51 



1851 .J 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETT1 



H:><> 



PERUVIAN GUANO. I 



AUTION TO AGRICULTURISTS. 



It beiug notorious that extensive adulterations of this 

 %i*\' I* RE are still carried on, 

 1U> ANTONY GIBBS AND SONS, AS THE 



ONLY IMPORTERS OF PERUVIAN GUANO, 

 n .;der it to be their duty to the Peruvian Government and 

 he Public again to recommend Farmers and all others who 

 2,. to be carefully on their guard. 



The character of the parties from whom they purchase will 

 -#Viiirse be the best security, and in addition to particular 

 Ration to that point, ANTONY GIBBS and SONS think it 

 well to remind buyers that— 



The lowest wholesale price at which sound Peruvian 

 Guano has 'been sold by them during the last two years is 

 QJ 5s. per ton, less 2 ^ per cent. 



Anv resales made by dealers at a lower price must therefore 

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



rTHEToNDON MANURE COMPANY beg to 



X offer PERUVIAN GUANO, warranted perfectly genuine ; 

 S-ioerphosphate of Lime, Wheat Manure, Concentrated Urate, 

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

 ficial Manure, on the best term3. Also a constant supply of 

 Salt f«.r Agricultural Purposes, at a low rate. English and 

 Foreign Linseed Cake, Rape Cake, <fec. 



Edwabd Purser, Secretary, Bridge-street, Blackfnars. 



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M 



COATES'S HERD-BOOK." 



*. H. STRAFFORD begs most respectfully to 



inform Short- Horn Breeders that he ll now preparing 

 for publication the UUh Volume of Coates's Herd-Book, which 

 will contain the Pedigrees of Bulls, Cows, and Heifers, with 

 their produce to the 31st December, 1&5L Returns to be made 

 the first week in Janu iry, "1852. The Entrance Fee In this 

 Volume will be Is. for e*ch Pedigree to Subscribers, and 2s. for 

 each Pedigree to Non-Sub»bribers. Price of the volume, 21s. 



List of Entries and Subscribers' Names to be sent to H. 

 Strafford, 3, Camden Villas, Camden Town, London, of whom 



may be had aDy of the previous Volumes, or full Eels of the 

 Work. 



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gold, yet wasting it ] < the miter's *pei.dth ft Wir, 

 unconsciously using it as the ageia and re-Agent of 

 all his plans and purposes — :he mbdomin&ut prin- 

 ciple by whose plus or minus in the sum of life he 

 either accumulates w ih, or sinks into pc rtj 

 our agricultural ' John ■ quietly pockets his hands. 

 and with a calm indifferent rtnmf of voice and 

 manner asks 



1 What is Ammonia T 



the 





We are got so practical now-a-days 

 difficulty is wonderful of exciting a elief any- 

 thing belonging to the Invisible world. Time 





M 



Of 



ANURES.— The following Manures are manu- 

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



Turnip Manure, per ton £1 J> 



Superphosphate of Lime ^2 



Sulphuric Acid and Coprolites 5 



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

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

 Am'moira, 91. 10s. per ton; and for 5 tons or nmre, dl. 5s. per 

 ton. in dock. Sulphate of Ammonia, <fcc. 



FOSSIL BONES AND PSEUDO-COPROLITES 



(FROM THE SUFFOLK CRAG). 



EDWARD PACKARD and CO., of Ipswich, having 

 erected very powerful Machinery for the purpose of reduc- 

 ing these Phosphatic Nodules to a tine Powder, and bein* in 

 the immediate locality of where they are found, are now pre- 

 pared to supply them on the most economical terms, in »ny 

 quantity, either Ground, Whole, or Dissolved in Acid. They 

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

 and are peculiarly eligible for manufacturing Superphosphate 



of Lime iu conjunction with Bone. 



Prices and every information connected with their use for- 

 warded on application to Edward Packard and Co., Artificial 



Manure Manu facturers, Ipswich, Suffolk. 



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 beinz 

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

 Charcoal and Sewage Works, Stanley Bridge, Fulham, Middle- 

 sex, at 60^. ppr ten. 4s. per cwt.. and 2s. 6d. per half cwt 



had 



Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1849, Vol. X., Part I., 

 page 165, and other most flattering testimonials. This level is 



adapted alike for the gentleman farmer, the practised drainer. kUd^ fiome dark llkht V Chrisimit 



or any ordinary workman. Has Pa powerful telescope, and 



combines great accuracy with facility in the using of it. The 



rise and fall can be correctly taken at one obttrvation. The 



book accompanying the instrument gives an explanation of i 



and an easy and correct system of levelling for agricultural 



purposes. Price, with levelling staff complete, 41. T. Co »ke, 



sole maker, optician and mathematical instrument maker, 



York ; or L. Caseella and Co., appointed agents, 23, Hatton 



Garden, London. 



tht 



that died in calf-bed la*:" Lad lay, standing in the 

 middle of the fold and beckoning him to come and 

 milk her, tin- chancea were he * uld create a 

 decided and immediate sensation anions be pa 

 round the fire. Hut the pho* of a darted IHHQ- 



hco —oh ! come— that 's too much ! 



