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PROLIFIC GROWTH OF GRAIN.
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grains are more Inirdy, and are Calculated to enaure tne
inclemency of colder regions and more ungenial soils.
Fortunately for man, all these grains grow rear,ily in most
of the climates and soils of the inhabited earth ; but in
every soil they call forth his utmost care and ingenuity in
order that there may be an uninterrupted succession of
crops. Hence has arisen the important art of agriculture.
Under proper treatment, the prolific qualities of the
cerealia are truly astonishing. Sir Kendra') Digby assures
us, that in 1660 there was, in the possession of the
Fathers of the Christian Doctrine at Paris, a plant of
barley which they at that time kept as a curiosity, and
which consisted of two hundred and forty-nine stalks
springing from one root of grain, on which they counted
abave eighteen thousand grains or seeds of barley. It is
recorded in the Philosophical Transactions, that Mr.
Miller of Cambridge sowed, on the '2d of June, a few
grains of common red wheat, one of the plants from
which had tigered so much, that, on the Bth of August,
he was enabled to divide it into eighteen plants, alt of
which were placed separately in the ground. In the
course of September and October so many of these plants
had again multiplied their stalks, that the number of
plants which were separately set out to stand the winter
was sixty-seven. With the first growth of the spring,
the tillering again went fo. ward, so that at the end of
March and the beginning of April a further division was
made, and the number of plants now amounted to five
hundred. These five hundred plants proved extremely
vigorous—much more so than wheat under ordinary
.cul-
ture—so that the number of ears submitted to the sickle
was twenty-one thousand, or more than forty to each of
the divided plants ; in some instances there were one
hundred ears upon one plant. The ears were remarkably
fine, some being six or seven inches long, and containing
from sixty to seventy grains. The wheat, when separated
from the straw, weighed forty-seven pounds, the esti-
mated number of grains being 576,840. Such an enor-
mous increase is not of course attainable on any great
scale, but the experiment is of use as showing the vast
powertables
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THE WISDOM OF Gon.—The distance at which the
heavenly bodies, particularly the sun, are placed from the
earth, is a manifest evidence of Divine Wisdom. If the
sun were much nearer us than he is at present, the earth,
as now constituted, would be wasted and parched with
excessive heat ; the waters would be turned into vapour
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