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fattening, one fifth of excrement to four fifths of water will be sufficient. 

 {Bull, du Comite d'Agri. de la Soc. des Arts de Geneve.) 



This mode of increasing the manure produced by stalled cattle and cows 

 is in general use in Holland and the Netherlands, and we have seen it prac- 

 tised in France, at Trappe and Grignion, near Versailles ; at Roville, near 

 Nanc}'; at Ebersberg and Schleissheim, near Munich ; and at Hohenheim 

 and Weil, near Stuttgard. We would strongly recommend the practice to 

 the British farmer, and not to the farmer only, but to every cottager who 

 keeps a cow or pig; nay, to the cottager who is without these comforts, 

 but who has a garden, in which he could turn the great accession of manure 

 so acquired to due account. Let him sink five tubs or large earthen ves- 

 sels in the ground, and let the contents of the portable receiver of his 

 water-closet, all the water used for washing in the house, soap-suds, slops, 

 and fermentable offal of every description, during a week, be carried and 

 poured into one of these tubs ; and if not full on the Saturday night, let it 

 be filled up with water of any kind, well stirred up, the lid replaced, and 

 the whole left for a week. Begin on the Monday morning with another 

 tub ; and when, after five weeks, the whole five tubs are filled, empty the first 

 at the roots of a growing crop, and refill ; or use two larger tubs, and con- 

 tinue filling one for a month ; then begin the otlier, and at the end of a 

 month empty the first ; and so on. — Co7id. 



GREECE. 



Lancasterian Schools in the Ionian Islands. — SirF.A. spoke to me about 

 establishing Lancasterian schools at Corfu and in the other Ionian Islands. 

 It would be very desirable, because these islands would form a point from 

 which education might be extended over the adjacent continent ; and it 

 would probably much forward it in Italj', where superstition and bad 

 governments will oppose it. I should not despair of making the Turks 

 adopt it in time, if it were introduced without any attempts at proselytism, 

 and the lessons consequently adapted to their religion. {Wood's Letters of 

 an Architect^ vol. ii. p. 586.) 



INDIA. 



Of the State of the Schools and of Education in India, Bishop Heber, in 

 his Journal, speaks rather favourably ; and is very desirous that, without 

 any direct attempt at conversion, the youth should be generally exposed to 

 the humanising influence of the New Testament morality, by the general 

 introduction of that venerated book, as a lesson book in the schools; a matter 

 to which he states positively that the natives, and even their Brahminical 

 pastors, have no sort of objection. {Ed. Iiev.,Dec. 1820, p. 335.) 



MADAGASCAR. 



General Education in Madagascar seems to be making very considerable 

 progress. From the second report of the Madagascar Missionary School 

 Society, it appears that there are 38 schools and 2,309 scholars, and that 

 what is called the king of the country is very favourable to these schools ; 

 and from a note in the Evangelical Magazine, it appears that the schools 

 have been increased, since the report was published, from 38 to upwards of 

 90. {Evangel. Mag., March, 1829.) 



NORTH AMERICA. 



The Aracacha Plant of Bogota and Neiv Grenada in Colombia " has 

 not, that I know, been as yet cultivated with any promising results. From 

 the failure to propagate it in maritime and northern regions, I despair of 

 obtaining any benefit from its abundant and nutritious roots. The late 

 Baron de Shack wrote me, that, although it vegetated in Trinidad Island, 



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