From the Greene County Gazette.
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Ihe Bene.-The many properties and uses of this plant are, perhaps, known to but few of our inhabitants. As plant, it is of much importance in medicine, and it is also used for the table; it should be more generally known and cultivated by very person, if it is but for private consumption.

 From accounts, it appears to have been brought to the Western hemisphere by ne- groes from Guinea. Itwas cultivated by the French in St Domingo, and is, at present, cultivated in all the West Indies-not largely, because the staple productions are more lu- cratve. In the United States it is not well known, and for that cause, asiti of more im- mediate use at home, than as a comme1 cial commodity.

 The plant grows four or five feet high, the stem is futed, its branches are short and ex- tend in every direction, and has long leaves with three prongs; the stalk bears some re- semblance to that of hemp; the leaf of the Bene possesses properties of a very vicious and mucilaginous nature. It blooms in the last days of August or first of Septembcr.-z | The blossom is white, from which grow eight or twelve quadrangular pods, each con- taining four rows of seeds, the number in single pod sometimes amount to more than one hundred. Here it ripens in October.

 The medicinal properties of the plant are very numerous, as its efficacy has been fully approved of by the cures that have been made through it's qualities; an infusion of the green leaves into pure water has produced effectual cures of the dyscntery, and pany other diseases of the bowels. The leaves can be dried for winter and used in the same cases, but the quantities to be taken must be larger. Iney are very emoIlient and have corrosive effect on the humors. l have seen many cures of large and dangerous wounds on cattle, by simply bathing or washing them with decoctions of the leaves, and then bind- ing up the wound with some of the leaves. | The seed is rich or very oily, bushel will yield from two to two and half gallons of oil. The oil is much easier extracted from the seed, than that of f1ax-seed, but it requires a press of the same kind. A wooden press, however, will be sufficient to press one and a half gallons from bushel of seed. | This oil is of many uses, it is good for ma ny diseases; and as for oil to burn, when cla- rihed, it is equal to summer sperm oil. tis also preferred by many who are accustomed to it, or it is thought equal to either olive or sweet oil, for the table. And some think that it's qualities are conducive to the regular func- tions of the stomach.

 A person laboring under severe rheumatic pains was sensibly relieved by light friction of this oil; it is also good for tumors, piles, pimples on the face, &c., finally,

 For the cure of the grub-worm in horses, there is no remedy so efficacious as the follow ing:-Take tumbler full of oil and as much whiskey, put them intoa bottle and shake them well, and give it to the horse, two doses will most assuredly cure. A.