198 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
“cated by an increased actio 
| pupils began to dila ye ang 
[Marcu 13, 1858, ie 
ome fixed principles of seed analysis and valua- | weeds these entail expenses the end of which it, of the heart: attis 
the e countenance 
oa. "the ollowing, then, are our notes u — | T po difficult to foresee. ression. My ex evinced ap ail 
in question. ji ey were of the ie fa erefore cannot conclude these remarks great care the progressive a ilatation ofthe me to way 
of an artificial pasture Gra vale - “therefore | amas again soliciting samples of seeds from as fate ton in each case hen. this symplons hand T d 
serye to show the gre + differance o whic many sources as age as it is Foniy: by repeated | to diminish the euma A 
seeds of a Grass, small ‘though aap: al are liable. | | pefea correct conclusions can ‘be | a 
specimens sent were five in number, in| arrived at, iad bens a wo in as far i i 
ets of about 2 oz, by weight; two of them | | yet pursu ued this su subject it seems one eat 
were of Italian, and three of Pacry’s Perennial | | ae The alieged pecan th of Reeth fa 
Rye-grass, as follow :— eeds by the way of that | a 
RESULT OF ANALYSIS OF snus RECEIVED PROM “J, F” 
Veight in | Estimation 
Grats of Weeds 
xe ee 
Copy of Label. bby pi yor 
No. 1.—Ho grow: Italian, 
one year of Eitente seed. la very fine a a little injured by inseets or 
ae. 18 te 19 Ibs. per 
it would have been heavier. 
respiration, cheerfulness of cours 
i 320 s to ora about: from this r 
No: 2.—I ed Italiz |Plan ntago I anceolata By no means a bad gradual improve ment, and in a short ‘ime ties = z] 
ba mported Italian Rye- [Holcus mollis ` 120 sample as: com- nounced cured.” 
grass, cleaned and recleaned 204 
960 an ' 
Weight, 17 Ibs. per bushel . |Caryophylleze and others dst pared with other $ i 
E l OTM oe 
ee a eee 
| foreign seeds. _THE NEW MANURE, 
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e lett 
No. a Pacey’s Perennial Rye- A wie vow spici 
pass: Ta, 28 a par 160 very sample, and tolerably pure. ek my mind, “the letters would not 
| written. I have neither time nor inclination 
bisig 82 lbs. per 408 
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No. 4.—Pacey’s: Perennial Rye- Thà weeds wera Plantain and Hanunculis.. A controversy. It will always afford me 
= * Walch, 30. lbs, ber 384 120 remarkably fine sample: what I can to advance the all-important ki 
| ture, the followers of which are at libe 
No, 5.—Pacoy’ S Perennial Rye- |Plantain, Ranunculus, Scabiosa, &c. Afine sample reject anything of mine a sbay see fit; 
ashel... 
joi Sieni of tek oti but much injured by the 
| exter tem the kra ur are ontroverting 
ainin; sure even t 
This table, it will be seen, ae arly hes tl titled | bec? 
fact that pod in small quantitiec—a pi for |t to, ioe ie den evidence apaina us W ctl quite as | for a note of 2 duration of Scie wn placed, 
ca’ madi — the difference certain that fair samples of seeds ar py a rosin of | ment in my letter. The passage I refer to is thi 
ime ~~ o of an analysis o “igh saiia " If upon the same field va apply 25.3 Ibs, of sse 
ni ink that you will m 
in weig 
ng tak 
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of seeds o an those of the crop, but in the sets e; a an pe we ota that it appear: 3 to all the other ingredients go for noth 
kino of the very species t which these | the bota anists of our agricultural societies to set the contrary, for: I iad seem: some 
belong. We are fully convinced that the | shou oct s RS neta ae raga ek re 
weight of a sample is a most important crite wore a as their chemists our manuring substances. pa NN neo tt, an 
and more i with Grass seeds, as they ar APTN FTE Tp saas 
iable to be attacked by insects bith 
heavier part of th $ and besides, | to a ppa e pa rt by Mr. Farratt, Tot 
the older seeds are, the lighter they y may be e sup- Surgeon to the Lord Tientonant, of Firmen e his | acquit you of 
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ce. 
