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not too poor; if in good condition, the grass will keep it so, and it spreads and covers 
the ground much more rapidly. If you cannot plow your pasture-land, you may still 
seed it to Bermuda by simply digging small holes (a blow with a grub-hoe will answer) 
and dropping the seed into them. It will spread over land that has never been plowed, 
though with less rapidity, of course. Bermuda grass cannot stand any great amount 
of shading, hence the pasture should be pretty clear of trees. 
WHITE SCHONEN OATS.—A farmer of Coos County, Oreg., reports 
that he sowed two quarts of white Schénen oats on 19 rods of ground, 
and gathered 485 pounds, or at the rate of 113 bushels per acre, although 
about two rods of the sowing lodged and was badly cut up by rabbits. 
On a particular spot of one square rod the yield was 30 pounds, or at 
the rate of 133 bushels per acre. The uniform height of the stalks was 
64 feet, with heads from 18 to 20 inches long. The yield was double 
that of the common varieties. | 
ADAMS’ HARLY corN.—A correspondent of Powhatan County, Va., 
says that this is decidedly the best garden-corn he ever planted. He 
intends next season to plant it as a field-corn, with the expectation of 
getting corn-meal by the 1st of September. This year he planted April 
22, and gathered August 15, when it was hard enough to grind. While 
it bears, generally, not more than two ears to the stalk, the ears are 
large and well filled, and seem to be less subject to the attack of the 
worm which usually infests the early varieties. 
SWEDISH TURNIPS.—A farmer in Washington Territory reports that 
from seed obtained from the Department he raised Swedish turnips 
of very superior quality, the largest of which weighed from 26 to 30 
pounds. The summer was unusually dry, but he succeeded by frequently 
watering the beds after transplanting. 
AGRICULTURE IN InDIA.—Mr. W. R. Robertson recently delivered an 
address at the British Museum, Madras, which represents the agricul- 
ture practiced in India as of a very primitive and superficial character. 
The only implement used in working the soil is a very imperfect one, 
passing under the name of plow, which, instead of turning over the 
surface, leaves it in its original position, and seldom stirs it to a depth 
ereater than 4 inches, in consequence of which only insufficient nutriment 
is available for plants, and the effects of prevalent droughts are rendered 
unnecessarily disastrous. For the same reason crops are easily pros- 
trated by storms. Scarcely anything is done in the way of keeping up 
the fertility of the soil by the use of manure or other fertilizers. The 
crops being of a low, unimproved order, possess a degree of native 
hardiness by which they will survive a considerable amount of unfavor- 
able weather and of hard usage; but they are very poor in quality and 
the yield per acre is exceedingly meager, the seed being stinted and 
the quantity of husk out of all proportion to that of grain or seed. In 
the Madras presidency, out of more than 20,000,000 acres devoted to 
food-grains or plants, less than 25,000 are under wheat, and less than 
30,000 under sugar-cane. ‘The ryot (Indian farmer) cannot, on his ex- 
hausted upper soil, grow the higher order of crops unless he improves 
his practice; this is why all the attempts to improve cotton, tobacco, and 
Carolina paddy (rice) cultivation, by distributing good seed over the coun- 
try, have not met with satisfactory results. A high order of plants, like a 
high order of animals, demands favorable circumstances.” Mr. Robert- 
son thinks that, with proper cultivation, wheat could be grown exten- 
sively, and sugar-cane on the greater portion of the area under cultiva- 
tion in the presidency. The condition of live stock is represented to 
be extremely wretched. There are over 7,000,000 cattle and over 
