^^^^■1 ^griculfural Discovery. Anr 



No Business occupation affords better facilities for makin- practi 

 cal application of scientific knowledge and experience than°aoricul- 



!f?i,' .f T7 ^'T^^' ^'^ '^ ^'^^°S ^^"^^^^ ^- appHcation 

 ot that knowledge, and no surer xoay, comes witliin the ran^e of laud 



able enterprise. Could the immense losses sustained every year by 

 misapphed farming labor in any one of our fine agricultural districts 

 be fully disclosed to those interested, that disclosure would effect a 

 revolution. But we have no available statistics from which to make 

 such disclosures. But give to our farmers' sons the means of acquir 

 ing a knowledge of those branches of science intimately connected 

 with the comforts of home and the productiveness of the soil- o-ive 

 to the youthful mind the elements on which to feed its powers tnd 

 interest its energies in the field of the homestead; give to our youth 

 111 the country a real agricultural literature, then compare the pres- 

 ent with the tenth year from this, and the statistics will be in your 

 possession— IF. R. Chronicle. 



agrirulfnrnl Disrnnrrti. 



A Paris letter-writer states that a scientific gentleman discovered 

 two years ago, embedded with some embalmed bodies, a species of 

 wheat not then m existence. In the time of the early Gallic Kin^g 

 a certain quantity of wheat was placed in the coffins of embalmed 

 bodies. Some of it was sown, and it yielded from sixteen to twenty 

 sta ks to a grain, while there was, on an average, twenty more grains 

 in the head, than in the ordinary wheat. A considerable quantity 

 ot this ancient wheat was sown on the government farm last fall - 

 (xreat reports are received of its productiveness. The ordinary 

 wheat of France is believed to be only a degeneration of this an- 

 cient gram, deteriorated by centuries of reproduction. This dis- 

 covery takes France back fourteen centuries for seed wheat, and it 

 is expected will put her in possession of one eighth more agricultu- 

 ral weaUh than she possessed before the discovery 



