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wheat.” Though hardy and robust, it produces a grain of remarkably 
fine quality. It resists the rapid alternations of temperature to which 
in later years the British climate has become subject; blight and frost 
have but little influence upon it; it stands the roughest weather in har- 
vest time, and, if desirable, may be left uncut till after barley harvest. 
In view of the late degeneration in the finer qualities of British wheat, 
of which complaints have been rife, this variety is looked to with con- 
siderable hope, as promising a partial or total restoration of the normal 
standard of production. It is adapted to either fall or spring sowings, 
but seed should be selected of grain sown at the same time as the seed- 
ing proposed; that is, spring crops should be sown with grain raised 
from previous spring sowings, &c. Yet the seed rapidly adapts itself 
to a change in the time of sowing. The wheat yields 82 per cent. of 
flour, which embraces 63.4 per cent. of fat-forming substances, 21.5 per 
cent. of flesh-forming substances, 13.2 per cent of water, and 1.9 per 
cent. of inorganic matter. Canada exhibits a considerable variety of 
seeds, grains, &c. The French exhibit is very scanty, while those of 
Germany and Switzerland are confined almost entirely to tobacco and 
its preparations; Austro-Hungary shows seed, grain, and hops; Bel- 
gium shows cocoa and chicory, with a few cereals; the Agricultural 
Association of Netherlands, and the Dutch Agricultural Society, have 
collective exhibits, while individuals and corporations present a few 
features of agricultural production. A much more extensive exhibit is 
shown by Sweden, including cereals, grasses, forage plants, tobacco, &e. 
Several distinct societies have collective exhibits of great interest. 
Norway has a few specimens of cereals and manufactured tobacco. 
Italy shows grain, rice, and seeds. Brazil exhibits a very great variety 
of her peculiar tropical and semi-tropical products, together with grains, 
vegetables, and grasses from her temperate southern provinces. Teais 
grown here, but its ordinary substitute, maté, is represented by numer- 
ous specimens. Coffee and tobacco culture are extensively represented. 
The Flumineuse Agricultural Institute shows tea made from coffee- 
leaves. Several collections of medicinal plants illustrate the therapeu- 
tic resources of the Brazilian flora. The Argentine Republic presents 
a large number of specimens of cereals, mostly wheat, with grasses, 
tobacco, and vegetables. Several of these exhibits are collections illus- 
trating the productions of considerable districts. Sugar-cane,mandioca, 
tapioca, coffee, and tobacco appear among the catalogued products. 
Farm-animals.—The exhibitions of live stock will be in the live-stock 
inclosure, outside the exposition-grounds. For horses, the exhibition 
will be from September 1 to 14; for dogs, September 1 to 8; for neat- 
cattle, September 21 to October 4; sheep, October 10 to 18; swine, Oc- 
tober 10 to 18; poultry, October 27 to November 6. Of land-animals 
generally quite a number of entomological, ornithological, and other 
collections are on exhibition, some of which are of decided merit, espe- 
cially those of the Michigan State Agricultural College and of the 
Allentown (Pennsylvania) Academy of NaturalSciences. From England, 
Lord Walsingham shows Southdown ewes and rams. From Canada 
comes a fine museum of Canadian entomology, by the Entomological 
Society of London, and several private zoological collections by indi- 
viduals in different sections. From Vienna, Austria, comes a treatise 
on the history of bees. Norway shows photographs of Thelemark 
cattle, with a printed statement of the qualities and economic character 
of this (almost the only) national breed of that northern region. The 
Argentine Republic has a large list of exhibits of preserved specimens 
of zoology, showing some of the peculiarities of her southern fauna. 
