tricts, and much cattle reduced to little | who have given special attention to the analysis of, stituents, eee A to the condition of manuring, may 
I 1 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
any di 
better shen: “skeletons, 
an that ther 
as not been a year of such scarcity of e 
r. Gilbert’s communication in last week’s Agricul- 
[May 12, 1860. 
may 
| sf Yo Le “average annual produce of total „dry 
fodder since 1700; in that year it was much as it is firat Gazette conveys the impression to the raa i as about 
now, ct ied by hu mdr eds; a nd after Grass came | beet 7h that the proportion of nitr in Daten is 1 ton per acre, which would contain about 900 Ibs:-of 
more animals died th i dysentery, | subjec o such fluctuations, and is alw. ways very iat. carbon The se amounts are somewhat aoe Whee 
&e. Tt ems reason: oe to | expect simi iver results this | Dr. ysis of all annually 
year, and I strongly recommend, as a preventative, that | kinds of feeding stuffs must hav need him that or Barley. 
for the first fortnight after me 9 are turned out to | the proportion of 1 nit een! in Tarntps, ela els, Swedes, “2. Purely carbonaceous manures did not ue to 
Grass y shou ld bave a little Bean- pe once Gr rass, Åc., varies, serve in eres samples of | increase the swwgeecet ibe by rhage 
every day. ay can easel e obtained and that g rally the of eithe er traps a 
the wants S the Peran althoug fe in feedin 3. Purely m wigan ures induced little no 
deal has bee ported from mburgh, oe dealers apex os to others of ae same kind containing less increased assimilation of either carbon or trot by 
have brought om quantities “trot more hk nitrogen. = ae considers Dates an inferior food, re but a considerable amount by the 
ting Good English hay is selling here now at} because those analysed by him and by Dr. Wa tson Leguminous he e. 
1d. tx coram. eN Tittle nitrogen. 4. noe nitro 
pie ula the cattle have been turned in He t be aware, however, by 2 percentage of salts, hen used jee say increased tthe 
wobds “and pl: antations Foe almost left is a hg aie nitrogen i in an arti cle ood i is no safe indicator se 
there. A sad result attended this pra inferior of stock, te! but not thy g: 
few d he, has on various occasions public i “5. Bym f manures See both mineral 
constituents iit nitrogen, but no carbon, oe ere was a an 
instance a few days ao: 
Spenc! ely living 
named 
4 
Eita s 
dd we 
of chemists and py soe who attach an 
i hig ortion of nitrogen i 
7 
were brouglit into the pi Fe on the Homestead 
qual t 
food, 
The _ favourable opinion which I have expressed 
ant jumped and 1 pla ed in their way ther if in 
erfect health. Y Je 
aes ia aA and it, was subsequent! y ascertai iy” 
f Diae to the feeder of 
of ni he n which | 
S, compa- 
A Dates o the fi iller 
pence | a matter of little ipit whether | 
en Na 
o 9s. per stone of 14 lb. and | 
nced t 
scarce, while ntti is seling 3 reg at i at 9d. per Ib. | ca 
ool, and i 
without the w inst: an wn where ls. 
has 
lb. been given for ool. here 
ates „contain mie or little tse The 
| point for him msider is the pri xe ch Date es 
Cab thes 
ton of dry ae ner acre, which would ee 
akis 12 ewts. o 
“6. The aE vie sine 1l tituents in the 
pee hay-crop was gan l} cwt. This amount 
about one-and-a-half tim uch as was contained 
in either Wheat or Barley Siei unmanure 
“7. By.means af mineral manure alone,o or ammonideal 
salts alone, the a nual n. the 
tye 
d lived in An ” 
at something like 62. a ton, I Fore. Wotan will be 
considered Be practica 1 men a valuable article of food, | 
t 2 cwts. per acre; and by 
mineral and nsan manure combined, to about 
4 cwts, oe acre. 
š — is particularly in potash, t 
cep in 
ve been many hoggs killed ; aed = ri believe th 
y good m 
t the hay-crop 
ty “the end of Ma: n will hardly be to be | | did not con ers a particle of nitrogen. ore Eeer e of soll sate than either 
found at any ia | e nit: a determination in siya fourth ardis was | Wheat or Barley. 
Corn of all kind s well. The total imports of! made with Dates kindly sent to = Dr, a = “9. Owing to the comparatively large amount of 
Wheat for the 3 machi a namg March 31 have only | Dr. E Aea gavo ee constituents taken from the land in hi el 
been 337,739 quarters a Riots nst 749,411 quarters for | Mr. Sibson obtained .. 2r rop—to the less regular return of them by the hom 
corresponding period of year. The great falling off | Thus showin ga close agreemen i ie ee one the manures—and to the less exposure o of the. Soil in 
che and Egypt. q 
The d t f tl PAN R Balt anal sf ad ore 5 an d R ate | to prevent its practical exhaustion of Repe 
and other ports, and we 79 soon have large pisar than that f fate a ay pri Rethams ted. J | than in the case of arable-rotation-land. 
from them, though it is stated much of that OT In the Agricultural Gaz oh 81 st ian y — oo annual yield of nitrogen per acre wa8, in 
Stil Tam has been alr ready purchased by millers here ed by with analyses cade atid by D: Gil. th ured hay-crop, nearly 40 lbs, This is from 
Still I t fhas were made. Of the accuracy of Dr. Gilbert’s ana- Oniethird a one- nee “eee than was annually obtained 
| lytical results, and those obtained under his i iate | im eu. T The ee sig ns ag AE Ai ta poe 
Wh role especially on Paaran iet land, Ais pr eign wert. ron ee eis | yielded consi sider x niora nitrogen per pes than that f 
greatly from the severity of the weather. On much wet nein adiil alas jake pialathievalmcieshind: t grown without manure. gu reased a was 
land the ese has absolutely died from Sartain, the | that my PET Dr. The, „Jd e to an increa gowl of the iol ata and ; 
in tl state being rami 
severe and tong continued frosts, and p bgt ae 
pation den ai we 
— not actually perished it is small, feeble, 
land eray has worked well for Oats and 
Batley, but owing to the cold weather they come up 
slowly. 
