COUNTY OF peRTH HERALD. A Good Joke, A late No. of Fraser's Magazine contains the following account of a trick Lord P. played upon the deputa- tion from the Synod of Cleiscbma- claver on their way to the General Assem bly of the Scotch Kirk : "« The brethren had started h~ at an-early-her- ~y COCR © | vuey atid had 16 travel some twelity tiles before they reached the inn where breakfastavas prepared for therm YThe keen air' of our north- ern hills sharpens the appetite; and when the brethren drove up to the - inn, théySwere! almost famishedy with, hunger. : : ' Now, gentlemen, just ten minutes for breakfast,' said the coachman, as he entered the landlady's' parlour to have his own, Ten minutes! The time was short, sO théy? niust rake the most of it. They. rushed. into the. room ,where breakfast was spread and there, bask- ing his ample person before the firey stood a portly gentleman, dtess@d- somewhat, like a dignitary' of - the Church of England. 'lheir appetite was, however, keener thanetheir curis) osity, so they, S¢arcely looked at the: stranger, but concentrated all their at- tention on the viands. Half way in the air, before the morsel had reached their lips, their hands were arrested by a sudden cry of 'Stop" It was the supposed: "dean or bishop." * Good heavens, gentlemen!' he, exclaimed, 'have you so far lorgotten your sacred profession as to partake of food with- out invoking a blessing?' The brethren looked like school-boys, detected in some flagrant'fault ¢ but before they " had«time to remonstrate or explain the same-voice exclaimed, in a tone which enforced , obedience, ' Let' us pray.' They instinctively sprung to their feet, andeassumedyan attitude,of decorous devotion," while 'fie stranger "offered up aprayer which, they themselves admitted, was superior in unction and expression to tho e of Dr, Drawlitout himself. He had only one fault--he did not know when to stop. The mifiutes F6lled rapidly away, but the stream f fervent supplication flowed on;witheut a break. They had a ter- rible struggle, as they closed one eye in devotion and ogled the savoury viands with the other; but whenever a hand approached the table, it drew back beneath the stern glance of the stranger, which seemed to comprehend them all. The sufferings of 'Tantalus were nothing to the deputation from the Synod of Cleischmaclaver; but all things must come to an end. 'Time is up, gentlemen!' said the coachman, opening the door, and wip- ing his mouth wih the air of a man who has enjoyed his breakfast. The appearance of the coachman, and the 'sound of his familiar voice, broke the spell; but there was no time to be lost; the horses were shaking their heads and pawing the ground, in their impatience to start; so they had to take their seats, and turn breakfast and dinner into one. 'Was that the Bishop of D------?' said one of the famished brethren ' That the Bishop of D------_? said the coachman, contemptuously, * why, that was Lord P , the, maddest wag in all the kingdom.' The brethren said ,othing, but chewed the cud of bitter fancy till they reached the next halting place, where. they got something more sub- stantial to chew. Management of Manure. (From the Canadian Illustrated News.) The progress of improvement in the agriculture of any coun'ry is indicated by the attention that is paid to the eollection, preservation and applica- tion of manure. The wonderful change that has taken place in British hus- bandry..was, ushered .in by. attempts to enlarge the «quantity and improve the: quality of manure | Every king- dom of nature has been ransacked to find eut subst neces endowed with the principles of fertility. Science has come to the aid of art ; philosophy has stooped from. her, dignit and joined in te research, and the public mind appears to be fully aroused to still more' adventurous efforts. The formation.of compost heaps,the mix- ture~of soil with decomposable matter, the universal application of lime, the eonstruction of liquid manure, tanks, the introduction of guano, burnt clay, bones, plaster, &¢.; are all stops in the great race in' which intell.gent agri- culturists have been and are engaged. Unless such: means were resorted to, Great. Britain, could rot sustain her of China would starve. ae The continued production of grain crops will exhaust the most fertile CH | unless rest is given, and : plied, on in Bele* ~ hi «anure ap- 19nns 'TE .. proved and acted sium and in England, that _usmmay,be,kept in good heart and subjected toa continual course'of crop- ping without other manure than that which is made on the premises, from the conisumptién of green crops, bay, straw,, &c-, and the proper manage- ment and application'ef the solids and liquids which are thus obtained. In new couniries, such a8 the United States. and Canada, where rich land is easily obtained and labor scarce, manure is peglecfed; and whenfthe soil' is jinpoverished~ by continual cropping and' the * fapid increase 'of weeds, fresh locations are soughit, and thesworn ont soil abandoned, but when _alk the land. becomes , occupied, this system mgr: changed, and rer nd.sotation of..crops.called into the id he fateaod it gs Sali Few persons i a new country are sufficiently careful of manure. "'Some- times iris spread omythe green sward, round the. barn yard-for, two or, three seasons. The liquid. which exudes from it is noteconomized. . 'The. ex- halations which, arise. from the, ardent influence of the summer's sun, and from the natural activity of fermenta- tionjare permitied 10 escape and) carry away with them the most valuable part of the manure. » Proper means)are not used to fix.the, gases. which are generated by putrefaction, and which constitute the elements of vegetable food. Every manure heap should have a foundation of muck to receive the liquid.whith exudés from it--layers of muck intermixed with it to keep the manure from being over-heated and a protection of some lindo keep it from the influence of the weather. Plaster should always be used for mixing the ammonia. Very few farmets pay any attention to the degree of heat attain- ed by the fermenting manure ; it should never exceed one. hundred degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer. At a much lower 'heat, carbonic acid, and) other gases ascend as elastic fluids and are diffused, and lost in the atmosphere ; the manure heap becomes fire-fanged, and its fertilizing ingredients. are ex- pelled. So long ago as 1812, Charles Alex- ander, an intelligent farmer in Scot- land, published an account of his ex- periments to ascertain the value of the urine of cattle as.a manure... Hie com- menced operations by digging a pit near his feeding stalls but distinct from that which was occupied by. the solid manure. The dimensions of this pit were 36 feet square and 4 feet deep, surrounded on all sides by a wall Having selected the nearest spot where he could find loamy earth, he proceed- ed to fill it and found that the whole expense of transporting-the earth to it did not exceed $20. When the work was compleie he levelled the surface of the heap on a line with the sewer which conducted the liquid from the byre, that he might be enabled to sat- urate the soilevenly, 'The liquid was supplied by fourteen cattle which were kept for five months on turnips and hay, ..The.contents of the pit produced 288 loads which manured seven acres of land... He tried this'experiment for ten years, and ussd in separate fields the rotted cow dung and she saturated clay, and found in all cases the jatter was fully equal tothe former. The beneficial eflects of the compost on the soil were fully as permanent as those of the barnyard dung. The pit which contained the solid manure of the fourteen cattle, as well as the litter employed, in bedding them, only fur- nished two hundred and forty loads, which mantred six acres. The value of. the urine therefore, when compared with the solid manure, was inthe ratio of seven 10 Six, so that it is evident that the liquid is more valuable than the solid maiter . We. have been call- ing on our rural friends to construct tanks and to saturate muck and solid manure with the valuable liquid which al present, is. so. much neglected, and we hope: to see our views earried out. By baying a,tank, even of, the mdest kind, the quantity of manure on a farm may be doubled and the crops in- creased in proportion. We suggest that it woald be considerable saving of labor to form the heap of muck in the field wherein it is to be used, afid to draw th@liqnic tanufe from he iank for the purpose of saturating it. 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