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To Mr. Tnostss PAOUT, 229, Strand, London.
Church Farm, Barton Stacey, near Andover Railway
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RYE, ITS CHEMICAL COMPOSI

.TION AND NUTRITIVE VALUE.
(From the Northern Whig.)
The recommendations which have lately been given, in
various public journals, with respect to the introduction
of rye, as a crop to succeed potatoes, render it important
that we should notice its value as a source of food. It
would be interesting to trace the change which has
taken place in the opinions that formerly prevailed
respecting this grain ; for at a very early period, we
find, by the testimony of ancient writers, that, either by
itself, or mixed with wheat, it formed the general food
of the people of England. As, however, the agriculture
of the country improved, the more nutritious wheat
gradually assumed its place f and it was only in times of
scarcity, that the English labourer would willingly
submit to change " the white loaf for the brown." But,
even in the latter part of the sixteenth century, the
use of wheat as a bread-stuff, had not by any means, be-
come generaL An old writer, speaking of that period,
says,--"'1 he bread, throughout the land, is made of such
grain as the soil yieldeth • nevertheless, the gentilitie
comrnonlie provide themselves sufficiently of wheats. for
andwit h
rye rye
cultivated
b ar l i e.
fo
their own tables, whilst their household and poore niggh-
" the In 1689,
hours, in some shires, are inforced to content themselves
Englandpropo, proportion, iiolnl
beof s
eewnit wheat
th.lfollowing statement, made by the celebrated statist,
Gregory King ;
Wheat
Rye
10,000,000 bushels.
Whilst, however, since that time, the cultivation of
wheat in England enormously increased, less attention was
every year directed to the growth of rye. But on the conti•
nent, as is well known, rye continues to form the staple
bread-stutrofthe people of Russia and Northern Germany,
and is extensively cultivated on the sandy plains of the
countries which border the South of the Black Sea. The
small quantity of rye, at present grown in Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, is chiefly consumed by the distiller. In
Holland, this grain is extensively employed, at Schie-
dam, and other places, to mix with barley, for the pre
paration of " Hollands Gin." The straw of the ripe
grain is not well adapted for fodder, and is chiefly used
for thatching and for the manufacture of hats ; but when
cut green, in May or June, it may advantageously be
employed for soiling cattle. In Germany, the schwarz
brod, or black bread, so much relished by all classes of
the people, is prepared from rye. When fresh, this
bread has a peculiarly sweet and agreeable taste, which
is supposed to depend upon the presence of an aromatic
substance in the husk of the grain, as it has been found,
that bread made from very fine flour, from which the
husk had been removed, did not possess it. But upon
this, and many other subjects connected with our culti-
vated grains, careful experiments are yet required.
Rye is supposed to be a native of Crete, but it has
been cultivated in these countries from the earliest times.
There are several species known to the botanist; but
that usually grown by the Irish farmer is scenic cereals,
of which there are two varieties—Spring and Winter rye.
With regard to the amount of nutritive ingredients
contained in rye, the late investigations of Professor
Horsford, conducted in the laboratory of Liebig, show us
that soil and cultivation exercise a great influence upon
its composition;—thus, while one sample of meal, from
Vienna, contained only 101- per cent. of what we aro ac•
customed to describe as muscle-forming materials,
another sample afforded nearly 16 per ce•at. A sample
of rye, of superior quality (secale cererde stauden roggen),
from the celebrated agricultural Institute of Hohen•
hein, in Wurtemberg, examined by Horsford and
Krocker, contAined, of nutritive materials and water, as
follows:

Nitrogenized matters (muscle-forming), 15.27 per cent.
Starch
Water
By comparing the above numbers with the analyses of
wheat, oats, and Indian corn, given in preceding papers.
it will be seen, that though inferior to " the stout oat-
cake," the black bread, prepared from rye, must be well
adapted as a sustaining food.
Like the potato, the cultivation of rye requires but
little agricultural skill, and it will flourish in situations
where no other grain would be capable of affording food.
This circumstance, however, though it may prove of
importance to a slovenly and ignorant people, should
not be regarded as an inducement to substitute it for the
more nutritious oat. A dry sandy soil is best adapted
for its growth; though, as we have remarked, in
will flourish in almost any farm. Experienced
farmers advise, that if the land be damp, it should
be ploughed in ridges. It is'sown either in autumn or
spring, and managed as the other grain crops—from two
to two and a half bushels of seed being usually required
to the statute acre. Formerly, an early kind of wheat
and rye wore sown and reaped together ; and the bread
made from the mixed grain was termed meslin, a name
supposed to ho derived from the Latin miccellanea. The
average produce of rye is about 25 bushels per acre ;
the quantity of straw obtained is usually from three to
four times the weight of grain. The following analyses
of the grain and straw of rye have lately been published
by Will and Freseneus, of Giessen, and will be interest-
ing to the farmer, as exhibiting the kind of ingredients
which this crop selects from the soil, and which, conse-
quently, a field must contain, to bring it to perfection :-
I,ooolbs. of the grain: of rye, in its ordinary state of
dryness, usually contains bibs., and the straw 301b5., of
ash.
One hundred parts of the ash of the grain and straw
were found to contain, respectively, as follows :
Grain. Straw.
. 31.89 17.03
. 4 33

Soda ... ... ... .

