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feet below low water level. Machines placed upon the ice and worked by horse power are used for raising this manure which is then carried off by sleds and distributed over the fields, while the covering of snow still remains. Procured in this way, in large quantities, and possessing great fertilizing qualities. it has vastly improved the agricultural status of the Island. An eminent authority, Sir J. W. Dawson. F. R. S. C. M. G., Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, Montreal, says:—”The great wealth of Prince Edward Island consists in its fertile soil. and the preservation of this in a productive state is an object of imperative im- portance. The ordinary soil of the Island is a bright, red loam, passing into stiff clay on the one hand and sandy loam on the other. Naturally it contains all the mineral requisites for cultivated crops, while its abounding in peroxide of iron, enables it rapidly to digest organic manures, and al~o to retain well their ammoniacal products. The chief natural manures afforded by the Island, and which may be used in addition to the farm manures to increase the fertility of the soil, or restore it when exhausted, are,——( I). fl/zzssel mud. or oyster shell mud of the bays. Experience has proved this to be of the greatest value. (2). Pea! and mnrs/I mud andrwamf) soil. These afford organic‘matters to the run out soil, at a very cheap rate. (3‘). Seaweed, which can be obtained in large quantities on many parts of the shores. and is of great manural value, whether fresh or com- posted. (4). [35/2 qflal. The heads and bones of cod are more especially of much practical importance. (5). Linw- 310218. The brown earthy limestones of the Island are of much value. in affording a supply of this material, as well as small quantities of phosphates and alkalies. \Vhere manures require to be purchased from abroad, those that will be found to produce the greatest effects are those cap- able of affording phosphates and alkalies, more especiallv bone earth, super—phosphates of lime and guano : but when

fish offal and SCHWCBL. can be procured in sufficient quantity ( 6 L 5]