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eea to Let. Found ei 0 pr ag at all—such soils have been phorus, or ppears 
HIRE tances, to contain t all ti er d wy 3 under pree cy the ki B the th 
X in too sm S propor on, | one kind of crop will usua! fea m the soil more 
0 BE ET ON LEASE, with entry à AE haelmas, |6 pr cto have some of. cag present in too xcess. | of one kind of in 3 inorganic ah so im er crop more of 
as. eae estore bees about 53 of which are Ara- | Th chemica , and consequently me another ki a 
" ble, the remainder Grass-land of superior quality, well supplied We wis ere W to continue our ex- 
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` tion eiliad of removing these diff ot 
© with Water. The Farm has been for some years in the occupa! ra ing ese differences spri ings up o tracts ot litore me the want of it 
| af the Proprietor, who has a T a Epa itself almost without an effort of thought. Make the obligos u us to defer them ‘ill pie bes opportunity. 
atio is e more : 
two good m 
a 5 ; ds good 4 em Add what ting in the 
| towns ; lime and coal cheap, and of easy access ; roads go tis wan gi j 
T andrates very low. There is a comfortable Farm-house, with less pri arn a me it into the same e physical con- of “In nt im A 
Eir Acres of good Orchard. For further particulars, or ey and you pet cx ake it equal to the more produc- 1. As different parts of the same plant require different 
f h 
; ly to Mr. Jonn Morton, Whitfield Farm, near | tive. T: ake aw ay w is in excess in the one, and ou ; 
ip treah, apply $o Gicuceatarsiiire. An adjoining Farm of | will h E pS oporo s these i inorganic <p ubstances, they must, at 
about 55 Acres, of which 40 are Arable, may be had with the only by this e phe s fo g oe these substances 
in eren By 
above. “ But fu. ies me pat change in character ' by continued | thing at one re tee “aan ro of ‘shicthee” ap g 
EED WHEAT.—RED STRAW WHITE WHEAT | cropping. The most n ot ly They pice: ay flourish, pir He on a given soil, at one 
D HOPETOUN WHITE WHEAT FOR SALE, at w DEEA nd producti They sink slowly down th ra sind 0 h 3 
WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE, GLOU- | into the class of at cir growth, and not at another. That soil 
bushel, These varieties may are n they ar Ka. a which. yield abundant at, eropp only whieh clothes ee with luxuriant verdure, may yet 
a clay, sand, or limestone soil, according KAP Pogu larly and abun ndantly ma ed. What n its fruit—that which causes the 
Wher change of seed is desired, this point will Did d the soil a ee some straw 
perhaps be considered important. Orders sh a — e accompa- . m constituents? Did the manure constantly r renee 5 
ied by a reference or remittance. —Joux Mor m? If so, which of its constituents had me soil los 
process? What h RE 
The Agricultural Gazette, |: 
ie “off? Where had they, ~~ to? Coula. they be be 
turn 
T h h hi | flowers and herbage i surface of all 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1845. i pe: ‘answer t ese questions the reviewer turns his | our fields. The ren — inyolved in these 
ear, °2. il the 
same Rett in coma proportions, pen will grow 
with unlike vigour in “ymin soils. Hence that which 
bears a profitable crop of one kind, is often unable to’ 
ure | yield also the varied 
ae: tha me 2 om, t form did the 
estor 
piant. beepers is susceptible of man interesting applica- 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEBES. al vegetable ‘substances consist of a combustible | tions — explains man y practical yr a ego 
auaspax, Sept, 24—Agricultural Imp. Soc. of Irelan an This incombustible part— thou h little understood—and i is ric: or 
:Wamrssoas, Sept: 20{ “ciitaral imp Soa of Freland et Balinese | the ash they leave behind when they are burned fa 
I a eases FARMERS’ opine. tomas forms, in a only eon acie their It enables us to distinguish between epee 
Weh 1 in di g the attention burned something josie than two pounds of ash, the 
t ears same creas y f often leaves less than half a a 
Numbe THE Sores ‘Berit Review * on while straw and hay are ee light on the rotation of crops. It explains apparent 
eins in ied BELAR $ ees poke h Resign sigs hundred. Thus the proportion of ag : A . 
