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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[FEBRUARY 21, IS, 
works 
spo weg where it can be sane and 
| cheaply purchased, even if the town had erected the 
a material for irrigati 
its own expense, and Fics! a premium to those who applied 
manure, instead of receiving a rent of 50L a year and a 
the requisite ‘machinery paid for by the — tor 
Cam eg thinks that there would be no danger even in om - 
veying the role rs = n drains, bys w which of cx ours a ie 
deal er aa d be saved; but this I think 
problem: 
employing it there as 
on. EF 
» will b isposed to o in thei 
probable uilvantages derivable pam this 
Dr. Hofmann, who 
nomen s, Í 
"planta, application « of | Dr. Da bide then Tp on anay pram om 
irrigation system, and says :—It seems 
many insta ances t the most sensible plan might | be ‘that 
combir 
Peo" T tth dha Hanti 
with the ae int 
+ į $ 
at 
ed the | 
| course taking away from the bulkef 
pe p | considerably i injuring k k- 
. | the ot He called upon 
| give an address jiad some subjec 
| Beneficial. The sh ow of that 
| fice y 
in A 
and 
| exertions re 
had achiev ating of stock; 
| th at very subject y happened to be í 
| their discu that day absurdi 
ng their 
seed o a aa 
la compared wit th 
hat innemsuch as as treatment with lim 28 only 
about one-third of the valuable soluble mz ater present in 
sewage water, and even agitation with charcoal less t 
half, irrigation with liquid m 
y the first 
ertilising materia and what me off beco omes less | 
rab 
employed for that pur » it 
o the river, arian: it Spr pro- | 
y vial a expeditiously to do the same 
ia ofi injury a% would be the case if the solid matter 
e detained. 
Aa rcial speculation, indeed, sults above 
aai 3 ae. lead = A — the p Br vob nn geen 
with an unfavours rable “ken are nevertheless two cir- 
t be ta 
wice 
ws, on tanaive arp aad the failure of. the w 80 jakom from which M 
derived. The second i nrg whethe nitary m 
might not be expedient for the of a arge 
where Ko gma pene fe applying "ihe liquid manure 
adjoining land were not forthcoming, tò manufacture 
manure A 
thus diminishing at least, if not removing, the a a 
| purities which are carried into ‘the J rivers. The 
F alesta be con “yg ba 
that the erg Be 
quired ware t the chief i object isa phetha an 
when the bricks oe ufac Bei re phigh sie y have chested] 
S hare; the company a tent themse 
with a Eye hors compendious „Plan, whieh, Prams it ie ¢ is _ 
ceived, be carried o very trifling e Dok 
been stated în ~~ last lecture, ira rece he ante 
the first insi in out ts fi k add toit dodi- 
diate] aly sufieie nt lim to deodorise it ; 
matter to subside, and derar d rid of the ber ory vit to dsc 
pa ution, and partly sluice, which see 
itself ante + the river T a í it has risen a poh 
eect prens aa 
rid 
e to tho 
this | 
of im 
ample o 
apok ng; Dpt it must Fy teas ected 
cl or there erected will not best 
rriga one ; 
£ 80 that, except in that portion, 
mere force 0 gravita To 
ve the level, the 
eight- irie 
edasalmost useless. Indeed 
mty nd have boen te: ested 
scale le by on trials of pipe irrig ga tion, m: ad 
roprictors on their own far therefore, in 
aio oss, for the ame Hy! deoc orising the bad j and ing | — individually as they grew. 
pen 
of Sle to 
| very true A = man y 
| cleansing n fiel as not y 
| adv: wage i hie sncighbours all pater him 
to the 
pax to. krys was coe 
| were allowed to g 
ead a 
s by 3 sid so dapcaitalak 
| There were yaron kinds of weeds whi ich 
| different treatment ; some, such as th 
| others, _— their roots i in the 
very well 
= slow process, yet it was well 
vane 
P, as me ere conceived 
arance of weeds o 
to goer the. land Jeana drained, ry poe 
great cardinal virtue of agricultural process, — 
late the Festi principles pects ught to g 
our sanitary arrangements, as ri as they may a he 
rose from the facts which I have brought be ae 
Luing, he sour 0! 
; from 
renee acle oe erat ee 
hen | will 
engine, ywer, ex s o cent a im vee rr in two ways, 
seat mix me aoe 
I a pose bringing before you cases in which sewage 
bam wea till it gains vod "mouth of wien titan 
water alone, instead of being directed in the first h 
caoui through the of the 
mpties itself. 
happen aed to be going over 
a field m 
and i 
they were told at is 
it syel kworked: t but then there was sucha 
dra to extract the wet; i 
found “that if a — of a 
xcuse for this “Tt was a 
shes it was lat =i fallow, an 
d we could mig 
clea was great truth ped reason 
things, “but ‘the “only way to sooni 
aa earl greater, a 
hich absorbs and deodorises it, at the sam d time that certain oun of that a is suspended and un- | which was one of th 
iti is itself mens more fertile by the organic matter eet aggre gr yee ee hse ton ni 
will 
yaa it will putrify, oo send forth off 
aston rt rece’ is o 
Rugby has ly executed works rea pu a: be bs 
OF sag away from eet eo the Mao of its sew: 
n some of the finer 
dow: 
earring away rom ata raant 
the sea, befor 
ope themselves. 
