422 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE {June 21, 
10 plants, with a less development, care also weak—and | qapinin; and this € in | this neighbourhoo d. In every case _ 
‘that in the '34 plants, where there isn or neck,,| affords aran of h instructio) y Two of the genlemey 9 
are but four weak plants, and Il these | a. subsisting between nays e veg Aaa i n eee = = tried six ach ‘l 
34 plants nm much superior to those with this: stem, | the aioe of the soil, and of the seed itself. ws way tite “yoo to 120 acres each this pi ; 
is obviously essentia I, that seeds when placed in 
They. did not apply it inithe liquid state, which I con. ‘ 
the ‘al should, in order to their of heat properly 
eat 
from raapth sf covering, or an mera sowing ; ; that 
plant, I 
the vegetative stimuli „and mois- 
ih i 
but byi drill-as'a neinpet with ashes or riddled soi aa 
ture, vo! brought in con nitat tw 
> 
aoe recommended muriatic acid al of & 
cause! has not yet been 
-capriciousness of | ita conan its 
with Mr. Sproule, that 
augment 
‘explained, although 1 aain k 
ing does end 
Siin iy es l 
ers ‘have |m 
Ne ote 
in the ease of ‘small ss les ‘se soil is 
The ‘experiment ntal i investigations o ilos 
g neta matani gat 
passin 
passes from sae: ito particle of th eir mass ayends either 
that th 
on thaliey soils, ‘and it will’be'tried ex. 
Hr wo are having provided 130 carboysrof — 
uriatic acid for the: ose. 7 
The objection of your correspondent “ Dis easily 
met. Allowing the virtue of the dissolved bones to` a 
ose .b 
undue cover sto a t this dispo 
tion to throw out It a here be 
worthy sa inquiry ‘in what way @ deep covering is 
igppose osed,; s Mr. Sproule says, “to the processes < of 
tuent particles: are in 
+e 
clos ontact conduct he 
est, and I presume we may justly apply this rea- 
ing to the soil, and assert that the finer Ta closer | 
can arrive, at no ps dws end to niia i inquiry. We’ 
ose 
t being r “the Une ook ed pr ovisions 
| will remain longer uidigestedl in tie ton than those 
epeat ed swith 
that hav ve been. ¢ ooked. Are we, therefore, to eschew 
ef ‘the i solar ‘rays. 
grows from its root, and that the root d . pl r 
mule ge 
t 
E S 
The'soil may ER be r pilne asa capillary instru- | 
ment. through which’ water, like ‘heat, pereo olates from 
en 
may, however, be safely presumed, wherever i 
a saan an of al a is raised, on A E 
gro ound, there will ‘be «manure ‘sufficient 
could exist no tien but as, on ay contrary, pi 
an nd that the refore the root 
‘will receive more ‘moisture, as well as imore ‘warmth, | 
mo 
cælteris paribus, when! their entire external surface i is in | 
for 
the pein even: should every part 
the’ bones Yo! exhau ted. a 
drawn up by me res oe am 
} 
Hannam’ s paper in the ournst ot cs 
per mediums of Ra eat “by, an undue covering 
+h 
M. 
} 
Rl Agri Society. 
fn exclude these, and thus p 
5 
of. moule À, } 
J 
of the leaf, hat.of the Pgs We t W: 
finda seed will not ve; getate in vacuum, at least not per- | secure a regular The. agen The following is a% mitts paper alluded to 
fectly, we sage 4 fancy that air is nec oe for employ ed by natu $ er the be oman of the soil high price now demanded for ‘bones renders 
the sig A sng is the leaf only that Oira it; have this season, by their: severe eee ae otracted a 
and a the leaf also requires light, a writer in the ured a fine'tilth for tig cae d ‘it becomes him | economising the expenditure of that tried and ‘ala 
s Ch t and to pr 
my 0 j 
Caistor, Lincon hie 
me 
RA 
(Gan 
eszi ‘apply light to the root as well as air. One of the 
Herve the aperit of 
his eat instructress. This ‘he ‘may do bythe 
manure, of asa utmost consequence to t the farm Th 
f bones with 
e-proper | mixing:o sulphuric acid 'h 
a dyabove answer this are e to a degree far exceeding the e 
draining and s subsoil breaking, is the admission of cur- | all, pectations of all who have made the trial. 
