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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 709 
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achines, made, and first introduced, by h 
30 years, and now much improved. War 
1a le: e had. 
ng the Impleme: 
s Ee ects and Bario Dressing M achines, a! 
ally —= SARSI chines made on scien 
p 
ie ane ; 
ona 
lane. 
HINES, made Warranted not 
ita MARY VEDELER. iara 
OMAS  WEDLAK of the original Fair kytes 
pan = e Mes T and 118, pa er a opposite Mark- man 
40 years, begs respectfully 
he continues to ea oe 
Straw. Numerous references to 
Saag 5 ) much approved of. City Repository for Agri- 
Implements, 118, Fenchurch-street, opposite Mark-| be roo 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, bs 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO chs Bef 8 oles 
Taurspax, Oct. 23} 4, Liou) 
'HURSDAY; 
FARMERS’ CLUBS. 
Oct. 20—Collumpton 1 Oct, 28~Bromsgrove 
2 seems to be pretty fully unfolded ; 
The Agricultural Gazette, es 
by 
ye have iat aioe rpt from co respondents | P 
HE MANAGEM F ManurE—a subject of 
with which in till 
keeping the animals in on 
T, 
ma 
case of fattening see, especially a as ‘they ought | mS 
to be, they are fed he ity of 
6 
stra w will, soon render 
ards, 
“T 
r yards dry, 
if they are to hydrogen has 
= the main org d a Be ilek S 
oh wegen ; the change is 
rt ‘of, prover and = whole 
pe 
In the | of the fertilising ingredients are carried into the soil ; 
instead of being dissipated i into the air, „The aid of the 
y | gypsum or other qrinciosahie Spa ; Nat 
econ hr it aa be aie economically, 
the only remedy. = t ca 
stalls, or in a pas ra 
Mr. of eon 
of m 
method 
One d = may thus 
be 
esented to our readers manufacture of 
f , for t g the 
sired, irei, thise yards occupy a 
er ‘of w ster? If an 
an answer this ee we shall be very muc 
to him. 
space. 
ect eA — this agis in Pi ers ? Th 
tan ach of o 
og a coals in 1 open yards ; in our own ‘case, 
mon one on farms of two or red ree 
surface of 
18,000 square feet. er es os _ during | 
period i is abou ce what are we to 
doubt the straw, layer after layer of which is 
p edly added, as each in et turn is trodden down, 
absorb some of this water—but 27,000 cubic 
W, 
an arą te 
ted, | 
we e believe her ‘this presents ‘the oy opportunity |! 
g i able 
manure 
re, the 
best economi nep uch better way ioe the 
wants of plan colar adi rary air, bring a plentiful 
supply of alee to the pons S elem weet and 
| carry the whole | of the fertilising matters into the soil. 
£14: 
of imparting fertility to the 
$ , favours the 
is formatio n of the economical riiai a inten and 
th 
of the wasteful bee of 
rogen. (Hence it is that com paratively so ee 
2| hyd 
a tem of manure enriches so large an extent of 
ab 
Foart expressed, that the extreme 
raag of the Tertilisiag salts, effected by oxidation, 
be carried deep into the earth by rains, and occasi 
ap waste before the Seed is is put into the laar or 
the If t through — 
the alse op could. be washed and carried aw 
this cause use might justly be entertained. But the combi- 
ation of manure with me is not mechanical. The 
ol ers 
nce w 
ct 
= 
in 
pretty fully 
this su acon as one the theory of Shiai was an bal | 
unfo lded ; but from the s very pmo | 
* Oxy 
whieh have appear 
settled me fad 
ore se 
ared in two or three of our litert 
rs, it appears that even this is still an un 
by th e i D 
ensues, by which the fertilising m 
| till the poges of the A nems nt, we a ajeli chemical 
affini ty tal process, arate a from the soil for 
rp water res dic on 
ith the e of chemistry to perceiv e oli 
plansilality and self consistence of the 
s to which we 
oy sroqires a fstab dg 
onfidence in the 1 matter than 
| aeram to deter rmin ne their ac It, 
first oxidises the emma as they deco; 
pose, and then carries them into the so soil, with whisk 
they become chemically combined; and it is no longer 
ap ppears to | 
he said Wear 
Ox x GEN” 
iiig the oxygenous hanson which 
xcreme an t 
Bes up t the bulk of our manure, swelled as they inper 38 igre 
with what water they do absorb, hardly occupy |; Pt 
naming t 
sinh roana nitro, ogen 
e products which actual analysis h 
sy ; ascertained to result from the process of fermen a- 
our field: 
Aren nitrates are r: 
ispose of, and these must be 
e inju e cattle kept in The fact 
dthe extent of the yards explains i it, na one 
y rain m ay fil the rain 
exi > ai it Ey. ea or a we 
a , it m ek, 
are we todo with the water? Shall we pump 
on _manure-heaps prepared for the a te on 
ample of the ben 
by the process of soa instead of losing r the 
And does it not rather militate gom the sound- 
ness of these oms, at any ra 
if 
which it held in main. and to esea escape mes the drain 
as pure as when it fell upon the earth. nT b 
the provision made by aa for insuring ferti 
the earth ; plants alone have the power of Ptr it 
of its fertilising salts. 
