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with sunflower, and obtained sufficient seed for nearly 

 a barrel of oil. The oil was extracted by Mr. Barnett. 

 We made use of it for the table, and found it kept 

 well, and was esteemed equal to the best imported 

 sweet oil for every domestic purpose. I have a little 

 of this making (1833) yet remaining, and will send 

 you a bottle by the first opportunity. I found the sub- 

 stance of the sunflower too exhausting for the light 

 soil we have on our hills in this neighborhood, (Mary- 

 land,) but have no doubt it will be found profitable in 

 other sections of our country, and particularly in the 

 rich prairies of the west." 



We should be pleased to learn that some enterprising 

 farmer had commenced experimenting on this plant. 

 Its yield of seed is abundant in this region, and could 

 scarcely fail, where the means of converting it into oil 

 are at hand, of yielding a handsome profit. — Maine 

 Temperance Gazette. 



AGRICULTURE. 



Science has within a few years done much in aid of 

 agriculture ; not that many positive discoveries have in 

 the first place been made by the sciences, of which the 

 agriculturalist has availed himself; but the cause of 

 certain results before known to the farmer have been 

 revealed by chemical, or other researches, and thus the 

 means of more certainty and in many more cases of 

 producing the same results has been obtained. On this 

 is based the improved system of agriculture. Where 

 the earths are not in due proportion, it is impossible to 

 make or keep the soil in a productive state. The 

 nature of the earths is now inquired into, and their 

 balance maintained by a rotation of crops, or by other 

 means. — Genesee Farmer. 

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