OUR AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES. llountiful and diverse l'l-od notions of the Difi'ol-.nt Sections of the United States. So vast and grand are the agricultural resources of the United States that thero is no day in all the yearon which we are not harvesting in some section products from our s.iil. A glance at the different portions of the country shows the diver-ait diver-ait y of these products and tells us why ive may claim to be the best fed nation in the world. I'pon the Paeilic slope we have tho soil and climate that is best adapted to the products of the vino and tho growing grow-ing of citrus fruits. Within an in redi-bly redi-bly short time vineyards and orchards have been planted there, and their fruits grapes, oranges, lemons, olives, figs, apricots, prunes, as well as honey, etc. are now familiar in every market of our country. These, with their other products, prod-ucts, such as wines, raisins, almonds, etc., will soon free us from any need of dependence upou the fruit regions of scmitiopical Kurope. Tho great northwest is almost a synonym syn-onym for "No. 1 Hard," and its development devel-opment within two decades has been such that it might almost have supplied the world with wheat. In connection with the great corn fields of the central prairie states, it has furnished us an abundance of the staple food supplies, and has given us inmost years a surplus to send abroad. If there are some who have thought that our limit of production in this direction has been reached, they have only to travel along our northern border and observe the great areas yet untouched by the plow. When a greater output' is needed, it will be seen that our grain fanners of the next decade will surprise us as much as did those of tha last. In New England the dairy, the orchard or-chard and the garden have largely taken the place of grain and stock. These industries in-dustries tire better adapted to tho prevailing pre-vailing conditions, and proximity to the markets of the great manufacturing towns thus enables them- to get the greatest return from their acres. Throughout all the middle south cotton cot-ton is king, and its production is so great that it is constantly the largest singb item in tho whole volume of our agricultural agricul-tural exports. Regarding this section, it may bo noted in passing that there is now a tendency toward a greater diversification diver-sification of crops, and while there will not be less cotton grown in the aggregate, aggre-gate, the individual fanner will place less entire dependence on this, and will aim to g!vw iHrow of suih .'r.fj as are needed for his own sustenance. From the extreme southern portions of our territory we get, ou the west, rice anil sugar; and on the east the tropical fruits, such as the banana, cocoanuts, guavas and pineapple and, again, tho citrus fruits, as in California, as well as an endless v ariety of subtropical products. prod-ucts. Except within comparatively narrow nar-row limits we have not yet begun to test our powers of production. There are great grain fields yet to open in the' north aud west, and in the southwest as well, when we shall have begun fully to avail ourselves of the aid of irrigation. There are fruit lands yet to be planted in California and Florida, and along our almost untouched gulf coast, and cotton has not yet begun to reach its limit. The greatest value of the foregoing nasty sketch made by The American Agriculturist is, according to the authority au-thority quoted, the opportunities it still suggests. Young men who are industrious indus-trious and ambitious cannot do better than to turn their thoughts in this direction. direc-tion. So great is the diversity of employments em-ployments offered that one may follow fol-low almost the untrammeled bent of his own inclinations in choosing his place and his work. Agriculture has never ottered so many allurements, nor has it ever been so safe a calling as it is with us today. Wherever industrious, intelligent intel-ligent aud persevering young farmers may cast their lot, be it east or west, north or south, they may find within-eay within-eay reach the means for tho realization of their fondest hopes the founding of a happy home, tho aim of every true , man and woman. A French Kxperimenter on the Potato. Conclusions drawn by the French experimenter, ex-perimenter, M. (iirard, in the cultivation of the potato in France, and of interest to American growers, are as follows: As between whole and cut seed, with crops grown side by side, the preference was given to whole seed and the practice prac-tice advised to select for such use the medium or average size of the variety grown. While studying the selection of seed potatoes M. Gtrard was led to believe be-lieve that tubers which produced good crops would convey their productive qualities to the succeeding crop, and that those which produced a limited yield also perpetuate a tendency to "h-litcr crops. He thus became satisfied that the productive strength of the potato po-tato was hereditary, 'and that the cultivator culti-vator should select seed from those plants which give high returns. With regard to the degeneration of a variety, popularly believed to be the natural consequence of its continued cultivation the opinion is expressed fbu; it is often the result of the thoughtlessness thoughtless-ness with which the seed is chosen. Often rH the food tubers are sold for the market, and from the inferior ones the growers ask a continuation of qualities thev are powerless to give. The potato requires nitrogen, phosphates phos-phates and potash, but the quantity should be regulated by the soil. Ordinarily Ordi-narily sixteen tons of farmyard manure to the acre, or in its absence from 800 to ' 1,000 pounds of an artificial one, will be necessary. In France as well as in this country the mixture of sulphate of copper cop-per and lime has been found useful as a remedy for the potato disease. Careful s American experimenters are also on rec-. rec-. ord as believing in advantages to be do-rived do-rived from the selection of seed from tha most productive bills.