THE AGRICULTURAL GAZE 
TTE. 
in the 
acres, Turnips 250 Barley; 125 Red Clover; | about 44 lbs. of ge ore acre ai annum, sls or iho Turnips had received either 
125 White do.; 250 Wheat; total 1000. With such rst | for rm of ammoniacal salts p ca zri es well as the 
take it is easy to arrive at answers to y re q - cosy t 1 nd | Ev $ Dort e pri oduce = ro 
Sha of superphospha tor 
the Purtip erop; 4 owt, to iadaaa Te per pa Tags gae acro ge annual addition, during s six 0 years 0 sei ‘on mine risk pote ue in the ae AS nitrogen 
= 350/. This in ordinary nage would be the wile ou © | Turn aeta ae about 95 Ibs. of nitrogen oe peal in the | the annual unma: ured produce in the coer ata 
lay required in artificial man The whole of the farm-yard form of Rape- cake. The Turnips on the 5th plo n _ a the Barley was growing pre, field, whey 
mantre nen be applied to to to the € ores oroa io, ryrie es oneri hat the beneficial effect `o 
after e or immed y D | 
nas coun’. eas One-third of these Tu:nips should pat |4, and in addition, during six of the years both the Rape- — was not due to the bf: esiddue dh 
off for the use of the fatting bullocks in the yards; this leaves ‘anaes salts ason plot 3, and the = cake as on | supp’ plie d, may be judged by the fact that matte i 
'. good -crop of Swec ill, with the aid’ 
plot 4, which together gave 
of about t140 Ibs. of nitrogen per 
mineral manured plot gave “auch larger crops 
Sami 
was undoubtedly a residue of a aval he voc et 
the soil that gave the o ial a Ra 
nantity of | | of Turnip than th the unmanured o 
in the y: aa is tsp acres, | Of nitrogen, and othe ure, 
tons. Now as a fatting | as on plots 3, 4, ond 5, rah oun a oer 
week, it follows r: m increment of increase in neither of the three 
a ti oidingi s a pro- 
mber for x 
a to 
cok he will require 10 bo an 
es about 160 cattle 
hat which was li 
ployed for the Turnips. — 
in the facts at once a keps 
of ae e upon nitro; 
and o 
tiful i 
n the of 
f the — incapability of rich supplies 
the oe 
of an y pane 
5 4 
aL 
Y, unless os 
the manure ight a — therefore ‘that 
whe iieo was “pib fo or ~ 
rained i S Tein yi sa 
idely throughout it, fixed in it in 
mbination, or in some way | 
of t the plant—there 
n cake of 8001- I i 
summer portion | it at 
sarin» eet own. | soil, dist: ted too w 
love E noae, aM, pa an ancire condition of co 
t six sheep to tho dissipated duri 
hould uld be some rem: 
hes 
fat them S by Wickens 
tons, cost 250/. I have m eedin ng rley. 
vera of “te three years’ tika 
10 di fer ently manured Turnip crops is 
follow: 
not brod; for upon 
ve ta iry opiat to breed wi uld osn very 
wrong. Let us see then how the oe d. Ws 
Cost of artificial manure Ke “J sae teristic influence 
e 
| found in the results of expen ettta in 
as | the B 
E Ban 
the soila ela amount of 
nitrogen 
If re laws proof be wan 
mineral cons Giants Se 
in ba Tur y 
hree years of Barley after pisa. 
ide where the residue of the T 
s alone had been 
chara 
upan the increased growth of the Cereals he at a 
n una availing to — 
Ps ee! 
Oilcake consumed by sheep 
sl . Şi EA] yeli o the elaboration 
the gr a crops, of the ne 
open for the white crop, i 
that here, after 1 crops of Turnips 
appropri nee “ag fess ‘of silicates, we should have, 
if ever it w ible, a large q 
ae with these 
food in th 
Total outlay .. 
