1, 1862.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 531 
- 1 {о flourish. The|any friend who b t 
] agricultur ould soon cease to а у n ho brews stout to obtain No. 3, which is a | exhaust 
{ ity of tenants and landowners opat ever be | little darkerin colour. I think that if we, а бой exhaust "i eh bes Жы, u pith Miet M bo Bird фт ыл 
er ther; and that this is and the|turn some attention to the Lan th of Cereals and of| results of ipsa relating to 14 soils of. ver 
Sorks EIL is seen in the —€— condition of | Peas and Beans, which grew well in East Somerset, we | various шопо had been found to be pent їн 
gni farms, and the higher rents they c and, Ij|shall obtain a very instructive 5 interesti ing exhi- | dilute уйг ochlorie 1 id. Man ls ha ad, 
ean to infer from this that we 1. not as| bition. I noticed in the International E i ud n v 
do not mean & ida 
farming in England as any I saw in Scotland ; I most beautiful specimens of Beans aud Peas from | pro ortión. I 
wrong Sul fd fan, Abile, in ares ines better men the e кон en Stituents ass баа io ihe Ju eng t 
class 
gher * show. irty gradations o } thes ына acid would probably be availab ble for plan g before 
ld copy ; but I me admit that | shown. Тһе В 
of English farmers wou 1 . me a few ме зев the ex НОЙ of the periods mentioned ; 
ihe general pra ractice in Scoiland is P uniformly | as seed. Jha n them in my garden, and I hope | large Proportion Weis ж would sun ss LM dein 
pum and one sees far less ba Ear 1 ere than in|I s, be abio P^ tel you of the result at our next | eventually available within a greater or a less depth 
annual meeting. from e surface 
10 I have d йен, ce to my subject, many of your ————— 9 ub l e 
др ана чт бз е ех тр of mineral constituents by the 
readers, knowing the pro dices of English landowners THE EXHAUSTION OF SOIL sale of jet and meat alone is in reality not so great 
this co 
| ‘n favour of annual tenancies, small enclosures, broad 
d hedgerow timber, and against giving farmers By J. B. Lawers, F.R.S. F.C.S.; ann Dm. J. Н. ар е г 
or dh E bones; d» т б он fte Б English Спвевт, F.R.S, F.C.S. оч for the purpose of the above illustrations. 
farms are badly E with vanna wil see su pes Sept. 9, 1801, Sectio: tici n here is no purchase of cattle food, or d 
ient in all má r the niformly good ое THE que of the exhaustion of Sida is one edic he eye manures, the sales „of oo and meat 
Seotland and t the Шаг ds the w nants afford | peculiar iras Nd at the present time, not only on|the autho; a y 16 much 1 
to рау. No dou чеһ of the mischief i in England account of pe great attention now paid to the waste of | purchased, n Еа ma н T MM iet 
arises p? p feudal feeling still t g matters by the discharge of the sewage of| there would a 
giving enant farmers the independence of long Jeases, towns into our ДҮ» but also from the. faos ар Baron | (оће һә tl always bo much more phosphorie acid 
and to the law of settlement, which made cottages a Hk ently urged that our soi suffering | y; tap "$ e TE] Mpeg Constituent}, ко ч 
bugbear to landowners Roti the fear of bringing more ene е from this cause, ud fcd "3 d ced Кт Ad mi fu 
paupers on the parish. But rust this is wearing | certain, though ; it Р: be distant, ruin to the nation if h "dies CAES T ей; be e s ler = 
ot, and that landowners are learning their roe ou ds рик Нике o Pod as ука 
ennot be well cultivated without a command o The que: of chemical facts, and the теси дершк Арап, Чү M the "hole or 
1аЪопг, and farmers are getting alive to B Ege jmd pota to treat it much more com 
advan of having their principal labourers hensively than чыг were able to do on the на e nus and meat will reach the sewers ol cur towns, 
on their farms. But long leases are „вЫ occasion n. They proposed, by way of illustration, to бойо eise out Ребра Б Mese NA 
CE io bog impr rovi hg tenants, ` Without ing its way back to the land in some form, 
F ^ ЕСА |in addition to which, imported corn, meat, and 
О and . + т " 
5 T B |other materials, will contribute something to 
i tivat 
fihak TE Du Ei 
ka 
L 
high | farming, the returns from which are hen t trast t] 
Mat emu, duce аш mi у Та oris rio Ве шомма af eir ome d Mad 
upon them an improvements which the пашу ice had grown Wheat for 18 years consecutively on | of. the refu att t - t d z^ ri 
long and fixed tenure makes. ual|the same land; respec tively, without manure, with | diluted with ss térd "th a узы уй ed dr ihe 
