the Manufacturers has enabled them to arrive at what 

 they consider a perfect Hose. Improved Gutta Percha Hose 

 Joints of all sizes.— Apply to Messrs. Mitchell and Co., Agents, 

 33, High Holborn, London ; International Depot for Patented 

 «,nd other Inventions. 



OSE FOR LIQUID MANURE, Fire-engines 



and agricultural purposes, made of canvass, lined and 

 coated with gutta purcha ; it is about one-third the price of 

 leather or india-rubber, will convey liquids of all kinds under 

 a heavy pressure, it is extensively used at the Government 

 public works; also by the navy, and amongst agriculturists, 

 giving universal satisfaction. Testimonials and prices mafbe 

 obtained of Messrs. Burgess and Key, 103, Newgate-street, sole 

 manufacturers.— London Agents: Messrs. Deane, Dray, and 

 Beane, Swan-lane ; Messrs. Tilley, 13 lack friars-road.— Country 

 Agents : Messrs. Kansome and Parsons, Ipswich ; Messrs. J. 

 *Jd S, Johnson, Liverpool; Messrs. Dickson, Hull; Mr. S 

 Wilson, Agent for Scotland. 



QTEPHENSON and Co., 61, Gracechurch-street, 



^London, and 17, New Park-street, Southwark, Inventors 

 and i Manufacturers of the Improved CONICAL and DOUBLE 

 CYLINDRICAL BOILERS, respectfully solicit the attention of 

 scientific Horticulturists to their much improved method of 

 applying the Tank System to Pineries, Propagating Houses, 

 •c.. Dy which atmospheric heat as well as bottom-heat is 

 secured to any required degree, without the aid of pipes or flues 

 o. and Co. have also to state that at the request of numer. us 

 mends they are now making their Boilers of Iron, as well as 

 vopper, by which the cost is reduced. These Boilers, which 

 w now so well known, scarcely require description, but to 

 wose who have not seen them in operation, prospectuses will 

 »« torwarded, as well as reference of the highest authority • or 



f3£f! ^ 8ee \ at m< L St ?? the NobiUtj'8 *eats and principal 

 « ursenes throughout the kingdom. F 



S. and Co. beg to inform the Trade that at their Manufactory, 

 ofBorH^S k " 8t l re 1 ? t ».f!. er y articl e required for the construction 

 oi Horticultural Buildings, as well as for heating them, mav 

 be obtained upon the most advantageous terms. ' J 



conservatories, &c, of Iron or Wood, erected upon the most 



? S^!a^ alC0 ^ ,> Pali8adiDg ' F ^^ "d°en 



jMMkTALLIC PAINT, produced by the Patent 



T 7 IM *„ , Company, has ^been extensively used for several 

 Stain. i" m - b °»«K"W. iron bridges, /oofs and railing! 

 fe££fr * c *' and * is admitted that it covers a greater su>! 

 ££. Ab/tW*Tf ar **"*/ * hftn any other pigment on wood, 

 dVt 7™ J *« . Lime » and Roman Cement. Fine Black 25L 



KaVf^n P T > l e ^ rOW , n ' 20L Per ^.-Offices of the 

 **aip*ny, 1, N«* Broad-st.,London.-JoHN A. Wist, Secretary. 



FOR WATERING GARDENS, DISTRIBUTING LIQUID 



MANURE, BREWERS' USE, <fcc. 



PATENT VULCANISED INDIA RUBBER HOSE-PIPES 



AND FLEXIBLE GAS TUBING. 



TAMES LYNE HANCOCK (sole Licensee and) 



O Manufacturer, Gosweli-road, London. 



These Pipes are well adapted for Watering Gardens, con- 

 veying Liquid Manure, racking Beer and Cider, for portable 

 Gas Lamps, and all purposes where a perfectly sound Water- 

 proof and Flexible Pipe is required. Hot Liquors or Acids do 

 not injure them ; they are, therefore, much used for Chemical 

 purposes, as they require no oil or dressing when cut of use ; 

 are particularly suitable for Fire Engines, and are found ex- 

 ceedingly useful in dwelling houses for conveying Hot or Cold 

 Water to Baths, <fcc. 



