years been far from remunerating. The last season it was 

 up higher than was ever offered for exportation — from three 

 and a-half to four dollars, according to weight. We have all 

 kinds of breeds of hogs among us, but principally the long- 

 nosed pointer sort, with legs to correspond; the marauding 

 propensities of this " lean kind " make them easy to keep. 

 When it comes to " root pig or die," they carry the instru- 

 ment to do it, and when it is necessary to get over a fence 

 into their neighbor's good things, they show a wonderful 

 agility in climbing in, and, if hard pressed with dogs or clubs, 

 in jumping out. But when it comes to fattening in a pen, 

 pouring in corn seems a waste of grain, as it takes an im- 

 mense quantity to lay even the hair; that being the nearest 

 idea of grease you can gather from their looks after a month's 

 feeding. But, added to all their running qualities, thank 

 Heaven, they are fast running out. The Ryefield is taking 

 the place of this /refield sort, with a mixture of Berkshire, 

 China, &c. The pork business, with our increased facilities 

 of transportation, must rapidly augment from this time on- 

 ward. The number of hogs raised in the county is about 

 thirteen thousand. 



9. Potatoes. — Our potatoe crop is rising of fifty-three 

 thousand bushels. We raise but few sweet potatoes. We 

 have among us a great variety of Irish potatoes, among 

 which I will mention the Mechanock, common Red, Blue and 

 White Pink Eye, Peach Blossom, " Whig Potatoe," Kidney, 

 Galena, Cow Horns, Merino and Rohan. The white Me- 

 chanock is the general favorite, if untouched by the rot ; they 

 seem more subject to that disease than any other kinds, which 

 has lessened their cultivation very much in the last few years. 

 Our potatoe crop the last season, like our corn and oats, was 

 but little over half a one. I got but about seventy-five bush- 

 els off the same ground which yielded one hundred and fifty 

 the year previous. The average yield in a good season I am 

 not able to tell. We generally aim, if possible, to get our 

 potatoes on to our newest land. If they do not turn out as 



