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4 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
practical agriculture with rotations as it is, are the | consecutive years. In some of the individual years 
usual circumstances of the Ake and Heaths of the | there was martin or even over yee per cent. recovered, 
mineral constituents and what the requirements for | that is, rn was the h ighest ; in 
their direct supply. others, there was s Jess than 30 ies ce nt. of t th 
+ £ Wr. 
th: 
rable, it would be b 
wo = edi one ran of inculca te efit i 
t teen 
e decidedly 
made upon Grass. The | direct reat to be now es | 
have reference, 
In = she pe of the proportion of the al 
in which Barley was net for six consecutive years on 
th ie same land, “by of 
PTE S eer ory } + +} 
six seasons. Mo 
roger 
were made in the Bar arley- corn or a al ii respec- | 
man 
r as the crops 
d (that is, those which ripened est), the 
ore than 100 n 
overed in the anne increase of the shark to the utmost Stent ae i eas 
les erop, our form of statement must be unde. ee | step towards this is to render the 
representing the pacts result, as mea ured | that a well bred animal is worth © Convictiog 
} F e | mongrel. Means never lon fai more asa 
rd Be bral g fail the ” 
at without desires to compass an . Th man 
them. It must be admitted that we Ta not the| the e evidence 
means s of deciding whether or not the crop grown by public 
t to Ps sitet ati i to exten 
eed catt], 
ting ¢ 
e for re oes 
net the abet 
tendency was to give t the lower pereas of nitrogen, 
the higher ma ag oe: of the crop—and vice versd. 
nd to heat. 
omparing the e pro ‘oduce of the different seasons, article in the Agricultural Gaze 
grown by nitrogenous manure, the ze just indicated | some form or other it is got rid of by the functional ans Eak to Bete Weekly y Mencnge al z 
is not so clearly borne out. But, as the influence of | processes of the growing crop? The actual or- relative | out and TEk the views which You express. 
even the smaller amo outs of the phot s manures | amounts of ane several NA science is not yet practical reels whieh oug Ped Ne cao Tay notion a 
which were empl oyed was to produc ce over luxuriance able to deter: and y oing almost a lo ge What you 
and depreciate t ti d quality of the grain, It is ob rate some of the apparent | “It appears to m then, that the great objects 
that is, to be unfavourable to perfect maturation, the | loss to Sate: increase of the esupplied nitrogen will ses, to promote would Be most completely secures 
r cipal tenant farmers Cot be induced to 
apparent exception was rai confirmation of the due to the unequal distribution of the manure in dairy stock ( confining poe, 
g 
When ec 
en found to be the case with Whea 
aie so W bie ri i the rule is not 
he 
y 
without poste Fe: it seems only to apply, on t 
age, on 
ould get the higher qualities of crop 
indicated w. vith ‘the lowest a amo ounts of pr roduc ce per acre 
is perfectly it 
p 
that the sample, partidilladty of Barly. is, on the av erage, | 
the bett 
ler amou 
defici 
with thi 
oun 
tent wi 
ltural s 
p testim to their 
other sources as that grown without it. | came evident that jo thee 
Wa cannot say therefore whata the soil has to render | money return for their 
an account of more nitrogen than that indi- | value of their h oe 
|eated by the column 9 on ahs unrecovered in 
My 
es ace of crop. T a oportion bs settee in | the 
rin re: on, however, for eae 
present occasion is, that Era 
mediate increase however, obviously very | readers the following m a m a 
ti Tem be suppos ah that this at first ice thi I have obtained the Mispa 
may. 
mount is still available to after crop ? We may as lic 
—tha' 
city 
phe of tea 
Investment T 
presen Me assume 
oil 
1 
in a practically hat it passes | as emanating from a gentleman a he amaii 
gre ea services to the an interest rales 
into states of combination in n which res can be drained 
asd, or evaporated, from the soil ?—or lastly, that in 
be 
relation to the underground feeders of tha, pe m ats 
this were all, however, the unrecovere 
first crop sho 
pu pe 
course be ed ‘And i what we 
uld be sooner or later SERTEN to ee cotrect (arid that 5 no reas = Be x art iwa i 
which follow. But one thing is Sortem; that, even | fora farmer r befi g to dairy Rr 
taking eather the increase in ral ‘immedia ately Short-horns She 20 crossbred nondest 
ae: the same am for the smaller So 
Pour gabe ee of crop, This smal- 
ae with the r 
ney of ‘draiabla nitrogen ‘within „the soil, "and 
alit 
is veer a 
vith a low 
na nitroge en in ‘the soi il, we have a 
idino cy to be pere Shtaka of Pek: in the most 
valuable descriptions of the grain. But q uality cann ot 
y fi PES 
is even the case when the pies of the necessary y | made ters of hi calves or kept som some F 
to his name, as well as to t the "tg È 
fii "i 
reed. Asit is nowall butuniversally 
gradually, of course), by 
es we must have wp Short-horns, that breed 
zhi t be guided by circumstances as to i 
all ze hes in view 
advan way. 
