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the 5th of February. ‘‘ Office of Committee of | ing for r miles in every direction, and exceedin 
ing ¢ Pury Connell for a hiteal, Tth Feb., 1845.— ee to;the sense of smelling, as the weather i ingly offe Ap 
Lords of the ‘Committee of Privy | hea ‘In the physical er the thing s whit ch ı 
r= | ease, | Instances of accidental application of salt for 
other Fane eae. nee my =e ng the dise sease, when “et = 
rade Da ve w under their consi eration offen id the senses = fre iha 
$ Cone for T letter of the 7th instant, requesting, as | ne cessary for the u eee yaa S7 the ‘alain f t tai rre amy half half his field vith 
Pres f the k» yal Agricultural Society, that mes oil; oe farmer well Gace tl 3 compos Piomar aer 
ident o0 8 at the more offensive | enough to put on the pare half, u usin ams" other 
n to prevent t the importation e manu hich he P A 
measures may 2 will he # ne puts into the ground, the larger | manure, the half with sea-weed from disease, 
cattle infected aren RAAE ing ue eriy a crops. The mud, which | while the other r half ha d it badly. "(Signed J. E. Tes- 
among cattle on the Corongiu, ana ram atrected t inlets and estuaries, and tide CHEMACHER.’ e rier- returned to Mr. Colman 
acaua`n$ you, that the subject on which your Grace has [ri rivers p sea- -coast, is a p vast deposi native manure, | their best rat for the favour of this communication. 
gddressed ny Lords, is eee the consideration of Her ll th Irattan Rye-GRass.—Mr. Rodwell, of Alderton 
Majesty’s Govcrnment; and that my Lords will com- | of fertility, ready prepared by a “chemist of  Natare, Hall, near Wroouseean Suffolk, presented to the se 
municate to the Royal Agricultura ace, anyi informa- in the e form best ‘adapted eae the ae man: the gro chad of oe “ brown,’ or dark, 
wbich may reach them eply t i the but mere human labou er main the gift coloured Ttelian Rye-grass, alon 
which have been sent to Her "Majes s en ers at | available to the cultivator of the land- labourers, s ,| 10 lbs. of the seed, for distribution among : such of the 
several Foreign Courts.—I have the “i Aali o be, my and carts will do the rest. OF all ou outhe ern c es | members present as felt an interest in the cultivation of 
Lord Duke, your Grace’s obedient Servant “(Signed) variety of the neues in question. Mr. Rodwell 
Joun LEF EVRE, To His Grace, the Duke of Richm ond, of this rich tidal deposit. The Southampton Water sae called the attention of the Council to the statement he 
covers an area of nearly 20 square miles” ana running | had a in the Society’s Journal (Vol. v. 
TEXAN aussi —Mr. J. H. GRIEVE favoured the os in the direction of its narrowest part, nearly | page 284), of the superiority of the dark over the light- 
Council with the. following communicution A z 43y ivides this fine pa so Sop into two. Its flat = ores and coloured variety of Italian n Rye-grass. He had found, 
ETE not o y the 
pe t of the proceedings o of a Son cil, at its last | of the dry mud into the tntactor. Wit! thina few mae ‘of arer noar and pro: oductive oo of the Italian n Rye- 
the wh 
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thought it ise not ibe uninteresting A you to know, | numerous creeks and inlets, communicating with the | with which he had been able to: snips it; but that, as 
that t Texas I frequ Fi met with Abst harbours of Portsmouth and Emsworth, each of|a preparation for Wheat or any other’ successive crop, 
he- I i 
pagal ng t which terminates in an extensive back-water, well fur- | its properties were not liable to the objections that had 
icone Grass eid before the C il nished with jetties and landing-places, to which the | been so unjustly made against it. Hitherto, Mr. Rod- 
The Grass to which I allude seemed t to | fi sends his produce from the interior, and from | well observed, no other kind of Italian Rye-grass, had 
low swampy spots, and where the soil pie evidently i im- which he receives "in return Ha annual supplie s. The]been considered genuine, but that which in its growth 
pregnated with salt. Texas contains = variet of Sussex has an s to sea-coast of | was pale-coloured, upright in its stem, and the produce 
Grasses, as well as other plants, that are, I believe, seventy miles, divided Aag four parts by the rivers | of seeds with long awns, or tails: he was, however, far- 
almost unknown to the world at large ; aid; amongst Arun, Addur, one and Cuckmere, whioh run through | nished with indisputable proofs that such characteristics 
- others, highest in the estimation es four ain eys ee pepstehe an chain of the So a nen — descriptive of the best kind of Italian Rye- 
‘of the natives, and which, from my own experience, I | down del, Sh —a He had found, that the most productive and 
