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ABSTRACT REPORT OF AGRICULTURAL 
DISCUSSIONS. 
Meeting of Weekly Council, Feb. 12th, 18G2. Sir E. Kerrison, Bart., 
M.P., in the Chair. 
At this meeting a letter was read from Mr. W. Pryor, President of 
the Nova Scotia Literary and Scientific Society, calling attention to the 
Mclilotus leucanfha major, or Bokhara clover, as a plant well adapted 
to the climate of Great Britain. The letter was accompanied by a 
sample of fibre, roughly prepared, with a view to showing that this 
plant may not only be of value for paper manufactm-e, but of some 
national imi)ortancc as a cheap material for many varieties of textile 
fabrics, and may engage more attention just now when a dearth of 
cotton-wool is feared. The samples of fibre, it was explained, had 
been exposed to tlie weather all winter ; which exposure, if on the 
one hand it reduced its strength, on the other proved its durability 
and fitness for scutching. The manuring or cropping might be done 
at several times during the season, according to the desired fineness 
or otherwise of the fibre, as it grows six feet high before seeding. In 
the sample the remaining wood showed the medium growth of the 
plant when cropped. This plant grown, mown, and cm'ed like hay, 
and treated in all respects after the American process of cottonizing 
flax, now successfully and largely adopted in the Northern States (see 
the article in ' Hunt's Merchants' Magazine,' for May), might prove 
of great importance to the manufacturer. 
A parcel of seeds of Chinese vegetables, sent by Captain J. H. 
Lawrence Ai-cher, 60th Eifles, were distributed among some of the 
members present for trial. 
Mr. Charles Barnet, Member of Coimcil, reported the following : — - 
AccouxT OP Burmese Wheat grown at Strattox. 
" December 17th, 1859, dibbled .88 poles of gravel land, after tares 
mown and late turni2)s fed off ; quantity sown, J of a peck ; in full 
bloom July 15th; reaped August 27th; j)roduce 12 bushels, weight 
01 lbs. per bushel ; straw 881 lbs. : cavings and chaff 91 lbs." 
Meeting of WeeJcly Coimcil, Feb. 2Cith. Mr. Eaymond Barkeb, 
Vice-President, in the Chair, j 
Adulteration of Oilcake. 
An extract of a letter was read from Messrs. Eyre and Co., of Hull, 
calling the attention of landlords to the fraud thus committed upon 
incoming tenants in those cases where they have to pay a part of the 
outgoing tenant's cake-bill — " unless bran, nut-cake, rice-meal, &c., 
arc Jis valuable to the land as cakes made entirely from linseed." 
