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been furnished by an experienced farmer in the North 
of Scotland, as referring to artificial manures which 
he had used with satisfactory results on his land. 
He, and his brethren, had proved after a good deal 
of costly experience, that they could never depend on 
the qualities of the artificial manures received from 
the large manufactories. The increased demand was 
soon found to lead to very extensive adulteration. 
Some of them accordingly formed a company, erected 
the necessary machinery at considerable cost, and, im- 
porting the raw material direct from South America 
and other places, proceeded to manufacture not only 
for their own use but for that of the farmers in 
the surrounding districts. Our visit to the manufact- 
ory was a very interesting one, and it was then 
(some three years ago) that the following figures were 
furnished as the analysis and cost (delivered at the 
manufactory close by a shipping port) ue some of 
their principal artificial manures :— 
Names. Analysis. Cost per 
25°96 of Solub'e Phosphates ton cash. 
No, I.—Bonzs. 4 14°34 ,, Insoluble do £7 10 
2°51 ,, Ammonia 
24°44 of Soluble Phosvhates 
a eee 13°36 ,, ey (changed £6 10 
eS: 1:12 ,, Ammonia 
No. IlI.— Super- { 64 of Soluble Phosphates 
Ne, I1.—Bones 
PHOSPHATE— 8°64 ,, Insoluble do £6 10 
Bone ASH. Nil Ammonia 
Tox 26°32 of Soluble Phosphates 
MINERAL OR Cop- 6°52 ,, Insolubie (Stationary) +}£4 15 
ROLITES. 
Nil ’ “Ammonia 
This practice of farmers combining to procure raw 
material from which to manufacture artificial manures 
is rapidly spreading we understand in agricultural. 
districts elsewhere both in England and Scotland. 
COFFEE PLANTING AND COFFEE FINANCING 
IN CHYLON. 
We have received ‘‘ Young Ceylon,” a pamphlet 
reprinted from the Madras Mail, with the name of 
Mr. A. M. Anderson as the author. It is well when 
a man has much leisure that he should not cease to 
work. Our young friend has the pen of a ready and 
graphic writer, and he uses it frequently and copi- 
ously. His picture of the career of a youth coming 
to Ceylon to engage in coffee planting may be painted 
couleur de rose and not correctly in all its details, 
but still it may be interesting to our readers, so we 
quote as follows :— 
What are the prospects of such young men, the 
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