JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. VOLUME THE THIRTEENTH. PRACTICE WITH SCIENCE. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1852. HARVARD THESE EXPERIMENTS, IT IS TRUE, ARE NOT EASY; STILL. THEY ARE IN THE POWER OF EVERY THINKING HUSBANDMAN. HE WHO ACCOMPLISHES BUT ONE, OF HOWEVER LIMITED APPLICATION, AND TAKES CARE TO REPORT IT FAITHFULLY, ADVANCES THE SCIENCE, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, THE PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE, AND ACQUIRES THEREBY A RIGHT TO THE GRATITUDE OF HIS FELLOWS, AND OF THOSE WHO COME AFTER. TO MAKE MANY SUCH IS BEYOND THE POWER OF MOST INDIVIDUALS, AND CANNOT BE EXPECTED. THE FIRST CARE OF ALL SOCIETIES FORMED FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF OUR SCIENCE SHOULD BE TO PREPARE THE FORMS OF SUCH EXPERIMENTS, AND TO DISTRIBUTE THE EXECUTION OF THESE AMONG THEIR MEMBERS. VON THAER, Principles of Agriculture. 1604 LONDON:-Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and Soxs, Stamford Street. CONTENTS OF VOL. XIII. I. The Relations of Geology to Agriculture in North-Eastern America. By James F. W. Johnston, FR.S L. & E.; Honorary Member of the Royal Agricultural Society. II. On the Production of Butter. By Thomas Rowlandson, C.E., 1 V. On the Power of Soils to absorb Manure. By J. Thomas Way, Consulting Chemist to the Society. (Second Paper.) VI. On the Manufacture of Sugar from Beet-Root. By John Wilson, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., &c. (late Professor of Agriculture in the VIII. On an Improved and Cheaper System of Laying-out Catch- Meadows. By Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart. Note by Mr. Pusey on the same IX.-Report of Experiments on the Comparative Fattening Qualities X. On the Mode of extracting Manure from Sewage-Water, XV. XVI. 172 -On the Use of Nitrate of Soda as a Top-dressing for Wheat, at -Report on the Exhibition and Trial of Implements at the Lewes -Experiments on Top-dressing Grass-land in Windsor Great Park. Communicated by order of H.R.H. the Prince Albert 347 -On the Source and Supply of Cubic Saltpetre, Salitre, or Nitrate XVII. On the Improvement to be made in Land by amending the By XIX. On the Composition of the Parsnip and White Belgian Carrot. XXII. On the Neglect of Chemistry by Practical Farmers; its Causes and Remedies. By Edward T. Hemming. Prize Essay 409 Tabulated Results of Analyses in Agricultural Chemistry 449 XXIII.-Cultivation of a Farm in Silesia by Artificial Manure alone for APPENDIX. Council and Officers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England Report of the Council to the General Meeting, May 22, 1852 . Statement of Half-yearly Account ending Dec. 31, 1851 Memoranda of Meetings, Privileges, and Prizes Prizes for Implements at Country Meeting of 1853 at Gloucester DIRECTIONS TO BINDER. The Binder is desired to collect together all the Appendix matter, with In reprints of the Journal, all Appendix matter (and in one instance an |