tenants farmers P look to the return of iie wenn y^ farm-yard manure, and with different constituents of | resent US ase i e at ba retine under the 
-— them for the year's epu and while this manure; an nd they h ad determined the, amounts ofi the Fo tlie aite Milo, pecie озсо erops, and espe: 
s, 7 
i and; , 80 as this is 
andowners and tenants must be nted lots. Numerous tables of the results | t. : - 
ah only н слони Hewitt Davis, May 21. — were А MORE The op dud in the composition of - "pr ut еы y vier i contribute io “ше 
ihe ash, of both grain and straw, dependent on varia- "n "i ndr d vun bra У к mr dp ти тй 
ions of season, and consequent character of deve- а КЕ "Whe eth om posee 
THE CEREALS IN THE INTERNATIONAL  |lopment and maturity, were first pointed out. uid aik, ү асро or produce thán со 
xn M The general result was, that with an unfavourable антер күн e TI ii А э, 
banquet of Bath and Wi England | season, there was a slight t dod арген iable decrease T able is generally made by the re 
f piei on Thuy last at "Wells, E Portman, | in the percentage of pem md Pu хь. ай LAE HR 6d гче ааа of's derit о kind 
in En is "ee 1 as Spree n of the | that of magnesia; and a in the per- | ре very considerable. 
us IEEE uM Mora е e show centage of f phosphoric acid and [en "and Lepecialir in 1n 12 og conclusion, whilst the a autio ors insisted upon the 
my duty to serve as the | acid. Turning to the bearing of the results on ће | сс тыр Q DE XS agricü ida pene 
EST the present International Exibition ue main an aig of inquiry, i a appe peared M when | esae blé of the уве füanuritk arn rd 
in A. course of that duty I have gs o form an|ammonia-salts were used alone FE ar on the| 9?" toris, they аб the eme time believed that modern 
on the agricultural products of the orld. same land, the composition o of The h o grain е wr ps tg wd t P e ere 
mi i ne to begin kis гы British exhibitors, and of straw, showed an ари decline in the by aei s ge ike the degree that had been süpposed 
say to mys that Pan ve no doubt | amount of phos phoric acid, and th at of the Straw, а 
de jay il vil Et that "tho: сеге 
Britis t to the лыо: "Sho w by the| When ammonia-salts alone were used, dus unt of Home Co orrespon ponden 
i „producers are neither well shown Жо good | mineral constituen ts in the crop of a given area ot land | „Stea in Cultivafio —I have some ү x L сап 
quality, I ask why is that? RC is because, t was very much increased; much шө " than Жа give in 2 support of W. S. Guildf ford's jet ten hom I 
Pg ago Society butin tl y y liberal supply of mineral constitue lone sed. | beg to my best thanks. The ШОЧ is a prom 
pletely Ao heerd years devoted our attention so com- | But, in neither of these cases ps. er aN like шы by me, May 9 inst, to the Editor of the 
: ће breed of animals and the improvement of | the amo ы f mineral constitue obtained in the North British ee culturist, and. published in that 
implements that we have neglected the cereals, not on | crop, that there was when [^r mmonia a-salts aud paper, May 14 in 
farms but for exhibition; and I fully believe that | mineral 1 th when farmy ard | _ “Sir, —In your Fed on the International Exhibition I 
rmers e t read 2 ords—* We pot Mr. Smith of Woolston from the 
d h с ры wed b; 
I 
m EE 
8, 
ext in ord not Sido | 
n our several exhaustion Ec apparent w. to Ъе | С0шре : 
ái societies ought to resume or at, when iti is Fed hat, i these 2 nus ЧҮБЕ Juroto Wera ara mno ОЕР reed 
prizes ES paratus closel; ked in the Exhibition, and if an hon 
RUM exhibitions a: as well as for stock and ырат: in which both corn and. КЕЯ were iie is ce ion i e 
їз is from Ж бопе. The evidence on that jurors might have judged, 
Wheat is from ли Bootin, and the finest up there had been on the average Siete jadguient might have had. pude Таке for instance 
tle bushel cn. ralia, weighing 68 lbs. 7 or 8 07. to annually t E the {а by the use of ammonia- | my heavy land Barley field, cultivated and at one 
miller admirably exhibited rell prepared for | salts, about twice as much a Ко acid, about | operation at a cost of 6s. 2d. me Barley лоя in 
The bes ont 25 times e style, waving its fine ; broad dag; mo re masterly I 
e 
and well 
E е best flour exhibited, in spite of the|5 times as much роба, and ab 5 as much | Prim 5 i 
Hing ma D'Arbly flour is "the best in the Ше, as would be removed under a system of ordinary iu tUe HE burger which had been drilled first 
MON ustralia. ане = дА tation wta home manuring, Pi: eling only corn | pikes as well as ed ye ves e with. 
