** A company in New York City is endeavoring to perfect a process for ! the desiccation of garbage, says a writer in Science, with a view to utilizing the vast quantity of city refuse now dumped into the sea from garbage scows. The matter to be treated is run through a shoot into one end of a revolving cylindrical oven about sixty feet long by 10 or 12

! feet in diameter. The oven, which is strongly constructed of boiler iron, is enclosed in a brick furnace, one end being higher than the other. A i fire in the furnace keeps an equable heat in the oven, and the latter is slowly revolved by a steam engine. The garbage or refuse enters at the elevated end, is thoroughly stirred and dried as it slowly travels from one end to the other of the revolving oven, and emerges from its lower end desiccated and inoffensive".

We have here the germ of great usefulness to agriculture and horticulture. In Philadelphia the garbage problem has puzzled the authorities. Until recently the material was contracted for by owners of hogs, but the hoggeries have been suppressed by the Board of Health, and, as the city comprises the whole county, the authorities have to pay enormous advances on old contracting rates to get the garbage removed. When it can be cheaply dried, like fruit or vegetables, it can be hauled without offence to the country, and either fed there to hogs or used directly as manure for the land.