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means a new thing, and is attended with some good effects, but we 

 I are not ready to receive the full extent of Mr. C.'s faith. The 



process no doubt gives a vigorous start to vegetation, and enables 

 , the plant at an early period of its growth to prepaie for its future 

 I support. It will also serve to protect the seed, and perhaps the 



young plant from the depredation of worms. 



The expense of preparing the salts we cannot state. They 



could, however, probably be procured of any druggist, and as sold 



by them are already " neutralized." We shall be glad to hear the 



result of the experiment, and of course recommend a portion of 

 'the field to be sown with seed that has not been soaked, in order 



to ascertain the effect correctly. 



Our friend and correspondent Wm. Case, Esq. of Cleveland, 

 Ohio, writes thus : 



I wish I could get some information relative to the application 

 of Galvanism and Electricity to Agriculture. We have nothing 

 of the kuul here. I have tried Galvanism unsuccessfully— proba- 

 bly owing to the drouth, the return current passed back through 

 the deep and damp ground far from the roots. 



In answer to which we would say that we are not at all sur- 

 prised at the result. The truth, however, in the matter is, there 

 is nothing to be expected in the premises. It is not many years 

 >ince the story was going the rounds, that cress seed was planted in 

 ;he morning, and was grown in season for the dinner table by the 

 lid of electricity. The cress story, and the last story from Eng- 

 and, detailing the wonderful effects of electricity, belong to the 

 ;ame class. Both are doubtful. 



GREATEST IRON MINES IN THE WORLD. 



In Newcomb, Essex county, N. Y., in one mine, there is suffi- 

 lent ore within two hundred feet of the surface to make eighty 

 Qillion cubic feet of iron. Two other mines, within two miles, 

 re nearly as extensive as this ; and at all, the ore may be quar- 

 led out to the open day like flagging stone. To increase the value 

 f these mines, they are in the midst of a wilderness of wood, and 



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