270 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [APRI 3, 1858, 
i ly as| iieatiasd ‘did not correspond to much more than | it destro oys the oranie part of the sol ay pa 
ok eh ra Sis anlaa So PRS |t cent. of me ak that no phosphoric it exhausts the land, or renders : woe 
Is this generally speaking and for ordin nary |a aad ould be found init. The = o statements, An exhausted of its mec Sa 3) beean mse the Ore easily 
practical sarees a safe method of determining | both are taken as expressing ordinary truth, are of the Ae aye oa be better laid ontin mar 
the pr market value of manures? Its ms | in deed | thee stent with each E 7 butno one is ut to these objections Dr, Vopr, xm oR 
rather ao in the day k a question, the | justified on ins ~ account, either in abusing severally as follows—(1) the idea that Teplieg 
answer to which has been acted on now for so|the popular tural chemistry of the day, matters in the soil Hae oesuarily and tnd all oo 
many years, but a recent se roni on the | or in throwing rials of honesty and A, the pam 
agricultaral value of gas clay nure has | on either of the eg tements which he cannot recon- | plants is a mistake, The ey a deat « 
ee it ei onee more, and we gets ‘Gane © | ele. We have yet scertain whether an /soils, no doubt—but many fertile Toy 
reconsi experience in the fields near Wakefield is in any | hardly any. Theh s theory h as indeed Ts contak 
It is prin mennt hat all those other ingredients | way affected by excep ional causes active there |rather than promoted agricultural impronen 
of our manu which are found built up in the na | but not pas Bp $ udi it possibly remains to be | and haa Lrepie done nothing more for agrienltan 
ce of me not always also necessary, | ree ey Fe ther the sample sent the la E A he to explode this th by his invest, 
but that most of them being already abundantly | ator sgow was anaverage specimen of he | argumentative writings the agricultural Comms, 
supplied in ordinary soils they are rarely | eS whose results at Wakefield we are told, | nity would be greatly indebted to him, Again 
a. Po the ammonia and nitric acid salts, gear es EE T CARED [soils need not be impoverished by & 
nd ¢ acid in a soluble form added |__ WE ga-her from the speeches of Mr. Carry and | burning; and they would er in the 
to the ee Thich, enerally speaking, are the| Mr. HENLEY in the House of Commons be the | eo the process, if pees ” it ought toleg 
e ficient part xt of the manure are that is applied, | agriculture of Scotland is s this ear to be wi a preparative for root cro ad 
No dew bt there are many instances in agricultu ural | that m cord of its characte er and produce Whist; the land. (3) As to the biR i profitablenad’s 
anks t o Mr. Maxwer LL’s o Tabonts and the publie | other means of agric al impro ment sf ri 
of m, of su ea magnesia, and of oth age i , We posses pee. ecm ng | greater cost, the assertion may be furl wey 
single salts whic a, r four yea uppose | another, quo the: 
neither combined the at thres 
But we have| that the 
will be at all affected ty th 
ct to which we anticipate fi 
mentwi 
We do 
rent which it will yield to landlord, or 
r its foo od for the people, 
e oe on this sub- 
m Mr. HENLEY 
sald 
But it w 
success whieh has attended mA ites of agri- 
ata statistics a Scotlan 
here can be no dou 
tapidly growing and abundant erop. 
sional i influence of those arises from heir ingredient 
sent in Sona sufficient to sw ply th 
Talr crop that is ai, campy v at the mie = have had e would form a 
at whic h the other growth are uch safer ghi ide to future 'ouitivation bon na 
‘Mr. Cai rd 
Md several practical eens am 
hic 
lies on th 
rests his opinion on the 
ongst other 
gy been broken 
‘sig ns of decreasi ing. 
