1236 ; THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. С0всвмвкд 26, 1363. 
E prove themselves worthy to bold the land, which has | upon the soil so as to set free the supplies Belo nutriment | these forms—and the latter as phosphate of lim 
hem from their Tp The tion l| existing in it, but whicb, without its use, would be | sionally associated with a small А чор А of ШУТ 
farm of ma acqui 
dene ESS o: pee eg эмер lt Sn unavailable, then it may be said that armyan i dung i is gnesia. Every substance which 
y, and the mode in which it is designed to carry e only ре erfect manure. 16 is the only r otl 
them i into e «йге which, if a a soil entirely devoid of all m of these elements, often both; and no substance which 
Mr. — follo: М AL a full ai MM elements of fertility, v would enable it to main soda, or ma, 
рас Рл hich | crop, and under s rcumstances it would obviously nesia, has come into general use; and though caser 
our readers will also find in n his ES мге be valuable жес iy Б а aJ of plant food, while its | occur in nd sometim 
Water," (Si impkin, Marshall, & Co) We pe one | decomposing action on a soil containing none of the with very great pi they : are | во rare as to bo 
elements of fertility would be useless. c - т Tanas fact p 
There are supposed is one that could never occur in pract tice and most soils capable оѓ е emn » crop, eo 
of steam e s AA UT inasmuch as no soils exist which do sf. contain these substances in тачан «оба e to make p» 
mind, which is caused by the employment of steam, is very | least some of the elements requi ired by the nm and supply from other sou minor impo 
fenha ma Anir уоп may suppose. The s tavi hence the decomposing action is alvi ays cU tance; and though no vin fermer vil overlook i" 
he i fewer horses to is und анас choud bb Bat there is ‚А still more important inference to ү” but will gladly add them to his when he has 
altogether he can get through tbe work with Ae if the soil contains Е ж opportunity, he will m А, MM and pond 
greater ease and greater facility. Without steam it is impus- ‚ of some substance pns acid to them, In making this statement, I am expres 
M iet qun em havo porn ры; - E rre ni ees ,it is oe ds whether it be presen ы ing no theoretical opinion; I am stating а fact derive 
е n two w em ht to | manure or not. And so, likewise, if the v be richi in | from tho experience of коа farmers, who invariab 
eradicate, and сеси root is always ready to push wps all the elements of piani food except one, a manure | select as artificial man substances containin 
` > another ars Leon es substance, and that Mr e, would | nitrogen and phosphoric di. 
ie wi wa uud wa Stan AA гом ju wel if it wg шу. individual| When ul as manures, they are obtained either 
DA үрү my -— culiivetiunueh а en љой T the plant. condition | mixed or separate. When mixed, they are of of рео 
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VP E ЮЖ ШИ which refere a eorr to a | importance. to merely 
were 40 idie from wet and cce | certain пайа, emm i е. РИ 
алмаса from TOM remove from the soil AE 
i «зем requires fenis consideration, and oec eram s їп much 
during these 40 ут mee -~R ion than others; sae hence it - 
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ЖЕ Мы; c fee xU Pi | abound i in the soil. Under such circumstances, 
interest of the money, which amounts, we will say, to 21 4«. | ob vious that a е е only, or Сыа, | origin, d embrace ы various kinds of guano and ` 
for the 40 days. But what have you as the loss арш! — е been removed in excessive | bones. It is unnecessary to enter upon the compositi 
I will take a very moderate number, say 24; I ta e| quantity m Sctualy тейде the fertility of а soil. | of these substances further than to remark that we 
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eeping ke - = davs, рэч | tbe value of manure, for | plant MEUS we might attain this object by adding | in which ammonia Prepiterent ates, to Bolivian, i 
which w make a liberal allowance, amounts to по | them in precisely the requisite ge vr That woul == aboun if 
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are 060 & exclusiv wely 0 of sva 
fact, if it were possible to ascertain exactly what the | know guanos of various kinds passing from Рег ; 
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loss by the steam eultivator came to ls. Id. per day, bat with | none of us so foolish as to s (has | it is possible to | dung ofc carnivorous birds, and their "present pel 5 
the borses i day. Y. i ll 
t eame to 1/. 15а. а day. You cannot make any- | attain моа ог to imitate exactly the X. ree Sive depends, as is well known, on the circumstances attend- 
