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quality under a more southern sun. It does not appear that the 

 exchange of the fine grains of the south to our northern latitudes 

 is attended with results equally advantageous. 



It would be desirable that some careful experiments should 

 be made to induce to greater certainty on this point of so much 

 interest. 



Among the specimens of artificial manure, that made from 

 fish, the Engrais Poisson, was considered by Professor Wilson 

 specially worthy of notice. 



The fish, after having been steamed, are pressed into cakes 

 and dried. In this form the manure is said to contain from 10 

 to 12 per cent, of nitrogen, and from 16 to 22 per cent, of phos- 

 phate. The price, about 8/. per ton. 



Progukss since 1851. 



In reply to the second, and not least interesting question — 

 "What progress has been made since 1851?" it may be con- 

 fidently asserted that progress has been made on every side. In 

 machinery, in scientific acquii'ements, in field practice ; and to 

 such an extent, that beyond all question the productive powers 

 of these kingdoms have been more largely increased within the 

 last four years than within an equal space of time at any former 

 period. 



In machine making, though some interesting novelties have 

 appeared, the characteristic feature has been the constant im- 

 provement, tending to perfection, of our established implements, 

 and a great extension of their use through the body of the farm- 

 ing community, a fact significant of the superior intelligence 

 which is now brought to bear on farming affairs, promising a 

 sure and continued progression. 



First on the list in point of interest, first in its remarkable 

 increase, stands steam machinery. 



No farmer who has ever had a steam-engine on his farm will 

 ever again be Avithout one ; no farmer who has ever threshed his 

 corn with steam power could bear again to see his horses toiling 

 in the wearisome circle, now jerking onwards when the whip 

 sounds, now brought almost to a stand-still when the machine is 

 clogged by a c.ireless feeder. The regular stroke of the untiring 

 steam-engine gives excellence to the work, keeps everybody in 

 his ])lace, and introduces among men, even the most careless, 

 something of its own exactness and precision. 



It was thought a remarkable thing that in the year 1851, one 

 firm, (Clayton and Shuttleworth of Lincoln, a firm not known to 

 the agricultural world ten years ago, should have constructed and 

 sold in one year 140 portable steam-engines. Since 1851 the 

 annual progress has been as follows : — 



