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tushes in pastures, irrigation, experiment in manures, turning 

 crops as a manure, preparation of compost manure, application of 

 of compost manure, application of sea weed, butter, cheese, honey 

 and bee hives, maple sugar, grain crops, root crops, bean crop, 

 hay crop, hay seed, fruits and vegetables, cranberries, forest trees, 

 fruit trees, live fences, mulberry trees and silk, cocoons and silk, 

 introduction of new and valuable grass, comparative value of 

 crops as food for cattle, fattening cattle and swine, experiments 

 for determining the proper distance to plant corn and potatoes, 

 implements and inventions, domestic manufactures. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF 

 PATENTS. 



This valuable document has been placed upon our table, and 

 we intend to notice hereafter those parts which we deem the most 

 important to our readers. It is a full and able statement of mat- 

 ters relating to patents. We should, however, advise that some 

 discrimination should be used in the selection of agricultural in- 

 formation, and that abstracts from communications upon the sub- 

 jects of farming be made still less voluminous than they appear in 

 this year's report. Thus we would recommend the omission of 

 all newspaper matter which is incidental or is merely conjectural. 

 Of this kind of conjectural matter there is too much. Notwith- 

 standing these objections, which by no means are injurious to our- 

 selves, the document is extremely valuable, and we hope that 

 Congress wull still permit the Commissioner to issue his report as 

 heretofore. 



We have space only for the following summary of the Commis- 

 sioner in regard to the potato disease and its proposed remedies: 



1st. That all the detailed appearances cannot be considered as 

 legitimate effects of any one cause. 



2d. That many of them are merely accidental, and that their 

 presence or absence would prove nothing as to the nature of the 

 cause of that evil with which they are associated. 



3d. That we have reason to believe that the cause itself, and 



