The Record of an Attempt to secure Bread and Butter, Sunshine and Content, by Gar-dening, Fishing and Hunting. By Philip G. Hubert, Jr. G. P. Putnam's Sons., Publishers, New York. Mr. Hubert's bright and earnest little book is an inspiration to country living. It is not a romance of the kitchen garden, but the true story of a man who, for years, worked on the big papers in the city - for a living and nothing more. Only a comfortable living in the city with never a sight of the fields, the woods and the sea. He at last decided to live in the country for the greater part of the year and to make a garden assist in supporting his family. He took up gardening, not to make money, but to save money. The idea was that, as a literary man, he had every day from one to four hours spare time, and that if these odd moments were spent in a garden the labor would be of benefit to his health and would pay a good return in fruits and vegetables that he could sell to himself. His garden proved a success and made it possible to live in the country nine months of the year and made the work of earning a living less laborious. He won food from the ground for his little ones, contentment, happiness and glorious good health for the entire family, and his very clear book sets forth just how.

C. B.

Effect upon the Lend.

Sweet Corn from East end West.

Protection from Rats and Mice.

Liberty and a Living at length the question of wheat rust. This disease of the cereal has generally been attributed to the growth of the fungus Puccinia graminis, but the author shows that two other sub-epidermal rusts, P. coronata and P. rubigo-vera, also play a very important part in the damaging of wheat. The wheat rust belongs to the so-called heleroc-cisimai fungi, which produce in one season several apparently distinct stages. These stages are three - the production of the aecidiospores upon the barberry early in the spring ; the production of the uredospores, later on, upon the wheat plant, and finally the production of the telentospores or black rust, often in the same pustules with the uredospores.

Heretofore it has generally been supposed that the first infection of the wheat plant came from the aecidio-spores of the barberry, and upon this ground it has reasonably been supposed that a destruction of the barberry meant protection from rust. The author holds that the first or aecidium stage is not a necessary stage in the rust of wheat, and that more danger may lurk in old wheat stubble than in barberry bushes, however near.

The fact proved by the author that the threads of one species of rust, P. rubigo-vera, may remain alive through the winter in the old wheat plant is of great importance. For upon the advent of warm moist spring weather these deeply-rooted threads give rise to an abundant crop of uredospores, enough to infect a whole second year's growth. Winter wheat, according to the author, sown upon stubble fields from which a crop of wheat or other small grain has just been taken, is particularly liable to an attack of rust; he therefore advises the thorough burning over of the old stubble to destroy all spores and every trace of fungus thread (mycelium).

Some additional conclusions of the author are : 1. Moist conditions are most favorable to the development of rust.

2. Low lying rich soils are most subject to the disease.

3. It is believed that an excess of nitrogen in the soil will produce a wheat more liable to rust; hence the author advises the use of non-nitregenous fertilizers.

4. In districts liable to severe visitations of the disease, early ripening wheats are to be preferred.