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less if any thing. Its inorganic matter contains more silex and 
hence is less nutritious. 
Whether then we cultivate millet for its grain or for its straw, 
we may be satisfied that so far as the crop is concerned, it is a 
valuable product, its grain being rich both in muscle and bone 
producing elements, and its straw is not deficient in the elements 
common to the cultivated grasses. 
In closing this brief notice of millet it may be useful to state 
further, that the grain contains only a small amount of gluten or 
adhesive element of wheat flower. In this respect its flour re- 
sembles buckwheat. When millet flour is washed and freed from 
its starch, albumen, and caseine, a brittle or inadhesive mass 
remains. 
EDUCATION FOR FARMERS. 
BY WILLIAM BACON. 
The education of farmers is a subject, which at the present day, 
IS very properly claiming almost universal attention. Much is 
said upon this topic in almost every circle, and scarcely a paper 
comes to hand, but contains some remarks tending directly or in- 
directly to its advancement. All classes and all professions have 
their eyes directed and their ears open more or less to the demands 
which the farmer has upon larger and more liberal facilities for 
improving the mind; for enabling him to bring the fruit of active 
thought and scientific investigation to aid him more effectually to 
increase the productiveness of the field and the garden, and pour 
plenty with unlavishing hand into the laps of the multitudes of 
earth. Legislatures are listening to the subject, and test their 
sense of its importance by laudable endowments to aid in its ad- 
vancement. Individual munificence too is opening wide her 
liberal hands in its behalf 
Men of learning are volunteers in the cause. Our colleges are^ 
opening their doors and inviting the young farmer to enter their 
laboratories, and witness their manipulations, and even to try his 
toil worn hands in separating the compounds that nature has so in- 
geniously formed in her own grand work-shop, and bring them 
into new and oftentimes more valuable affinities. Professors are 
calmly and scientifically discussing the important topics that bear 
directly upon the earth's fertility, and not only by oracular mani- 
festations enlightening the public mind, but they are also employ- 
ing the pen and the press to diffuse the knowledge which their 
