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The president of the New Jersey state board of agriculture favors ttie government's adopting the county free mail delivery, believing that the niounted carriers could take, not only the mails, but weather reporte. According to the report of the department at Washington there has been an increase of one-fourth in the production of the potato hi the past ten years. Professor Byron D. Halstead, of the New Jersey experiment station at New Brunswick, is getting up a collection of weeds for the Chicago World's fair and asks assistance from everybody who can render it. A circular with particulars may be obtained on request. The National Horse Show association, of New York, at their annual meeting re-elected most of their old ofiicers. The premium list for the nest November show was increased to $40,000.