Lime ... 2.84
Magnesia ... ... 9.86
Peroxide of iron ... 0.80

Phosphoric acid.

... ... 46.03

Chloiide of sodium ...

Chloride of potassium
Sulphuric acid 1.42

0.17

Charcoal and sand ... 2.66

100.00

100.00

j 0111.7 P. Hop Gus, M.D.
Laboratory of the Chemico-Agricultural Society.

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED).
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
Bentley opens this month with a glorious article
from the pen of Albert Smith, entitled "Miss Perk-
apple, or the Gothics' Ball."
" Miss Perkapple was the oldest young lady we ever
knew; and we wager the world to a China orange—
which are long odds, but which, at the same time, there
is no possibility of settling. even if you lose, so they may
always be laid with tranquillity—that if you had known
her, you would have thought the same. And we will
even allow you to have lived amidst a legion of old young
ladies, who had fallen back upon the calm of tracts and
canaries, from the anxiety attendant upon man's insin-
cerity.
" Miss Perkapple's nose was sharp, and always got
red in cold weather before anybody eke's; and she had
very uncomfortnble shoulders, with curious points and
peaks about them, unknown in popular social anatomy.
She had also great evidence of collar bone; and wore
spectacles, with spectacles of alight bluish tint: and she
was accustomed to dross her hair in fanciful designs, the
like of which had never been seen before--not even in
the imaginative range that begins in the fashion-books
and terminates on the waxen brows of hair-dresser?
dummies. From these it may be conceived, by intelli-
gent minds, that Miss Perkapple was also literary."
Miss Perkapple pays an annual Christmas visit to
London, to her friends the Straggs's. Mr. Straggs,
the principal of the house, being a most respectable
tailor. Of course he patronises fancy halls, as every
intelligent costumier ought, and at one of these fancy
balls, at the Hanover-square Rooms, Miss Perkapple
figures away as a Spanish girl. She is full of poetry
and love, writes sonnets to her gondolier, for she
believes in Venice, and regularly appears in the left-
hand corner of a weekly provincial paper,as the inditer
of Spanish heroics, or Italian love songs. At this ball
she meets with a Spanish cavalier, attired I la Wal-
lack, as Don Caesar de Bazan. She dances with him,
she flirts with him, she loves him. He, however, must
leave her—he has business of importance to transact
before he retires to rest, and imagining she had cap-
tivated the heart of an attache of the Spanish em-
bassy at the least, Miss Psrkapple remains until it
shall please the Straggs's to depart. At length the
Straggs's prepare to depart.
" Shawls were recovered; coaches called; and, in the
cold grey of morning, amidst a mob of early risers who
were loitering round the door to watch the company out,
they drove away.
" Miss Perkapple thought but on one subject—the
partner of the evening; and, with her eyes closed, pre-
tended to be asleep as she conjured up his image before
her. But she was aroused from her reverie by a laugh
from Mr. Straggs, and a cheer iu the streets, as if from
boys, which somewhat startled her. Looking from the
windows a spectacle met her own pair that well nigh
brought on a fit of hysterics. They were in a west-end
thoroughfare; and there, in front of a shop—a common
normal grocer's shop—was Don Caesar de Bazan, as he
had appeared an hour previously, taking down the
shutters, to the delight of a crowd of boys on the pave-
ment, who were madly dancing about him. Some un-
provoked assault upon his cloak caused him to turn
sharply round as tho hackney- coach passed, and Miss
Perkapple saw that he had only one moustache! The
other had been danced off in the last polka, and was now
lying on the floor of the Hanover-square Rooms; for he
had trusted to composition instead of springs, which
latter had set him so sneezing that ho had well nigh
blown his head off before he came. As he turned, his
eye caught Miss Perkapple's. Despite the cold air of
morning he blushed crimson, and shot the shutter he
held down a grating under the window with a precipi-
tancy that looked as if he would have given worlds to
have gone down after it; after which he rushed into the
shop and disappeared behind a monster coffee grinder,
but whether he merely hid for the moment, or committed
suicide by throwing himself into it, remained a mystery.
" The spell had been too rudely broken: and Miss
Perkapple saw that the secret of his anxiety to " leave
the halls of dazzling light" was fully explained. She
suppressed the cry that rose to her lips as well as she
was able, and pulling her shawl over her head, at the
great peril of her cachucha comb, and she—shall we say
it—and the back plait attached to it, was alone in her
misery."
Leech's illustration to this story, Don Caesar de
Bazan in difficulties, representing the Don pulling
down his shutters, is the ne plus ultra of fun. It is
quite worthy of the tale. Cooper contributes another
chapter of Captain Spike, in which the chase of the
Molly Swash is continued by the revenue steamer
and a fast sailing schooner which has joined her.
Spike, however, by superior manceuvring, again man-
ages to escape, and the revenue people reluctantly
give the matter up. " The Wofully AVedded" is a
beautifully told tale of English rural life, by Mary
Howitt, an to which "The Broken Vow," by Mrs.
Romer, is an admirable companion, albeit the scene of
it is laid in Switzerland; but the feelings of the
heart are the same everywhere, and those
who feel for poor Agnes, the heroine of
Mary Howitt, cannot refuse their sympathies to the
broken hearted Antonio, the hero of the Broken
Vow. Portfire, in his shots from an old six pounder,
gives us some pleasant reminiscences of the days of
sketches of
apnudpiTllahgeenaat theneur continues
AeshciasdeamtnyusaintgWoolwich ;
Sir Christopher
hornisto Queenpher
Parisian society. D. W. C. Taylor gives us a very
article, full
dl la
nofe
ng
Chancellor,historical
Elizabeth than and her
dancing Batton,
Cwhhaincche
lios r illustrated
Brienn
byn a portrait of the
is continued ; and
is followed by a short, but admirably written, sketch
of poor Barham, the Thomas Ingoldsby of Bentley,
whose legends were wont to set the readers of the
Miscellany in " a roar." The portrait which accompa-
nies this sketch is life like in its resemblance. From
a notice of W. Howitt's book on the " Homes and
Haunts of the English poets, we extract the following
just, and barely just tribute to the merits of Moore as
a patriot :
" Moore, rather than O'Connell, dot erves the title of
Liberator of the Catholics of Ireland; the Irish National
Melodies were infinitely more efficacious in winning the
mind of England than all the speeches made by all the
orators of the Catholic Association; and the Memoirs of
Captain Rock produced a deeper and wider effect titan
the Simultaneous Meetings, When emancipation was
denounced from the pulpit, it was preached from the
piano; the husband may have voted on the illiberal side,
but the w ife and daughters propounded liberal sentiments,
superadding the charms of melody to the fleshings of
wit and the force of argument. Parliamentary majori-
ties were scouted in the drawing-room, and the gravities
of the Court of Chancery were routed by the gaieties of
the saloon. Fully two-thirds of those who voted against
the Catholic Bills of 1825, did so, not through any dis-
like of the measure, but through reluctance
of that
ithaitave it
settled by their intervention. Peel's speech 0
was not so much a reply to Plunket, as an apology to
the
year
boarding-schools; he felt that it was a
hopeless
s task to
like the
answer songs by sermons; he felt somewhat
knight in the tale of the floneystew, whose
armour could not resist the diamond weapon
the King of the Kobolds. Now, what has Ireland done
for Moore?—simply this; it has neglectedta him inwielded by
ponderousi
e
pri-
vate and assailed him in public—made no inquiry
respecting his condition, and attacked him in the columns
of the Nation."