is by other things as well as eae aaa š at os 
sent is. And so long as = e had in Scotland the 
r vaagis of a large body of 
consenting on a matter which is a 
‘with, as as we Bova «folie deg 
he that E 
d 
actually Pan its este influe 
where 
number of u the saudi | 
sip 
o 
ment of the srie up to an trary acces- sats 
sion a erin and even beyond that intea 
ion of all vegetable gro core e 
nip of the irailan M Bwa 
of any separate dae re 
soe ie Eng for rage 
d is, we fear, so 
he the ak debate on this subj 
thy, | the other day: 
Mr. Carrp, while 
cowed ging the value of the statistics 
o tester jy 
isi t laboratory | vice soe 
for Sape the latter term of this alternative 
scieneo ov 
does 
pr directed only = asce: 
If that an done he 
condemne . Vor 
s | perfect agreemen nt of the 
Notary pee 
8 the tahea it 
of weeds a 
eet which took ~ 
the Higbland Society, and th root of fo ight 
its oo alar ficial effect ifthe see wereonly killed and allowed 
to become gradually decomposed, but in reply ta 
is | this sugg e sti 
“Itm 
pian 
crops, for wh 
adapted. In Seah pit aey pr Sh valle ble remains, 
wheat ee ah 
deh rsa 
Hav ms own =n ty in m 
detent ‘Is “approved as much as 
ee 
any districts the 
elsewhere itis 
proceeds to show the 
mai with 
: and he aime in succession the action 
organic and inorganic substances, illus- 
both ah a number of analyses of the ashes 
fire on 
he old question n getting into the smoke of a 
= fire—** Don > i ee the Wheat ?”— 
es after ded on 
indeed exercise abent- 
all to a 
rmer cro 
tated that Couch and the roots of 
=| Clo over, ee; oo se readily lose their 
E | decompose w with krge ent rpiiy t to ato ds 
= 
ein ermat beg of root 
refased toed i z 
z: for the = $ pe SEa of their dirence with the’ ‘Treasury and. Ra in conse, the saline inor genie constituents, found in their 
essed, the m e of facts ge previous udit, the Govern woul asif easily cerry. out out e work. | ashes, are so firmly united with organicco 
observers, and of which existing science is the| | Mr A. Brack said that one of the loading, pa Rot that Jbl dissol of water 
land had informed him that neither under the der the Highland ‘Socket: is = e to dissolve by m á 
ession. It is, indeed, he who is nor under the Government would th tomake | an appreciable quantit even of such soluble com 
« Whatever is ond my experience is untrue.” the returns. aois alkali By the decay of vege- 
Let us admit his but y duce ina- |, Mr. BtacxBuRy did not believe that the agricultural statistics bs nin; Lah: grt 
ion t Do s t Sof P in Scotland had oy = jars use whatever, nor did he think table matters, their constituents o 
t m the rank of explainable | that they would £ more valuable in the restricted | dually rendere hbi pe by their rapid destrit- 
exceptions, we must not allow it to affect our con- | form suggested by the hon, member for Dartmouth e was mate 
in o f : of Gpinien, 1 on, olde that in bene abate with the Highland tion by T Aom ir miner ral atters are pine 4 
6 s Previous | Society, the Government, although they might be technically — and gc oan bese: to the i 
eE ay A oth indeed could be more E syns subs = yoong use of plants ine mineral constituents 
angerous to r VIE a reso! meeting of | - ts. manarés; 
di dth . ad gress of truth th practical farmers in Scotland. "be te effect “that a reliable | i am a so sluble sr act as werful i 
bag es i ee 1 and science—they oy and ought | system of iculturs statistics, s such as that devised and | and hence it is that paring and burning prodi 
y Mr. ` P 
inoi pe Aia OR High ghland Society, Wa ob: iroa Walia rey oy ofthe be | a mediate effect upon plants which, like 
truth, rron or may it tallies with the e experienee Varets i particula retera 5 pace cope pa "ead. mae 
of others is to open the door to all sorts of uae e a paspa had passed was not calculated to Th y ae erg : nelusions to 
ove e ter o! ira mraman tii = following are y 
and Xd and,* as ee = concerned, particularly under the irvita- KE a on eneral poliey of the 
ake, th en, the case of the new manure or gas| existed in that country w abert to the dispute | practice : eae 
clay, which has been the ms of discussion = between the Neen eg ni ths Goctety: Phe Bul | Pea i $ oad 
ese columns, in il p% remarks. 5 eae of avila statietion tn En land woul rs Solis ot . maike or 
cs to 
cannot deubt that application has affected the be ao aa a when ho sa the reception fg parag ia a ai = Snara ne 
growth of Grass and ¢ Cabbage and Potatoes, for we | by the hon. member was kalo te cane an ney proposed maA a n a seen ho power of aiso i 
have the statement on “the testimony of nny be his duty to'consider what course ought to be adopted with| “2. Inert vegetable matter is changed by paring 
witnesses who a wee! morgo y reference to Scotland. into highly effective mineral food for 3 Al ips, improves per 
cumbent of St. Andrew’s, “Wakefield, Neither do we — (p: 479) contain the resolu angie pitta ra Daley rin na iyi 
doubt the statement of the Professor of Chemis ty | borate us of sh farmers entirel corro- adoring them ea E a condition of tht 
pte of Sir J. Ocrtvre’s te remarks. e main ot only does it improve the mechanical oop sages 
Bill are gi 
in the ce cer wi re, or: 
Present in of — anure kish doh ho 
provisions of Mr. CAIRD’s 
column, 
£ Not only 
yer in another bsg Dut it likewise contributes to highly 
ce 
£ chemical constitution of the soil constituents. 
| eae me nd is sti still, 5. It apa within reach of the young Tur ‘4 
We believe, offered in the market; to the fertilising effects of ‘i CREPE EUR uantit ily available food from 
beens o e doses, well ‘as to its structive effects + VOELCKER contributes a seamen aper ON mt ‘The ashes produced by paring 
pe = ois of t osthinniali wore published— PARING Burxina—a subject on binkhothas useful t Turnips, and also to other greet, tush, constituta 
some. Ww onourable men, who however were i ; i h usuris 
not“ r Thon pialyais published of this manuto sor ady published his Tesearches—t0 1 the pot which, i itis we bend meet ser a high eevee 
to SA oe ie to) Gat t its ume of h A rieultural Soc Society’s growth eee t-crops. | 
owing to| Journal. He e opinions of ot pa he operation of paring and burning is 
—— Spee mote in those oases, tiiit inen pinions of prac- taining clay jin sandy soils it i 
ce of its : 
She valustion of the veal ue has now confirmed ard a mischief. cf ees 
The practice is, he says, condemned (1) because | u 
n Š The ben ficial effects of a fair quantity 
ops i 
pon root-er certain soils are more striking 
