19. ine] SA 
proof, 
and sandy ides as the analysis wee 
jin aca 
~of containing as t does, above 20 per cent. o “lie andine 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
321 
g been employ 
race ia cae te class. way 
the sea, fresh water ' rivers and by lacustrine he na 
In 
claas Te replaces another successively, by which mode of 
r a the waters over the earth depositio 
wr OW se and ammoniacal salts, 20. él pecs ay though deaths bat we a tle 
ii. Common os ules renee 0 of oft the various o operation ns is obtained by f th 
li tash, a 9.34 Among the subjects thus brought ee R e different arrangements, mixtures, 
Phosphates of lime and magnesia, 22.67 aes the Principles of chemistry, both o organic ery in- and combicationn, m the de lepth of several hu undred feet, 
ime, 2 nic, so 
ar S lable S oes matter, consisting of mer, The fo: ormation, nature, physical properties, owe or of the means ; employed by nature in the 
dah a large stones, 9.52 and best _ methods of improving the different so 
T SEEE matter 12.89 Draini S d at t} f mountains, from the decomposition 
A ny upon which their efficacy Fs ‘The nature, Soaik E roc f th l and consolida- 
p brie 100.00 tution, and ; or even of the operation by which animal and 
ne peace bi vegetable, and mineral. ‘The best and most esamol vegetable exuvite are c erted in ae il. But these 
Hi The Professor stated it to be his object in mentioning | methods of c seem sufficient. 
Uitte these oot to put the free and the fa rmers of this post heaps, The different rotations of cropping, | to plac fact eae dispute, that ithe globe has un- 
Ai) country on their guard against such impositions, various kinds of soil. conn feeding | dergone n many « extensive chan nges ; and it is not a little: 
to let them kos that there was a source where hey of cattle and its advantages. The err t present | curious, th > 
“could apply P aone their frauds ; and he further | prevailing in Irish husbandry, with a view to thelr | and are not found in contiguous strata, and that the re- 
“stated, he ways removal. The structure of plants, and ‘the mode in | mai ains of trees and re rage found iy i n some: 
which their nourish is obtained. similar situation Soils aie found to contain 
se Spa hn ni ~ oil must be left by te production, th th rocks on which they 
woode. 
perfect stone pi ad within "the ek 
cone, and which could not be distinguished from wood, 
enltivating the diferente 
A | div 
The best methods of 
Th, 
f grain 
rest ; Sand rocks Gaiaa p possess Savana s, of whieh 
c 
rops, 
ta pried A these, which may be considered a 
upper soil, and which, 
being destructible, would be found Jin some degree or 
quantity, jacent forma- 
pane Fs the more Bariri empe y we now havo 
tions, "These cireumstances would a appe n4 to indicate,, 
t by the touch and weight 
56 
hol 
t other agents tha an detrition have been at work im 
k K exhatly represented PA the deposit. — Abridged j fi 
the Ayrshire A: griontturist 
Mebieos. 
Ur. Donaldson’s Raunt ctory Rre aia bi 
s Her 
r all ¢ 
e lal Aa ak, there 
Pare in many places schools on the celtsupparting P 
more mre eha e in the caer 
of rrivela 
qa aes we 
gricultural Colleges e expressly 
devoted to Daia instruction in the theory and 
practice of farmin ng. 
at the end of this lecture, to 
lene hich are to follow it, we have r= 
bes abt b but oy _ Donaldson ’s course of lectures 
in will be of great ~~ those attending it 
e occupation 
lluded to that which is being esta- who afterwards Kiia th 
blished at Cirencester, “While the plans of its agers | farm 
are gradually but surely pr sing towards successful 
development, a “ training school” has per up in full- Miscellaneo ous. 
— activity at Hoddes rbd: sie ai besides itl eeding of A nimals Monnens 6 vol. ti. p. 396).— 
Bere aites ot of 
acqui 
‘of the Jte Mrs, Gilbert, in which the 
‘dexterity in ASSAT 
ees with good 
pade-husbandry, = the ‘same tine tha at, 
ing ‘ol are also ome ot 
‘We hav ve before us the lecture of Mr. Donaldson, 
they are also ee to read and w: 
pechools of Scotla; nd the rudime nts T sell che 
fo ; yai vi hich they co 
is far fi m g feo f asat y 
tity of animal matter. A very ean part of the azo 
i pan from rm a which 
Al 
16th of January, at the opening of this School, and 
from it as will iliustease the 
and i many of the 
‘addition oe the ordinary | n 
ed, 
It is 
re of the course on at he has a ntered, 
for s to trans sfer 
he Shep ¢, 
ily of too too general a nature 
holly 
occur in pia ants, and whit ch are of no gards nu- 
triment. ‘This source of error is, Hotot i in pnd 
scarcely. appreciable ; ; but there are leaves and roo 
whi ena 
me 
of education are beg adopted. Thus, in a 
Kir SAPAA county Antrim, pari pub- 
to do, should it Tei deemed advisable, ue Donaldson 
ears since agricultural instruction 
ome Larne poent Schoòl, and the 
a 
e| to 
of the? general advan- 
fail 
ges of education 
ag In whatever Tight w e view education, it cannot 
appear the most “important subject that can engage 
the attention of mankind ; when we contrast the 
apy 
School without Ea in abt de ree with 
regalo aco a io aniy eg 
branches A 
» the rudeness, and the helplessness of the 
savage, with apran the mae an À the 
ised man, the difference betw 
re- 
nten 
literary instru 
-which has Aged thus establis he d b 
on—tha 
means of our insti- | 
es of ci 
, that the ey can hard m 
a 
the same § species. Yet compare the infant 
instructi common schoole about to be ex- 
n ively earned out i in Sco tla and. 
