I 
The Agricultural Gazette, 
SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1845. 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING wee m 
Wapxzsnay, July dargi ot ya aral Society of Eng! 
Tavaspay, eel as Agricultural Ep Soc. frjeonen A 
Week ending Aug. 7— Yorkshire Agricultural Society at Beverley. 
CLUBS. 
GEE 
i Aug. 
July 29—Bromsgrove il—Norton 
Waart nil dence of the hcl pt T MEET- 
NAL AGRICULT 
Jx a 
? 
AL aari nt if 
evil to Mir I allude is the enormous and 
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5 
rehasing | enborough, confines his remarks. He complains, | present 
“WHEAT.—Any one desirous of pur plains, | p esent arran, yegan where farmers are eit 
ee season is invited to i inspect the two. varieties | a and we think with justice, of the absence of any it endeavour after thk ai re mes 
sA TON’S -i f 
of WHITE aa tes of which are now grow- | attempt “to define with precision the properties | ment inp truth, or are e paenan in numbers, up- 
SHIRREFE eS TvIE PARM WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE, | which, in the opinion of the Soc ety, constitute | war 0, for the pola se of listening to 
@LOUCESTERSHIR : hs his tne g the animals exhibited. He points sietely oitipliemtiy seneg wisi 
ca sly, the only season of the year when | oyt the š ii 
The, tanya nt oe Vent oe died can be atocrtained. by Pe i “nd on ig tae of ere ent Let us not be s suppo sed to p e the great 
the vaias 0 the examination of a mere sample of the grain, | method of classifying and identifying them e | social page N arising from these ee but 
ich can be in! pected at say time, is romth of the variety t insists upon the gt at evil, so often referred y | these, we are sure would be equally ‘secure, and 
Mie belongs, These points, ‘wide are of the hig est i epore co rrespondent, * ‘ Farco ae ke exhi iting breed- | united it , under 
whic ce to the Farmer, can bea soertained oniy bya ing of “e ous and overgrown | an arra ngement, fo or the discussion of agricultural 
of the plant when in full ear fatness.” We extract the r paese remarks on this topics, similar ‘<A that raaa by the His d 
in nt :— oc d- and which we ear 
lan 
sįly bo e will 6 = 
lowed by the "Agren Society of Engla mis 
their next meetin At present, let any 
overgrown fatne: of the breeding animals ; ; and here, 
t -Jg 
no to d dwell upon their 
v 
ance, particularly in the male and olde r animals, one 
inci 
fairly be laid, that it is 
natural or real proportions. 
pract sp 
But EN gypsies " still mo: 
al cons ence exists, upon as 
whieh re 
possible to find out, aah such a load of flesh, their : 
judgment, o one yar Booer 
full 
the meetin peer tig et: t of 
ic 
e great Agricul- 
i ‘ahem er them less pr vite We may assume ne 
e but superior eS will be brought forwar 
the n we promote by such means the unfuitflnes 
of a district, we affect the very best kind of stock wi 
the country can produce. We apa = a of the 
olden e eggs s— Profe essing a desire e the breed, | 
in the majority 
~, 
PRACTICE 3 VERSUS TI HEORY, 
THE ee as os oe a late Number of 
are W 
, 2dly, 
ch occasions, not oy 
of the choicest animals, we ce or ir 
injure “their 
powers of reproduction. It does not appear very we 
Res 
th rawn t suc 
Betws vor Tesu alts of ability = bees e vario 
departments of agriculture, but also rding 
this abuse. 
tions upon feeding seldom have any weight, and a are 
eo the 
are the actual results of these meetings— 
to w! e their objects attained ? How- 
ever arabic a ki answer to this question must 
be deemed | by all those connected with our y national 
Leh] 
te Nu 
the Gaz pocal prle by taose 
who arae in the application of scientific knew- 
pices to toner agricul He has certai 
out a good ease with 
ing to preve: ent experiments made with a f ascer- 
taining the value of different Taa of foo eri 
There seems no better mode en co mbati ting the mischief | e 
s 
entirely fr 
ye ts paneo instruction 
a prem: m to oy animal, which 5 in their opi nion is 
The onde tion of 39 necessity of rt ammonia and 
st eng matter in in the 
‘the various means w hich, during their continuance, 
brought int lay. 
