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place, that, as the compilation of the Com- 
munications of the Board are made up of the 
same kind of materials as Mr. Young's An- 
nals, the arrangement of this precious vo- 
lume was left to that gentleman's manage- 
ment, who, probably, consigned to it all such 
essays as were either too prolix or too little 
interesting for his own work. 
Mr. Fenna's paper on Irrigation contains 
nothing new : his pradfice is now generally 
understood, and adopted. We observe a 
note of the Board to this efle^f, and there- 
fore we are at a loss to account for the pub- 
lication of that gentleman's remarks, except 
for the reasons above stated, or witii a view^ 
that it sliould occupy a certain space in a ne- 
cessar}’ annual compilation. 
Mr. Fenna's communications of his ^expe- 
riments with salt add nothing to our pre- 
vious stock of knowledge of saline manures. 
The Board cannot be ignorant of the great 
progress made by Lord Dundonald in the 
discovery of cheap preparations of saline 
manures for the purposes of agriculture, for 
