ms THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. (Fen. 
= The sation e is the recital of a plain fact— 
rience of the agriculturist, and sath 
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cord ; Foe’ it makes no allusion to causes. Further eyi- | 
‘dence of ‘the certain effects of bones treated with 
port lencing the extrication of poe ae ic acid. Now d top 
Ta me Teena that 100 par ts of, bones pusak "10th on London. dung that they despise all other | manu 
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The method of a applying the bones 
only 825 lbs., or 11 tons, 9 ewt., 
ere of auh e Ft Éy i 
in No. 
detailed by Mr. a to the committee :—‘ vOut 
lst June, 1842, the e third part of an acre was URE SF 
ial SA pear 
obtain knowle of the mportant> fact, that, b 
il ¢ vitriol, we convert ail the car- 
bonate of lime; which they contain into gy psum ; and 
ur | of the Manion ood h 
ave been | aisha à The farn 
which contain merely, or principally, the inorganic eg 
stituents of plants. 
Hp _ We are e convinced, however, that ganak as mostat 
sulphuric acid, may be obtained from the Reps i g Si — „10 lbs. lbs. 
of w 10th f limn and 4 es 10ths of 
of the same volume. F thi pp he | carbonic a Wer € no salpligiie acid employed 
p ive) y aee That 200 y f | th is demaica to Hbatraliso the lime, the 
turnips, treated with b d id, at ff expulsion of all the carbonic acid in 
xpense of 17s. 6d. per acre, yielded 976 lbs., or 13 form of g j and th ndary, though 1+} 
0 cwt., 21 Ibs. per aes whilst, 2d. The same ex eee the stbstitation of an equivalent of sul- 
f plant manured w h bo ones singly, at the expense aa PENA rič acid, and the consequent formation'of about 
y 
i| arising from the decomposition of anim 
mu 
hoe pas ae chalk, lime, bones, and London cla 
u| Ia this 
D a veget 
substances, great. benefit would aa derived from th 
mite dedotions of theory to to be i inia 
ce ei of de up 
and g 
the drift in ler qual ig baci ts is PER knoe 
Pi heuce, that e 
much the Pl soils of that dut piares beets en - incre 
ayi 
off, and next pe fi med deep, and | part of its pte a will be assisted by, acidulated i thi 
made 22 inches wide. On day a bush hel of | b pone: dust, provides the soil in which it grows is poor | wold yarns or transported inik rabble, wie pure 
bones was s ted nate from a Be heap of mixed drill and | in this ma || to be burned for lime; and the clay, this sam } 
just; the Sones were then weighed and found to bef 3. But bas Ra we perceive, contain nearly 3 per | rubble, sp apa site's a paisa proportion. of E 
45 lbs. ; they were then placed in a large box ; 223 lbs. | cent. of phosphate of Hine, or rather of. ENA loam, Itis metimes called ye ellow clay, to Pr isk 
of sulphuric acid, being one-h si eS = ht of th it from the bl 
bone-d x re then weighed o wes meg to the 46 or 47 y 4 of dp bOe acid. In our hie the | clay and.¢ contains a mixture of fragmentary chalk,.¢ 
bone-dust, and immediately afterwards 674 Ibs. hole of tt fli d of the subphospt y constituting the bulk of the mass, but. cal 
The wh the acid, added in th f 
4 haare, by which time the mixture, had obtained the 
l'by 
rents stated ; ; and thus we obtained'a dil 
mpl etely dissolved, with fe few exceptions. Atthis 
time 
obi added 2200 Ibs. of water, or 100 times the weight 
‘of the beh iaka acid; the whole mixture then appeared 
‘like w: oe was carried to the fields; the expense 
Hbendity. 
sed, 
bushel of sifted: bones at 3s. 6d. : oo 3 jô 
‘baa Ibs, of mulphirie acid at 13d, per lb... 2, 4 
17s. 6d. per acre, 
510. 
Sia ependently, then, of other and more recent test 
*monials; we have, in the pila. oe ae vent 
eases; distinctly’ stated, as eviden s of „the utility of 
| combined with the lime, ps 
Tapie require phosphoric. ac 
me cellent t manure for Dion 
arises. Be 
because the sulphur ropa zed | upon an 
h, by superior ity 
agu 
it had expelled: the ai a > and her 
e m0: 
at tis at die Fey of the drift—except Te c 
tortions of the strata, or denudation w “the sppe 
have broug ht it near the su it 
id, bones 50. 