The land is now being pre fia ared fo 
te Se = latter has 
~- 
wn where Swedes 
toe and m: 
Potatoes are e plentiful, but 
in the market. 
ON THE AMOUNT OF NITROGEN IN DATES. 
By Dr. Aveusrus VortcKer, Royal Agricultural Colle | 
cester. le 
Stnce the publication of a comple 
ee Eee T ve had made in 
several determinations o n in 
different kinds of EN “the se ita are the results : 
Ast sample—dama sed D 
Toe ee a SE? Š 
THE florine il 
and Mr. Lawes draw from borate experiments 
aana in their Fesent sotittie ions ener st Royal | 
Agricultural Society’s Journal on perm: meadow | 
land :— 
1. he Produce of Hay per acre:— 
| practi tical mee be “ne = very shortly stated. 
order that the more tem 
“The more 
ee the more complete distribution of the 
iiaogenous mantia Tk (ammoniacal salts 
nitrate of soda) gave an of nitrogen in the 
produce equal to only about one bake of that supplied 
n the manure. 
“13. Mineral and nitrogenous manures combined 
gave an increased produce of nitrogen equal to from 
to 
e rather more fav 
im crop is not more thi. is enis attributable to 
under-ground 
| m: marling, lim 
ay. e hay crop is a 
constituents of the soil; a owing tò 
pri f salts of potash, a oa “with 
n The 
l 
the high 
pront be fy ii 
3 artificial ma urn of t 
Nitrogen 
ae O cent. = to Protein compounds, 
et experiment 4.031 
4.156 
= ae Dates containe:i 31. SL 40 per cent of water. 
e case of the Meadow- Grasses, as 
mn both Seton: 
supplied nitrogen remained unrecovered in ei 
mmediate, or the erie “teresa 
E bn the Bs nts Developed by Different Maaures.— 
“From a review of ae whole of nl facts adduced in 
the Third Leal of our Report, it would appear:— 
. That, how athe: pk. of ae be considerably f 
ereased— whet ther r by means of farm-ya' ane manure f 
ilone A nd ammoniacal salts, or arti- 
2 
T 
rm-yard manure, stable dung, night soil, and the 
te ; which, at the same Sart bring on to ‘the land a 
, Or 
ficial mixtures of suitable mineral manure ant ainmo- 
niacal salts— the proportion of the whole which will be 
: 2d Be pe oe 
S — 
` for Grass land 
2.756 
eon 2.806 
tes contained ` 13°60 per cent. of water. 
3d Sa Rape Dates: 
Per centage of nitrogen .504 
Equal to oe com- 
pounds ~. 3.150 
h sample— small Dates : 
ae wing of. ee -297 
Equal to pro! 
* pounds. 56 
In Journ. Chim, Me »1V., 173, I also find an | 
analysis of dates by Ki —_ who foun in them 85 | a | 
per ao of pulp, 10 per cent. of stones, and 5 per cent. fo 
of a Monson of stones, the results 
KI Rew | 
tow cw 
ia 
Extractive matters soluble in water 
Or, opisne git oe 
Equal to BR sO unäs « 
obtained by | ë 
The “are 
Peruvian gua wich ia Fi in haba as well as 
pran —— of soda, and sulphate of ammonia, 
wild 7 in nitrogen, but a of course, no 
T Rj the rate of from 1} to 2 ewts. ree: 
nitrate of soda aane or sulphate = igh = of 
the rate of 1} hs 
and 
xture, 
With this | 
| plex an 
ks per Sere sy be Sed, 
tten dung once ever 
rape a good c Tof hay may be taken ta Vary 
| year, without ki ot the land. The best ania of |; 
sowing the ‘artificial’ maiaa $ Speirs in Janu 
and it should at any rate be seldom postponed. be 
| Febru Sigi 
d 
2. On the Produce of Constituents per mz 
main Facts elicited on a Cotai dsratioa of DEAC gejt 
if 
is. scientific men yield in the hay-crop, of some of its Sip baat 6c con- manure, the character of the produce 
0 2: 
applied anmahiy, aga ie application of 10 or it a mati 
wh the Lge 
“5. That the d 
a 
“2, That the prie will be by far the ; 
* artificial mixtures’ are fo 
mra In fact, Ra the increase of hay. 1$ 
"artificial manures ¢ i h the 
constituents and ammoniacal salts— 
S kthen greater than onder any of the other 
the and the 
re. | herbage xE nearly sro a an nd | the produce is then, 
o ore, almost ee 
ie t th itself, 
eous produce when 
pee y farm-yard man are, is less complex in character 
et tik ek hope peer 2c wh na s 
artificial is 
“4, That, up to an nal period of the season, te 
a pita io by the active artificial } 
erst proportion in’ flow 
wn without m: 
grown by farm-yard m: 
er proportion i in that hat condition. 
the G 
rd 
seeing a, "sn that grown 
that the pote te 
in still larger 
eRe Si EE 
yard manure sown upon the wh 
gs eines manure. 
the crop was further increased, b; 
he got “Or araona] salts to d ee 
that 
a 
