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office, which position is now open. Enquiries have been made 
from Australia of the Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist to 
recommend a candidate for the post which will be worth about 
£250 per annum. If any suitable applicant will notify the Editor 
fuller particulars will be given. 
THE SOY OR SO JO BEAN. 
Like the cowpea, the Soy Bean is a hot weather plant. It has 
much adaptation for localities that are warm and dry. When 
once rooted it withstands the effects of hot winds and drought. 
It can be successfully grown on poor soils, like other leguminous 
plants ; it may be turned to good account as a renovator of the soil. 
Some varieties of the plant will grow to the height of four feet, 
and produce a large yield of green food, and the plants, laden 
heavily with pods, which mature seeds, are food for both man 
and beast. 
Like other cultivated plants, the soy bean succeeds best on a 
rich vegetable soil with a porous subsoil, but it makes fair growth 
on poor, sandy soils. When the soil needs fertilizing with super- 
phosphates and nitrate of soda, if incorporated with the soil, 
fifty pounds to the acre will render much benefit. The time for 
sowing the seed is when the weather is warm. The seed is best 
sown in drills thirty inches apart, at the rate of four pecks to 
the acre. If grown for pasture it can be sown broadcast, when 
more seed would be required. For hay-making the soy bean 
should be cut, when the beans in the pod are fully half-grown, be- 
fore the lower leaves begin to fall. It is an excellent soiling plant, 
since it produces a large yield of green food per acre, and very 
rich in quality." — American Farmer. 
COAL AND IRON. 
" 'The nation that has the coal and iron rules the world/ 
Bountiful nature has dowered the American people with a heritage 
of both coal and iron richer by far than that of any other political 
division of the earth. 
What accounts can we, as a nation, give of our stewardship of 
such vast fuel treasures ? Have we carefully conserved them and 
transmitted the remainder unimpaired to succeeding generations? 
Or have w r e greatly depleted this priceless heritage of power and 
comfort and source of world influence by criminal waste and 
wanton destruction? 
The answer should bring a blush of shame to every patriotic 
American." — Dr. White. 
