reprehensible, but more especially as they are employed
as a manure for dry soils, with the very best effect. They are commonly
ground and drilled in, in the form of powder, with turnip seed. Mr.
Huskisson estimated the real value of bones annually imported,
(principally from the Netherlands and Germany) for the purpose of being
used as a manure, at 100,000_l._; and he contended that it was not
too much to suppose that an advance of between 100,000_l._ and
200,000_l._ expended on this article occasioned 500,000 additional
quarters of corn to be brought to market.--_Loudon's Encycl.
Agricult._

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GOOD FLOUR.

According to the assize acts, a sack of flour weighing 280 lbs. is
supposed capable of being baked into 80 quartern loaves; one-fifth of
the loaf being supposed to consist of water and salt, and four-fifths of
flour. But the number of loaves that may be baked from a sack of flour
_depends entirely_ on its goodness. Good flour requires more water
than bad flour, and old flour than new flour. Sometimes 82, 83, and even
86 loaves have been made from a sack of flour, and sometimes hardly 80.

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LEGAL ADULTERATION OF BREAD.

Within the city of London, and in those places in the country where an
assize is not set, it is lawful for the bakers to make and sell bread
made of wheat, barley, rye, oats, buckwheat, Indian corn, peas, beans,
rice, or potatoes, or any of them, along with common salt, pure water,
eggs, milk, barm, leaven, potato or other yeast, and _mixed in such
proportions as they shall think fit_. (3 Geo. IV. c. 106, and 1 and 2
Geo. IV. c. 50.)

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HIGH PRICE OF COALS IN LONDON.

Much has frequently been said of the monopoly of coal-owners; "but,"
observes Mr. Macculloch, "we are satisfied, after a pretty careful
investigation of the circumstances, that no such monopoly has ever
existed; and that the high price of coal in the metropolis is to be
ascribed wholly to the various duties and charges that have been laid
upon it, from the time that it has passed from the hands of the owner,
to the time that it is lodged in the cellar of the consumer."--_Dict.
Commerce, &c._ 1832.

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ROASTING COFFEE.

Coffee in this country is rarely well roasted; and in this consists
its chief excellence. Dr. Moseley long since observed--"The roasting
of