532 [ASSEMLBT 



12,982, copse or brushwood at upwards of 17,000. The line 

 of perpetual snow on the Himalaya chain is from 18,000 to 

 19,000 feet high. 



[London Farmer3' Magazine and Monthly Journal, London, March, 1352.] 



Value of London Soot. — In London Labour and the London 

 Poor, we find the following statistics as to metropolitan soot : 



Bush, aoot per an'm. 



53,840 houses, at a yearly rental above XSO, producing 



six bushels of soot each per annum, 323,040 



90,032 houses at a yearly rental above £20 and below 



.£50, producing five bushels of soot per annum, 450,010 



163,880 houses below X30 rental per annum, producing 



two bushels of soot each per annum, 327,760 



Total number of bushels annually produced in London, 1,100,810 



The price of soot per bushel is but five pence (ten cents) and 

 sometimes $4^d., but 5d. may be taken as an average. Now 

 1,000,000 bushels of soot at 5d. will be found to yield X20,883 

 ^s. and 8d. per annum. 



Curious Breed of Fowls. — Mr. William Lee, gamekeeper to 

 Sir William Gordon, at Earlston house, is at present rearing two 

 young fowls of a very curious and novel breed, being a cross be- 

 tween a bantam hen and a common pheasant. The male is near- 

 ly a jet black, though the tail is considerably shorter than the 

 parents. The female is a beautiful bright red with a black neck. 

 They are about ihe size of ordinary barn door fowls, and are so 

 tame that out of doors they will pick crumbs frc>m the hand. 

 They are of splendid plumage, and are much admired in this 

 district. 



Glass Roofs for Stables, &c. — Tirydail, near Llandillo, the 

 residence of T. W. Sanford, Esq., F. R. S. "It is but five years 

 since Mr. Sanford turned his attention to the cultivation of plants 

 and fruits. He has placed his cows and plants under the same 

 roof formed of glass, at an expense no greater than the roof of 

 slate. The light is found important to the welfare of the cattle 

 and the carbonic acid gas and ammonia to the plants. The shade 

 of the grape leaves is agreeable to cattle. The first house has a 

 single span roof of 96 feet long by 13 feet "widcj standing east and 



