224 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL fazer 
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latter? and does not a rabbit or a hare bjte 
— „ zi T ea pres € rala any of ou domesticated animals. It may — 5 work p 1 s Ee. bd 
eosts 300 dols. per 9 9 dols. month without | be said that eight. or 12 rabbits or hares consume as petty masters, which results in the wh ess 
acre. Labour costs only —— at are not dear com- much as one sheep, but where is the comparison all| industry, and honestry of pu nt of that 
board. „Manure, emen bri salts, we iC this cheap Ta „things considered? See the close bite of rabbits and | well housed, well fed, and ee * 
* —4 redii D ill bu tg ive a slight i inerease| hares, the poisonous droppings, the dislike of other | labourer. 
when employed li Y» K ut g if the 1 to feed r them, the culling of the sweetest The small Grass farm 
E * ficial Been is o to get t the i and most nutritious herbage, the consumption of e our attack, but we cann d. help eing on » 
: ub (n Xu —— e lan d i is s cheap and * mea — | very food left for times of scarcity, the destruction o | through the sonny how e pn We imi 
"ur emer — rops wo uld | the Clover plant, the rotting of the Turnips after their | behind the 88 0 that cultivate abe 
artificial EX CA M bite, the later harvest, the diminished yield, parison The ese occ upie erally begin. e 
P ferior grain, all these are objections to p ey pa ambitious to 
T" to Stirn gp Po an excess of 4 ito mts accu- IL cw gentlemen between wd and those 2 hein means pÀ buying live 4 becom 
K egard how to pro- | animals that are running over and injuring yay A crop e land. It must again be seen b an 
mely a and itn m 1 it 7 * on the farm. After this who can say what it co to impossible for them to buy th y 2 ie. itim 
matter of crac talcalation, wi — regar tbe keep rabbits cbe nd har es? i which Lade is now so m eapened, Mp el. 
price of land, and manure cm - Adulteration of ption prac- | never receive the interest p? ‘the Capital m bii 
this Be cse it will be profitable to go. e | tised on ae — aby t the . is ] E 2; oa 
immense capi invited in -—— eileen | impediment to agricultural improveme t. It requires they are dependent on some neiglibour fora 
in manu ires, and in labour order to increase an extensive knowledge of what is going on in the consequently 1 pus E in 
the crop in England, would be — ruinous if followed | commercial world, and in the manure market in parti- | weather, thr rough its GA - 
in America, In this respect England bears some such | cular, to give anything like a finished picture of the times. They have no bs. Merc 
relation to America as do the productive farms near to varieties of manures that are now sold under the same | cultivator, they have no horsehoe 
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herefore : f ks to hosphates a t, i hs y o is fac thy 
. armer is at a great distance from | t! confine our remarks superp » | cannot, even if they possess 
— eens hon the — Sian es the produce | itrophosphats, and guano, on each of whieh we shall | the land properly or profitably, and it is to ihe a 
of his land is very low in ed > must rely more upon | say li of landlords, tenants, and urers, that all ais 
the natural 3 of the The exact value of The, OR at increase in soluble tk i oed is bos farms should be at ! acl en 
these resources is as yet by s Means ascertained even | year found in superphosphate o of lime w fea e have labourers around u: all shades, from ty 
for such — ^ have been — s 3 in the manufacture of this manure, as ting e ori t, industrious, intelligent d ing ma 
much less for those of which we know n g about counted for in two ways, first through the soluble v ^ eupritieipled, i ignorant, and prejudi being, vig 
except a few loose 8 which can 8 ave 2 prac- phosphate being made from mineral phosphate, and | curses all progress, Sex whose failing it is 
b i 5 second from the cer union of science with practice. | can to thwart mey s of the farmer who is 
those of the power of soils — mmonia from Science has long ago shown us that the phosphates 3 enough to 255 y 125 It is no cation un 
the air; their power to form 8 zi or —' | must be made soluble 3 to their being taken up that is going i alter this latter class of men, thes 
from the nitrogen of the air, and oxygen or hydrog. by tlie m -— here Er s not mei through being must bea great revolution i in the homes of the labonr, 
the influence of ozone in promoting the combinations | soluble, — with lime or e er T have been greatly improved, and ger 
nitrogen and oxygen ; the formation of nitrogeno ind orms a precipitate phosphate cottages have been constructed on the best pring: 
‘ts from the — — gas of the d: ; and t the as ded is applied tothe: soi il. The mor “extended vu of ji we gb the old habits, the old likes and ds. 
hydrogen o ing vegetable ma ana as a means f ma ikes. e have not gi 
— the evolution of of free eter tnm Pec decomposing | "T | farmers io deer the e of fidi source of amusem p that 
etable matters—all these questions | s greatest per centage | perhaps remove the present tendency to evil speaking 
of siy highest importance in agricultural of soluble a and the results is that they are and hos ostility of feeling to their superiors, Ino 
praetice, and yet not one of them is satisfaetorily | supplied with what they require. The best aan villages we want schoolmasters, and n schoolmis 
settled. It is true certain opinions iure gone ab phates sol S this ren last SGi — d o tresses, for the bo ys; we w ant night schools for those 
in our text books upon these questions, but if we follo OW | average abou 16 per cen t. of s hosphate is fi wa 
year they oom for those that are still more advanced, 
they were founded, we find them totally inadequate to The materials of "which pho a ER have been mày be attended to by the schoolmasters under th 
— qm er are sup solve. and are still made is an impediment through the eyes of the cler rgymen. Give every advantage to thy 
When th. lved we will be — prepared to pine being misled by some of the manufacturers, and | | i 
disenss the; soils . — resources. was in view of | through the former not ta aking vx precaution to have an 
them and others that it was remarked at the commence- pue analysed 8 reported o able chemists. 
