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SALT, URINE, AND LIME. 
SALT, URINE, AND LIME. 
John Rudolph Glauber, whose name deserves 
to be written in letters of gold, among many 
other useful experiments on various kinds of 
salts, relative to their fertilising properties, 
found, that no manure of the kind had such pow¬ 
er in tillage, as sea salt calcined in a lime mix¬ 
ture. His prescription is as follows:— 
To every 400 pounds of air-slacked lime, add 
100 pounds of common salt; temper these to¬ 
gether with urine, to a stiff mortar, which, 
make into small oblong rolls; when sufficiently 
dried, make a layer of wood, (or coal,) then a 
layer of these rolls, and so on till the quantity 
is used up ; which set fire to, and let the whole 
burn out, taking care that no rain nor wet get 
to these rolls before burning, nor to the lime 
after burned. After calcination, reduce these 
rolls to a fine powder, and let it lie half a year, 
in a dry place, often turning the heap in order 
to expose it to the air. 
Applied to a soil of medium quality, at the 
rate of 500 or 600 pounds to an acre, this mix¬ 
ture is stated to form a most powerful manure 
for wheat, which may be sown with the seed. 
Besides, it will destroy every insect and worm, 
and neutralise the poisonous acids in the soil. 
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REMARKS ON THE PEDIGREE OF THE ARABIAN 
HORSE. 
The Barley Arabian was brought over by a 
brother of Mr. Darley, of Yorkshire, who, being 
an agent in merchandize abroad, became a mem¬ 
ber of a hunting club, by which means he ac¬ 
quired an interest to procure this horse. He was 
sire of Childers, and also got Almanzor, a very 
good horse; likewise, a white-legged horse of 
the Duke of Somerset’s, full brother to Alman¬ 
zor, and thought to be as good; though, from 
meeting with an accident, he never ran in pub¬ 
lic. Add Cupid and Brisk, both good horses; 
Bsedalus, a very fleet horse; Bart, Skip Jack, 
Maurice, and Calypso, good plate horses, though 
out of bad mares. He covered very few mares, 
except Mr. Barley’s, whahad but few well bred 
besides Almanzor’s dam. 
The second source from which has sprung a 
very numerous class of our best horses, may be 
said to be the Byerly Turk. He was Captain 
Byerly’s charger in Ireland, in King William’s 
wars (1689). He did not cover many thorough- 
bed mares, but was the sire of the Duke of 
Kingston’s Sprite, the Duke of Rutland’s Black- 
hearty and Archer, the Duke of Devonshire’s 
Basto, Lord Bristol’s Grasshopper, &c. 
And the third and favorite origin of many, 
but whose progeny are certainly not so numer¬ 
ous as the other two in the production of racers, 
is the Godolphin Arabian. He was a brown bay, 
about 15 hands, with some white on the off heel 
behind. There is a picture of him and his fa¬ 
vorite cat in the library at Gog Magog, Cam¬ 
bridgeshire, where he died, in the possession of 
Lord Godolphin, in 1753, then supposed to be in 
his 29th year. 
That he was a genuine Arabian, his excel¬ 
lence as a stallion is deemed sufficient proof. 
In 1781, then the property of Mr. Coke, he was 
teazer to Hobgoblin, who, refusing to cover 
Roxana, caused her to be put to the Arabian, 
and from that leap was produced Lath, the first 
of his get. 
Many years ago, I was struck with the origi¬ 
nality of some genealogical tables that were de¬ 
signed by a Mr. Lounin, a Russian, which have 
since been published in the Russian Stud Book. 
Mr. Lounin, who is since dead, was not far 
wrong in taking the above horses as the three 
sources from which all our best animals have 
sprung. The plan adopted, was, to trace the 
paternal side, and enumerate only such horses 
as were grandsires of winners; by which means, 
we have a collection from which, you will per¬ 
ceive, it is easy to derive the pedigrees of all 
our horses of the present day. 
1689 Byerley Turk 
Jig 
1718 Partner 
1749 Tarter 
1758 Herod 
1774 Highflyer 
1784 Sir Peter 
1799 Walton 
1811 Partisan 
About 
1724 Godolphin Arabian 1700 Darley’s Ara¬ 
bian 
1734 Cade 
1748 Matchem 
1767 Conductor 
1782 Trumpeter 
1796 Sorcerer 
1808 Soothsayer 
1815 Welbeck 
1823 Bedlamite 
1716 Bartlett’s 
Childers 
1732 Squirt 
1750 Marok 
1764 Eclipse 
1773 Pot-8-o’s 
1790 Waxy 
1807 Whalebone 
1722 Camel 
Now, by only inserting such horses as were 
sires of stallions that got winners, we have the 
entire paternal line of every horse in the king¬ 
dom. 
Take, for instance, Touchstone, the property 
of the Marquis of Westminster, and he would 
come into the above list, being the sire of Coth- 
erstone, who is sire of Glauca, and of many 
other winners. Touchstone was got by Camel. 
A fashionable stallion is Melbourne; he was 
got by Humphrey Clinker ; Humphrey Clinker 
was got by Comus, and Comus, by Sorcerer. 
Melbourne, a good horse, is the sire of Canegore, 
the best mare of her day; he is also sire of 
Prime Minister, second favorite for the ensuing 
Derby. 
So is the stallion Epirus; he was got by Lan- 
gar ; Langar, by Selem; and Selem, by Buzzard 
—Woodpecker—Herod. Epirus is the sire of 
Pyrrhus the First, winner of the Derby he is 
