932 PLANT-FOOD AND AGRICULTURE. 



interpret them. Professor Stockbridge is doing notable work for 

 agriculture, and deserves high praise for his practical success. 

 We differ from him frieudlily in his explanations of his results, but 

 we agree with him cordially in the belief in the beneficial effects 

 which follow from his system of fertilization. In a word, the facts 

 of his methods mark a new departure, and open a revival of agri- 

 culture, which will soon, we trust, become so general as make our 

 fields pour forth of their harvest, and our barns swell with their 

 fullness, and the farmers' hearths light up families joyous in their 

 successes and prideful of their opportunities. 



