wonder whether t 
Sree 
“fo doatt all thes 
e mistakes might have been 
the phosphoric | year 
17 loa 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
f 14 stones each per acre, and the year | this breed had been made by several parties, 
dam ng 20 loads of said same hig it Wiek the | a ing was, as sta! 
The W est 
ted by the Feran a most ex- 
t breed 1 Nth 
anes were deficient ecommende od 
same weight. Atkin: a field | celler 
a separated from the pleasure "garden. by “nothing _but a other 
- | sunk fence, anc fi i ongly a 
| lawn by a à wiro fence only and ov the | th 
n avo’ oided | windows of aman: 
" He 
ede etiveen the W eet High and cow W ani 
but w 
was gene erally of op 
3 PETEA 
wn w hood evi 
gone about. 
is eompetent amount of ‘attention, for there is | eos manured annu since na respec- | must paaa with two first-class sitions, and endeavour 
the above which prese ents the smallest | tive houses were eiei. Las pan Iw formed |to get prominent in the one what was deficient 
sg toeven an ordinary an vt th: Te éaler who saw the rosa grow at the Qld Hall |in the other, and thought art should try to carry 
awing however is uitous assumption, in| Heath had purchased the stack at the rate of’ 2 tons a goo d, and Ss en or 
Ty Anderson st per tt the contrary ff oe ob. 1 speni per acre. on every point. et ae Far to mention that he ex- 
e I have een effect: I apprehend all ia paneer in the wor t | hi eta two cross-bred heifers at the recent show of fat 
‘in tl gen was not taken is good farming, &c., nothing against the money | cattle at Glasgow—one of which gained the first prize 
“Lavoe or = acid. actually pai id for tite a: grown, and the parchasers sada was out of a small Ayrshire cow ee a pure short- 
ven is a ted as ammonia, in which | could be produced if necessary to testify to the facts | horn bull; and he must add, it was very fine animal, 
it is absorbed Ko the plant, unless we except sit: 2 f Dr. i ames t now, far „ | and admired by every one. He ain were te in 
acid” a crops as I have ld not ing the sl he easiest 
extract is a fresh instance of assumption as ed breed, a nd in times like thes en the farmer 
@ the]: 
a 
bonne of science. 
or the ammonia is the measure of its 
which is put upon the agricultural nable 
43 the least matter of what the organic 
except upon land of fair i eg well m: 
y 
aged. 
h I kno 
and a ti is all L advise, and in 
poses T 
What tta nay snort ig pie ay es aa p 
not. T ns per of t the ba al c sy were hever pu at 
ria serious injury to 
the « cro} A ton pe in cases ofe exeossive onee a ton 
ases 15 ewt. | 
applied. these “qui uantities gainar been dis- 
read t 
He concluded by expressing his thanks to 
best. If they got 121. for a year old, and only 
some ‘164 for a two-year old, they were not paid for the 
year? „m ni an as desirable to have that b 
whrel yat the earliest t o market. 
that the g 
the truth of their opinions ” 
Fae above groundless extract from 
a 
psa than all e bee 
parihas yei or ala geen beneit. “and ye et 
l D: 
rity of a 
ans mile each Seri in ariin that they 3 never i 
re at 
Dr. 
hs letter to the following from “Liebig,” -and 
ion 
s élfodt Of a manure is not ijara to 
ood |En 
ipes 
P e 
the former I will le 
In taking leave of this su ject by be express a convic- 
agents. Never has 2 tons 
TOSS 
ceedingly useful— 
ellan had found the cot horn e 
inant the short-horn 
in fact, as easily fe a vets the ot. 
to 50 stones, 
© Gora 
r. Anderson says 2 ed 
in the pamphlet sent, ae Spalat a tons 
to 3 cwt. of guano! Is this design or imadver 
tence If the latter, it is disgraceful, an 
tter, i race dq 
leave others to supply its epithet 
—— or the 
h 
horns ; and while he had | reared this œ 
Mr. Horne "e all the dairies i in tain: were filled 
with short-hor 
to the way of eating most value for their money. “le 
ad Known one short-horn cow that gave 18 Scotch 
k per day, and the amount 
mil 
of butter he did not recollect, but it was margir 
contains, it will be eas jr ‘ae w Not a 
ne of a Manure carn mnot be mated by popii fi faith in such short- 
e of nitrogen.” e, but a means of the e grea eatest fi fertil ity } l which was ficent allie: All 
t o thata farmer hbe —_ to kahe ‘nt tie: aa Padi breed contains 
nal uy suppose that ADe lanes wine con ho appli d clay t ill 1 e good m mg properties, but they had been 
| destroyed by 
a ‘poss ge an nips after a liberal ae of | fat beast. He want al berdemo Bret so of an 
Bat ‘no amount of Addie won would — a hh W. R. Bowditch, St. Andrews, Wakefield. Ayrshire ood, but the second var = fed, ma 
according to Dr. Anderson for “the the nearer they approached the s the eas 
ld | would they g get the fat yas on, rer ‘ave that the 
its: elemien ON CROSS BREEDING. — 
parts in At the recent meeting of the Stirling Farmers’ Club | me feeding aie ilkin meer ioe 
for artificial | Mr. Horne, of Ar: goy, pesad the Aron >$ f breeds, | | going to mention with ia res waiting, namely, that 
as n was only by, that a son | took a quantity of Ayrshire ret a a much 
ich | could be at on tos the short- | smalier quantity of short-horn Piet was ever 
‘or they | horned breed. He said, ~ The introduction of short-horns | probability em the butter of tl tity of 
may be of si s greater than of the onal quantity of 
gnal b 
far from thinking that if you keep them soot to 
pan in in time, or in other 
is would have 
abe. But 
‘a distinguished French physiologist will 
He Taia not account for ali 
or beli eve the | i 
ealt 
m country would 
ae the present ogish rules yo will not be gre atly be- 
nefited by t them Som of the, means at present 
no value ing powers 
nd: render it unnatural in its inclination to npehiay 
e kee tty 
good fair 
sta e of ortara m 
greatly bene: fit by their introductio on. 
