860 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. —— 22, 1860, 
was for h bone: o, but he ioe ng Zt 1 sips sin favour of boiled bones. th 
‘eten mene some experi riments ae celts the lade Neal or or two in pas t few years he had seen very different results from the Ss 
gas lime, et = piai l aha satisfied with the results of the | parai an ons of boiled oe at he felt justified in saying that a 
trials. He about 85 tons, which he brought | return of capital would be seen next season after the applica- 
ost being delivered | tion of this bone dust. He would bring baat sie pa at once 
pod mode of a oy ria and he would w ke discus- 
The b 
a y a i 
ground to a very fine powder, until it would crumble to dust 
under their fingers. This could be sown at the rate of 2 or 3 
cwt. to the acre, and i t had been found that the very next 
plants could immediately “fe ed upon it; bui t i ee ey put on 
bones not so pulverised, they e year after 
year. 
id he should say that all farmers ought 
È : Ho y 
nights ait objection time, and theref E be, did. not expect to be turned off in a 
the | year or two, and Tai thought that if he did not get so good a 
Mr. Thomas Atherton, Live: jel; sl Swai A some capital stock— 
best p, strong, | his roan cow, Moss Rose, sire Sixth Dowo of axm u got 
fone snd p and N A pened is impression that where land was i = first prize for the best cow in calf or milk, w: splendi 
state of cultivation it would pay far thes ost for being mal, as also was red heifer Red Biaon by the ‘eens ave, 
there. But it answers poten an ary his ex Lees pa the one shown by the a Mr. bide of Singleton Lodge, 
mg and wetland. He had tried i and not worth | Kir! a m, in the same class, which carried away the second 
per aa pri The following ODAN ative detect will show, at a 
Mr. TaLLANT said he knew a farmer who put gas lime on his ats the sum obtained for admission to the grounds, and the 
land in greater strength tian ‘that repan eis a sini but it pant of subscriptions and donations received each year siuce 
destroyed the gee for three He put | the formation of the Society :— 
r acre. Receipts Amount of 
id he had used a large quantity of ashes fro Places of for Subscriptions 
—hundreds and hundreds of Cas ane “he sorisidared Year, Admission. Admission. and Donations. 
fore 1847.. .. Lancaster .. £ 63 18 oo £525 11 
1848 eston ah G 540 17 
184! .. Lytham 537 8 
1850 Burnley 209 1 ..489 18 
18 .. Lancaster 111 1 613 10 
1852.. Preston .. 140 1 493 12 
8 Blackburn 1411 . 380 
1854.. .. Burnley .. 128 10. 528 7 
855 Lancaster 112 111 365 9 
1856.. . Preston .. -. 951 s 513 13 
1857.. è nioi Pi . .138 ee 398 16 
TE and 1858.. . Ulverston . . 239 p 5.897 9 
me they had s to plough it up three times | 1859.. 3 Blackburn.. -.253 4 A -.528 1 
umber of boys ho uk te 1860.. . Burnley 32807) g S ža 
HAIRMAN : ashes? 
i eet The notin size. Cinders he would not| MUCH WENLOCK AGRICULTURAL READING SOCIETY, 
to any land he had, oe fine ashes might be| Aug. 22,— Lieut.-Colonel Sir Herbe e Benjami 
denii 1 Edwardes delivered an Address to the Olypian Class | 
Boriso tall’ be Tee as a ear ro ake stent ee on the occasion of t their annual meeti ing, for athle atic 
sports. He said:— 
ce) 
Mr. UNTHANK sai to 
dissolve their bones, for it was more et! a landlord than a 
hed. It very 
h nd if unfit 
does it not become unfit hs athletic sport? 
‘The Olympian . i Oi 
ene it meals expresses gets unio: ental 
and physical bs pages and mental and aiei aa com: 
tition, which your object, and which was Ae 
pring em f the renowned games of Greece, t 
wh England adopt a heathen and a foreign 
name. Let me advise yor then to call this tho o 
Boe class by a thor ughly English name. Call 
Cl h Work and Play, or an: 
ea else you will; but let it tell of English men ai 
women, English boys ar girls, English labours and 
English holydays, English earnest and Engli 
gain, I see amon r sports the practice of the bow 
Now let no Englishman speak slightingly of the “cloth. 
shaft,” which no s me d gti 
4 n enemy on foreign soil. But there is a 
time forall things, and the time for archery as a martial 
rcise has e ever. live in days whi 
the le art of war has been revolutionised by the 
rifle. It is i Er ua À then that the arrow can ever 
fl in i And i for real war. 
not ian its ERS as an exercise for men? To them 
ve 
result at the commencement, he might live to see os pect of | the very charm and life of any sport is its i 
it As and therefore, he. ga pte go to the same | earnest; and th nest has gone out of archery, For 
xtent in preparing his bones as uded to. the nai then, I would say to the men of Wenlock 
The Cattle, Horses, Sheep, ai P: s.—In the live stock, the 
exhibicion. CAG moet, exceilon in altoost every. class, Tho “Resign your r bow and quiver into gentler hands; trust 
S orns comprised joana of. 100 © ntries, Lieut.-Colonel ', who, when tl they i 
Towneley’s Royal bin | es the E puie for the best two me prip hearts, mi ean th 
Nag te upwards; and B: gotthe second prize. | men of England henceforward the national weapon is 
qualities. It develops individual intelligence, self- 
reliance, patience, thoughtfulness, and sobriety, for no 
drunkard will ever do anything with the rifle. Therifle 
n reno or 
is only domesticated in countries r ne national 
liberty and individual independence. If, men of Wen- 
ock, you wis ing about this result in yonr own 
a| Me your ur We nlock games lon ng f 
| tend all over Shropshire, and make lie men att 
better anid stont than they are.” 
gather ‘ing as this fee making a “holiday. There’s a 
00 much work 
, I mean; for of worki aye others—of 
Men are uch s to their occupation now-a-days. 
not allow to be | There is a perfect idolatry of labour, which no 
i e, or holiday, or the in ife. joice, 
therefore, to see this thorongh determination of the 
good folks at Wenlock to have a regu of play 
year at anyrate. This Olympian Class is a t 
idea, and i your public-spirited towns 
r 
self-sacrifice and self- -devotion—there i is never too h. | 
Calendar of ut Operation’ 
S PTEMBER. 
