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teci,and whea dried tkej lost their aroma, yielding but a very 

 middling kind of tea. Up to the year 1831 its cultivation had 

 been attempted, but the result was always the same — poor tea. 

 We find tliat the efi:brts of the British East India Company to 

 grow tea in their Indies is a failure comparatively. 



[La Normaadie Agricole.] 



Dietetic Properties of the Carrot. — In all countries 

 where agriculture is in an advanced state, the carrot en- 

 ters into the feeding of cattle and other farm stock for many 

 mouths in the year, and it is a refreshing and wholesome nourish- 

 ment. The German Doctor Haubner considers it, besides, as an 

 excellent preservative from prolonged dry coughs and the stran- 

 gles and other catarrhal maladies, as well as the heaves, and all 

 affections of the breast. The carrot is also, in his opinion, salu- 

 tary agrinst worms in the intestines, is good to restore lost ap- 

 petite and for bad digestion. 



Preservation of Food. — Experiments have been made of the 

 ejffect of great pressure for preservation. By means of the hy- 

 draulic press, bread has been made as hard as stone, and kept 

 good for a long time. Bread pressed from four inehes to one, 

 was in perfect preservation at the end of a year, and on being 

 soaked in warm water resumed its natural size. Potatoes also 

 kept well as long a time. This process is deemed important both 

 for keeping and greatly reduced stowage. Farther experiments 

 are to be made. 



Salt as a Manure. — No one in our country has yet made any 

 extensive experiments on the uses of salt as an amendment of 

 the soil. The use of salt in agriculture is of the highest anti- 

 quity. The Chinese and the East Indians employed it to enrich 

 their farms and gardens. Pliny states that the Assyrians of old 

 put salt around the roots of their palm trees. Among moderns, 

 the English have, above all others, studied its agricultural uses. 



Salt used as an amendment of the soil when added to animal 

 dung hastens its solution and renders it more fit to furnish to 

 plants the elements of strength and growth. 