d philosopher, and ae 
will find them in all respects the weer ea same high 
ofa few 
p n both, and in 
he organs of Aeara atid eir mental 
to thei 
All the dilea hich i is 
in aaa | 
of the at 
h in nitrates. It is to this cireumetance 
that Ti pin ‘he anomaly a pa by the leav 
angold Wurzel, In estimating thea: telco miie self 
proportion of kaimai i 
h s 
mate, as beyond all doubt th 
por 
e relative sma of different 
| p of roasts mp hex on pea ih which 
The 
‘ota 
Mistry Association of Scotl and 5. the 
sided over by the Lord a 
tended by a higa conco 
_Scientifi 
n= mt 
g 
© 
in Gigon, in August last, Aak, etier lta Che. 
ing was 
ntly gnasi 
ti 
Whi eh the mind dof the savage, left enti ely neg- 
i ected, by Baers raise him’ above the Teral of or 
d him— insensible to a the wonders 
airneo 
en not appear to anes cnet to z sation ; ; it is 
eee almost unaltered in the e: These prin- 
rat mes admitted, it is near: perceive that 
and 
e lvl 
eir a VI 
reation, a 
the m more fortunate member of pe a _ Society, 
it is hap sa matter of ‘indifference that, with a 
e to impart to very you oy 
trueton, whieh will be of u 
a wh ier cable to impart te wi 
will comprehend within the ample Tange of his intelli- 
d; all the beauties of nature 
machinery, a nd riton interfering 
the 
3 and ak om is highly desirable that s soi Note tut 
ild be tal taken r the purpos e of introducing such 
ion int 
will lie eee asters hi, nature will unlock to ye 
her s, and re Ei -her secret laws 
powers of oe creatures will become nen 0 to his 
control, and the faculties sey attainm men will 
por rtion of Biror h, sugar, a oody fibre, should co-. 
ist. starch and hme on aztied substances 
coner evidently i in the at godin ne a) n, whilst Sang 
oody fibre is simply. i rely a 
ce action, and either aiaa toc to divide the somnalk 
of the stomach, or serving usa sort o f ba Hy ayan and 
cially in the rural districts of rin i lino 
e w of 
meang so likely to effect a enge in the habits 
P| 
Such is the recon ihc of educatio intellec 
consequently to be ‘bhypiness 
f + ray of the ipsa all farmers of In reland especially, and 
of 
man. But it, is not by his treer dese 1 
f his ent. It 
ve thos 
1 
Potat oes, ntain 
| alm pat the same proportions of azote, viz viz., 1.3 and 1.5 
per cent., ae is to say, about 8} per t. of animak 
prianie. dry Potatoes the remain inti ‘Oh parts are- 
rmed ioe entirely of spate) an y, on the con- 
fael. 
endencies of his nature. The 
makean aa the civ iied being, Spates cing ap- 
of w 
the residuum. exe facts wail e explain wily, not 
standi ing the same proportion of f anima’ al "Pn Eira 
pear, are fo rmed originally after t the same t is 
Sobik 
suppositio: ion that t 
ti r 
in i he ve vay a. follov ved,” il hi ton trition, To give hg to one table foal a —— 
i pa’, ble precision, we must determine, for each kin 
lecturer then ‘gives a sketch of the ies of | al {possi p , > 
an entary insteuction at these one is | agriculture and of agricultural literature, and con- | food, the quantity of orpine eral ge a 
cludes with a definition of gan R Seer of the | undigested.. I do not, Te a np e Id have 
ees in the week is set apart | theories which have been broach unt for the | presen nt. By the help of these new data, we shou 
on icultural subjects. This | fe ti f soil, f th 
ven by way of lecture, the 1 at the tig sty he Pie andaa hich yl pare its nutritious powers, viz., the proportion 
Cy are questioned on alter-| “The whole‘art of agriculture has been very correctly | ##0tised monay feet of enya oa ‘digestible. 
ect previously disenssed, and concisely’ defined in veg Latin words, Arare pj oem raga ilo 4 th a a. 
pe oe ae at home, as | Svercorare, or, in English, to plough and manure tik wal T Ly of th “i n pe i 
e i 
tance of the mattor b ought under thei to do» | sufficiently correct definition, agers Pee piena do- enable us to appreciate thie different non-azotised sub- 
ortun oe rocesses ces Syne enter into the PPR Fa an, o 
' iy tac thot nk pilots tak it aed | a yi D end performed. x it us, though not with rigorcus 
Ti teal war, n spelling and composi- | of soils, from the detrition of rocks by pet ken ry ex- precio, s that ‘these — ei pg d si of 
wledge, 1 airaa is not the only | ternal agencies, that the disintegrated materials have the. an rinciple. iv gue I gales tsi 
dh acquaintance with the practi carried by. Parris ha AE inconvenience in the n which eee iedee 
ia ope m is also attended to. F i + ut the nna 80 as migh sup- 
this object, the Teds are LARS ar ry E Inting, are ars = cad te ran cae qa the mae posed, becausethe nutritive powers of the peotined matter, 
t0 them th ni by e teacher, | countries, inscriptions are perfect, and the angular edges | Whiehitisof the highest Pim arch abo i 
Performed. Thay which the different 230i. Tho rman at nitered; af lapse | ère greater than those of starch, of 
are then at | of 20 centuries, i * Tp nigel fe pemembered that the auth ; 
may be in i niesent state of the globe, are pan E apas, Pa GE oi ia taoista, 0 SOOT in speaking of 
