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HALL AT WYOMING.-AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 
petty outlay. People think nothing of giving their 
money profusely for a great variety of things; why 
will they not then take into consideration the bene¬ 
fits of an improved agriculture ? It is the great in¬ 
terest of the country, and the foundation of all other's. 
The prosperity of the world rests upon it, and woe 
be to the nation that neglects it. It is mainly owing 
to the want of an enlightened system of agriculture, 
that Ireland and some of the continental districts of 
Europe are now suffering all the horrors of star¬ 
vation 
HALL AT WYOMING. 
FIG. 28. 
The above cut represents the front elevation of a 
dwelling, in the castellated style, to be erected the 
ensuing summer at Wyoming, near Boston. It 
measures 75 by 36 feet. The walls are rough 
stone, and the flat roof is covered with bricks, one 
inch thick, laid in cement. The gothic doorway 
opens into a hall 32 by 10 feet. On the left of the 
hall is a drawing-room 32 by 22 feet, 16 feet high. 
On the right, are a library, dining-room, and two 
bed-rooms; above are eight spacious bed-rooms. 
The location of this mansion is well adapted to the 
style of its architecture, being on high ground, 
fronting a lawn of five acres in extent, and over¬ 
looking one of the most beautiful lakes in New 
England. 
Wyoming is seven miles north of Boston, and 
was about a year since laid out in lots for orna¬ 
mental cottages and villas. It comprehends a great 
variety of scenery—hill, dale, open lawn, dense 
forest, extensive lake, murmuring brooks, and cas¬ 
cades rushing down romantic glens—well deserving 
a name so immortalized by the poet Campbell. 
The building now presented to the notice of our 
readers was designed by William Bailey Long, au¬ 
thor of “Views of Highland Cottages,” which 
work is for sale at the store of Messrs. Clark and 
Austin, No. 205 Broadway, New York. 
TO PREPARE BONES FOR MANURE. 
, As mills for grinding bones are very costly, it 
is a great desideratum for the farmer to know how 
he can otherwise prepare them for his crops. By 
the following simple method he can reduce them to 
a fine powder and increase their value four-fold :—- 
Take 100 lbs. of bones, and place them in a 
kettle, or in an old tub unfit for further use, or even 
in a hollow scooped in the ground, and made w T ater 
tight by lining with clay. Next take from 30 to 35 
lbs. of oil vitriol (sulphuric acid), mixed with one- 
third to one-half its weight of water, and pour over 
the bones. In a day or two, the bones will dissolve 
into a liquid paste, to which there must be added, 
by stirring in, wood ashes or fine mould, until it is 
of the consistency of thick mortar. Put the mix¬ 
ture under cover out of the way of rain, and in a 
few weeks it will become a light, dry powder, 
which may be applied by the hand or otherwise,to 
any kind of land that may require it. In preparing 
this mixture, great care must be observed to keep 
the oil of vitriol from touching the clothes or skin, 
as it will burn them as badly as fire. 
The oil of vitriol, for this mixture, must be of a 
first-rate quality, otherwise it would require a 
greater quantity than given above, to dissolve 100 
lbs. of bones. The mixture answers! best for a 
turnip-crop; but it is highly valuable for other 
roots as well as for grass and grain. It should be 
applied at the rate of .20 to 40 bushels to the acre, 
sown broad-cast on grass-land, in the spring, or on 
grain and turnip-crops after harrowing in the seed. 
For garden or field-crops planted in rows or drills, 
as roots, corn, beans, peas, &c.', it may be applied 
in the hills or rows at the time of sowing, or it may 
be afterwards sprinkled around the- plants at the 
time of hoeing. 
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 
It has often been sneeringly said, that chemistry has 
done nothing yet for agriculture. Those who make 
such assertions only show their extreme ignorance, 
coupled with rank prejudice. Look at the great num¬ 
ber of accurate analyses of soils, manures, grain, ve¬ 
getables and animal matter, which have been going 
on for years; and the late brilliant discoveries, of 
the detection of ammonia in various substances 
where it was not before known to exist; and the for¬ 
mation of the superphosphate of lime, by the appli¬ 
cation of sulphuric acid to bones, thus making 
them easily soluble, and rendering one bushel as 
valuable for the growing crop as are four or even 
five bushels applied in the ordinary way. Indeed, 
in some recent experiments in England on a crop of 
rutabaga, made with great care, one bushel of bones 
has been found equal to thirty bushels, as usually 
applied, though nothing like this could probably be 
realized in a majority of instances. 
From a late report of the Agricultural Chemistry 
Association of Scotland, we learn that the number of 
analyses made in the laboratory during the last six 
months has amounted to 210. Among these are three 
different oil-cakes. It is a remarkable fact, consi¬ 
dering the great extent to which this article is used, 
and the length of time it has been employed, that 
its accurate chemical composition should have been 
so long unknown. Some of the practical benefits 
to the farmer arising from this analysis are indicat¬ 
ed by the following propositions :— 
1. That the per-centage of the protein compounds, 
in the analysis called gluten and albumen, is near¬ 
ly equal to what is contained in peas and beans, 
and that, therefore, for the production of milk for 
the cheese-dairy, and also for laying on muscle , oil¬ 
cakes are as valuable as beans, peas, or clovers. 
This is a result somewhat unexpected, inasmuch as 
the value of oil-cakes in the feeding of stock has 
hitherto been supposed to depend very much upon 
their power of laying on fat; in other words, upon 
the per-centage of oil they contain. 
2. The proportion of oil in these cakes is great¬ 
er than is naturally present in any species of grain 
