\ 
THE 
DECEMBER 18, 1875.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
779 
_were extended over a 
e for = we to — 
e may quote the summary which 
Mr. Smee gives, as it comprises jener point of sac 
interest :— 
“т, ga from individual cows is liable to considerable 
variatio 
"2, It is ossible for кеч oo milk to be watered 
to a limited extent withou 
“з. That the casein pane "cid circumstance 
undergoes modification, both physical and physiol СОЙ, 
se experiments 
the milk. 
p Ht That milk can be the vehicle ed dea 
ect communication of 
water. 
“в. By the absorption of z аралк by the ex- 
posure of i to deleterious 
extreme in pd r to communicate 
d in the milk itself, probably from an 
altered ebrei of diseased animals 
“5, That the methods now em mployed by publie pa 
ently delicate to dete 
Biivaiological changes Ау may at times cite pace: in 
This latter statement is one which will probably 
commend itself to those who have watched the pro- 
er the Alteration Act, and who have 
e to the conclusion that much more searching and 
mentioned by 
a good deal of 
on 
m from 
the cow fed o 
trid and stank after thirty ak Ъ ou The butter 
E sewage- -fed became rapidly rancid, 
ompared with milk from cows fed on ordin 
grass.” Again **cows fed ont wage- 
invariably lost condition." This is a statement that 
must be carefully verified by other observers. We 
may also call attention to the enormous difference 
recorded in the constitution of ordinary mea plonge 
and of sewage-grass, Mr. Smee's calculations are as 
follows :— 
Meadow | S 
Grass o EC 
Nitrogen as ammoniacal salt 2.8 8.4 
Nitrogen as organic matter . 0.7 I4 
Nitrogen as albuminoi pd эе ө 5-6 12.6 
" gir opns nap Ва 
Thus showing. Eum more than double the 
quantity of nit торна matter in the milk derived 
from cows fed o 
tell us in 
to in s asture, hoy € it had re- 
ceived a jpili of ordi rd manure. 
Taken as it stands, Mr. S s table would rather 
tell in favour of the emplo e-d 
aracter, an honest attem T 
add ET ar stock of пана ста р. information sh. 
thankfully welcomed. 
roe its Advantages, Resources, and 
Drawbacks, By E. A. Curley, Sampson Low 
E = к first things that struck us on opening 
e volume was the alliterative puo. 
and 
of pamphlets on the pretensions o 
ductions of Patagonia, the potable refuse of Pachino, 
and the ponderous ores of icocoli ;” to this ‘ар 
of avarice i ; this 
eager enterprise and electric ў and to the 
“ full measure of its own mag- 
t ной. еге 
ection Il that we have to deal with a 
i —an тире that a more 
Ure hie ooh 
A Mages Roe eg Re se the 
* 4. That the food of milch cows affects the quality of 
author’s style and method of treatment, and that 
relating to the locusts will afford one illustration of 
the ** drawbacks” mentioned in the author's preface. 
"I had seen the grasshoppers very thick in some 
places before reaching Grand Island, and I had found 
d 
some fields of Maize nearly destroyed by them. t it 
was in Howar nty that I was first brought face to 
face with this scourge in all its terrible reality. I 
S Paul's, a glance towards the sun would s 
louds like the a 
oliage, even the stalks, wer 
covered with p Кк а to be weighed down from their 
thousands, of 
we had found the pests mostly confined to ‘the succulent 
fields of Maize, but now they w everywhere ; they 
peded the progress ot the horses, and they covered 
everything, green or d As we alighted at the hotel it 
eemed impossible for a kitten to put its foot о 
he dus ad without stepping upon t ne" 
footprin re as transient asif made in water, the 
ее were displaced for a single reque. ve in the 
next the ы or their fellows were there efor 
The following remarks ^y dg codon to some of 
the wild fruits of Nebras n describing which the 
author has had the нена of Professor Aughem 
“There are three type species of Plums in the Stage 
casa, and ila. 
