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Supplement to the "Iropical Agricultxiritt." [Feb. U 1895. 
for cod liver oil, ami is much use 1 iu Germany 
for phthisis. Grapes and raisins are very nutritive 
and demulcent, and very grateful iu the sick 
chamber. 
The Editor of the Cipe of G >od Hope J riru il 
of Agricultures writes : — " At the Illin >is Hxperi- 
nient Station experiments have been made to 
secure HUll further beneficial results. The 
object of those experiments was to discover 
whether ' the excrescences which naturally form 
on the roots of clover, peas, and other legu- 
minous plants, and which enables such plants 
to decompose the atmosphere and use its 
nitrogen, may not be also made to grow on corn, 
oats, and other plants of the grass family. If 
this can be accomplished it will be possible to 
make corn, oats, and wheat renovating crops, as 
clover and peas now are.'' The experiment 
with maize is reported to be partially successful, 
but we have to await still further trials. We 
need scarcely say that this method of furnishing 
gro.viug crips and the soil with one of the 
most important elements of plant food, will be. 
if successful and of easy application, a inoti 
important step iu agricultural prngrrsi.*' 
The following interesting note with reference to 
the cow-pea which is now gro'ving satisfactorily at 
the Colombo School of Agriculture, uppeurs in the 
American Agrifultiiritt : — "'The cow pM hus 
become established iu Queensland, and is ex- 
tremely and deiervedly popular. The original 
seed was sent from tin* I'uitftd States anil 
distributed by Professor Shelton among the sugar 
planters. The Professor i-ays : — 'From this 
insignificant beginning the cow- pea hoe spread the 
whole length of the Queensland coast, indeed, 
one see.« it now on every plantation and nearly 
every holding in the interior, as well as along 
the coust. Often area* of fifty to one huudre 1 
acres may be »een under cultivation with this great 
crop. It is everywhere pronounced to be invalu- 
able, furnishing thc>e hungry, wwhed-out soils 
with the nitrogen needed for the subsequent 
crop of cane.' " 
