n these words “Wheat is a 
"The proposition, no vp 
q 
the wisdom of 
hi 
"dh | 
the latter N it must 
what his mi iid — 
sme: -— in partial states; perhaps entirely wanti ing 
Others a mere trace of it, and in others 
again — or less abundant: not ge — found 
iffused through every part of a ma but concen trated . 
at IRI 
* mical constitu 
substances, which deserve 
consider the pr od 
a ch 
tion of vegetable 
ena attention of those iet 
uction ts vegetable fib: ugar, &e., a 
of —— and w 
arrungemen ts, as if 
— — Whe at, ‘or any des — ant, 
the useless pur- 
itor of D it in, "t to decompose 
e lately Mr. Lawes and his 
divine 
p 
ha 
è sí wasting H 
d inex- 
ith the nee 
exp 
ds the for they * ¢ fier as 2n pe of the eri- 
IT e 
s 
*ErEkER Lit aw 
"ut 
ue su 
; fro m ihe 
circumstance hyd ti i 
seeds of W heat, Peas, Beans, I. entils, A 
„ 
gen an d tho: e 
n in des sie, or pore the same proportio 
water. I think this 
E — 
of a 
that ints should 
return the — 2 sup- 
are to them either through the mediu n. — 
„this is not i 
3 E 
e case of wax, oils, re . in w hich, e pro- 
— L portion. of the nitrogen that had 1 been con- 
n, &c. while the 
"—— ^ Vus on rises esto nary d double of what i it is in 
gar, nd g 
, that e plan 
d with an vhs capacity — "ppm. 
these cases a 
optional endowed 
ing nit 
nel (in their composition 1 —— more nitrogen 
of oxygen is N Again, in does it will be seen 
pn pud 
il or m special experinents, as 
seems er have been the result in Mr. Lawes's i estiga- 
ets like 
a 
lifferent from what they do in vegetable 
tr ogen in 
a 
= economy ; but 1 are did in 
The subject is one, not of merely speculative interest, 
—.— several occasions expressed i in the Gardeners’ 
and Agricultural rm cond * on the use and 
pur 
era of ammonia in veg table economy, the 
characteristie x vegetable life, is due, 
m 
eal oduc: 0 
of water and carbon, that there should e. as 
close and constant a relation between the 
fibre, the nitrogen 3 f the but of m t bre I believe — 
yg Noy setti ing we | sums of ney have es been v led and 
t plan iere — wap of the primary use 
and that th hey appear m rely to absorb it in i of ammonia in vegetable economy, proceedinz on the 
state, as the solvent — vehicle of those alimentary [5 supposition, that nitroge n » dye oniy cipe MÀ 
perales from "Which. their Substance and p lants; hene vemm 
12 vegetable fibre, sugar | soda, : itr "éd uper 
bai tan ly pr Gace dO 
ol fr 
7 — eroe es agricultur re Lv consideras 
bene where at best they maga have useless, 
. J. HUE 
form, in — with carbon, t tance of | of oxygen and — n all other subs — —— 
their physical structure—in other words, orm vege ese f e? Should not the — pe of 
table fibre, or hydro-carbonaceous r 2 is th ai WEEDON. 
basis of every part of the vegetable structure, root, ra here han hydro-carbonaceous „as we see that x: is. II surely wa l 
stem, leavi er, fruit, se d their envelopes of | Or, to a — this difficulty, must we resor of Fe ae — foliowed i in the —.— of — ‘Rev. 
‘sige r vài riety; while nitrogen is only a variable | still soie untena 2 position, ipe though v diced | Mr. Smith should th ft 
^w element in plants, not entering at all into fibre ar, &c. are formed b hemical ius nation | 3 in ida leading article of this Journal of the 25th 
—— of vegetable fibre, and scarcely of carbon and w: vater, db: pluri substances are [D mber last to give to the public the results of their 
T Some os ay? The h Seri pares seo The desire to afford information, and to 
or en parra te of each class. or Kind 
as bestow ed on the em by Nature for special 
840 
really is, which is characteristic of | 
when 
| promote agricultural improve ement which 2 * 
f 
substances having a vegetable origin 
nneetion wit x vs adm vat 
i B 
u 
Wo di q 
requirements 
carbonic a, rca a e d 
be as various as their physical peculiarities, and 
indicated and ars "is the agg of nitro- 
f their substance and 
. wi ith their 
d a 
ore natural nas — — explana ation of the 
È dive à into the Lois- Weedon — mi ight 2 
denies em to 
ende er such an expe ectation realisable. But alas — 
m 
sources and manner of their production, in 
d hence this dis- 
een the universal capac ity “of pet for | 
limited req 
ve — Pc th "s 3 Ves ial th 
j the f wing 
chemical constitution and with — 
table physiol In th 
b 
— does this dark silence arise? Is it apathy ? =~ 
and does it share 
vegetable p ysiology. e 
just mentioned we have the four elements — enter | 
substa ances. of | 
em, carbon and ydrogen, are universally ——.— 
and are found combined i in proportions varying from 
into the — of vegetable 
ut 
is — in pia t > cou 0 
without, and the other that that — is not 
It appears to me that nothing more is necessary 
arrive at a milan y solution of the anomalous cir- 
. ümstances adverted 
icio 
to — i dae „e aedis e front, 
f 
substances. Of the other two, oxygen appears to be | 
universally present in able substances, but in 
early 12 Sm 
in in that negleet—the common lot of all — oo 
ing urt to 
- 2 Wh 
was practically — — ? Or has enthusiasm 
dashed, bi failed, and amet - 8 its failure 
known? Is the 1 Mage arm i all but Mr. 
