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THE- GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL: GAZETTE. 
[DECEMBER 5, 1863. 
the country, or was contained d не 
those individuals who had bee 
ing them with some substance which s 
ex 
cemeteries ; and even the latter iiey ^ o дой. itera а 
certain lapse of pides endered back to the soil fro 
which they were дег 
1а the state P things thus pen we might even 
lt for water to take them p. Panli in the 
ко! to do this, we are ap 
аз to 
| render Б a return to the, old б. ра of o cras 
I fea: 
toa condition, |t 
di! fusio. 
remained under cultivation, because very arable soil 
contains a large бш of phosphoric acid, Б alkalies, 
their. ready 
through tg v in thos 
extreme, and, as "Liebig had don nal | m 
mineral та to render the material mitad for th e| 
roots t act upon, or rather brought 
нү Es admitted to 
incapacitates them , for 
sed i 
„Never the ie I nn late ly seen аб Cov entry a 
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health end of economy, which ought to b. jointly 
the roots orb them 
ep = earthsin a condition no ot ava ailable e time to The fa. d ure of Liebig's mineral. composts, whilst it 
t pla p. н, 
0 and water, is rendered soluble ; so that i іп a field | upon the ds bed soundest à priori conclusions in 
and y also est a cauti А deodor! 
ud constant tillage mo 
ingredients will be rende Mud fitted for agricultural 
purposes. Nor under these circumstances will it во 
much matter, whether 
ammonia, as every soil absorbs from the water or 
from the atmosphere more i this Mere с) than is 
required for any ordinary cr 
carry on or 
out pasir ЕМЕ e iis ultimate ы Зере 
проп 
еу of the soil. 
arg 
e | smell, 
e sewage being removed in pipes to a 
proper phos from the. town, where EA e 
ised by дшге, with the road s рте ‚ Kc, 
and then retained in s for a time long e 
admit of the brin of "the greater part ot its solid 
matter, after which the liquid Dre edo of all 
and nearly in а limpid, co is allowed to 
discharge itself into an adjoining 
perl ia 
e Кра of the nem which analysis So this semi-solid кү "ium to be in 
‚Же perceive, therefore, the "theoretical correctness f | g o lar arge is is the ' de emand for i ita monga the 
p p p * 3 + 4}. Дд, g Н b EGO! ig's gl „the апаре- 
к set. of mineral manures adapted to each particular | ашап ked up b 1 ffünity as t ; is stated t id b p 
ted t хе of ti iod e alo of the ро 
aiin de Sedini A restorin ng them in a proportio 
кисе у eorrespouding with that in which 
ey had bun V MAE Their failure, which is n 
now disputed even by their inventor, arose from ве 
тейпейоп of the ingredients of which they were com- 
Hence if by the Aere of tribal guano; vac) 
| S желга more ^ ч addition of nitrogenous substances, 
— racting from the soil эн 
аба return, ма аге exhaus іп ће 
incapable of  absorbin ng tbem. 
alkaline ганне should be washed away by the га! 
before they could be assimilated, Liebig airected that 
the materials should be necs m 
Fearing lest vA br 
у 
ваше proportion "the supply эн ма p which 
mpl conta 
ingi bier бога рө; "d 
And although a single di district or nation may avert 
this catastrophe, by procuri 
a Saar of 
and the-eby w 
g from foreign hell he! | 
сеейз. 
“ ar that some portion of the preceding remarks 
will pat to my pond кч. to have а bue 
tical bearing, for so 
for the 
may have bee 
berating furnace, supposing that in that "йө "they 
would, when spread over the "oli become V applied | 
restore the balance, yet if the general temm 
Lon egeris proceed, as гат а Ъе - case аб! 
to the absorbing вав of the 
р his mistaken prin "e mu p. be t 
e d 
s of the article eee run 
in a solid condition. 
observed, that soils possess the power of absorbing pahi 
ы 
feared that. the мезі will not pci urs emand, 
the 
t eH 
gh 
With reference to this and other allied fabio, I, 
| would stro ongly re ecomm end to шу audience the peru sal, 
sometim tbe base only of the dissolved salt, and 
that in tha latter case the acid of the salt from 
which the -— had with v De 
it in combination with This pow 
of етей « either mwe sholo or * ponit of the 
saline а through the soil 
in а state of solution in water, Liebig ascribes. to th 
by th е surfaces of the earthy matter 
he is of opinion, that whilst 
dom to prevent in great 
measure the nut: rom being ганаа cff 
8 the water whioh perite Y red it does not 
powerful 
Products and Processes exhibited. p^ He rae к 
and the pre 
rülity of which they ar 
ef | the. present b ene 
1 
BEI АД whilst it may not be amiss to suggest 
to the ent generation of fa Umen that evi en at 
"i nt "time ^ "апі with reference to their own 
pese advantage, it might be e expedient to make 
to our land 
which Nature herself qu to have prov. vide d, pom ot 
ү be important, that a view to influence А 
шош; every person Înterosted in the well- Trai of the 
try should be made aware of the fact, that a timeis 
йу to arrive, when the present system of manures, 
пай onal Exhibition, which h: 
e ы inguished chemist Рет Hone 
: In this Heg S. will see the siad сы of Baron 
Liebig, and of agriculturists, 
{ттн by the laborious researches of the latter are 
candidly stated, due credit is paid to the philosophical 
views contained in the new work of Baron qu 
canno ot fail in the lon 
b order that arrangements may be 
BASE in оа 1. К: that period | for utilising Jine 
treasures now allowed to run e, and thus for. 
future wa 
entitled * The Natural d of Hu pers p 
th ng ru ead 
intó: oin with, and thus bet en to their 
нА to the nutrition of the 
plant. 
