than 150,000 tons of a most valuable manure. The 

 French fishermen have for several years had an esta- 

 blishment for this manufacture at Kerpon, on the 

 coast of Newfoundland, and export the product to 

 France. The quantity of manure of this kind which 

 might be manufactured in Canada and the Mari- 

 time Provinces from the refuse of the fisheries, and 

 from inferior kinds of fish which are now neglected, 

 is very great, and this material might become a pre- 

 cious resource both for exportation and for the en- 

 riching of our own soils. 



PEAT. 



The Eastern division of the champaign region of 

 Canada abounds in peat bogs, which are generally 

 distributed, and caver an area approximately esti- 

 mated at from 120 to 150 square miles. In addition 

 to this the island of Anticosti contains a still greater 

 area. In many of these bogs on the main-land the 

 peat attains a depth of ten to twenty feet, and even 

 more, and, especially in their deeper parts, is often 

 so compact as to sink in water when dried ; while it 

 is at the same time very pure, yielding from four to 

 six per cent of ash. No systematic attempts have 

 hitherto been made to turn this material to use : but 

 within the last few months proper arrangements 

 have been made by an English capitalist to compress, 

 with the aid of proper machinery, the peat of an ex- 

 tensive bog in Bulstrode, on the line of the Artha- 

 baska Railway. The success of this experiment will 

 be .a matter of very great importance for Canada. 

 The wanton destruction of the forest in the older 

 settled regions has made fire-wood scarce in a coun- 

 try whose climate renders an abundant supply of 

 fuel indispensable, and which contains no coal- 

 mines within its limits. 



