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Supplement to the "Tropical AgricuUmist." [June 2, 1902. 
Says the Agricultural Journal and Mining 
Record: — "The object of an Agiicultural Show i- 
the thoroughly practical one of improving agri 
culture and live-stocK of the country. It w oulil be 
a regretable circumstance if tliis fact we-e ever 
to be overlooked in the slightest degree." 
There are still among practical foresters those 
who do^not admit that the de-struction of forests 
ditninishes the rainfall. Two instances lately 
brought up are the cases of Tripoli, once a fertile 
country now desolate owing to the destruction of 
the forests which resulted in the disappearance of 
water, and of the forests of La Tnijipe by the 
deiiudaiion of which the springs and the ponds 
fed by them dried up. 
Some interesting sppcimens of grafting showed 
before the Prussian Horticultural S ociety proved 
that the graft had exercised a more or less marked 
influence on the stock — an effect the opposite of 
what is usual. 
