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some it is regarded with alarm, by others, who saw it some eight 

 or ten years ago, it is expected to disappear. The present appear- 

 ance of the crop gives us encouragement to hope that it will be in 

 advance of the worm at the season for its operations, as it never 

 looked finer. 



Corn and beans have been pretty extensively raised this year, 

 and as the season has been quite warm, they have done well. 

 From 15 to 25 bushels of beans per acre have been raised, and 

 from 30 to 60 bushels of corn. . Potatoes are also an excellent 

 crop ; and we hear but little about the rot. - 



We have a variety of breeds of horses from the Morgan to the 

 Sampson, wiiich are variously preferred, according to the use for 

 which they are wanted ; but the horse of all work is the favorite 

 with the farmer. 



Of horned stock, we have the native and the Devonshire and 

 Durham of every grade, and a really good animal of either kind 

 is considered good enough. Sheep are generally considered as the 

 best stock to be kept on a wheat-growing farm. There are a few 

 flocks of the Leceister breed in the county, but most of our sheep 

 are full blood or grade merinos. The French merinos are quit© 

 favorably regarded. 



The Erie canal and Rochester and Niagara Falls railroad both 

 pass through our county, and as we have Lake Ontario on our 

 northern border, there is no farmer in the county who cannot go 

 to market and return home the same day, while the majority can 

 go twice, or more. 



The crop of wheat for 1851 was mostly sold at from 81 to 87 

 cents per bushel. The crop for the year 1852 has the greater 

 part of it been sold at from 87 to 84 cents. This is a low price 

 compared with the price of butter, beef, pork, and w^ool ; and 

 should the present relative value of the above articles remain as 

 it is, it must tend to the production of articles of greatest profit 

 and to the neglect of what has been our staple article. 



Our lands have appreciated in value twenty per cent within the 

 last five years, which is in part owing to the general improvements 

 in the county, and to substantial betterments on the farms them- 