Testimonials and prices may be had on application to the 

 Manufactory. 



N.B. Vulcanised India Rubber Garden Hose, fitted up with 

 Roses, Jets, and Branches complete, with union joints ready 

 to attach to pumps or water cisterns. 



All Orders or Letters addressed to J. L. Hancock, Goswell- 

 mewB, Goswell-road, London, will meet with immediate 

 attention. 



Waterproof Fishing Boots and Stockings, Portable India- 

 Rubber Boats, Shower and Sponging Baths, Air Cushions and 

 Beds, made all sizes to order. 



8Mie agrtntUural <Bwttt* 



SATURDA Y, JUNE 14, 1851. 



MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. 



Widniidat, June IS— Agricultural Society of England. 



— 19- Agricultural Imp. Soc. of Ireland. 



— 25- Agricultural Society of England. 



— 26— Agricultural Imp. Soc. of Ireland. 



Thursday, 

 \Vrohb8dat, 



Thuhadat, 



Every owner of land who may desire to avail 

 himself of the advantages of the Drainage Acts 

 must join in the w T ish of our correspondent, "A. 

 Tenant for Life/' that some accurate detail of the 

 expenses of obtaining a Government loan should be 

 furnished to the public by some one who has been 

 the victim of the process he describes. It is certainly 

 disheartening to be under the impression that what 

 the Legislature intended as a boon has been so 

 fettered by executive machinery as to make it a 

 doubt at least whether it is worth accepting or not. 

 But the subject is not without its difficulties, and 

 an examination into those difficulties will show 



that some 



must 



be incidental 

 that mav be 



to any 

 framed. 



expense 

 system of administration mat may 

 We cannot, indeed, trace the legislative steps by 

 which the obstacles arising out of our system of 

 entail and the trammels of Chancery have been 

 progressively overcome, and the power to charge 

 a settled estate with the expense of permanent 

 improvement conferred upon the tenant for life, 

 without observing that much attention has been 

 given to the subject by the most enlightened 

 friends of agriculture, and that the expense which 

 was found to be inseparable from every plan that 

 could be thought of appeared to paralyse each 

 successive effort that was made. The first Act, 

 usually known as Mr. Pusey's Act, by interposing 

 the machinery of the Court of Chancery to protect 

 the interests of remainder men, * involved a 

 delay and expense that rendered it wholly inope- 

 rative. The next Act founded on the laborious 

 investigations of the Duke of Richmond's com- 

 mittee in 1845 swept away much of the form, 

 and by dispensing with the attendance of 

 counsel and solicitors, and the frequent reports of 

 surveyors, struggled to cheapen the process down to 

 the point of utility. But enough of the costly drow- 

 siness of Chancery was still retained to make the 

 measure unavailing, and only three or four appli- 

 cations appear ever to have been made under it. 

 The jurisdiction was at last transferred to the 

 Inclosure Commissioners by several public Acts, and 

 every expense shaken off except such as in prin- 

 ciple appear incidental and necessary to the subject. 

 We say in principle, because it has never been 

 doubted that a jealous protection of the inheritance 

 is an inseparable appendage to the power of the 

 tenant for life to charge upon it the amount of 

 improvements which are set in motion upon his 

 judgment ; and as it cannot be said that the Inclosure 

 Commissioners in interpreting the Drainage Acts have 

 travelled beyond what their provisions require, the 

 only question is whether protection to the estate 

 can be any further interfered with, or any safe 

 system conceived that shall be less expensive. It 

 is clear the applicant must satisfy the authorities 

 that he is a party comprehended within the Act, 

 notice must be given by advertisements to all 

 affected by the charge, their objections must be 

 heard if raised, plans must be furnished of the 

 lands to be drained, the mode of executing the 

 drainage must be set out, the expense of it. and 

 the value of the improvement shown, and, finally, 

 inspection by a disinterested party must be made. 

 No reversioner will be content with less than this : 



statesmen will startle if anything less is proposed, 

 and how can all be done without delay and expense ? 

 The force of complaint has been directed against 

 inspection ; but it is difficult to see how any 

 portion of what is now required can be given 

 up. There is, perhaps, no subject on which 

 .reater difference of opinion has existed than on 

 drainage, and the truth that half the drains iu 

 Great Britain will require to be relaid has passed 

 into a proverb. A full plan of the drainage and a 

 primary inspection are therefore absolutely necessary. 

