. The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette . t isequally wrong so to treat his home-made guano. Heshould always leave half an acre unmanured, or tryartificial manures on a small space, so as to form acorrect comparative opinion as to their value. This is too seldom done. We ought also more fre-quently to submit our cake and artificials to the agri-cultural chemist, whose large experience would, for avery moderate consideration, spare an immense amountof_ victimising. This is one very obvious way in whichscience will benefit Laites Table, shoicing the estimated value of
. The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette . t isequally wrong so to treat his home-made guano. Heshould always leave half an acre unmanured, or tryartificial manures on a small space, so as to form acorrect comparative opinion as to their value. This is too seldom done. We ought also more fre-quently to submit our cake and artificials to the agri-cultural chemist, whose large experience would, for avery moderate consideration, spare an immense amountof_ victimising. This is one very obvious way in whichscience will benefit Laites Table, shoicing the estimated value of the manure obtained from the consumption of one ton of different articles of food, each supposed to be of good quality of its kind :— EstimatedDescription . Present market money value of 1 ton of eachkind of food. last year (which you have no doubt seen) shows thatmy animals consumed— Of purchased cake, and Linseed .. £-i>8 o 0 Corn (principaUy Beans and some Oats) .. .. 236 0 0Malt combs .. .. .. ., _ _ ^ ] Coudimental food .. .. .. , ?;. Decorticatedseed cakeNot cakeLinseed cake . dustBranLentilsLinseedTaresBeansPeas Locust BeansOats Wheat ..Indian ComMaltBai leyClover hayMeadow hayOat ttrawWheat strawBarley strawPotatosMangels Swedish TurnipsCommon TurnipsCaiTots ..Fresh cutmeadowGDitto It,alian Rye-gras One ton of meat (best quality) sells for 7\d. per lb., or 5s. per stone of 8 lb.—say that it takes 8 lb. of cornor cake to make 1 lb. of meat. Itonofmeat .. .. ,. £70 0 0 8 tons of Rape-cake, at Gl. lOs. .. £52 0 0Cost of carting, breaking, feeding out, 6.«. per ton 2 8 0 of manure . 39 4 0 £.)3 16 I So here we get 53/. ICs. worth of guano for nothingVerdict for the plaintiff. Take Linseed cake, 8 tons, at 11^ £88 0 ( Feeding out, 2 8 1 1 ton of meat Value of rTake 8 tons of Beans, at 10/. per tonGrinding and feeding out 1 ton of meat Value of m3/. 13s. 6c/ from 8 tons of Beaus, at £16 8 0 £804 0 00 0 £8470 0 00 0 £29 8 0
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