■ What scribble talet— eomc e*a»« to play tb# fad I 



mas is pait, and children po** to ••Mil.* 



of knovr- 



AGRICULTURAL EDI ATIOX.— Sewral .noble- 

 men and gentlemen, advocates for combining " Science 

 with Practice," and convinced tf the importance of early 

 education for those intended for Agricultural pursuits, *iih« i 

 at home or in the colonies, have subscribed a Fund to educate 

 a limited number, from each out I hey will be instructed le'lgc 



in all the Sciences connected with Agriculture, fr*eof <*ery 

 cost, excepting Hooks and Chemicals. Parents may secure 

 board and lodging in the village, or the pupil m»y be ac- 

 commodated In the house of the head master, on payment of a 



moderate sum. Full particulars may be had on application, «>],;..}. a t ( ' w ' v *; ine mav fa fffM 

 by letter, addressed "Agricultural Education," Messrs. liagley * mcn <**<'"}! Win? may 

 and Co., 3, Old Broad-street, London. 



Of nil the impedim its to the admission 



mi the moet obstinate ar, 



nibarraasing < mni U is the veiieit 



mistake to suppote that ie untaught m 



rem ;i ins empty- 



STEPHENSON and Co., 61, Gracechurch-street, 

 London, and 17, New Park-street, Southwark, Investors 

 and 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, 

 4c. f by which atmospheric heat as well as bottom heat is 

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

 S. and Co. have also to state that at the request of numerous 

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

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

 are now so well known, scarcely require description ; but to 

 those who have not seen them iu operation, prospectuses will 

 be forwarded, as well as references of the highest authority ; or 

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

 Nurseries throughout the Kingdom. , , 



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

 17, New Park-street, every article required for «?e conatrucUon 

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

 be obtained upon the most advantageous terms. 



Conservatories, &c, of Iron or Wood, erected on the most 

 ornamemai designs. Balconies, Palisading, Field and Garden 



Fences, Wire-work, &c. _ 



MILK. CHEESE, AND BUTTER. 



HENRY BAKER, Optician, 90, Hatton Garden, 

 London, advises any one who keeps Cows to send two 

 postage stamps, and obtain a description of his L ACTUM. * 1 *'? 

 with its uses, and the results of experiments with it upon af- 

 ferent Milks. Lactometers, complete, in a mahogany box, 

 10s. 6ci. •, Do., with cheaper fittings, 7s. 6d. and 5s. ; Hydro- 

 meters for testing sulphuric acid, 5s., 7s., and 10s. No con 



PORTLAND CEMENT, as manufactured by J. B, 

 WHITE and SONS, possesses all the properties of the 

 best Roman Cement, but has the advantage over that material 

 of wholly resisting frost. When used as a stucco, It does not 

 vegetate or turn green in damp situations and requires no 

 colouring. Employed as an hydraulic mortar for brickwork, 

 it carries four to five measures of sand to one of cement, and is 

 proved by trial to become harder and stronger in these propor- 

 tions than Roman Cement with but one measure of sand. 

 This superior connecting power, combined with its eminently 

 hydraulic properties, point it out as the fittest material for 

 building sea and embankment walls, the lining ot reservoirs, 

 cisterns and baths, and for all those purposes where strength 

 and a perfect resistance towater are required. 



Manufacturers- J. B. White and Sons, Millbank-street, 

 Westminster; 11, South Wharr-road. Paddington ; and Earl- 

 «♦..«.„♦ uUoUfHftrs London : and 36. feel-street. Liverpool. 



of mischiefs 

 what 



ppose that 



n the til mpty vtiiol. 



The mltchitl 



filled v 



if not timely 



itself with *1 



is 



true. 



tttd 



is that 

 18 true, it gorges 

 4 Like an un weeded garden grow 



things rank and gross in noturr potto* it mer$tf.' 



The partner and exact counter-part of the body in 



that respect, it will have food >me kind. If 



through the unlucky destiny of youth. L< has never 

 been "on the fair pasture made to !• ed" it " battens 



out with error 



j 



Eixt agricultural (BaKttc 



SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1851. 



