mare, five years uoxt spring. Mr. Spaffard also, of Geueva, lias a bay stalliou 

 from Henry, and a strong cominou mare, that Las already trotted his mile in three 

 minutes and a half. There is one question which, in the midst of the prevailing 

 mania for iiue horses, I hope some of your correspondents who are competent to 

 the task will discuss; that question is, the comparative utility of the mule as an 

 animal for the plough and draught. It is said that this animal works as well at 

 two years of age as the horse at four years of age, and continues to thirty years 

 as well as the horse to fifteen years. That he is not half as liable to disease, and 

 that it costs only about half as much to shoe and feed him. Add to this, that 

 he is capable of drawing or carrying the horse's load, and then tell us why he is 

 not precisely the animal our farmers need. 



For information upon some other points of interest to the agriculturist, I trans- 

 mit the following note, prepared by Dr. Lewis N. Wood, of our county : 



" Wheat, in Walworth county, has been a partial fsnlure in crop during the 

 past three or four years. The winter wheat has been liable to rust, and the spring 

 wheat has been liable to a disease known among farmers by the name of blight; 

 these diseases have materially lessened the quantity and quality of the wheat crop. 

 They first manifested themselves on the prairie lands, and more recently on the 

 opening land. Lands that have been longest cultivated seem to be the most un- 

 certain in producing a crop of wheat, jet some lands recently broken up, and 

 e^•en some entirely new, excepting the first crop, have been visited by both rust 

 and blight. Some have attributed the cause of the latter to a change in the con- 

 ditions of the atmosphere from distant and unknown causes, and others have 

 considered that the atmosphere was sufficiently charged with a poisonous princi- 

 ple emanating from the wheat on old grounds to deteriorate the wheat growing 

 on the new groiUKls. The cause of the injury to wheat growing on the old 

 grounds, is undoubtedly referable to the exhaustion by frequent cropping, of the 

 free organic agents which are necessary to perfect' a crop of healthy straw and 

 wheat. Grass cropping and pasturing may restore those agents. The average 

 quantity of good healthy wheat per acre is from twenty to twenty-five bushels. 



" Oats have continued to yield from forty to sixty bushels per acre, since the 

 fii-st settlement of the county, and are a very certain crop. 



'' Corn, too, is a very certain crop, and with good cultivation will yield from 

 forty to sixty bushels per acre. The variety called 'dent' has, in a great measure, 

 superceded the eastern kinds. 



" Owing to the fact that farmers have heretofore relied mainly upon the wheat 

 crop which has now so nearly failed in this county, oats and corn must become 

 crops of more importance than formerly, for the purpose of fattening poi-k and 

 feeding stock. 



" The raisinof of Stock has been very much neglected heretofore, but will here- 



