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" Canada Club" seems to find most favor lately ; and the Italian, Black Sea, 

 Pritcher, Red Ri\er, (Pembina,) and Labrador, are being tried by our farmers. 

 The latter, however, proves too hard and flinty, and flours badly. 



Oats. — This grain was originally found in North Africa. The crop has been 

 imusually productive the past year. Something hke 207,000 bushels is reported 

 for 1850, as the growth of this county for that season. Assuming that as data, 

 and the product for 1851 should be stated at 400,000 bushels at least, for a 

 more prolific crop than the last was never known in this region. Over one hun- 

 dred bushels to the acre, was proved at the agricultural fair. About 100,000 

 bushels was shipped from this Port during the past season of navigation. 



Corn. — Or Maize, which is indigenous to the American continent, is ordina- 

 rily a good and safe crop in this county. About 80,000 bushels have been 

 grown in this county the past season, and not far from 20,000 bushels shipped 

 abroad from the port of Racine. Corn will be more extensively cultivated here- 

 after, for fattening pork and beef, for feeding stock, and for family use. It does 

 not pay well for shipment, except to the lumber region. Last season was re- 

 mai'kably nnpropitious for the corn crop; cold rains continued through May, 

 causing much of the seed to rot in the ground, and thus creating the necessity 

 of re-planting. 



Barley. — Is found wild in the Himalaya mountains, which bound Bengal 

 and Upper Hindostan on the north, and form the rich valley of Cashmere, from 

 whence the costly shawls bearing that name were originally bi'ought. Barley re- 

 quires a fatter soil than wheat, and is consequently better adapted to the dark 

 surface soil of Racine county. Forty bushels to the acre is a common yield, and 

 thirty-five to forty cents a bushel the usual price, while the crop almost always 

 " hits." It proved more profitable than spring wheat the past season, in this 

 county. The product of 1851 somewhat exceeded 50,000 bushels; 40,908 

 bushels were shipped from this Port in that year. 



Buckwheat is said to have come originally from Siberia and Tartary. It 

 grows luxuriantly in our soil, and yields abundantly. The home-consumption is 

 large; it supersedes, to a considerable extent, the use of other bread-stuft's in very 

 many families, at one meal in each day at least, during four or five months in 

 the year. Some 30,000 bushels, was the product of this county for the past 

 year. The export has been small, thus far. 



Of Peas and Beans, I know not the origin. They are of the same class of 

 leguminous plants, however, as the " lentil" of Scripture history : And I have 

 somewhere seen it suggested, that one or both may ha\e been added to the 

 lentils which are supposed to have formed a ])rincipal ingredient in that " mess 

 OF pottage" which cost a personage of some note among the ancients his " birth 

 right." They are thus used in the "olla podrida" of the Peruvians — a "mess" 