ya 
nan ofl elds irrigated are partly his 
Pig Pea os a Mr. Campbell, who u! 
or the te: prisiiege of oug g the o amount requ with s q i 
regard t pein ng of p= the eons. tro} lis, but the latter wo 
himself as certain pene: axel A aft t 
Cot grent rin FTL e town under considera- 
xu o doubt the ution of the entire se 
namel iy, th it produces the SATTON land, in the 
amount batai ih n papan to the quahtit?o ene pplied, 
at least within certain limits not yet asce "po oe A at 
talia grass is 
TE CR te ae Se 
uired him 
which it was Pty 
cles, and as near in a stat 
is ecess i of to 
ia n Tare times a , yielding each | th kingdom, would be the most pos ES a epee of ol any’; but |P of his land was rather non 
time ee e is thus etiabled | to supply from | can hardly anticipate the ge l adoption of such a system jal for Turnip soil, although he 
50 to 100 milch cows with constan: green food, stall fed Great | until the adv. tages of it are more generally understood ; until | t and laid flat in 
mistakes, he says, have been committed with respect to the | the conditions under which X Econ ben pplied, ree bat dange 
eae of the calculation: mg mca rei os re ake |e oe enn Be as tines Aende 
nt he considers $ 
much under the mark, but by the aid of a copio: d frequen’ be veces ected k locality, conses applying a undor te varying É rea: never was’ hoceseary 
irrigation, he has no doubt of ingore an abundant crop of small seed of the Turnip 
Riga ias tne glottal TAITI a A e u arising from its could well if the soil into 
wt stles, and other deep- weeds, Hex Weeds.— pial + ahs te its 
which K tes She eee to extirpate. Nevertheless, Mr. Walker me e eti ia ng ie ciuis € b, t the a J John G late annual might b be; “diy if land with ‘a little damn ee 
heat three years in succession on ing saad Cu e chairman, John aed y Sada requires to be w nied up late in Ary 
by liquid m manure, and that the produce has been n House, said of this subject :—It w. m, practical fa rota wap fheulty tb 
at the rate ot 50 bushels per acre. There is, however, this great reset as embracin any particular or high principie pera that loss of ti tne and in ett 
objection to its use in the f cereals—namely, that to the = d w o lepal of = with | Plan he had a wed—and he H 
manure can only be applied at certain periods of t! where- resumptuous in him to name it to 
as, the supply is constant and uninter Wi of co rights Of landlord a tenant. It w: aeti, oe 
ote standing this, one of the very iiia 
ance i se — round: of ugtinttarel practice. That any 
n o nse should urchas- 
consequently to avoid evil arising from ex- | MA aa rey mey in pure 
posure, the liquid manure is made over a filtrating | ing pte app! see ss manure to land for the purpose of 
tank, —— about 18 iach Pf peta Reie fay: an gro ing w too great an i ity to be for one 
ceptible in the Laa aii y tke aA pron igen wo ent = ined ; d they knew that the perfection 
visi and Mr. assures me that he bas never | Of cultivatio a to have the land they were oceupyi 
ced any, even in summer, nor has he found any fever | in such a condition as ly that crop 
ok, illness of any kind traceable the town cause. has’ got rid of 1 T they uasan = ate and to grow it to the greatest 
sawane, sage a that ao stein oo parce ould be unreasonable and absurd in any 
eying it into the evil consequences to think. a would employ | ure 
from the aration of the yes 
te (areal ion r nt Indeed tan oira be it expend one-half of its fertility in geraas Docks 
en spe os ays si Ris i on e does not appear whather Thistles. It would be equally absurd for any farmer 
een Me W Ba ated pa i he but at Ayes pi ao i h è 
urn ex t has erected 
keeping i Rite isate his ows Pend teuin | grown as if he were to sow them for the e pu 
from Mr. Campbell 10t à year for spreading it over his fields | rearing mp a happened s him the last as e was 
— It is stated e the works ae t aboot, the sae uested to any pa e proce of the 
porta 8 g about „000 ms a day. In any case the 
sanitary obje: ARPE sectome enpeis fulfilled. The Roy . d, Agricultural Brata “of Ireland— to 
sewage is entirely removed, deod aeiae, and rendered available | Marked, in oa np ger rough that country, amidst many 
for manure without injury to any one. Would not this be | luxurious crops, of 
very p eae of weeds, 
Sra cci 
import- | stored, or as be et 
have ré- | they found in the spring all Aen: 
in 
ge J 
oh et os 
se 
surface, harro Era Be it stows 
it off, putting i it into mes fol 
the manure hea: 
worked 
of it at all, and f for yr pau 
apes never failed in finding that the Tur 
thie x 
mellow 
and fi 
of fermentation which 
got w 
pened its ammonia into the 
best virtues, but it underwent the slow aa 
mentation "throughout the winter, 5 Te 5 
ving 
it dis 
a soft and brown condi 
virtue which the manure had given 
| the practice to use some kind of extraneous 
