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acre about one thousand pounds weight of sugar. All the juice 

 is capable of making alcohol. The grain is valuable for feed to 

 poultry and swine. 



Doctor Sicard, of Marseilles, discovered last year that the grain 

 contains in its episperm (seed cover,) a very beautiful red color, 

 from ivhich all the shades from red to violet can be obtained, and 

 that the color has a remarkable fitness for dyeing silk. 



There is no doubt of the stalks doing well as chopped feed for 

 stock. — Meigs. 



THE WEATHER AND ITS PROGNOSTICS. 



We read a few lessons on this subject, translated from the stan- 

 dard Gardeners' Almanac of France, "Le Bon Jardinier." 



We now extract some passages on this subject from the North 

 British Review of May, 1856, No, 49. 



BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT. 



Climate of London^ 3 volumes, octavo, 3d edition. By Lukf. 

 Howard, 1833. 



A Cycle of eighteen years in the seasons of Britain, By the 

 same, octavo, 1842. 



A Barometographia, Twenty years variation of the Barometer 

 in the climates of Britain, exhibited in autographic curves, with 

 the attendant wind and weather. 



Papers on Meteorology. By the same, 1854. 



Elements of Meteorology, By John Frederick Daniell,D. C. 

 S, Oxon,, for Sec. R. S., 2 vols, oct,, 1845. 



Comtes Rendus, and weekly scientific reports of the Academy 

 of Sciences of the National Institute, 24th and 31st Dec, 1855; 

 vol. 41, pages 1127 to 1177. Paris, 



Cosmos, Edited by L'Abbe Moigno, vol. 7, pages 660; Jan. 

 11, 1856. 



Report of the Council of the British Meteorological Society. 

 By Jamrs Glaisher, Esq., F. R. S., May 2d, 1855. 



Agricultural Meteorology, By Sir John Stuart Forbes, of 

 Pitsligo, Bart. In the Transactions of the Highland and Agri- 

 cultural Society of Scotland, July, 1854. 



Report of the Preliminary Meeting of the Scottish Meteorolo- 

 gical Association, 1855. 



On Meteorology, Lectures delivered before the Smithsonian 

 Institute, Washington. By Robert Russell of Scotland : page 

 43. Washington city. 



