June 2, 1860. } 
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ve a cloud under which 
ee that es ie oe 
are now s0 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
513 
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“the scientific end. epg unapplied knowled value, that | lower grade than such labour applied to curing of dis. 
ge is of no commercial value, that | lower de tha 
ose = aE Han Hd which enable a man to turn to „use | ? wer chart ceva lates ae of om tee 
ease? Is th ere. not a lar; rge class of men to whom the 
d be 
antec sone of 
a W. Scoffern, nd., Late Profs 801 
sald 
ae 
of service? Is there 
ber of 
ils, 
institution is open fight against GY oi 
oe agal aang Medicin ne at tt by ai n examination which can only ascer - | not in the tare 
yo ol of eds tai vine the nome i is there whether capable of of | stewards, factors, ERA % may ti hi n 
one ci ‘entral Faenre Club.—The hope entertained sialon man may know in complete| possession of a certificate A in: gas Ria 
that the monthly discussions of this society would details pi ae lethargy, and regane may men have been examined in eras intnanitas “ot 
iome a school of national agricultural teaching has | m e hi im pr metia aR Am ay know | kr An. and found to possess the speciiied 
garcelY been realised. Indeed, from the statistics | fhe ould find any one to c | ttainments wo tee valuable there so little 
is proceedings, which shall presently be given, its de- | ov ld dri fitabl f young farmers, that the 
ites WO sar to be deger SR into me: apami ep but failing the ability to direct | care nothing for s pcedaabon of egree which 
expression of prov vine cial opinio popes individual oe servants or to emper in y A details his Bagh ip will ultimately lead MG their taking place among the 
nce ; the fails, while another man who: and there | lear ned Surely the oe ge recently given to uni- 
e itself among 
int: 
4s the convivial, dep “depart inet of he A 
to all gland, 2 elming majori o a more limited knowledge he is a|the a “The ‘conomi. 
speakers who habitually address the chair are g - | business man. Th edge of details which consti- | Granara and to the. Highland ono diplo í 2 
men belonging to cou in the im sears vicinity of | tutes han! business qualification is thus of more imme- being failures. Did.it ne cur to him that the 
the metropolis. Thus, since Janua 855, 39 questions diate Jue than the knowledge of p'an which is | depreciating tone along with others in whieh he speaks 
have been put and discussed, and of these, no less than | given iy a scientific as ation, An exaggerated im-| of agriculturists tends to produce that result?’ If we 
30 were intro uced. by members residing within a | pression of 5 is kin the Economist la ly, to | are told by some of his friends we are like dumb driven 
zircle of 70 miles radius from London as a centre. Of | depreciate the value of diplomas given after examina- | cattle, and by him as knowing plenty already, is it not 
the rem ining ine, the contribution was from only ei by competent men ; and t arks of this kind | very natural to be content? But allow me "7 Jl him 
three® counties, viz., rom Cheshire, three fr ce “A Practical Farmer” thus oe in the North |there are other and very different causes a rk 
Devon, and five pon Lincoln, The to total number _of | Bri itish Agricult . §. [The following is the | produce this result. In place of there being a sufficiency 
speeches deliver’ Į ý gh somewhat pve he |of knowledge, there is a deficiency of it, and it is 
of the opening addresses) was 320, of which 262 were itle to speak o ral sub-|the want of properly qualified teachers of prac 
delivered by mem ircuit nd having also SA sapere ver “its pro- | tical agriculture in wh he cause is to be found 
above- ed; 54 by representatives of 13 of the ins Digg ay be p resumed b; any to be equally men, earne: learned “i all the rieta 
26 outside ones, and only six by gentlemen ace ey oracular on that art. It appears hae the article that | bearing on the practice of the art, able to wor 
to the remaining 13 external counties of England, the depths of knowledge possessed | the tansia whi ch these sciences Supply, and sate 
