451 



be produced from akilu of any given size, I subjoin a calculation of the 

 one given: 



Width of the base 18 feet. 



Length of the kilu 30 " 



540 

 Half the height of the kilu 6 



Nnuiber of cubic feet 3240 



Number of cubic inches in a foot 1728 



25920 



6480 

 22680 

 3240 



Cubic inches in a bushel 21&0.4)5598720(2603.5 bushels. 



43008 



129792 • 

 129024 



76800 

 64512 



122880 

 107520 

 Tons to bushel 120)2603.5 bushels. 



Tons of coal required 21 



AUSTRALIA AND THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. 



The secretary of tbe Agricultural Society of New South Wales, in a 

 recent letter to the Department of Agriculture, says : 



I am happy to state that the reports of your Department, to which we give all due 

 publicity, have proved of immense benefit to the Australian colonies. Several of the 

 colonies have established departments of agriculture, and the constantly-increasing 

 number of agricultural societies throughout Australia, with which we are iu daily 

 communication, will ere long enable us to concentrate a mass of authentic informa- 

 tion which will place us in a position to publish once a year a volume somewhat 

 resembling your annual report. It may be gratifying to you to know that the exam- 

 ple so nobly set by the United States has been followed by Australia. 



We are now engaged in securing the co-operation of all the colonies of the Austra- 

 lian group in obtaining from the Centennial Commission of the Philadelphia Exposi- 

 tion iu L^76 sufficient space to represent at the great centeunial gathering the unde- 

 niable proof of the immense natural resources of this territory. 



AMERICAN COTTON AND TOBACCO CULTIVATORS 

 WANTED IN THE INLAND OF CORSICA. 



The Department a few years ago embraced an opportunity of sending 

 some Maryland and Virginia tobacco seed to Madame de Angeli, of the 

 Island of Corsica, in the Mediterranean, for experimental culture. 

 From the letter below, from the agent of Madame de Angeli, it will be 

 seen that the experiment has proved so successful as to lead a prom- 

 inent planter of the island to offer liberal inducements for persons in 

 this country, who may be competent to the undertaking, to go to the 



