17 SEPTEMBER 1932, Page 16

The news from the country respecting the harvest continues to

be not merely favourable, but flattering. The rains have not, except in a few instances, materially injured the quality of the grain or retarded the saving of it. Hop-picking has commenced in the neighbourhood of Maidstone, and in other parts of Kent. The Sheffield Iris notices the fact, that a little magnesia or soda may be properly mixed with the flour of wheat which is in any degree spring• We believe there will be little occasion for such medicating. Sir Humphrey Davy, we recollect, recommended in 1816 the proportion of from 10 to 20 grains of magnesia to each quartern loaf,