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The leaves of the funflower furnifti abundance of agreeable The leaves are 

 ^ , , . , . . r o- -iL i. excellent fodder. 



Tedder tor Cattle : they at-e gathered in fuccellion without any 



^^rceptible injury to the plant; and after this crop of ex- 

 cellent fodder, you may exped another of feeds that is very 

 iibandant. Some ftalks aflTord not lefs than ten thoufand. The Mode of gather- 

 ;beft mode of gathering them is to cut the flower ftalks, and/"^^'^ 

 Bs the calyx is very thick, to hang them up in an airy place, 

 that they may dry fpeedily. 

 . When they are in flower bees flock to them frbm all quarters Be?s fond of tftft 



■^ liowers. 



to gather honey. t 



The feed is rather farinaceous than oily, which they who The fefd jffbrds 

 ■have attempted to exprefs oil from them did not confider. It Quantities. ^ 

 is truej that oil may be exlraded from them, but in quantities 

 'too fmall to make it worth while to cultivate the plant for this 

 purpofe. 



But if the feeds of the fubftance be incapable of aflx)rding Good food^ for 

 'loil with advantage, they are valuable for feeding animals * * 

 tommonly kept in the country. They are perfedly well 

 fuited to (heep, pigs, and other animals ; but they produce a particularly for 

 more flriking effed on poultry. Forthefe no food is niorepro-^'JJJjJj'Jjj^Pj^" 

 fi table, or occafions them to lay more eggss. laying. 



The dry flalks burn well, and afford very good aflies ^oil^^^^^^^l^^^^^^^"^ 

 lye, becaufe they contain a great deal of alkali. In ftiort, much alkali, 

 from the eafe with which it is cultivated, the abundance of 

 its produce, and the change it makes in crops, the funflower 

 may be coniidered as a new fource of wealth to the farmer. 



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X. 



Chemical Examination of a neiu Vegetable Salt, and of a neiy 

 Acid difcovered in it : 6jf Kl a p r ox h *. 



JL HE vegetable production, which forms the fubje6t of the Hot climates 

 ijrefent examination, affords a freQi proof, that hot climates ^^Jlj Jj.^^y^^Jf 

 liave not only a great influence on the elaboration and par- cold, and create 

 ticular modification of a great number of vegetable fub- ""'^ *'"^** 

 flances, but that they caufe productions to be formed, the 

 leafl: veftige of which is not to be found in the fame plants in 

 the northern regions. 



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* Scherer's Allegemeines Journal derChemk) 1803, Nc. 55. p. 1. 

 Vo]L. VII.— February, 1S04. K This 



