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oe oer He thay contended, and he would | 
tit e , that on the subject of | o 
alum in Dread t ad b i an enormous ig of 
loose an most discreditable chemistry | giv 
ed—that ìs, | 
| venting i injury to the germination of t 
on pects sed. The} 
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gly as could ‘pro against the nono. 
Sany to which thay had teak exposed. 
mode of piii nmhich aa practical experienc 
h With regard to drills, 
e best. 
of them I con- | 
a great vari fety in use. Many 
} be the case with regard pap com 
| Wurzel it was undoubtedly the x ops, for Tu 
| notwithstanding the high 
| belief that a large portion 
geo d manures consisted 
eek a, ago, 
8 
inip a and 
Prag m 
mya of it. He Paar they 
of the 
l of 
o doing 
ane and corn aae but the 
much guano as the for 
iiem side we vel i“ good for drilling artificial manures; but a s | more than the other, the at was the advan 
; economy in horse and manual labour is a great item in | GHEY. We wanted trget if peedian appl 2 tons instel 
= Arm 2 l| p a cheap manure- 
the farmer’s exp es, wis that Ries drill | as his experience enabled him to judge, the ara; but sofe 
LONDON : April 4.—The use or Gua ano for Roo res I have oe using, and which was nufac- | cheaper manure for root crops than guano. Hee edhe 
Crops. Mr. W. Sainsbury, of Manor paoe Phar tur l by s. Reeves, of Bratton, Westbury, has | that for ordinary use there was nothing so cheap opinion wag 
Lavinrton. said been z t drill | 2° angie the production of root TOPS A8: pane + j 
gton, gesak many advantages. In 1857 I used Reeves patent beneficial dhutiontionn must, he maintained, d guano ; bo 
by many practical men, by a comparison of it wi a | with great suc cess. As respects econo my, guano can be | upon the state of the weather and the soil, “and al Very tan 
variety of artificial manures. d either with or wit i At the | of application. Guano might be applied liberally pos Mode 
care to give the thing a fair trial. I ee ae byl deme time, I should recommend two bushels of dry | but when applied to corn crops any quantity beyond sm 
increasing the weight of roo! r acre, we re the Awi ATARA promod aoea panatiyoly with the incres lem. 
g the weig: roots pe! e, v sae ashes mixed wi of guano to the acre, yt ought 2 
et the different kinds of 
arti vem Hh manures 
which h Per 1 guano 
at the same expense per acre. 
In 1855 Ši a htt to use as an experiment four 
different k of manures for _— Turnips, three of 
which I sadn pet three eminent aR of 
pi manures, I mens classify t oe as “Boman No. 2, 
and No. 3. They wi ae me time, 
is somewhat level this drill will with two 
n 9 acres per day, and the same Peron will take | W: 
he manure with i. men for a day’ 4 ork. I alw nc 
one turn wi e ha ft tet ill, to cov 
he seed. I should pede that the nine of this dill 
is to deposit the guano, allowing as sufficie nt oan of 
earth to to cover the manure before 
| 
horses e 
2 
oper 
The 
Ə, 
The | Swedes drilled with, ‘as 
drill ma, 
or siei arsi either with or “without ma Mr. 
X e 
that sho mae eve rb applied for corn cro 
bes =e addition yield a better me Pa ya 
Ag tha 
sa a larger application ps ne sie a rence 
tagain he foliage eee — nga hias the Pr howe ma 
e ma el, or we t 
by the result, o9 oa onnar 
T Thomas (Bletsoe) did not concur in observa. 
n — to the effeet ww 
was sold, we must have 
first it £ 
r p ng guan TOPS 1t | his own farm, he had invariably found th effect from, 
to the time of the first hoeing; the guan 10 Swedes, w is necessary that the guano should T. edy with four | guano on the clay. ion had Pes to biast 
made st appearance, looked stunted in | or six times its weight of ashes, to prevent it from wen A ovr aie sed as a manure a mitius 
growth, and anything but promising, , vere | burning the seed ; but I have shown plainly from my | used guano by itself art pot Of 50s. per acre, He hadal 
more. nju comparatively by the Turnip fly | experience that two bushels of d he: re is a | ture had answered | t. Tn some. count ie by ar 
than those dri ed with the three other manures. They | sufficient quantity to be mixed with guano or super- | verbial that bones were preferable to everything else: bale 
Were not ready for hoeing for at least k after — I hope I have also shown | “that the drill ri he had found the best application to bea mittere 
the three first-named, which T attribute to th not SA cae Rye omer Ing vine poe 
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pa injary to mn ke ou rai sie guanom asa AEN My I n heen eth I must confess that my object i in intro- years, an admi =o of salt with guatto in pve 
from germination o lucing as av vantage. During the last two had 
the sree e, tal bar n of A te 2 ae A boas 4 ma ae from “the aaston than to give the results of my jakoi found his protace”considerwbly Ave ro mee 
ith zar anures, was abo in| experimen ore aria prite aias r 
7 case before. 
