Mr. Johnson on Saline Manures. 319 



The improvement of the farmer's resources by the addition 

 of any new manure to his calendar of fertilizers, especially in 

 periods like the present, cannot but be of national advantage. 



Saline manures, too, possess this superior value over all 

 others, they do not need to be applied in large quantities, (chalk, 

 perhaps, may be an exception). A. waggon will contain, either 

 of bone-dust, gypsum, or salt, sufficient for acres ; and this, in 

 poor inland districts, is no mean advantage. 



It is perhaps this fact, which in some degree accounts for 

 their success, which has been generally greatest in the poorest 

 counties ; for there, the farmer having to encounter nature in 

 her most barren, desolate form, is glad to avail himself of every 

 resource which science can bring to his aid. He listens with 

 patience, examines with care; and if he, even after all his care, 

 fails in his endeavours, he at least acquires knowledge by his 

 most decided defeats. 



Great Totham, March 1, 1828. C. W. Johnson. 



A Copy of the Law in relation to IVeighfs and Measures 

 recently established in the State of New York. 



In the First Number of our New Series we published, with 

 the consent of its author, and of the Commissioners to whom 

 it was addressed. Professor Renwick's '* Report on the subject 

 of Weights and Measures, made to the Commissioners for 

 revising the Laws of the State of New York." We have now 

 to subjoin a copy of the Law, in relation to Weights and Mea- 

 sures, which has subsequently passed the Legislature, and is 

 now established in that State. 



*♦ Chapter XIX. 



Of the Computation of Time, of Weights and Measures, and the 



Money of Account. 



Title 2d. — Of Weights and Measures. 

 *' 1. There shall be but one standard of measure, of length and 

 surface, one of weight, and one of measure and capacity, through- 

 out this State. 



" 2. The unit or standard measure of length and surface, from 

 whence all other measures of extension, whether they be lineal, 



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