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ages drink are subject to the most systematised | of 3 nia, or a fraction more than 7d. per Ib., or] in iva chair. The Report of the Finance Committee 
2 “of interes sophistication. 1. am in clined to 651“. 6s. 4d. per ton. ead. 
hink, howe n ^y at 10“. per ton the farmer pays for communication having been made by the Council 
tisfactory and calamitous condition ammonia about 1s. 6d. per Ib.; in eo cake at 5/. per to ES Hudson, the Secretary, and his reply having 
than any other, and that there is no class of the com- ton he pays about half the price, so that as isly resolved— 
munity so flagrantly tillage farmers | these articles cannot be conside red A. Inthe! On the motion of Mr. ward, seconded by Lord 
who find it necessary to have recourse to the manure scale for valuing manure adopted in the eee of Feversham, s Tha t Mr. Hudson be s uspended from the 
l market. Fraud pervades many a recess in this market, | our leading chemists, 56/. r ton is the pri this time. 
| stalks forth cie ry in daylight, and not unfre- | ammonia, which is rather under its commercial P los. a the motion of the Hon. Colonel Hood, se 
| quently ere. -— n the advertising sheet of the y Mr. Jonas,“ That Mr. Brandreth Gibbs be paso 
farmer’s newsp: — — d ecd the office of Honorary Acting Secretary 
Toia., Mii. science boldly treads on the Home e Correspondence. pro tem.’ 
track of fraud; and if she does not a always dis iscover The Craigo Turni ip Experi You are good On the motion of the Hon. Colonel Hood, seeonded 
n isarm it sails 
a ari to give yonr € tails of Je» by Lord Feversham, “ That all letters be addressed to 
its career. He wo J uld be a blind farmer, indeed, who in cultural experiments made by pda a men for the | Mr. rigs eth Gibbs, as Honorary Secretary to the 
this age would slight the " of —— e man n of science. t of interest to the 3 Society.“ 
ö urther progress in e of r ing the lost fer- One is fo oreibly struck, TI a the On AR motion of the Hon. Colonel caede seconded 
tility of land with eco cann e ies effected without enr apparent contradictory chara: the | by Mr. Jonas,“ That these pisi eae be e known 
more of that. oo whieh 4 dhomisizy has shed upon the | results. his? Have the 8 i * soil, | to the publi c journals in the ual m 
brow d que -— e e relief from the crush- | or the and of plants, or the action of m. ann res no N 1 to the 
— unprincipled manure | well-defined laws of o operation, or are the experiments | details | rendered siad for carry ang into effeet the 
, ven Pers ors an be ifade oniy by the diffusion of the at faul Wek ove 
— we alread of the chemistry of art, ish. that inquiries - the soil when made = 8 Monthly om (for the 1 son or task: 
aer no ways success! 
The N Nitrogen in Manure.— Now, in ure the a md, l, though the the reply be most Satien a aited nes) — qs EA -— — — 22 — 
— 2. exist rug ver in the form of. ammonia ny but how much more difficult of 1 is prm dum P es PP sins TV 
ammonia—or be oe id u in the tissue the answer, an we clog the question - unneces- 
of the structure oft the s ubstan: . sary conditio Permit | me ina remark tbat field cellier eom 
Fin —Mr. Raymond B 
^ 13 8 y uet rre —— ‘the pa report on 
epen nd ‘materially - whether experiments should only be made for ‘he elucidation 4 
it exists in one or other of thos —80 mue ch of o one well. defined point. We may, i it is true, from the Tore € — em pier Ut mm -— ba: €: "ond 
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balance was 
so that _Dr. Voelcker estima tes — l BIN de dit Oat tun ee . — xm 17591. 4s. 11d. On the motion of Mr. Thompson, 
in mal or vegetable substances. The adva need | and radi question to be clearly p at and in triplicate, — M —— A — ay — th us 
pone me estimates the real importance of not merely duplicate. In your E t Number you give wes hes Peto a! a special meeting of the 
economising time will always seek to obtain a manure | the Mo reet of Mr. Grant, of Craigo. Not Frari Oetángll toe summoned; E 
in which s nitr rogen exists i ina v say, of actual access to the Journal of the Highland Society, I beg to AGRICULTURAL CmEWwISTRY.— Mr. Wren Hoskyns 
monia in k on them as standing in your Journal. Two C airman of dm 
h K d from h the Chemical Committee, reported that 
z * potential? 2l as Dr. U many years ago A “= simplicity of the question the que tion being e at peg pean eis 
nated the — . —. that * 3 Japodi o£ Aime, — — ya 45 Uic eee e bot sather oF the tata ben stored two years, and that the Professor 
it is irable to take | m. 
