were applications which, as
chance directed, so thefarmer thought himself " lucky" when thetop-dressing succeeded. In our time, however, another and a better generation of agriculturists has arisen—men of Coach Diaper Bags Outlet scientific attainments—farmers who, combining practice with science, have employed other and more powerful top-dressings. They have brought into existence a new race of manufacturers—thepreparers of artificial fertilizers ; and these in their turn Coach Online Outlet have excited theinquiries of themerchant and thenavigator, by whose efforts there is a stream of manures, or of thematerials for their Coach Diaper Bags preparation, now constantly flowing towards England, from almost every sea. Whilst thefarmer is dwelling on this page, let him pause for a moment, and remember how many a bright sail now whitens thesurface of theocean, bringing riches to his soils—let him think of those gallant ships now rounding Cape Horn, loaded with theguano of theChincba Islands, thecubic petre of Chili ; Coach Outlet Online and whilst these are coming from theSouthern Ocean, let him not forget those which are bringing from Norway and other places thenative phosphate of lime, for themakers of that superphosphate which in a few weeks will beso extensively drilled with theturnip-seed. Amid all these excellent efforts to bring theriches of other lands on to thesoils of England, it may, I repeat, at this season beof some little use if we travel together over a few of theexperimental fields which have recently been devoted to theexamination of thepowers of these spring dressings.
Let us, then, first examine theexperiments of Coach Factory Outlet Online Sale thelate Philip Pusey upon a wheat field, before we travel northward, and examine, with some equally careful and laborious Coach Factory Scotch agriculturists, their trials upon wheat and upon grass land with thesame dressings.
Theexperiments of Pusey almost always had reference to thetesting of some asserted scientific principle, and his last reported researches are not an exception to therule. They are entitled, " Experiments on theElementary Principles of Manure, as applied to theGrowth of Wheat" {Jour. Roy. Ay. Soc.vol. xvi. p. 929)- Coach Factory Store He tells us that, having an experimental field of eight acres, which Coach Factory Outlet was exhausted by having produced five white crops in succession, it occurred to him that a most interesting use might bemade of it in theseparate application of Coach Factory Outlet Online those elements which are supposed to constitute conjointly theefficacy of farmyard dung, and separately to act as fertilizers of thesoil. These elements, according to thecommonlyreceived theory of agricultural science, Pusey comprised, to give his own words, under four heads, viz., "1. Nitrogenous substances; 2. Phosphorus; 3. Alkalis and principally potash; 4. That which constitutes thebulk of dung, thestrawy matter, or, in chemical language, carbon. Thenitrogenous matter employed in his trials