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of nitrification should carefully read this succint account by Mr. 

 Warington of the classic researches at Rothamsted. 



Next year the second course of lectures will be given, and I think 

 that our agricultural authorities should well consider the advisability 

 of asking from the trustees o" the Lawes Agricultural Trust for their 

 delivery, or at least their publication, in Canada. Ours is a British 

 Colony, whose chief industry is agriculture, and I feel sure that Sir 

 John Lawes and his co-workers would be wishful for his fellow country 

 men in this way to participate in the results of thi^ir labours. 



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EXCURSION III— TO NORTH WAKEFIELD, QUE. 



SEPTEMBER 3RD, 1892. 



Two hundred and twenty-eight members and friends of the Club 

 left the Union. Station on Saturday, the 3rd day of Septrm' er to attend 

 the third o' the series of regular excursions for the present summer. 



La Perhe Village, North Wakefield, was the place "selected by the 

 Excursion Committee and re-commended 10 the Council of the Club, 

 All arrangements havmg been completed, the party left the city at 10 

 a m. and crossed the Ottawa River on the Ottawa & Gatineau Val'ey 

 Railway, a; d then proceeded northward to Ironsides and Chelsea. 

 Then ])lu gmg headlong intri the picture^qae country of the Laurentide 

 hills, olong [he eastern edge of Talkie Mountain, Kirk's Ferry, the 

 Cascades, and many other enchanting spots were passed in rapid suc- 

 ccssitm. In less than an hour the excursionists were at North Wake- 

 field, where a long line of dwellings, skirting the shore of the Gatineau 

 River, form the village which is situated in the inner cjrve of a large 

 circlj wh'ch touches the round and crescentic hills, lendmg a peculiar 

 aspect to the wh ile country. 



INIr. F. T. Shutt, M. A., the Acting President, then addressed the 

 galliering and gave out the program.me, naming the leaders in the 

 different bra' ches a:;d the most interesting spots to visit. 



The' lime for rendez-vojis was given for four o'clock at the School 

 House near the bridge or. the Peche River. As the noon hour was 