Let us take the =o the late Shrew: sbury | ip 
h 
of the kingdom 
candidate ged as n inte- 
too fat for ‘yt purpose <n the con sequent in —_ of ni 
we fear that it is impossible to give one founded on perti ie or oie the natura plants fed upon so pre 
facts; the progress of agricultural improvement | the fat laid upon them Liebi in his work upon on A icultural Chemists The 
g pi gr y. 
maybe carefully wa d, and its rapidity noted, mon = sugge: estions w rhich Mr. Hincxs offer 
a many causes cont to urge it on, that,| with the view of makin rae fon use of aris se | carbon from sa ammonia and carbonic acid of the at- 
eliminat Apa aron them the influence of periodical eahihikons of 1 live stock, are the fol- i. ere was propound: ae the same authority in a 
but one, would heres task. All that we equent publication entitled “Chemical Letters to 
have on stima; oa pe -fen instructions far more particular and precise e |5 Friend” > Itis quite clear that in one of these views 
- wef err be given — — ods the judges and | Liebig must be in error, for if tl 
‘perso mos ephere i is the only source of nitrogen to plants, its 
w pretty clearly s 
vhat 
corm is quite ra in stating that such i in- 
and Mr. 
consistency is calculated to e re faith nt tan 
meeting rof the English . vote cultural Society. Some I f c 
Tha ne ame and edigree of every ani si, with the — pect rist in the application o0 
undreds of the mos t enorprising -s ea farmers That a residene ie gre bre rs i r, be in- | Science to his art. The pe 4 however, me whieh 
di to be publicly s ol That p of 
Meee ac ch a cm +4} 1 
Pi 
>k $ 
the Judges deliver their opinions we Pt 
thers intereste et: 
tant 
and o the 
ire and the saca meeki 
implemen 
farmers 
of Shro opshir A public 
Panibition of nts and live stock has been 
book ruled in 
where, in their opinion, praise was due. 
Meeting of members of the Society have dined 
‘Together, and manga to reat chiefly compli- 
: = (in some points, however, of real utili ty), 
A large | PU" 
eth sation property Seitek for the 
niay be a agreed | 3S 
year, T. d 
upon this anak and samai “that ce 
hould be instituted to act ta "o the roots of 
T did take up carbon ia from the soil 
as well as the leaves from the 
a sphere. If one plani 
danother th 
ted, f 
lis they 
siy the numb are: my tor whieh 
quantity, of ae God, and a i are grown un- 
| contains an account of the exhi biti tion. , Nom 
der precise > pri 
Z n of ren , some of al 
Kime. whom were also practical 
which 
ssembly at 
correction of obvious clerical or eke = 
A. 
former, it is quie evident that su 
de rived throu ugh roots, sage not by the esol from 
E en in try- 
by the Judges, or under their direction, which h having |£ 
e of scientific and practical men be 
n the Transactions of the Society. That the attention 
invite ed, for the pur- 
arming on which they m 
ciples applicable to bpn e or „to any department of = 
fa ay bea x 
absence, as they 
unity for 
o | tonien, amongst those whom t they gather together. 
If the Pavilion dinner were put an end to, 
1000/. spent - erecting elie gto for it 
would be availa lable fo r more profitable P pu asi 
or 
at present s stand, of any oppor- 
o 
rst | two 
z SiN ral point of view, coul 
ú Shrewsbury? The s 
this 
arrangements ‘are capable ofi improvement, is in t the is 
agricultural 
duce in the 
1s may a oii syed the 4 viene petem 
w. The very elaborate and able expe Sree how- 
„of Mr. Lawes, Seema in your D gst males 
14, afford us data h the questio 
de: i 
ps; wine 
sulphate of — (a com 
xperiment 19, 
tion o f 30 Ibs. of s 
marks +: other speakers, w rhat Saneti in 
à : 
3 produe 3 and 3 
any 
from his ele nee last week, in the otemt fer 
ocial advantages of su 
ings are, doubtles ss, great; but 
d + 
place, 
chm 
bas ih sagt they 
at amo! 
>| ee among the objects of an agricu eats “society. 
Ho ow m much bette er w would ple to have meetin ngs o of 
perposphate of lime ‘aad 1m 
organi 
poun 
tons of farmyard dung (experiment No. 1). 
Tn order to eee the bearing of these experi- 
x 
n the 
a lecturer should p 
and 
ben Turnips are not the crop upon which the wales of - 
~ | sion of the subjects 
s all 
ed, because they do 
ai vided at the expense mes the Society, ed manure can be decided, : 
which the attendance should be requ contain more than | l te per cent. of albumen. 
scientific and practi , interested in that sub- | And yet 30 Ibs. «ae SS rage ae she 
ject. A prospectus of arrangements for the ee by 8 cwt. 2 qrs. per ae he 
3 = ounted for? To understand this it 
would then wi T n search Oto bered that sulphate of ia contains the following 
on any interesting point, at once to the sid of cotatitnents i aipa i nitrogen, and hydrogen 
those foronr of en him gel The in weigh oui ot have been u 
pu rage as the ey ar by a me because 952 Ibs. 
| annual assemblies = Socitty, = shay could not have been formed out of 30, the water and 
EF, be such as to ani o a more fo a ining neither or nitrogen could not 
to them. "Bat u er | have been m -increased by the sulphate of = 
EE ‘ut the inorease was evidently in the album 
Would Ve a 
T for u they 
