The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . l bushels of ground bone. The present marketprice of bone is at the very lowest bl. per ton. Now aquarter of genuine bone, crushed, will weigh 3 qrs. 14 lb., which at 5s. per cwt. will come to 18s. is coal for engine, measuring and sacking up,Is. i\d. per quarter, which will bring it nearly, to It. perquarter ; and yet it is to be bought in London at from15s. to 16s. per quarter. How is this Jo be done With-out adulteration ? If any of your numerous readerswill solve this question, they will very much oblige notonly a large b
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . l bushels of ground bone. The present marketprice of bone is at the very lowest bl. per ton. Now aquarter of genuine bone, crushed, will weigh 3 qrs. 14 lb., which at 5s. per cwt. will come to 18s. is coal for engine, measuring and sacking up,Is. i\d. per quarter, which will bring it nearly, to It. perquarter ; and yet it is to be bought in London at from15s. to 16s. per quarter. How is this Jo be done With-out adulteration ? If any of your numerous readerswill solve this question, they will very much oblige notonly a large body of agriculturists, but FrederickBrain, Guano fVorJcs, Blachfriars-rd^ Sliding Harrows.—The plan for sUding harrowswhich I communicated, and which you engraved in theAgricultural Gazette, No. 9, published on the 1st March,appears to have elicited several inquiries from yourreaders. I now send you the explanations you request,and will endeavour to describe each part separately.[We republish the engraving alluded to.] First, g g ^. nothing more than a common swingletree, when de-tached, of the usual length and strength, with threehooks for the draught, one at each end in front, and onefrom behind the centre. Secondly, the swingletreem m is made round from a stout piece of Ash, 3 inchesin diameter, and the length for a pair of two-horse har-rows, of the dimensions stated below, is exactly 3 inches, being the same as the harrows measure fromr to r or from s to s, when placed in their true workingposition. It must be ironed, as already directed, to pre-vent friction, and having three chains, without hooksattached, for the draught. The one in front is made toslide by means of a large round ring, which encompassesthe swingletree, and traverses it, when the harrows areturned, to the extremities of the flat staple, about8 inches, from e to a ; all injury which friction mightoccasion to the wood being prevented by the thin ironplate, through which the staple is
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