aith, and must w. f 
rts of oxygen to 
part of oxygen to p in wax. Nitrogen, 
and purpose of al 
economy, ray to compare the che chemical cometh. 
— m with o acknowl ources or 
of vegetable -— Tues, with phos- 
carbonic 
and — containing the four 
E. 
parts of various plants, component. part of | 
comparatively few — substances, the chief | 
arly the same, 
frequently e as vegeto- of 
nt Po 
bo. +, 
the proportions in which 
animal matter: in gluten, nitrogen stands in the pro- 
f about 27 parts to 100 of carbon, If one 
might draw a distinction between 
9 
Ms — in ra do itself of means of 
ilisation pm agr ph to which Panem are all suf- 
ers n e artificial — the 
farm, which — ibat require which 
“a away — the auguea of applying one nie, that 
the benefit of — llow, to one description of crop and 
| 8 it to anof 
one | If we have io deplore the dearth of intelligence 
ie acid and ammonia are found in en = 
functions of these constituent 3 the two 
r, carbon and hydrogen, might be re; regarded as 
hardly 
ment 
and the two latter, lje aa and nitrogen, as 
their à modifying elements; the di ersified q 
| the National ut a Educa 
n 
D | Hydrogen. 
8242 
qr 
— 
DM 
men 1-35. 
3 to be dra above 
$ require. no nitrogen for ps formation 
the. ee or € of due s EN 
is; 
0 
man 
on, and therefore do a 
QM Y ags conclu- 
he regular certain | 
en in all vegetable substances, - | 
ate chief storehouse of nii 
e the o 
Wheat is a grent waster ls 
th 
extensively varying proportions in which t two 
elements eater into their composition, — led, on 
carbon and hydrogen 
e to their nature and — the latter are 
n ion to campos them, 
eomponent coro eonvert 
and 
acid and o 
cannot usefully . they therefore reject or 
out the excess of bos elements, which mix with 
Vete ‘orm com ponent p ts of the atmosphere. This 
y r. Callwei 
E and certainly took a right step at starting 
- | Forking, 
os in 
Calla d Belvidere in the coun mty of Down, and 
I learn that from his suggestion, another has 
| bee: prium unty of Kildare, which was also 
l appears to have gone to work with 
ious visit to Lois- Weedon. . 
first experiment, n 
1854 is recorded in th e Journal he 
of the 
and by a new cultural Society of Ulster, and is thus stated 
Cost of 14 acres 0 rood 36 perches of Drilled Wheat. 
zi 
drilling, x * e a 
65. ; bina with ral 
Diem — ig rape deep, et De r half acro 
lis of Wheat. 
tos 
32 
Leid Pd 
M 
* = DSD 
&. 95. 9 dr 
46 
3 
cost pre reapin 
stiit. the diva intervals kalter stocks were 
removed, 2d till 14th October .. . 
Forking and taking e ptr 
fallowed intervals, to have Mb m e tw». xs 
drilling z 
Interest on cost of implements 
s 
o 
waste of it ? 
had certainly isappeared, but 
s matter of the entire plant contained 
the starch and t atatan itself, "bees 
0 e. — Am. ed nitrog. en in 
ZAMM 
had the 
4th; March, 
rdeners! Chronicle, 
plants giving o ge oxygen; an nd. the experimenta and | 
mati of M. Ville, commented o page d 
(December, Find of the Gardeners’ (iil o le, es! 
blish - fact that plants also respire or give en 
Ginten, or — mal matter, represents he most 
orm or combination in. toques eee occurs 
ele and it exists in them in very variable quan. 
All cost one year 
Leaving ground wWell reseed drilling. 
Produce bad, only 5 tons 17.ewt. on the 14 acres; 
"Wheat bad quality, heads 1 ineh — than same 
Wheat broadeast on Potato ground, stooked as thick 
sita des but being S too late 
among, roots loosened ; of heads consequently 
did not fill, the pickles of those that did au were very 