ROOD'S MAGAZINE.
Even the brief plea for the orphan children of
poor Thomas Hood (a man whose memory we all
love and venerate so much), prefixed to the present
number of the magazine deriving its very title from
his genius, is preferable to no notice whatever.
Something must be done for those relics of the friend
of the destitute and forsaken, or the wrongsowof
that
world which he expiated by, a lingering death of many
years, will be perpetuated in his offspring. N
Hood's wife is no more, and his children wholly de-
solate, we have a mournful satisfaction in transcribing
the five stanzas by the dead poet, in which that domes-
tic calamity is literally foretold. The writer of the
gapmpeoastl
brief notice in the magazine terms the followin
touching and most beautiful verses, the best
that could be uttered.
TO A CHILD EMBRACING ITS MOTHER.
Love thy mother, little one !
Kiss and clasp her neck again__
Hereafter she may have a son
Will kiss and clasp her neck in vain.
Love thy mother, little ono !
Gaze upon her living eyes,
And mirror back her love for thee--
Hereafter thou may'st shudder sighs
To meet them when they cannot
see.
Gaze upon her living eyes
Press her lips that while they glow
With love that they have often told---
Hereafter thou may'st press, in woe,
And kiss them till thine own are
cold.
Press her lips the while they glow I
- Oh ; revere h'r raven hair
Altho' it be not silvery grey,
Too early death led on by cure.
may snatch, save one dear loek away.,
Oh ! revere her raven hair !
Pray for her, at eve and morn,
That Heaven may long the stroke defer,
For thou may'st lire the hour forlorn
When thou wilt ask to die with
Pray for her, at eve and morn her.
n ► T noon.
The " Avenger" and "BlancheNevvile" *
con-
tinued, and the author of the former
contributes ontr are
agreeable paper headed " Success." Theeibutes an
rest of the
magazine is a compilation of the veriest odds and ends
of literature, the very garbage of sentiment, the very
broken bits of humour, and the very stalest of stale
quotations. The editor is mistaken in acting thus ;
he may be packing his "casket of gems" with mere
sawdust.

DOLMAIV.
We are gratified to see that the new editor of this
magazine disclaims all intention of trespassing upon