1050 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE.  [Novemnie 24, i860, 
d þe eagerly s 
| Highland cattle were really so 
sought after; i _ but ti the bends of true ile all nitrates are excluded from the reckonin ng. 
benescial, byt e (Mr. Fs) ) tooo that in some parts 
of the "be chan ed been a great mistake. 
He ‘hough ‘Sa free Blackfaced shee 
o Cheviots could hardly do 
paepe he $ PEREN of opin that 
Blackfaced was the sheep for the county of Inverness. 
In regard to cattle, ne “ ase neither. t 
severe climate nor the snitable for 
Or 
Short-horns. He kept Highlanders himself because he 
found the climate was most s e to support that 
| areca ere He fod that Eth e Gentes ¿they were 
w. th 
the 
: k by-and-by thei 
cir | that purchasers would be 
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expe rience, ‘that a 
e had, however, been an a exhibition of | 
at the Society’s show i in August, and he hoped 
koning. Of these 
OF thes: 
there rst havin fo 
ct_to ascertain the quantity of nitrogen ng for 
: obj 
pela to the depth of 40 centimetres (near! 
16 etd and the Sa to ascertain the same fat 
"good. ‘ross, could | always: be got. by 
etre in 
nsiderable distance from each other, the 
soil ri traits and a little siliceous, deep, and 
such as bore perfectly well Clover, Lucern, and Sainfoin.* 
Te at. field il al i ` 
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whose surface-soil alone “was investigated 
about 2 hectares (nearly 5 acres) i in extent. It had 
grown during two years a mixed crop of Clover and 
it 
unless they kept them warm. If the co old here was too 
severe for Highlanders, it was certainly too cold 195 | 
Short-horns. In regard to the cr Ga eee 
= pre 
vailing in the perch oe remarked that it was ‘crossing | 
promin ng. As 
by crosses. That, he did not think, was 
he understood crossing, he thought it was a cross be- | 
tween two pure. breeds, He phanght that a cross 
where circumstances were shitatle, Petar than a 
Short-horn — ee the Aird and some other 
districts of the co 
Mr.Smith, Glen- Urquhart Chet here tho pastu: 
was hill and e Lil as seep, he 
ry 
was most ‘auitable, but where 
m was 
composed of green land and ag god A cox White- | 
fi t suitable re regard to cross, 
Phort- horn, nnd Highland o cattle, Mr. 8. spoke at cons 
rable len 
ori the a were best adapted for one breed, and | bur ry show— 
some for another, and contending that Mr. Anderson’s 
experience of the profitableness of rearing Highland 
cattle was ba ey ee ezephidnal, for he was not so much a a 
stock s of Mr. ae of Brosdhinkoals aves n when 
as abo cross ss of a cross. 
he opinion expresse sed 
ether Highlanders or nee would te 
keeping — nt, n fa 
wo a not pay ata 
Notices of ain 
pee Tol f Ayřiëntrure di and 
land jne RS 
in 
àd their i 
meta influen 
reek to agricaltursts a as s intelligent oh suti e ert no 
special right to a place Itural jour 
its relati ion to them 
Th 
of a 
eran capital essay on the atin Wd 
gricultural summary 
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manure for four years. Holes 
e}had n rede any 
vere dag Py snitable o obtain be Sari in ei ght bean 
with s 
es of 
Vail 
ct. 1860. Bick nad p Sin 
prat etry 
m as fatness ers i 
ato 
te $ surface- AEN the a of 20 c enuie, tres af tis ity 
ar ie the other nS layer just below, to the 
gene s (oeanly 16 inches). Now, o 
ay if ie mer was con tain, per kilogramme 
of soil, 1.659 r a pa okan. and the latter 
al ammes; that is, the ormer contained .1659, 
ona pk latter .1157 ye cent. £n trogen in combina. 