} IAR miration I imagine onla d doubt. of the 
am mist: 
loped seed ve in all cases a te ific | action. It is published in the current number of 
gravity than the reverse. greater specifie the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, | what is stated. 
At the same time it must not always be con- Tent pra D Dan erne y E epidemic preva- anahi: pre na sia mes 
d th weight i ent near Dublin last year, o nature of influ- | persons who witnessed what is 
sana mydle Lat “cam Got Stet a, but of a low, pa herd it ve ee fof the crop. Itold him they Nout 
focogia: still on comparing the two samples of | «Horse rses were seen to cat Sen food in the | London that his crop was bg e 
w and 
conslude sample 2 te be the best, and indeed on spirits, and before evening they s were und tag eee ae 
foreign and own : seeds, the | against the of hoe beatin for support; so poopie = You = a oe 
latter ait usually be e found to be freer from weeds | T2 pidly had d po Howed th arene of curiosity,” said he; 
i these cases he pri incip: | might hav ge aa 
otha Pacey’s Perennial Rye-grass the most |  difficu culty was to su rt the tenet, r at| was a prt 
superficial observer will be s with the differ- | the ee time tee only tho mani- regularly to wateh the i e g z 
een si ad been mixed up in 
hence even in the mat paiva no less than in|. ‘* With Ea peri rahi had not been bled, I} the foul clay, on was picked up bone | 
the per bushel estimation of the berma, there is| bad, in treating them, an average amount of|Where cattle wer = That oe all 
erence, amounting to 24 grains in the | Success; but in most of those that had, I am| the TOLY 
en com No.3 
ate. 
in eryt 
sphich indeed ia im.thardileal Aa ak D sad seve in the tstances ofr of cases, useless to be thrown, and w 
by the bushel weight. and save in the instances of som vigoro he 
_ _ Asregards weed admixtures we may conclude | horses, coll t in within a few hours after the | manure 
that this is by no means sacar ay to the extent abstraction of the blood. n assimilate. Any 
Which some would have us believe. The true|, “ Discouraged by repeated failures, I determi idt the blued stalks, > may be 
of the difficulty is ‘that ‘ farmers = to try the effect of ‘transfusion,’ believing e | particles of the clay os coloured m: 
haye something cheap,” but if they will give a|% not unnatural restorative, especially in n a fo which it has applied =a 
price e essof the article super Can there fet an pane 
ere is little doubt but that seedsmen gome the symptoms above alluded to.” the p bearing i es two-thirds of 
pigs roe for this improvement in the demand FARRALL describes the method to which ground, retained it for for shout d think) 10d ; 
afer repeated trial and failure he was at length |®"4 was seen by scores of persons whose 
athe of cheapness is of a most de- | led, and by which he ultimately succeeded in accom- FE A mi pect to report it isa mere i 
lusive Mind; nothing is more of the ‘penn ieee plishing his purpose; and his paper concludes with oy LLA mete 
and pound foolish” eae, he if seeds be bad from | & Statement of =- com in in which that method was ve was 
being i tly more must be sown to the ad cages pao be peste 
acre or the crop a iile: and if from lowing. Mie shove nt—we quote it as | rance) I th 
admixture of weed the it is quite obvious ‘that deserbing haapaari sg Pitaro bas having of apa nat appropriate as 
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great prostration of strength. In each of the | Chemistry, and to pridan. Nature for # h 
me patas ge gie tbat the | laws instead oF atemptng to pri 
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hich to obtain the bess li and on: 
ot expen healthy young horse from w 
eae Ser pao does it not ot appes t that the patient and transfused, I opened the jugular vein 
ee tube, as before into the vein of th 
is parobis of ghano or pathy home, Tyla tbe, milanta BS alg gba 
Id make sure that ere and the: other curred tlie Sas ke 
80, in ent- th 
t its t the healthy horse had completely aall & narar 
theinstrument thus the blood flowed freak 
ot produce the crop | from the vein of one into that of the other in an unbroken | Lhe 
re the mischief ends fn in the main ; | curent. The average of blood transferred in each of 
quantity 
but a poor sample even when tol erably Eei quarts. T observed no particular 
gah oe badiy asto allow the Baai Font eto ace my expe ; 
d if ow t 
— and i£ mixed With | thee appeared to bo preduced. an amoun Now Fark whether te most espè 
