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1851.1 



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PERUVIAN GUANO. 

 CAUTION TO AGRICULTURISTS. 



\J It being notorious that extensive adulterations of this 



MANURE are still carried on, 



^ A>Ltv ANTONY GIBBS AND SONS, AS THE 



ONLY IMPORTERS OP PERUVIAN GUANO, 

 Consider it to be their duty to the Peruvian Government and 

 Jo the public again to recommend Farmers and all others who 

 taT to be carefully on their guard. 

 The character of the parties from whom they purchase will 

 * course be the best security, and in addition to particular 

 attention to that point, ANTONY GIBBS and SONS think it 

 we ll to remind buyers that — 



The lowest wholesale price at which sound Peruvian 

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

 SI 5s. per ton, less 2£ per cent. 



■ Any resales made by dealers at a lower price must therefore 

 either leave 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 Feat Charcoal, Gypsum, Nitrate of Soda, and every arti. 

 Ucial Manure, on the best terms. Also a constant supply of 

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

 Foreign Linseed Cake, Rape Cake, <fcc. 



Edward Pcbseb, Secretary, Bridge-street, Blackfriars. 



MANURES. — The following Manures are manu- 

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

 Turnip Manure, per ton £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. 10s. per ton; and for 5 tons or more, 91. 5s. per 

 ton, in dock. Sulphate of ammonia, &e. 



Q1EPHENSON and Co., 61, Uracechurch-streeL 



a ™ °r* aUd 17 » , Ne * Park -* tr eet, *outhw*rk, Inventor- 



Sri S f^TITA?/ Jo- Im P roved CONICAL and DOUBLE 

 C T LI ^DHICAL BOILERS, respectfully solicit the attention of 

 scien'inc Horticulturists to their much Improved method of 



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applying the Tank System to Pineries, Propagating Houses, 

 «c«, by which atmospheric heat as well as bottom heat is 

 penned to any required degree, without the aid of pipes or fl jes. 

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

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

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

 *re now so well known, scarcely require description : but to 

 tn se who have not seen them in operation, pn spectuses 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 

 Nursenesf throughout the Kingdom. 



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

 17, New Park-sireet, every article required for the construction 

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

 be obtained upon the most advantageous terms. 

 Conservatories, <fcc, of Iron or Wood, erected on the most I 

 namental designs. Balconies, Palisading, Field and Garden j 



foces. Wire- work. Aro. 



for 



bove valuations, represents a profit of 7]/ h£ 



lire stocl account shows that instead of hiving paid 

 f "t their f,u>d as much as he supposes to be its 

 consuming" value, his cattle have landed him in 

 a loss of tu6L To he sure this loss appears after 

 charging 9s. a ton for all roots, besule the com of 

 purchased food, though 6*. and 5#, &f. only were 

 charged for them before— a discrepancy we do not 

 understand ; but even reducing this charge upon the 

 cattle to the lower rate, a great loss appear?. In 

 fact, though the live stock be supposed to have 

 received their green food gratis, the cost of grain 

 purchased for them will, it appeaim, altogether 

 swamp the increase of their value under Mr. Mmbi's 

 management. 



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ire- work, &c. 



FOSSIL BONES AND PSEUDO-COPROLITES 



(FaoM 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 fine Powder, and being in 

 the immediate 1 cality of where they are found, are now pre- 

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

 quantity, either Ground, Whole, or Dissolved 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 Bone. 



Prices and every information connected with their use for- 

 warded on application to Edwabd Packard and Co., Artificial 

 Manure Manufacturers, Ipswich, Suffolk. 



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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1851. 



MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. 

 Thubsdat, Jan. 1— Agricultural Imp. Socof Ireland. 



