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 AGRIcULTURAL.-We cheerfully insert the following article, from the Western Farmer & Gardener, because it introduces the sun flower to us us valuable produc- tion. It shows the various uses to which it may be applied

 SUNFLowER SEED.--'ro some extent this IS likely io become profitable crop. MT. Clark Kitchener in this (Marion) county, tried about an acre of it this year. A part of it did not do we'll but off from one half acre he raised thirty five bushels; or seven. ty bushels to the acre. Medium lands will yield frcm seventy to one hundred bushels.

 Mode of Cultivation. n.-The ground is pre-. pared in all respects as for corn crop, and the seed sown in drills four feet apart one plant to every eighteen inches in the drill. It is to be ploughed and tended in all respects like crop of corn.

 Haruesting.-As the heads ripen, they are gathered, laid on barn floor and thrash ed with fral. The seed shells very easi- ly.

 Use.-The seed may be employed in fat. ,en'ng hogs, feeding poultry, etc, and for the last purpose it is better than grain. But the seed is more valuable in the oI mill than elsewhere. It will yield gallon to the bushel without trouble; and by careful work ing more than this. Hemp yields ono and iouti, gallons to the bushel, and flax seed one and half by ordinary pressure but two gallons under the hydraulic press.

 The oil has. as yet, no established market price. It will range from seventy cents to dollar, according as it's value shall be es- tablished as an article for lamps and for pam ters' use. But at seventy cents gallon for oil, the seed would command fifty cents bushel, which is much higher price than can be had for corn.

 It is stated, but upon how sufficient proof l know not, that sunfnwer oil is excellent for burning in lamps. It has also been tried by our painters 10 some extent, and for inside work, it is said to be as good as lin. seed oil. Mir. Hannaman, of this place, who has kindly put me in possession ot these facts, says, that the oil resembles an ani- maj rather than vegetable oil that it has not the varnish properties of the iinseed oil. We suppose by varnish is meant, the albumen and muclage which are found in vegetable oil. The existence of impurities in oil, such as mucilage, albu. men, wax, gum, etc., which increase its val. ue 10 the painter, diminish it's value for the lamp. since these substances crust or cloy the wick. and prevent clear flame. All oils may. therefore, the less excellent they are for painting, be regarded as the more valuable for burning. Rape seed is exten- siyely raised in Europe, chiefly in Flanders. for its oil, and is much used for burning. Ten quarts may be extracted from bushel of seed. It is beginning to be raised in Ohio for this purposs.j .s. s 94ss's