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Col. Waring says that sea weed costs $3 to $4 

 per cord ,on the beach. While this price continues, of 

 course, it can only be used to advantage, by those living 

 near the coast. We advise every one who can raise 

 a good crop of clover, with bone dust and plaster, to 

 depend on it, unless they can get the weed at a much 

 less figure than $3 per cord. 



We feel deeply interested in this experiment of 

 Dr. Browne. We hope it will satisfy all manure 

 makers that green plants can be converted into plant- 

 food, without undergoing the process of digestion in 

 the stomachs of cattle. 



And more than this, it should be noticed, that 

 solution and oxidation can take place in full time to 

 furnish all the nourishment required to produce a 

 good crop of wheat. 



And that the conversion of vegetable matter, into 

 manure in the barnyard, is not necessary, may be 

 proved by another careful experiment. 



" The following I know to be a fact. A person 

 brought up as a farmer in Scotland, was sent to an 

 estate in one of the Windward Islands, to improve 

 the system of tillage. 



Not being able to manure a field of six acres that 

 had been much exhausted by frequent cropping, he 

 resolved to give the pigeon pea a fair trial ; he accord- 

 ingly sowed them so thick that in a few months the 

 ground was effectually covered to the heijrhth of six 

 teet; he then cut down this mass of vegetation, and 

 immediately buried the whole under the large banks- 

 that are raised in digging cane holes. His first crop 

 gave him but six hogsheads of sugar ; instead oi 