It is Sab oniy l ру the combined action of the 
are present, an. аы f the 
roofs, —€— the minute enne of phosphat 
And I am much а. fi the censures which the 
prs has passe ed upon n the e system m now so pr revalent i in 
OILCAKE FEEDING. 
couched i ш too vehement pd of decet ive, will not 
be ac 
D — er fertilising" re which а 
e- surfaces of the soil, can "be rdsdind 
ктем аз ч find access to the growing plant. 
— ut where, as in MM manures, the ingredients 
ereall fused into 'а mass, it — impossible for 
еве ‘combined mox es to overcome A attraction 
acquiesced in as in the main correct. 
Whatever opinion may А, as to the power of а 
great commercial and wealthy mation to replace by 
D oer 
I maye been a great deal amused and somewhat 
hed at the igbbob created by шу fe y in 
Cumberland AA ilcake feedin АВ La portione 
town sewage (and it must_ be recollected, йу the 
MEN is not whether the loss can be e тері aced, but 
"n 
at er them available for Ше uses of 
the plant. 
The above considerations may perhaps furnish an 
à to an objection, which I dare say many of you 
to 
e remunerative), no doubt сап be 
еы as t D e value of the material itself, 
hi nts is 
In a fe w citi ies indeed, as is notoriously the case | in 
seldom 
with A se eds the facts. I shall lay be 
but I trust that E D едт from these facts à 
determinati tion, so far apital will pe ermit, to g0 
may make to my position, that 
guano, ү; applied year after year to the same soil, will 
in the end bring about its m 
the sake of which — — of our sewage is in other 
But let " look at іб аз a manuring question, and. we 
need no longer doubt the wis адо of our Norfolk and 
If, it may be said, this arıses from 
and the aesan OP of tie health of the community, i is 
altogether overiooked. 
| адда белдь. ,Are m 
good 
and thus x being usted of any off: fomi the vicinity, m if lost to — usine О ы | acre! Now, there is à great maxim that every 
one of the elements of its fertility. аб least rendered in innocuous: - | should remember, that every. verae produokion pays 
Now entering ion, f the olds. s goot from 
the requisite quantity of pearl-ash, or of a soluble salt | to empty Tie bad afa miron, ойга еду ‘a field of green Rape or тр px ley or à 
of magne be obtained at а price for which the M i of water, уер а г ' of its|ton of cake. The. ere is obvious, The 1 
would be indemnified by the increase occasioned | toroughfares, and in close contigui any of Ив Js tak little from the food, and that little, 
hiscrop, І may remiad yeu, that in order that tee | dwelling houses and v a its colleg: e cT when conver кей. o meat, sells at 74. per 1b., or about 
ingredi should be serviceable, ma must be ap Id t know thata so flag! iren of is- | 657. „per оп, altho its elements are, really not 
а form and in such quantiti g y pon iple than the cake at 107. per 
y ‚ aud to | many of our 1 the sanitary ot ел chem : flesh contains 77 per cent. 
be dee ina state of c lorp à adhe ai шу Ei Тү Hs AL] When I hear а man 
sion so i te, as to тне а certain extent at least, | | appears to be that of the rsen dn rid tot p nuisance Mig of loss by farming, І - him, * How much ; 
the action of the weather. with the least danger to the health of the community. | їз your gross produce per тте?” а dif Í find it small, 
— should add only that quan- | bo this system of dilution has been | I at ouce understand the cause of p 
tity of. potash or ted, w it faeilit рё, of course, adverse Oo of which we have . 
by the crop — e i kopat ш io raise, would be grossly | excrementitious —À the eese of ће town, | lately had three, during. which capital has bien 
caleulations; first, because in the | limits their існага to those. cro |i farmers, Speaking however of the average 0 - 
state in which. Feoi ingredients were administered, a which admit, of irrigation, à the year, and X ктай. gross vu. i 8 
1 rge £ h l3 Bend д g y Etahi, ing. e 2 е s 
into the subsoil by the rai ; cereals. kingdom is stated by Lavergne and other mend 
remained for the plant to take up must be so distri. De Hofmann, ка» his. Report, is ine|to be only 3/. 125. per acre, or renta; 
whole 
ә 
s d Lr e astian in thia 
country, В may stil 
AEE Kaot dice some modd of deodorising and 
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