Fat sheep sold off farm, $x! 
oo Spee nearly . 
eB isa fair sketch ofa weil managed arable ne -y 1000 
of Turnip soil,” 
"iatera be the liberality of the treatment 
howev: narh the four-course system of cr 
g 
diana mineral 
it might surely be be expected 
of Turn: 
crops of unmanur: 
nip oe 
the 
y, | But 
ided with a very tg 
e form of smn salts, and pei 
poet the same amount of nitrogen in nitrate of 
They were as ibs: 
“In 1854 those portion 
plots left pone na 
where now 
we Neve aapna failures both i in the Turni 
ay onl excess of her he 
ki 
in the Clov: 
a 2 Clove need, taking n Sopr the latter out—we 
her half rA for ath pas elaborated a „conserved in the soi 
ter parks on tha he If, an Il ineral consti 
in crop o 
vee 
nen p» 
“De e result was that, comparing 
d | Barley” one the unmanured Turnipe 
manured 
gu Een 
6 Turnips oe 
It i a aliie found that b ing upon the lan ener | t 
the large bulk of food for us Peas 
y the Sai spa rotation, the 
is ofte: 
he further nipar- of the deed ar which lesa 
till more widely from the of. the 
eld system, is to take 
ot 
oduces a 
annual produce of not quite 19 bi 
w, too, was on only about two-thirds _ as iadi after | o 
pagr 10¢ crops of Turnips e field 
for ur 
ps sees ae the un- 
ofn 
Tie moiit field of 
very remarkable too, that although the pro- 
he mineral-manured Turnips wa ile 
much as th 
and | 
llow ke t ste Barly, to be followed by aoe gir 
He a hen more corn had Toni: Sekine In fact a produce 
=P 
S per acre per annum of Barley 
Turnips, w 
of so 
A a much better SaN 
scarcely 19 bushels 
corn, end Sone: more than half a sent of straw— 
equal to a ton of dry substance of geen ce—will be 
tt <a tg _ 
OPS | that the onan of the land av 10 aiden TOps 
bei cohen d been n removed mus st h ave been, for ‘Barle ey 
Sadna he Norfolk liberal supply o of mineral const: stituents. dis- 
making ita titel throng the soil peg restore this exhau 
rtility is seen by the Fans s jeene 
mineral- manu red Turni ips. After 
COD Ssh ee e 
ot 
is 
nine years’ course of cro 
Sheet ee eches made i = ‘Pie Hou Hou 
p 
ovine pecially th acme 
| =25 Ibs. less total produc 
e, than after the 
Tarnipe. 
sath 
then. 
soe Bint and mi 
iia 
of When eat, one crop of Bar 
that is, 
thre white straw crops in succession a Ai 
oi 
the produce of Barley on the plots 
been manured with nitrogenous 
manures, with that where they 
hrows 
interest generally, and 
Nery te which Sif securing the = 
mium 
7 Pointed out ola Bigaa the Tr Temi had 
good cultivation, were so Pea well as 
Carrp that we give his speec 
if 
ON THE mides OF BARLEY | 
BY DIFFERENT CONTINUOUSLY THE 
SAME LAND; new aor THE POSITION OF THE CROP IN 
ROTATION. By J. B. Lawzs, F.R.S., FCS, AND 
Dr. J. H. GILBERT, F.C: S. 
No. II 
| rsata T alone had bi 
he Hepes a er noto of 
lied to the Tumipe there 
cam 
Where, i 
td been sap 
| nit: 
essed corn or 333 Ibs 
sted | salts 
ley after the 
of T: 
tha 
what “gener g or con- 
mai 
y was red, t ven evi 
elow that etrr rt in the a other fad Bi the previons 
growth o ley, with 
e (corn an BG 
f dire 
the reach of the Barley plant, pro 
were within the rat 
with the Hci y-diering ace of the the hs oa 
sb fields without furt 
app: 
ofsuch manure, again we 
we learn j 
‘oor 
leo Sarat of dhe on the productive effects = : 
active m i 
ani pont te ae 
piers nt week the House se Commons TEE 
The following were the peerage 
the occasion, The debate was 
total corn, and 
there had been 
e in the soil of evens 
of produce of Bar ley 
and consequen greater cx 
by the Turnip. We find, on 
tpt had boomers for the last ¢ eight | 
ps li eae bt of mineral 
uch larger quantities oe 
in the cin crops. 
manures for the Tiripa as plot 2, 
during the six six middle years of the 10, 
“We had th ray with a residu 
mineral manures, even a loss 
to a 
= 
ES 
ao 
due to a grea wth 
men of other eaii 
other hand, 
aa, in alae oe 
* 200 Ibs, sees and 200 lbs. m 
a perceptible gain in the Barle ey 
commerce, 
550 Ibs, 
t 
