520 
ofthe question of town i oen theme about which | 
THE GARDENERS’ 
— Av n had “paid” when used at a st per | 
of Jime in America m hr f Oats, 1 would n si mn 
said in England; it is to 
* mete here. Sa ffice it to say 
is allowed 
extensive for our ns 
importa U^ se 
o give e other ele ment an importance, pabi since 
they i egree, the um t total 
of * importance is cele o what it is for these. 
Thus sulphuric acid often „fails in soils ; 
o pur- 
But until the ch 
cial 
_but sinc e it | va 
assi 
An nd uch o! f the edv eg and between 
ti of Philadelphia and Baltimore been ren- 
Genel ies of with lime alone on just such conditions. 
emist is con nfident that the farmer has 
it possib yet 
CHRONICLE AND JORICDUPURAL GAZETTE. 
[APRIL 9, 1859 
apt 
who evar geri to d 
fo ac i 
0 
a new sui 
not b 
in other words until he 
id too a for his 
knows that the farmer has am 
phosphoric wes and potash, and 
annot form any — 
d 
arn- s aru 
may rest assured that if he has bought 
artificial manure, he has paid very odia for an the 
ble 3 ems it contains. He may rest 
that 
phates, and even when tod board as in gyps um, it 
costs so little, it loses the agricultural rue it 
. The e same s might bes d of lime so 
a 
lime as a pee "arent we shall 
The very f silica i m 
would render this a | substance of 
838 “ort 
dbi presently. 
si our cereal _ Crops 
[What i is * rainfall 
ist cidental Fir 
dor He ae y 5s. Ne. dE 
Epi farmers to fils the abore 
n the banks of Ullswater, 
course h I pursu 
71 
es.—In your Journal of A 
0 call attention to a 2 ecl. 
lv raised by 3 ve of Con 
near Tamworth, perc the rado 
erly ¢ 
tain, enou gho of this substance alre: 
ady. 
therefore concentrate our attention 82 
may 
phosphor acid, er and | nitrogenous | substances, 
ured chea 2 * is not a non for destruction of crops d 5 ten N 
absurdit than a “very cheap, anure, ? if by very | verdict for the plaintiff” Permit me to ask 1 
y ntity aments upon a matter which, by the mere sibi. 
With regard to Time ina uch 1 mi wicht t be sai , but tion of private property and private parties fi pie - 
Of itself e can Misa; only one 0 10 orks is Linum corporations, seems to me be strict 
to 12 sul y pla A eu hore sub- analogoui e northern coal-fields, and I dare sy 
rv not prese ent in kek Poil, dins Es " it h late years the 
it fe rtile e. But soils 
aed wl mot emer n but they the working y: the collieries ; E aa scorn sue 
cope ere n insoluble wie ate inaccessible t with its dingy load across | 
the plant ; lime helps to bre ak up the se jumiinatiose, |o orn fields, and threatenin ng ruin in to Our crops. E 
the valual or the use of of accident by fire, is the farmer’s remedy against his | 
lord or the coal. owner? | 
me a que 
wherever it bya 
is gover 
tached values to each su i saj map 
ned settl 
proper 1 in regulating its hys; has at-| case, 
of t 
the value of any artifi ficial m e pend 
simply o € quantity of these tase i it 
md d ar on be too forcibly y| 
^ the ind the America 
Hu of 
nure does n | the 
then 
lime. 
ten 
dens eee of the 
tter to buy these 
t to use 
valuable —— in artificial ma han the such purposes introduced into the district? And wil 
Again, use of lime cannot go on n for an in- the nature of the remedy be the same as in theme — 
pem period of. time, and give good results upon all cited by yourself? But if so, how to prove your case? 
