An exchange says: "A peculiar fertilizer for potato fields has been introduced on a Pomeranian model farm. Hitherto herrings and potatoes have been known as a palatable dish in family households. The manager of the farm in question has hit upon the idea of blending them from the start, by planting his seed potatoes with a herring placed in every heap, and with so decided a success as to cause him to increase the area thus planted from twenty acres last year to sixty in the present one. The expense he calculates at about nine marks (about $2.25) per acre, which is cheaper than the cost of any other kind of manure, and amply repays the outlay. As a matter of course it can only be employed near the sea coast".

It would not do to plant a herring in a corn hill in America. Every dog within twenty miles would be off with one in his mouth before the planting was twenty-four hours old.