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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 



PERUVIAN GUANO. 

 AUTION TO AGRICULTURISTS 



v It being notorious that extensive adulteration* of this 

 11 AN UK E are still carried on, 

 * A * ANTONY GIBBS AVD SONS. AS THE 



ONLY IMPORTERS OF PERUVIAN GUANO, 

 Consider it to be their duty to the Peruvian Government and 

 to the Public again to recommend Farmers and all others who 

 bay to be carefully on their guard. 



the character of the parties from whom they purchase will 

 f coarse be the best security, and in addition to particular 

 attention to that point, ANTONY GIBBS and SONS think it 

 well to remind buyers that — 



The lowest wholesale price at which sound Peruvian 

 Quano has been sold by them during the last two years 

 is 91. os* per ton, less 2± per cent. 



Any resales made by dealers at a lower prico must therefore 

 eitherleave a loss to them, or the article must be adulterated. 



THE LONDON MANURE COMPANY beg to 

 offer PERUVIAN GUANO, warranted perfectly genuine ; 

 Superphosphate of Lime, Wheat Manure, Concentrated Urate, 

 Irish Peat Charcoal, Gypsum, Nitrate of Soda, and every arti- 



gT PHENSON and Co., 61, Uraeeehureh-stree 



7 -^h. I il" B , 0I LEU>, retpectfullv solicit thr attomion . 



; 



■»— 



\. i * —«-^K»«^ uc»v u wen as bottom beat i> 



secured to any required decree, without the aiJ of pipes or flue. 

 8. and oo. have also to state that at the request of numerous 



C«nt h^ V n ° Z makin * their Boiler8 * f Iron. a. well a. 

 Copper, by whicn the cost is reduced. These Borers which 



^° a R0 T"°K We11 knon * scarcely require description \ but t 

 those who hare not seen them in opera n, prospectuses will 

 be forwarded, as well as references of the highest au-horitr • , 

 they may be seen at most of the Nobility'* seats and principal 

 Nurseries throughout the Kingdom. 



S. and Co. be? to inform the Trade that at their Manufactory 

 i\ r W . Park - 8reet . every article required for the construction 

 of Horticultural Buildings, as well as for heating them, may 

 be obtained upon the most advantageous terms. 



Conservatories, «fcc, of Iron or Wood, erected on the most 

 ornamen-al deiigns. Balconies, Palisading, Field and Gardeu 

 reoces, Wire-work, Ac. 





1 ■ mJ ^™ — r mm • w 



ficial Manure, on the best terma. Also a constant supply of 

 Salt for Agricultural Purposes, at a low rate. English and 

 Foreign Linseed Cake, Rape Cake, &c. 



Edward Purser, Secretary, Bridge-street, Blackfriars. 



MANURE^.— The following Manures are manu- 

 factured at Mr. Lawes's Factory, Deptiord Creek : 



Turnip Manure, per ton £7 



Superphosphate of Lime 7 o 



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, dl. bs. per 

 too, in dock. Sulphate of ammonia, &c. 















1 FARMERS AND GARDENERS are invited to try 

 theNEW and VALUABLE MANURE PEAT CHARCOAL 

 impregnated by pressure with the fertilising matter of the 

 London Sewage, the Ammonia, Phosphates, and Faeces bein* 

 absorbed, and the water left bright and palatable. Sold at the 

 Charcoal and Sewa/e Works, Stanley Bridge, Fulham, Middle- 

 lex, at 60*. per ten, is. per cwt., and 2s. 6d. per half cwt. 



FOSSIL BOXES AND PSEUDO-COPROLITES 



(FROM THE SUFFOLK CRAG). 



T^DWARD PACKARD and CO., of Ipswich, baring 



1-i erected very powerful Machinery for the purpose of reduce 

 ing these Phosphatic Nodules to a fine Powder, and being in 

 the immediate locality of where they are found, are no^v pre- 

 pared to supply them on the most economical terms, in any ' 

 quantity, either Ground, Whole, or Dis-olved in Acid. They 

 form the cheapest source of Phosphate of Lime in the market, 

 and are peculiarly eligible for manufacturing Superphosphate 

 of Lime in conjunction with Gone. 



Prices and every information connected with their use for- 

 warded on application to Edward Packard and Co., Artificial 

 Manure Manufacturers, Ipswich, Suffolk, 



"D0YAL SOCIETY for the PROMOTION and 



t *™ IP n£ 0VEMENT of the GROWTH of FLAX in IKE- 

 L AND.— The ANNUAL MEETING of the Society will take 

 place on Friday, the ISthtett., at 12 o'clock, in the Society's 

 Rooms Commercial Buildings, Belfast, to receive the Annual 

 Keport of the Committee, to elect Office-bearers for the ensuing 

 year, and to transact such other business as may be brought 



bX, Nov. 2* y mT' JAME9 MAC ADAM ' Secretar >' 



ADULT Kit AT ION OF FOOD. 