—.— nce, as it only what the | Coal-owners are not usually so magnanimous in acknow- 
d with a of ledging heir offences as great railway companies; 
ls 
ees alteady contains without supplying i it 
as 
onnec cted 
any points c c 
4 
to be land 
to 
Suy on 
h constituents of gate des latter must ulti- 
_ On befor 
ving passengers, 70 * 
nin. ma 
more * 5 depend — — the dubii of a few simple | 
^om: d which it contains, than does the value 
gold washings of California pon the amount 
d iila] it contains. And ve creo would 
the e is Mice of — — scientific investiga- 
tion, and it is to be hoped that America will not lon 
learn to look upon the cheap man hich quack hind Europe in erecting institution ns for agricul- 
manure manufac! ture urers too often vind into the market, tural investigations, , and D grid at the disposal o 
ith that itl "oem they would be *a very f ma vm) them, in order to 
cheap — sand," there would ‘be few of do her’ part towards solving these and other obscure 
people being cheated and en as rad neg b of points in questions so pre- — important to her 
having expended money in artificial manures. It is not as are all those connected with scientific and practical 
is to add a hundredweight of valuable manure 
to 
z en. of 3888 rubbis > Mus then. to sell the same | 
w and cheaj le farmer who 
— M EE 
me Correspondence. 
0 
team Culture. The enclosed is extracted from a 
letter just E It shows the energetic spirit of my 
Tiere, m Grea Britain, where the Royal Agricul- | 
tural Society, the Bath ru Biens of En 
the Highland Society of 
mis Societies have aln L5 ‘ofessors 
reputation to we to thec mere ede of the Fs ati 
tural i * K of t boye remarks very 
ed Baa 
country belong jun. 1 in conjun neti on wit 
his fat i 
h * e of the eight. year old s 1 
Priest ra own 191 their masters’ interests, Betws 
the two stools wha t becomes of the property of sr, 
One of the A, 
Germination of Se eds.—In your P. 
arch you refer to results of experiments pte ie a 
mination of Turnip seeds of va 
ne en 
. In April, 1858, I minc my spi 25 
in “tke green nhouse three difterent kinds 105 
seeds ix 105 own growth) 23 15 855, and 1 
seeds fr 
at eight ye ars o old, 5 per o cent. is the av 
um 
| days longer in the ground and were weak 
any one from En ngland to assist him. Wiliam Smith 
| Woolston, CE vr drs vet 
10 cult 
perte ing 
88 it imposs 
iow from 
| of visitors — ee its P Caere John — Bally 
pone: on, Co. Cor 
—I a with “Sigma” in the value of 
s Ont hays especially when cut into chaff. I have been 
alo! 
tical man beate vend node uced large capitalists of wi 
known reputation and 57198 sponsibility, to 
purpose 
e fue th 
Tares 
de + a 
ith them for “rm I make my sowing about | 
to | this time of a Yes earlier if the weather will 
permit; vM : ond be in good heart. When the 
beg o show their bloom I begin to 
mow | only 
isse f or seed, and are now 
see anything rh N 
e fence, a Len ditch, a 
S | and a blighter of crops? 
beautiful th man 
ei apr a higher class of in 
ne? If I wil e 
3 1 
5 
raw 
am now kac ng, of 8 0 
ä hey expended 
all the money for m which — have laid out for 
manures, they wo have been bet 
tter | 
orld has 
and in none po it yielded better results. 
Were we to tell the farmer of old England that the use 
A short time since I examined an 
aia not contain enough of valuable material 9 
transportation, in waggons, of the rubbish with which it was 
„ — 
zs z j^ m is criminal, n 
it involves, but because 85 W s m 
e farmer in a valuable article h 
CERT, 
eferri: 
nsylvan May I had 
ime had à a flera — 4} 42 feet lng P "e the 24 
4f 
will be 
FÉ 
e 
Eit 
me a 
eet tall ; 
r 
e | le 
infects their poorer n 
of | better notions and feelings than 
t | or what is 
? that your correspondent deprecates 
iti is AM ere uin that ptt erow timber is re tof 
landlords, in many instances to the detrimen 
own pockets; if they let 
blame, or rather who would w: 
any others do good indir 
I 
pt. ment 
very case presume an improve 
labourers o gn bal pre oparty. 9 
poor are ogether 
ads aie landlord or tenant 
neighbours an 
À 
d 
they 1 ei 
sold for such, is consumed in 
an ill farm 
uon at 
4 
my opini: as been acq 
of bx tbat a man deos X T 
. or me a wi 
FRE 
i 
| men who can ppl earn 
ari "ie 
Jaq 
ran 
£ feed g. 4 resume soy 
c is + drained, “deeply pom t in ze M 
dress with about t4 ewt. 
machine. I ask TT. S." 
P a the ene res 
ta short 
and answer it X what is t 
wt. Undoubtedly fo R production 
of food for ai beast 
