December 22, 1860.1 THE GARDEN 
ERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
1135 
ost, 
tie “Ginease j is extremely fatal and mae, Wield sto 
hay 
the cyanide into ammonia, by means at the same time 
eB roU and inexpensive, The following is the 
a a-pi ‘here 
N Néwfomalan, with ie colossal fii olan saviour 
e 
treatment. of the limbs or qu uarters appears | operation : of wrecked mariners from the swallowing wave; and 
to be affect and on Scanian — after death In nan earthen retort is calcined, at an elevated and there is the antic-loving toy terrier, ridiculous for his 
l ongested state littleness, delighting to be caressed upon his lady’s 
sf the pment A over a monn saa mus- | iron filings in ‘the proportion of about 30 per cent., ‘the | knee. There is the ‘thick, a ulldog, with his 
ular and cuticular tissue. The part is thought to refuse of coal, tar, and sawdust. This produces a stealthy spring and unre elenting , fierce, unflinch- 
g-mortified “or frost-bitten. essels are con- | 7@uction to the state of anhydrous baryta, of the/|ing to the death; and there is a spaniel, whichl 
pled We Chidled. vitality 4n Gestrovdd inthe vat greater th of the carbonate employed. Afterwards is | loves to be Fol k and AE Ek or peeps timidly out of 
ge Ga the , ae jo gren tf fe i slow] sed a curre ent of air across the porous mass, the she lter r of his m mistress’s There is the active 
the oxyg gen of li bonic oxide } swo emy of a r-footed 
system to throw off, even ha he aid of strong | its passage over a column of incandescent charcoal, | vermin; and there is the lazy, ently King Charles, in 
internal ; and external stim ea while its nitrogen, in presence of the charcoal and of an ungainly state of plethora of good living, 
ne ay of treat- | the barium, transforms itself into cyanogen and pro- | able to waddle me er a eke ame or repose 
` ment, can any prophylac aa measures be ado pidr duces considerable quantities of cyanide. In effect, the | upon her rh ndsome hearthrug. There is the home- 
E ng by ay of preventi e matter sheltered from the air and ‘cooled, and washed | spun, plain, intelligent sheep-dog; and there are 
ese persons who house mised oung mai with boiling water, gives with the salts of iron an the ie peace eatured pug, and the Skye 
early in the winter, or provide them with ad abundant precipitate of Prussian blue. The mixture | terrier, lithe like ar ee mn, shaggy beyond 
layer in yards sheds, and suppl he ith y recognition nr tail. Yet veritable dogs all 
om of Toad, awd iibe tially i A ity eit e | Of either cast or wrought i iron, which serves both a: undoubtedly are, anato ly of one species, He ly 
Bia a Kittle. oilcake oaks daily, rarely extinguisher and as an ate this yl ene rr | ee S in chara rola uy ois, of th 1 may 
aaier trom the’ didedse: Not re Ae hrou a tem- | haye been nay fa ploriity o: eir origin. 
citing causes to a great extent remoy ‘a, ut the | P hich di nd The torar ct bap image ot Justly 
constitution of the Tramal is invi orated, s al aa oa oii Tela ATEA race for ridding the ylgibourood a 
nished with the means of warding off d is impossible to aana all the resulte A this great polecats, rats, and such infesting and troublesome 
just as a well-manured field of grain n will BER discovery. Among other things, it suggests the pro- | ma aude s; for conducing to our health-giving ex- ' 
the influence of long-continued wet or unfavou hila sports; Siege ang prope una; like 
able we x is no fact SERR to | Chemical News: by MM. Mananta and De Sour- SEROR our homes and ocks and 
lt tt tablished than the sdyantage | deval, pr opati and for the a kA id amusement 
of supplying young cattle at straw yar rd w furnished by their faithfulness, affection, and play- 
Arnheim E SHOW OF DOGS AT BIRMINGHAN am 5 i EE 
edge of this fact cannot be too widely spre sas ERE the presidency of Lord Curzon a the SUBSETS (AFP: A anpor D SIRES seg 
Some advise the insertion of setons in the brisket management Emer ata committee, prizes of fou F anglanda, o aeex goods ye bulldogs Be agin 
“as a preventive measure, but we must confess | large amount were conipeted for _by some 300 dogs, in mie sd tonesking, = brat fe in Meir OE BE 
that we have no great reliance on this harmless | the Horse R & ATORES AC ear DR ee a Ab ened 
' practice. 
