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Districts of the Reeky Mountains and B-itish Columbia, arid other places of interest in United States and Canada. Programme of tonrs on application. British delegates now reports and all the latest Biaps and pamphlets fr e. Direct Harrises from Glasgow to New York and Boston and Philadelphia alt the year roncd. Full particuLvrs on application to ALL Ay. BROTHl18 CO., J'lines Ntroer., Lt —:ri fooL PAKE SON, Print-are, TheOrosp, N<mrt.> Wli Po BICf HDB, Boraflimurkf.)-, 2JV»wtown. JOHN KINSEY, Office, Uwdinam. WM. WALTEKS, Wellington Hotel, Wels hpool. DAVID JEHU, MORRIS & SON, Drapers, Llan-dloes. W. H SMITH, 82, Park Avenue, 021 Oswestry. I OFOR THE BLOOD IS I í t Vi D 1. AMED THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER & RESTORER. | Thecleantdng and clearing of the blood from 'all mpurities whether the result of Contogiouia Diseasa, hereditary taint, or foul matter of any description, it Cannot be too highly recommended. b For SCORFULA., SCURVY, SKIN, ani BLOOD Dis- EASES, ECZEMA, aud SORES OF ALL KINDS, it is a never-failing- and permanent cure. It Cures Old Sores Cures Ulcerated Sores on theiN eck Cures Ulcerated Sore Leg's Cnres Blackheads, or Pimples on the Face Clire-i Scurvy Sores Cures Cancerous Ulcers Cures Blood and Skin Diseases Cures Glandular Swellings Clears the Blood from all impure matter From whatever cause arising. As this mixture ia pleasant to the taste, and war- ranted free from anything- injurious to the most delicate constitution of either sex, from infancy to old age, the Proprietors solicit sufferers to give it a trial to test its value. "2, St. John's-place, Lisson-prrove, London, N.W., Feb. 1, 1890. "Raving been cured by your Clarke's Blood Mixture, I feel that I ought to testify to its value. I snBer-d with a bad leg for about 18 months. I tried a doctor and different remedies, taking to my bed, and still getting worse, until a friend recom- mended me to give Clarke's Mixture a trial. I did so, but must confess I had not much faith that I should receive any benefit. However, after taking a couple of bottles, I found myself improving, and after taking even bottles and nsing one pot of the salve, was pleased to find myself thoroughly cured, and better on my feet than I have been for many years. I send you this testimonial totally unsolicited, and solely for the good of others.—I beg to remain, Gentlemen, yours faithfully, WILLIAM CAxx." THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS. ";brl ic's Siooci Mixture is sold in Bottles 2s. ifd., and in cases, containing six times the quantity, He. or.ch-sufficient to effect a permanent cure in the yreat majority of lone standing cases, BY ALL CHEMISTS and PATENT MEDICINE VENDORS throughout the world. Trade Mark-" BLOOD MIXTURE." CAUTION. t Purchasers of Clarke's Blood Mixture should see hat they get the genuine article. Worthless mitations are sometimes palmed off by unprincipled vendors. The words" Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Company, Lincoln, England," are engraved on he Government Stsmp, and" Clarke's World-famed Blood Mixture." blown in the Bottle, WITHOUT WHICH NONE ARE GENUINE. BOILINa WATER OR MILK. EPPS'S c COCOA I BREAKFAST OR SUPPER. EE-APPEAEAXCE OF I RUSSIAN INFLUENZA. Thousands of pat .eats in different parts of the country are now <!<»wn with INFLUENZA. QUININE is THE ONLY SPECIFIC. This is testified by the experience gained, both in London and Paris, when INFLUENZA app^-ired. It was also ciciirly established that tho 1110'í:'t convenient form to exhibit Q U I N I N E was in the fotra of GYVTLYM BY ANS' QUININE BITTERS. Tiiia preparution baa been before the public for twe-ity years, and has succeeded in gaining the hlghoafc reputation as an UNFAILING TONIC, being so mnch appreciated, in all places where it has bjen given a. fa.r trial, that the demand for it. is increasing d-iv by day. GWLLYM. EVANS' BITTERS contains a full dose cf QUININE I iu each tablespoonful, besides the active principles o; the to-i-jwing- v.'«xl-knywn meclie-nal herbs :— I' "SAKSAPARILLA, GENTIAN, LAVENDER, • liURDOCK, DANDELION and SAFFRON, scientiifcally prepared, and combi i.ed in such happy ro, out as ro be suitable to all ages at all seawni of the year, and t'o.