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MISCELLANEA. 
CULTIVATION OF CARROTS. 
Experiments have been made which prove that a bushel of 
carrots and a bushel of oats fed together to a horse, are worth more 
than two bushels of oats ; yet an acre of ground which will yield 
forty bushels of oats will produce a thousand bushels of carrots. 
Why will not Canadian farmers grow more carrots, more root crops 
generally, and less oats ? By subsoil ploughing and high manuring, 
upon a loamy soil, a thousand bushels of carrots may be grown to 
the acre. It has been found a good practice to soak the seed thirty- 
six hours in brine and to roll it in plaster. Any light, friable, rich 
soil will grow carrots . — American Agriculturist. 
THE ARAB HORSE-DEALER. 
The Arab horse-dealer is not the cheat that his European brother 
commonly is, for he never resorts to any trickeries to disguise the 
bad points of his horse ; but he is most seductively eloquent upon 
the subject of his virtues. 
“ Uncover his back,” cries he, “and satisfy thy gaze. Say not 
it is my horse, say it is my son He is pure as gold. His 
eyesight is so good that he can distinguish a hair in the night-time. 
In the day of battle he delights in the whistling of the balls. He 
overtakes the gazelle He has no brother in the world; it 
is a swallow. He listens to his flanks, and is ever watching the 
heels of his rider.” 
OBITUARY. 
We have to record the death, on the 13tli ult., at Beverley, of 
Mr. William Douthwaite, M.R.C.V.S., formerly of South Skirlaugh, 
Ilolderness, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. 
On the 19th of February, at Bombay, Veterinary Surgeon John 
Bolton, Cholerton Hall, 8th Brigade Royal Artillery, aged 37. His 
diploma bears date December 19th, 1855. 
ERRATA IN NO. 507 . 
In page 200, line 21, for “ Warbold,” react “ Parbold.” 
„ 201, ,, 2, for “ Wreston,” read “Preston.” 
