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procuricg £>b sterling per ton. In a town in Corn-nail, a fortu- 

 nate vagabond managed to dispose of several hundred tons of su- 

 per-phosphate of lime last season ; his only means of preparation 

 being an up-stairs room and an Arnott stove, an arrangement ca- 

 pable of producing about ten or twelve tons (only) in as many 

 months. In fact, there are three towns which have now attained 

 an unenviable notoriety in this respect, viz: Hull, Newcastle and 

 Wolverhampton. In one of these we saw a steam-engine which 

 had been at work several weeks, both night and day, driving a 

 pug mill, mixing Patagonian guano and chalk together ; the 

 guano, of even this inferior quality, being in about the same pro- 

 portion to the chalk as the water was to the brandy in the Dutch- 

 man's mixture. And in another of these towns there is now a 

 large manufactory very busy preparing super-phosphate of lime, 

 the result being the dried refuse of a tan yard or glue manufac- 

 tory, which would be costly at ten shillings and sixpence per 

 ton. 



Lecturers are hired who say that their manures have sold for 

 four times as much as the best tea, because they will supersede 

 the use of the manure altogether. 



Dr. Peck, of Lakeland, Long Island, presented specimens of 

 rye, of golden Australasian wheat, and eight rowed white flint 

 corn, grown on his farm, at Lakeland, 48 miles from New-York. 

 These samples were deemed to be as good as could be produced 

 by any fertile land whatever. The land producing the wheat 

 was last year cultivated in potatoes, and the year before it was 

 covered with the shrub or bear oak, grown there from time im- 

 memorial. The doctor put fifty bushels of shell lime on an acre, 

 costing seven cents a bushel, and nothing else. It is now decid- 

 ed that a beautiful land, condemned by want of knowledge to the 

 singular charity of sterility, is as capable of good crops as any 

 other land, better than the hundreds of thousands of acres burned 

 up by tobacco, cursed by ignorant culture in these United States. 

 An island so level, from a hundredmiles south-west to north-east, 

 that it is, par eminence^ the ground for horse-races. And it is 

 more eminently the ground for intelligent farmers and gardeners. 



