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Buclmhzoi was excellent even for this county. There was more 

 sown than usual . The blue variety is considered by our farmers 

 preferable. 



Turnips. — This crop is receiving considerable attention in some 

 towns. They grow remarkably well, tht^ugh there seems to be 

 some controversy as to their real value*. 



Carrots. — Some attention is being paid to this crop. Those who 

 have had the most experience in raising and feeding this crop, 

 think more favorably of them than turnips. I believe there were no 

 turnips or carrots offered for premiums, except specimens. There 

 is a gentleman living in the town of Lumberland, who raised 500 

 bushels of rutabagas on 91 rods of ground, without manure. 



Garden vegetables are beginning to be raised in some portion* 

 of the county for the New-York market, I understand, with good 

 snccess. 



Fruit is receiving much attention at the present time. There 

 is a great number at present setting out young orchards, and 

 many who had old ones of natural fruit, are grafting them. The 

 apple flourishes here very well, and with the same care and at- 

 tention, I think would be equal to most of the river counties. 

 Plums do well here but are cultivated to a limited extent. 

 Peaches, of late years, do very v/ell it set in exposed situations. 

 It was formeiiy a practice to .set them in a sLeicered situation, 

 but it often hajtpened that they blossomed early, and the frnit was 

 cut olf by late frosts. Another reason why they do better in ex- 

 posed situations is, that they ttop their growth earlier in the sea- 

 son, and the young growth gets hardened better to withstand the 

 winter. I never knew a young peach tree that had the bark turn- 

 ed red before the .setting in of winter, to get injured by the frost. 

 Most all kinds of sm.dl fruit du well. 



Neat cattle i« receiving considerable attention at present. There 

 has been of late years some fine Durham cattle introduced in the 

 county, T\hich will be an excellent improvement to our stocky 

 especiitliy where beef is an object. Most of our dairymen, I be- 

 lieve, preier the native stock fur dairies. The Devonsl.ires are 

 preferred f;r working oxen ; in fact there is no cattle amongst UB 



