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4. The other -important products are pig-pork, buckwheat, peas 

 beans and broom corn, with a few acres of hops and tobacco, all 

 of which are on the increase. The quantity of heavy pork 

 fattened is on the decrease, but more than made up by the in- 

 crease in light pig-pork. 



5. Answered in the above table. 



6. The animal stock numbers about the same for some years 

 back. The breeds of neat cattle most common is the native 

 crossed with the Durham s and Herefords, for the dairy and beef; 

 by the Dcvons mostly for work cattle ; the natives with a slight 

 cross are prefered for the dairy. Our horses are on the increase 

 in size by breeding with the draft or Norman. There are but 

 very few full or foreign blood cattle or horses now owned in the 

 county. Our flocks of sheep are small ; a mixed breed between 

 the fine and coarse wooled. 



7. As to agricultural or mechanical science, we have compara- 

 tively none, nor will one in twenty of our sons have any : they are 

 sent to the district school, there to be taught anything but terras- 

 culture and just enough of other branches to make them dislike or 

 despise the dirty work of their father's farm ; his hard browm hands, 

 patched coat, and wool hat Jook too vulgar and contemptible for 

 the young gentlemen. I think all this however might be partial- 

 ly remedied by appropriating a part of the taxes paid by the far- 

 mers, to qualify teachers in agricultural science, one to be placed 

 in each or every alternate rural school district. 



8. There has been but little attention paid to draining, until, 

 within two or three years, many of our farmers* have done a little 

 and are well pleased with the result. The method or art of 

 draining is not yet mucli understood, but is fast improving. 



9. The price of land has increased from twenty to tliirty j^er 

 cent within three years. 



10. Our surplus products are sold and ik-livercd, mostly at th« 

 railroad or canal, at a very small deduction for carriage South 

 and East. 



