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manure is highly important ; milk contains large quantities of 

 phosphate of lime, and pastures are doubled in value for the use 

 of milch cows by its use. 



The chairman remarked that the English have for a long time 

 past used for manure all the bones they were able to obtain, and 

 with great advantage to their crops. 



Judge Van Wyck. All soils are more or less furnished with 

 the phosphoric element which the bone supplies, when exhausted 

 by vegetables, it must l>e restored. 



Mr. Van Wyck said that the phosphate of lime that had been 

 discovered here, in both localities, that of Dover in New-Jersey, 

 and Crow^n Point in the north of this State, were held too high 

 for the English market. This he Jearned^ from some of the 

 latest periodicals, and the discussions there contained on the sub- 

 ject, which took plac€ in the Loudon Farmers' Club. It was 

 said there, the American phosphate, on investigation, wfis cer- 

 tainly not worth more than the English. This last contained 

 from 45 to 50 per cent, of pure phosphate, and a good deal not 

 so much ; that this, in its raw or rough state, would not bring 

 £5 a ton ; of course so much, or certainly not more, could be 

 given for the American. The trade was then considered 

 as closed. Those who had the American article for sale, to 

 show their courage on the occasion, immediately raised it up to 

 £7. This, as may be supposed, stopped the sale for that time. 

 All or most articles of commerce here, that are the growth and 

 manufacture of our country, are apt to be valued higher here 

 than in Europe, or than they will bring on being sent there. 

 This probably is owing to the high price of labor here, and the 

 article, perhaps, cannot be afiforded for less than it is held at here. 

 Phosphate ot lime in England is to be found in quite extensive 

 sections there, imbedded in lime stone and some other rocks, 

 called coprolites, meaning petrified dung of certain animals of 

 the lizard tribe, monsters in size as well as appearance, and are 

 supposed to have lived before the deluge. This gives it animal 

 properties, and makes it more valuable. It is also found there 

 in certain green sands, worked up, it is thought, from the sea to 