• rain g a Tor.ic Bitters POSITIVELY UNEQUALLED GWIL YM EVAXS' BITTERS lias treated SEVERE CASES OF INFLUENZA and heavy col .Is with greater success than any known remedy. AFTER THE INFLUENZA. AFTEit THE INFLUENZA. The after effects are ofton more unagreeable than the malady itself. The feeling of depression, low spirit?, help- lessness, and want of "go," which afflict the patient when recovering from an attack of Influenza, are often unbearable, A few do?es of GWILYM EVANft' BITTERS tnjeen in tune will effectually drive away tili:, sense of extreme helplessness and feeling of misery and weakness. CAUTIOX See the name, GTWILYM EVANS," on label stinip and bottle, and rekUtsmbdr fchtit allY proparationoit'ei-ed as Quinine liitt-rp which does not bear this name (as above stated) is aji-audulent imitation and counterfeit. dold by all Chemists in bottle at 2s. 9d. and 45. 6d. each, and in cases containing three 4s. 6d. bottles at 12s. 6d. per case; or it will be gent for the above prices, post free, to any part of the world direct from the Proprietors :— QUININE BITTERS MANUFACTURING CO. (LDI), LLAUELLY, South Wales. American Depot—Mr. R. D. WILLIAMS, PLYMOUTH, Penn. CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS COMPANY. 'l'-O BE SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY, the X several stacks of well-harvested HAY, stand- ing at the undermentioned Stations on the Cambrian Railways, and estimated to contain the respective quantities, more or leas, also undermentioned, viz 5 5 5 5" STATION. 5* .? STATION. SP E p o 0 Tns Tns Whitchurch 1888] 2 We'shpool 1891 5 x 1889! 7t Forden 621 >1 6 Montgomery 1888 5 1891 4 „ 1891 9 Fenn's Bank 1900 4 £ Abermule 1890 10i » !891 3 „ 1891 8 Bettisfield 1689 3 Cilgwrgan 1888 4 >, 1 4 Scafell 1891 41 1891 3 Llandinan: 4^ Welshampton 188» 6 Llanidloes 1889 5 >> ^890 4i I'ylwch 1891 4^ 5> 1891 4 St. Harmons 1890 6 Ellesmete 1890 8 £ 1891 5 i) 1891 5 Doldowlod 0 2 Frankton 3 Three Cocks 4! Whittington 1890 9t Trefeinon -1890 8 1891. 7 Derwenlas 1891 9 Llanymynech 11 41 Ynyslas 4 Pool Quay „ 11 Borth 1889 5 £ Battington 1889 7 £ 1891 2| >> 1890| 8 Afon Wen 1890 6 <2 1891)11 lAbererch 118911 4 ALFRED ASLETT, Secretary and General Manager. Company's Offices, Oswestry, November, 1891. I I CURE FITSI i have made & tic lonj study ol the disease of Fits, Epilepsy, or Falling Sickness, and when I say CURE, I do not mean merely to stop them for a time and then have them return again, I a Kadical Cure. I have known my remedy to cure the worst eases. Because others have failed to cure you is no reason why you should continue to suffer. Send at once for my TREATISE »nd a FREE BOTTLE of medicine. It costs you nothing for a trial, and IT WILL CURE 1 Dr. H G BOOT 28. Eadsleigh Gardens, Eos ton Sd., London. ff.W. -r- -I (> MUSIC AND ^MU^L INSTRUMENTS. T'HILLIPS & SON, I 19, Broad Street, Newtown, HAVE A. 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THE FARMERS9 CIRCLE. (BY ONE WITV'rtX IT.) The V elshpool Shire Horse Breedm Society has offered Lord Ellesm^re £ 1,00 for the hire of the champion Shire stallio Vulcan during the season 1892, which h Lordship has accepted. The grain markets are showing a dowi warn, tendency; but if this wintry wo&tiv last -r]\-y ou-rJit to nialce a rebound. Tl decadence seems as though it were di lacgi'i)- to pressed sales of foreign. Ceitai fixed cliarges accrue so long as the grain heia r arvivttl, and quotations for fu ward delivery having fallen it giv me; dJituts small reason for holding oi Wrn fuvm^rs the tiling is somewh? different. Sales are only pressed by wai of money, warehouse charges being nm nil If corn returns under the Act I: auv gaide, there shoidd be more wheat i th, i as;ds of larmera tha.n this time la ytair. Of course there may have been smaller yield to make the difference, stiil is wurth noting that the deliveries in tl 19 weeks already gone have been less b "mp :oo'"uoo quarters than for the corn sponding period last year. HUNTERS AND BARBED WIRE. Bfi^b^d wire has been the cause of anoths I senous accident in the Grafton Hum While near Sulgrave Lady Hesketh too. a brook, when her horse encountered barbe* wire on the opposite side. Ti-ie animal sitdiy lacerated, and in its struggle liberate itself the wire became entangled ? her ladyship's habit. Two members of th hunt saw this, aid at once rendered assist uuce in freeing Lady Hesketh from i dangerous position. THREE COWS BLOWN TO PIECES. v On Suuday night at a late hour the whole