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I think it desirable that answers should be giern to the circular, to the extent 

 practicable. If your ill health or other circumstances prevent, I will suggest 

 that you hand it over to Dr. Bai-nes. 



Obediently yours, 



H. E. WOODRUFF. 

 Wm. C. Talcott, Esq., Secretary of the Porter Co. Agricultural Society. 



In conformity with the requirement of the State Board of 

 Agriculture of Indiana, the President and Secretary of the 

 Porter County Agricultural Society, submit the following 

 statement of the principal kinds of agricultural productions 

 of the county, aggregate amount, average yield per acre, 

 current price, and towns where sold, &c. 



The principal productions are wheat, corn, oats, peas, 

 beans, Irish and sweet potatoes, buckwheat, wool, fruit, gar- 

 den produce, butter, cheese, hay, clover and grass seed. 



The average amount of each — the late organization of our 

 society, and its limited operations, afford us no means of 

 estimating, except by reference to the census table of last 

 year; wheat, 70,846 bushels; corn, 199,270; oats, 52,523; 

 peas and beans, 599 ; Irish potatoes, 20,653 ; sweet potatoes, 

 100; buckwheat, 6,200; wool, 21,121 pounds; fruit, $3,422 

 worth ; garden produce, $200 worth ; butter, 62,901 pounds ; 

 cheese, 15,640; hay, 5,099 tons; clover and grass seed, 243 

 bushels. 



The average yield is, wheat, about fifteen bushels to the 

 acre; corn, thirty-five; oats, thirty; hay, one and a-half 

 tons. 



The current price is, wheat, fifty cents ; corn, twenty-five; 

 oats, twenty; beans, seventy-five; Irish potatoes, thirty-seven 

 and a-half; sweet potatoes, one dollar; apples, seventy-five 

 cents; butter, fifteen; cheese, seven; hay, five dollars per 

 ton. 



