THE " DEVIL-ON-THREE-STICKS.' 



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in the way of reclaiming any extent of such wastes into the 

 most desirable soils imaginable. Agricultural engineering 

 was the inductive science applied to this experiment of our 

 author; and this is a profession unfortunately too little un- 

 derstood and practiced by the farmer. When that is made a 

 profession by itself in this country, as it in time will be, wo 

 may expect a thorough exploration, and a consequent recla- 

 mation of the unsightly swamps which now so often disfigure 

 the otherwise agreeable face of some of our best agricultural 

 districts. ED. 



" Has it ever been tried with a Spirit-level ? " 



