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12th. It enables farmers to have an abundance of rich milk, 

 «ream and butter, with fat beef, mutton, kid, pork, turkey and 

 (jhicken for their table. 



13th. It will (if followed with our corn field pea) give to far- 

 mers the cheapest, the simplest, the surest, and the most paying 

 plan to reclaim worn out fields, and re-fertilize those not yet so, 

 which the ingenuity of man can devise. 



14th. It will sow its own seeds after the first time without ex- 

 pense or trouble, thereby reproducing itself through its seeds cm. 

 the same ground a^ infinitum. 



15th. It does not spread or take possession of a field so as to 

 be difficult to get rid of, but can be effectually destroyed at ai^ 

 Stage before the seed ripen and fall out, by being ploughed up or 

 under. 



This grass, having the above enumerated properties, will he 

 found, by all who cultivate it, tar superior to any other specie* 

 «ver introduced, or which can be introduced, for the climate an^ 

 soil of the South. I shall be prepared by July next to furnisfli 

 seed of this valuable grass to all who desire to cultivate it. Mf 

 price is $5 per peck, which is as much as is necessary to begia 

 with ; it being distinctly understood that in every instance whew 

 the party is not satisfied (after giving it a fair trial) the pri«« 

 i&all be returned. 



Your obedient servant, 



B. V. rVERSON. 



CONSTITUENTS OP PLA^fTS. 



President Pell said, that the constituent's of plants which toim 

 organic matter are hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon. Theew 

 four elements are never absent from plants, and by uniting, fora 

 the principles of their existence. 



Carbon, when it unites with oxygen in equal proportions, fonag 

 Carbonic oxide and carbonic acid. Charcoal and carbon are th« 

 game, and when perfectly pure is known as the diamond. Hy- 

 drogen and oxygen uniting form water. Hydrogen in its gaseows 