 The work? being often left to the direction of a 

 bailiff, or peradventure the village drainer, or what 

 is sometimes more perilous still, the genius of the 

 tenant for life himself (who is not always without 

 temptations to complicity), the law is not severe which 

 requires a final inspection of the work before money 

 is advanced, which perhaps infants may be called 

 to pay. These two inspections are all the present 

 system demands, and if more than these become 

 necessary, they must arise out of the exigence of the 

 landowner that calls for instalments of the money 

 as the works proceed, thus multiplying inspections 

 to a like amount. 



The real point of the difficulty then is, the im- 

 possibility to get the loan before the work is 

 completed and the sanction of the Inclosure Com- 

 missioners obtained ; or, as our correspondent truly 

 observes, " the proprietor having to advance the 

 money and perform the task before remuneration 

 comes, strips the loan of half its value, it being 

 mostly wanted to set the thing going." This is the 

 true ground of complaint, and the rock on which 

 the Duke of Richmond's last effort of the private 

 advances (Drainage) Act has split. Money will not 

 be advanced on works to be done, and where the 

 security must depend upon the contingencies of 

 obtaining the mortgage after the money is spent. 

 The only practical form in which relief can come is 

 by a medium which shall supply the money at the 

 outset, and having the confidence of the proprietor 

 and the commissioners, make the obtaining the 

 sanction of the latter a certainty, while it eases the 

 former of the expenses of a multitude of inspections, 

 and the responsibility of getting the charge on the 

 land. Such a medium would be of scarcely less 

 value than the Drainage Act itself, and if this be 

 the object of either of the companies which have 

 lately come into existence, their parliamentary 

 incorporation is very intelligible, and they may 

 materially advance the interests of agriculture. 

 The Inclosure Commissioners have cheerfully assisted 



proprietors in keeping expense at the minimum, and 

 it may be well conceived that a company having 

 their confidence may still further lessen what is 

 necessary ; and by also supplying the money required 

 for the works, executing them where it is desired, 

 and relieving the proprietor of all the trouble and 

 responsibility of charging the estate, may make it 

 more advantageous to resort to them than to en- 

 counter all the difficulties and uncertain expenses of 

 a direct application to the Commissioners. At all 

 events, it would be wise to investigate the expense 

 of such a course, rather than be scared by the ima- 

 ginary ills of " A Tenant for Life" from doing anything 

 at all. It is said the existing Drainage Companies* 

 cemply with these conditions, and that the General 

 Land Drainage and Improvement Company include 

 within their powers equal provisions with respect to 

 farm buildings. If they can, we propose, as a 

 u rider" to our correspondent's suggestion, that 

 this information would be of quite as much 

 practical value as a detail of the expenses incidental 

 to a Government loan. With present prices and 

 present prospects, however, a stand-still policy can 

 only lead to deeper difficulty. To make the most 

 of the materials we have is the true wisdom, or as 

 our correspondent will find in the next page of his 

 favourite author— 



" Take up this mangled matter at the best : 

 Men do their broken weapons rather use 

 Than their bare hands." 





REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL SECTION 



OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION. 

 No. VI. — The next description of implements comes 

 under " Division C. Harvesting Machines." Among 

 the edge tools of Sheffield, and other places, are to be 

 found plenty of sickles, scythes, and hooks, for cutting 

 Grass and corn, but very few are present in Class 9. We 

 observed an invention of Boyd, Lower Thames-street, 

 calculated to render the scythe an instrument of easier 

 management. The most common furm of scythe, with 

 its wedges, and nails, and rings, and Grass-nail, is as 

 different from what one might suppose it could be, as 

 the Kentish turn-wrest, with its braces, and chains, and 

 link nails, is from an improved iron plough. Vari 

 appliances have been tried, in order to simplify the set- 

 ting of a scythe on its stick ; but most of these have either 

 not given it the necessary universality of movement, or 

 increased its weight with metal. The present invention 

 seems to answer the required ends. The blade is 



• Their advertisements constantly appear in our columns. 



Various 



