Oats grow in England, but are much finer and better when grown in Scotland. In the husk, they are used chiefly as food for horses. The potato-oat has been long in cultivation. It yields the very best quality known to English agriculture. The husk removed, the grain is called groats, and is used for making gruel. Ground to a flour, it is called oatmeal. Oatmeal is the chief food of the Scottish peasantry, and it is nourishing and excellent, both when made into porridge and cakes; it cannot be made into bread. The outer husk, unlike that of wheat, is poor in albuminoid matters, so that oatmeal is better than the whole oat. Oatmeal is rich in fat.

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* Dr. Poleck has instituted a series of researches with the view of ascertaining the cause of the difference exhibited by flour preserved in casks, and that kept in bags, the former of which often obtains a peculiar smell. He found that the gluten of flour exhibiting that peculiar smell had been, in a great measure, converted into a soluble modification, whereby the flour had lost the capability of being converted into a good dough, the flour also having assumed a sour reaction. He ascribes the cause of this change to want of a sufficient circulation of air through the mass of the flour kept in casks, the innermost flour in which was most sour and gave off the peculiar, somewhat mouldy smell. It was also found that with this change in the flour coincides an increase of the albuminous com- -pounds therein soluble in water. - Chemical News.

A bushel of oats weighs 39 to 41 lbs. They are sold generally, however, as oatmeal, on account of the great waste occasioned by the thick husk in grinding. Oatmeal is sold by the cwt. or ton. Oats are the best food for horses. Oatmeal porridge is an excellent food for children - a good breakfast for any one.

Potato Oat.

Barbachlaw Oat, a hardy and prolific sort.