thing different of it. Itisa tat e cannot be denied ; thero- | of nature by which our g t we can Jug their deposition, a dry and rainless climate presery- 
fore it is а very important matt d keep these matters before us as puo and|ing them in their original condition, or in a AE 
—— rere În nquiring, then, as to those substances | altered state, while in a moist locality the 
which are vt - А) soil, it is im rtant t 
ARTIFICIAL МАХСВЕЗ. Un UM ey. is | e iugo роі These manures, howéfef, 
(The following address was delivered by Dr. Anderson before mes, -R lost, but restored import Son Joni ame of the large 
р ро” 
and Agricultural of Kelso. ] to the s irte form o dus ek Жее yip Piscis of thei yy hioh- А T 
Few things are more astonishing than tbe rapid ri the p wa SM is ане off the farm | bu use o their organie sek r, which is o а pecus 
@ еп оина a aaa enegie in yt Nos, И ю. happens that liarly decomposable kind, and he воо су ВІ toa 
зок елда Talag беду expended in their the seed of all por contains a large quantity of 
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realise it is phosphoric acid and nitrogen. During the early part ==. its useful constituents ien i pie уг the 
mr hee of i-r these substances circulate nep characteristics of farm p ure. Itis 
геп а do: ago it was с | the mo hr all of the b cerra factory to ind тош repris ran ecently published 
tetive acd energetic farmers; whilenow Tm pe | they carried to the snd|that the supply of Peruvian and ioga guano is 
у — asserted, that there scarcelv ecamulated there, while the quantity in all the other | much larger than we were led to suppose, and that 
ot use th 9 оѓ 
oris utility. The ts dE г”; IT eny s | The difference is well illustrated by linseed and Пах of their being exhausted. | ‚Ав regards the Lo 
to be found t d pae: te qa ilable informa 
t у моб v imi Y le part Bd e t. of nitrogen, and the former 3.5 per cent., or The [er is [n guano, which i 18 imported i in 
tural practice ; and the farmer may point to w what bas | m ore than 30 times as much. Th q There 
kouzh to a „less striking extent, in the grain of the isa very : lom 2n P 
of his alleged indisposition to h d lor monia, which merits more 
adopt what is new. І propose tA eset te om. | nosci со ten times as much nitrogen as the straw.|a ttention from farmers ба it has received. Тһе 
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sidering in a practical point of view the nature of theso | These considerations | show distin netly that when. the great objection, to these guanos is their want of м: r 
the yd hich we kind 
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the mode in which they pies factured. a M that which i is poor in it returned to the soil, there such as Bird Island, Kooria Mooria, &с. The sources 
cussing these matters, however, we cannot altogether and supply of these inferior guanos are of less impor: | 
avoid reference to principles, Lus dud ње la: the p tain- | tance, for their import has greatly diminished, and wil — 
down some fundamental positions which may afford ing tl ii ion b di ivo quatit, [ODE besote аа miens | 
data for the discussion of certain matters 16 will be | &nd in th d which it | tbeir quality. As it ів, I believe it consists with 
necessary afterwards to consider, I would in the first ПЗУ peret: in a ауана experience of all merchants that guanos of thie дад 
place point ont that the action of a manure isof а | the soil. What has been said regarding nitroge Spies tion v - late years entailed a loss of not v— а 
twofold character. It supplies food to the plants | print phosphorie acid, and iar — M. а on the importer. acm certain — 
growing in the soil to which it is applied, and it a b. When dung was the only manure снуе, зро е the kind are annually im — "- 
upon the soil itself, hoso cbemical the dec ege was M by the — these | got rid of in those distri h 7 : 
changes which are constantly going on within it, and | t ibstances it ained; от if it was used in — advanced, and where the анто value of М егеп 
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in particular cases proceed with extreme slow- vi ia, which is an гез ber s I 
Sa a these is well known and universally re- өч M 
cognised as t function of а manure, — é 
while the other is far too little „кае, and has has | become useful, and 1h а ааа 
Le e 0 ; iting farmyard manure, other 
manufacture of F alum, &&— 
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it with t iyi itsel 
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understood that there is a vi 
