894 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, = 
than common Turnips, | data before v Making one or two corrections] over 50 per cent, mor 
by the aid of Dr. — manuscript, we find | wether, whic; is a c 
of less value in November 
and equal quantities of each being used the 
- fie gravity of | we: will irs Ee it 
former will produce less increase of weight than | n^ ae urine of the had a specific gravity of | we will not dilate a ei 
the latter, and yet if you wait until the Swede has ls . PNE strongly acidulate d with m muri- that we hope ere * mg to 
ripened a very different result is gained, for then | ntil upon E 
the Swede inereases the weight more rapidly than it was conver — d = or „ t l excrements for manure, UM 
the common Turnip. We might extend our obser-| was weighed, and found to constitute 2 p — we have 
he fou 
ione to the Rape crop, and here also we have | cent. (or 2.609 grains in every 
n to believe that the loss of stock arising from | amount of it (2.609 grain 
E use may be traced to the unripe condition of the | soda lime, and was thus to yield 0.542 HAMILTON'S paper enters into 
plant. The value of a food is clearly dependent grains of ammonia — 0.393 grains of nitrogen. sheep are concerned, 
upon its power of supporting life and a a y Ur z f - ther hu. sp. gr. 1.057 ; treated in the has addressed himself to the 
to the growth of the animal consuming it same way it gavi € — siduum, consisting of | lecture of "ugust 
as it is capable of 1 these s so far | 25. 43 per cent. of the urine, 9.165 per cent. of am- | operation of those who-have the 
illit be valuable; but if when we have produ oe monia = 7.45 of nitrogen. “This comparison gives— | to aid us 925 een a subj 
a crop for this specific we consume oi bmi $ E practical impo 
* . its I. {feeding power, w xis Sp. gr: Ammonia. | | Nitrogen. | Service towards the however e 
md f food, and pd s er petam s any experience, however cari 
health of the stook by whic "on EE NS NE NLIS iy 
1 , —— i 
d WS thus arrive at the conolusion," continue 
li aid —€—— . aon or chi | Dr. Arzomw, “‘ that the urine of the wether y ields TITLE BY i REED 
"ire of the food. on which it is fed is a feat baer! 17 times as much ammonia as that of the [Mr. Hoskyns has addressed thé following Jetten 
e; and that, using the ammonia as our guide, Pei pn xd agricultural ben 
E e amm sour g 
generally p nova Pa g pas tie e toate efi an [n ied alue of the urine of the wether is to that of mo-dégrée. of 5 
a — capable of alt any marked. effect the be Peruvian guano in the ratio o € the verdi Sa „election of j 64 1 T 
5 ures : x 0 
are essential. On the other hand if the animal, . Ma Barao need r. APJOHN'S very words arcely known beyond the d T 
: i fe gures it Rd. 
