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strangers who visited liim." At 140 years after we have mention 

 of the "wheat harvest," Joseph dreamed of the " sheaves," Gene- 

 sis 37, verse 7. During the seven j-ears of plenty foretold by 

 Joseph, the land of Egypt " brought forth corn by handfulls," (i. e.) 

 (Gen. 41, verse 47.) " seven ears on one stalk." It i§ not said 

 that this was wheat, but its description exactly corresponds with 

 the triticum compositum at present cultivated there, and also with 

 the mummy wheat discovered in a Sarcophagus in the Egyptian 

 tomb, which had probably lain there for more than three thou- 

 sand years, but which when planted affords us a new kind of 

 wheat, exhibiting the phenomenon of " seven ears on one stalk." 

 I have some of the ears now before me exhibiting this phenomenon 

 of seven ears on one stalk. We read continually in the Bible of 

 wheat, '^the finest of wheat," " wheat of Minneth," &c. 



Inferences — Wheat has been the common food of man at least 

 since the flood; that it has possessed about the same features and 

 size since; that the land first inherited by man and subject of the 

 deluge was the native country of wheat. 



Away, then, with the fruitless idea of its parentage in any of 

 the grasses bearing an affinity to it ! 



POTATO IN ENGLAND. 



The potato malady is assuming some different symptoms from 

 the former. The malady first appeared in July, 1845, in the Isle 

 of Wight. The starch of potato in 1827, was about one-eighth 

 per cent of the whole. There is no gluten in the potato and 

 therefore has no analogy to flour — it cannot be fermented like 

 flour and made bread — it is more nearly allied to sugar. 



Another article says that this season there is nothing radically 

 wrong in the potato as yet. It is estimated that there are two 

 millions and a quarter of acres in potatoes, in the United King- 

 dom. This should give us eleven millions and a quarter for the 

 crop, worth nearly £34,000,000=$170,000,000, and we import 

 largely early potatoes from the continent. 



Wherever an Englishman goes he carries with him the pofato 

 and plants it. One hundred and twenty years ago it was first 

 cultivated in the United States, where it now produces one hun- 

 dred milliens of bushels in addition to their sweet potatoes. 