MANURE FROM THE AIR. 
THE value of guano and most o 
IE es 
And the élite of the company who scat gr the bays 
cages of clucking and crowing fowls, also crowded the 
alle; eys be tween the rows of chai ned _ dogs. No such 
ERY 
ther 
to a considerable extent of t 
Viewing the strange diversities in fame capability, 
ig and 
between the cattle-stalls and the avenues between the Sheep. dogs sire 
One 
1 | mary 
-Ee à 
e “rough c 
el: he 
a day o killed a fierce 
i a 
is s said ie weigh Tess Hara 3 Ibs., E he is 
ago 
A 
alkaline bases—baryta, for ots dan Pes ott in any | 
Bae od form c 
very fine. | 
| Some setters and spaniels, shown by Mr. Burdett, a a 
Nod 
re ust test 
aera, a3 co soil i tbtebls wtivation ; like 
it is unfitted for sheep, a under 
and root crops, 
anides. 
viens aera and De Sourdeval have ascertained 
ay pptirely. erroneous, and that baryta, 
stash or soda, fixes 
| are “exceedingly good, Mr. Bratlatord and Lord A. 
Paget wipning the pza, Ther a good class ga 
, used for cover 
~ the er of taint malities 1 in cons e pr oportions. | 
s 
vars esi ai admired for 
nsiderable 
understood, that for the preparation 
It i y of 
Prussian blue En maae e of barium presents great | 
advantages ov of potassium, for the a 
of baryta í costs "daly about the one-seventh o t of 
strength and han 
Turning to t pre Amao 
of the Show, 
naturally exclaim, can all these marvellous diversified 
and Earl Spencer exhibit. the most pr Tae The | ou 
their | as the 
otash. Thus d 
the result first announced by Desfosses and rie 
pursued in eae mee and England, the manufacture of 
eyanides he nitrogen of the ac te el air. 
This solution, 80 import rtant, depends on the enti al 
uppii 
Paradise se, and not from several hy wi different — 
— and order amon heter 
ark? Here we 
and those of potash ; the first 
yt 
TOUS, 
y 
which accompanied their fallen master out of | a 
There 
Berkshire pig, generals of te 
my. of ea to quote Mavor, who s of them as 
to having | ie obtained unqualified ppro! from the 
detect: “pte mi tòra “sometimes cı with 
vely- “framed mastiff, 
sagacious “as a Christian” 
Iih 
and ippa 
and becomes , deeply 
is infusibl po 
eyanuretted Wat 25 the t 
d loves him; ave the ey. tim, | 
d only 
at the st a pii puter by v 
The 
best bod. are ieee bred by amateurs t 
and we hav 
*torm r from i 
After tho! 'eyanido of barium 
was obi d 
ta? aca ll d tendern 
vee 1 ge et all grace an 
penen t the end T a riband or a w: PE P Ba 
and De eat to resolve was the transformation of 
t stronger field exercise than the hunting of 
1 known in the mec 
other shisha notice. The farmer finds a 
ardide date better suited to his purpose; they 
are usually black, with little white on the nose, 
manures consists 
h th As three-quarters of ae and disposition of the dogs in this whining, growlin eee mw re a ting rr ‘or b cease! sata gi 
atmospheric air consists of nitrogen, ar nd as hydrogen | and barking menag e can scarce’ vie | nage ug y = oe g 000 gu He The 
vater, if some cheap rai Aoolvinis that the animals are merely varieties of one ofcourse 
ere NTS i 1 “A hydr Fy a water to | sp —— and that all have been develo oped by differences a Sica abani Won thes Tee A 
: : g Alpine masti fis, St. Bernard dieng k awfully iar 
ammonia, this valuable manure could be pro- | pair; or, as some say, are collectively a tamed deriva- R t tus Maltas ath 
ced in unlimited quantities, and the agricultural | tion from the lean and savage wolf. In this gathering Sn AG ie dogs S S Pe Pea 4 a int yog 
products hey af bike aa eee ces sly ieee tte The of ga i inel a chorale inthe na manh sagen 4 Complaints respecting vie EREET and the mode 
s will be seen by the pp- abstract of some ie. | uses of the several n s. Whatever of ewiftn ness in| ayh he “ig anoa among some of ie 
nental researches, pursuit of nim me, of oaeiio keenness of exhibitors. From Times 
s Since the -remar e labours of Messrs, Liebig, | scent for a hidden or r fying enemy, of untiring pati- 
of Ae ility or enduring s THE AGRICULTURE OF BERKSHIRE, 
low pase oe become a problem o hest GERE 
a MET tt But to „arive at ‘a a E ‘it is my goin of the ae Na waa whate’ me i THE REV. J. C. CHUTTERBUGK, PEEN TITENE AN, 
necessary to obtain the in the ar instincts are valuable. age mighty (Continued from. p. 1068.). 
