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juice. Rich people suck it through a bombilla — a silver pipe, 

 terminating in a little colander, to stop the fragments of leaves. 

 About an ounce of leaves serves one person. It is usually kept 

 boiling, and is drank quite hot. When this tea stands long it 

 assumes an inky color. 



LIEBIG'S PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



This little volume of 100 pages contains his 50 sentences em- 

 bracing the whole science, within thirteen pages. At page 36 

 we like his JVew Rotation^ viz : that of manures rather than 

 crops, by which the farmer can grow such crops as are most pro- 

 fitable to him in the location he has. Liebig asks, " How vastly 

 would the labors of the farm be simplified if the farmer could 

 uninterruptedly grow the same crop without injury to the soil." 



To solve this question has been one of my efforts for the last 

 seven years. There is no guide but logic that is sound common 

 sense, w^hich tells us " to give to the land what we have removed 

 from it, neither more nor less.'''* 



LORD KAIMES AND AGRICULTURE. 



Henry Home, of Kaimes, descended from a noble family of 

 Home, Earl of Home, of the 1 5th century. He was born in 1096. 

 He studied law, published his essays on several law subjects, be- 

 came judge of the Scotch supreme civil court, and then of the 

 criminal. After many valuable works, he, in 1762, published his 

 most justly distinguished work. Elements cf Criticism. During 

 his long career as a lawyer, philosopher and man of letters, he still 

 more highly distinguished himself as a patriotic, strenuous pro- 

 moter of genuine agriculture, and every other useful art. He 

 wrote Essays on Farming, on Flax, Linen, Fences, Planta- 

 tions, Breeding of Sheep, on Wool, Bleaching, Statistics, Sec. 

 He first suggested the formation (in Scotland all this) of 

 a Board of Agriculture. He procured a survey of the 

 state of agriculture in Scotland. He succeeded in recovering 

 morasses, by paring off the peat, by drainage, and by putting on 

 these peatlands lime and ashes. He first planted potatoes on 

 them and then wheat. He gave great attention to the making 

 good roads, he labored to stir up every Scotch landholder to do this. 

 He published his Gentleman Farmer in one octavo volume in 

 1772, an excellent work. He died in 1782. 



1796. — Kent turn-wrest plough, 15 inches, level as spading. 



Provisions.— ^e^i, 11 cents; veal, 16; pork, 14; cheese, 14; 

 bacon, 16; butter, 25; potatoes, $2.50 per 200 lbs. 



