The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

soil—not • man on every rood, perhap, b,ll
lderpopulationn to cultivate the land and bring foroa",_
plenty it still contains. How io do thiv is the
rsi•ed by Sir Stafford Northoote. The first consider:L—
a the labourer is for hi. dwelling. He thinks of
virrn more than about his wages. It in what the pi,tt t patch and the pip, before the days of etholualooot -
tionrwol to be to the Itisbman. Let hie cottec'ei-e
..„07.7•sifdn. woionhu,:r.,:e.earendwnharel sir:tm.4.,roirebye. aotit
near his work, as the team should be near the anal,
re
it Ii
land it ploughs. that his strength may not be weoo,g
the drudgery of plodding • u-aku Ave or nit mco,
day; let it, however diminutive, be bright in seam.
%tied
.re told, end whence young ladu fire enticed hy
agents. Give the hubandoian no enducenivnt In
and, in nine caves out out of 10, he will stay. It i. hot
EN,seneoriiahtiosonitsumly that should allow to e.to,i6
And tenanted by • respectsble farmer, a aintle
hovel rotting into so unitrainwl swamp, or cruniblieg'::
every autumn's rain. Sir Stafford Northo.te
good undo-, by indiesting that this a the ro,t of 0,
quution, and that the question is one which it conc....
the whole nation to study.
Ma. Mootit's EARTH STITIM.—We hue mod,
pleuure in quoting from the Agree ultaral 12.cate a
reply to Mr. Rue, by the Professor of Agriculture jp
the Boys' Agricultural College at cl,rencester, wlo
denies the truth of Mr. Rose's thsory, anil tj,Gl.„. it
t, • utterly groundless •.—" So far from iho soil being,:
inert mass in this particular, an Mr. Rue susiows it to
be, its property of removing odour, colour, and c-rtain
organic and inorganic substances from v.lielog.
•, known to be anions the in St
facts that the agricultural chemist h s
1,, explain. Mr. Roes, however, confuses the deafen.
-
jog power of soils with the different property Of
moving certain organic and inorganic saticances from
solution. It would be tedious here to thoroughly...
plain the very peculiar °bulges whet occur eh,
solutions containing such matenals are filter. d throe'',
▪ The softition may be partially robbed of its solahle
natter, or it may give up certain substance., av
or phosphorie amid, to the soil, and at tho soma tie.
...ph out an equal or greater quantity of line. It ie
therefore false to attempt to pint% the inert nature ,
soil from the fart that -half the quanCty of iao,,,ht,
matter is found in the drain water from the (..orte6
.ewsged land that is found in the sewage it,oll.
Rose doe, not seem to have taken into seo,obt
that most probably the percentage of salt,
pooing the inorganic matter of the two lisoi
have undergone • complete change, and tlot
the potash and phosphoric acid will most 14.444
have been removed by the soil, while a certain prop,
thin of lime will have taken their PIMM. But apart
from this tionsiderattoc, the objection founded upon pp,
condition of the drainage water is twist frivolook If
water impregnated icith certain salts be filtered
through soil, these elite will be partially removes
from solution; but on the other hand, if pare
(dh.tille t) water be allowed to pm-a:date through soil 6
• propirtion of saline matter will be woihsrl ohl
by the water; hence the change from soft or rsin
in hard or spring wet. r. This is the natural coadp,,v,
of water after having been in contact with earth, and •
one dreams that such matters are ninny. d by tha
physical attraction of soils under cainvideraiion. In
other worda, tho soil cannot comtletely remove the
ooluble matters held by solution., filtered through .t, lot
the limier always retains a variable proportion of nth
molten which are necessary constituents of rhol.-vo .e
water. Such soluble mattet exists in the prop 'run of
from 2/ to 25 gr. per gallon, or as nearly as po.arble the
quantity found in the drainage water from the tested
lands of Croydon. A. for Mr. 11,..e'v theory that it is
not the soil, but the vegetation on the surface of the
ooil, which deodorises the newer., we can only say that
it is unfounded, and that if further proof ia rscjoiet•
can be ewily supplisrl.--JoAs Wripli son, Profuse of
Aorieollaire, /loyal Agrieollural College, Cionager,
Oct. 12th.