ITENRY BAKER, Optician, 90, Hatton Garden, 



* *• London, bejrs to call attention to hi ACHROM ATI- 

 MICROSCOPES (warranted £ d) which wil be exchanged if 

 not approred of. These Instruments will define the rircumtion 

 of the Blood in the Frog;' Foot, the Saw in the S in* of the 

 Wasp, the Comb in the Spider's Foot, the beautiful rm end 

 nineties of Pollen in Flowers and their Structure the Scales 

 of the Butterfly's Winjf, and also in manv instances Adultera- 

 tion of Fo« d. It is a very interesting companion, and will pai 

 away usefully many a leisure hour, the fund for observation 

 bein^ inexhaustible. Price for No. 1, 31. 12*. ; No. J, M. 15* ; 

 No. b, 91. 10*. A descriptive H.ok. sent post free, on rt iptoi 

 three postage stamps. Prepared objects. 12j. ; injected do., 

 30s per doselL 



I rokeu ; and after all, that tb • is thing godl 



and useful to be made and done, even xuih the 

 hardest material, that there are tools tempered o 

 act upon 3 oeeful thinge to be made Ml of it, 

 lie more lasting and valuable bee use the were 

 «o hard So shall it be * h you. strong- hearted 

 son of the soil! when the pernicious ^ em has 

 long passed away into forgot . istor that has 

 made you what you were, let us already rather say 

 than what you are. 



Yes. Ultra are still, it is believed, one or two 

 hings to be learnt, even in farming. We hs \ not 

 scaled the topmost pinnacle of possible knowledge 

 nor sounded every dep:h of practical attemj to 

 meet impracticable times. Those t > 4 Mineral "- 

 grinding * Theory '-splitting individuals, Lawss and 

 LiEBie, may actually be con lizing etch oilier about 

 somcthing % after all f though what upon earth it is 

 don't let vou and I cudgel our brains to ki 

 won't help to raise prices— that vou may depend; 



Ad it won't lower the rent— that's os m 



what good cam it do for Farming \ 



It 



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«• Tu ne austlris scire, nefas, qnem m i qu< m 

 J- mem Ih dederint, 1 nsono» ! nee Hoi 



Teutnns nntn m! 



Vt inel:ti«. <|tilecjui>i < ro, patl I 



OSS 





'PHE BIRMINGHAM CATTLE and POULTRY 



A SHOW.— The THIRD GKKAT ANNUAL KXUIRITION 

 of FAT CATTLE and the various kinds of l)OMBST!< 

 POULTRY, will be ;held in the BINGLKY BXlllKITION 

 HALL, BIRMINGHAM, on the 9th, Kith, Uth, and Itth of 

 December next. Admitsion— To the PUIVATE VI KW, on 

 Tuesday, December 9th, 2*. Gd. ; on WeLiuesday, Tharsday. 

 and Friday, Is. *' Jt 



Eixt asttcultttrai ©aKtte 



NO 



MEETINGS POR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. 

 Thukidat, Nov. 27— AKrieulrursI Imp.Soc.of Irek.nd. 

 WiiDMHtDAt, Dec. 3-AicriculturHl Society of En«Uud. 

 Tbvbidat, — 4-AjrricuiturAl Imp.Soc.of Ireland. 



say 



during 



WARMING AND VENTILATING. 



and E. BAILEY, 272, Holborn, having had many 



• years experience in warming buildings by Hot Water. 



XhSSsVT H0t Water A PP««« on the mo.t approved 

 P^'pleMor Mansiona, Warehouses, Conserratories, and other 

 Horncultural Euilding,, and they be* to introduce to the 

 public a BOILER of their invention, which has been used with 

 great success and has this season been put up in the gardens 

 1^ ^cultural Society, Chiswick, and is noticed and com- 

 ?. 1 1Q tb . e Gardeners' Chronicle of Saturday, Sept. 2,), 1851, 

 page 593. Dr. Arnott'a Ventilating Valves; upon the besJ 

 construction, many having been made under the kind superin- 



■55 1 * e - 0t R r# Arnott himself - Also a very complete, cheap, 

 an^effic ient Portable Cooking Apparatus or Cottagers* Stove. 



CHEAP AND DURABLE ROOFING. 



BY HER 

 MAJESTY'S 



ROYAL LETTER3 

 PATENT. 



p^ M'NEILL and Co., of Lamb's-buildings, Bunhill- 



row, London, the Manufacturers and only Patentees of 

 THE ASPHALTED FELT FOR ROOFING 



ft„^!f 9,Farin Buildings, Shedding, Workshops, and for Garden 

 Purposes, to protect Plants from Frost. 