The „question now 
y, w ocodpies a higher plao 
drift. In ‘those parts, tia 
prAna time and pedis alone 
d 
any important part in thè manuring process ? But this 
e can decide, 
y the experiments thus detailed, it will ‘be evident 
ude bones contain the vegetable. elements—o: mol So 
carbon—but i 
in a con 
d 
only u pon 
sands and gravels, but upon ante “it as toata À 
those of Herton and Harmondsworth, in Middles 
Even i in the Fleg Hundreds, where th 
a pri ractical chemi ist, brought up 
infin a as it were, in the laboratory of my fath 
from 
ones, they develope ammoni 
y 
selves little inclined to decomposition ;—t 
a, but hoses alt of 
sige In the north 
lime, which, ae bs mith sulphur ic acid, yield 
er, t 
F 
medicine was indebted for the first ote ke 
a > OF ate perfecting of most of t 
Beant ‘* chemicals, 
l otl minnti æ of littl 
ny - process might be made 
ie i 
the éliffs, on ee he the:sea is mal in 
rc vipa d cvoreachunte That raised at Trimm min, 
k a very loose ‘and careless manner, Th 
by a few simple “lanti how bones, odie a 
hth must act upon plants which they bring to 
fecti 
às e. 
pon at 
2 
at the 
the cliff, andi is carried thire or four miles inland. 
that when I assuri 
Ie. tea teacht ing the causes of their usefulness, 
tacking! economy in thei tig! that on paahi of | 
ues causes of the KETSA properties of manure 
fol -and 3 
an extensive farmer in the interior, having, shania 
Pys iE T Aae a : 
the ashés'o i Above 
elements, determine ‘the manures which the culture’ of | the Geineht Nericdiadiad ‘establish 
ires ; esumi ; 
eel e 
jpe eriod Lhave se ry to the abies be “landlord the 
n years have elapsed si 
e cs 
tion. 
th 7 
al Eey in, a6 panig aat in several places, and 
f , have cut down nearly t 
yellow w. clay, upon his own ind nine roy val 
o. that there see a ‘prate bil 
finding at at a reasonable distance from thé surface, 
ime mi 
ns, and’ requi 
the elements of bones to bring them zA aiI A 
i di 
Consi: 
E Of decomposable Si og leren ee SLO 
s Phosphate pate ot lime > + 137.7 
Pie of lime (chal 5 i 10 
„Phosphate of Fr ap eens ape eg 
EII : 200.0 
x bones, according to Fourcroy and pee || 
ist— 
endeavouring 
ral seminaries are ‘indiape nsable, 
to show that agricul- 
And now, in 
in such a situation would be 
forte dondon clay does not occur in No 
the chalk the drift, vie in Suffolk; 
publcston, I urge the inestimable value of such esta- 
wg the eee: already enumerated, it has lo ng been e 
sed, and with great pdvenlacai “and. 
and pia by faithful lectures. 
Thi 
inoa Riar Tt has been a 
ma 
ewhether the BETETEN ne a are peaks: 5 or 
otherwise. Be it may, they tend to solar ane 
$ i 
bbi Ma 
‘Onerati th 
ee are in 
(ened ith the ee of the experiments a question. 
first object of the manufacturing ee: in titer | | 
Fed e the bones completely, is to distil off the 
doubt 
*to aaa mpos bo 
yolatile an from iron vessels, similar to thore se ed 
in the gas works. Thëy are heated to redness 
wit th 
are sufficiently ct 
tributes, with the shelly beds of the crag, which 
Narfolk A ne ia 
iaa on taal ta 4 Sash 
Lata ; = pi process of etiam cal f 
organic substances, and of ma shall be exhibited 
Wi thout these esta blis se agriculture must remain 
pur 
a 
them, provide d they | ¢ 
d 
y 
Bremaig upon the 
arm 
ie im- 
rising gen ion of 
influence, t to increase. the confusion in which eho te er 
a a 
| bl ha mass of L 
muc 
Taaki mix ae with Imps of chalk. The L n cl 
| gpauribated largely to furnish its argillaceous portion 
| appears by its bo dilera ‘fossils, imbedded in the 
we may t ther refor re conclu de thata mixture of © 
of the 
ers, who will Hs a enabled to m ys characte er 
control o 
of pan tish agriculture orena. t the 
s, Berks. 
etition =J. Tow 
, on the'sánds, grave 
aaie of ion ‘drift i in Middlesex, i same effects sW 
i 
GEO- AGRICULTURE OF 
MIDD 
LESEX. 
