~ ~ U 82;rkitIturid. Weezzo our OF SOILS.--It is cow mon to hear peoPle in the far west boast thatthey can take crop a ft er ° cop from their virgin soils - for, several sno oe years. without imparing the general fertility there-1 of. This is _regarded as something marvelous and as something'which could pot occur in any other part of the world. It is, hovvever, clear that this representation has imen over-I .4,lrawn. Only in the bottoms,--inach as that of- the Muskingum, and Scioto, in Ohio,Tis there any great dei grec . of permanence in this contink nal cropping, and this chiefly from, the fact IthaCfertilizing agents arozi brought deWn. from the high. lands about them. In, the flat lands th stability, of the-great richness is littl more then in-the lands of the oldei, States. In Ohio especially, landS once of superior quality fOr corn and whAnt, -have become so run down that they are given over to sheep Leing., the only sure thing at least the surest return that can be made from the land. • • , We ean a q nearly as - much here-in . the east. We have known land near !Philadelphia which has been under - . culture for perhaps a hundred years, produce corn sii successful years in fair quantity, with no artificial aid .bat a - littler "shovelipgs," , which nears rich r!irth scraped together 'here and_there and put in the hills when the cord is planted. The fact is, land is pretty much the same all the'- world over in adoption to certain crept. When things are forced to grow in land not well suited to their-growth they soon ' fail, even when well-cared for;-7but when they - find their natural element no great amount of artificial aid is 'required to keep the laud in good condition for many years. - Even the 'older countries . o Europe, :\litre . land has '.been cultivation fora thousand years,' has principle been found . to hol4 gOod : T.Experimentshave been madel with some of the cereals—first silecf-I, ing land known to be favorable ty.: some special thing, and then by ithannring annanally lightly with nlaterial also, known to be favorable to the plant. Crop after, crop has been Laken fdrtwenly years; and the has been as - good as the first. 1 1 Yerwitli all these facts We ofteli tiie oueation-li ing discusst:dl" wear .out 1: We believii 'there is no such thing in . nature! Some . the'eleruents will 'of course l l h 3 ircuch ditninshed; and will need an occasional repleoEliing, but We Would not slippose puridige:stive organs had worn out because We feel hungry, and neither in any 'sensible lightican we; suppose - soil w il l wear out.—Oerman-1 trum Plegraph. - - coNyENIE!g WAY -TO A.TEAscat; LAN!.. -ft is fr,equently • desirable td in: a a' given.plot of ground or, a Cd ,field aro tho",tolloWing„ v,l: c'l. we are indebled .t& tan _ek l l . 1,q,0!' use to many re:cl Sul ve. ors are' not always (..)113t liictlt ilitlillf`t! to tO jobs, and--7-eveti. when, they dci f.:141e : he itritnedlate- sicinitv • , alway-s care to incur 'uti to such a small j It arc, ti..• be measured with it: :,Ci'llifaticy f3r all praclicalpnr; of a neat rodpole', f,,llows; -Procure a stick-of pine whitewi , od i bassivood or almost other thilber, one a half in . -1 square and-sixteen and a hall feet . long. Dress each end, •_taperin e ,q, from the middle io'.lllatAlle pole will (00 and a 'half inches square, at and about an'incli square end. Such a pole "will gal aniquite:itiff. Now, graduate once side with, the marks representing feet and inches, and graduate another side, to indicate a surveyor's linktiJ A_Pole one ,r'od in length must be', , equal to twenty-five links. „To divide oneside correctly, let a mechanic's, compass be adjusted, so that the • points will divide the distance into, twenty-five equal spaces or links. `A line can be measured With such a pole nearly_as hccurately as i with 4 • .-urvever's.cl . if . a person i does•n4 understand how to chains . at(Plial“, let him compute' thel mea..,.urement by • square ife , et. Inl cue acre there ore -13,5G0 square feet; .any intelligent school boy can ineasl ui - c the. egth and bredth of .a so tiara plot, multilily one by the •other; andl product 43,560, chichi t.ill.gi - the number of - acres, : the num] , square feet repre.c.‘trutH' itig the- .... s ion of an were: It '