AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 343 



[North Western Prairie Farmer, Chicago, March 26, 1859. 



SEEDLING POTATO. 

 Make a hole in the ground a foot deep, put in potato balls, put a mark 

 on the spot ; dig them up next spring and sow the seed as you do radish. 

 When grown large enough, transplant them. 



^ [Journal of Agriculture, and the Transactions of the Highland Agricultural Society of 

 Scotland, March, 1859.] 



The members of this society are in number 3,658. The Emperor Nr o- 

 Icon and Prince Albert head the list — the Emperor as Honorary Assoc ate, 

 elected in 1856 ; the Prince Consort as Honorary Member, elected in 1841. 

 A great number of the nobility are members ; the Duke of Athole is now 

 President. Ordinary annual member fee, £1 3s. 6d. Life member.-liip 

 varying from £12 l'2s. to £7 Is. Tenant farmers and members of iucal 

 associations, 10s. annually, or £5 5s. for life. 



GUANO. 



Phospho-Peruvian guano and Sombrero guano, seem to have lost their 

 former power as manure. Whether the land is guano-siek, the fact is that 

 wherever Peruvian guano has been extensively used, its eifects are certainly 

 much diminished, as the phospho proves better for turnips. Farmers also 

 find benefit from using less of it than formerl3\ 



This phospho guano is found on the West India Islands, Sombrero, 

 on Monk's Islands, &c., occupied by multitudes of sea fowl. 



TO PREVENT GRAIN FROM LODGING. 

 Sow several varieties together. The reason is that some bend least in 

 storm, and help the weaker to stand up and get up, and a larger crop of 

 grain is had. 



[Prof. Anderson, Chemist of the Society — Address February, 1859, before the Society.] 



ARTIFICAL MANURES. 



Notwithstanding all that has been done, and the many careful experi- 

 ments, I am sometimes inclined to think we take credit to ourselves for 

 knowing more about artificial manures than our knowledge justifies. z" e 

 find the worse the artificial manure, the lovder are the praises. Defective 

 analyses mislead farmers much. Those in the books are generally quite 

 erroneous. 



In regard to agricultural institutions, the crowning one is the Royal Ag- 

 ricultural Society of England, under the auspices of Prince Albert, with 

 its income of £10,000 a year ; commencing under George III., grandfather 

 of the Queen. 



The Prairie Farmer, Chicago, March 31, joins numbers of thn wip ^ who 

 lesson us to spare the birds. 



It says : " The birds pay rent ; spare them, feed them, pay them ! They 

 prove the best workers on the farm !" 



Another says : "I carefully examined robins, and found that they all live 