rents of air to the roots ; while gi the fact is that ae ae pe neh vue mpl to’ the subduing sugge ft e of apil ion opaa s ina 
the admission TE “afforded. to acts solely in influence of the winter frosts. Liebig’s work Or mistry, im its appli 
assis ting chemical changes in ap soil Hor r the service of, Lof what appears to me | to Agriculture and Piysisiagy? which ‘was ahir: 
the leaf. Whil eannot arrive to be the second he vig 40; and writer of it e rompen, when in' 8e 
at truth ; > fusion d mély, the “absence of drenching | Jand, in Ce saw the oe aha 
Jeductions f false ory Ba of diving rains ‘during the ee af last Er rvest. es must have | ments, made in accorda ith 
into Nature’s bosom. The leaf, then, ofa plant, its been frequently observed ‘by pr: cticdl m at both |Turnips, all of which were successful 
seminal leaf, light most vigorously | hea i of Turnips could be rai 
it sends out, water and darkness (till the root is formed | after a go harvest, and if this hasibeen t xi ably ređuced expense. “Since that 
ur observation ‘this : season ao prominently than tently ollon pac up, chiefly in 
Jit,for moisture is.at all-times nec essary t o „the leaf). | usual, it appears to me to hav been occasioned by: the arts 6 
‘Hence the ¢ coveringboul be as lightas a Sa Saakas | good harvest of last year J success. sed ii, ia sfr 
isecuring a sufficie oisture.;.and the nature of, the pee wi inter, and Fowl at “comminution of the ree plet if 
soil, the time isting state all cases Pee e eal a 
tate, m 
ed, when we would; igive a.due covenia |à 
aiy . 
r 
tates ver 40 is 
a fine 
we rene 
with three or hea i ue of ww. 
1 mixed w. 
iall be is Bar as most icp iit explained ps supposing sats th aa 
to se nt to be occasioned by the see eed Reser ing apart 
A 1 J; elements df 
leaves, i iey Shet p cut.across, Sia Bi ia upper |in the shock, or swathe, may b supposed ta paðlei 
pcr Ries time a erowd of young || ôf depriving’ ‘it, ‘its’ ‘saccharine matter its ‘ost pable: ci po for 
00 pa: 
| arid sprinkled ov over the git naroro the plough, is s 
pn. A gre eater quantity € of el i 
Fmt i a very 
will be mah pushing. down their sg eae all 
round the Turnip, from between the and the | tive power weakened. g p vi 
body of it. tion hast tent 
The firstsformed f ik ly b ig T ore EEEE ENE my “notice. se Tes Beon 
come 
aiy a krak a a sig q 
w of ‘application 
of p 
plumule eelt i is ad being, 
a ane we cannot expect.a, robust progeny. The | 
autumn-sown Wheat sends out 
very jase pay it is pray ia unnecessary Poet 
far as to sprout the 
f the} enable sugar e form 
year, it will then be found more moist at the. surface pented frcshing oe evaporation to whi ch grain cro; 
expos sed i in, unce iir ial harv rvests, ma; sg SORE | 
1 by th 1 thed iving it of its suga: ae to 
a 4 
pica bo the. under aa 
t of vigour Hrabich dis- 
vege- - 
eed to | dri 
ed, and if not, then the CEK ; 
s'to pig ided preference a 
swe a cmp pom cable by the wot mm 
d have answered in 
— its 
els of ground bones, 4 the 
4, 
aun? in to the ground to seek path life- ragga 
te owers recollects that every leaf sends , 
if the above inference i is atrue one, it is yet difficult, | 
mk tng cer care in) 
P 
4 
of itt d » though pera- |en 
D 
tions. l 
e secon in series mG? roots 
practice too Beavalent of aens grain-crops in swa drer | 
;” th 
i vain till their parent leaves. are in existence. in: whi ch the Sy pre smpe, h more liable to moi sian 
In the top-dressing of W and shocked ; and s 
port ons Beha in mess ngs of Clovers, &c., the, appli- | 1 farther show the farmer thata ankn 
f specific , donot call for ithe extent of niire crop in wet weather may subjec 
‘Chemica ‘and geological at attainments | that their applica- 
dound 
SS €X- | 
him ‘to 
-to supply deficiencies in it, but solely, to furnish the | 
plania with their constituent We know .that| 
chemical affinity only acts at aa distances ; ‘2! 
