AGRICULTURAL.

From the .Alaerican .Agriculturist.1 FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS.
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T ObEl0N NEWS.

 IMPROVEMENT IN THE CULTIVATION OF HoPs.-To the list of the various purposes for which iron is employed, will probably soon be added the cultivation of hops The Rev. MT. Formby, vicar of Finsbury, has the credit of suggesting the improvement, which consists in stretching stout wire along each alley, to which wire the poles are fastened The advantages of this plan are, that poles of much less value than those usually en- ployed may be used that the injury from gales of wind is avoided and that the alleys being open to the influences of the sun and air, the mould, that fatal disease of the hop, is thus prevented. At Halling, near Roches- ter, garden of nine acres thus cultivated affords a pleasing sight.

 From he Farmers Journal

 GREAT DIvIsIoN OF WHEAT BY ITS RooTs. The newspapers have lately contained an in- complete account of an interesting eXperi- ment on the propagation of wheat by divis- ion of its roots, from which it appears that field may be cropped with wheat without employing more than the 2,400th of the us- ual quantity of seed-wheat. By the kind ness of MT. Archdale Palmer we are now en- abled to state the exact facts s.1S42 July One grain of wheat sown in a pot August The same divided into plants, which three weeks after were again separated and made l2 plants. September--The same l2 plants were again separated and made 32 plants.- November-T'he same g plants were again separated into AS plants, which were then planted in the open ground, not particularly prepared for them, IS inches from each other, ocenpylng a space of II yards by yard, being the 440th part ol an acre; consequent ly, 440 grains would be found sufficient for for one acre, which find weigh three-fourths of an ounce.

 'lS43: August-Ten of the AS plants died, and the remaining 38 plants were cut down, unfortunately, before the wheat was ripe, as the birds had already taken one-lourth away. 1922 stems were counted. It was threshed this week, and the weight is 2b lbs, which, according to the proceeding calcula- .tion, consists of 22,000 grains.''