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vagant, and ill-conducted, that no criterion was afforded as to what 

 results could be obtained under a proper system. 



The above remarks have almost exclusive reference to horned cattle, 

 but we shall be much surprised if, in the course of a very few years, they 

 are not equally applicable to horse-stock. Already the colony is being 

 over-run with a race of useless weedy scrubbers, which, being of no value 

 as horses, are fast becoming a nuisance. Horse grease has lately been 

 discovered to possesss superior qiialities to almost any other fatty sub- 

 stance for oiling machinery, and we believe is now quoted in the London 

 market as worth from 35Z. to 40Z. per ton. The other portions of the 

 carcases may be applied to a variety of useful purposes, and the owners 

 of a description of stock now nearly unsaleable at any price may feel 

 assured that a respectable minimum value will soon be arrived at, below 

 which there is no danger of their animals receding. 



The prospect afforded by the result of operations at Collingwood must 

 be highly gratifying to the owners of stock ; and we cannot conclude 

 without expressing our opinion that they owe a deep debt of gratitude 

 not only to the enterprising gentleman whose capital and power of organi- 

 zation have been so usefully engaged, but to Mr. Blaxland, who has de- 

 signed and carried out the mechanical and scientific arrangements. It is 

 to be hoped that both may meet the success they so well deserve. 



As some indication of the extent of capital embarked in the various 

 operations at Collingwood, it may be stated that the cost of the railway 

 appliances alone has been upwards of 3,00(M. ; while the pumping ma- 

 chinery, piping, and tanks and reservoirs for the supply of water, have 

 probably cost ten times that amount. The field of operations, however, 

 now opened up is so wide that, in the opinion of sound judges, it amply 

 justifies the outlay. 



ON THE CULTURE OF BENNE OR SESAMUM IN THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



BY EDWARD PARRI8H. 



The Benne plant (Sesamum orientale, Linn.), is believed to be a native 

 of Africa, whence it was probably brought to the United States by the 

 negroes. Mr. Frederick Brown has cultivated the plant in his o-arden 

 at Burlington, New Jersey. This plant flourishes admirably in our 

 climate, and is adapted to a very dry sandy soil, such as abounds in many 

 sections of the United States ; it is, indeed, said to flourish where scarcely 

 any other crop will grow, and in land of only moderate richness ; it re- 

 quires no manure. The seeds are sown in drills, about three or four feet 



