© 106 
stad i 
he cost of a manure to othe farmer is not its price at 
Ae eetri 
sale; to that m f fis 
“the ce o ine so that | is er o be six times as wane as that fro 
a the ‘relative ye value of | guano a + nee aot will papel a ary hay an ae. Turnips—no unreason 
and 
*"fnore generally be 10/ 5s. and 10s. than 107. and 5s. 
the 
able’ pom ate a urely— ‘ede 
w hinder ath | 
manu 
THE AGRICULTURAL oa eee 
| be reduced in weight to 30 cwt 3 * and wel have onl 
(FEB. 15, 
exists amiong farmers Saree 3 “a a 
rotor large holding s, ieir 
respectively per ton; and in this—its porta bility— astonishment at mé pa that 10 tons of sii re | affording the means ond fective cultivation: 
consists one great practical advantage of fi eI sing | th an 15 cwt. of guan That the nou-valuation of tenants’ improveme ake . 
over the latter. noft ie 
t But let us leave the consideration of mere prices | of oy farm manure with ‘the 5 cwt. “of ee a improve by the cae om we, in 
for that fl the a relative “values `o im to 
these may be ae s analysis of the inor 5 
jä 
on purely apet N 
eompariso 
‘results’ Sor their application, or on pärely ‘dene 
a grounds — 7. ¢., by @ comparison’ ‘of those 
whe parkaa n pre importance should Be 
Guano, om the other a ne Re 
aes ‘of the attention of chemis eg ves 
bad cultivation nue non-improv 
That annual perme short ea 
5, 
iiponetit parts of them, on whi vi 
\ vat their’ fertilising influence depends’ Mr."Davis 
n his letter has i 
of argument, and thus we thin 
‘onieaenie, mystified the result of. his bA S 
them to the question at issue. 
ı Now, considering this pscieohrs 
sand even giving = advocate: 
the ad pposi purek on 
aiie fieldat a ai via aias s Laon y t04 and ôs: rte pe Å 
rton; taking ma values of them, we could, 
looking at f their application, attested 
now by ver what- 
ever'in asserting 3 cwt. of guano to be equal—nay, | qu 
»/supérior—in its effect on the crop to 10 tons Ss fatm- 
d m manure, me it not that amd ris 
bop pi aia round again, te whieh ar ma ig Now, in the comparison of these data, a curiou Lould b odes 
erequired. It is upon the apparent — a “ae —by eoineidence occurs between the two manures. as the ee ne under as rah sadenie 
o- means certainty—that as y will not regards | the quantity of azote—a very ow ard ele- qualify by superior heii a aud ae 
continue beyond the first ye vegetable food obta’ 
prod wines grounds, | 
arm manures all R 
1. Azotised animal matter, including of 
ammonia, together. caneble, of affording, a 8. to, 
10 per r cen taf ammi monia Oy. slow jabs in 
the s 
ki Water - : 
Sapho nite o of li 
4, Phosphate of hikbi oxilate a 
mmonia, phosphate of magnesia, geet odaat. 
bi Siliceous sand ‘ ¿ 4 P e š 
The composition of farmyard manure of average 
ty, according to, Boussingault, is as, follow: 
Carbon. |e Hydrog: | Oxygen. [Azote.| Salts. | Water. 
3 of business, i in whic 
a Advicetoiretela a political and 
over the conscience of the tenant prevails ex 
tensively, is eer ble and demoralising, haying 1 
effect, but creat papra wantofm nli 
ce on one dean the other®a tend ne 
e or oppre: 4 
to 
That ie letting ie tris should be treated as a m 
h th 
transact 
ted 
ot obligations and pot 8 are 
y ofti 
attached, on the or rinci ipie e of that excellent öne 
7-4 09 | 53 | oa 675: 793 
That there shouid. be: one or sina —. establ ishi 
i d Kin 
d-cəll 
retic ey 
ing. 
pri atah on practical grounds, i in rinan of farm- hisni of this element, 19 per cent, of a tural dip itt icine 
vyar ard m whic Dr. Ure has s found i in T at s ze aa fied individacle would thus spread 0} 
tion on whisk to build:so: con fifent a series of diset. gua o -tiet very “nearly 89 be ii 5 ewt, of th atm the country agricultural scho ols and farms, ae 
p90? Le et any | nure; 4 in ordinar 
tions as appea pears in — las t Letter 
then 
farm manu Tk 
i rience of numerous fikmi during re past three or 
or four years, 4 or 5 ewt. of guan a raved as efi- 
as l 
Es fa fare 
tons This curious <SieOHe | in ae compotion 
of equal values of oa and yard manure, as regar rds | 
cient in n produci ng large crops of Turn O'te 
will he not be’struck with the incompatibility Si 
amaton with» the. conclusions” at which Mr. 
