MINERAL AVATERS. 14i) 



jifttT sa}) and is doiiiu" dainag'e : or. ho sees the Chickadee 

 pulling oft' l)uds and so sets both these birds down as 

 only iit for dcsti-iiction and usually includes in his list all 

 that resenil)le them. 01)servation and reasoniu": of this 

 sort Jire far too coninion and the I'csult of it is that thou- 

 sands of dollars are lost every year. 



The relation of birds to agi'icultnre is not merely a 

 (juestion involving the killing or protecting a few l)irds, 

 but it involves the welfare of the agricultural interests of 

 the land and if at this time I shall only succeed in convinc- 

 ing a few of the importance of the matter and so lead 

 them to think of it and investigate it for themselves I 

 shall he content. 



Qiialifa/ive AnaJij.v's of fJte Mineral /Sjyn'nf/s of Essex 

 County, Vevnionf. By Hiram A. Cutting, A. M., 

 ]\I. T)., State (Jeologist, and Curator of the State 

 Cabinet. Luncnl)nrgh, Vermont. 



{Continued from page 20.) 



Following the Connecticut River down a few rods from 

 the Lunenburgh Chalybeate Spring, l)efore analyzed, we 

 tind some hidf dozen small springs issuing from the bank 

 within the space of a dozen rods, all of which are more 

 or less chalybeate. One of them is however sufficiently 

 pure to be used for all household [)urposes, b}- the family 

 of James Phelps, Esq., on whose land the}^ are situated. 

 This spring contains about Ah grains of mineral matter to 

 the gallon and from this the increase in different springs 

 is up to 20 grains per gallon. 