iprogenes matters; whi ch m may, for the most part, be ERE that chase the "antlered ders i in the Keen, THE VALE. —We have now to netice'the tract vf land — 
employed irectly as manures, and of which the limited swift, d i lying betwe 
‘quantities and elevated ae in mits in any event only | slender, facile e grey yhound, all el n rapid | ri er Thames, occupied | by the Oxford clay or clunch. 
er aie and costly manufactur ight aud leap; in es + yeni Falf. SE ts otter- | At “the foot of yom hill it is pete nelo and 
tmospheric air is an inexhaustible and gratuitous | hound; in the terrible bloodhound, with his ote a are here rote agg that the soil is 
source of nitrogen. However, this element presents so | lip; in the clever pointer and careful retriever—all are lay AN the ede E thrtwn’ fa agi in n 
great an indifference in its chemical rea ctions, that, | illustra perfect and unusually fine e: Epes f Figo this „point it fit a margin of 
notwithstanding the numerous attempts which have|among numbers of the highest superiority of breed. petted cla i 
been made, chemists have not heretofore succeeded in | The bloodhounds form a very grand class, to which the fill we aa N.W. boundary of the ty. 
combining it with en so as to produce ammonia | Earl of ot contributes the i speci- | Along this | linet the clay forms a series of low undula- 
artificially. This result, so long desired, has been| mens, remarkable for their character of head and ex- | tions and slopes, from its outcrop beneath the y'odlitio 
reserved for MM. Margueritte and our 1, who | pression. The fox-hounds would have been a larger | strata ta to t the low ground spoken of as subjected to 
have obtained it by employing an agent of which the | class at any other se e year. f f th 
markable properties and neat and precise reac Viscount Cur and Earl Grosvenor are the prize "Burcott Park, between Faringdon and Lechlade, ‘is 
have permitted them to succeed where all others had | winners. iers a agles are . The | specially noticed by Mavor. He holds up pei Loveden 
failed. is agent baryt which notice has /| large rough-coated deer-hounds make a fine sho } lightened improvers of the e Vale” 
recently been taken on account of the recent applica- | a seeming original of a Landseer picture. Ther are |and “his farm ey! a araea | 
‘tions that M. Kuhlmann has ma it in painting, | some — fine pit ro cw — ors pointersare A and a odel fo for u pet of 
but of which no person suspected the part that it was | the principal — rn of them of great sea tude” H a ri eder ne memes ete 
to be called to play in the development of the agricul- | the smil point pecially the biten class, s still Tel ia and Cotswold ~ at igs, 
tural riches of our country. The ag git Tg be raordi ; pte Fox . W. Powys, Mr. T °S: courager of new i 
ammonia is based on a fact entirely new, the cyan Dareabsy Mr. H. Gilbert, the Earl of Derby, and = The draining progress on this estate, marked 
tion of barium. It ‘had been piad anti ag present Earl of Lichfield carrying eff prizes. The Englis} th di the large 
time, € that potash and soda Alone had the ty of setters are highly thought of. The | Trish setters not | ibr of the main pipes, and its depth, 