cca constituents is very liberal. Indee much | in the mo: tageo aie 
less amount of nitrogen newly supplied in the form of stated, as you are aware, "that even in Cheshire { 
salts o of ammonia or nitrate of soda alone will give a pia a pe petet ae indeed, 
aa increase rd produce taen eer aage amount of pane g presents a most absurd admixture, Firs Iim 
R roges W eral ma- | seen a mi able-looking little old cow, 
And it is seen that, when we increase the quantity of | 
a ped 
gen in the soil, as ? generally depreciated in the |i 
admitted characters of quality; and at the TAS so 
the 
percentage of 
tendency to ministed quality and i sed per rcen- 
trogen is Era Rte, her, 
mount Fi the shila ed nitrogen mre covered 
tio on 0 ineral constituents, though sti 
availa pt 
tage of pega on the one hand, with „increased 
“As <i n practical agri iculture, it must be 
upply of nitrogen beyond that 
be ae hin the average seasons can yi a well 
yiel 
conditioned and healthil m crop. Barley indeed, 
oF 
crease within any 
S iform in 
moderate peri sie of t tim e. We hogeo onan ie occasio; p be unii way o of abing this t than to bring 
rass, a 
he facts of of the : field d wi ill be able to provide, the 
aai to high manuring than When And it is 
ter variation in degree of e Eor in 
the former than n the latter, in one and the same 
ifferen 
t proportion s of available nitrogen 
eater variation in a percentage of nitrogen in the 
Pr , depending on the manure employed.” It 
Sold appear too t that we = ug e ering within the 
xin of sof ith matured fu — the 
reentage nitrogen in Lars ey ran m h above a 
given nby science of the D which is experienced by] 
PRIZES FOR DAIRY STO! 
[The following, taken from the columns of Bell's Weekly Des- 
senger, is one of a weg of valuable Sns chiefiy on the 
Short-horn breed o; f cattle, which have during the past two 
or three years been pi ublished by Mr. ‘Willoughby Wood in 
sev ~ y apelenlt maral periodicals. ] 
THE Midla Cou anties Herald, ever the earnest 
ng 
hat th 
is s simply due to its greater distribution, s maa exhaus- caricatures oft the Hereford Wios lot a decent animal 
ll remaining, so 
jable 
 deso y and Guems 
couple are out of the 15 or 20 that would sala fait fit teat, 
nelu- | oy jihat any one who has paid moderate attention tothe mija 
ded that the nitrogen ae: in Hare e for fall crops would choose as milkers. It is this, 
ered in the 
the whole herd, barri 
be si 
year for the purpose. I believe, cl omt innit 
more 
valuable animals, $2 hosp se with mee 
d at the 
promoter of ‘any improvement, a in givi ng some e extracts ia u bet ord 
to you, a 
principle which I I last o aeii in in your columns. 
of 
My suggestion was, that every head of stock adm nitted horn 
; have a price affixed to it by ‘its owner. bes would of | ea 
o did not 
es 
nitrogen in the soil—to direct | ĉr 
compounds 
condensation 1 by thel latter of thè nitrogenous 
nitric acid 
within the soil at the moment of the the 
evolution Z chemical changes of certain elements in the 
nascent —to the accumulation of combined nitro- 
ap 
| surely be taken for granted, not only that the prime of | 
itrie | ¢ the bulk of the exhibitors is to sell their stock, but — 
the pate Exhibition of Poultry, 
to the important point of the 
po een te 
was 
Pel ees = manure 
Bar’ 
a 
r cent. of it was recov mean in the | that Pri of the pico "would astonish a Kemeny | 
average result of several | number af the visitors, 
wish to par with "eo stock, to name a prhitvory 
ata 
hat me object 
| this improved stock sh —_ be as eavanly diffused as pos. ra oro being 
sible. This is principle was fi leran a at the great 
has 
been found not, as zah 
the offspring of de 
ts throughout the countey. There is plains that in conseque 
recommended by the Herald :— 
ar It oc ties mig occurred to us also that our local agricul. 
of considerable value and o eral 
young Short-horn buils and dhevfers, w which general competition twith 
poor 
griculti pert 
the first to his principle, I think m uch good | ~ 
might be effected by the following pplication of it, as lap 
might, with great to ane oiera pecial prizes std 
- val 
view to their sale, and the sho ay t 
ofen i = price s age ca on the certificate | gh crifi 
sree ng yids aang alae 
» It may be} 
other natural secretions. 
While recom 
i 
e 
E E — G saapi 
mmending to the 