m h: gear pala a. soil ae 
applied ct on the superficial, patil of of. the 
soil in ary they come cin immed iate ; the | 
rp ae 
reas he panin pr oses, and may Te- 
disadvantage )in 
vars in ‘the -sample pee 
eal Tia Surrey. 
BONES AND D SULPHURIC ACID. 
Tue assumption of y WE. wW. n 
fimin your paper 
vate 
uality ch a a sirk 
capaneitt ill pad of it 
pour it and 25 gallon 
wanted for use 
course e et T three & 
the fiel aol pon the 
gallons: p Ria 
with 21 eu o 
will be the pt regij red 
ere. Any larger po ation ofi thon 
a larger fraction of a 
£ e: 
compost oy by 
~ 
ommon drill. M: 
heap lar ‘to that “which ‘is eae ‘by: pricklaye 
of't 
MWil 
or finely riddled light i 
„Mr 
of Mihmond, on! siny docolwed in y sulphnric | 
iigh action:; and from the elements of which the sspe- 
only be absorbed 
acres. Make a eye in the centre; in “a 
shee. a dl grou 
d; ‘the port lod 
on “the level, while à in the portion mmanured with dis- 
er. Gino. 
rae the. more finely “ground | the - oe 
y the eaves; eyr ‘cots, is too | 
se the x 
“one vip absurdity. An mins fg then, of ‘the ‘plants | Honet pY the 
specifi 
cs, will alone be agat witha 
account of the "whi ch the 
experiments were ania diate byt the ibose parties, | 
s before, into which ae ur soie 
ntity e conina 
Keep co 
the c 
alpi pe “Aho average goan 
know-'| and i is, I I believe, contrary to the fact ; the „practice of | carboy,) and 9) “gallo or a wat 
ra hg wt by t operation of the atmosphere part of the country while drilling th yee + ae 6f.the seen i peer ies y hee c. 
and -its contents, with light, heat, and ermet &c. | seldom yous: in ‘the language of the vedio in |ashes, and:tu nithe whol 
J. W. M. Gosdif, Granard, June 2, 1845 that part sof /t country, 't the word = drill” is synony- pate e mixture. ‘Let 
— mous with “ sagas | ce which it may’b' 
THE SPRING-SOWN CROPS- -OF 1845. Although T wasin -the ueston were in P at the time ‘until required for ruse. Before Tein 
i one and vi — ——— prenatal th I I turned and ri 
i ‘matter of gene had dd th ill take up much o atthe aiden mayas 
d not an i i ra an eing any of the crops | bined. ity of lime yey 
aed ais inquiry. The vigorous growth ae lent alluded to. I had, however, opportutities of =E wil ‘he mal ascertained by the mixture 
“oor ai is, in dat os opinion, asori cribable of e on the applica tion of Time. 7 
e fineness of t cisely the same way, in whi ne for eV 
z E a cnt . S iki nthe ‘held: . The salt whi hich, resul 
ee i congenial nature of = nt harvest \used,.and in every i pro ar after ts olved | istia ion i muriatic ‘acid and Ko y 
ree fro tractors and absorhe e 
moran of drenching vains, I shall 
“detail the reasons -on -which I .ground ‘this. 
nstance the 
‘bones was manifestly, greater than that after at a 
or even four times the quant ity: of undissoly edb 
| per powerful at 
„pothe: phe oxo vale’ Socios i 
asia anion of sulphuric 