anures Two sorts of ios. were used, so that 
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this st the nitrogen int ds the dung the experiments were not even en malte some remarks upon the analysis he has made, 
in estimating the "ics pes a manure may be evidenced | duplicate Then only the two centre rows were ine heb cafe ji —.— — ry ise —. e 
i^ one or two examples. weighed. After which statement the experiments lose — influence upon the important subject of the stor- 
l. Esti matin 1 the value of a specimen ol Welsh coal all niet 15 enin ence, The we "a s gi ven might be ing qualities of root — generally. J 
is all we can say in t favour. The CoO eiii 
of 2 — r eent.) it t would be worth more than 17. per ton; | reason assi sH for not weighing ar the rows is the tg igh, coge 
= 2. irere of the Ge — Warwick € Committee, hend the re- 
pee yet uld pay the cost of its carriage | mixing of the manures at the end 9f each sort; as well commendations of the Commi tee in reference to— 1st, 
e Hon. Director of Show being empowered to 
E "We kn know that. unboiled bones are probably the | by iu is filters my ee pity itis that v Aae rus fr shedding, hurdles, bs according to the number 
— oe "de intelligent fay iy aa. p of entries * a a this — 455 — — 85 Ware 0 as * 
wants n n , prefers pur 0 ise the results b owe aug p d 
chasing that Aime e apo : Fc ihe form of tion to mer re detail, E us su 3 € ML hay, s ra, vemos MEI ame an sistants 
guano. = the bones the nitr: rogen is in an inactive the we ights giv o be ect; then what is the h 0 4 
and not mediately ir ttn — whereas in | difference in the e of the tae sorts of dung ? The — - Pfires; 4 * pem APA Sinita e — 
guano i initis i in an acti e, of which plants ean | White Globes have pr roda geda — E crop than the Moatir g applica me 
make read We € no dont, obi Aberdeens. Lea t the * in the of 
bones second. Omit in 
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tain the full | Yellow’ 
the * - est bee it in absent in 
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expec, arid. tis fessi 10 neglects it will ave i apt que 7 tots 8 owt Za 10 l.; and that neger with tà 1 
chance of competing for maximum profits ofthe White Globe Turnip, 96 tons 16 ewt, F — —„— wer 
od ure alone is of Yellow Aber- | Council for 10 o f v on June 22, for receiving — 
mode of estimating the prae value of manures, deen, n tons 15 ewt. dq. 24 Tbs. ; 2 White Globe, — —— —— Accounts, and of the 
lbs. Now as e judges 
pinin That mode consists in ascertaining by pro- tons. evt: qrs. Ibs. tons ewt. qrs. Ibs. Song oe ars. Ibs. several d l 122 = 
cesses which we will » describe the percentage of E ty ee, Z = paige E 2 ius e — | for cheese and — e stock, en € end do 
nitrogen in the manu and then ig ia vs t i 
he. re, t it is “staked that e was "e dung used in STEWARD ETLROT or I —— motion 
ammonia this Ju itp en is equivalent to, or, in . riggs riment than in the first, in the —— of Colonel Challoner, € he Right Hon. Lord Leigh was 
of 12 unanimously appoin' ward elect of Implements, 
heen, u determined at 8 Bering: ing an it Then as 15 12 : f M. De seer I ome ae The Council gave authority to the House Committee 
thant d S pneep aor Wee produce w. 11 11 0 1 carrying out the details of matters intrusted to 
the absurdity of this rule, let me remind you that 2 So that if the experiments $ are to be relied on they do them 
r cent. of nitrogen i th ds MEETING OF THE BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND 
17. per ton; while io 2 — of nitrogen in con coal have had in favour of the “covered court,” or better SOCIETY AT BARNSTAPLE. 
would practically be valueless as a source of nourish- | Preserv — manure. x: there will be many ciation notes this week of a very successful annual 
ment to plants! tried this season on the Turnip crop, you will do saei must refer almost exclusively to the contents 
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reach of the farmer, and its price per ton and pointing out the conditions necessary to success. to ihe Implements and the Art Exhibition must for the 
The cheapest source of this substance is the liquor of Charles F. Burnard, Plymouth. mt be pos 
gas — but as that source is very limited, compared Anticipated Ear ty Harvest.—In this district, South The Call 8 cannot — — that whatever 
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to the present enormous demand for ammonia, it may | Essex, there are vast readths ofthickly planted and early excellence ma; 
be overlooked. The cheapest salt of ammonia, and the sda e chaffed” Wheats, — y „May 81st, in | the best class A pac: — 858 the core 2 Devon. It 
nly one used to any extent in €—À z the sul. | fall ear, but it is to be regretted of very diminutive | sometimes happens that when a meeting of the kind is 
phate—a salt formed by the union of p sulphuri e size and length. "The thinner pana however - bee held in a district celebrat rated for 
— water, and the gas ammonia. Eve ZS 100 Ibs. n M * th 0 
ure sulphate of ammonia consists of hi 
re. the number £ land, but p? fall 
men Rue co 07 ES d size, very ope — long, congue of greater de 
: 24.0 tme ness. On a whole, should not a dripping Jun 
The salt of commerce contains eden to the extent deteriorate the crops by lodging t — and injuri 
oi cars ae e its co „ a very and abun- | ob 
position in every 100 dant harvest may reasonab be expected. Never in my 
Ammonia d nd recollection of 50 years can I remem! in ear 
N ald: v SÉ . 8 — on Whitsun- Tuesday but once, and in that year I saw 
- Water 816 field of the gem T —.— blossom on that 
ow, on looking of last Sat ur motations in the day. This year i en enerally so of all 
Farmers’ Ga — - find n! — del of ts. It must be boris in mind how- : 
sale to farmers at from 157. to 162. a ton. We will ever that Whitsuntide cannot ibly fall : 
Bec Numer e:— think) only once in two centuries as in the present year | 
One ton of agricultural sui ammonia ..£i5 o o | 1859, though in the year above alluded to, it fell within | Deyon 
DERS Ge TM er Wiehe amm urio acid two days as late. A. Hardy, Maldon, Essex, May 31. 
—— saiph nor sac im about I ton (A en S — mA E 
al n ew ^ s valler 
osa or gypsum 1 10 0 Societies. challenge. 
ROYAL GRICULTÜRAL OF ENGLAND. à 1 Cena 
Leaving 137. 10s. as the price the farmer a i the A Sproran 8 held, by order of WE : Eure 
above 3 years. —Seven animals were 
457 Ibs. of ammonia contained in a ton of the — sident, on Friday, May 27th, Loi W. 
