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Show Chenilatry and tha Farmer. Kvtry dlacoiery of great practical beuellt to tba manufacturing arta and to agriculture baa been given to practical nieu by abstract acleutlflo invcatfgatiou. A markotl caao la that of the aj llcatlon of plioapbato flrtillzcra. Bclvuco found by Invcatlgatlon that iniro (lioaphorio acid waaaconatltucnt without wbielino llantcould lit o and tlrrlio. Moreover, nineteen ouiids of plioaphorlo aeld aru taken from tlio toll for oiery ncroof v. heat that la grown. Thla. too, ith nco dlieoie-rod. It waa then merely n quca-tlon quca-tlon or timo when nil aolla that guvo up their fertility thua rcndily Mould bo ex linuatcd. uuleaa aoino ineaua of pnttinj back tho phoaphorlc- aeld could bo do vtao.1. Hero again aclenco came to the al 1 of tlio I ruetleal mau. It found that Immciuo boda ( f lioaphatea cxlttod In rttrloue pai ti of the world It Inieati gated mill found mttina to acuirnte the lhoihorlo aeid from tlio liiiuernla und foreign aubatuncca that hold It, ur I force It to go Into neriUo tor tho farmer Thla la tlio groavat boon na well aa boom to agrlcnlturo in many a jeur The phonphoria odd largely cornea from dceoiupOklng bono, nnlmal tub Itauce and ahvlla. Snmetlmea the lionet nru thoxo or foaail atiimule that lieetl bo-foro bo-foro tho dawn of hlatot) TliiaVlndof 1 hoti lmto U found In Cunadn. In Tlor-llanrelmincnBe Tlor-llanrelmincnBe mlneaor roaall guano. Untold mllllnna or tiny alielllUh, too, lived and died coua ago lu what la now Florid i to gli o futility to the aoll of tho American fanner, and aclruco found them for him. In bonth Carolina, the remaina of ilU moatly are tlio eourcct of tho i 1ki hutea Otlur eleoalta uro found In North Curolluii. Virginia nn I (Knirgiu. Lut from tioutli Curullna und I lorldn tomia tbo largcat an) ply. Here in our own furorcd country vo tune betla which will anj ply our nccda for e,cnoratluna to como, though tho need alrcadr reuchea inilllona of tona n year. |