population of the village of Blaton, near' Tournay, was awakened by a terrific' explosion, which was immediately followed by two others equally alarming detonations. J They were found to proceed from the byrej of a small farm belonging to a man' named; Mauseur. On the building being inspected it was seen that an outrage of the most diabolical description had been perpetrated. A miscreant had entered the byre after the family had retired to rest, and had placed' on the backs of three valuable cows a charge of dynamite, to which he attached an ignited fuse. All three cartridges exploded, and the animals were literary blown to pieces The byre presented a frightful spectacle, the remains of the animals being scattered in every direetion.- Yorkshire Post. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. The following is a list of the Harvest and other Church Collections which have been forwarded to the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution from Wales during the year 1891. U P. s. d Lknfrjnaeh Mr W. de Winfon.. 1113 Llanvair. Rev. J. M. Lindsay 2 0 0 Cardiff (St. Fagan's) „ W. David 4 4 4 Porthcawl „ W. Jones 3 3 V Ewenny, Bi-i Igend T. D. Boyin 6 8 6 Panteg „ w. N. G. Eliot 8 12 1 Cardiff (St. Fagan's) „ W. David 3 3 3 Abergele (St George's),, D. W. Evans 2 5 5 Buttington „ T. Hughes.. 3 14 0 Kinsham Mr Evelyn 0 14 6 Norton Rev H. C.Green Price2 2 0 Carew J. Pollard Le*vio o Llanvair Iftlged-li«. „ >r. u. Xnuusay 3 0 of Miesderwen Mr A. Williams 2 2 0 A SIMPLE TEST FOR LIME. A chemical analysis tells whether a soil has an abundance or a deficiency of lime and other materials which go towards supplying needed plant food. It requires an expert chemist to determine this, and no method has as yet been devised by which any farmer can analyse his own soil. But a simple method has been devised by which any farmer can tell whether his soil has enough lime or not. Take a few shovelfuls of soil from different parts of the field, and dry, pulverise, and mix them thoroughly. Take a few ounces of this, powder it, and burn it to ashes on an iron shovel over a fire. Put these ashes in a glass tumbler when cooled, and mix with them as much water as it will take to cover them. Stir this with a glass rod or wooden stick, but not with anything metallic. To this paste add an ounce of hydrochloric acid, which is com- monly sold as muriatic acid or spirits of salts, the mixture being stirred all the time. If a pretty brisk effervescence takes place, it may be taken for granted that the soil contains a fair proportion of lime; but if little or no effervescence takes place, the soil contains little or no lime. A WARNING TO FARM SERVANTS. A farm servant was charged with stealing a key, the property of his master. In May last the defendant entered the prosecutor's service. A short time ago two of the prosecutor's horses, valued 950, fell seriously ill. They suffered very much from fever in their feet, and it was found that barley had been administered to them. It then tran- spired that about July defendant had obtained possession of the key of the store where the corn was kept, and had since taken barley (about 25 stones) and given it lavishly to his master's horses. Prosecutor, on learning this, told the defendant to leave, and he would not prosecute him, but this he refused to do before he got his money. Ultimately a constable was fetched, and to him the defendant gave the key, telling him it was because he thought he was going to get the horses to look a bit better that the job had happened. Prosecutor said he did not want to press the case, as defendant had sacrificed his wages (about £ 6) for the veterinary surgeon's bill and a sack of corn which was found spoiled in the crewyard. The magistrates said defendant appeared to have lost a considerable amount of wages, and his master had spoken in his favour, so they would only fine him the mitigated sum of 5s., and zg I 6s. 8d. costs. He had been guilty of a very serious offence, which his master ought not to have over-