the 
important to the Sa 
Ayrs 
(a re aI 
GERMAN PROFESSORS AND AGRICULTURAL 
SCHOOLS. 
(Communicated BY MARTIN mata 
(Continued from pa ait 
17. Brestprs the mineral compon s of farmyard 
dung organic ones contained. îi in oa aa are clearly 
f plants, as they: supply the 
ii ound 
‘the Eng peie dinate Be a | kr the bagi of milking and breeding qualities, pri substances ; the inorganic stances eo contained in mie 
more- mention e the 
. ne French- fattening of the short-horn, that t I w: mes ee Ne mar when applied in close re orn eA with the 
xed the organism | castle show of the English society some ‘ganic substances capable of decomposition or putre- 
ice “ie 3 peat "Gough the ‘soup and | was going round the yard with ae of io Kiln, fartion. These in their state of decomposi ition produce 
ined all the elements of the English- | He was reckoned the first breeder of, gua stock į in York- | carbonic acid, which facilitates the solution of certain 
iire, an was only equalled by Mr. Bates stor p> contributes 
er will probably grow more | [Tiked to ocb; sovlose was the competition. Mr. Booth’s | to the nourishment of plants. mee sane 
i scar coven 3 in the same time, fe by g Ethe opal 
with substances t kat set tined to | (Necklace, I think, w. was t | operates in like m The organic sub- 
animals, ies hey have to ane animal as one could ah "to ge old. “Batt hen he ‘stances of the dung serve at the same ‘time to impro 
compound to their’ dace ad, as it were, pi of fat sewed o the ogre condition of the soil: they l it 
ements into hs constituents of their jrm r and alo: T ke I Fa poh ga nder i bmg pa atmo- 
calves of such animal must be very valuable. He spheric aed necessary for the support of plants, par- 
ployment of the foul clay from n works -as | answered, “I am sorry to say I have bee prila un- | ticularly ammonia, and also a greater quantity of 
spe a Ty eT: Tene ł hat t, the ealf died.” m e 
to this t uaation, and t spree g my regret, I said, E you not think she i is micet 18. The getables are n 
e affirm Bs They wh o at » "He said that p she was a little. I saw | of equal value in ‘an Liew ots vof view, v priy 
i sa Nature’s T baeet er three ee eats ope i ma Chait I think | because mae are necessary in very different proportions, 
E be obtained in i the fatur he caled them—raised Rm Necklace. 
fag ‘cult wish 
and also because they are very unequally ‘diffused. in 
nature 
generall y 
wen Riayat u thet e had 
and that he “aia not 
5 
soils especially. ‘In our temperate climate ne import- 
page Ea ney 
ssp aige all 
gaa If forbe x to follow 
er is upon a par with 
Wheat (white) yielded last 
was a 
pcm ag 
| breeder: 
healt F EAN a E not force them 
for themselves and those hg to use them. 
is to a them in 
oa oe ol 
= 
have reason to conclude that the 
| frequently fi found im in ‘the necessary quantity, and in the 
ation in th 
g the ance must be laid on these components of manure, 
n gettin On hand | nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and The importance 
Mr. Bates, instead of feeding to such an enormous ex- | of the ‘two former will be much greater when the 
tent, kept his cattle in first-rate br go e concentrated ma are exclusively con- 
told me he had got a lot of West Highland heifers, and | sidered, and nar real value for agricultural 
put short-horn ny t ; thus ucing the mer ne = ts 
ost goes animals he ever saw—pictures of many Nitrogen is the most important part of the 
R which he had hung on his walls, We must all, I am | manure — it appears in the form of ammoniacal or 
sure, nitri of resolving itself into 
in the loss of the celebrated bull, jobs o’Groat. I th r less quickly in the soil. 
one, however, was net altogether unprepared to hear of a $00 othe means sn ‘cleanly a ascertaining the 
such an event. Ifan animalis fe ap to a state qui manure than th 
are | un 24 ke healthy nature, as the rage is at present, what pek faure en in the ore fold tong cultivated 
can be bas gig The Pe of what I have |in the a a_i above three yon seen 
- attempted to y is, that. we shou endeavour to get ede ances have been ona riad ierik 
and I t tk, w pone Epia: tN or, show, or breeding, 
great ary 
fe such_ as he nates not "recommend. to to | 
pat re and that 
soils gene- 
consequently for agricultural 
is more valuable than th 
Sonat “A ‘tis ease will willingly pay a higher 5 rag for 
this thie ors. some 
for either of the others. There 