the 262 occasion ns. on whicb the floo oor 0 of the slub-room | by farmers, has taken note of it and found it ample, | g 
has been pa cupied | 01 of the | and the ‘announcement is made wit uthority that l tl ld 
speeches ted from six pheasant Surrey, fuller, keener of the be more ‘sonia for Freeones This must first be 
Wilts, Soin s Cambridge» and Bedford. The number of laws of nature, of more correct habits of observation, of plied. Farmers, prio agi learned enough already, 
speakers from the tside counties was 28, giving | all attempts to keep pace wi the ad know made to pay for what i aa 
an average of ees ach outside county member ; | ledge which other professions are making, and of e 
but inside the home circle, four of the counties nearest |an acquaintance with the „very are which As Setar worst „we, are Epico: 
London were heard through their representatives 156 chemistry, as applied to agri iculture, has 6 Eco- 
times; the members delivering their senti» | dem nding him to make, is utte: rly and en irely us nomist pa ree syste em—when on 
ments i ae the four years in question no less | to the farmer, and that the rising rakk Aeg must | landow ni the A aa rent that n be 
. than 20 tim ther member spoke 19 | content themselves with the wisdom of their gece da ore for his Toe and although knowing te a re tian 
times, seater om patie and another 10 times. | And hey must pick up worth, i ere by dation) out the tenant and 
Wh ether r these anomalies 5 qor s they are ii in | they besi no facilities or inducements bie hese him des n the world when he rary pay 
ir p onal P void- Pam out 2 them. Strange doctrine na certainly, to | the uttermost farthin g) 
adie or not, hall not I } deduc. | co e from o e of the r epresentatives of the sch ool 
tions may © certainly be dra awn ean vhi 5 j wee 
pes given. aT "it caveman deficier eney eE ce Energy ‘and capital, ‘forsooth ! all Farmers Club 
f generalised nd pre that „farmers, ap ag Ae if what the writer “oie AYR: The Quality of Guano 
Rives of m tape ar 1 te be thdrawn from the composi sition | moeting rof the Directors of the Ayrshire pea 
years hav crack the debates that follo “to consider of the steps which it may be 
the opening s, are due to the compara- wala which the wi Ng I suppose, m t necessa i a x for purpose of asce ing t 
‘tively narrow locality to which the iing consists i "fathers, atti Quality and Value of yon and other. Manures, sold 
me rs belong 5 and pos rat however convenient ld w at the oe po months, or in cou 
and proper the instituti ]- | the inferior agg of cattle, D the obsolete machines and | Offered for sale to farmers and others in the County of 
tural rendezvous, as a shodl of agriculture it possesses | arska e manures, Bag provided he can only bargain Ayr” was latel ely held. 
‘ anded ggasi toa pagi itative boaghip with his landlord as the cotton buyer does with the e Chairman said the Directors of this Association 
of any other of the more’ compre! e | cotton-producer, - he s 
dom; and that the EM, Peebles theans oE A] all earthly glory. What then is | that farmers shou careful in pure ing 
a tip Lincoln, a es shire, 0: r Northumbrian to become of your Sh gg tte on ? there Ranier decd guano eara prih of Known capone ea He 
of a question of hu sban dy, io not less likely to | need of any more ser if, as|had taken their advice, and, for his own 
i the Economist maye a rgy a Paid capital ane ee manatee | seldom obtained an analysis except for aE ehtien to 
the Sneak of Essex, Kent, PA gg Suffolk, Surrey, | tion “ pseudo- feudalis m with the application to | Show how the crop rat si analysis corresponded. But 
fuii, or cr even though concentrated | husbandry of the knowledge already possessed by year he ai ape ng org of high 
into one metropoli us. - In evidence of t the fore- | farmers” is sufficient. We must go back over respectability,— whose word, so far as 
going statements = my ot Table is given y old files Soa be O with these. Every- | his koreae went sf cy still, notwithstanding the 
ene thing old zo do, pa atterns, no new | circumstan hich he was about to refer, the most 