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MARKETS. NEWTOWN GENERAL, TUESDAY.—Wheat 19s Od to 21s Od; new wheat, 14a 6d to 15s Od per 240 lbs barley, 4s 6d to 5s Od per 701bs oats, 14s 6d to 16a per 220iba; eggs, 12 to 13 a Is butter, Is Od to Is 3d per lb fowls, 5a to 6s Od per couple ..1"°1. So Od to 5a 6d Par couple; ge- oi to 8a Od; turkeys, Oa Od to Os 01 each; potatoes, 24 lbe for Is be.'f, 7d to 8d per Ib mutton, 8d to 9d per lb; pork, Od to Od per lb. lamb, 9d to lOd per lb. WELSHPOOL GENERAL, MONDAY.—Wheat, 4s 9d to 5s Oct pu 75ibs barley, 48 6d to 4s 9d per 70ibs; oats 15s Od to 17s 6d eggs,—to 8 for a Is butter, Is 4d to Is 5d per lb fowls, 4s Od to 5s Od per couple; duoks, 4s 6d to 6s Od couple geese, 5s to 8s Od each; turkeys, 4i 6d to 10s 6d each. SHREWSBURY GENERAL, SATURDAY AND WEDNES- DAY.—Butter, Is 4d to Is 8d per lb; eggs, 7 to 9 for a Is; fowls, 4s Od to 5s Od per couple ducks, Ss 31 to 8s oouple; geese, 63 to 8s each turkeys, 8s 0,1 to 98 Od each rabbits, 2s 4d to 2s 8d per couple pigeons Is 2d to Is 41 per couple potatoes. 3s 6d to 4s Od per cwt; cabbages, 9d to Is Od per dozen broccoli, 2s 6d to 33 6d per dozen parsnips, 2, 6d to 3s Od per cwt; carrots, 38 per cwt; apples, 4d to 6d per qr; pears, 6d to 8d per quarter. OSWESTRY CORN AND GENERAL, WEDNESDAY.— Fresh butter, Is 4d to Is 6d per Ib eggs, 0 to 9 for Is fowla, 4s Od to 5s Od per couple ducks, 5s Od to 6s Od per couple; geese, 5s 6d to 7s each rabbit, 2,4d to 2s 6d per couple potatoes, 3s Od to 3s 6d per envt,; white wheat, 5s 4d to 5s 8d per 751bs nnw, Os Od to 08 Od red wheit, 5s Od to 5s 4d new, Os Od to Os 01 malting barley, 18a Od to 20s Od per 2801bs: oats, 15s to 17s 0 per 200. SHREWSBURY BUTTER AND CHEESE FAIR- WEDNESDAY. Not a large supply, and all sold. £ s. d. £ a. d. BTJTTHB 0 1 1| to 0 1 2* CHEESE—Skim 15 0 1 10 0 Middling. 1 15 0 2 6 0 Fat 2 15 0 3 0 0 Hams 0 0 71 0 0 81 Bacon 0 0 6i 0 0 7 BIRMINGHAM CATTLE, THURSDAY.—A good supply of pigs and beasts, but short of sheep. Trade quiet Beef, 6d to 7d; choice Hereford, 7id; mutton, Bid 4 to 71d p-r lb. Pigs, 8s 3d to 8s 6d sows, 6s 4d to 6s 6d; porkets, 8s 9d to 9s 23. BIRMINGHAM CORN. THURSDAY.—English wheat slow at Is decline foreign ditto quiet at 6d per quarter cheaper. Maize, barley, and oats 6d per quarter lower. MANCHESTER CORN, THURSDAY—Trade during the interval exceedingly slow, and the small business concluded has resulted in lower prices. This market was fairly attended, but demand limited. Wheat 2d to 3d per cental lower on the week. Flour receded 6d per sack. Oats and oatmeal unchanged. Peas steady. Beans advanced 3d per quarter. Maize (old crop) i-d per cental dearer new was easier, prime American mixed selling at 5s 31d per cental. LONDON CORN, MONDAY.—There was a fair attendance at Mark Lane, despite the unpleasant weather. English wheat was in sn^all supply, and made nearly former terms; the decline on the week did not exceed 6d. per quarter. Foreign wheat was a slow sale at some deoline-say 6d. per quarter on American and 9d. on Indian sorts. There are, of course, very large stocks, and the Indian is not of good quality, all a rule weevilled samples predominat- ing. A decline of 6d per sack was admitted on English and American flour. Scarcely any change could be quoted in barley, but holders of pulse were firmer from a week ago. Oats have come forward a heavier supply than the trade has bargained for, and with maize in heavy competitive offer prioes prove un. maintainable. Value to-day was ruled Is. lower from the closing markets of the old year. New American maize ranged from 27B. for immediate delivery down to 24s. for delivery within a month.— Wednesday: A dull market for wheat, and prioes tending lower for both English and foreign corn. English white was quoted 36s. to 43s., red 34s. to 40s. per quarter. Flour 3d. cheaper. Barley dull trade. Oats quiet and unaltered. Maize 3d. lower. Beans and peas quiet. BRADFORD WOOL, THURSDAY.—1There is not a great amount of business doing on 'Change, but the wool trade in all branches ia remarkably firm, and prices show an upward tendency. During the week transactions have not been large, as holders will not sell unleds at an advance. For yams spinners are ob. taining rather better prices. The piece trade is more aotive. Continental and trade better.
