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average price for wheat during the present year. We know 

 of no remedy for the Hessian fly or for the weevil. Neither 

 of them have been prevalent in this county. 



It is estimated that the surplus crop of wheat of the county, 

 this year, is 128,000 bushels, which surplus at fifty cents per 

 bushel amounts to $64,000. Supposing there are 7,000 fami- 

 lies in the county, and that each family consumes thirty 

 bushels, making 210,000 ; 25,000 acres sown with wheat, 

 one and a-half bushels per acre, making 37,000 bushels used 

 for seed. These several sums added make the entire wheat 

 crop of the county this year, 375,000 bushels. 



Corn. — There are several kinds of corn grown that yield 

 and ripen well, which have no particular names. There is 

 however, in quite general cultivation, a large yellow, with 

 sixteen rows of grains, which turns off more bushels to the acre 

 than anv with which I am conversant. Of this kind there has 

 been grown on one acre, one hundred and twenty-five bush- 

 els, and the field of eight acres averaging one hundred and 

 fifteen bushels per acre. Again we have the White Ken- 

 tucky corn, which it is said is still more prolific, than that 

 above referred to. The best farmers prepare their ground 

 for corn, by plowing deep, early in the spring, roll to break 

 the clods, harrow lengthwise the furrows, haul out manure 

 and spread evenly, harrow again, if sod ground, mark out 

 four feet each way, drop four grains in a hill, and cover with 

 hoe from two to three inches deep. They plant from the 

 25th of April to the 12th of May, as the season permits. 

 The corn is worked first with the cultivator each way, then 

 plow from the hill, and the reverse, and lastly with the cul- 

 tivator or small harrow, leaving the ground loose. Thin out 

 and pull off" the suckers whenever necessary. We leave not 

 more than three stocks in a hill, and replant to secure that 

 number. The average crop of corn for the whole county 

 this year, is about forty-five bushels per acre. The average 

 cost of raising and cribbing is fifteen cents per bushel. 

 Three-fourths of the entire crop is fed in the year to hogs 



