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Supplement to the "Tropical Agricultrmst." [June 2, 1902. 
Says the Agricultural Journal and Mining 
Becord: — "The object of an Agticultural Show i- 
the thorousihly practical one of improving agri 
culture and live-stocK of the country. It woul<i be 
a regretable ciicumstiince if tliis fiict we-e ever 
to be overlooked in the slightest degree." 
There are still among practical fores'^ers those 
who do°not adonit that the destruction of forests 
diminishes 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 Triijipe by the 
denudation of wliich the springs and the ponds 
fed by them dried up. 
Some interesting specimens of graffing showed 
before tlie Prussian Horticultural Society proved 
that the graft had exercised a more or less marked 
influence on the stock — an effect the opposite of 
what ie usual. 