id utiful corn, І say then go to Nova Scotia 57 meat; in fact, in 16 years there had been taken |." Моа ши аа е i hai err era Fanta 
admit, of dee from the 1 к Dey быы. M ke rand Банку in this зи ibourhood. 
Bean 2 es ittle v use to go for our Wheat to Australia,|32 years, as much ро olass as would require 82 years, Duo 1кө amy own 7 
E uch of the excellence of its pi ode and as much silica as would require 400 years of such | ploughed in that fine month February, and was drilled in an 
hole m е Climate of that country. f do not | ordinary practice to remove. ex Мз апа EP AT wat gu ЕСА к грч rains. 
d Ad such Wheat in this country. The Again, the authors реше that in the experiments The nexk Titer fallow was drilled at the same time as the 
their seed from us, and by the aid of | of th г. Smith, of о on the growth | precedingone, andi ee xd 
e la nd, without | cost mus t least 3l. per acre. The дакы, under опе 
ians t 
et iren this ien excellent Wheat. | of Wheat year after year on n the s 
t 
Een хот , í t d in whic 
Ачам ч to farmi rene Tho Zo ollverein — 1 acre of land of about 3} times as much phosphori gs e winter. $t wasbuad forked again thia springy 
and the exhibition of corn in | acid, ame 7 times as much potass, and oa 37 ies aod i sprich gres e das E D per: [o 
е. acre. i , 
i dem i the AT Ms І . Тһе ех dee iden as m silica, as е would be in the ordinary hot about the produce; the lands are all alite in character, 
ably us A department is also remark- | course of parve: eh after some 15 years the cro) lat mine is most hilly and uneven, and. 
АРУ good, and I 1 , ye PS | except that mine is the most hilly тоб а екеш 
М, . fully expect that when d friend a5 Lois Weedon were said to be not at all failing. (i mener working of the lot. The produce from mine wi! 
t exhi i ommen: са o ойна рог оге хобе Rus лан аа 
pro 
Meeting the Royal Бабу tried tbe exper iet d haustion f за 
howi : ied the experiment o Н E austion t was, of course, stem, Thus on my 10 
ei the eXbibitien failed for want or | impossible to state the limits of the capability of soils 1ГЕ in, ono gmd а hal 
vit ub and 1 iam the West o Рават ит, so РТО poa was their composition ; «уи and vrbi cannot get such facts by à mere 
n this district | Hops, I know, are not gro LI would be useful to give an Mig. inspection, and all they can do, yet I can multiply 
etceeding] ct, buf. the iom 5 чыз production. is on йв ад Reckoning the soil to pe 2. беш by walkin m ыш from feld to Ан ud farm, 
tifal Uat uie epe 5 ran - (беер it. tii t d send my tackle to the R. A. Society's show to be 
H xhibi ion o sjem Ном, of ordinary rotation with home man E aig e of thi 1 h 5 
Mel ant has said that Neb! tj toget Nos 1 and | selling only corn and meat, about 1000 years to EE оге ореп d question, Be Берт by. eem iy 
ewing of beer, and he would recommend | exhkasi аз much phosphoric acid, about 2000 years to Tandwirthschaft, xiv, 