We had hoped to have given in the present Num- 

 ber^ our usual comparison of the cattle shows at 

 Smithfield and Birmingham, respectively, in order 

 to illustrate, so far as the few specimens con- 

 cerned are competent to do so, the relative merits of 

 the different breeds at different ages ; but the 

 demands upon our space require us to postpone this 

 attempt. Two duties remain to us, however, in 

 connection with these shows. The first relates to 

 the specimens of green crops exhibited at Smithfield, 

 of which no notice has hitherto been taken, and 

 which we now name merely to call attention to the 

 fine collection of specimens of Irish grown crops 



sent by the Earl of Clarendon, which certainly I facture generally can b 

 illustrates most admirably the capabilities of Irish ' 

 soil and Irish climate for green crop cultivation. 



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Now if we assume this management to have hmx 

 perfect, then we are driven to the concUwoti, every- 

 where, of course, most eagerly seised, thai all Out 

 is the unavoidable result of the praient prices of 

 agricultural produce ; but is it not more reasonable 

 to suppose, that both the mans, ment and 

 result of it admit of improvement ? Mot* of *he 

 discussions we have hitherto seen on this subject 

 have turned almost exclm ely upon Mr. Mi n s 

 character as an agricultural teacher 1 surelj 



is not anything like the main tit at its* 

 main point at issue is the light th: xn upon the 

 invent position of the farmer by this very rare 

 phenomenon— the published experience < I year's 

 proceedings in agriculture. And our opinion is 



that Mr. Mucin's experience is by no means con- 

 clusive of the matter. We have no he* n. after 

 inspection of lus balance sheet, in saying that the 

 management of stock adopted at Tiptree-hal! GM by 



ees out of 



no means be held to furnish the premi 

 which any inference of the profits of t lie meat rnanu- 



t he item of 



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And the second relates to the show of pigs 

 Birmingham. We can place entire confidence in the 

 judgment of our reporter, whose statement appears in 



ARMERS AND GARDENERS are invited to try 



tbeNE W and VALUABLE MANURE, PEAT CHARCOAL, 

 impregnated by pressure with the fertilising matter of the ., w 



lh.^A EW i G !l: tbe *»™nia, Pnotohates, and Fxces being an adjoining page." And it appears from his report 



absorbed, and Jhe water left bnght and palatable. Sold at the | that ^ ^hoAie, who regulate the details of that 



exhibition will need to exercise the closest super- 

 vision of all certificates of entry, and to make inves- 

 tigation into the circumstances of ^ny case where 

 the slightest suspicion of dishonesty aii-es, if they 

 would have their exhibition maintain its character 

 for excellence. The words "small breed," too, 

 should be defined as implying a certain limit as to 

 weight at a certain age — or the competition of the 

 bona fide breeders of such animals will altogether 

 cease. And in order to insure attention to the con- 



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

 sex, at 60$. per ten, 4s. per cwt., and 2s. Sd. per half cwt. 



APRIZE MEDAL FOR SUPERIOR LOCKS WAS AWARDED 



TO J. H. BOOBBYER, AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION 

 OF 1851. 



PATENT SPADES, DAISY RAKES, SCYTHES, 



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

 dozen. Carpenters and Smiths' Tools, <fcc. Ladies' Garden 

 Tools, 73. 9d. a set. Sword- scrapers for Gardens, 1*. 2d. each. 

 Patent Fumigators for destroying in sec* 8 on plants, in green- 

 houses, <fcc. : at Messrs. J. H. Boobbyer and Co.'s (late 

 Stuach and Boobbieb), 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 Manufactories at the lowest prices. Goods for- 

 warded to any part on the receipt of remittance. m ^^ m 



_ THERMOMETERS. 



LlENRY BAKER'S (90, Hatton Garden, London), 



-*- ■*- List of Prices. Every Instrument made by him warranted 



accurate.— Vertical self-registering THERMOMETER, for heat 



and cold, of the beat construction, and not liable to get out of 



order, li inches high, in copper case, 11. 5s. ; In japan case, 



11* Is., and 11. ; 10 inehes high, in copper case, 11. 2s. ; in japan 



case, 18$. Horizontal Thermometers for registering the ex- 

 treme of cold only, 4s. 6d ; Hot-bed Thermometers, in oak 

 frames, 11. Is. ; copper frames, 11. 5s. Thermometers for 

 Brewing, Baths, <fcc, in copper cases, 14 inches, 7s. 6d. • 

 10 inches, 5s. €d. ; 8 inches, 4s. 6d. ; in japan cases, 14 inches, 5s.; 