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ooked, as it was a public matter, the i >ractice being too common. In agricultural ounties which depended so much u £ on1 "torses this was a thing which must be; utopped. It is extremely desirable that magistrates should visit such offences severely, as this custom is becoming sadly ioo common. THE PRICE OF WOOL. ] According to the annual review of the wool trade given in the Bradford Observer, i;he average prices of the several varieties! of raw wool have reached their lowest during the past year. For example, the iiverage for Lincoln hogg wool for the whole jyear is put at 10id. per lb., the lowest average in a table embracing twenty-nine lyears. In 1890 the average was 11!d.; 2 ;and in 1889 it was IIld. For the first 4 ;iive months of 1891 the price stood at IOd., 2 'falsing to Wid. in June, to IOd. in August, and to 9id. for the last four months of the year. Down wool, as illustrated by Norfolk Down hogg wool, started at I I Id. was Ii d. from July to October, Ilid. in November, and lid. in December; while half-bred Norfolk wool was lOfd. throughout the 4 greater part of the year, lid. in April and May, and lOid in December. All classes 4 of Colonial wool were lower in 1891 than in 1890 or 1889-Port Phillip fleece averaging ,l4fd for last year, against 16d for 1890, land 17-ld for 1889. lIt consequence of the 4 threat increase in the number of sheep in ,the United Kingdom, the home wool clip greater than in any previous year since tt:30. being reckoned at 147,474,238lbs., or nearly ten million pounds more than in 1890. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. The Board of Trade Returns issued on irhursday give the total results of the foreign trade of this country for the past year, as veil as those for the month of December, 1891. The imports for last month are -eturlied at J,943,261,980, which compared vith £ 39,434,448 for December, 1890, hows an increase of £ 3,827,532. The exports for the some month amounted to 519,839,815, which contrasted with 221,384,270 returned for Dember, 1890, resents a decrease of £ 1,544,455. Of the icrease in the imports = £ 2,324,921 is due ) cereals. On the other hand, sheep's rool is less in value by ^6435,236. The rrivals of wheat were .—from the United iates, 3,996,717 cwt., compared with 519,411 cwt. in December, 1890 from the .ritish East Indies, 1,573,078 cwt., as gainst 801,668 cwt.; and from Russia the irge total of 2,257,279 cwt. was received, gainst 1,788,413 cwt. The large landings :om Russia were caused by the desire to nip as much wheat as possible before the kase prohibiting its export came into force i November, and many of such shipments 1Bcessarily appear in December imports. rJie effect of the ukase will doubtless be aen again in the accounts for the present nonth. Shipments of wheat from the United Sates ports on the Pacific coast have fallen of to a considerable extent. Turkey was tie largest shipper of barley during the mmth, the chief source of supply being pobably Asiatic Turkey, with Bussorah as the outlet. Of sheep's wool our rr-quire- nents reached a total of 290,000,000 lb. in 1(90 last year the total was 331,000,000 lb. 0 meats of various kinds there was a considerable decrease. The number of hulla '¡mnJ"J —— SY 1 „,3 732, while a 1890 we imported 35y588, the value of which was £ 664,008. The decrease in quantity amounts to 21.7, ana in value 20.9. Sheep and Iambs numbered 24,091, valued at X46,964, against 9,277 at £ 18,232. The increase here is very remarkable, amounting to no less than 159.2 in quantity, and 157.8 in value. 278,796 cwt. of bacon were imported, value X524,669, which shows a decrease on the previous year of 17.2 in quantity and 8.2 in value. There is also a slight decrease in fresh beef of 5.2 in quantity and value, and a slight decrease of 0.8 in the quantity of imported butter,' but the percentage in value has gone up 2.6 Margarine has made an increase of 2.9 in quantity, and 4,2 in value, while cheese has gone down 15.0 and 9.9. The percentages in cereals are, taking quantity first and value next: —Wheat, increase 61.0 and 85.8; wheat flour 32 9 and 37.5; barley, decrease 5.4 and increase 14.7 oats, decrease 12.0. and increase 3.5 Indian corn, decrease 15 8, and increase 4.5. Eggs show a falling off of 9.6 and 5.0, while fresh mutton is also down 16.1 and 22.4. In sheep and lambs' wool there is a decrease of 15.7 and 20.7. For the year 1891 the imports attained the estimated value of £ 435,691,279, and show compared with the X420,885,695 for the year 1890 an increase to the extent of £ 14,805,584. The exports for the year are returned at the value of Y,247,272,273, as against Y,263,530,585 in 1890, and show a decrease on the twelve months of 9 16,25 8,312. THE PAST WEEK'S WEATHER. We have had a