The New England farmer . uth of this. Living in a small vil-lage,—a Sleepy Hollow,—where life seems tostagnate, it is our chief delight to tend and carefor our house plants. We take great pride inthem, and are pleased when we can send a tinyboquet to a sick friend, and can also contribute afew flowers to rob Death of some of its terrors;—can tenderly arrange the purely white blossoms ofthe primrose and the variegated leaved plants,—with the sweet scented verbena, to be placed inthe waxen hands of the infant, or the furrowedclasp of the aged. s. o. J. —A correspondent of the English Agricultura
The New England farmer . uth of this. Living in a small vil-lage,—a Sleepy Hollow,—where life seems tostagnate, it is our chief delight to tend and carefor our house plants. We take great pride inthem, and are pleased when we can send a tinyboquet to a sick friend, and can also contribute afew flowers to rob Death of some of its terrors;—can tenderly arrange the purely white blossoms ofthe primrose and the variegated leaved plants,—with the sweet scented verbena, to be placed inthe waxen hands of the infant, or the furrowedclasp of the aged. s. o. J. —A correspondent of the English AgriculturalGazette says : I consider 720 gallons (2880 quarts)a fair return in a year for a cow, and this quantityof milk, if the food does not contain more than80 per cent, of moisture, will produce from 280 to290 pounds of butter. That 25j pounds of milk,or about 10 quarts, will make one pound of also states that five gallons, or 20 quarts, wasthe highest daily yield of one cow. 1870. NEW ENGLAND FAK^IER. 139. PHOSPHATES IN WHEAT. XPERiMENTS to as-certain the amount ofsoluble and insolublephosphates in wheat,upon which the nu-tritive value of thisgrain is supposedchiefly to depend,have been recentlymade by an Englishchemist, G. Calvert,F. R. S. The re-sults of his experi-ments led him to in-quire if the variousparts which constitute the grain of wheat, con-tain the same amount and nature of phosphateswhen separated by the successive and differ-ent processes carried out by the miller. Heprocured some sacks of wheat, and had thewheat ground and bolted, and separated intotwo qualities of coarse bran, and two of finebran and tlour. These he analyzed separatelyand arrives at the conclusion tiiat the phos-phates, especially the soluble phosphates, de-crease gradually from the outer sections to-wards the central ones; thus while the flourcontains only a trace of soluble phosphates,the bran contains a large quantity. The practical importance of this result heexpresses in th
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