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shall have for many years to come. One of our remedies for 

 this, and other important diseases similar to it, of tlie products of 

 our farms, is change, sell out, and buy another, tliis is no eifort 

 for us, we are accustomed to such changes. In Europe, to talk 

 to a man about changing for a similar cause his cattle, sheds, or 

 pig pens, much more his homestead or mansion where he had 

 lived and his ancestors before him, perhaps for centuries, and 

 he would be sick, as well as his land of clover. Professor Johns- 

 ton in speaking of this disease, thinks it owing in a great measure 

 to the neglect of tlie use of farm yard manure or using too little 

 of it. The Turnip is a very general crop in Europe, and especi- 

 ally Great Britain. Bone earth is the manure almost exclusively 

 used for these, they do better with this than any thing else, will 

 yield more from it as a food. We have never heard that they 

 were tired of it, but appear to grow under it as well as ever. In 

 their rotation system, wheat or some of the other grains and the 

 grasses generally follow turnips. Grains and grasses require 

 some bone earth, but they want something else. Farm-yard ma- 

 nure contains more or less of all the essential ingredients which 

 most plants require as food. The Professor says, " if farm-yard 

 manure in sufficient abundance and of good quality be applied 

 along with the root crop the land obtains a certain more or less 

 abundant return of all these suhstances which the last rotatimi of 

 crops had carried ojf from it and which the new rotation will re- 

 quire for food. When the clover comes round, therefore, a sup- 

 ply of proper food is ready for it as well as for the wheat which 

 is to follow. Neither bones or rape dust nor any such single 

 animal or vegetable substance can replace farm-yard manure for 

 an indefinite period, because it does not contain all the 

 substances which the entire rotation of crops requires." We will 

 cite one more high authority to show the importance in which 

 farmyard manure is held in Great Britain. Professor Anderson? 

 Chemist of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, in 

 a late lecture delivered there after naming tlie great advantages of 

 farm-yard manure, concludes : " I beg it to be understood as my 

 decided opinion that farm-yard manure must always be tlie far- 

 mer's main stay." All the most intelligent and best practicable 

 farmers of Great Britain of the present day accord with tliis 

 opinion. Wo are afraid we shall make some of our readers 