 10 inches, 3s. 6d. ; 8 inches, 2s. 6d. Dr. Mason's Hygrometer, 

 or wet bulb Thermometer, for showing the humidity of the air, 

 with tables, ivory scale, 11.] wood, 15s. An invaluable instru- 

 ments Hothouses, Sick Chambers, &c. Wheel Bavometera 

 from H. 1*. each, sent, securely packed, without fear of getting 



out of order. _________^ 



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 . f r - . ff esneciallv as I know that one person 

 public a BOILER of their invention, which has been used with t0 im » StUIT, especially as i Know ui^ one i wiwn 



great success, and has this season been put up in the gardens named L>ARCY Sent last week no less tnan nine 

 of the Horticultural Society, Chiswick, and is noticed and com- trunk- loads or between 40 and 50 tons of this 

 mended in the Gardeners 1 Chronicle of Saturday, Sept. 20, 1831, 

 page 598. Br. Arnott'a 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 efficien t Portable Cooking Apparatus or Cottagers' Stove . 



AKER'S FHEASANTHY, Beauiort-street, King's- 



road, Chelsea, by special appointment to her Majesty and 

 H.R.H. Prince Albert.— ORN AMEN TAL WATEU FOWL, 

 consisting of black and white swans, Egyptian, Canada, China, 

 barnacle, brent, and laughing geese, shieldrakes, pintail, 

 widgeon, summer and winter 



r «hawn. 



2 >/. spent per annum in the labour of managing 

 1700/. worth of cattle — an extraordinary amount, 

 as any farmer will at o * percent. Or taka 

 the extraordinary item of I <H., *pent per annum 

 on a farm of 170 acres, in tha pnrrhaaa of cattle 

 food ! We do not say it is impossible that such a 

 purchase should )>e profitable, but we say, that it 

 could be profitable only in the case of the very best 

 bred cattle in the country ; and these, certainly, are 

 not to be found at Tiptree Hall. 



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losses ? 



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To double the price of the Whea he has 

 grown will not do it. And if they ra tin value 

 of the 90001. worth of meat wb h he has *o)«i. i)j 

 must also raise the price of the I.7« I. worth of 

 grain and other cattle f<»"i which he has bought ; so 

 that little gain will arise out of at transaction. 



dition requiring ownership for a certain period J The main causes of Mr. Mucin's losses exist in his 

 before the show, it might perhaps be advisable to adoption of a system «<f farm management, involving 

 require longer notice of intention to exhibit than is a most extravagant expenditure on cattle food — and 

 now demanded. I probably, also, though here we do not speak from 



persona} knowledge, in the absence of that market 

 ability, on which, more perhaps than nn anv other 

 thing, the profits of the fanner generally depend. 

 These two causes would, we believe, have landed 

 him in loss, though the prices obtained for his pro- 

 duce had been what farmers generally w f ould have 



been satisfied with. 



U'e have been silent hitherto on a subject which 

 is making so much noise, because its discussion 

 hitherto has turned exclusively upon the com- 



Ouu readers will do well to bear in mind that 

 guano grinding is carried on as vigorously as ever, 

 in spite of chemistry, and guardian societies, and 

 exposures to the contrary. 



The following communication has just been re- 

 ceived from the Manchester Society of Guardians 



for the Protection of Trade. 



w It may, perhaps, interest the readers of the Agri- 



the manu- 



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cultural Gazette, to be informed that 

 facture of guano is now largely carried on here. 

 is principally made from street sweepings, which 

 probably contain sufficient ammonia to deceive, 



and a kind of yellow clay ; these ingredients, toge- 

 ther with other rubbish, are ground together in the 



common horse grinding mill. 



n Your Lincolnshire friends should be warned as 



paratively immaterial point of Mr. M Kern's s tits 

 a teacher, and we have had no desire to assist in th 

 work of bandying personalities on that point But as 

 several corr pondents have applied for information, 

 we shall next week do our beat to state the prin- 

 cipal points of the case in detail. 



truck- loads, or between 40 and 

 guano (?) to Brigg station by the Sheffield and Lin- 

 colnshire Rail* y, and the Lancashire and York- 

 shire have also carried a great deal of it. The stuff 

 is barely worth the freight. 



