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CoEN IN Maine. — Adams' Early com grew 10 feet high last seasou, 

 buf had many false stalks, ears short ; " too late," says our correspondent, 

 •' by three weeks, for Maine/' He finds that corn grown two hundred miles 

 north or south accommodates itself to the seasons of Maine in about ten 

 years. 



Department SEEDS m Louisiana. — Dr. Allen, of Saint Mar^j's Parish, 

 says of the garden-seeds received from the Department, that some of 

 the varieties have developed and flourished bej'oud any of the kinds he 

 has ever before seen in that section. He mentions the early red onion, 

 Brussels sprouts, horticultural pole-bean, kohl rabi, purple cap brocoli, 

 large Brunswick cabbage, and McLeans advancer peas, as having 

 produced well ; but that each was the best of its kind, as to quality, that 

 he had ever tasted. The McLean pea proved a wonder; with^a low 

 vine, requiring no support in the way of sticks, it produced an extra- 

 ordinary number of pods, each pod tilled with the largest and most 

 tender peas "I ever tasted."' Li conclusion, Dr. Allen says that he can- 

 not conceive of a more satisfactory or more profitable garden than one 

 planted with the same kind and assortment of seeds as those distrib- 

 uted by the Department. 



Arnautka "WHEAT. — A correspondent of Vivian, Minnesota, says 

 that Arnautka wheat proves to be hardy, vigorous, and very productive, 

 but grades as "rejected" in Chicago, and sells at 13 cents per bushel 

 less than varieties usually grown in his locality. The complaint against 

 the wheat is as to its fliutiness. He says the varieties of spring-wheat 

 grown in Eastern Europe all rnst so as to shrink badly when grown in 

 Minnesota. 



Peeler cotton. — Two quarts of this cotton-seed weve planted in 

 Greene County, North Carolina, in sandy loam ; seed dropped at inter- 

 vals of 12 inches, in rows 3^ feet apart, occupying about one-eighth of 

 an acre. Amount of seed-cotton picked, 150 pounds, which made 50 

 pounds of lint, equal to 100 pounds per acre; considered a very good 

 yield in that county. Our informant says that the staple is considerably 

 longer and finer than any other variety in the county. This variety is 

 only the ordinary cotton V our Southern States developed by selection 

 and superior cidtivation. 



Sorghum. — Mr. James Yaux, of Iowa, says of the imported sorghum 

 (black seed) sent. to him by the Department, that he planted the seed 

 side by side with the same quantity of the large red variety, and that 

 the former was far the richer in product, growing also three feet higher 

 than the latter. From twenty rows grown across a two-acre garden he 

 made forty-three gallons of molasses, which was thick and of good qual- 

 ity. Planted the last of April. 



FULTZ wheat.— In Saratoga County, Xew York, one grain of Fultz 

 w^heatis reported as having thrown out nine stalks bearing 378 kernels. 

 Selected heads in the field contained 50, o'^, oS, and up to 63 kernels. 



Flower-seeds. — A Missouri correspondent says that the vegetable 

 ami flower seeds he received from the Department have invariably proven 

 true to name and of superior kind. Of the flowers he freely distributed 

 seeds of their production, and a hundred homes have been adorned. 



Immigration in 1872-'73.— The records of the Bureau of Statistics, 

 Treasury Department, show that 159,803 immigrants arrived in the 

 United States during the year ending June 30, 1873. Of these, 06,859 

 had attained the age of forty years or more, 288,272 were between the 