week of wintry weather- heavy snow and hard frost,—but a thaw seems to be now setting in, and the land will be softer than ever. Many wisely took advantage of the frost to lead manure on to the iand, and some ploughing has also been done, for the frost has not been so intense as to stop that branch of work. The year we have just completed has been one of wet and cold, and consequently the crops of all sorts have suffered. There has been also a reduction in the prices of almost all live stock. Feeding stuffs are generally dear, and pigs are at such a price that it is difficult to see how they can be kept to a profit. The outlook is not a very bright one, but we must remember that the chances are that this season will be more sunny than the last, ana sunsnme generally means money to the farmer. Again, I see, we are being advised to try fruit growing and market gardening as the right way to make rent. This advice is good enough for those who are near enough to cart to a market or have cheap means of conveyance. But practically that is everything. It will astonish some people to be told that land can be had in Sussex, and good land too, at 7s. 6d. per acre. A friend of mine who farms some of it tells me that he and his neighbours could not sell
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their fruits this season at a price to pay for! picking and conveyance to market, and he < savs the same of other produce. Unless the railway companies choose to make it possible by running produce to London rand other town« at a, low rate vhis state of things must continue. If this matter of transit wero arranged it is probable that the next best thing to do would be to double the price of these Sussex farms and give the new tenants security of tenure, and there would soon be a very different set of men on the land— men with capital who would invest it in the farlas if they could do so safely. As it is,some of the farming in Sussex is amongst the very worst and most exhausting ever met with in any part of the country. They simply do nothing for the farm, and it in return does little or nothing for them. ALTERNATE CROPPING. All plants prey more or less heavily upon the chemical ingredients of the soil, but do so in different proportions. Hence the necessity of following an alternate instead of a continuous course of cropping-specific rota tions on every description of soil. The reason why green and forage crops are taken after grain, and grain after grass or clover, must be obvious to one and all acquainted with the ash constituents of the various crops, or of the relative amounts of certain manurial ingredients they remove from the land. Turnips and clover, as a rule, carry away twice the quantity of nitrogen, nine times the amount of lime, and three times the weight of potash per acre, that cereals do. These latter rejoice in the extensive presence of silica, which affords very little substantial support to green crops. Con- tinuous cropping, either with green or grain crops, is therefore understandable on the basis of chemical equation and uniform exhaustion. There may be enough potash present for the production of an excellent crop cf grain, but not also of roots, which at once implies the expedience cf alternat- ing the crops for the purpose of balancing the chemical composition of the soil. And further, all plants have not the same habits of growth, or of searching the soil for food This fact has also a direct responsible bear- ing upon the system of alternating crops. Oue point farmers are slow to comprehend, is that it is the smallest proportion of any essential ingredient of plant food in the soil that determines the bulk of the crop yield. It is as assuredly the case as it is that the weakest link determines the strength of a chain. A knowledge of this fact may be the means of averting a very serious waste of valuable manurial constituents We remember a case of a North-country farmer, in the prosperous seventies, getting dis- concerted about the persistent diminution of his turnip and grass crops, year after year, notwithstanding that he had kept up a system of top-dressing his soil heavily with artificial manures at stated intervals. He eventually sent a sample of his soil to be analysed, when he discovered that it was much too rich in such things as nitro- gen, pho&phoric acid and silica, and potash, but deficient in lime.