Prins manure that falls wi high-roads undergoes the 
momical process of decomposition, by means of 
the. oth st conveyed to 0 it i in rain; and it then imparis 
to the’ surface of the ground a richness that re ders 
sei ever, found 
ater of our springs 
| EFFECT OF AIR AND RAIN ON MANURE: ` 
THE tg aA of a upon m pe the p 
dressing it. zike an = 
of agriculturis 
manuring yt o ‘smal expense. It affords ag 
Urass-iand 
n | land. ` The surface of Be  srel-frequented 
of | to 
‘other green c Thao, who see BE nothing i 
Hed da a loss to unders 
they cannot but acknowledgethat “the refuse mi era 
frequented roads improves greatly 
road, n 
dag the droppings of 
animals ate surface s of “ind does folded ae 
> in ot traffic ‘> 
road, becomes Sgr mixed od vith g ag and is wholly 
tney 
Á pt of oing, an 
ed to the same soaking rain, and are e alre eady 
ted. $ raper pes that iswhat we have ola in 
of its fertilising sal 
collected upon a oun extent of 
certain quantity of Turni 
mentitious parts of the foo 
-| be sufficient to manure the land 
T | The Fro of solid and liquid manure 
A certain number of sheep are | p 
lan 
urnips or Caer, and the exere- 
d so consumed are found to 
d age paa cians yy constant ex- 
x 
the manure. The 
rains ma ag seach the soil, but cannot destroy the 
ese So bot > 
woul 
and, in 
spread. 
the estimation of most farm 
for an efficient dressing for the lan 
Ra this small heap were to be kej ept f 
y 
intimate chemical combina ion between the particles of 
the soil and the saline mate of the manure, 
md Fret with the salts of manure, depends in some measure 
th diren 
: “mue pumping Aia that a is not otrai, 
in fact, great waste attends e ra this, which, 
the Saag pga » we think, the best thing 
in the case of 
reduced still m and so li 
that the stile of the Tand would t ch = po 
read so a quan 
sp 
f fai ard du dung, r —_ heap sould be 
tity =e 
surface as “the ordinary folding roe ee covers, he 
wit plants. ils, g 
but a slight chemical p fo or tt meme ters 
held in solution by the water, deprive it o 
cover: ap ‘would certainly be an improve 
if we had such tanks, what could 
contents in the spring?—500 
ards, or nearly 700 tons of a very dilute | fluid part 
Perhaps these heaps should be 
resent practice, could a chea enough 
Be tl d; but then the cont sone of our|o 
Soe soon ewe eve the sheltered 
, the waste would proceed as before. 
h 
eet—a size which is out of the id 
* 
most 
= st bm 
ledgment of the superio — 
nter, | how small a quantity of such 
the land, mi irer e 
ea | can take place in a manner 
peel m pe i 
ers the co ponent vena oe sora Es Mersey soils would not be as they are almost 
lied by the Golding ot yet so The always foun found cA be rich in food for the use of plants ; 
fluid part the excrement is at once a me earth 
f the oxidising pro 
process of rbs ction. There 
of aap sheep that re: Th 
they are graminivorous | bility possessed by promise soils for depriving water 
us 
ie a ee S tien -x en A 
sulph oer eles 
genera’ off into the air 
ingredients tile 
formed to rob the soil u | 
i to y 
ai ing with Fresh 
least waste by 
* to what we have stated the necessity of|has never sustained the 
ao =n of the aige 
the cultivator, t unt rep y 
manure. il, on the contrary, 1$ — not 
e, at Bae oon 
f only a 
small part of ae it Ponte through the soil, and 
cess | in such soils the wa bein the saline par- 
icles, ca: 
= its Soluble matters would d form a mist There for 
to 
iri 
Ta away the fertilising S tageedieiall of 
eenz in some countries the 
is pie nder the e virgin soil valueless to 
enished 
the earth, is i rp by 
through t 
most ga merely a mechan . 
j| cess ; as giving out to the soil only those grosse: 
