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have been utilized in immense quantities, the world over, for restoring worn-out soils. 7. The control of commercial fertilizers, giving the true composition and money value of the brands brought by manufacturers and dealers upon the market, in order to protect the former against frauds, so easily practised in articles of this nature. 8. The composition, production, proper treatment and preservation of barnyard manure, the most important, most easily obtainable and the best of all fertilizing materials. 9. The chemical composition of all agricultural products, giving an insight into the nature and amount of plant food removed by them from the soil, and indicating a proper rotation of crops, so that one or the other of the essential ingredients of plant food may not be too rapidly withdrawn from the soil, and thus unduly hasten its unproductiveness. These, my friends, are some of the beneficent results which have followed the application of chemistry to the production of vegetable matter. In passing over to the consideration of the other branch of agricultural industry, namely, the production of animal matter, it may be well to call attention to a IV w well-known facts. Plants can live on the dead inorganic mat ter mtained in the air and soil alone. They ha\ the power of transforming it into living organic matter and into the moi complicated combinations of which their bodies arc composed. Animals can not live on inoi mie matter aloii Thev must ha\ in addition tie- nun highly Organic I form winch plant.; product