Ocronzn 8, 1859.] 
of East and W 
sid in in = i P pioaghings t the 
implement of growing importance. 
+ 2 
West Flanders. To 
A 
| places 
torto whom Belgi 
indebted for the introduction e a E 
plough was M. D roe ud of Liég 
estined|regularity which is the soul of all manufacturin ng | prese 
by A ordinary plough p processes in which machinery is employed. 
As a necessary u of these expensi 
above. TI cesses, the cost of the ure x on Avg ex 
ply of fish 
achinery to be 
is sufficiently la 
worked 
ice, ‘ed t the irregularity of the supply, ‘and the 
rge t 
with p; 
ber aban 
tion 
e year, 
i) puro — e it impossible to carry on the works with that 
yg — nfining the process to drying the fish fal, it 
might not be possible to produce a m: 
| be sold at a price sufficiently low to create a demand, 
The cor on which this must mainly depend is the 
price at which the raw material can be obtained. At 
an 
f parts of this subsoil plough ait Put sik re Et — and farmers, contras ~ seme Me it with e 
— h; it takes — — ble power, two — in manufactured manu and Riding V hat e A per which would be increased, b retailer's 
some soils — being able to work EN easily. Taking a materially cheaper, naturally ev eie a prefe * profit, &c., to 67. when it came into the 
depth of uM Le iy it requi ir — had ges tomed to ls * farmer. This price would exceed the value of any of 
355 kil mes, - si are of wood refi s price lich w — remunerate the the samples of which the analyses have been given 
bound with i iron ; the 8. p" carries above; but then it is probable that the quality of the 
it soc or dé resembles that The fai lun of these processes, however, should diners : ould A er be any o "va — 
"Read bsoil pl. by th had tó the conclusion a it is impossible to con — if properly manufacture 3 scarcely ou 
ot s sui X which y the way enjoys n into a dry m , but — rather m that a manure fully equal to that value igit be be pro- 
ited to the 1 to the vance of simpler and easier | duced. It is extremely desirable, for the interests of 
iron work*, Ac from the dd of this to aght | processes. The truth. 15 that there has been a grót agriculture, that some trial should be mad — 80 as to 
regulator er ae m is requi Él ascertain whether it be practicable to produce such a 
porci — 
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS 
The price of the im onl of misunderstanding 
m imple 3 y. 
Tun CE —2 Mr. ogee d ’s figu 
— 
art they — and being strongly i Supe 
anufacture! m profit, thing, i i 
familiar with de — of tie that if it is to be done at all, it ought not to be taken 
ressed wi: e| up of man 
on be 
carried by the fish-curers, who ought to convert 
made treatment with sulphuri 
have most com 
mo nly acid in so 
r other a 33 part of their. process ; refte 
| their on ph he into — Any other plan, in- 
2 — 2 z^ crease. 1 volvi ing, as it must n ssarily do, considerable cost in 
Wheat .. .. 546, T 7 1,407 in this case, at least, all that is requisite is to p her, 
x 904 465,4 » q 
M 35 a 1,981 EL 1,981,197 5 E the water, and to enon the dry r vd toa 23 is not likely to succeed. On the coast of Scotland, 
. 190,768 .. ,519 d lent state, To effect this objec places where abundance of fish is to be 
Bero a — fye —— v leet 1 " sem 1l that is eq btained ; and it is much to be desired that some enter- 
— — or flat t drying surfaco, heated either pid a "e P cna prising persons ns could be found to make a trial of this 
TU. 2,748,380 .. 2,652,296 1900 .. 97,990 990 wik flues pass rb ns | manufacture. Dr. Anderson in the High Aland Society's 
Decreas : ps in 1889 96,084 acres of steam, the latte ter bein: Jre d ‘thin layer o f | Transactions. 
= um. — Decrease, the moist fish or offal Ubi ae n this, * be 
P -JGMOTO D. LAM .. api e | rapidly dried and — a proper state before COTTAGES IN epee a 
Turnips.. .. 338,203 322, 266 + 15,996 putre action comm on n 9 be produced | i the Inte G Free Ch 
eiue sn vie which would rea comparatively little smell. As ec y : $ 1 Church of 
Cabbage eR 182 31. - — regards ite value, there is some difficulty i forming an d "ad 
tul , Z make the follow wing ex — 
Carrots, Pars- on; but some guide may be affo by reference we 
nips, other | position of such manures of this kind as have — attention of your Committee has been 
green crops 223, 299 22,056 1343 | 4 in market, anal of veral of which | Particularly directed to the rural districts. They ha: 
Vetches and : . | found that although a number of good cot been 
Ra: 33,860 33,207 153 | have at different times been made in the ratory. | D ough a number DUE 
— —— — | The first of them to X I shall "^ are two samples | erected of late, this is still the exception, and not the 
Total .. 1,017,531 PAM 18.880 acres 007 | made on the east coast of England, by a process with | Tule Even tages exist, th 
Low crops m O th t f ain very — 2 ha: int mm 
From — 1 may be deduced the following |: id to d — 4 ich am pd poe Ba ^ partment for a whol ] 
general res ^ L m" i ting te 1 ‘of decency and proper M rear — eni 
: cres. í 9.77 12.15 whee equally at de lance, and resulting i 
Decrease on cereal crops Vidit in 1859 . 96,084 aww ae ge of social e vil. This i is the state of the ep een 
ncrease in green crops - 18,830 —— fli SO 1.68 171 
Dis ditto on Flax .. 44 15 in 1859 75,698 Common uit iia gar SÉ oe 26.49 92.99 | districts of "Sootland, even where matters ar supposed to 
Ditto on meadow and Clover 12,185 Sand RETI r 3.84 2.14 good footing. In this one a part 
tal decrease in the e of land under crops in 1859 . 20,886 100.00 ment the whole famil ly must remain, in health and sick- 
nthe uma table cendi the total number of nes 
live stock: 
1858 611 
1860 em. it 
fatio. 