£ the art of November, No. 1, and Mr. Cor aA had not used artificial manures to a very | Perhaps on stiff and ‘heavy clay land such a mode of application 
0. in weight ; No. s ‘were large extent, having learnt from a Mr. Hildyard that a good | might be open to objection ; Dut w ere the land was possan 
ted as post but a guano Swedes were abont 3 heii like a good joint of meat, only requ: mired. basting with its | admixture was, in his opi beneficial. 
tons per acre more in weight, wn dripping. Having — aot pater of stock, he had generally r. J. Thomas (Lidlington Park, Ampthill) :—With reganl to 
pe 1g ¢| been able to manure his h farm-yard dung. He did | the maxim cited by ousst oe that a farm ought, likea 
In 1856, in order to test the salou ae of | not mean to deny that rt wi ameni might be used advan- | joint of meat, to be basted with its own sor E was trie 
Peruvian ER as e with malnas end of may Se Mees instanooo; and n 1 n > far and Be topt under certain a eae bs a fi — gar s 
b bones acr = cwt. which was not in good order; but when a farm h: n own manure ; in an application of extraneous 
aine drilled 16 ey eia 0! es per sere wag i a got into good order, it would not, in his opinion, require much jones it could be cultivated more profitably than without 
> hagas land K y» arnie manure. Wit o the tive merits of dif- | them, it ought not to rest contented wi 
In latter part e amber the gùano Swedes | ferent kinds of artificial manure, he quite agreed with Mr. | ceedings followed in reference to a joint of meat, It wasa 
were tons per acre more than those drilled with oscar 3 that yee was the best of all. He happened to | matter of calculation to the skilful farmer how faranyoutlay 
bones. in the sn hood of Aldershott, where there had been pee foreign manures would be recompensed the return 
Tn 1857 I wished ry the pe as of anes w manure, derived from the eamp—animal carbon, ch he would obtain for that — Boor o no wish toenter 
pra merits Sesin they pleased to term it. He was ao to — at any length upon the : 
the same (Noe 1, 2, ~ a = guano) at an equal a certain quantity pot this manure for the pu trying it | question stated on the ca reference ane pois 
acre. All these manures were then used nst guano in ey ue. Havin; ton for | but this might be laid down, he thou ght, es 
erii s at pss time with E aor k n men cen er s ot te Iter and the rasli showed hat 
was that Nos. 1, 2, and 3 took the lead at first, and the | rience —— as ga Bas nno akin te it they mu = 
Ra t the tne A eta ti gin mre early sta Stages, rpa aa leave it in the lurch PT wae hought 
at drilled with the three othe ae CITEN Conary forenet; 
Seaifares mm wet my shody bagan to feed t the Raj not 
the latter end of July, it was quite sap that the 
best. 
e three first-n ee 
been feck ng the Rape about a fortnight, “the Rape the « a 
Ca er 
show mildew ; the Rape with U e guan 
wing pra 
luxuriantly withou at being sic affected by mildew, 
fifth more bis per acre after = guano fips than ig soba 
after 2,and 3. In conse- atthe Germ i 
juence of are wishing to try the relative merits of| own. Hehe ad m: 
io , my 
on 
anured with Nos. 1, 
i ition with farmyard du 
a igo 
which I ing armya 
os at the rate of 
ruano Turnips to be much t t tim 
that guano was used in its pure Hate withont ay mix- 
ture of ashes By) Turnips the crop was destroyed, in 
consequ of the ing in it, 
there ing been a cient q art 
er the manure previous to the depositin 
of the . Having lost crop of Turnips, which 
as a few acres only, I was induced sow the 
with Rape broadcast, the seed being covered lightly 
ith hoes in preference to plough as I 
= wished to keep the paves on the 3 e 
Rape came up with a good aye but I soon 
perceived that it grew in age just as the ma- 
nure was drilled ; „and b by the time ‘it Was ready | Tha 
for h hoeing, , the Rape 
nt died gra way. tioned this | @ 
I iby ae a ie To stoking ste of the | ap 
value of guano. I am sure I may my? that oni HE 
an 
fiy wher 
any injury fun the effects guano, aie 
ere I first drilled it i in a pure state. | a 
q 
a 
manure. One part rot the Bel = left ie Te ig able to distribute 
I 
yard 
g 
e iaikity of Ioomor rely than to 
tthe sther 
ight volatile nature, and if, en sown 
broadcast, we git a to be much wind stirring, it was 
a of the land where the farmer did not want it to 
; or, if the locality the extremities 
hether his doing so dete- 
naa pi ad, in fact, never been 
guano 
Mr. R. Baker (Wri rittle) sai he had on 
t in his By inion os should n never be applied 
‘or Mange! 
e of its 
es bei boat Duri ring fag. tae Turr 
Fequontiy had indicated to him a piece 
ii ees smell a quarter i 
the spot. Of course where that w: 
as 
ache gt and had thus 
been Ww 
ue 
sta 
apy lied. If Eos 
and h nerally 
ashes, or ae other pag 
ee 
eficial to pce which c 
that when it w 
whereas i sed in gravei 
yra of sed gu 
an 
observed in that 
ory ore 
guano had vara iye e in ec 
become fix 
as 
fault ; and, on tae 
ise | his own experi 
He hi 
, these 
e | greater pee tages oes 
‘ood sheds = very large 
x could fully bear out Mr. Purser’s 
set a man to sow 
guano under hand, re it were, down the Citeren ee 
in order n — of it might be carried away. $ 
After that th bei 
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guano he sol tres 
ers used Hiara that aia aot t PoP 
zubani he ogould 2 
They y all co tain peg hy ter =t e state, He 
the action of manures in the county of bates 
connection e, had 
crops the demand in almost oar 
weaver Nith an addition of one ewt. per acre v 
weaker soils. idag af 
rsh (Sandwich, Kent) said, having e? ny yeu 
besides having been a farmer yhore he 
observations o or four to 
of late sold one ton ef guano he bad ee 
| superphosphate of lime, He sold a gre ho 
| neighbourhood of Dover, and any gentle 