I LATELY ratt out the a ot tie geological 
ein 
don cla ay itself is, on pe ills found 
T results 5 are a quantity of i ‘impure liquid robe of am 
te e 
I an again, that in Norfolk a dressing of lime, 
tent of 3 cha b ro 
o work more idly tha 
rtshorn), , and | ment, sho owing the cranky which a thick or thin chalk marl from which it is made, 1 
pith it much black fetid añimal oil’ Th pr Jeposi of the ane has aati on Aii srticdare and |that the best application of chalk, clay, and 
-Show that the “ fifty-on — arts = d à | resources of i s northern and south r- | has been found, in Norfolk and Suffolk, to be 
matter” comprise t the Sram tions. attention? tö'th ung 
elemen gen, 
carbon, and ao ts first nd this, ae is por- | 
form 1 wat the ond a 
and | 
rovement of its surface, 
ich 
nd pass into receiving ei attached to the i iron 
Om 
stills or retorts. 
sso resources which this tr: 
1m 
marlings, which were formerly in vogue, 
quire, in order to make = work, a h 
h th 
i È: icall ilable, by f the farmer mill not os hi 
“49 per cent. remain; and s s the li | pot, after the ‘Hertfordshi d On the sands; gravels, a d loa th Dy. 
es to flow off, they are mithdran while ull red | method. By mea “eh of the Thames. l 
i. by opening gs front plates of the rëtorts, when | G ion amt Paddington Canals, chalk, eit fie er | ine for a nen af years, Pe is every encourag 
“they immediately inflame by cack Gena Me ee of = | from wot pinata =e or Berkshire, is within n ment to, try dressings of London clay alone; h 
~ pen air, with which they come in con - distance of e very par Me district. Bhi pa lk of a l clay and chalk, compost; London cl 
cess of combustion carries t es bates sed with '5 jon on ‘cha 
th condition of carbonic acid; Yeas ii ing dern incl The chalk s easily procurable’ by water carriage, 
altered in form, but deprived of all Mair. vâlatlie co con- Hea th ; rendering subsequent piar as of animal and | the clay is nel at a greater depth from the surface’ 
i kr tents. Su ch Was our first p rocess, since modified, vegetable manure more effective and permanent on this |15 to 20 hy r 
p land, which was pr anoun] a great devourer of dung, the | Such a e thè geological ‘resourcés which the 
a n iati. ar thiNALHE” ony sawo r aian of sable ary x% only seen on one erop- London sina for the improvement of its lighters 
S: r bed to state the diff i 
a ak. welehe Sind Aa stronk w si $ = vot i chal rom these dit in the Th he co onsideratio ced the best’ means of improvi 
ficient to cover the 
and 
H surface afte: 
tion ; and then ebaced edie 
m BA 
S hea | 
but the far 
a diferas which lies gi pees 
“dr ry; the former belonging to the jera habit 
sed, in prac’ 
He STARE “fat” and 
reserved for a future occasion 
Trimmer: 
st accessible to those 
MRUGA a H earth, combined with- calca 
- | matter, it eian » Most opportunely, that 
atthe | of cha sk i PP Y: eacli variety 
Hi or 
me Corr spoadenk 
atedly Kir iam Havel i? ky atean ia ate X lester Lol ail unt y “Allama Siem. «late i 
an den Ye orabable” aio pach i Onan he l Gazette ne ju aiy the labou Bi ani io i nes 
< sõils to which it is 
equa ty a a matter e fact that the owner of thes 
letting allotments suitable to the e means of the labor 
Tham and as Bath road, the dr 
Darid by the canals beforé me 
` The’ success attending the use 
ry, to the wari soils 
ntionedy 
of chalk on ‘the new 
his’ 
or pecuniary Toss ti to hi miself. S Experience show 
spade husbandry is more efficient than of 
plough—that a greater proportionate kier of man 