1 : : GI z . ash var Be frowns halts: per cent. to 10 per cent of the | anomalies in our experience regarding the action = 
18 vioquent popular exposition of the tof ‘the dried nd manures. These “abe reo m canno: 
veigh 1e ar 
ti of Agriculture in that stage ofits development | «ip lysis of. We end as w by stro 
t ch, during the past few years, it has been | never sis and is, vr ni wih pred in some | recommending 1 the reader to oir this essay 
brought by the labours of me ree in Great Britain, | i necessary to the growing cro him: 
Fr ce, Germany, and Hollan But whe: ere on derive "this inorganic matter The “above is an instance of the satisfactory 
i Stateme nts of this kind, _unenc mbere db Vy scien th l aJ” contain t is taken up by the roots from explanation which farm management sometimes 
if Eana, but gi nevertheless, as this soil.” receives from the researches of scientific men. 
es rate and intelligible account of those K A papaa as sons a leave m pozel a rine than | These, in our opinion, are then most usefal when 
|o and in some p same plant i s 
in farm rming w whi ch s science has sug- | A toii wh leaves, ragga ex- x- | ned a nuply toe explain and enforce the 
p 1 our best ted dis- 
ich, under her gui es gia e, the | [wood oF fhe came oa oto ch of straw © ain five tricts over that which is still generally prevalent. 
i icult 
alue 
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rable that farmers s Ko ave such a | plant whi = contains exhaus l| and therefore it is th e cause of agricultural 
intance with the theory of their art as | the me the, ve Be reason Bon vary for , we think, in general better served 
hug ‘distinguish the well-founded | had bee Pps P AERE by practical men. an by ‘holding up for general imitation and emulation 
men from the vision nary, exhausted the soil, because they actually took up and | the proceedings and the experience of our best 
ay i pork conjectures of th yO į | Pra ractical men than by too frequent a reference to 
Il il the chemist l 
is has been well illustra g robbed i it — aio aie of shone sa branes | the sayi gs and doings of the c x94 Tard Por 
Pucca And hat is the nature of this ash ? on 
sh keban al an eaten arog ie swe erence se | ne cs et t 3 ior 
bustible part 
is that S A a anke hei Eoi ‘én differen - estan 5 pa what influence they yet have on the practice- of 
n, | agricul 
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re calculated to mpart. gne | 
A ate limited | space to to which we are confined, it ioe main ad y r and e AnA N The fact is that the business of the farmer is 
exactly as are present in the inorganic part of | made up of many departments, besides that of 
bbe of this “essay ; ; strongly recommending | the soil,” which chemistry unfolds the theory—of so many, 
i i readers to obtain and study it n eaa “Here at once a bright light easts itself back upon | indeed, that very ¢ 
® shall, therefore, confine our one of | th f the soil itself. All fertile soils—so | cations are necessary for op teaa rosecution. 
esti r- | © J Of this any one ma satisfy hi lf by y inquiring into 
o what is it owing ?— How does the | #°" a fall “hes enbatinect 5 bet the iaio oor ai e. pestis, Bes of the “ agricultural pee of his 
z neighbourhood. ill find amongst th 
armer affect it ?—When | The Eoy 5 they form a part wah s 
—— hardly 
the f 
ay it be restored plinil af 'see—of its sul 
ality which good cultivators know Gaeta as si post spe them only from the soil, it . paying their way, and probably some who, if all 
upon their s; it is dependant clear that the must contain them, if the plant is to | were known, are in a state of insolvency. ee 
one condition—thus, its ab variety caused _ by varie ty of s oil ?—by Mero! 2 wo 
y stagnant water in the soil, and| are hes any special fferences in the y no m is 
ndertake its drainace—or by a faulty Pood of this ash? Do are ossess a pi = same farms, before now, one man has | whe 
soil, and then they endeavour to alter it | selection from the various articles of food | his predecessor had succeeded, and paca Ai 
tu y chalk, ash hi ecesso aN 
es, &c.—or, | stored up for ibe thes oil? The answer to this prospered where his pred 
ertility may owing | ginion i is most sharictive. success, here, owing to the command fici 
eration, to previous cross} “We have already seen that pa absolute quantities | capital? It may have been; the want capital — 
by tl the i ntrodu ction of oe pale left y the leaves d thesi tem, by the straw and enough has often been the cause of failure .w f 
crops b dy folding stock on ‘the land, by the | aed different, but ‘the ga of the ash | every other condition of success has been present. _ 
aon of bought manures, they endeavour to | et iy th these different 5 also vari It * Hop been This, however, is not always, nor, perhaps, à 
The explanation of , fo; T eX: ample, th at | the same sample of opetoun i ge Ih ieee: successful 
contain: a hemerin = sulphuric acid and alkaline i 
Ai 
| matter, oni wing ey il different son ith OE E O a 
Grain 
Taaa. | wi has not been 4 
Se Se TS Oa T of funds. Can we, then, declare this je 
Straw RNE TAa ee fe oe ere experience to be caused by the 
Leaf 1568 ee rae : Siik da 
ani not not only he proportions of the ae Do aao, oppress and Liese? 
unlike, Dut in certain parts of the plant some of can say so, But y pat question n 
reams pend entirely absent. Thus, the grain pale i they 
the straw of Wheat leave an ash which contains of | “70S! Has 
j and silica — 
pho 