*h Vu e 6reat Nat *onid Agricultural Shows, it is this Felt 

 J«jcn has been exhibited and obtained tw» Silvfr Medal 

 bi zes, and is the Felt solely patronised and adopted by 

 Her Majesty's Woods and Forests, 

 Honourable Board of Ordnance, 

 Honourable East India Company, 

 Honourable Commissioners of Customs, 

 Her Majestt's Estate, Isle of Wight, 

 And *l 0TA & Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, 

 £5£°v tbe Estatesof the Duk e» of Sutherland, Norfolk, Rut- 

 the lnf 6 « Ca f tle » Northumberland, Buccleuch (at Richmond), 

 and ^ tu a J? s P €ncer > aod m ost of the Nobility and Gentry, 

 •quare RoTAL Aq «cultural Society's House, Hanover. 



effect. half the P rice of * n J othe r description of Roofing, and 



KadP ^ grea , t savin ^ of Timber in the construction of Roofs. 

 ^*°e to any length by 32 inches wide. 



• * c Price One Penny pf* Square Foot. 

 of iUa« mple8 ' with Directions f or its Vse, and Testimonials 

 *lemen P*P' ex P wieDce » witQ references to Noblemen, Gen- 

 ^own APCn itects, and Builders, sent free to any part of the 

 « or country, and orders by post executed. 



°f Gr a ? UDl »c is cautioned that the only Works in London 



e at Britain where the above Roofing; is made, are 

 **W i? P - M'NSILL and CO.'S 



London t U Manufactor y» Lamb's-buildings, Bunhill-row, 



The wh ^ e Roofs covered with the Felt may be seen, 

 ^inst^u 7 ice " Cnancellor,s Courts, at the entrance of West- 

 two ill .*' were r oofed with F. M'Neill and Co.'s Felt about * 

 S.A. f r r8 8 " ,ce » under the Surveyorship of Chas. Barry, Esq., 

 10 litUfii a ^ eit y' 8 Commissioners of Woods and Forests are 

 mitUfcR wita tne r ^ult that thev have ordered the Com- 

 ^eir p!u 0n l? at the Hou *« 8 of Parliament to be roofed with 



Rote p ^ uan tity altogether used, 24.C00 feet, 

 ^•d 4 D T Lonsanae r» sending direct to the Factory can be sup 

 •onioro fu ?tns be8t suited to their Roofs, so that they pay for 



»*«? • , an th<? y ^uire. 

 ^ orLr forinati <>n afforded on the construction of Roofs, or 

 ^oposed particular application of the Felt. 





In a remote part of one of the central counties of 

 England there has been growing and maturing, 



the last six years, courting little notice, 

 intent upon utility and truth, rather than on fame, 

 a patch of agricultural experiment— some ton or 

 twelve acres in extent— which bids fair to do for 

 the clay-soil husbandry of this clay-soil kingdom, 

 what the tiny mushroom can do for the paving- 

 stone of two or three hundred-weight ;— lift it from 

 its sluggish bed, burst the tough cement that held it 

 down, push it bodily from the grave in which it lay 

 and, if need be, turn it right over, top-side down, 

 — douhlc-dig it. 



To the almost lost and buried relics of the only 

 absolute agricultural genius that this country ever 

 knew, may perhaps be dated the first origin of an 

 idea which has at last met with its worthy expli- 

 cator: let there be a libation therefore to the 

 name* of Jethro Tull, before a word be said or 

 a praise be uttered upon a discovery, original 

 enough after every honour paid to him — to place its 

 present author in the foremost rank of English agri- 

 cultural Improvers. 



Let us put it as a problem. Be it required of you, 

 O Straggler of the Clays! to grow upon four half- 

 acres of your stiffest yellowest subsoil a crop at the 

 rate oi forty-one bushels of Wheat to each /w/f acre, 

 without manure, without a fallow, without a " legu- 

 minous or green crop intervening," as your leases 

 have it, — nay after a previous Wheat crop, where 

 a fallow had not been known in the memory of man, 

 and where all the neighbouring wisdoms (those en- 

 couraging and enlightened prophets that you shall 

 h iply find around you, try it where you will !) 

 have, with all the authority of established ignorance, 

 promised you some two or three quarters to the acre 

 for your pains, as ' the most that field ever did do 

 or ever will do, new-fangle it as ye may I ' 



Yes. You smile. You don't believe it : or you 

 believe it as a kind of conjuror's trick ; a trick of 

 words rather than deeds ; a sort of thing that may 

 do very well on paper, may do to line the columns 

 of some teazing Chronicle or Gazette that wont let you 

 alone, that would fain persuade you there is actually 

 still something more to be learnt in farming than 

 you know already, and have known since you were 

 a boy — that there are one or two things yet extant 



truly need, at this most criiical moment that ** 



— all that can be known about its deeped .tra- 

 •nbter-subsoil mysteries, do most de* M, ati-i jeer 

 at, and defy the whole catechism, the whole ground 



work, the wholo lacUttientaryaiiom-page oponwh h 



each after-problem depends; with a which ery 



leaf of working-day experience is like a eepanr 

 Chinese puzzle, without l^innin^, Idle <>i • • !. 

