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fered to stand four or five days according to the State of the 

 weather, and hauled into the barn or stacked, unless threshed 

 with traveling machines in the field. Whenever or wherever 

 thrashed, it is always done with a thrashing machine, and the 

 straw thrown in piles for the use of stock through the winter. 

 The price of thrashing with two hands and half the team 

 furnished, ranges from three to three and a-half dollars per 

 hundred. The usual places of market are, wherever a flour- 

 ing mill is found or a dry goods' store established in the 

 county — and they are not few or far between. Wheat is 

 purchased by merchants in Goshen, Waterford, Wyland's 

 mills. New Paris, Benton, Middlebury, Bonnyville, Bristol 

 and Elkhart, consisting of the principal towns in the county. 

 Great deal of wheat is purchased at Elkhart and Bristol, on 

 the banks of the St. .Joseph and on the line of the great rail- 

 road between the two lakes, and sent off to Rochester to be 

 manufacturd and christened for the New York market, as 

 «' prime Genessee flour," and other brands of like import 

 which goes to outsell the home manufactured article in the 

 same market; of course, they buy nothing but clean white 

 wheat. All the surplus wheat and flour takes the outlet of 

 the St. Joseph river to Niles and thence to Detroit on the 

 Michigan Central Railroad, or to Toledo by the Northern 

 Indiana Railroad. The price of wheat with us was lower 

 last fall than it has been for many years, and would have 

 been a great deal lower had it not been for the completion of 

 the two railroads above mentioned. Fort Wayne and La- 

 fayette, before their completion, used to leave our wheat 

 market on the St. Joseph, in our county fifteen to twenty- 

 five cents per bushel, and last year while we were getting 

 from fifty-three to fifty-six cents for our wheat, their market 

 was ranging from forty to forty-eight cents. This will show 

 that the producing class is benefitted by these improvements 

 more than any other class of our citizens. 



2. ConN. — ^The corn crop of our county was estimated 

 in the last census statistics, at three hundred and forty-two 