Counties: No.of | Novof | Novof | seeds, roots, methods, dye hig ihe ved a para new | perfect c tis e meant Mr. Andrew Smith, than 
Speeches. | Speakers.| Openings. | books, or „any, newspaper ‘purporting to supply new | whom he believed there was not a more upright dealer 
-— ideas, bie ints, never before | in guano or any other thing. It so happen that he 
= 4 ced: This eee be e pie my with a vengeance, | g0t from hi rti f guano, for which he was 
43 3 The valightly qualifying clause, e that ‘scientific og charged nearly 132. per ton ; and on getting an analysis 
41 1 4 ledge will give occasional a RR cannot be| of it from Dr. Anderson, he found that it patatnal no 
26 i 2 acce = modification of the p evio pd irae less than cent. of san cent. of water, 
= = opinion, as it precedes it, and is A .off | and only al 10 per cent. of ammonia. Now, this 
12 1 to his ayka ii entirely condemning hed Gnatitation ene ue boi show the real quality of the cargo, for 
12 2 of an icultural diploma. which racteri w although had no doubt the analysis was as correct of 
a Š ‘| ambitious. i if the rons is r the samp A E , y y a portion of 
8 3 supposing ica tha farm already plenty of a the same cargo it a t only 8 per cent, 
5 ledge f they € could ‘bat an it. But "chat an mr ma of sand—so that it appeared there were differences of 
3 s amb igi quality i same cargo; and this dered the 
nor sb es 5 thio in Scotland, at ees the priority of being the | matter mor difficult to deal with. He had also 
TaLi jis 1 5 5 first to suggest it eans of improving the tes | obtained part of another cargo from Mr. Smith, which 
2 T ae 3 3 and position of the farm bgriatte, has proved the sub- instead of containing 18 per cent. of sand, contained 
4 ca $ 1 ject of a keen controversy in ange only 1.32 of sand, 2.88 of water, 17.91 of ammonia, 
5 i 1 swered admirably for the Veterinary School of Edin- and 22.40 of phosphates. It was in fact one of the 
G | e 3 burgh, and we challenge the Economist to discover any best sa of guanó imported into this country. It 
id < : district in Scotland with one-tenth of the stock of| appeared him that the plain course would be if the 
9 z à which ee can be sai said of the famous | whole cargo were uniform, to the person 
10 e 1 stock county of Norfolk i in the report on its farmin who sold th t are as containing certain ingredients 
H at 2 1 the “ mech of the Royal A t Society,” | and , for any . 
ws eee ul vol 19 :—“ the great mass of cattle doctors are | But different qualities in the same 
; oo but a shade better than t ibe con a d of older | cargo, so that they needed a deal of information. 
60 25 9 times.” “The License. ore end- | Pi the best course of ig was for those 
less, and the ily | who had received bad guano to demand dednetion from 
i i s fall on their emplo; poet armers themselyes|the parties who had sold it, who again would have 
1 i know little of the diseases of cattle, and the recourse on the importers, or whoever sent it to them. 
1 1 doolo less? ‘They grumble at paying respect- That would not at all compensate for the preg. ‘ace 
1 1 eon’s fees, but do not mind the| tained by loss, of crop, but it t make the 
= ie wen $ : poa Aha n dei tailed in with the black- e careful in future. They would require, however, 
s pots smith’s bill; and “whe other professions are over- act Wi Pa evs ee? they would need i 
. : i w i 
Tacs ister .. crowded, that this one sere p poe almost t hie md They must be careful not to find fault without 
Durham the hands of unqualified and ignorant persons. ps. f ji iaa io te ko 
Westmoreland such a state of exist in any district here? | cause, for they | wT eu H 
Cumberland terial advantage had Scotland over England tlemen who im lures; Of a rad 
RG A eae the possession of the dinburgh | believed the mistakes he had referred to were quite 
6 2 im any repen pe d the Highland Society’s diploma | ney ad Differences in a cargo might be caused 
B., May 21. Mogg hegre z ine 40 en? Ts mental labour | i he loading, but the importer should be aoma to see 
: Agricultural Diplomas.—It is so obviously true that AA to agricultural p pursuits to be considered of a | that t his cargo was all alike, The guano was 1 