"di 17,595 
—— 
Increase r .- 98,363 
st 3 value of the live stock in Ireland is esti 
En a US ' 
72155 .. 8491008 .. 1409 yt 
3,810, D HM . 38,588,356 .. 1,262,873 
acai 
142,832 .. 147,010 
imated 
Cattle. To 
2 7 * 
5,061,898 24,765,884 2,047109 1,575,501 35,3 
581,082 1 
— 
£ 
tal. 
£ 
22, 20,022,095 
597,284 15554 100,585 2,200,517 
— — — 
Increase. Decrease. Increase. 
ile theses according 
ion I. is worth about 44. 
ust take into aceoun 
ts source 
cL LM IL 3 8 
Line PER š st as 
Carbonate of lime : es ss M 
Another sam 28 of whi been 
unable to ascertain, but which I pare have been 
5 
id" vm 
The 3 of Sonam salt i in this 
ch I 
g to the Til used for | P 
— in EN and till the 2 in death. To this it may 
ad hat in e districts what has been 
ed, tha 
called the loughman ta fuod. node 
does ery een i 
have 
, except toa = 
very small extent in the alkaline salts, shows the possi- | 
The entire number of holdings in Ireland, from all of | sary d of bcos the a os without that substance; 
which returns have b btained, is nearly 600,000. pa e is somewha 
spe 
e last sample to which I shall refer was manufac- 
t ; 
in - some | 
tpt 
Assembly, to what has been en calet the bothy system, or 
a — of pss! a num ber of — and other 
MG — iet 
rende Mir "M the MR influences of domestic 
life impossible, ‘ r Com mittee issued a series of 
a effects b * ^J | tured on the Portugu 
"Heu PP | ese coast, whence it was imported 
of com: ** into this — Te is of a totally different t mature e di all erae chy to prevail, which were Mesi cor 
Rus erting them into a È perta able for orm so as to insur * | from the others, palpi acid hay ving o obviously „bee ex lly “responded to and from the answers thus re- 
diee of ta ego prop 1 existed no used to some ext sulph 10 lov d, an xis — sources, the ey beg to submit the 
rox and it was pointed out a ees ntly added as dre Stor nbn os n its value | eei Dus 3 
N M could be b eb the * of réfuse fish must be catimated on e principle as rat of 2 3 ah Mar 
ad be dneredsed, jt coal pe superphosphate which, d ewhat resembles distrile iue, Aberdest, Pai A E 
l among fishermen W int e : 0 
br them, inedible fish, whereas if a demand existed in COMPOS! 5 * partially eren în ofber coser t 
them, they would all be brought to shore. Th, Organic matter 1. ous o er astrietinquiry in 1841 that in 30 
Fesult of this suggestion was, that a large number is Bipho&phate of lime equivalent to 7.00 bone bounds of the Synod of Perth and $ 
EGLI HNEEEEM-- vi 
taken; but few, if any, of have come into|  {oszluble Phosphates. ~. zo X0 smi return which this Committee has obtained, 
Operation on the large scale; and, at all erent the alkaline salts FVV the superintendent of 
manufacture has attained no extension, and the Zend : i 950 | that in that ebunty 
Sects of an abundant supply of manure from Tuis 10000 bited by 569 males and 
rurce are at the present moment distant as ever, that in East Lothian there 
The principal cause of this result appears be the too This n — is ee i only 3I. 16s. per ton, int “this 3 girls lodged in bothies. a 
great complexity of the methods of manufact hicl hiefl, he biphosphate of lime it things exists in connection wi in 
were suggested, and which h required in in many instances, | con prevalence of some- 
expensive and complicated mach inery, or too costly far manures have usually been offered for sale = times very great even in sin; single Some of the 
materials, The former of these is a difficulty of the from 8 to 92. per ton; 3 os - price there is | returns mention that there is ripe fou 8 farm. 
Serious character, because there are few, if any, iu no inducement to buy t ence the In the the parish of Monikie it is hm m 
ang NES, Fond ton, ra e e of the manufacture. But itis is still a question 20 bothies, and many additional in in 1 for the 
1 | „setting aside all complex processes, and sim simply accommodation of shearers, In the parish of Wick 