n, a Skilur ok nite trates. from th data 
the quantity of nitr rogen Sah sank of these laye rs 
contained -per hectare aractan and supposing t 
he 
| soil to have twice the specific gravity of water—that is 
| 2000 kilogrammes per cubic etree is found that a 
ayer of earth of 10,000 square metres, me hectare 
of surface, 20 centimetres in thickness, represents a 
f bic metres, weig' kilo- 
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oral find, pA then eet tora up. SHI the Sn he 
thought. that the cross and. Short-horn was just. as 
bree d. 
fa committee 
profitable for the farmer mm the Highland 
Mr Fraser, Balloch, s) 
r B Blackface 
breed as the sheep for this county, and deprecated he 
extent of crossing whic 
which, he remarked, had been carried on for years 
on some farms, probably under the nee ession that by | 
cae ag a the Blac faced would ul analy become | 
ow by Mr. Russell, and a paper by Prof. An ider erson on 
the valuation of m: es, com 
given 
a Døm —thre yA: 
We have noted the following gikages hes D 
aking. —“ Our agr oo see al readers w 
mach "better pleased: we dou ron ee be told 
n be made and condue ted t 
} T, hag 4 
ort of on the 2 g by 2.47, or 
labourers, to Mae A et has been made in past plying by the quotient of these aei that i 
hey € 
age Now this Whe for the surface layer no less than 
c | nitrogen per ac A similar 
per ne is f therefore 4128 1b. per “acre, ‘Th 
coarser soil, somewhat neglected, and very stony 
beneath. Samp les of soil, were take en s0 as to divide 
in “the det, through | goa igen. 
25, 50, 75 centimetres and 1 metre below the ghee 
corr responding ne arly to 10, 20, 30, and 40 inches. And 
AT m neak: within nek last 20 years | ni 
Aa age 
‘T hay roduced,’ aye a Mr, Cause alon 
a E Mihi cattle iu the, mpi to tn ac and 200 200 ave of i 
to 
now; and some south thn thes TOSS 
be found, were now in the same position in ae ae to 
Highland cattle as they then were in regard to crosses. 
i i ummed up, 
nibroren. in the different Leh A 
Tiare — > 7462 Ib, P 
ay, N ae 5, as. 4413 ,, 
oy: 8479 ,, oe 3103 ,, 
i ee 2816. 5, $s 611 s 
ae Rre thor e Tstond 
d e Chairman (Mr. Simpson) Pg On a 
resumé of the opinions ex the differen webs tty fneredous when Temming of gre i ‘boar, estimating ‘the erating both w. 
speaker the general effect of which, he said, was, i Seaton for m 0 nels without the r did we stop Ria irie ah 
that we had to. too great an extent abandoned Main te &e., p lodra ME o the rising | the dept a ofon ne AATA ie * analysed such soil as he 
the nati ve breeds of cattle and sheep, and intro- | Smoke, heated ahr, ie “sonata thie eal ns esis found pune n the stones at a greater dept and | 
duced Cheviot sheep and cows or Sper rors cattle in th e ace cumulated ‘vapour and clouds to the that if that si were formed into a stra of 25 ce 
districts in which thag i could agh ae did not attain t t r 10 inches in thickness, it a 143 
pa thing like opinion, “he himself, | of be sis from the clouds would cause rain. And kilogram mes oa ace. that i > 
a considerable sestent, coincided, n regard to sheep | the — e, in a paper rea = ir ie pond of the British Nor was it only the actual Em of nitrogen at 
it was. eviden r. Smil hat: the | at Glasgow T suggested as a mode various depths which he dee , but the rate of 
a e ET Fai aa $ us herland- | of tUg. the theory, far H raising of cha ts cent it made, And 
, G pe nor. f Scotland, was a purely | ductors to the cl y | in reference to this, he ASA the ‘tenting result 
Cheviot stock-kéeping county; Peeblessh' the | enable the surcharge of electricity to SAD us |t st SUPP ORINE | all Mia pcp. to c above, it 
extreme south ckfz trict. _In those coun- | cause rain to fall ; and I me mity m bstruci to a tee mi sit in the 
ties the Cheviots and Bl es W n i; , Clow Guar in| e lowe ver goals a phenomenon not 
state of great pe ection. T sh fi this | b l icit i ature. Thus he apie Mah te 
unty seeing the success of the Sutherland Cheyiots, by sister. means.’ In sa B of this on inion, yan: in ngai ar layer is 57 per cent. 