It appears that Mr. Mechi, like the rest of us, 

 has been losing money by farming during the past 



He has valued his Wheat at 4s. -J. per 



A witty correspondent favoured un some week 

 ago with the description of a machine not exhibited 

 in the Crystal Palace, whose wonderful perform- 

 ances, nevertheless, claim i for it, in his oj aon, 



This machine, ace ding 



year, 



„ . . , 3 M teal, gadwali, Labrador, bushel, his Potatoes at 51. 105. per acre, his Mangold 



shovellers, gold-eyed and dun diver*, Carolina ducks. <bc, ' w \ , ,* ^ . M *• o. rfl j oa n * fc f cji a * nn 

 domesticated and pinioned; also Spanish, Cochin China| : ^ urzei at 6s. a ton, his pwedes at ? ; ™' a ton > 



Malay, Poland, Surrey, and Dorking fowls ; white, Japan, pied his pasture at 3/. and his Clover at 41. an acre, 



and common pea-fowi, and pure China P ig« ; and at 3, Half- | and other green pro( iuce at Similar rates J and yet 



he has made only 71Z. profit off 170 acres. But 

 in most of the above particulars his valuation is 



justifies. We 



moon-passage, Gracechurch-Btreet, London. 



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 



higher than average expenence 



oxen, made as much as 



oesc noman cement, out u*t» vuc <»uTain.t* 6 ^ v/»«. »«««. ^.»v^..«.. — - . ° t * e *• i _ i^* ^f 



of wholly resisting frost. When used as a stucco, it does not have frequently, in the c<e ot particular 10W or 



. . ,_*. a _:„ — ./> . 9 ^ a ton for swedes and 



Mangold Wurzel, after paying for the expense of 

 attendance and of purchased food ; but over the 

 whole of several years' transactions in the manu- 

 facture of beef and mutton out of Clover, roots, 

 and purchased food, we have not received more 

 than 4s. a ton for the green food consumed; 

 i and Mr. Mkchi's expenence tallies with our own in 

 " j this matter j for while his farm account, with the 



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 eea and embankment walls, the lining of reservoirs, 

 cisterns, and baths, and for all those purposes where strength 

 and a perfect resistance to water are required. 



Manufacturers— J. B. White and Sows, Millbank-street 

 Wettminster; 11, South Wharf-road, Paddington; and Earl 

 afcrset, BUkfrtars, London ; and 3G, Seel-street, JJ^erpooh 



the very closest attention. 



to him, is already in extensive operation— it affects 

 the whole surface of a farm, and the condition ofall 

 connected with it at once — it harro , tkrwfcj 

 grinds, to any conceivable degree— it does all iorto 

 of agricultural work in the "iwgfa " lin< with pre- 

 cision—and according to H Bastinado, 9 ' who under- 

 took to expose it, its influence is most misch tots. 

 The "mercantile relation" machine, to which all 

 these effects are attributed, is one how er, we 

 imagine, which will continue to operate in spite of 

 any writing to the contrary. Th# mercantile rela- 

 tion is the only one which can be assumed to exist 

 between the parties to a business transaction ; and 

 to suppose either that its operation in agriculture is 

 a novelty, or that its operation generally is mis- 

 chievous, is simply a mistake. All that agr lturaj 

 writers can do as regards its influence on th *uhjecti 

 coming within the range of their remarks, is to state 

 the true interests of the several parties to an agri- 

 cultural bargain, in order that the particular and 

 justifiable form of sel fitness dev.^ped in the ^mer- 

 cantile relation may not be of that ignorant ana 



















