A Discovery About Corn.

In this thinking and observad ago new ide;is and discoverics aro being ocm stautlymade ksown, nüicy of wbicb is true, are never afterwards hcard'o; ihü others pass int o tbe treasuro o; istablUhovi fuer, wlien tbeir merit has fceen ptovea. V'e have just met witb lbo folio wiög parngraph in an exchange: Aa inteliigent and reüable ncighbor of ours, wbo h:is for mauy yearsbeeu znaking esporiments with corn, bas disoovered an itnportance m;d value in ro plafited corn whicli s quite novel, and (juite jrortby of publication. Ve bave ulways tbougbt replantea corn was of very little consequence but tbis gentlesann says "it is of so mueb consc-quence lie rsplants whetbfir it is needeil or not or rather, bo planta two or tb ree week after the erop is p!;iuted a hill about Cery fifteentb row eacb way " He saj3 : "If tbo weather bocomes dry dumg the iilling time, tbc silk and lassel botii beeome dy aud d:ad, ia tbis condition. If it sbould beeoaio soasonable, the silk revives and renewe its growtb, lut tiio taasel does not recover. Theii for want of pollen tba new slik is unahle to hll the office for wbioh it was designeiJ. The pollen from lbo replantad corn 6 then readji to supply the Ik, and tbe Slling is eonifileted." Ho says nearly all tbo abortive ears, s common ia al] cnrn crops ia oausod by waut of pollen ar.d that !ie has known ears to doublé ir tizo in this 8econd filling.