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soaking, maceration, or parboiling of our food; decay, on the other 

 hand, to its full and finished dressing. Peat is composed of putre- 

 fied vegetable organs ; pond-mud is equally rich therein ; in the 

 same manner, we very frequently find in the subsoil considerable 

 quantities of putrefied or moldering vegetable tissue, for instance 

 what is called moor-earth, etc. All these substances must notori- 

 ously lie a longer or shorter time in the air, before they are service- 

 able to plants. The transformation they thereby undergo follows 

 from what proceeds; they pass over from a putrefied or rotten state 

 into that of decay. 



In arable land the decay of manure can only take place in its up- 

 per surface, so far as this is loose and accessible to air. If, therefore, 

 a rapid operation is desirable, it must only be superficially plowed 

 in, especially in heavy soil. The deeper it is introduced into the 

 ground, and consequently excluded from the air, the more tardy and 

 slow must be its decay, and therefore its operation. — Stockhardt's 

 Chemical Field Lecture. 



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Old Governor Saltonstall, of Connecticut, who flourished some 

 years since, was a man of some humor, as well as perseverance in 

 effecting the end he desired. Among other anecdotes told of him by 

 the New London people, the place where he resided, is the following: 



Of the various sects which have flourished for their day, and then 

 ceased to exist, was one known as the Rogerites, so called from their 

 founder, a John, or Tom, or some other Rogers, who settled not far 

 from the good town aforesaid. The distinguished tenet of the sect 

 was their denial of the propriety and scripturality of the form of 

 marriage. They believed ' it is not good for man to be alone,' and 

 also that one wife only should cleave unto her husband. But then 

 this should be a matter of agreement merely, and the couple should 

 come together and live as man and wife, dispensing with all the 

 forms of the marriage covenant. The old Governor used frequently 

 to call upon Rogers, and talk the matter over with him, and endeav- 

 or to convince him of the impropriety of living with Sarah as he 

 did ? But neither John nor Sarah would give up their argument. It 

 ivas a matter of conscience with them ; they were very happy to- 