EKT1NG5 POR THE TWO FOLLOWING WKKKS. 

 Thubbdai, Jan. 1 -Agricultural Imp. Soc.of IreUnd. 



Mr. 



We are happy to announce the election of 

 Harkness, of Dumfries, to the office of Secretary 

 to the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of 

 Ireland, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Bullen. 

 Mr. Harkni 3 has already proved himself an able 

 agricultural improver, in his connection with the 

 District Society of Stranraer, which was, and pro! bly 

 still is, one of 'the most active local farmers' clubs in 

 the kingdom ; and the influence he there so usefully 

 exerted will, we are persuaded, now be earnestly 

 and successfully brought to bear upon the agricultural 

 condition of that larger field, in which the Agri- 

 cultural Improvement Society is at work. The 

 gentlemen who have had the appointment of Mr. 



■ - ~ ' f had 



on the moor,'* swelling itself 

 error more proud than the proudest science th& 

 ever veiled its head in silence, at the thought of its 

 own nothingness compared to the ast vnknwn 

 more hard and fixed than the sternest efforts wi 

 resolves of the mind or body that systematically 

 denies itself to seek the good of others. But , n ■ ver 

 is it more proud, more hard, more tyrannical, than 

 when you come to speak to it of that portion of 

 creation which it cannot see or handle. Y torn these 

 two bodily sens* -the sight an i touch- i sole 

 idea of existing things is derived. r I ilk to it about 

 a cart-load of dun/:, you talk the language of an 

 ordinary rational being ; tell it that the easence, the 

 spirit, to which this mass of matter owes lb ferti- 

 lising power, is an invisible that would find 

 itself not incommoded within the *pace of a few 

 quart bottles ! — instantly you become before its 

 pi ing eyes a 'mere Theorist/ to he listened to, if 

 af nil ml of verv chant v ai I patience. 



aarth means 



not 



Hov are you to prove it 1 



hand! Whv ? Beca e 



By o 



Pi r 



implies 



Bullen's 



to this office, seem to have 



a somewhat difficult task to perform, no fewer than 

 54 candidates having presented themselves ; ai 

 their appointment of a Scotchman seems to have 



meter* xor «»«, .«^« B — -. .- - - K . M wounded the easily offended nationality of some of 



sumerof acid should be without oae, as it is oiten soioMngniy ^ Dublin journals. We are persuaded that they 



diluted. Saccharometers for Br,wio ? , with tables, 5,.,JJ., ,and ^^ done J right lo choose the man whose testi- 

 monials certified the highest qualifications for the 

 office ; they have done right to confine their atten- 

 tion to those points only in the candidate for 

 the office, which concerned his ability to perform 

 its duties; and that Mr. Harkni 3 will prove an 



10*. Pedimeut Barometers, from U. each. Wheel Barome- 

 ters, from 11. Is. each. Packed carefully for the country, there 

 being nothing to fear of them getting out of order, as they are 

 warranted to be properly made and jrood ins truments. 



APRIZEMEDALFOR SUPERIOR LOCKS WAS aWaKUEI) 

 TO J. H. B003BYER, AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION 

 OF 1851 



PATENT SPADES, DAISY RAKES, SCYTHES, 

 Draining, and other Garden Tools. Mole Traps, 6s. per 

 •lozen. Carpenters and Smiths* Tools, &c. ladies' Garden 

 Tools, 7«. 9d. a set. Sword-scraper3 for Gardens, Is. 2d. each. 

 Patent Fumigators for destroying insects on plants, in green- 

 houses, dec. : at Messrs. J. H. Boobbyer and Co.'s (lat 

 Sturch and Boobbteb), Ironmongery, Brass-foundry, Nail 

 and Tool Warehouse, 14, Stanhope-street, Clare-market, 

 London. Established nearly 200 years for the sale of goods » 

 from the best Mauufactories at the lowest prices. Goods for- 

 warded to any part on the receipt of remittance. 



WARMING AND VENTILATING. 



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

 • years' experience in warming buildings by Hot Water, 

 continue to erect Hot Water Apparatus on the most approved 

 principles, for Mansions, Warehouses, Conservatories, and other 

 Horticultural Buildings, and they beg to introduce to the 

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

 great success, and has this season been put up iu the gardens 

 of the Horticultural Society, Chiswick, and is uoticed and com- 

 mended in the Gardeners 9 Chronide of Saturday, Sept. 20, 1851, 

 page 598. Dr. Arnott's Ventilating Valves, upon the best 

 construction, many having been made under the kind superin- 

 tendence of Dr. Arnott himself. Also a very complete, cheap, 

 and efficient Portable Cooking Apparatus or Cottagers' Stove. 



