How To Hold The Fertility Of The Soil

Gypsum attracts. It s not ouly a nanure in itself, but it attracts the maDuro froin the atmoephere that comes in coniact with it, (which ia abuudant en windy days,) but it catches and bolds tfce fertility of the ground tbat in some ioils escapo. Lime will also do this - 80 will clay. Clay. dricd and powdercd, is an excellent thing to put ou a banij-ard, or to cover a compost hcap with, or work tbrough the heap ; henee we use gypsum and linie in our stables umi privies. Gypsum is beat ; it bas the oaost attracti&n, besidea other propertiee. A Hule should be kept by every farmer for use, even at a high cost, as the benefit is sometimos more iinportunt iiaa the high price. Bat we waste our manure ; we not only permit its strength toefcape, but we are glad to get it out of the way. The samo recklessness exteadg to the land. It is well our soil bas a good proportion af clay to bold its trength. We must conserve. The time is not lar dmtant when e ekall be compeüed to do it. Already there are symptoms of lack in our soil ; we do nut raise es heavy cropa as we uscd to - here aDd there ft field, here and thero a farm is less productivo. It is not so much that we need piaster here in the West to hold the strengtb of the soil, as to use it to abstract it from the atmosphere, End to ■ave the ammonia of our barnyardti and stible8. For tbis let us always keep a "Ule on haud. Let us save and ïmprove our manuie, and thus tave our tarmi. - Rural World. If tbe oight air is as uohealthy as the doctore say it ie, huw do thuy account fcrth longevity of owl. '