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Ragee or Mand of India ; Phalaris Canariensisj wliicli gives us tlie 

 Canary seed ; Tizania aquatica, or Canada rice ; Paspalum scroti- 

 culatum, the Menya, or Kodro of India, a cheap grain regarded as 

 not being wholesome ; Setaria germania^ a millet ', Pmiicum fru- 

 mentaceum, or Shamoola of the Deccan ; Setaria Italica, cultivated 

 in India by the name of Kala-kavgneej or Kora-kang ; Panicum' 

 Miliacennij a grain called Warree in India; Panicum-pilosuni,, called 

 Bhadlee; Penicillaria-spicata, or Bajree; Jlndropogon Sorghum.) or 

 Durra, Doora, lowaree, or londla, and Andropagon sacckaratus, or 

 Shaloo, are grown in India for their grain ; Fundi or Fundingi of 

 the west of Africa, (we have some from Mr. David Cotheal,) is a 

 small grain valued there — it is the seed of Paspalum exile; the 

 Te^and the Tocusso are of like species — ^they belong to Abyssinia. 

 The Teffis Poa Myssinica — the latter Eleusine-Tocusso of Linnseus j 

 Stipa-pennata yields a flower like that of rice. 



The Door ah appears to be the most common fodder of India. 



[Journal of Agriculture of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 



July 1856.] 



We extract with pleasure from this intelligent journal the fol- 

 lowing rather remarkable ideas on agriculture — a science in which 

 it seems doubtful yet whether we have half reached the great 

 secrets of vegetable physiology. — [H. Meigs.] 



AGRICULTURE, METEOROLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 



" Erequently," says M. Barral, " the vulgar laugh at seeing the 

 ardor with which Savans discuss certain questions, nor can they 

 comprehend the passion with which some try to find out how 

 nitrogen enters into plants and is fixed in them." This has been 

 a most fertile subject for discussion ever since chemists detected 

 this substance in plants and became acquainted with some of its 

 properties. Smith, of Lois Weedon, grows good crops without 

 anything more than thorough tillage, and the Rothamstead plan 

 by tillage and no manure, raises 16 or 17 bushels of wheat year 

 after year on the same spot. When turnips are tried on this plan 

 they almost fail, but with some superphosphate of lime they yield 

 eight tons per acre, only a third of a crop, and which cannot be 

 increased by adding more of the superphosphate of lime. But the 

 superphosphate of lime does not make any increase of the 16 or 

 17 bushels of wheat on the Rothamstead soils. 