HPHE ONLY PERFECT STOVE !— All who study 



-L Health, Comfort, and Economy, should throw aside their 

 old Stoves, and replace them with the PATENT PORTABLE 

 VENTILATING SUSPENSION STOVE, which consumes 

 only Three Farthings worth of fud per day, and is universally 

 admired for the delightful temperature it produces, and for 

 the extraordinary manner in which it purines the *ir. It is 

 strongly RECOMMENDED BY THE FACULTY, and is 

 adapted for Bed-rooms, Churches, Chapels, Scb«K>ls, Halls, 

 Libraries, Greenhouses, Shops, Warehouses, &c. Prospectuses 

 to be had free by post. In operation d nil/ at DrAifE, Dbat, 

 Co.'a, London-bridge. 



at hand! Why? m 



only a prover, but a mind to which the proof when 

 given is intelligible. Translate the adult man brtk 

 to childhood, educate the faculties * hia h;m, and 

 he becomes the conscious owner of other ft- iftcs 



besides 



eemg 



'—senses iar more 

 mental aiffht. and mental 



certain and reliable,— mental sight, 

 touch, as infinitely superior to the deceptive bodil 

 organs which are ever being imposed upon, as the 

 purest ammonia is to the barren residue of a hre- 



fanged dungheap. . 



Aye ! charm back the ' practical opinionated 



into 



pie 



ingrained error that has hardened through thirty or 

 forty immers and winters into fixed and habitual 

 falsity of idea about the comparative importance of 

 the visible and invisible in the creation around him, 



and unreality as in- 



efficient agricultural labourer in the field of Ireland, Attaching the notion of reality 



all our experience of his efficiency elsewhere goes to vflTCfl ] ir fn f j l/t f nrfJl ns if he nut Daikness 



prove 



" What \s c Taxes,' Tummas 1 

 footman to Thomas the 



answer 

 An uncon- 





" quoth John the 

 groom. What 



Thomas made, history records not. 



scious subject of concentrated taxation in himself, 



he might have well felt the pressure of the joke too 



keener reply, and only looked uoolterable thing, ro S oe «n»< ^ 

 'What's Ammonia. V 



and Light for Darkness. Undo all that— tear it off 



and return the grown-up man to the inquisitive 



...... .v 'forty 



docile child he was (actually he !) some 



and how easily might you then, without 



him thus. 



year ago 



douht or difficulty, add 



you rosy-cheeked merry 



' Now my little man „ , 



You are -oing to be al armer : 



tics, had its ' Punch ' or its 

 the corresponding question 1 



)OKea unuueiauie uuuko. •-& — > .- ., i- - , i 



T f agriculture like poli- so come and learn the I msx Lesson . 



< H if "u nnld not thS 'be The < air ' which we are all so busy *>«*«"?«. 

 'H.B, would not mis De ,v:. !.:.,„ „* :♦ A„- » n * ™ht.. and which 



From the stable and 



the cow-house, from the farm-yard, from the mixen, 

 from the creaking dung-cart, from every heap that 

 dots the laboured field, there rises into the atmo- 

 sphere a certain tributary essence which if anything 

 could be said to be omnipresent to the farmer > 

 senses, to invite his curiosity, to dog his steps with 

 'inward questionings of outward things, it would 

 be this curious compound gas, this spirit that is 



"• - from his 



I 



ever floating around him, ever flitting 

 grasp, this Eurydicb that the instant his senses 

 acknowledge her presence is his no longer. In 

 the midst of this eternal. exhalation, toiling for it, 



and by means of it, putting it through an endless 

 circle of productive and reproductive process and 

 experiment, heaping it up as the miser does his 



without thinking of it, day and night, and which 

 scientific folks call the < atmosphere is a body-- 

 just ta water is, only not so thick and heavy— which 

 surrounds and clings to the Earth like the peel round 

 an orange ; but with this difference, that the orange- 

 peel is equally thick throughout, while the atmo- 

 sphere, like wool piled in a loft, is thicker at the 

 bottom, pressed down by its own upper weight,agamst 

 the Earth. Whatever gases or exhalations nse from 

 the ground— as from a smoking dunghill seen on a 

 frosty morning— rise only to a certain height till 

 they find their level, which is not very far They 

 don't go to some imaginary < nowhere up above the 



but the clouds rather show us about the 



Now 



clouds , uuv i."- ~ , 



height to which, at most, they ever da go. 



this particular gas, ammonia (consisting of two 



