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your Magazitie is so good, and gives so much promise of usefulness, I beg 

 you to receive my subscription in support of your ioo)-thy endeavors.^' 

 Such letters afibrd us much gratificatiou. It indicates that our 

 labor is appreciated, and that the measures adopted are properly 

 directed. If more of the good people will follow Mr. Wilder's 

 example, our object Avill be speedily consummated. We do not 

 intend to say much about ourselves in future, therefore we may be 

 excused for the present egotism. 



New Building Material. — The Cleveland Herald speaks of a 

 new kind of brick which has been introduced there for building 

 purposes. They have the appearance of granite, and are made of 

 sand and lime, the blocks subjected to a great pressure while in 

 nearly a dry state. In size they are ten by four and five inches, 

 and hollowed, the indented part being seven by one and a half 

 inches. After the bricks are formed into shape and pressed, they 

 are subjected to the action of the atmosphere, and soon become as 

 hard as rocks, and insensible to the frost or rain. These bricks 

 cost twenty dollars per thousand ; but the inventors say that they 

 are cheaper than clay bricks that cost but three dollars, because 

 they furnish so smooth an interior surface that no plastering is 

 necessary, and being hollowed, the walls do not require to be 

 furred. 



(We doubt very much this statement of brick at $20 per 

 thousand, being cheaper than brick at $3 per thousand, lor the 

 simple reason that the former require no finishing witli a coat of 

 plaster. They must either be furnished at a much lower rate, or 

 become a luxurj'^, and therefore limited to an exclusive class. — 

 EnrroK. ) 



I have observed that whenever tlie peach tree has been put up- 

 on new land — it has almost without exception, and does yet, thrive 

 and bear for a series of years. 



From this fact may we not couclnde tluit there is some property 

 in the soil of the newly cleared land, that were it called forth 

 would aid us in the culture of this tree ? Will some Chemist tell 

 us what this is, how it can be obtained, or wliat may be substitut- 

 ed for it ? The object is certainly worth their time, their iiivestT- 

 gatiou. 



Again, it appears that the trees grown from rich land grow 