О 
Ina Plum thicket in Dakota County, covering only a 
I counted, while in fruit, nineteen, varieties of 
tinged with gr 
scarlet red, 
yellow. Suc hi 
of = e the Plums bei n in almost every 
co ally along the иод, and bordering 
Th groves in spring time 
resent a vast sea ‘of flowers, whose fragrance is wafted 
for miles, and whose beauty attracts every die The 
or obovate 
r being an йыны ад large size. 
ice is jeusaat, but its skin is is me and acerb, and 
its {> is sharp- or mar e shrub varies 
varieties Heer e fruit which is a great improvement 
in siz e and tas ie түрү species, while others agai 
ated 1 more subject to c is th 
Prunus chicas T hich grows from 4 to 12 feet in height, 
coment ore and waji with long, n , almost 
lance-sha’ ute leav мт. whose edges are set with 
“у? eg re th The fruit s globular, of all shades 5 of 
o тои some varieties of delicious, эй thin 
— ed, and containing an almost round and entirely 
ess sto и ш dwarf or sant hil Chine so 
En pens is really botanically a 
mila, €" егег we speak of 
depressed, trailing or semi- 
erect, from 8 to 24 inches high. The leaves are obovate 
чөе ды: Е to the base, sometimes а little 
apex, and pale underneath ; the 
i ter. The fruit 
and (oon Sees р ‘oad, 
Wi reddis, or nearly black, ne sweet, 
ні Ану delicious and occasionally almost insipid. It 
Mitis. of the flowers are are large in 
ill > produce a 
marked (Small Fruit Culturst a cs 
um and a Bi cem 
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w be an 
e nee | revolutionise wever "this 
u 
e best varieties of th the awat Chery are 
able, as ies come from the мин ап 
explo: d traveller in the pul 
and the day is not distant Swit this 
fruit will, as it deserves to, have a place in the gardens 
of all people 
We hav сова thus much, as no doubt some of 
i be 
mican or preserved omi 
flavour. Wild Currants ind 
Walnuts—all come in for n 
nature of the climate and the fertility of de soil, We 
an quoted at such length that we have no space le 
o 
ing, and what Орон не it offers to 
settlers, should eee, this valuable record of travel 
and observa 
—— The first number of the London and Provin- 
cial Ts illustrated Newspaper is n us, and from the 
ex scar of vede ts, and the neral tone of iza 
hole, we venture to predict AY be arned succes 
for this n hey aspirant for public favour. 
Law Notes. 
Pepe ON AGAINST THE GREAT NORTHERN RAIL- 
AY ели) с Loss or MARKET. — Davis V. The 
Company. —This action was brought in the Blooms- 
ry County Cone on the roth inst. The plaintiff, a 
у сеш in St. ar sued ы» “defendants, 
Messrs. King Nutt in 
sample, and did not see hu contents of the boxes, 
en there vus four of them 
as only one box op 
in all, He did not send a cod of Onions to St. Albans 
at the same time. He at the ook, 
office. The Apples arrived the 
Barnet, and he complained the following к 
The Company : refused z ЕТЕ them to St. Albans 
salesm aiding in F a ain 
Рай ves ha а tuus tà in St. t. Market every 
id not receive the till the 
ey were too late, and he 
essed by a 
lost the They were addr 
print . , the ess said that 
tet son nailed on the addresses ; he had no Onions 
ndon, as they bought cheaper 
in the enini APR He last saw the Apples in the Com- 
pany's —Robert 
plaintiff, said | said hat he assisted his father, remem- 
that pples de too late for the market, 
and sent van és was 
The learned e faving ux what proof there 
was of the state of the Apples, the plaintiff said that 
they cost hal a case, and he only сири 105. 
for loss of market. They ought to have been ed 
only reac and 
h not give Is. a case for foreign Apples at 
that time of the year. 
. He bought them u 
they. were sound when he ae: t 
specific ell ax лі desi 
did not consider themselves 
and a prompt one, and. no 
the 
This Mr. Harmsworth 
of the слы Че. there were no 
son had kept 
the goods and 
AI 
service was a god 
were by 
defendants to 
wen А. Desde А clerk in charge of the receiving 
өзу бе and that as 
bans, the "чай 
e a н 
he remembered 
d 
boxes of Apples to Ba 
and dee boxes of y. vam to St. Al 
rned 
consignment ; as there was considerable discre- 
pancy as to the Onions being received, he should give 
judgment in fa of the and al 
the costs of and witnesses, 
