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No. 1. Boiled carrots. 



2. Boiled potatoes. 



3. Boiled turnips. 



4. Boiled cabbages. 



At the end of the month they were turned out and viewed atten- 

 tively. The result was : — 



No. 1. The best, — boiled carrots. 



2. Next, — boiled potatoes. 



3. and 4. Equal, — all nearly dead. 



Carrots continue in every trial superior to all common vegetable 

 food. I am not at ail surprised at the ill success of turnips and cab- 

 bages." 



There are many other experiments detailed, giving similar results, 

 of which our limits forbid the insertion. 



Experiment with different Steeps for Seed Whe.\t, 



An observing farmer in Lowell, has sent me the results of some ex- 

 periments on the effects of different steeps upon the vitality of seeds 

 of wheat. In each experiment he took twelve seeds from the same 

 parcel of wheat ; and as near alike as he could select them ; and after 

 steeping, exposed them in planting to the same aspect and tempera- 

 ture. The heads of the columns will show the number of hours in 

 which each parcel remained in the steep ; the figures in the columns, 

 the number of seeds which germinated and came up. 



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