ment of this letter, od in the whole range of observed en the soluble phosphate SR first made from | fro 3 z 
phenomena, there y a single ae whieh mineral phosphate there ought to have been prudent, and give them a distaste for those vices whith 
ted ed a greater quantity of phosphat now cause them so much unhappiness. This wilh 
than that exhibited in a maximum crop of voli ‘tural | the deficiency which must have followed we new mode | other things that 
23 fei malo o this A If the soluble phos- but s surely 1 remove that ignorance ca rae 
m | phate is made from minera phosphate, ee: generally labourer, which causes so much tro 8 
IMP em — TO AGRIOU MM IMPROVE- | remains 7 or 8 per cent. of ed Substanco in the shape | great Eat 0 5 55 employer. G. 8. 
NT IN DORSETSHIRE.—No. II. of in n Mm ost —.— h, as Dr. Voeleker has 
Game. — ch M MÀ m = an of the mie with this head- £| uve sid, m: >i hless 2 Now this, as we LOIS-W 
ing, wl ic! appeared at page 127, w oceed t 5 tir ve iced the progress of agricul- i 
ural improvement for the applisstlon of a super Eu Wien Mr. Callwell a — ini in tho Joa 
quent on the preservation of rabbits and hares. Where l phate made from bones, as the purchasers were led to | Contained the balance-sheet of his ine u 
they are preserved in numbers, as is too often the believe these were, would have added with the usual on Lois- po- W heat lage, ar Minn 
case, they prove to be a sure Veto to agricultural pro- | dressing as much more bone phosphate to the acre as repeat it on 29 acres, our satisfaction 
i the known 
or | would be derived from 4 ewt. of bones. The loss of indeed, f or we fully expected from 
i cwt. of bones to the a — poa . — and | science, and € of Mr. Callwell a 1 5 
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Bat Hered ont se e a piss : . 
er cause it arises s the t wit 
à rankling sore for wa there is no caren but the ie i i ito 4 bem a nitrogen 1 — and — — inability to keep the m wie 
removal of the nuisance. BE GRR small quantity of tiam guano along with it in pre- | weeds; and this regret is much 1 have . 
RU t is a wel logical fa f to p payi g the manufacturer for makin ng nitro- | sideration of the very serious loss he so large 
of si hosphate tained by failure in an experiment on that b 
— — — With ei increase of fige « uy Guano is another manure that is often found to be| He however expresses his conviction 
n the number of stomata through hich the of little. 3 to the rt to which it is applie d. sueceed where the whole system was but tha 
carbonic oid and probably small Satie * of nitric | This applies ially to those Mr ute guanos which | out, and that it should do so in Lue expresses mat 
Th monia from the phere. | are highly m en of in this as being a valuable | and late sowing beat him out. ei 1 à 
e former by a wise providence is collected in the mixture for the Turnip iyen- m — of lewt. of admiration of Mr. Smith's beantifu eee mii 
Plant in quantity proportioned to the wants of the plant guano re e ewt. of e vera ha which contains a | delight with all he saw at eem E 
e te it. »| high percentage of 9 55 phos ph ate. It especially to be ne — — he 
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: at state the phosphat rt a broadcast Wheat crop after bund cleaned iet 
are diminish ? ; means | whether they ar are ve 9 — Modus tetur! s was ploughed, grabbed, n PM 
fruit hu of an i pe flor doseription, t ghe d —— valuable state in which t ROD und in all real sowing ; only the first edd eg ; 
d aon, through the |guanos. it wi t got in till e. n 12 
— = n time. "hd is " — QN Ul Farms.—Much may be said against small farms, > one — P fai ure was this late y Cid d 
e = a to all la to all but the ey are stepping stones to ind ustrions and savin cause his not being able to 5 he Wheat cane 
cereals rint dos von : pu bests are strae for their | men that are deserving to stand ina higher sphere of lif z yof mu 
ë rs pa app ál escri 10115 F. ri f ^ other annual vy V 
ants? If we take the Turnip, we find 5 s this .. by men | ear. ^Tt would take an army 
rece that this plant, if eaten off when fit to to hoe, | E than we could wish to find in our common | complains of difficulty i m getting v that mr 
T. We scarcel know t è ed for — 
inexperi han neigh — a more vigor ital head th in th 5 e ny i — hat nt these farme | hy — wie cam ge An ind all the the 855 dade ye been 
a urs, has ie vitali todgi aged in 
being checked in its early growth, bi what of the won d pt bably a e antiquated — ue following —— 
f n shall | fz 
Ab their 
ent prett erop of 
d . nning of "this century. I 3 ome 2 — ie 
S are numerous sorry | It w. on 
3 rasses what do we experiene e P Do we | to find that the labourers are not pe frd) — ene of fallow: iter Ins De 
: ue arge much €— for à jer loyed. "They are oftener thrown on their own | 3d of Dece diceres — tral 
because the former bites much closer than the resources, which cause som dissatisfaction and much|the frost — the 