 Alas ! for the perceptive and inventive ] wen that 



hate been 'cribbed, cabined and confined*' 



rather — stifled, imted, stupifiVd by six! ear 

 two generations — of % price '-mainta rig am cost- 



redua j Legislation. 



How will you awaken it? By what ( innry 



rade-language shall yon reach l\ Tell theCotton- 



•pinner, the Silk-throwster, or the Fla -morker a 



new dodge to shorten, economise, or cheapen some 

 tiniest process in his manufacture; he listen! and 



inclines, arrcrtis anvil r. The ' pi ice f of hit tide 



in- the market he well know is Nature's making, 

 not his, not anybody's; it lies far away out of his 

 reach ; it belongs to the dominion of a I Wei hat 



not Kings nor Oueens, nor Parliaments, nor even 



Squires can 



I'UOIH'CTION- 



of 





ence or reach : but the Cost 

 ■aye! there yon re h him 1 me 



Now- vou touch a string that he can fiddle to as well 

 M any other biped v h two hands and a brain to 

 guide them : n< • vou come to u i methinp practical ff 

 — because you come to something possible, some- 

 thing which has been done, is done, a i wil! be «lone 

 again, as lone; as human brains shall retain their 

 power, and human right-hands their cunning. 



Hut how is it afield? — u If you please Sir. (not to 

 be anary !) I can tell you how to grow more Wheat 

 on halt an acre without manure, than you grow on a 

 whole acre, with : and how to grow it year after 

 year on the same field, without injury to the soil, 

 without 'exhaustion,' and with a profit of some- 



You can, can you ? Take your double -digging, 

 and your triple rows, and your horse-hoeing, ai 1 

 your 'spaces' and your 'intervals,' to the 

 place where Tull took his! — the house of a cen- 

 tury's oblivion, death nngratified, fame unvindi- 

 cated, labour unrequited ! What have we to do 

 with 'cost of production'? It's Prick we want 

 what Queen — Lords — and Commons, with all the 

 Squires to back them, and all unanimous, could not 

 give, any more than they can give back the Last 

 Century, or cotton-stockings again at seven shillings a 

 pair, — it '8 that we want, and that we'll have ; and 

 anything that savours of the other road to profit, the 

 vulgar road that all other trades are racing in, we 

 won 't have ; not at any price" 



Is this — is this indeed — to be the song ? Then 

 good-bye Wheat-growing, for England. We're at a 

 pretty pass already ; fighting an up-hill fight against 

 countries, not untaxed, not unindebted, not better 



our own ; 



soiled, not better tilled, or favoured th; _„ 



that tune won't do ; but, free from laws that curse the 

 soil with intransferable stagnation, that tie a dead 



j „, „ .„ v „.... B „ ^„ v.«v~„v estate toa living man, and the living land toan unborn 



in heaven and earth undreamt of in your philosophy ! one, that say, Thou shalt not buy an acre of land with- 

 there's an accomplished infidelity about vou. out a lawyer's 'permit 'a conveyancer's 'Title.' as old 



there's an accomplished infidelity about you, 

 Mr. Practical : robur et ces triple.v for the cunning 

 spear to penetrate that shall carry conviction, or 

 even the value of a doubt of your complete and 

 perfect knowledge of all that can be said on Wheat- 

 growing, home to your breast. It is hard to ap- 

 proach you, hard to cater for the thankless ; hard to 

 explain, and simplify, and popularise, troths that 

 the ear rejects, for within there is nothing that re- 

 sponds. But even you know this, that hard duties 

 must be performed, hard soils disturbed, hard stones 



out a lawyer's ' permit,' a conveyancer's ■ Title.' as old 

 as your grandfather's wig, and as useless, and of such 

 expense, such arbitrary grotesquely disproportionate 

 expense, that the ' title' to au acre may be twenty 

 times its value, so that none can buy but he who 

 can buy hundreds or thousands, to be 'occupier by 

 other men— his 'tenants.' The German, the 

 Frenchman, the Belgian, the Dutchman, the Nor- 

 wegian, the Dane, the Swiss, the Tyrolese, the Lorn- 

 bard, the Tuscan, fights you with his own weapons, 

 sticks his own plough or spade into his own field, 