seeing the Peebles Blackfaces, had, | - ) we, Wis ibe Pret that set of the third layer is 70 ont oF 
too generally, come to the conclusion tl h, distingnished student of stmompherie |t t in the second ; and-that that in the forth ager 18 
in ory posible situation a A icity. i POR writes Weekes, e from AE a per cent. of that in the pas: eag eh risi ing e 
x led to errors, which, } v Rone life been an shies x receding by a common fere! put it 
patohan (of their ROCresatd were | rical kites, atmospheric exploring wir is a questio R Anas ge n ed 
rocess of correction. g to assure you that it has several ti out of its Sloper within the vegetable organisation, 
hat when my Kte Er been raised im well as nape soil outside of that organisation; 
a ese Man Phare ice fara n 
bayside mt d bear compar 
with th e general run of. my pa the crack— | on 
Sutherland flocks. tneriot sack es of the w 
thon 
jefly if not not Stet to the e high |t 
rieme and southern. p 
m portion—in Stra- 
e qua 
say muc 
the sheep aie here bat this could, and he believed 
4 ducing rain ‘by 
as cast light, ear cloud, ata meat e 
a sre feiened wit aie a ee 
seen the | 
est aaa ma tn gs reduced in 
ugh he could not this pmpry as to the possibility of taping eal 
dt society for pro- 
means of ‘ites, “with the famous project 
as 
| ded if = ae t. must be regarded as a pr of 
Aes | posi nilation in es thei This 
not prepare 
is r i 
famat but en existing in uch a ne ere 
on ‘the touch of Ss living plant, it i is ready to r 
| itself into ammonia, either on the vegetable re 
| 0) or in its interior. If we aapi this view, _we 
would, j corrected. 
of Dean Swift for 
nts, tt 
m Mr, 
was great. He Ray that bet was ae more ne shan that of Mr. Espy of the United States, who pro- 
sed t the ae Be huge fires | peceatby from M, Piers s ae and 
gr 
on a Highland than oria cr PA and that ne e 
was of eater, rae in the l= on market, w 
ei 
ef 
its } onal falls of Tain having he een 
l the. ey cannot be wanted oi aay 
defect of ammonia nitrogen in the soil fol paige Pod of 
all oi 
quality was wnand epee 
si IR ve M’ 
ilar opi l Combie., Tillyfour, 
and the f 
who stated a he pst as much m: ney fora compact 
seein: 
i fire 
) as he did for a much 
cattle were much in ping i 
the parks of English aristocracy, where td 
r 
Y, whi 
sque a suited | the scm and 
the saath 
dou hi 
as also relished in be paroma alle 
ee, oe ighland h r gave 
ae . er 
“were. there a large cha of | 
. Eaa hare, they | 
esult } that have been made estion.” 
m 
ests of sobent Scotia, _ This hes must 
At bgp ag ry Miscellaneous. == 
Sie Ag even ‘ith the Sica. of _ Adulteration of Maniires. — The “purchaser ot of 
emptying a rain-bearing cloud. 
ar ale 
and to 
avoid 
and to fhe s. The hee Aer pi rding the large con- 
ha abet sumption of artificia a show how much 
scope must be for the 
1 e of inferior and adulte- 
E rari in all their 
"}* An account of 
= d in his eit Se eee aeeeeee 
fon in whic it viata ca isthe aaoi. tak Mal et de Physique” for 1860, P 