Davis arrives? But there is- a great source of in- 
accuracy in-reasoning on this 
ld make Mr. Davis more satisfied than he 
apes to be with their present relative market 
g inuis cticn: 
egetable food, tio 
s, who would imbibe ouid theoretical and pract 
That such instruction would render farming 
uni ute ‘orm, more profitable, aad more gentlemanly oct 
io 
consequen 
Tha ti ce or Led more readily 
attracted ie farming pur 
In the absence of information on the subject, we 
acy 1g 0! 
rience of farmers ; in practice, the result of the ap- 
aero y= manure is not more a ema of its 
ri than it is of he soil. 
ording to “Bou ssingault’s analysis of farm 
e 10 tons of it eleal contain 1500 lbs. of 
what" he terins salts.’ Under the 
reje f ia and animal matter, w 
re’s tion whi Mee. about 
cent. of guano, a Proportio nw ich af s.o 
5 cwt., z 
30 per 
ample amo lhe th 
racter e our Ba e recent “ou 
increased e provision ‘ate | for jade to 
f our increasing populatio 
same eae” pe 
f increase the co 
F be 
valu rtilisers, it is evident that. on a soil 
will prove a better manure than that of arm- 
d: -We do notsay that the facts as regard thes 
ures as h zg 1,1 but our 
é | lime and magn 
hs 
very much less than the ‘herons neatly pa 
times the amount named by Mr: Davis. But aa n 
cue cannot reason from mere Ghiasiey's ;.the 1 
cf ash in guano consist chiefly of the  ipebhittes 0 
esia (Mr. Davis is certainly wrong ia 
2 pl 
asserti ions on this Ant see p. 90), derived the 
the fishy food of the sea-fowl ; 
fin tends ip mislead ete ee instruct. 
1500 Ibs. h in the yard manure, é no 
analysis, but it is tiveaiicfabte to suppose that, 
Seat chain, ar an on each other for support. 
2 
capit tal, and profit a 
Pinin must enhance the value of landed bt 
one and inte lli igence of the lan lord 
ur 
er, and 3 
ree, and soesfamsssdttie we are all links 
Mechi, 
————————— SS 
HOW TO PREVENT MILDEW. E 
a Eaa le of ls p! 
e 25t ou speak 0 
niacal salts, owing to the by 
pr oximity of the metropolis, sae it also appears i t 
that the remedy 1s very F 
About the end of October you published a Tet 1 
mine on the Growth of Wheat, on the same land, a 
I refe 
in all probabi lity be servi 
y 
ve 
y ficial, and I trus t that some one vill be indu 
to ot f cee = re 
of s f the facts connected eriment 
snide me to point out what I thine will re ia i 
ced to 
` erefore, enter upon a theoretical con- derived as it is from "Boe An p should consist in 
sideration ar hesu — Mr.D. so la KES, proportion of pho 
gather so from 
a the p w guano “receives ás ia f these fertilisers, our 
manure, le ple to anes shies sates wil, we think, oe that their 
mysterious fertilising reset independent of the market A ie > 
simple properties: of i arts—an in- | T° while we 
fluence not possessed by the sais manure‘of- the will agree w Fs 5 Davis in ie condewnation of | 0 
‘armyard. He has seen no attempt to disprove his | * the careless of ae in oan mén it, col- 
former assertions (see page 58), “that does not brin heetion, and tes eserval of nites * the 
guano forward as if it were more: than’ dung, a will also surely see thé absurdity of ‘his f fear” that 
me different from every other excrement.” Now, | these dressings of guano concentrated 
in th Kepu isr hommia nea nanu animal manures will either “ entail farther impoverishment 
e! 
excreme 
f the land, ” or, if gone about armeed! result i 
refer 5 ai of manure ote 
e fed y to 10 poy 
wW, 
next, [of 
as 
THOUGHTS oN AGRICU RICULTU RE. 
| was ‘ne ured 
In the first year of my esment (1842), I min 
a porin of the field with guano, ee anotheel 
-i oda aki Whea! vere very 
nitra ; the strii 
what I the bl 
nd brown, and on pene i 
it per as if the cahier ee ezi bee 
fro me cause or other; the was poor i 
and the The 
| 
dom: arises from two causes—want. of ream and 
PR iy store Hears fed on ac ng but stra 
Turnip-tops? And, qualitatively, there is nadig 
more extrtainary i in iw assertion, me rather in the 
‘ dsl Say a eae may be raise from 5 cwt. of 
aher, I by mixing silicate 0 al si 
Er 
and sup of m 
the | $ 
| anr at to.farm the land prope a 
„That capital will not flow into agricultural channels 
En 
nother ; an oi fur 
ment, I cov wack a part 
salts, were oia 
P gr 
A That it is unprofitable, more frequently. from want of 
aw arf cro, 
ra 
Dei o prae 
e food, fro m which: fic is ‘pice: 
That were the „necessary capital paint: there i is 
‘sea-fow ls} farmyard manure is whe 
wilh s 
Fit 
oa near 23 tons o there 
f lal n 1844, I mixed the suip . 
agricultural information to apply such i l silicate of salt 
profitably: 7 aber tion t | and I 
Thatto,emplay, the pretenh ca t x bui 
apital of agri ‘culture 
di 
the greatest advantage, the bbe 
at F Whe j 
boshela” to the aar, the straw was shorter than in M n 
he. one is ay ary aud 
Bed fro the 
Bie of, ip 
mer—will 
ly ž ie f the 
tivation doubled: 1 [The The i was 60 lbs.; OF8 
Our aches. are, on Gate. eee bo y Bot gavit, t p Sof n magnesia %0 ib Per li is fi 0 
E Aak ork on “Rural Economy" we shail iosa ingaeit,t o : o not know shee om use ie 
attention of our readers in detail. . He litte ted his-cattle shithe | 22 Middlesex, nor d kno er the price 
brate of oniy 4 to-6 lus. of straw cach per die 
th 
such as to enable the nAi to use 
