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be moved ; never grown twice in the same place, either 

 as a seed-bed or planted out, without well digging or 

 tilling the ground, putting it to other uses and well ma- 

 nuring it. All the Cabbage tribe are great consumers, 

 hence the need for abundant manuring. Wherever there 

 are manure heaps near houses or stables, or in farm- 

 yards, it is very desirable to sink a tub in the ground on 

 the lowest side of the heap, where the manure has a ten- 

 dency to drain, cutting out a nick in the tub to guide in 

 the liquid, which can be constantly emptied out with a 

 can. This liquid makes very valuable nourishment for 

 young vegetables, pot -plants, and, in fact, all garden 

 produce strength in youth being naturally a great help 

 to the whole crop. Besides its usefulness, this prevents 

 the untidy wasting of a manure heap. 



I am very ignorant of Irish affairs in general, but I 

 listened with extreme interest to all that I could hear of 

 the cooperative movement now being carried out by so 

 many farmers in Ireland. I have since kept myself 

 informed in the matter by taking in that excellent 

 little weekly paper ' The Irish Homestead.' Mr. William 

 Lawler, in a long poem in the 'London Year -Book' for 

 1898, begins a paragraph on Ireland, of which the first 

 lines, at any rate, do not inappropriately express my 

 wishes and my hopes for the cooperation of Irish 

 industries : 



Oh, Ireland, when your children shall abate 

 Their love of captious things to study great ; 

 When you shall let your aspirations lie 

 Far less in Statecraft than in Industry ; 



Then shall your people prosper and advance. 



A charming shrub, and new to me, is Escallonia 

 pterocladon, which I saw growing on the walls of a 