F ELY : Sept. 12. We commence our report by a, 
ence “5 "the A a change which has taken place in 
weather since our last was written. We were then a late 
sive of danger to the corn crops nom the continued 
; 
we were doubtless on the veh of a fearful mity. A few 
er would 
YO) 
have occasioned the corn to Gte, whether cut or uncut, and 
rendered it unfit for ng Ta use. But a gracious Provident 
| has interposed, and when ‘cars had wy ellie overw: 
had the weather 
us deliverance came. For two w eeks we have had t ed. Wind 
e satisfaction | and th a low Alasci mg have enabled our farmers t0 
t he ‘really of seeing you enjoy ceil 1 And th th re this oe z one | make raj ta proteas ana oe cM ho ishing thet and 
wol ` s + gri corn P 
bo nch only of a larger institution, t ae ise temperature has ioned the crops to ripen very 
‘small scale him- | cultural KARIE Sooty, which has a ine tires: slowly ; we have therefore experienced no difhculty in getting, 
he ose gentlemen who had $ PRA class, a music class, a class for chemistry and | the corn cut as fast as it became fit. The last two nigh i iges 
spoken, for he thought ai EPEE sagdi applied either for | botany ; tollee photogmaipha au hs of distin- | been intensely cold, the thermometer on the former Dt, 
Turnips—and he m fant asht roe asa top droen ing for bhod d fossil ii 3” | low as 37° in a sheltered situation, and last night as low a8 °° 
Denei That had been his e guis men, and fossils; a has a working men’s | These frosts indicate early return to wher ot 
ch besides. Looking through the Olympian Class | writing we can see the rime laying upon some ns 
is year, I find prizes offered for no less than | stubble; we therefore fear the backward corn will sri 
} Be to Aek d . and will consequently be considerably oe 
ae Hecate atl teal e o Pasi Or SIX | We have not yet seen y samples of new ‘ae 
different exercises of the mind; and lastly, two prizes | few we haye seen have been very inferior, 
E dad E that manure lasted for womanly industry in plai saning. pa knitting. | grown n black fen lands. Indeed wenever remember 
DSL nali sam) . 
year ant and if Ebay Lad to feten iho age = is bed ed to wea spay dined list of objects promoted | ery dry ch hook A apai 15 stone 
would a by th ao Reading Society without | ¢,omb, Whether these are to be regard age I 
pi fan {bree pis ag l, and saying |s ens from these soils for the year we can. scarcely to 
“Here i nia really Going good. Here, in Af they are, our prospect is a mournful one, and we 
r midland county, out of reach of the er fear it will prove so. our high ruta A 
mode the sample is much better, but by no means MUN. the 
of the gen- | grea f learning, arts, ‘politics, and fashion, ce there will be a difference of 16s. per quarter jigbted 
to a com: | in a yalet nook of Old England, here is a little knot | prices this year between our best high h land and Wond promises 
of English men and wome m rage — er to do | fen land Wheats. The © Oat crop has cut up welt speared have 
iy heart poston yield. The few samples which have F 
g t einekset and otl and hel much | been favourably reported of. are still unfit to cut; Lane 
ed t snag when as in then lies, not only to make oi T England what she pea A= e frosty mornings may them. aa faran 
| H can be in a instance. 4 
in | is, but better than she i is? Tt improves „the ind, driest pe mes haro tential a cee scaped, buton 
be pleeepicee = men must have; tea men res hi beer- 
dd 
joe 
Fes : ; 
| cent amuseme ants, and so ah men from ha ones, for pein and the late sown and those resown look 
and complaints are no ly 
ge | tue. "Gra should the present cold 
ue. Grass Keeping is plentiful, ma stock of all kinda Oo ne 
wre 
ious Coleseeds 1 
sulphate o of and fun iee Aona 3 it ore to ah oy men bad and is Plant eran ay and the late-sown crops grow slow’ lower: 
he had seen from it, he | to the general happiness and morality of the town and | of th cig wn on dry lands are very fine. | Acient 
A escag PE eN : a a stly, it draws all classes, rich and 
ogether e English fashion. This is a ea winter and Eees spring. The corn trad is unat the new 
| heron English ioetaiy kid Wenlock may well 
d of it; and, I rejoice e to hear that the other leading 
sop comes — eat upon the märket, and itr regulat 
prices 
jo ha sowed tha mam 
each. 
wasa difference of opinion as to the | artekak The annual expen ise of these games is very 
of raw and boiled bones. Some differed, 
and he 
Noteg a a ranae, difrod, w equally | | erora the cost and the enjoyment go gi tna 
the cor ld see in his experience, between the the | gest the sloped ce cathe ‘name for this particular | 
»stuck to boiled bones. There wav 
rade and > sett ri what 
an coord settled prices ; € 
venture not to Lane ut for good quali 
very low. Your Fen Reporter. 
SOUTH Essex: Sept. 10. Strangeto write, Mangels, and many 
| other growing oro ‘since the rain ceased are apparen r, 00 
fering from ooid nights, and are as if in want of a shower 
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