have observed to be most palatable to the different ani- | and Seaford. T} ies, ab most nutritive plant was that which had a fibrous root, 
e same time evincing the most ishi it of roducing a k diniic ioari; spreading stem, the result of 
ich the Mexic icans have named Mus- and run en a Dome. tract of alluvial land, porns reed which had a short awn, or tail. He had arrived at 
There are gre to b at conviction, from very close attention t poe cg’ wth 
Baas Giu, of which o h Marshall, in his work on the southern counties, | an nd application of the Fee in question, phe three 
and silky ro onl a ii, p. 218), estimated the extent of the low and | years, and against his strong predilections, fostered as 
ore vigorous, “te a the same time of a | rich tract of land on the sea-coast of Sussex, between | they had been by of the light- 
coarse growth. The conformation ie ed seed of the | Emsworth and Brighton, at not less than 100 square | coloured and lo g-awne d variety, ich had pe ae l 
first description offers an almost in untable ob- | miles. If we add, on one side, the much wider allu- böe dopadat = ony: sani rene and conse- 
stacle to its ever becoming a cultivated p pints ain form | vial district extending from Emsworth to the town | quently the only marketable commodity in every 
that of a cylinder, nd 72 © of | of Christchurch, in Hampshire, and, in the opposite | seed-market in England. Having observed in the growth 
an inchin diameter, firmly adher: y | direction, the low ] an aranes Brighton and Seaford, | of his crop, reported in the Journal for 1841 (Vol. ii. 
the same thickness, and of an ih in length, which ad Iculate tl aat another 100 square miles. | page 214), some plants that were, as he supposed, not 
‘ _— at the a with „three collateral awns or Hence it appears, that i in this long Sens H ae coast, | genuine, that is, not of the pale colour or producing seed 
i ation 
e d and Seaford, vast area | with long awns, he determired upon a fresh on i 
y to e the diffi culty th of 200 sq flo ow and well-soiled ‘land, which, of seed direct ‘from Italy, and From. this 
angling ee re so Tight a ene The the two varieties, va 
coarse Grass bears an n Oat-shape d seed, contain- facility. of perpenre may be enriched and perma- of which he had since cultivated with great care and 
was zan oorloe from areik pareri 
p furnished with | a entry awn, of a thick and iosi a manure, _ rhe be? “of low, fat fends, mn can be rison he had wade, n only of the different kinds of 
ooded by lds, but of both kinds in the same 
i nien grows ` with a thic Swar rd, and rises to th the most certain and valuable, In fields, that the best Grass, namely, that which is the 
ight of about 2 feet, I abe some German emi- | carrying out iis bates: ryt a Front cale, the county of | most productive and the most € 5 
fants cutting it for hay, which was of an excellent | York has long since set an example ‘tot the whole king-| the plant which spreads upon a ground, is dark- : 
lity. So far as my sarap sag! = Te a ja Wes those do om. Fo or many miles of ‘a course from York to Hull, | coloured, and the produce of seed with shor¢ awn or tail : 
es are confined to a range y in West iver Ouse on e side presents a continued line of ja conclusion ‘confirm y testing the two varieties, 
on the seat by the Gus ada ee i b d findi that th 
nded 
as this may be er siete foe the fact that at this dis- sheik y st rong resto s set in masonry. Through | coloured plants from the seed of the most- araoa Gras 
, it may beinferred sea thes se these, the rising tide ‘lows over the fla t lan d; 
Tasses abound in many us s of the interior of t He had nage that, mhether 
ountry. In the extensive coal where lees: Grasses | at low-tide. The sea-coast oe the southern counties, in- meee as a pv been) or perennia 1 Gr e dark- 
; oe found, they almost exclude all other growth ; umerous creeks and tide-ways, presen nts prates was much Peon pe to the space ve 
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; the nutritive qualities of the op otra | on peas all scale to flood the pastures near the town. | succeedin The p soraa DTA were wee gg 
4t may also be observed, that even the go were fatter B ] the sludge to Mr. Ro dwell by his farm-bailiff. He selected 1 
d offered a richer venison than those in f this g roots of each variety in each of two at 
Texas. It will give me Ha uch ae sent if | of rs abe ing the od A ire Ouse. The lat * ferent — and obtained by weight the following 
tks should give the Council cat genta and | prietor of Malling Deanery, Lewes, by means of a cut | pari 
i any time = nepPy x afford you any further | and sluice in the river bank, was enabled to admit the 
that may be my ES "Y Signe ed) tide-water into a reservoir wi within his s gro ounds. The m mud | en a piaite bt ba paid Grik tulli and aint t| Tos, oz. ibs. 
