Therefore, the more we know about our business, the more we are likely to succeed ; the larger will be our crops ; our cultivation will be extended ; we shall be per sonally benefited ; and the country will share in our prosperity. The man who produces the best and largest crops is a real benefactor to his country ; or, to use the words of Sir George Sinclair, “ The man that lias made two bladss of grass grow where one grew before, has con ferred a blessing on his country.”

SURFACE MANURING. Mr A. Pratt addressed the following letter to the American Institute Farmers’ Club on this interesting subject Twenty years ago the opinion was that manure should be ploughed under. This practice was enjoined by agricultural writers. They taught that manure would otherwise waste. Influenced by their counsel farmers used to carefully lodge their manure in snug heaps in their fields and spread it only as the plough was ready immedi ately to bury it. They were sure its virtues would dry up and blow away should it be ex posed even for a day. Oftentimes a damp or cloudy time would be chosen for these opera tions in the belief there would be less loss by evaporation than there would be in clear weather. But there has been a great and gra tifying change in theory and practice since that time. It has long seemed to us that the process of nature amply j ustified surface manur ing. We know of no contrivance in nature for turning manure under. A worn out field, planted in forest, will in time regain its original fertility through the operation of natural causes. The rains of heaven and its own dead foliage falling upon and decaying on the sur face is all that is necessary. Land in pasture always improves in the elements of fertility; Yet the droppings of animals and the dead weeds and grasses through the agency of which the improvements is effected touch the surface of the ground only. If there is waste in these cases, as was once held, it would seem as if field and forest would deteriorate when left to the operation ol natural laws, but the fact is otherwise. And such results would also impeach the wisdom of nature’s Great Author. 