Tiberall Tg — Tor ene tha “probable. that Mr. — —— has mistaken the with the commencement ots tend 20 ve 
s inous com- per centage of ammonia in the solid matter for of this association of English a 
the E — — of —— in the whole bulk r 
of now in a position to 
: kind 
ind are very that such ES stake — 3 in 
useful in their way ; but the do hof edo that t that Mr. HaMILTON'S pap Sen ve 
seientifio lise rian one can . enn arte Wis highly ad thet va g course of * Pra ie 
e ri 
dita — n Adem ike Mr. SPooNEE) under the 5 tel, somewhat so poet y on sve, 
ge that the urine of wethers is, pee to husbandry 
the field. —— — ovest on feeding | HawrLrON's investigations, weight for weight, trade. is not n 
remains in a semi-cliao enteen times richer in nitrogen than that of | The relative progress during the two pi 
farmer has been tought to know that certain | ewes, when the DN of bot sexes are fed and the two systems, is matter of fa 
others — sas ithe treated alike. 12 ; however, is not the case. almost all classes of the publie; 
the animal e The ew — urine Mr. HAMILTON collected | But I wou M ask 
are ref. ws—that such X “never ved — y — — food” but Grass, while want which 
—— Lar starch, sugar, gum and fat, | the wether s eits — fed yit concentrated "aen tees 
produce fat in the animal and support aie, parad ings. difference. would e: hej ro mee ects 5 
tion Which maintains the ani i iti ; 
ds o 
a given ti char; to the animal an 
er are — valuable than 
albumi nitr y ut 405 
delle t ie — — expect, but that thé 8 of ni e 2 inc x^ doc 
as clear and y urine loughing or 
But when he comes to estimate 8 in — em n the tr imals are Jene, ie it does not- Tat 
the exact balance which his 4 stock pay he is fed alike is highly improbable if t impossible, tion for . ae 
caer a. My day with the chemists” Bute every student "à agrioultural temic m ows cad of labou ME It 
e per thi ing wanted in nth sort pre eif 
ind. we nie: fying 1 cal v volumes, E of nitrogen ix ‘the on of ivo d us is not | 
TORO for an answer to the | Grass which contains a — E 0 
—* How much of the first cost of my oil- low per centage of nitrogen, and oilcake and corn 
n and hay is to be charged to the cattle , and | which are rieh in that element, Viewed. in this 
how much to the manure heap ?" light Mr. Hawrprow's first experiment ris no 
months since Mr. CHARLES WILLIAM | icm so startling aft ig ag t 
TON, of Hamwood, near Dublin, undertook (we are correct peta that the 
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columns of Agricultural Gazette, So f Acc stopped f and Oni for | perty, is in one Bes ae 
e ur azette, me of| ar was ed from one of them. for perty, is in one sensé; an of 
these results were so startling that Mr. W. three days dede to Toi being shut up for 24 f wech and ch pte "mae 
SPOONER; jun.,“ mer Bo to correct what he considers | hours urine was found to contain per fic men 
Mi importanti em int Mr: - HAMILTON’ S- paper. W T ana cts S 
TON fed some Leiters for the last fat | eL. days mentioned .. 
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stock show of the Ro ety No 2. Fedon Grass alon hose three days 33.12 
Oats, Estimating their — — na eir boa. we find 
t that urine of the eake- 
d wether is — eight times as valuable as 
8 one, is a marked 
ofthe t former ; 
Ace a s sugges 
€ An interesting 
ia y either of 
Solid. Liquid, e ts, na ei. Tes Yülue ad tho urin 
Wether Ibs. oz Ibs. oz of ewes and ek treated in every way alike. 
1 2: i: zh s rn Conjointly, however, the Hau w OOo experiments 
pec 5 E SE ee throw some upon this point. The second 
e solid g 
Vid at 15. 14d. per Ry and the ewe’s at 83d. | (ie ctp Gra on töte nine of concentrated of oa 
This is s.a difference of reat magnitude, but sinks dados andis he rati, of quantity of ammonia. in | sound 
ga og gn PG ut sinks | the aah irse the first experi- 
insignifieancé when com the : 
marvellous . the Lu me the ae du ling of Beto whieh € t 
P n pon. we , 8 e 
thought it probable that, as Mr. Spooner Té sed — = centage 
e d P. a Es aa ve ne (wethers) to 2 (ewes W j^ eg 3 
an 1 e view o : b 
sin i ath ve Bavo Rel cuties erde cstv re of een for E 
pom S N entleman, who has! exerements of yee . ae it | The carcass p 
N's original report of has been found that the Lass od ase it | that addition which -— 
yses, from which we find r. HAMIL- In thi Ei bin dise M en id allm tor er ta — 
a 2 
the anal eil 
3 
TON'S conclusions were sity deduci from the š a "- 2 p T = 9285 8 ks 
5 5 "et n 
-* agricultural Gazette, Aug. 6, Or, in other words, tins c of the wether contains lur e remarks 
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