. aeposited by tne retiring water beaten out of roots) 1 
in aa n made of Mr. Grieve by the | sloping sides in order to dry. It was afterwards ch ores Ten plants of the brown Grass, (do.) ~ reo 
er the reading of this commun ication, he | small with spades, and care! mixed with farm-yard 
TA of Texas He eal in winter | dung. The dry mud cut stiff like marl, and required at 
i 50° of Fahrenheit, and in summer from least a year before it had become thoroughly rotted in the 
5°; that the soils of tha at Country ee which the | compost : it was then put upon the land. The oars f (Mr. Scotchimer) sa : Ae ry pale 
rred to, where found most dae were ing ia a aatem of his crops:—l. Wheat 5 to 6 Goon is qe by Ee ee SPE pE e seed 
good gms = soil termed “ mulatto,” or | quarters the acre; 2, Ba river’ to 7 pe arpi me acre, | of the brown Grass has but a very short tail, and i 3 ‘much 
e Grasses preferred low grounds followed op a heavy green cro f 
The 
ist field. 2d field. 
oz. 
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0 
Pale Grass (roots Pes off sap saig oer 010 eae | 
Brown Grass a 0.) 014 Pez 
e ley —— number OF ean tloads “of rsks per Grass, but I am brought by experience to beco come an 
level of the. SoU = that a st ong w ind blew during acre, not stated. Every farmer Te is within 5 or 6 | advocate for the ee which everything tells me is 
which © seaso = } y or creek, would do well to fetch the quen ge sage che I — e that 1 peck ¢ of the brown 
ch he had allu carts ; he eed ed: in its use a powerfu 
p The Cha Bk gs retu rned to Mr. Grieve the best | aa to his rrkarseh de nd a permanent benefit to his soil. | 3 ake ‘of tk the nie Gales mets sS in point of quality 
hich of the Council, for the ganpennicetions with (Si igned) F. D. Warkins.”’—The_ Council ordered | the cattle will soon de cide Pa t, for oe d what kind of 
eg bad f voured them, a is kindness in Watkins for thi ery carefully s 
a ng the meeting of that Soy personally, for the cominunioat x the brown from ve ‘rae, whether green or in hay: 
voles affording any further information to the __ Por TATO Disease. — Mr. _ COLMAN, Agrionifursl if in hay, the p: soare Bi they will 
| SEa-mup c avoured | select the brown yar it; ga if fed on the layer green, 
Artillery, oo F. D. Watkins, late of the Bom- oe Council with the following communication he had the pee is pyan the Jast that is s "amat 
aving communicated a p the | just received from the “United States :—“ Boston, Feb. 1, | what I thin re tance— 
ty, on the subject of wan aper to mpor 
Roath: A © Subject of sea-mud as a fertiliser, at the | 1845. I believe I wrote to you that I had been making | the brown is xas Sa rentak tat for Whe 
cee Pton Meeting, the consideration of ae i various vapana an i a Po tato disease, chiefiy under | of its not growing | in such large, Tough, “hollow b bunches, 
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ned, it TM read to the Council at the present that - was a Fu ingus, noie smut on corn; and also faae of the land (vhat we call) a tough pre ; while the 
nis addox Street, July 25, 184 44.—South- | that me, co ommo salt, and various other salts Sry arse- | brown, on the coi 
mrounded iat itat El orman tees equan i f Ro 
“T is has 
unit i in one large sheet or | had agit is has | ever seen: and I q 
n immense alan M. "a e, A agis produc p aois evidence confirming my conclusi y: that sow what Erari 
shbouring tow: of the | such as, pan in fields where Potatoes were plani nted be- | cannot get some r 
At ue tide, 1 the eye is delighted | tn twee of Indian corn (a common practice here), | with it. There is sufficient evidence in our layers them- 
Ai of the unding s herever tl to confirm what I have said on the two poi 
» the eye of the e spectator beholds di ; but in contiguous places, with the same | namely, of the cattle eating them where we have 
of dark, filthy mud, extend- | seed Potato, pee there was no smut, there was no dis- | likewise of the beautiful which the 
