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Clover, raised mostly for the purpose of feeding hogs, and 

 enriching the soil. Blue grass, preferred for pasture and con- 

 sidered best for both summer and winter pasture. 



7. Root Crop. — Potatoes — not an average crop this year, 

 ovv^ing to the drowth in the latter part of the season. Pota- 

 toes were not much diseased with the rot. Sweet potatoes 

 were raised in a large quantity this season, mostly consumed 

 in the county ; also considerable quantities of turnips. 



8. Flax and Hemp. — Raised in small quantities. 



9. Dairy Products. — A few of our farmers have turned 

 their attention to making cheese, and although not exten- 

 sively engaged in its manufacture find it a very profitable 

 business. Considerable butter made, not much of which, 

 however, is shipped. 



10. Pork. — The greater portion of our farmers have 

 turned their attention to raising hogs, thinking it the most 

 profitable business in which they can engage. From the 

 best estimate which we can make, seventeen thousand hogs 

 were fatted in our county, and sold at Terre Haute, Monte- 

 zuma and other points on the Wabash river, at an average 

 of about $9 per head, making an aggregate of $153,000. 

 There has not been that attention paid to the breeds of hogs 

 by our farmers that there should have been. 



11. Cattle. — Of the number of cattle, we have no relia- 

 ble source of information, but think that no less than two 

 thousand head have been bought and driven during the past 

 year from our county to the east and other directions, at an 

 average of $12 per head, making an aggregate of $24,000. 



12. Horses and Mules. — Horses form a very important 

 item in the product of our county, and although there has 

 not been as much attention to procuring pure blooded horses 

 to breed from, as in some other counties, nevertheless we 

 produce a quality which readily sell at an average of from 

 seventy to eighty dollars per head. Mules — a number of our 

 farmers have turned their attention to the raising of mules, 

 as they think it more profitable, than the raising of horses or 



